The Lucknow Sentinel, 1969-05-21, Page 155.00 A Year In Advance $2.00 Extra To.U.S:A:
LUCKNOW,; ONTARIO
WEDNESDAY, MAY 21st, 1969
Single Copy 15c
16 Pag.s
The . suggested, mill rates: for
school purposes as . received from
the Bruce County School Board this
past week, indicate some substant-
ial advances in the ' amount of
school taxes which , will be paid
by the municipalities' of Lucknow,
Ripley, Huron and Kinloss Town-
ships
own -ships:. in the -. Sentinel circulation
area. r
The long awaited . requisition
from the B ruseSchool Board was
received by the four municipalities.
NICIPALITIES
andleftittle doubt thatresidents
residen
of this area would be digging• deep
er than ever into ' _ their pocket
books this year in an effort to
meet school costs.
An. earlier. • increase of 21 mills
had been levied. by Bruce County
Council, for county purposes. •
The municipalities, the requis •
ition from the Bruce Board, ' the
proposed 1969 school tax rates with
the •comparison . '1968 Tates are
listed. s. •
VILLAGE OF .LUCKNOW'.
High School and etarded School' $28,598'
• A.
1969' SUGGESTED RATE
Public' School
Residential ,..,•..•:.•...21:181
Commercial :,,.... .... 23.534
Public 'School' $24,053
1968 MILL. RATE
Public School
Residential 19
Commercial ...21.
High School
Residential ..21
Commercial
•
•
Public Sc hool: $10,272
High.School
Residential '25.429
Commercial. ,.::..:....... 27.476
...VILLAGE ' OF .RIPL• EY
High School and Retarded .School $11,950
1968 ,MILL RATE
Public' School.
Residential ..
Commercial
•, High School
Residential 13:
Commercial 14.3
1969 SUGGESTED RATE
Public School
9:8. K . Residential 13.133.
0.9 ; Commercial 14.234.'
'High School
Residential 18.428.
Commercial ;20.072
KINLOSS TOWNSHIP .
Public School $28.676
Huron -Bruce: High School: and ° Retarded School $34,473,
Ripley High School $288
,'RESIGNS AS MINISTER
Receives Cali To
Nora Scotia church
• Rev. Laird Stirling has submitted.
his resignation as minister of Luck -
now United Church effective July ,
1st Rev, Stirling' has been minister
of the Lucknow congregation for the
past three years. •
Rev. Stirling has received a pend-
ing call to Beacon United Church
in Yarmouth , Nova Scotia,. a
community of about 8000, residents
Rev. Stirling would: be orie of two
ministers serving -the 600 family
congregation 'at Yarmouth.: He •
would work in a complete team;
relationship with Rev. Ray Francis,
a 34-;year-old'minister .Who is a .. .
graduate;of Emmanuel College and
who has been at Yarmouth for••the
past 'eight months. •
Two rches: in'r:mutted
and.twochuyears' ago•bYauit. oa nehwuni
church which now serves the
united congreations .
'Mrs. Stirling is a native of
Bob Johnstone Former Lvcknowite
Qrdained As United Church Minister
"ay has been a very busy month
for Robert Johnstone, eldest son of.
Mr. and 'Mts. Harold, Johnstone 9f .
Parkhill, Ontario. f
On' Wednesday evening, May 7th,
at the Emmanuel College .Convoc-
ation Exercises held in
Convocation Hall on the campus: of
the University of Toronto;, Bob
received his Bachelor of Divinity •
Degree,. His parents and members
of his family were present at the
convocation and the reception for
the graduates whichfollowed at
Emmanuel College.
,,,At the Sunday morning service in
the Parkhill'United Church on
May 11th,' Middlesex Presbytery
licensed .Bob to Preach. Mrs.
