The Lucknow Sentinel, 1979-09-26, Page 38PIP 6—Lucknow Sentinel, Wednesday, October 3, 1979
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Letter to the editor
The following letter was
received by Ross Errington,°
secretiry-treasurer of the
Lucknow Agricultural Society
from Jim Reed, who officially
opened this year's Lucknow
Fall Fair. -
- September 18, 1979.
Dear Ross:
This is just a note to thank
you for the opportunity of
opening the Lucknow Fall
Fair.
It was a real pleasure and
an honour. As I said at the
friday night gathering, •it
gave me a chance to reflect
on my own background and tion that everyone can look to
upbringing and also to think
about some of the things in
life that are really important
and that too often get lost in
the hectic shuffle by every- Jim Reed.
day life.
--,Beverley and I would like
to express our appreciation
to you, for your kindness, for
the pleasant time spent with
your president, Lorne Hack-
ett, and his wife:, and also for
,the obvious enthusiasm of
people in Lucknow. I'd also
like to compliment the con-
cert band and its leader for
providing the town of Luck -
now with a musical orgailiza-
with real pride.
Sincerely,
let everyone
know
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Freedom of information
As anyone who lives in a small town
knows, it's hard to keep anything secret. If
someone on a village council gets a payoff
for installing parking meters along the
main drag, people will soon hear about it,
one way or another,
In cities, that natural flow of communi-
cation breaks down. Information may never
get around -- unless people make an effort
-- when so many live and work in different
worlds. Office and .home may be even
further apart in attitudes to life than they
are in miles.
• And when you get the biggest organiza-
tions of people -- to international corpora-
tions and national governnients -- secrecy
turns into a fetish. Information doesn't get
around at all. It stays in double -locked
filing cabinets, on documents marked
'Private'', "confidential", and 'Secret",
out of bounds to everyone without proper
authorization. Any information that does
get out, such as press releases or annual
reports,. is carefully checked by corporate
vice-presidents and public relations • offic-
ers to insure it says nothing mote than it
should.
The former federal government's mania
for secrecy even kept it from telling an
engineer working on defence contracts that
his security clearance had been lifted. So
he didn't know he wasn't supposed to see
the documents that he was eventually
•arrested for possessing. Some of them he
had written himself. Others had been sent
to him by different departments -- which
had not been informed of his revised status
either,
And cabinet ministers in that same
government -„- to give them the benefit of
the doubt -- were apparently kept in the
dark about the activities of their own
security forces.
Granted, those are extreme examples.'
But they reveal a pervasive pattern of
thinking, in which secrecy ,becomes a basic
principle.
• Because big government and big busi-
ness are engaged in a power struggle - with
each other and within themselves - because
when you know something that someone
else doesn't -- whether it's a 'current fact, a
marketing trend, or a technological process
- you're in a position of power. You have an
advantage over someone who doesn't
know.
But the same time, you. degrade the
other person. Secrecy reduces that other
person from a` fellow human to a threat to
be • wary about, if not an enemy to be
destroyed.
Before it was elected, the present
Canadian government proclaimed the need
for a Freedom of Information Act. It is to be
hoped they will not succumb to the malaise
of bigness and power, and will introduce
legislation to cut secrecy down to size.
For secrecy, in the end, always works
against its owner. If you have no secrets to
hide, you never need fear that they may be
• discovered and used against you.
.• (Contributed)
THROUGILTog.....sENTINEL
75 YIEARS AGO
Sir Wilfrid Laurier, Premier of the
Dominion, will address a union meeting of
the electors of South Brtice and» West
Huron in Lucknow on Monday, Qctober 171
in the interest of P. H. McKenzie, Liberal
candidate for South Bruce and Robert
Homes, Liberal candidate in West Huron.
This is the first time our village has had the
honor of a visit from the distinguished
Premier and there should be a large
turnout of the electors of both ridings.
For the first. time in its history of 39
years, the great fall show at Lucknow this
year was knocked out by rain and
disagreeable weather. On Tuesday, the
first day oftheo show, thoukh showery all
day, the weather was not disagreeable and
a larger and better display was never
before collected in the large agricultural
hall than on this occasion. The display of
fruit was especially good, both in number
of entries and in the quality of fruit shown.
It occupied nearly the entire length of the
building and was pronounced by many to
be the largest and best collection of fruit
• they had seen at any other fair this season.
On Wednesday a cold rain set in and
continued throughout the forenoon. As the
weather did not look like improving, a
meeting of the directors of the Society was
held and they decided to postpone the
show until next year.
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50 YEARS AGO
Constable R. J. Moore this week located
on a farm near St. Marys, a horse and
buggy which were stolen two weeks ago
from John MacCharles, 'Second Concession
of Huron Township. Moore went to St.
Marys on Tuesday, loaded 'the horse and
buggy onto his truck and was able to
deliver the outfit to MacCharles. Walter
Moore, a "home boy" who had been with
Mr. MacCharles the past three years
disappeared on September 17 and at the
same time, the horse and rig were gone.
Constable Moore recently learned that a
horse and buggy had been left at the
Colthard farm near St. Marys by a lad who
had hired there, worked for two days and
then departed without notice, taking a
bicycle belonging on the farm. Walter
Moore had been a fairly good boy while he
worked with Mr. MacCharles until he
made this break. He has not been heard of
since he left the Colthard farm.
The weatherman has been kind to .the .
fall fair associations this year and in this
• regard Lucknow Society was peculiarly
favoured. Both days, Thursday and Friday
of last week, were exceptionally fine - dry
• and neither- too warm nor too cool for
comfort. This brought a better crowd than
has attended the Lucknow fair for some
years and the_crowd was well -entertained
for the secretary reports an unusual
number of entries and it is reported the
exhibits' of horses and cattle as well as
other classes were unusually large and the
quality. good.
25 YEARS AGO
O Sunny skies last Wednesday morning
raised hopes of a fine day for Lucknow's
Et9th fall fair but the tempermental weather
man blotted out the sun by noon and
followed 'with afternoon downpours that
turned the grounds into a sea of mud and
• kept the crowd confined to the shelter of
the arena. The sodden crowd cheerfully
made the best of it and enjoyed the
activities that were switched to the arena.
• Thanks to the local Branch of the
Canadian Legion, veterans' aid fund and
• others who have lent assistance in one way
or another, Dick McBride will shortly be
comfortably housed in his own home again.
Dick lost everything he had but the clothes
O be was wearing, when fire destroyed the
cabin on the farm of Peter Johnstone late in
May which had been home to Dick for
several years. A building on the former
Sandy Smith place in Kinloss was
purchased recently and moved to a location
on the highway north of the village where
work bees have been underway to fit the
home for occupation.
A fire of undetermined origin which was
• discovered shortly before noon on Monday
completely destroyed the large barn on the
farm of Maurice Hodgins, concession 10,
Kinloss Township. Both Mr. and Mrs.
Hodgins were away at the time of the
outbreak and the fire had gained consid-
erable headway when discovered. The barn
contained the season's crop of hay and
grain but no livestock was in the buildink at
the time. Implements and equipment were
also destroyed in the conflagration.
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