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Wednesday, July 27, 2016
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Local children use Lucknow's new skateboard halfpipe as a slide on July 21, 2016. Located behind the Lucknow Recreation Centre, the halfpipe, made by Andrew Johnston, was installed the day before.
The original structure had been damaged during last August's wind storm that also destroyed some of the other obstacles in the skatepark. The halfpipe was needed to be replaced and was covered by
the centre's insurance company. When reporter Darryl Coote visited the park for a story on the new skate equipment, (from left) Kierstynn Procter, 10, Drayton Mackenzie, 11, Kaden Hanna, 8, and Massey
Shular, 9, had appropriated it as a slide.
Knechtel Food Market to remain open
Darryl Coote
Reporter
Knechtel Food Market,
which had announced on
July 14 that it would be dos-
ing in 30 days, will remain
open after making a last-
minute deal with its
landowner.
Brian and Kathy Knechtel,
owners of Lucknow's lone
grocery store, made the
announcement that the
store would continue as
usual in a Facebook post
published on the evening of
Wednesday, July 20, 2016, six
days after announcing its
closure and seven days
before it was set to be
shuttered.
"We are pleased to inform
you that an agreement has
been reached with the land-
lord. This provides Knechtel
Food Market the ability to
remain open for business as
usual," the post reads.
The Facebook post does
not give further information
on the deal that was reached.
The Sentinel was unable to
reach Brian Knechtel for
comment by press time.
Following his announce-
ment that the store was to
close, Knechtel told the news
that it was due to being
"unable to negotiate the rent
to reflect the current eco-
nomic situation in
Lucknow."
He clarified that the land-
owner was not trying to raise
the rent.
The land is owned by a
numbered company, which
Knechtel is a shareholder of.
His decision to close the
store followed an attempt to
buy the other two
shareholders' stakes in the
numbered company when
the three parties were unable
to make a new deal on rent.
The Facebook post
announcing that Knechtel
Food Market would remain
open received over 140 com-
ments of jubilation at the
news.
Kim Rae Phillips wrote,
"You did not make my day,
you made my Year!"
Janice Pyke Symes wrote
that she couldn't wrap her
head around the notion of
travelling twice weekly out of
town to go shopping follow-
ing the news the store was to
close.
Now that it will remain
open she wrote, "like they
say, you don't know what
you have until it's gone. I'm
so happy this isn't the case
anymore," she wrote.