The Lucknow Sentinel, 1979-07-18, Page 6Page 6—Lucknow Sentinel, Wednesday, July 18, 1979
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The
LUCKNOW SENTINE
LUCKNOW, ONTARIO
"The Sepoy Town"
On the Huron -Bruce Boundary
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Established 1873
Published Wednesday
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Mailing Address P.O. Box 400, Lucknow, NOG 2H0
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_ General Manager
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In many international situations of
• disaster or crisis, we are unable to do
much to help directly. We send food and
medical aid when natural disasters occur
• but it is only 'temporary relief. We often
wonder, if our aid ever reaches the
" desperate because we hear stories of food
rotting while diplcimats decide whose
responsibility it is tahand it out. We can
do nothing to stop the human suffering in
Nicaragua because we cannot directly
influence an end to the war'.
But, we can help the Vietnatnize boat
people. Thousands of ordinary Canadians
have sensed the. ,urgency. Communities,
church organizations, social grottos. and
private citizens •are raising money,
arranging jobs and homes, -trying to help
in any way they can. • • -
A family has ,arrived in' Tavistock,
others are awaited in Toronto and another
family is expected in Stratford.
We are a fortunate community in this
area. We have raised money over the
years to fund many worthwhile commun
ity projects spearheaded by service
groups and community organizations. .
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• We couldspotisor a refugee family. It
would take approximately 5500 a month
to support a family until they are settTed.
.An individual or group sponsoring a •
family is responsible •for housing the
family, providing food and clothing. The
responsibility terminates at the end of the
first year Refugees are predominately
hardworking people because they are
only too familiar with. hardship. Tradi:'
tiopally, they takejobs. distasteful to
Canadians or supply d rich resource in the
form of doctors, engineers and business
people. The Vietnamize families who
have already arrived are industrious,
hardworking people who "find jobs and
become self-sufficient within their first
year in Canada.
• The Vietnamize refugees are being
expelled because they were successful in
their chosen field or profession under the
government of South Viet Nam. It is
because they are educated and resource-
ful, because they owned small businesses
and held positions in government,
industry; commerce and academic fields
that the communists regime in Viet Nam
today does not believe they will assimi-
late into the new Viet- Natn.
Canada has accepted many more
refugees at other times in her hibtory,
when she did not have as many people
nor the wealth she has • now. Accepting
Vietnamize refugees will not • strain our \,
economy, push up inflation or increase
unemployment„ Canada is a large,
wealthy country with great wide open
spaces.
,Refugees in the past have not been a
burden but a resource and a contribution
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to thelifegress and growth of Canada.
Raising the money to sponsOr a family
• could be done, The community has raised
many thousands of dollars for community
projects in the past. All thaOs required is
a group to initiate the organization of the
• prOject.
If for some reason a crowded boat of
men, women and children were sinking
off The lake shore at Point Clark, we
would sense the -urgency. We would not
hestitate to do whatever was necessary to
save them, •
The South China Sea is far away, •but
men, women and children are screaming,
crying and gulping sea water. They are
dying of starvation and dehydration or
loss or hope in the refugee camps of
Malaysia, Hong Kong and Thailand.
There are times when we can do very
little more than stand by and say "If only
there were was something we could
do....".
This isn't one of those times. We can'
help the boat people.
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The Figure Skating Club •
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75 'YEARS AGO
The Orangemen of Lucknow apd vicinity
celebrated the anniversary of the Battle of
the Boyne in Wingham on July 12. Despite
the Wet morning.,there was an enormous
crowd. The town was gayly,,decorateci and
it is estimated fully 12,000 people attended
the gathering which was the most success-
ful Orange walk ever held in this part of the
province. The splendid brass band of the
Lucknow Musical Society and the Highland
Cadet Band accompanied the Lucknow
Orangemen.
The Statistical Year Book of Canada for
1903 has been issued and will prove of
great value to the busy man who seeks
facts about the Dominion. Mr. Johnston
has added much useful information to the
work about Great Britain, the colonies and
foreign countries which are exceeding-
ly useful for purposes of comparison. It
would be hard to compress more facts into
so small a space.
50 YEARS AGO
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Edwin Janis, 84 years of age, and a
well-known resident of West Wawanosh
was fatally injured on July 12 when the
automobile in which he was returning
home from Wingham, upset in the ditch a
short distance east of the Zetland bridge.
The automobile was driven by Samuel Reid
of Ashfield, a son-in-law of Mr. Jarvis, and
when coasting, down a grade at moderate
speed, a front tire blew out causing the
driver to lose control. The car took to the
ditch and turned almost completely upiide
down, crushing the top.
The past two weeks have made a great
improvement in field crops throughout
western Ontario. The long period of cold
weather which retarded growth has been
succeeded by more summer-like conditions
- rain and warm days. The past two weeks
have been fine for haying and this crop has
turned out much better than was expected.
There are some ;beautiful fields of fall
wheat now turning yellow. Other fields
• however suffered from winter killing. Oat
crops have come on well, but itis said the
straw of this crop wilTbe short de to a late
start. Corn and roots should now do fairly
• well.
25 YEARS AGO
The skirl o' the pipes will reverberate
throughout this.traditionaily Scottish com-
munity on Saturday Afternoon when a
hundred Pipers or more will gather in The
Sepoy Town for their' first annual Highland
Bands Day. It is an event that is creating
wide -spread interest and one of the largest
• crowds to assemble in Lucknow in many a
day is looked for. Ardent ScOts anticipate
that this may be the forerunner to a revival
of the Games for which Lucknow was
• internationally famous before the turn of
the century.
Russell Johnston, 57 -year-old Ashfield
Township farmer of R. 7 Lucknow, suffered
'a badly fractured foot last 'Thursday when
• in the act of trying to shift a loaded 600
pound cement mixer, it topped over.
French children bearing flowers gather at Caen city hail
• for service marking D Day anniversary
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