The Lucknow Sentinel, 1969-11-05, Page 1!Rh, 1949
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• LUCKNOW, •ONTARIO. '•WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 5th,: `1!N'
Work Commences On Lucknow Arena Addition
� Group 1OOEfl. iotkd In:
.._ ,Rock ,..._._ Area JlIglIi,.Stbool
Ruth and. Rose ,Rock, daughters;
Principal William. Turvill of ...
the- l ipley_isuict igh Schno1 T
has .announced _that 100 arearesid-
ents are enrollectin seven different
classes at the Ripley and District
Night'School, ^ x'
80 of those enrolled are from
Ripley and district, •14'from Luck
now• and .d. strict and 6 frc m Kin
cardine,and .area ..•• •.
'The teachers, and, the number
in each class are; Sewing, 13,
Mrs,' Francis Gemmell, Ripley;.'
Needlework , 15 , Mrs. Donald
Blue, Ripley; 'Upholstery, 15', Mrs
Jim. O'Donnell, _Lucknow French
of Mr;: and Mrs'. Oraen 'Rock of
Ripley, entertained at the Lucknow
r.
Masonic Banquet with. accordian
numbers which were well received.
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• We are 'sure the -girls will see,-
the joke, as We did;: when. a Luck -
,now lady quite seriously asked a
Ripley gentleman. as the .girls
were about.to play; "Are those the
Stories? " • "No" replied , the 'gent'
who was acquainted with the
girls, "They're the Rocks'
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Property Sales in
Town, Townships
Elino.Pritchard: of. Vigst ;Wawari-,
osh recently purchased the home
of the late Mr:, and. Mrs: Sid
_1Sr� pibwright oLLu,c_knos'4.. Mr. and.
Mrs, Pritchard and sons Carl and
Wayne moved' to :Lucknow on Fri
day of last week:. The house is on
the 'corner 'of Outram, and *Rose'. /
110c {` Streets in. the village.
'Elmo's house and:a small -:parcel
•of land . on the 12th of West Wawa -
nosh.. -has been sold to his son Tom
Pritchard• of-Lucknow, Mr. and •
E• •l Oc.;: : 'Mrs; Pritchard, Stephen: and
David will-. move 'there•shortl
The land., on :the farm and the
' barn 'has been sold to•a neighbour`,
Donald Gaunt , .Elmo still has'
another farm to,the south: of the
property ; • still to be sold.
''Tom Pritchard's home, on Al-
ben' Street in Lucknow , north .of „.
Lucknow Wood Products ; has been
sold to Mr•... ;and Mrs ' :Gordon
Barger of Ashfield Mr: and Mrs.:
• Barger will obtain possession the',
first of'neext` month, and will move
to'
Lucknow.
• The Pritchardsale a .. c � et--
w s ompl ,t
ed b` BarryMcDona h local ,
agent f r Do
g , o n Holst'�Real Estate..
Gordon Bar er, who resides on
,g.
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the'12th of Ashfield, his sold his'
house, barn .an t i ty acres Q
land to' Clifford Hartman of Port
Credit., He: had earlier sold''10;
acres to Donnie Farrish of Ashfield
Conversation, 16, Mrs. Katherine
Collins,. Ripley, Physical. Fitness
(women)-,-13.,.--Miss-Margaret_
Machan, Wingharn Art, 15, Mrs.
Ross Shiells, Lucknow; Liquid ._
E.mbroidet_y_,_1 .__Mrs William
Gamble ; T-eeswater .'
The . classes meet .Thursdays at
8' p.m. and a' few more could
still be included.
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>n'NOV-, t`
agen
e..Board
• H.
D. Thompson
RetiresAs Head
Of 97th Battery
.Majbi James Abbott has ;assumed,
command of the, 97t1i FieldA'rtil-
levy Battery at ,Walkerton. He suc
ceeds Major H. D. "Bud" Thomp-
son, who has held the, post since
March ,:1965
seThe, incoming officer has been
cond in command of the unit
He lives in - Palmerston where he is
on the staff of the • Norwell district
secondary school. Formerly he
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taught at Walkerton district Second-
ary school:/
On retiring, Mayor Thompson
completes 27 years service with
the;RoY al Canadian -Artillery. Dur-
ing- the Second World. War he serv-
ed in Europe with . the 19th A rtil='.
lery Regiment. Since//; the war' he
has.. served in-vaniims"capacities
h .he 1s
it-.�:���-�atsRe�me-Bt-of which
the • 97th Battery' is part.-
, Budlives in Lucknow• •, andis ad
ministrator of Brucelea Haven in
Walkerton.
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This picture , ,taken last Friday;
shows the start of the new addition
'which is being. built at the west:.
end of the Lucknow:arena Gen-
eral contractor
eneral<contractor is Murray McDoug-
all .Construction of Wingham. The
work air. of reand.stren th nin
P g g
the, interior of the arena , also the
contract; of . Mr : McDougall , is
nearly completed.
P
malting will not be started
until the !addition has progressed
to the point where it can .be, .tied,
into the west end wall of the
arena. Some of this work will
have'to" be done from -the -interior'
of the arena ,building:
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BY SHIRLEY J'. KELLgR
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Robert. Irvin, a garage owner at
'Dungannon: continued his fight
Friday at County Council to have
a problem corrected athis garage
following construction of a 'new:.
hi hw a: throu g h Dungannon three
ar`-a,.