:G,•W..Moore,presented the candi'
date and; the Rev ; JFlorence Hunter ;
associate minister at •Byron United
Church,,` preached the sermon.. The
congregation of, the Parkhill and
Lieury Pastoral. charge ,presented
Bob with a clericalgown., as a
tangible, token .of•their. interest and
REV; ROBERT JOHNSTONE`
area w:as set up for :each ordinand
Halifax,. They
have .a: famil of good .wishes' for his future in'•the so that he could•• ersonall receive '
• Y Y. 1? Y
I1?
_• .rofessional-ChristianM.inistrh
three, 'Laura, who, is an kindergar , y is friends and relatives.' M:rs. G.
ten, Kathleen and Robert, .both; Following the 'service the U, C. W. Moore pouredtea for Bob' and :tile.
re7sc - •provided: a luncheon in the 'Parish , • • '
p hoof. .. •
*A pastoral' relations committee
was appointed at.once by.
Lucknow United Church and several
ministers were contacted last week.
end.
�eveGeorge Joynt
uestions-Rla�
New School 0
t Present Time
Hall so that those _present. might be
able to speak personally to Bob
The Ordination; service. took
place in Central United Ch urch
Windso'ron Thursda May 15th.'
where London. Conference .of the
United. Church liad been `meeting
since•. Monday, May 12th, The• Rev.
Bruce McLeod of 'Hamilton preached
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andy'Nicholson
Retires. And Will
Spend Time Abroad
the Ordination, sermon 'Faith ,to A.M.. ' '`Sandy 'Nicholson , a•
native of this' c'
Follow '., Five.men and one' woman s • ornrnunity and a
were ordained by the Conference.',
ices . Dr. Anne• Graha•m, a personal,
4,Rev'. •H E ivloorho se; Bob's' minis -
iter. in Parkhill, . participated in the,
!laying on of. hands.
Prior tothe ordination, `a corrmrn-- •
union service Was held for the ord'
inands „their friends and families.
After the Ordinatio.n, a reception.
Lucknow Village Council, at
their regular .Ma. meeting : on Tues-
day
g
day night 'of lase,week, discussed
the proposed 1969 school mill rates,•
as suggested by the Bruceti County
.1968 MILL RATE 1969 SUGGESTED RATE; Board of Education. They are •'
P-ublic�Schooi �'�blie-School
• printed elsewhere in this issue In
.. George
Farm and Res ; 141 Farm and Res 1612 their discussion Reeve •
Commercial 15.5
Commercial 17.9 ' •Joynt said that he felt there is
H.S. High : School H.13: High School•
.Farm and Res: 16; Farm, and• Res. 19.29
friend of Bob's for some time and:
adequate : facilities in Chesley now I
for the Bruce Board to rent quarters
--=TCa�rYirxCerC�a1 :,'� :-18. � .Commercial 21:33
and-that_the- 40.1.1 d -not -be -m
Ripley le High School
Farm, and Res. 18:32
much of:a. Burry: to build their own:'
Ripley High School administrative buildin at the 'ex -
Farm and Res. ..,.13:. pense of other ,matters which should
[first be attended to:
•
Public School $4,407
1968 MILL RATE'.
., r A resolution was tabled from
HURbN; T01AiNSHiP ; Walkerton Council which'obrjected
J
din f a new administ-
to the building, .
'rative building � now. Walkerton`d'ld
not; object to Chesley as a location,
` High School: and „.Retarded School $72,282
1969 SUGGESTED RATE
chool only to the building of the new
1'4.165, quarters at the present time, The
' 15.374• resolution said, in, part,. "with
Ripley` Public School
Farm 'and Res,.10:
'-_ Commercial' { : .11:2
Ashfield Public School
- Far. m . and: Res. :.., 12.8
Conimercipl .• ' ,14.
. Ripley High School
Farm •and Res. ..,.... ,13.;
Commercial 14.5
Kincardine. High School
Farm and
Res 15 7:
Commercial ` , 17.4'
Dies At Wingham
Ripley Public' S
Farm and Res
Commercial
Ashfield Public'
• every municipality in Bruce
School .struggling to keep taxes in line,
cutting necessary items from their
budgets , we can see no reason why
Farm and Res 17.877
Commercial :.._ 19.863
Ripley High School
Farm and Res.,', 19.663 •
Commercial; ....,,,:. :21:319
Kincardine High School.
