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The Lucknow Sentinel, 2014-07-09, Page 44 Lucknow Sentinel • Wednesday, July 9, 2014 www.lucknowsentinel.com feucknow Sentinel PUBLISHED WEEKLY P.O. Box 400, 619 Campbell Street Lucknow Ontario NOG 2H0 phone: 519-528-2822 fax: 519-528-3529 www.lucknowsentinel.com SUN MEDIA A Quebecor Media Company MARIE DAVID Publisher marie.david@sunmedia.ca VALERIE GILLIES Editor valerie.gillies@sunmedia.ca lucknoweditorial@sunmedia.ca JILLIAN UNDERWOOD Sales representative jillian.underwood@sunmedia.ca MARILYN MILTENBURG Office Administrator lucknow.sentinel@sunmedia.ca Publications Mail Agreement No. 40064683 RETURN UNDELIVERABLE CANADIAN ADDRESSES TO SENTINEL CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT RO. 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The Sentinel is available on microfilm at: GODERICH LIBRARY, (from 1875) 52 Montreal Street Goderich ON N7A 1M3 Goderichlibrary@huroncounty.ca KINCARDINE LIBRARY, (from 1875 to 1900 & 1935 to 1959) 727 Queen Street Kincardine ON N2Z 1Z9 We acknowledge the financial support of the Government of Canada through the Canadian Periodical Fund (CPF) for our publishing activities. Canada, Alxna Member of the Canadian Community Newspaper Association and the Ontario Community Newspapers Association Val's Views Valerie Gillies History... and all that Accumulates Ihave a personal history dilemma... too many things accumulated over time. Somehow, over the years, I have accumulated a very diverse collection of belongings. Some belonged to earlier generations. Some were or are my children's who are actually no longer children. Some are from hobbies I have tried my hand at over the years. Some are from training or educational courses I have taken. Some are from involvement in sports or community groups. Some are from various businesses I have run over the course of my adult life. However, now that I am contemplating another move, the sum of these somes is just too much! I really do not think I will ever again have a use for 6 desks... yes, 6 of them. I plan to keep 2, but what do I do with the rest? There is still some life left in them, but how do I find a new home for them and other excess bulky items? I know all sorts of things are sold every day on lopiji. The catch is, I do not feel that I am at home regularly enough to receive telephone calls or arrange easily for people to come check out the merchandise or even just pick it up. In fact, I am not thrilled with the idea of strangers showing up at my door in the first place. I know I do not have the patience to sit all day at a yard sale. I love shopping at them, which is another reason for the excess, but run- ning one is a whole different ballgame. I will probably end up donating a lot of my stuff to somewhere or other. I just have to find out where for each type of stuff. Another huge dilemma is my books. I do not just have my own and my children's personal collec- tions... a few years back I had a large commercial space and was fortunate enough to be in the right place at the right time to become the proud owner of a sizeable used book library that I set up in my place of business as a draw to bring people into the prem- ises to browse and chat about what services I had to offer. It worked very well and more than paid for itself. However, I no longer have a commercial space, but I still have literally hundreds of books, which is actually quite handy since I do not watch a lot of television. They have been great company for me. Some of these books I know should be disposed of as they are old reference books with no relevance any more. I am not at all sure how to go about this. My kids suggested having one heck of a big bonfire. I was quick to point out that I have no legal place to have an open fire. I know the landfill site does not want them. I am not sure that they are recyclable, especially any hardcover ones. I have some homework ahead of me. I know I am not the only one who has faced these types of dilemmas. Perhaps some readers would pass on their wisdom of how to proceed. In the meantime, I am spending my spare time sorting through and try- ing to deal with excess history. Wish me luck! Lucknow news The joys of being sick Ruth Dobrensky I've been trying to get rid of a horrible summer cold now for what seems like forever, but it keeps hanging on. To make matters worse, I slipped on wet grass and sprained my right wrist. Not only is it inconvenient, it makes things down right diffi- cult. For example, if you've sprained/broken your domi- nant hand, how do you brush your teeth, comb your hair, button/unbutton things, open doors, etc. etc. I'm not ambi- dextrous, so things have been difficult to say the least. At least my fingers still work and I can type, or this bit of news could look like this - jpe mpe ntpem vpe. If you can figure that out, give me a call and maybe you could win a prize - perhaps to write my column for a week or two. I notice several places are celebrating 40th anniversaries, happy 40th to Pinecrest Manor, Benmiller Inn, and the Blyth Festival. Recently St. Peter's congre- gation and their fellow parishioners in the Parish of New Beginnings, held a won- derful joint service at Trin- ity -St. Paul's in Wingham fol- lowed by a scrumptious pot luck lunch. Some of St. Peter's members had such a good time, they decided to go on a gravel run led by Karen Gaunt and they didn't get home till evening. I hear they had a very good time. Now that the excitement of Summerfest and Canada Day are over, we can start con- centrating on Music in the Fields which will be here before we know it, which means, fall can't be far behind. Good grief, where did our summer go? Sympathy of the community to the families of: Raeleen Campbell, 78, Lucknow; Linden Thurber, 76, Ripley; David Ret- tinger, 68, Teeswater (formerly RR #1, Formosa); Helen Nich- ols, 94, Wingham; and, Douglas Simpson, 89, Wingham. Purple Grove News Deanna Scott Purple Grove Women's Institute Now that school is out, please be careful of the children play- ing on our highways and byways. We hope everyone had a great Canada Day. Congratulations to all the Grade 8 grads at the Ripley Huron Community School and especially to Alexa Collins and also to Victoria Weber the recipient of the Purple Grove Women's Institute Music Award. Our sympathy is sent to Mary Ellen and Jeff Pollard and fam- ily and to Nicole and Dan Grif- fin on the death of their mother Debbie Griffin of Cambridge; also to Greta Thurber and the Wilken family on the death of Linden. Sunday afternoon visitors with June and Earl Elliott were Nancy and Paul Greenwood of Goderich. Happy Birthday to all the folks who celebrated June birthdays and to Morley Scott who is celebrating this week. Also to June Elliott who will be 91 on July 4th. Marilyn, Gerald and David Rhody enjoyed Sunday supper with Janet and Wayne Rhody. Best wishes to Meryl Rhody who is in the Kincardine Hospital. Visitors this week with Deanna and Morley Scott were Karen and Bill Martin of Kitchener; Kathy Petrie of Prescott; and Richard Nicholson of Kincardine. Thanks to the folks from the St. Andrews United Church for a great ham supper on Sunday evening the 29th. Folks came from near and far to enjoy the supper and visit. Cheryl Stephenson of Michi- gan visited with Marie Colling in Kincardine and called on many other friends in the area. Mary Anne Kukoly visited with Irene Boyle at Brucelea Haven in Walkerton. Visiting with Mary Anne were Connie Hutchinson and Lois Pollock.