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Home My WebLink AboutLucknow Sentinel, 2009-01-14, Page 4-` �-�-'..,,.�,i-„wlt,,,,.s.a��iw■.►�i�nir =' -- --. _ - Page 4 Lucknow Sentinel, Wednesday, January 14, 2 Lucia -low • 11.0. Box 400, 619 Campbell Street, Lucknow, Ontario, NOG 2H0 phone: (519) 528-2822 fax: (519) 528-3529 www.lucknowsentinel.com Publisher, Advertising • Manager: Pat Livingston lucksentads@bowesnet.com Editor: Garit Reid lucksented@bowesnet.com Administrator: Ruth Dobrensky• lucksent@bowesnet.com On leave: Sara Bender Subscription Rates advance: Regular $30.00 plus OST - for $28.00 plus GST PUBLICATIONS MAIL AGREEMENT NO. 40064683 PAP REGISTRATION NO. 7656 RETURN UNDELIVERABLE CANADIAN ADDRESSES TO CIRCULATION DEPT. P.O. Box 400 Lucknow, ON, NOG 2H0 For any non -deliveries or delivery concerns, please call 519-528-2822. e-mail: lucksent@bowesnet.com "We acknowledge the financial support” of the Government pf Canada, through the Publications Assistance Program (PAP), toward our mailing costs." Changes of address, orders for subscriptions, and undeliverable copies (return postage guaranteed) are to be sent to The Lucknow Sentinel at the address indicated here. Advertising is accepted on the condition that in the event of a typographical error, the por- tion of the advertising space occupied by the erroneous item together with a reasonable allowance for signature, will not be charged for, but the balance of the advertisement will be paid at the . applicable rates. The Sentinel is available on microfilm at: - Goderich Library, 52 Montreal Street Goderich, N7A 1 M3 (from 1875) Goderichlibrary@huroncounty.ca and Kincardine Library, 727 Queen Street, Kincardine N2Z 1Z9 (from 1875 to 1900 SUN MEDIA Is losing good soldiers worth Is the war on terror worth losing our Canadian soldiers? Over and over, we as -a nation read in the newspaper or hear on the radio of a soldier being killed in Afghanistan. I'm just wondering if it's .worth it. I do agree that terrorism has no place in the world, but is sending in ground troops to terrorism heavy areas, -the answer? I _ don't see how all of the terrorists in the world can l defeated. It's just not a war that can be won. What other strategies could there be to eventually eradicate terrorism? This question eludes me. It's like America's war on during the Reagan years. cracked down on drugs, but weie con- tinually fighting a ; war that couldn't be won. g Iknow the Canadian government . wan..-ts to do their part"to stop P`terrorism in the world, but at ` what cost. Throwing money and _ soldiers at the Problem won't stop a person - from strapping himself with a bomb and entering a crowded marketplace. It won't stop an insurgent soldier from setting up roadside bombs. There will always be evil people in the world who don't care about life and all they want to do is see the world burn: The terrifying fact of the mat- ter is that these evil people think they ` are doing the work of God. What kind of God would ow his his people to kill and for him? don't want to live in a world. ` .that . -is like : that, but 'm a realist. We live : to a world where innocent people and thePe op le sworn to protect them die everyday. Being a history major, I have stud- ied a lotof military histo__and I think the most courageous people in the world are soldiers. put ut their: lives on the line for little pay and fight for ,a country they love, so.that their_families :and:all es. Canada can live safe lives. families-: u I Jjust want to know if fighting a war that can't be won is doing that. Are the families of these soldiers better off? I giVe total support to our Canadian troops. I just don't want to read about another dead, soldier • ? Economy based on 40 years ago -,Tq ' L 1999 - The new municipality of Huron --loss held its inau meeting on Jan. 5 despite blowing and drifting snow. The new council decided it will make use of the empty :base- anent its the former Huron Twp.. municipal offices and storage spaces: - The Lucknow Juveniles are International Silver Stick Division C champions! In a great team effort, the local champs won threegames and f tied one during Silver Stick play in Mooretown. Ashfield Twp.; council. supported the bid by the City of hot the 2008 Summer Olympics. Council voted in m acs. Toronto to - S Y P favour at the Jan. 5 1999 meeting. yoars quo: -,January 11. 