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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1975-03-26, Page 1New Minister For . Lucknow Christian Reformed Church A new minister has accepted the position of pastor at the Lucknow' Christian Reformed Church. Rev. Leonard Van Staalduinen of Lodi, New Jersey, near New York, City, will come to Lucknow in early summer. Rev. and Mrs. Staalduinen have a family of four, two boys age 17 and 16 and two girls, age 14 and 9. The Lucknow Christian Reform- ed Church has been without a permanent minister since the departure of Rev. and Mrs. John Van Stempvoort and family a few months ago. Four municipalities have, purch- ased the service station and adjacent property of J. E. Mac- Donald of LncknOw which will be used as a Fire Hall to house area fire fighting equipment. The Townships of Ashfield, West Wawanosh .and Kinloss, and the Village of Lucknow shared the cost on an even 4-way split. Purchase price for the building and adjacent two lots to the west was $35,000. The transaction was completed through Et.A McDonagh Real Estate .of Lucknow. PosseSsion date is May 1st. The three rural muinicpalitieg recently purchased a new water tanker truck which will be used as an auxiliary water supply at rural, fires and will be manned by Lucknow Fire Department. This will be housedin the new fire hall, as will the present fire fighting eqUipment Owned by the village of Lucknow. Consideration will also be given in the near future to the purchase of a new pumper truck, but this is not a matter which will likely be on the agenda for two or three years, mtummiiimunumanniumumaimiiiiiiiminummiliiiiii111111111110111111111111111iiiimonammulimmiimmummnimmgoninnummuminummumummuumummoutimiumuinaliammummuumuumum A Real Rarity 'Eighteen Years Apart , 1975 TRIPLET CALVES- on the farm of Bob Gilchrist of Kinloss, 18 years after the' first triplet birth. Pictured; left to right, are the four sons of Bob and June Gilchrist, Dale 10, Danny 6, Grant . 14, and Murray 11. Kneeling in front is their dad Bob, while standing behind is their grandfather Fred Gilchrist. The SENTINEL $8.00 A Year In Advance $200 Extra To U,S.A. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 26, 1975 Single Copy 20c 24 Pages Four -,M Spy OtPonald Garage,- To Be aecordirig to one of the township spokesman. . • • With the purchase of the service station, Lucknow and District will lose one of its. long established businesses. .• • , Twenty-eight years ago, in 1947, Jack MacDonald went to work for Elmer Johnston in the White Rose Service Station, now occupied by Lucknow Machine Shop on Ross Street. Four years later Jack entered a partnerghip with Mr. Johnston which they carried on for , four years until Mr'. MacDonald purchased the garage business on umnijimmouummaintilima1111111111611111111111111111111111111111,1!11111111110111111111111011111111111111111111111111111111111Mitatinatimmaiiimitalimummimatmaiiimiam itimatimatamaliallailattarnilinlitaniatinuatita sed As Fire Hall his own. He operated from the Ross Street location for five more years until the Fall of 1959 when he constructed the present building on Willoughby Street on property purchased from Joe MacMillan who had a barn there. Jack changed locations in the early few days of 1960 and became associat- ed with Imperial ' Oil, which association he has retained to this day. As well as a service station, be has operated a complete mechanic- al and repair service. • New Lighting Purchased From Reunion Profits' Kinsmen Would Install New Towers Ashfield Pass Dog Licence Bylaw, All Dogs In The Township Must Now Be Licenced To Avoid Being Fined Engineer Re Park Drainage Ashfield Township Council met ',March 4 with all members present. Council agreed to give a grant of $100 each to the Lucknow and Dungannon Agricultural Societies. Application for Tile Dtain' Loans were approved for Kenneth Alton and Lorne Luther. Council endorsed a resolution presented by the Township of Mullet requesting the Ministry. of Natural Resources to re-instate a wolf bounty in the County of Huron. Ashfield agreed to purchase a new tanker truck for fire protection with the Townships of 'Kinloss and West Wawanosh and assume one third of the cost of approximately $16,000. • . Road accounts