Farm and Res. 20:346
Commercial 22:099
•
Albert. . Cook Passes:
g ,a
former Lucknow. resident and a
resident of Wingham for sortie
time, died.On Monday at the
rlrookhave'n NursingHome in -Wing
�
am"S.h ears ofage.
The funeral wasY ge,
held Wednesday.
at the 7ohnstone . Funeral Horne in
Lucknow with burial in South Kin=
1eSt !Cemetery;
residentof' Western Canada' for
many years, has .retired• from his,
position' as. executive director of
the Saskatchewan Association;, for:
Retarded Children.
.,Mr', and Mrs: Nicholson have
beenvisiting with the Maclntyr ''
relatives in this community prior to
CON.TINU•E•D ON PAGE 2
►il�Haat�1"oSeasl
Int. Department Of _Heald
Lucknow village pouncilhas re-
ived a communication from thea.
:Environmental Health Services
Branch; Public: Health Division ,.
Ontario; Department of Health, re-
garding open burning at the Luck-•
now°.municipal dump:' -
' The• De artment of Health advises,
the:Lucknow council 1 that the alt ;'
pollut�on'control act prohibits open
burning'•''except.with the permiss-
ion and.under'the direction, of a
•
rovincial:officer": The.,de- "art •-pP
rnent states in its letter that' it• Un-
derstands that;open' burning is. pres-
-eptly-being-done •at -the Lucknow-',.
dump which •is •in violation' of the
act.
Will create 'air ;pollution: problems ,
arid must eventually. ease In the
' letter ,• the .department• states that, ''
'they recognize that immediate
cessation' by the village•may pro-
duce difficulties and that time
must-be-allto-
owe. make-o-ther -
•d
arrangements;.
In this regard, an•application
must be submitted within 30 days
if the municipality :intends to keep
;.burning refuse at the dump. Per'
mission will be extended indefinit-
ely and the department suggests',
that alternate 'methods of disposal• •
be investigated:.•
The letter to Lucknow council is
one of a. series of such letters which
has gone out'to municipalities in
;CONTINUED ON PAGE, 2 • ' The department states that this:. Ontario.;
�efiton:
sr: Rum so
o Proceed WI'
gard Street.
est=to rhe gni mein --roads srre-et-canst e.
betrecok a-resrden ruc Tzar i n
Kinloss Township on._Highway 86; ,.
just west of Lucknow , died on
Wednesday of last week at the •
Owen Sound General and,Marine
Hospital. He wa '2; ye rs`ef age"
The funeral was held on Friday
at the MacKenzie Memorial Chap-
el in Lucknow with burial in
, • , ,
•
• If
Tcei""ved a petition from: nine individ-
uals and business:p'laces Who' live i
ion and make Use of Ludgard Street ,•1
running from Havelock' to Stauffer
t. calling for the••-oo-mp-letion-o •
work on this street which Was set up I
;by the 1968 council;
The piece ofLudgard and Street in
, •
•question runs from Silverwood
Greenhill Cernetety,:
The 1968 village council had est-
irnates and plans ready to rebuild
this street at an approximate cost
of $24,000 before provincial grants.
f - theLpetit-tan-read "Wel-the
undersigned ratepayers, petition
that reconstruction of Ludgard
Street from Stauffer to Havelock be
completetrand have priority of
•
with plans as stated in bylaw No:7,
1968„.•:' ;
The petition indicated that those
who signed the petition represented
$63-.262-.coxtkia e.r-oia-l=at.se-ss• tt
($8 , 204 in'taxes)and $10,675 resid•
ential assessrrient ($1346 in taxes).
Council took no action on ,"the : •
petition. • •