1989 Power was interrupted on the south side of the village Jan. the building where Valle - stripping the roof on �l Y. : �� work crewstrrpp g � Flowers is housed apparently p Careen , missed the truck and debris broke:a power line. Town crews and W. �: UC were on the scene repiairing the damage. ..-" . . a onced Chris- = -Ward recently Education Minister nnu _. school` boards: -for their increased fundingfor the province's to Dece December 1989. bud eY - ear of January you've seen the main street lately will have �fyounoticed the former Button's. Meat:. a new�sign, to Market, announcing the :opening March :1, `1989 of Kranenburg's Butcher Shop. yearslanuatry 14; At the conclusion of the inaugural meeting of the Lucknow Municipal Cc until on Monday, Jan. 12, Reeve George Joynt his recommendations:for aplanned works summarized Pro- gram in 1959. Some items- are definite action;projects, others are matters for consideration- and action if and when feasible. - At the inaugural meeting of the Lucknow. Public -School Board, principal Stuart Collyer reported a further increase in attendance. I3nrollment at the start of the New Year was ~ "" an increase of eight overthe-September figure of 25. viler Dear Editor, : and Jongng ago producedfar more stuff I don't know about you but. I'm grow- than :most of us need so that the growth. ing W of the parade of . economists enthusiasts spend b' Foos of.dollars on mgthe collaps- advertisingto manufacture trivial wants ing wringing their hands about c p economy and then coming up with to take our dollars and our time. `proposals for how to revive it. The prob- As a _ society we have ENOUGH. lem I have is that they want to rescue the Most of us have more than enough. Our bubble blowers and the speculators at the lives are cluttered with material stuff and expense of the rest of us. They want to our belts are a little tighter than they need revive theP roblem not solve it. to be. If we face "tough times" maybe Weg et lectures that the moving forces we should be thinking about "redistribu in the stock market are peed and fear tion" rather than "growth". Can we And because of a massive run of greed imagine a giant Canadian Potlatch and a which has now been replaced by fear us massive . "fre-ecycle" . ordinary folks are lectured that we need - What if we decided to rumour econo- to cut our living standards and stop silly my on the basis of Joy and "Generosity. spending. Then the lecture goes on that rather than Greed and Fear?` If we saw a we need 'Government to bring about contracting economy as an opportunity inflation to get rid of the bad debt of the - to bring our economic activities into a speculators and bubble blowers, so they sustainable balance with the_ global can stopbeing fearful and go back to' ecosystem within which we must live? . g being Greedy; Of course that kind of . If instead of giving Trillions of dollars to inflation. will devalue the savings of fru- . gal folks brit that is just : the "collateral damage" required to - get the bankers - back" on their feet. We are told we need -them down to realistic levels. to get the economy "growing" again and We have a real economy with skilled the rest of us buying - like crazed con- workers in manufacturing, farming, sumers. medicine, education, and a whole range What fools are we to let the specula- of people with essential* valuable tal- tors blow thes out of the real econ- ents -for our comrntuuties' and country. ProP omy that makes real goods, provides We have equipment and :. we have actual services,P uts food on the table resources. Tony MoQuail the folks who blew up the bubble we declared 201Q a' year of "jubilee" and forgave all the debts? Or at least wrote Submitted photo The grandchildren of Lois and Grant Farrish were enjoying a visit to Lucknow on Sunday Jan. 10, 1999. They particularly enjoyed the huge bank of snow in front of their grandparents' home.The blowing ...snow was no deterrent for (From the top) Ryan Versol, "Leanne Elston, Andrews Versolatto,'Emily Elston and Tessa Vorsolatto. (File photo)