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Home My WebLink AboutLucknow Sentinel, 2009-04-22, Page 4-moi.. .z. • u_.aTi:.i ...J.r-. -. .. .._ 4 Page 4 - Lucknow Sentinel, Wednesday, April 22, 2009 • P.O. 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 Office Administrator: Ruth Dobrensky • .•.w.W.Vn�i`. lucksent@bowesnet.com On leave: Sara Bender Subscription Rates advance: Regular $30.00 plus GST Senior $28.00 plus OS r PUBLICATIONS MAIL AGREEMENT NO. 40064683 PAP REGISTRATION NO. 7656 RETURN UNDELIVEFtABLE 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 of Canada, through the Publications Assistance Program (PAP), toward our mailing costs." Canada' aac Changes of adds ss, 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 1M3 (from 1875) Goderi ch I i braxy@ h uroncou n ty. ca and Kincandine Library, 727 Queen Street, Kincardine N2Z1Z9 (from 1875 to 1900 & 1935 to 1959) • SUN MEDIA Q.ftlCh Medi (hiok.b, • Facebook is a love/hate relationship I will have to admit that I'm an avid user of Facebook. It's something to use when bored at home. It's a place for people to post pictures and chat with each other. For people not aware of Facebook, it's a social networking site, where people add friends, so they can interact with them and exchange pictures and -information. It's called a social networking website, but to me it's more of an anti -social place to spend one's time. It has 1 the appearance of being social, because you can chat to people, but you are usually doing it by yourself. It'slike going through a . a photo album and reading a letter, you aren't interacting with anything , but words and images. I did say I'm an avid user, so I guess I'm bored a lot. It's also a lace where le like to write about all of the pmoblems in their • lives. That's all fine and good, but does anybody expect their problems to be use Facebook because it does keep them in touch with friends and family. Facebook has also become a place where people can take activism to the internet. Whatever happened to taking to the sheets or petitions sent to government offices? Now politi- cians have to check websites like Facebook to see the grievances of the public? To me, it just seems not as invasive and a lot easier to make : a Facebook page. Activism should be heard and not seen on Facebook. I guess you could say I have a love/hate a relationship with Face:. .. I always s have �ook.Y a compulsion to check it everydaand throw an odd comment on my status from now and then. I've deleted it a few limos as well, but I always seem : to sign back on when I =get bored.' Most of the people on m list I prob- ably haven't seen since high school and that I have to say has been a few years. solved by Facebook message. I'm sure most people like myself just i use it to vent, l not actually expecting problems to be solved. It does make sense for people who are abroad who Iess the gu point I'n:trying to make s Facebook is a superficial means of thi someone is a part of a com- munity. I guess I'll try to use it less often. Evergreens for S The Bruce Resource. Stewardshi Network continues to be a leader i the focus on water and fores resources in Bruce ,County with . di introduction of the "Evergreens fo spring campaign. For ever $15 donated, 10 evergreen seedling will be planted along a Bruce County stream. The Bruce County Stewardshi Network continues to focus on wate and forest resources by leading o assisting in a number of projects within Bruce County. The Stewardship Network offers a variety of educational , and community improvement projects for both youth and adults which include the Grey Bruce Children's Water Festival part- nership - reaching approximately 2,000 grade four students with over 40 interactive activities, the Regional Envirothon high school competition, the Ontario Stewardship Rangers, Roots of Bruce and support of Environmental Farm Plan work- shops. "Our greatest needs continue to be identified as the rehabilitation of watercourses through rural lands, streams campaign p and improving forest management," n states Craig Todd, Stewardship ` :co- t ordinator. e The Bruce Resource Stewardship or Network "Evergreens for Streams" every fund is managed under the umbr lla . ° of the Community Foundation Grey Bruce. To find out more about this fund or p to make a gift please contact the ✓ Bruce Resource Stewardship ✓ Network at 519-371-8465 or the Community Foundation Grey Bruce at 519-371-7203 or mail to Box 81' Owen Sound, ON N4K 5P1. Gifts are eligible for charitable tax receipts. The Bruce Resource Stewardship Network's Environmental Endowment Fund will support pro- grams that include forestry field projects, woodiot conferences, fish and wildlife projects and general resource habitat improvement, edu- cation programs such as the Children's Water Festival and the Regional Envirothon, trail and boardwalk construction as well as other projects approved through community requests within Bruce County. tMoirs .IO years ago - April 2.1. 1999 . - Agnes Hodgins, of RR#1 Holyrood, enjoyed her 90th birthday dinner on S inday, April 18, 1999 with her family. The birthday celebration continued the next day when friends and neighbours attended a tea in her honour at the church of Ascension in dough. - Representatives from the Lucknow ladies slo-pitch league brought some complaints to the Lucknow and district joint recreation board. Margie .MacPhersonand Jackie Wilson put it to the rec board bluntly, ` asking .what, the ladies league gets for their $300 annual registration fee. The fee was raised $50 for 1999. - Huron MPP Helen Johns last week announced that Wingham and District Hospital will receive; $135,629 in new funding for 1999. It's : part of the government's $375 million plant to hire 12,000 new nurses in therovince b the end of p y the year 2000. ,2O years ago - April 1 19$9 - The Wingham and District and Ana Day Centre for the Homebound has gone from a fledgling organization to a mowing vital part of the community, in the past 10 years it provides social, recreational and educational programs for seniors in North Huron and South Bruce counties. On April 20, 1989 the Centre for Homebound is holding an open house in honour of the occasion. - Calling all sneakers! As part of Canada's Fit Week, May 26 - June 4, 1989, The Lucknow Guides, Brownies, Pathfinders and: Rangers are holding a "sneaker day" 54 yeprs ago - April 22, 195 - Details ' of the "Lagoon" type sewage disposal system, suitable ` for ` smaller centres, were explained to the Lucknow Municipal Council during the April meeting, by J. Barr and G.R. Trewin, engineers of the Ontario Water resources (Commission. Dr. G.W. Berry head of the commission said it was conceivable that such an undertaking locally could run to a quarter of a million dollars. Remember when... Bobby Raymond, of Lucknow and Brennan SFasin of Nepean, along with junior Dan Ringwald (not shown), of Oakville, have been selected as captains for the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) Tigers hockey team for the 2008-09 season. (File photo)