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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1979-10-17, Page 34Page 6--Luclnsow Sentinel, Wednesday, October 24, 1979 The LUCKNOW SENTINEL LUCKNOW, ONTARIO "The Sepoy Town" On the Huron -Bruce Boundary Established 1873 Published Wednesday Business and Editorial Office Telephone 528-2822 Mailing Address P.O, Box 400, Lucknow, NOG 2H0 $econd class mail registration number -0847 O 4,.' O r 0 A SIGNAL PUBLICATION SHARON. J. DIETZ - Editor ANTHONY N. JOHNSTONE - Advertising and General Manager PAT LIVINGSTON - Office Manager MERLE ELLIOTT - Typesetter MARY. McMURRAY - Ad Composition Subscription rate, S12 per year in advance Senior Citizens rate, $10per year in advance U.S.A. and Foreign, $21.50 per year in advance Sr. Cita U.S.A. and Foreign, S19.50 per year in advance Block Parents apathetic The executive of the Lucknow Block. Parents Association is concerned about the lack of interest indicated at their recent meeting. All Lucknow Block, Parents were contacted by the previous. chairman and requested . to attend the meeting but only five, came out. Block Parents in Lucknow must remain active as a group . because the local association has several responsibilities they must undertake. Money, must be raised to pay Lucknow's membership to the Ontario Block Parent Association and to .carry on the education program in the school by providing films and instruction materials. The executive is holding a fifty-fifty draw and have: placed cans in local stores to raise money. They are also considering erecting signs at the entrances to the, village .on highway 86 announcing that. Lucknow's children are protected by a Block : Parent program. Apathy frequently: takes hold among Block Parents according to representa- tives of the Ontario association, The program is working well. Block Parents are not bothered by children coming to their door who do not require assistance. And because the program is . working, very few Block Parents have had children come to their door because .they were frightened by a stranger.. The local Block Parent association is attempting to keep 'interest in the . program alive, by holding a meeting to discuss their plans for the new year. The executive also anticipates they will schedule more meetings .'to keep Luck- now's Block Parents informed . 'and to allow Block Parents to participate. The Block Parent program in Lucknow is a necessary and valid program, in a society as mobile as ours. Many people pass through the village in a day and it is not inconceivable that someone who would harm a child couldbe among the nameless faces behind the wheel of a car. Anyone interested in learning about the Block Parent program and its purpose and objectives may contact the chairman, Marguerite Sanderson. Senior citizens make good. Block Parents. They are especially welcome. Just another year? We've had World Refugee Year, The Year of the Environment, International Women's. Year, and now, The Interna- tional Year of the Child. There are more refugees than ever, the environment is 'more troubling than ever and women still do not have equality in many parts of the world. When 1979 has come and gone; "more than half of the world's children will still face a bleak future. If they don't solve problems, what's the point of these "special" years? What are they all about anyway? We North Americans are conditioned to the 30 -minute solution, or in this case, the 365 -day solution. If problems are raised, surely they should be solved. There is a basic misunderstanding of what the special United Nations years of focus are all about: The special "years" are intended to provoke thought, and to bringabout discussion - thought and discussion by governments, by experts and above all, by the public. They are intended to pin -point specific interna- tional problems and bring those problems to the forefront of everyone's attention. The United Nations can obtain interna- tional agreement on principles but it has no power to make its member nations adopt legislation that would enshrine those principles in law. The "Internation Declaration on the Rights of the Child", for example, was adopted 20 years agog . but not -.all principles in that declaration have been translated into: legal rights for all child- ren: In Canada, we are considering special appointed lawyers to represent the rights of children in court cases. These children's advocates would repres- ent the child, not the parents. We are moving away from the idea that children are chattels belonging to`parents.. Regret- tably this kind of legislation is far in' advance of what is possible in many countries, countries where children still can legally be bought and sold'and where child labour laws are still. non-existent. During each of the years of interna- tional focus, nations have responded with legislative and action programs. The positive accomplishments of the .special U.N. years are seldom reported, butthe more dramatic continuing problems always find their way into the headlines. Nevertheless,' real gains are being made. This year, during The International Year of the Child, many nations have introduced new laws to protect their children and many others are funding, with the help of organizations like UNICEF, special long-term programs which will benefit their own children. In Canada, we have seen an effective public campaign to, recognize, and report cases of child abuse. Hospitals and child welfare agencies are setting up special programs to deal with the victimsof abuse. The legal profession is becoming more sensitive to the need of removing abused children from their parents. This is a form of action close at. hand, it is the result of "focus" on children and their needs during this special international year, but elsewhere, gains in programs that we now take for granted can be equally dramatic. When the Year of the Child began, it was assumed that the problems in the industrialized countries were largely problems of "value", while