of $7,396.52 and general accounts of $15,776.87 were approved for payment. A meeting was held on March 18th with all members present. Councilors Allan Gibson and John Austin were appointed to represent Ashfield Township on the Lucknow and District Fire Committee. They agreed that the three townships and the Village, of Lucknow ,CONTINUED ON PAGE 23 Advice From. Bill Hunter, chairman of the Lucknow Recreation Committee and 'Cliff Livingston, representing the Lucknow Tractor Pull Associa- tion, met with . Lucknow Village Council recently to discuss drain- age of the Caledonian Park. Cliff explained that the local Tractor Pull group had decided againt any sanctioned pulls this year but that they, hoped to stage about three "out of the field" pulls with the first one tentatively slated for about July.. ° He asked council ' about its intentions in work at the park and indicated that, if the village did not plan to do any drainage work, that the tractor pullers group would, like permission to go ahead and do some drainage work themselves to fit a track out for their needs. If council decide to do drainage work, it was stated that the tractor pull group would be willing to provide tile for their section of the park. It was pointed out that the Lucknow Kinsmen Club is willing to provide .steel towers and necessary wiring for the new lighting at the ball park which was purchased from reunion profit, but wish the grounds properly . drained before an investment of this amount is undertaken. Bill Hunter, as chairman of the recreation, pointed out the urgent need for improved drainage at the park for bail diamond purposes, as well as to provide the best possible site before proceeding with the new lighting. Following discuSsion by. council, it was agreed ,that an engineer be contacted at once to make an assessment of the park 'as early as possible so that .the necessary drainage plans might proceed when weather permits. Murvin Solomon, senior council- lor, acted as chairman - for the Two Sets Of TriplOt -Calves Born On Sime Farm: Triplet calves is quite a rarity, and to have triplet calves which all survived is even more rare. Such has been the case twice at the Gilchrist. family farm on the 4th concession of Kinloss Township. ' Veterinarian Dr. 11;ock Cleland of Lucknow delivered both sets of tripleii, the first in 1957 for Fred Gilchrist and the second, just a couple of weeks ago for his son Bob Gilchrist. In 25 year...' of practice, these are the only occasions when Brock has been called on to assist in delivery of triplets, an indication of the rarity of triplet births. On another occasion just recent- ly, on the farm • Of Lawrence MacLeod of the 2nd of Kinloss triplets delivered themselves with- out any assistance. 'About six years ago, on the farm of Geert de Jong of Kiriloss, almost right next door CONTINUED -ON PAGE 2 Died At Age 49 Peter de Boer of Kinloss Township died at Winghim and District Hospital on Thursday, March 20, in his 56th year. Funeral service was held on Sunday, March 23 at 3 p.m. from Langside Presbyterian Church. Temporary entombment was in Teeswater Cemetery Chapel. Maa'herson Funeral Home in Teeswater was in charge of the arrangements. CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 Died At 57 Years Joseph L. MacIntyre of Kintail area, road superintendent in Ash- field Township, died on Monday, March 24 at University Hospital, London. He was 57 years of age. The funeral service was held at Kingsbridge Roman Catholic Church on Wednesday morning. Jim Peterson Is Named To Area Advisory Group The Opportunities for Youth Program in 1975 is establishing Management. Area Advisory Groups to provide for the expres- sion of a local point of view in the selection of O.F.Y. projects. The members of each 'group will advise the Minister of Manpower and Immigration as to which of the proposed projects best relate to the priorities and life of their commun- ity. Jim Peterson of Lucknow rhos Group. heen named to this Advisory The members of the Manage- ment Area Advisory Group 'for the - counties of Bruce, Grey, Simcoe, Muskoka and Parry Sound are: Francs Botham, Huntsville; Gary French, Toronto; Philip Hope, Burks ' Falls; Brenda Koutnik, Barrie; Ross Lamont, : R. R. 5 Paisley; Jim Peterson, Lucknow.