The Lucknow Sentinel, 1979-09-05, Page 4Page 4--Lucknow Sentinel, Wednesday, September 5, 1979
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First day at school
These young scholars were accompanied on their way home from their first day at school by
the Lucknow crossing guard, Ed Blackwell, who meets Kindergarten students at the school
when they are dismissed. From the left:are Erin. Johnstone, Bonnie Hallam, Jason Stanley
[Sentinel Staff Photo]
and Stacey Hakker.
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WhosQ responsibility? .
When an estimated two million Can-
adian school children climbed aboard
their familiar school bus this morning,
they represent two million unsolved
problems.
Who is responsible for them?
Most parents seem to take the yiew
that when their child or children board a
school bus, parental responsibility ceas-
es. But many school authorities feel their
responsibility for school children does, not
begin until the children arrive on school
premises under jurisdiction of the school
staff.
And there is obvious validity to both
points of view, but until the question is
resolved, the Canada Safety Council feels
not enough care and attention is being
given children.
It is pointless, the Council says, to hold
the school bus driver responsible. His job
is to pilot the bus safely through traffic,
often on bad . roads in poor weather
conditions, That is a full-time job. The
driver is all too easily distracted by young
people who have little idea of discipline.
This responsibility gap should be' a sub-
ject of thought and discussion and resolu-
tion between parents and school author-
ities.
It is the responsibility of both parents
and teachers to teach - children safe
procedures while crossing a road, waiting
for a bus, getting on or off the bus, and
discipline while on the bus, and adults
are urged totakea great deal of interest
in children's-Scchool transportation.
LOOKING BACK
THROUGH THE SENTINEL
75 YEARS AGO
The annual meeting -of, the sharehold-
ers of the Lucknow Elevator Co., Limited,
was held in the town hall on 'Saturday
afternoon when a large attendance was
present, owing no doubt to an attempt by
an outside firm to buy up shares and take
over control of the company. Addresses
by the president, T. Cain, J. G. Murdoch,.
P. Corrigan, .David Agnew .and Alex
McPherson, served to emphasize the fact
that the shareholders were well pleased
with the work already done by the
company and that the Lucknow market
was second to nonein this part of the
country and that the farmer can rest
assured that any grain marketed in
Lucknow will command the very highest
available prices.
Three' rinks of the Lucknow Bowling
Club went to Kincardine on Friday and
defeated the bowlers of the lake town by
eight shots.
A most unfortunate accident befell
Robert- McColl Jr. at the farm of, his
brother-in-law, Wellington Potter of
Huron. Mr. .McColl was feeding the
separator while threshing. The harvest
mitt on his left hand became caught in the
teeth of the cylinder and he was jerked °
forward. It was necessary to amputate the
arm above the elbow: Mr. McColl lives in
Ashfield Township, near Laurier.
Several new subjects are set forth in
the new course of "study in public school
work. These relate to art constructive
work, clay modelling, elementary science
and nature study. Obligatory subjects are
reading, literature, grammar, composi-
tion, history, geography, writing, arith-
metic, mensuration and elementary sci-
ence. -
50 YEARS AGO
John. Joynt is in St. Joseph's Hospital,
London, for treatment of his eye which he
had injured some weeks, ago.
Great enthusiasm developed in connec-
tion with the horse shoe .pitching tourna-
ment on Labour Day and the competition
attracted quite a list of entrants. Results
were as follows: Alex' Lockhart and Davie
Horne, first; Peter McCall and Jack
McCall, second and Temple Clark and
Clare' Johnston, third.
The dedication of a beautiful memorial
window installed in Blake Church by the
Stothers' family, in memory of their.
parents, the late Mr. and Mrs. William
Stothers, took place Sunday morning,
September 1, that day being the 25th
anniversary of Mr. Stothers' death. Mrs.
Stothers' death occured April of this year.
25, YEARS AGO
Teachers and students in this district
joined the country -wide back -t -school
trek on Tuesday ,with the re -appearance
of scores of students, the village took on a •
youthful bustle of " activity that is
noticeably absent' during the holidays.
Opening day enrollment at Lucknow
District High School was. 160 and the
enrollment at the Public School was�146.
There were six beginners inthe morning
kindergarten class. Those attending their
first day of school were. Susan Cleland;
Donna Corrin, Joan MacKenzie, Billy
Chester, Isabel MacMillan and Michael
Duncan.
The home of Mr. and Mrs. Leonard
Ritchie, just east of Treleaven's Flour
Mill suffered extensive fire, smoke and
water damage on Tuesday afternoon.
Cause of the outbreak which started in
the basement is uncertain. Mrs. Ritchie
discovered the fire when she returned
home about 3.30 p.m.
Katherine MacKenzie has arrived in.
Germany where she will commence a two
year teaching terns in a school established
for children of Canadian servicemen
stationed in Germany.
Margaret Salkeld, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. T. J. Salkeld, will teach this term at
Watson Lake in the Yukon: She has been
teaching at ]?uncap;"B.C.and was over-
seas recently thnder the teacher exchange
arrangement. ,
Letter reports Family Services pleased with program
To the Editor:
Family and Children's Ser-
vices of Huron County is
pieLyec4 with the success of
our new community program
FACES/79. (Family and
Children's Excursion Servic-
es) The number of children
involved has substantially in-
creased from 90 in the
summer of 1978 to 214 child-
ren involved with FACES
/79.
An Experience '79' Grant
allowed the Agency to hire
Pauline Hall and Margaret
Foran as program co-ordinat-
ors. Margaret, with the
assistance of volunteers in-
volved 75 children in a var-
iety of special activity day
camps, throughout the Coun-
ty. Sixty-nine children partic-
ipated in the week-long over-
night camps with Pauline. In
;.ddition, another seventy
children -were sent to other
organized camps including a
one -parent family camp.
Special thanks is expres-
sed to the twenty volunteers
who actively participated in
both programs. Their time
and commitment to the child-
ren and the program contri-
buted greatly to the sut i -
niers' success. We would
also like to thank our volun-
teer drivers.
The support demonstrated
from the community for the
FACES summer programs
was greatly appreciated. Do-
nations to the Special Bene-
fits Summer Camp Fund
totaled $3,947. This funding
made the entire program
possible:
We would like to express
our gratitude to Bluewater
Centre for the use of their
tents and. stoves and espec-
ially to Jim Hayter's Chev
Olds Ltd. for the use of their
van.
Yours very truly,
John V. Penn
Director.
Dear Sir:
In the spring of this year,
the small community of Field
(pop. 550), 34 kilometres
north • of sturgeon Falls,
Ontario was savagely .devas-
tated by raging flood waters
of the Sturgeon River.
For several days at the
peak of the flood, 40 per cent
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