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Home My WebLink AboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1979-12-12, Page 6• k. • • *age 6,--liticknow Sentinel, Wednembiy, December 12, 1979 The LLICKNOW SENTINEL • LUCKNOW ONTARIO "Tbe 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. Second class mail 'registration number -0847. 4 • A SIGNAL PU8LiCA TiON' SHARON J. DIETZ - Editor ANTHONY N. JOHNSTONE - Advertising and General Manager PAT LIVINGSTON - Office Manager MERLE ELLIOTT - Typesetter MARY. McMURRAY - Ad Composition •"Subscription rate, 512 per year in advance Senior Citizens rate, $10, per year in advance U.S.A. and Foreign, 521.50 per year in advance • Sr. Cit. U.S.A. and Foreign, $19.50 per year in advance A gift of the heart • It is difficult to get into the Christmas rewarding gift yeu can give and the gift spirit when we haven't much snow, but most appreciated. the season is upon us. Christmas activities are in full gear. Some Christmas concerts are already passed. Carolfest,a celebratio,n of the season's •music is tonight and Santa comes to town on Satnrclay. The round of Christ- mas parties have., begun and the last minute , shopping is still to be done. ••• • ... it's a bu4sy season and sometimes the • spirit is lost in all the running around. • Sometimes the true meaning is forgot - •ten amid the commercial hoopla that is • Christmai today. But the Lucknow Leos, who this year decided to be creators of Christmas `spirit, have set an example for us all They are entertaining the senior citizens of the area at their annual dinner tomorrow evening and on Saturday they are bringing Santa to town in a. parade. Their efforts will brighten :the season for many of our senior citizens who may be lonely at this time *of year because . • • some' of their loved ones are no longer with themarid f•amily and friends maji live, away. •• • They are delighting the children of our town with the anticipation of a Santa Claus parade, The parade is a• major • undertaking for the club and they • deserve everyone's support. Christmas Ls a season of merriment but it can be a lonely time. This year, let's try the Leos are,, to create some true Christmas spirit by making Christ- mas brighter for those who have less of • a• reason to be merry. •• • Somewhere amid the tinsil is a' gift from the heart. The unexpected letter to an old friend, a visit to someone who is sick or shut-in and an invitation to spend Christmas to someone who will be alone this Christmas. Surprisingly this type of gift doesn't • cost much in dollars and cents, but it is expensive in time, the most precious commodity at this time of year as the clock ticks away the minutes until Chriginas Day. But a gift of the heart is the most • precious gift of all in an age where people have little time to write letters to • old friends, visit with the sick and elderly or notice someone's loneliness. • To take the time to give a gift of the • heart this Christmas, will be the most A gift from the heart is the story of 'Christmas. The true meaning of Christ- mas cannot be found beneath .a decorat- ed tree or in the Christmas specials in a store. The true meaning of Christmas is in the heart. " From Queen's Park • The Shepheida. came to Worship :the. Christ 'child:When herviiiiihorn in a stable long 'ago. These shepherds represented their Bible counterparts in the Christmas operetta. presented • by the senior students at the Lucknow Central Public. School Christmas Concert on Thursday night. From the left Are Sharon-MO(1e, Debra Emberlin, Tith Treleaven, Chris Collyer and Todd Ritchie. Rather trust oil companies than NEB ' BY MURRAY GAUNT Ontario Energy Minister Robert Welch indicated this week that he trots informa- tion on heating oil supplies provided by oil com anies more than- he trusts .data f the National • Energy. Board and Prime Minister Joe Clark. . Mr.. Welch was e I to charges that a heating oil Supply crisis is approaching while Ontario waits passively• . During the emergcliry Legislature de- bate, Mr. Welch said that bas on day -to - arbitrators, including the current mediator.. various sites around the province, and' The strike left management personnel in another 14,430 -tons are in use, mostly in charge of jails, with Ontario Provincial transformers. While PCBs have been used, Police and the Canadian Forces alerted and mainly in electrical transformers and • prepared to respond in case of trouble. capacitors, since . 