the problems in the third world were largely "basic". As people of all 'nations exchanged information, however, it became :appar- ent that illusions existed. The industrial- ized nations do have health, nutrition and education problems and many children in the third world suffer from child abuse, drug and alcohol abuse. The goals of this special U.N. Year? The real, positive, tangible results? The Executive Director of UNICEF, Mr. Henry Labouisse, said; "If the Year sets in motion plans and programs' that will improve the fate of generations of children to come, it will have reached its, goal". It would seem clear that IYC has "set in motion" quite a number of positive working programs and in this respect, all the U.N. special years have done the same. The problems will still be with . us. but the wheels are turning. The year of focus isn't just "all talk". On' October 31st nearly a million. Canadian children will "trick. or treat' for UNICEF. By helping to fill their UNICEF boxesyou are helping to keep the wheels in motion. The programs that have been initiated are long term, they must be carried out. LOOKING BACK TI�ROUGII TI3E SENTINEL 75 YEARS AGO The most enthusiastic reception ever given to a political leader in Western Ontario was accorded to" Sir Wilfrid Laurier, the eloquent Premier of Canada by the electors of Huron anr, Bruce in Lucknow on Monday. A large crowd welcomed the Premier and Lady Laurier when their train arrived at the station. A procession was formed and headed by Highland Pipers Archy Anderson', D. McKay and D. McDonald and the Wingham and Lucknow brass bands marched to the Agricultural Park. The large building was comfortably seated butevery available spot was taken up and in order toallow the vast crowd who could not get into the building) an opportunityto both hear and see the Premier, itwas necessary to remove the side of the building opposite the platform. It was the largest gathering ever seen at a meeting in this pari of the province, over 3,000 being present, a large number of whom were ladies. The Premier opened his remakrs by telling the crowd, "There is al highland cheer in your welcome which goes to my own heart. And when a moment ago I heard the sound of the pibroch, it reminded me that in the ages gone by, your ancetors and my ancestors often fought upon the same battlefields al though sometimes not on the same side." He said he has been eight. years in office and is proud to say there is not a man who can stand before him and acuse him of ` stirring up prejudice. Qn the contrary he said, "the language I speak here, I speak in my own province and there I ask those of my i own blood to forget the differences of the past and stand : up for Canada first, last and always. -. Sir Wilfrid's references to the British preference, the denunciation of the German and Belgian treaties and his assertion that the placing of a surtax upon German goods equal to the discrimina- tory duties imposed upon Canadian goods has asserted the manhood of Canada, touchieda responsive chord in his audience. The premier dealt at length with the transcontinental railway project, and the crowd indicated their support for the government's demand for al: purely Canadian railway. 50 YEARS AGO At the official nominations held on Saturday, party candidates as previously selected were nominated. In North Huron, _Charles Robertson, Liberal and Dr. J. B. Whitely, Conservative. In South Bruce, Foster Moffat, Conservative and W., J. MacKay, Liberal. In South Huron W. G. Meda' Progressive and George Elliott, Conservative. In North Bruce A. P. Mewhinney, Liberal and D. J. Byers, Conservative. Mewhinney represented North Bruce in the last legislature, Moffat sat for South Bruce, Robertson. represented North Huron and Med sat for South Huron. The election will be held next Wednesday, October 30. KING OF THE HOBOS RETIRES We had a card this week fro ti Leon Lazarowitz who, as King of the Hobos, spent last New Years Day in Lucknow. It will be remembered he was then beating or bumming his way to Alaska. He reached his objective and then went to California, visited Mexico and then bet his way to Toronto. He has since returned to his home in New York where he has resigned his crown and retired from hobo life. He is now writing a book in which he AO tell thestory of his wanderings practically all overthe earth. _- 25 YEARS AGO Whine other:areas count the cost in life and property damage in the wake of Hurricane Hazel, this immediate com- munity is thankful to have escaped the ravages of thea storm. Locally Hurricane Hazel did little more than give residents an eerie night of wind and raid. About three inches of rain fell on Friday to complete the inundation of farm lands in the district and lessen the chances of harvesting some crops still in the fields: Farm lands are saturated beyond getting into the fields and fall: plowing is out of. the question at present and on some low land may not be possible this fall. The deluge Friday and continued rain- fall Saturday raised the Village streams to a high level, but the straightening of the Nine Mile River through.the heart of town which has been carried out over the last couple of years, enabled the floodwaters to get away rapidly and the level dropped by early Sunday. George Drennan of Ashfield reached his 90th birthday on October 6. Aside from a recent attack of shingles when he was hospitalized, Mr. Drennan enjoys comparatively good health and at haying. time drove the tractor for harvesting operations. Mr. and Mrs. W. S. McGuire of the second concession of Huron Township have as their guests, Mrs. Daisy Rosser and her daughter, Lorraine, of Auckland, New Zealand. They plan to spend the winter here and Lorraine is looking forward to seeing snow for the first time in her life, except on mountain.tops. Mrs. Rosser and Mrs. McGuire are sisters who were separated as children when their parents died. It is 55 years since they had been together and their reunion brought to reality a liftetime ambition.