Mr'.: Irvin told council his bus-
iness has been cut back, because:
access to his place'of business is
cumbersome and unhandy..
He stated that the road commit-
tee and°the county engineer 'James.
Brintnell have been "fully ;aware
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of the, problem" since the time of
the road construction.. He .claimed
the road had been lowered, excess-
iv.&1• nd nneeceasarily ld in -
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Four Lucknow area young men
were recently awarded bursaries
from the'Alexander MacKenzie
• Education .Endow-rite-nt Fund a=
• : unique fund left for education by,
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the late'Alex MacKenzie,.of Kin-
loss-Township.
inloss- -ownship.
The total amount of the award
was $1216 which was divided am-:
on '... -. _. • .e.
g thef our boys according Co. the
articular standing' course they
andou s th y
were in. .
The fund was designated for for. the
use of boys only, Mr.' MacKenzie,
a bachelor himself, apparently
feeling that ,the place for the
woman was sin the home.
the interest will be 'used,' there has
been an.accumulation of funds •
through the yearsand the board
•adxi unit r-ingthe-fund-recently -
adopted the idea of cash bursar
ies which are being awarded to
-deserving snide -ills
Murray Morrison, son,of Mr.
and Mrs: Gordon, Morrison of West
Wawanosh , who placed second ,in
-the-grade- 1 standing7. He'qs- at
ending University •of Guelph.
. 'Richard' Frook,' son: -of Mr, and',
'Mrs. Joh1rFrook:Tolyrood , who
topped the Lucknow area students
in grade 12 in the four year busin-
ess and commerce course. He is
training at the.: Electrical Comput-
er Programing Institute in London..
Terry Taylor, son of Mr, and
Mrs; Norman -Taylor. of Lucknow,
placed first from the Lucknow
area in grade 12 in the four year
Scie,e,. Technology and Trades
Course. Terry is, training' as 'an
ehitectura-1=tet
'With the+ closing of the Lucknow
District. High School. and the mov-
ing of.students to Wingham, the
fund is still being administered.
by a local board 'and the fund will
still be used forthose male
students in the
former Lucknow
District High School area: No one
else is eligible for the MacKenzie
loans or bursaries..
Winners. of the, bursaries ,are; •
' Donald -Nine i to
Interest• .free. loans to students
have been issued for many years
to those young men front the Luck -
now'
uck-now' District High School wishing'
_to_further.'their--education: As
the fund stipulates that only
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and Mrs. Donald. MacKinnon of
Lucknow .'who was the top student
in grade 13 from the former Luck
now High School area He is
presently; -attending Western Univ-
ersity. . ' • .
*shawe College in London. •
Factors other than academic
excellence are also considered
in the awards, The boys all atten-
-tied the P;' E,., ladill Secondary •
School •%n .Winghanmlast year'.
ontinuars Service
.otk Box Lobby
Postmaster Kenneth. Cameron of
Lucknow has announced. that, the
Post Office Department • -
• p t has select
edc "
Lu know Post Office as one
of
those s to. b -used•. :tin•
rt�:o��darc E an
he
experiment on t 'feasibility -of
p h •
keeping lockbox lobbies open
continua lly , .-24•-hours--a day -r-7
dayva week: •
If the experiment is successful, `-
the• additional hours of service will
permit many boxholders, who may-
now
a
Y
now'find difficulty in getting' to
the Post' Office during the present
hours, the opportunity of picking •
up mail at their convenience
This does not Mean however,
,that mail will be sorted to 'the
boxes : more often. It will'contin
o he sorted dur ng -the --normal
operating hours when staff is on. •
,itit at the office fo ....
yfor that purpose..
The new lobby hours have begun
on a trial'basis only and theircon-
tinuance will depend' on' the res-
ults of•this experiment.
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sociate-Rastc
KINGSBRIDGE NEWS •
We. welcome .our Associate
Pastor.` Reverend Father William
Bonnici S S', P . to the commun=
ity , : Father Bonnici was. ordained
a Priest in Malta in March 1967..
Before arriving in Kingsbridge
'ast week; he had spent a year in
Australia
n:neW
snow °;BUsins
A new business in the `'commun-
ity,
ommun-ity, the H &;' B. Discount Store
'will open next Monday in the form'
ar James Duncan .building on
Lucknow's: Main 'Street.
Harold and: Barb Londa rormer-
y
ly of Newmarket, ;wills operate erate the
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business which will specialize in
cosmeti: atentedicine
os- P
tobacco, greeting cards-. • -
• g $.:and sun.,. ,..
dries The Londrys have three •
children.
h n , Danny age 8 ; 7anlce age •
6 and Mark. age 2. Harold'.was a
machine shop foreman in .;•
Newmarket and both -he and his •
,'wife, are keenly interested in.
sports. Mrs. Londry.played ladies'
softball in Newmarket and Harold
as si to
s st d' w nth hockey in, that tom-
munity.
They purchased the building
from J
ames Duncan which had
been e
mpty since Fred Riley
his billiard business there '
closed
in the spring-." They have exten
sively remodelled' and modernized
the downstairs portion Where the
business will be located..._. They: are
living inthe upstairs apartment in
the building..' •