1929, in recent years a Assessment hearings will soon begin link has been established between these into the construction of a $4 million storage ,chemicals and cancer, liver and skin site for polychlorinated biphenyls near diseases, and birth defects. Brantford, Ontario. The site, which has a The Minister of the Environment was planned capacity of 5,000 tons of PCBs, is a attacked by Opposition Members for his Hydo transformer station about 15 km. refusal to assist public interest groups in , from Brantford and 6 km: from Middleford. . preparing their cases for the hearings. urrently 550 tons of PCBs are stored at . • companies and NEB federal officials, he day discussions with the major 'oil Heritage Canada • had no basis for believing that the supply ' • exte t =Plied by the Prime Minister- A. charitable. outidation situation for fuel oil has deteriorated to the earlir this week". (Mr. Clark said the BY NEW BERTON • Chairman -of the Board Heritage Canada Heritage Canada has been in, operation six years, has a NEB had concluded "there may be limited shortages this winter in Canada".) The Attorney -General has told the Legislature's justice committee that he is considering giving policemen the dare - tion 'to hand out 24-hour licence suspen. SiOns to drivers who have been drinking. Anyone given such an on.the-spot suspen. ' sion would have to make his or her own way home, and the car (plus- licence) would be returned 24 hours later. While the details of such a scheme have not yet been workedout, it would have to be carried out in conjunction with widespread use of the • "Alert" portable breathalyzer machines which are used by police to' determine whether a driver' shtiald be taken to the station for a test on a •breathalizer, which is capable of giving more, accurate readings. After an illegal strike which lasted two and a half days, the Province,'s 3,000 prison guards have voted 70 per cent in favour of -a , tentative settlement which would send the key issue in the dispute -. a separate bargaining unit for the guard& to binding arbitration. Ddring the' course of the .dispute, the union president pleaded guilty in the Suprente Court . of Ontario, to contempt ' in defying a coUrt injunction which forbade prison guards to strike. Both sides have agreed to a list of six • Million *dollar amnial budget, a staff of twenty at its Ottawa headquarters, and a memb- ership in excess of ten thonsand, yet I'd guess that most people don't know who we are. A lot of people think we • are a government organiza- tion. Even Sinclair Stevens, a senior cabinet minister, wan- ted to knew what department we came undet when I men- tioned the organization to him the other day. • He seemed surprised when I explained we were a private charitable foundation totally separate from govern- ment. 1 can't blame him, since our name suggests govern - met. It's almost a cliche these days: Parks Catiada, Environment Canada, Trans- pOrt Canada -- there's no end to it. • Actually, we are in the tradition 'of such voluntary associations as the National Trusts of England," Scotland-: and the United States. . But if we called ourselves a National Trust, people would confuse us with the finanati# institution of the same name. In spite of all this confu- sion and obscurity, "I'm proud to say we've made an impression on the Canadian landscape since we came into operation six. years ago. • We've helped through heritage legislation in most provinces so that it is easier. to prevent buildings of value being bulldozed down. We've invested fairly hefty sums -. as much, as half a million dollars -- in various conservation areas in major Canadian comniunitiet ac- ross the country: St. John's, • )0 a. • Charlottetown, St. Andrews, ' • Winnipeg, Strathcona, Daw- Sofl City. • - We've acted is a catalyst to spark heritage preserva- tion in Halifax, Montreal, •Annopolip Royal, Ottawa -and - Vancouver. • • *We've launched a massive education campaign -- a' "university without walls" to train or re-train artisans, developers, and architects in the techniques of preierVa- tion, • We've been able to per- suade local and provincial governments to save older . • buildings of merit. • We've published books, pamphlets and'our own Heri- tage Canada magazine.' We are engaged in exper- imental pilot projects US find new uses for old buildings, to preserve streetscapes, to en- gage the private sector in new •forms of proft-inaking n • Turn to-Paite 74