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UCKNOW' SENTINEL, 'LUCKNOW, ONTARIO
Tie LUCKNOW SENTINEL
LUCKNOW, ONTARIO
"The sepoyTown" , Huron -Bruce Boundary
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WEDNESDAY,. FEBRUARY 10, 1971
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WINTER CONVENTION •
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where, the wood is piled until
spring break: up, Then the river
will Carry ••it • downstream. to ,the
. mill.
. Trucks are also •operating on a'
rpind rhe clock basis•hauling.
.pulp wood to the mill ,to. be stock
piled The. Spruce Falls Com-,
°'pany are building many'p'erman•-
ent roads in the area.:opening up
much of the land to ..year -round
travel; ;,
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Half -the -group Werea.t the T -
paper mill in Kapuskasing while'
• the ,other half were in the. bush.
on Saturday; •the; groups Changed -
ti the. procedure. We toured the
'newsprint rria•nufacturing'mill.
which snakes the sheet of :paper
•you are presently reading. For: •
newspaper people; who spend
"their:."liv.es centred around news=' '.
print ,.the tour was a very
interesting one', Qualified guides
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ex lained.the Complete: milling
.: operation..' Children at.•'the con=
vention werenot allowed to tour'..
the n.'iill because, of the dangers
involved around the machinery.
They .were: entertained at, a swim
ming .party at ore of the motels
and;a snowmobile -party on the •
second. day.
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Coaverition headquarters •wase
the Ka:puskasing Inn; fornerly'a
Spruce Falls Company owned • ;
building which was •sold .to, a. priv-
wa s 'Bob; Buchanan of the Aurora .
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Banner who, 'becauseof illness,
was not able to attend . His •
,duties were ably handled,by co'
chairman 13i11•Kennedy of the;..
Durham -Chronicle. Speaking
at the dinner on'•Saturday night
was the Honourable William
Davis, ':Minister. of •Education 'in;
Ontario who wasintroduced by ..1
Rene Brunelle Minister of Lands
and' Forests. Also at the head •
table was Robert Boyer, vice ;
chairman ,of Ontario Hydro who
is editor of they Bracebridge Her-
ald
While visiting the bus camp,
we talked -to Ed Banner -,...d strict:_.
forester;, who rioted we were fiorn
Luc•know and: asked,us, if we '.knew
:Ira Campbell. When we told Mr.
Bonner that we did•know him,
Wand that. Mr.. and' 'Mrs.. Campbell ,
for:riie.rly of ',uc.know , now: resid
ing in. Belgrave ,'had,•iecently cel•'
ebrated. their. 73rd wedding anniv-..
ersary 'we knew' we"'were not tel
Brig anythingthat was not already.
known to • friends 'of :•Mr.:.and Mrs.
Campbell in'Kapuskasing. Ira
worked. for the Spruce Falls Paper.
Company for many years when.":,
lumberin ..g was a: more rug'gged, ,job,
thank is today He. held many.
positions with the firm • "andserved '
as : Woods Manager. • As . we •-talked '
.
to. many�of the .Spruce -Falls
employees ,:• we were. pleased to
`see that;allmost ever, one knew: Ira.
and knew details of his life in
Southern•Ontario since retiring.
As4ne man, who had worked wjth
Ira years.'ago , said' to us, "Ira.
,a.te owner a fele , o: l e�- a pbeil—is-a legerd=iii-the
Setting of the Inn is a prett'y'one ' Spruce •Falls. opera ion"•,
particularly in wintei time , and
their facilities' :were very comfort
.a�ble
One:of the real highlights of.
the trip to the bush.'camp was,th:e
"'lumbetjack hunch".served to the'
convention`by the Spruce Fa11s
'Company.at their dining hall at '
Garrip-B rhe -ca i p ;-their,. ` •
largest bush operation ,,has mod: -
ern , :warm barracks where the
Critters spend :the work week , us-
ually going to their homes on the;
week en& -A-nuber of
cornrnuters , fromnearby' �'.illages
and settlem,ents , 'drive' to and.
from the ca 141 daily. • With com
„_pletely in cha-nized equipment =
the ,eaMp is very very much ro
ressed •ftorn the, days of teams of
horses , •dog sleds 'and bacon and'
• beans The food served us was
is, t •
delicious and was. served, "• country
tom" w tll�t fxing"pl-at-te-r� a l-
bowls ,placed on the tables in;
front of us. It was truly one of
the highlights" of the visit and we
were ,informed that these meals
,are available to the bush workers
for 75e. •
• ' Eus'iness 'sessions were held
daily at the Kapuskasing. Inn,;
Convention president was H. D
• "Mae': McConnell of The Tilbury
Timet; Convention>chairrra"n
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One•gentleman we ' lked to...
late _ . c � u - t ,. Bob...
rerninis ed .abo t he la e
Lyons a native of this c.orrimunity4
and a''frequert:visitor:her'e during
the years Apparently it was Mr
Lyons, an executive with Kimber
ley -Clark', 'the parent company',
who•first brought Ira: Campbell to.
t-h•e- Earp area, Sev-e:ra4whom we—
met knew the:late Mr;: `Lyons well'.
