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• NOTEBOOK
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Out *ceders sometimes misunderstand -
the intentions of their 'local newspaper
because they are not &Maar with the WO
'the newspaper is staffed and how the job of
reporting is done.
The Sentinel is a small comtnunity
newspaper and it has one person on its
editorial staff. Consequently I am editor,
reporter and 'photographer,.
Naturally the midget hockey team is proud
of their accomplishment in winning the
WOHA D chatiripionship by defeating
Teeswater in style, taking the series three
games straight. Some of their fans are
puzzled why the newspaper would not cover
this major event, espeendl3. when local
recreation director, Hill Hume* received an
award of inkrit front:the Canadian Amateur
}locket ' 4SS91';atitin for ',his 'ootetanding
contributzo to hockey ,at the game.
It is,„tny *intention 'that as mall of our
Mirtorliikkesr,,teamS. ineludinghOth A and 8
teams, will haVe one':piettitenta genie itr the
newspaper at some time.through the heitkey
seasee. Space does not alusicya,perinit me to
nil) as Many pictures as iiflt and since -I
am the only reporter photographer on staff,
if I cannot make it to a game because of
personal commitments or. beta.* I must
attend a meeting to cover inettrereVetiffer
the paper which iS cOnsidefed, more
important. the hockey has: to *att.
The Bantam hockey team ijytts eliminated
this week because their series with
Teeswater did not go as well as they had
hoped. They had not received coverage up to
this point therefore the picture of then. game
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NSIAX night mustrun in -this week's paper. " criteria-Wereused-Owing, to circumstances
The loblifikating club held their carnival on beyond their control, they will probably
Saturday night and while we run hockey nevteritel championship team, unless they
picturee All winter temp .this is•the only pelti,Miricre out of the bag. As far akii;am
opportunity to cover anevent staged by the -conOtied.the3 are still champion hockey
local skaters:, • . •
Monday night' when I assessed the spate'
we had this week and the pictures which I
had to run in this week's paper. I decided
that the midgets WOuld have to wait for- their
coverage.
• I phoned Bill Hunter to verify Something I
alieadtr.knew:. the Midgets would play -again
in Lucknow even- if they lost the next.„two
games.With TeesWater...So if their fortunes
changed chastically,they would still receive
coverage because they will play in Lnfltnow
again this season.
But some" fans will say a champidtiship
trophy should receive coverage in any event.
I disagree.: The -Lucknow Bantam hoekey
team would never receive coverage itthitt,
piaYers because,they,give tit their all.
Wiley burbet coverage that is
. fair within the !knits: iihkedon us -0Y-the
• space we have atulthe nunther'of 'People on
our staff.
' One More thing and Eben I have had my
say on the subject. If the Canadian Amateur
'Hockey Association'had, notified me prior to
- the presentation Monday night, I would. have
been mote than pleased -to attend the game
to take a pittute�fBillHunter receiving his
award of 'merit.
They did not potdify me andi learned of the
presentation Tuesday morning. But by then
everybody is screaming where was the
Press? In fact, the award was such.a surprise
Turn to page 7,
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To the Editor:
The former Linda Goyette and her
husband Michael, daughter and son-in-law
of Mel and Eunice Goyette of Kingsville,
have been visiting various countries of the
world on an extended world tour and spent
the last three months in India. They
dwelled all the way from the Khyber Pass in
northern Pakistan down to Madras in the
south for Christmas. They spent Christmas
1982 in Italy and the past summer in Africa.
Linda and Michael are now in Burma and
will soon be moving on to Thailand. They are
expected home in March.
Linda lived in Lucknow as a child, where
her father, Mel (layette, was principal of
Lucknow District High School from 1963 to
1966. He is now principal of Leamington
District Secondary School and they reside in
Kingsville.
Linda and Michael's stay in India included
a visit to the city of Lucknow. In a letter to
her mother and dad site outlined some of the
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history of Lucknow. India, the Sepoy Troops
and the Indian Mutiny. all more meaningful
to Linde because she had,at one time lived in
Lucknow. Ontario.
Margaret Thompson of Lucknow recently °
received a letter from her friend and former
neighbour. Eunice Goyette, which included
Linda's letter from Lucknow, India. much of
which will be of interest to Canadian
Lucknow and area residents. •
The letter reads in part:
Lucknow, India.
Hello Everybody.
I guess I wouldn't dare leave Lucknow
without writing a letter to -my family. to tell
them about it! 'Our' Lucknow and the
Canadian Lucknow have precious little in
common. but I've fcntrid some amusing links.
For example, the second most important
street in this city - a thoroughfare burdened
with the usual honking autterickshaws, mot-
orcycles, eycle-rickshaws4 horse drawn
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carts, human drawn rickshaws, pedestrian
bicycles and the ubiquitous dumb cows - is
,called Station Street Reading about the 1857
Indian Mutiny here, 1 keep finding Lucknow.
Ontario street names in the lists of important
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officers. (Havelock. Campbell. etc.). But to
wonder why the welcome sign (You're*11
LUCK .now!") referred te. Lucknow as, "the
Sepoy Town", wherfthe early settlets must
have had theli ,fill of mutinous sepoys. I
wonder whether the foundets of the Ontario
town were veterans of the terrible seige. Do
you know?"
This mitall city. with a mere million
inhabitants. isn't a popular tourist destina-
tion. although there's a great deal tosee and
do. This is fine With us. We arrived here
from Agra where we almost succumbed to
the predatory hucksterism of the bazaar
merchants - they literally drag you into their
shops.- and the whining complaints of the
Luxury Coach Tourists. Of course the, Taj
Mahal was worth every bit of the trouble.
We waited until 'sunset to begin our OWn
little tourist's pilgrimage to the site. Enter-
ing the front gate we gasped and made, the
usual banal remarks along with all the
others. It is magical! Photographs give you
no impression. of the Perfect symmetry of
the surrounding mosques Obi gardens. But
back to Lucknow. This morning, we hired a
rickshaw wallah to take us atound the city for
the day. Although *Indian city traffic is
• tbmething akin to the Bumper Car ride at
,the fair, ' the -cycle -rickshaw is a pleasant
• form Of traittapOrt. We alternated historic
sites and museums, mostly connected with
the Mutiny for the first Indian War of
Independence depending on your point of
view). with long walks iti the Zoo and '
• Bontanical Gardens, In a marvellous morn-
, ent thismorningwe looked'Out a smudged
windowparteof the State Museum and saw a
• backyard corner Of a courtyard, littered with
the marble remains of a dozen Victories,
Edwards and Georges. In their place, under
those gingerbread Victorian cupolasthere's
always a statue of a skinny ald man in
spectacles. wearing ,a simple dhoti and
canying tewalking staff. Steit goes for every
empire. 1 guess-. At the end of the day, we
wanderedthrough the Crumbling ruins of the
British Residency where shunt 1000 English
seildiers, wives and children died during the
dramatic seige:- Unfortunately, the poor
sepoys were butelteted with the, sante
brutality they had been fish*. They did not
keep letters or diaries or regimental records
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