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Lucknow Sentinel, 2009-10-14, Page 4'Page- 4 Lucknow Sentinel; Wednesday, October 14, 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@bswesnet.com Editor: Garit Reid tucksented@bowesnet.com Office Administrator: Ruth Dobrensky lucksent@bowesnet.com On leave: Sara Bender Subscription Rates advance: Regular $30.00 plus GST Senior $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 nbowesnet.com "We acknowledge the financial support of the Government of Canada, through the Publications Assistance Program (PAP), toward our mailing costs." Canada Amnia opc OVIEBECO7MEDIA Changes of address, orders for subscriptions, and undeliverable copies (return postage guaranteed) are to be sent to 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 alloviance 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) Goderichlibrary c@humneounty.ca and Kincardine Library, 727 Queen Street, Kincardine N2Z 1Z9 (firm: 1875 to 19010 & 1935 to 1959) MLB baseball at playoff time is great What else can I write about this week, but baseball. It's the playoffs! I pretty much have my schedule planned around when I can watch the Boston Red Sox try to win their third World Series title of the decade.. Playoff baseball is just so exciting because every run counts. With playoff rosters set and pitching rotations locked in, every playoff team has to make every hit count because they are facing the best pitchers in the world. What I'm hoping is Boston will be putting two aces out on the mound for back-to-back games in Jon Lester and Josh Beckett. Beckett has proven he has what it takes to be a big time, clutch pitcher in the playoffs with World Series wins with Florida and Boston. It will be up to Lester to prove he is the best pitcher the Red Sox have. It was tough to watch Boston lose in seven games to Tampa Bay last year, so this year I'm hoping great pitching and Clutch hitting will take them to the top. Lobb. doesn't support Private Members' Bill Dear Editor, -On June 18, Liberal MP Ruby Dhalla (Brampton --Springdale) introduced Bill C-428, a PrivateMembers' Bill to amend the Old Age Security Acta If this bill became, :,law it would essentially reduce the residency requirement for entitlement to a monthly pension from ten years to three. Currently, in order to qualify for OAS, there is a 10 year residency requirement after the age of 18._ If this is met, eligible Canadians can start receiv- ing benefits at age 65. The 10 -year requirement period strikes an appropri- ate balance between an individual's con- tribution to Canadian society and the economy and his or her access to a life- long, publicly funded benefit:. At a cost of over 4700 million, this proposal is costly and irresponsible and would be paid for by Canadian taxpay- ers.is It reasonable to expect that a person should be required to live in Canada for a minimum period of time before being granted the right to a lifelong public ben- efit. Our Conservative government is taking a fair and responsible approach to providing benefits to seniors. As your Member of Parliament, I can assure you that I will not vote in favour of this Bill. Ben Lobb, MP Huron -Bruce "Identity theft" is the issue on the table Dear Editor, I'm writing because it seems someone has stolen our local Member of Parliament's Identity. Just recently I received a mail out supposedly from, "him" talking about "Identity Theft". But I know this can't be from him. Before the 2008 election the conserva- tives blanketed this riding with over 15 single page mail outs that were simply political pre-election propaganda paid for with taxpayers money. During the election he said he would never do such a thing. That he thought this type of mail out should be banned. He didn't say this only once - he said it every time the issue was raised at all candidates meetings. What worries me is that since he dis- appeared to Ottawa less than a year ago I have received at least eight of these mailings in my mailbox. They follow the same format. A big headline about what the government is supposedly doing and then a mail back portion on which to check which party leader is doing the best job. The problem with them is that they are simply Conservative political propaganda and supporter identification. They don't pro- vide local citizens with any useful infor- mation. Just a headline and paragraph or two praising the government. They then. try to identify party leader support. This may be very useful to the Conservative Party when they go looking for money and workers in the next election but is hardly a non-partisan activity that should be funded by the taxpayers. Since he said he wouldn't do it, do you think we should ask the RCMP to inves- tigate and see which back room conser- vative party hacks have stolen our MP's Identity? A concerned and potentially disillu- sioned citizen in Huron -Bruce, Tony McQuail, Lucknow 10 years ago - Qct. 13, 1999 - Members of the Bruce Business Innovation Group (BBIG) were at Huron- Kinloss' council meeting, on Oct. 4, 1999 to ask the township for funding. John Larsen, Jack Nancekivell and Mike Snobelen, members of BBIG, told council the group is continuing to snake progress in marketing Huron -Kinloss, Kincardine and Saugeen Shores to start their own businesses. - Scott Blake, 12, of Ashfield Township may not have had the biggest pumpkin in the Port Elgin Pumpkinfest this year (1999) but he knows next year he'll do better thanks` to the tips he picked ` up from the "expert growers." Scott's pumpkin weighed in at 330.5 lbs. Douglas Miller, reeve of West Wawanosh Twp., has declared himself a candidate for warden of Huron County in 2000. Miller made the announcement at the Oct. 7,1999 coun- cil meeting. Xi years qgo - Oct. 11. 1989 - Constable Andy Burgess, Lucknow's COP (Community Oriented Policing) officer attended the October 1989 meeting of the Lucknow Business Association. The meeting was about loitering, littering, skateboards, bicycles and noise. Burgess. said these problems are social and not criminal. - More than 1441abid animals have been reported within the Grey Bruce health unit area this year leading . up to Sept. 30, 1989. As a result, 79 persons have had to undergo the rabies immunization. It's a series of needles after exposure. to rabid or suspected rabid animals. • 50 years ago - Qct. 14. 1959 - A cottage, completed only the day before on Thanksgiving anksgiving Day (1959) was completely destroyed by fire late Tuesday afternoon at Bonnett's Lake in Kinloss Township. The cottage was burned to the ground by the time the Lucknow Fire Department arrived on scene. - Harry J. Boyle, a native of the St. Augustine district and who has been with the CBC for several years fills the impor- tant role of special programs development after. Remember when... Doug Aitchison kneels beside this X500 lbs. pumpkin on dis- play at Knechtel's Foodland in Lucknow. The pumpkin, spon- sored by Doug Aitvhison Insurance, was carved by Lucas Bruxer and Kevin Bender and grown by Dave McCallum for show at the 2004 Port Elgin Pumpkinfest. (File photo)