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1984
Create aesthetic wva ie -.
Lucknow is especiallyfortunate to have a Horticultural
Society which takes an active interest. in• the village: This.
dynamic group has workedwith the village council; to,
beautify the conservation area along the river, dress up the .:
main street and plant trees so our children and their children
willhave mature: treesto make their village a pretty place to
live.
On the Society's initiative, Lucknow's only .Bicentennial,
function, a garden party,. was ,organized successfully and the •
historical aspect of the occasion was suitably com-
memorated by the erection of a plaque, to recognize the first
water works to serve as fire' protection for the village.
It takes hard work to plana garden party, plant flower box- '
es,,and obtain grants to hire; students to create a picnic area
at the river'. Most important: it takes foresight and Jean Whit-
by through heryears.as‘president and past president of this
fine organization, has been instrurriental in many of the pro-
jects which the Society has undertaken.
It Jean who appears at village council meetings to ask
for village grants to add to Society funds to build flower box-
es, plant trees and purchase plaques. Ik is Jean who brought '
the idea of experience grants to village council, to hire
students .to dothe work to create a picnic area at the Water
Works;Conservation Area. It is Jean who introduced the idea
of a plaque, to commemorate the. Bicentennial, before thiie::
Society and then went about finding the funds to purchase' the
plaque. _ 1� . t .
But: one person cannot succeed alone and -Jean has enjoyed
the support of all the active members of the:;Society and its„
executive who have worked to bring these various projects to
fruition.'..'. -
The Lucknow and District Horticultural: Society has con-
tributed much tothe quality of life we njoy in this commiim
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ty, and Lucknow is a better place tq:live•because of their` ef-
forts.'
crerage Iackscredibility
The federal election campaign is getting: down to business.
A..loolc;.through. the daily. newspapers informs prospective
voters; that the three party leaders havereally :, hit the
hustings in earnest.;
A:feminist group is. offering women a rearguard defense
from a sneak .attack by. Prime Minister John Turner. .,The
Kitchener -Waterloo Status' of Women council is. selling
"Turi ei shields" amid controversy over the Liberal leadder's
car ipaign habit of patting women's bums.
• The device - a green bristol board shield with a pink wool
belt sells for $1, but one will be mailed to\every female eke -
tion candidate, free of charge. No bum raps with, rearguard
"Turner shields".
Conservgative leader Brian Mulroney feels betrayed' that
after he blathered away about patronage and his place at the •
trough, someone reported.the.flippant remarks - effectively
undercutting the best issue of the early days of the campaign.
"There were a dozen experienced reporters there," he says'
sipping a coffee in his hotel suite one afternoon. "And only
one reported it. That ought to say something." Indeed it does.
Nothingis off the record.
At least it shouldn't be: But the camaraderie that exists
between many politicians and the reporters who. interview
them,. means there is an unique groupof people in this coun-
try
ountry who know what politicians, are reallyhike. And they do not
report it to the Canadian public, because they. belong to the
• squalid backroom boys who wheel and deal in politics.
Indeed the other reporters who heard Mulroney's remarks
chastised the Ottawa Citizen reporter who quotedl+Iulroney
in his story for ..betraying the unwritten trust, that a reporter
shall only report what a politician says is on the record and
very obediently delete what he says is +6f the record. •
Who knows, perhaps the politicians are talking issues in
this campaign and the reporters covering the campaign have
chosen to write only stories about protecting bum raps with
rearguard Turner shields, while standing on their heads to
see upside down numbers on office memos tucked under the
arms of opposition finance critic John Crosbie.
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Bicentennial garden Clockwise from the upper left photo, dedication of the plaque by
p arty, Rev. William Henderson of Lucknow; greetings by chairman
Jean Whitby, past president Lucknow. Horticultural Society,
Wendy.. Rossi Maitland Valley Conservation. Authority and Reeve George Joynt of . Lucknow; planting the white pine,
Ddistrietz).ict 8 director, Clarence Lange of Chesley and Lucknow Horticultural Society president Mary MacGillvray; music an
banjo and violins, Jean Conley, Ira Dickie and Harold Campbell; Edith Webster in Bicentennial dress. ( photos by Sharon
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voyage n the
AC ade Queen began the return years previous. Sometimes when he looked, .
REDTREES
y g , Teddy Murdoch had at the familiar figure of Captain Jamieson
more time on his hands: With all his carpen- . on the wheeldeck, he imagined he was once
try work finished, and unable to participate , again upon that fateful ship and , by Don Campbell
reserved for
in those duties .reseexperienced xperiericed remembered all the .sadness which it had
seamen, his activities were confined to represented.
menial thsks as a means of keeping him oc-
cupied.
He spent a lot of time in the improvised
passenger quarters talking to the
emigrants, and 'answeringnumerous ques-
tions about'Canada in general, and Redtrees
in particular. It .gave the boy a sense of im-
portance to be regarded, . as a seasoned
pioneer, and he revelled in his new-found
prestige.. 1
The feelings of the newcomers, their,
hopes and fears; were very similar to the
ones which he ' had when he had embarked
on the "Mavis" for the new land, some
In those days he 'was called Teddy Mac-
Queen, for that was before his mother had
married Murdoch. He recalled his natural
father, a simple and kindly shepherd, who
had succumbed, to typhus and was buried at
sea. •
The character of Teddy had undergone a
drastic change since thosedays," when he
was' bitter at the loss of his father, and
>;esentful that his mother should wish to
replace him with another. He had been a
rebellious lad and it took a lot of patience for
Murdoch to win the boy's confidence. Now
his stepfather was held high in the lad's
esteem, and Teddy thanked God for the
courage, strength and love which Murdoch
had brought into their lives. '
The transition between boyhood and
manhood is a difficult period. Unrestrained,
the urge of youth to seek (and all too often
demand) the privileges of adult 'life before
the coming of full maturity, ,can have
disastrous consequences. Teddy had been as
defiant and headstrong as any other lad, but
the discipline of Murdoch had held him in a'
tight rein. Only now did the boy realize the
truth in his stepfather's words.
"Ye are entitled tae nothing except that
which ye earn. What ye sow - ye shall reap.
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`Tis only by sweat that a man eats bread!"
With the corning of puberty, Murdoch had
many -other less3ns to impress upon his step-
son, in addition to the explanation of pro-
creation.
"A. woman is notyours to , take, except in
holy matrimony. We are civilized because
we are Men who live by the rules of God. lift
were not so, we may as well live with pigs in
a.sty!
It had been impressed upon Teddy's .mind
that women were to be protected again
evil and treated with the utmost respect. He'
had not given too much thought on the mat-
ter until he spied, a certain young woman
embark on the ship at Glasgow. Even when
he first saw her, a strange inexplicable env
tion enveloped his being; a sensation which
could only be interpreted as "love at first
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