Theh We Met Ross Paterson, a
native, of Lucknow , son of the late
Archie Paterson. ROSS first went
to Kapuskatitig frOrti'LucktiOw at
the age of 14 and•has rernained.,
north. In conversatiOn with Ross,
fOund that ,he' still rernerribered
who reside'here today. He is a
paper maker at the Kleenex plant
cillor. in Kapuskasing,and has con: -
tested elections,in his area as, a
representative of tbe IN'DP patty.
Marg , besides being a wife and,
,rnother, has been news editor o'f.
the l'•Capliskasin weekly paper, for
visit with thern on the firial',night
1010red fingers
110�r-blowers
KINLOUGH .10WS .,
Art 1-laldenby .had the ends of •
Ns'fingers, injured withfa snow
blower and it was°necessary•to
have the mails removedat; the
Wingham and District Hospital
Friends, of Richard Elliott of
'Holyrood will be.sorry to hear that
he underwent further eye surgery
on Friday.
Mrs.. John Barr received^word of
the death of her nephew the late
Fraser Purvis whose funeral- took
place on Friday afternoon.
Members of Mr .• and Mrs.' Bert°•
Nicholson's. family from ,George•-
town spent the weekend at their
home here..
husband a • councillor., and her
boss the mayor of the town, Marg.
has stepped uut of'coveting. coun ..
cil meetings for .the. present. "•"One.
guy I have to live with<and the
other signs my pay cheque", was
the'cornment of •Mrs. Paterson
whom. "we enjoyed meeting;Ross's
mo ;
orto •and his grandmother, Annie
Taylor.:'lives. at Bruc'elea 'Haven
in :Walkerton.::•
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Rossdrew to our attention that
two nephews';of Ira: Campbell
work in the Kap. area., also that _t
,Riess* cousin;• a native of this area:
works' at the paper' mill,. He is
Malcolm Buchanan:,and will be
known to'some in this--r9ea. An '
• other' former :Lucknowite in .the
paper mill is Bob McCartney,
Of course , ;Ross. MgClionald';'
who spends the sumnnlets at Clan `
donald.at the northern outskirts..,
of Lucknow was an.educator in.•
Kapuskasing for many years
now live; retired at• Sud"bur '. Ross
s Y•
e a *.
Anoth_er.'couple..o:f Lucknowites,
�a �=5
are:ern to eel bLL the' S cuce•. Mir
P .Y Y. P."
Paper Company in Kap; „While in
Kapuskasing in'the spring,' help
•ing to plan the convention,: y'
had short v-is-i-t-s-with4int Coo ,,
son of Mr.; and Mrs .' Chris Cook of
• West.• Wawar osl and • Art'Andrew , •
formerly of •Lucknow . We' didn't
have' the chance to, visit' with,Jim.
this trp:_hutjAt dYode,to
the:train on Sunday morning to
bid' us good -bye
We Hada a rather. unpleasant'.ex :
perience" i'n Kapuskasing oh Friday
night wh l v alking_to oris moteli-
'We were the .only`witnesses to an.
accident.in which a pedestrian was
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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY' 10, 1971
TO BE;SURE' 'OF THE VARIET% Y'OU WANT
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DISCOUNTS FOR EARLY DELIVERY
AND EARLY PAYMENT
Bance Meeting -
ears.
• By Don' Thompson
' `A :rather occurrence
• interesting
at the :Ontario WeekT News p a��� er
convention in 1<a;puskasing: last•
Week end is worthy' of mention..'•'.
,Friends ofo:urs:;• Mr:: and Mrs.
--
aTlter�-B-rt�liner of Mea ford:w•cr-c
l-�', . W . , .,
walking `in the main business sec=
tion Of ,Kap when they were stop"
':ped,'by'a gent who asked them.if.
k' : they•were with the visiting ": •
Weekly newspaper people.
Advising that they were,,, the
gentleman asked if:there was
'someone there. from Lucknow
IGIr: `anzl s, are.he-r answer- e=rrs -
the affirrhative which produced a •
rather interesting ,story.
Seems that the gent 'had"been
on an aircraft returning from Eng
struck by a' Car The man escap-
ed with a badly fractured hiP, al-
though Our2first fears were, for his
-day-morning-on- time- arriving at -
'North Bay on sChedule: However ,
from North!Bay to Toronto; ,we
ran thre.e hours late arriVing at
LJnion Station at 12.30 and in '
Ltic know at 3.3:0 a.m. Monday._
Airenjoyable trip to -the nOrthern
part of our province will be, rem-
ernbered for some tin -le to come:.
For those who suggested that.were
very -daring to gd north in mid
winter.,. we. tan only. say that their
weather we' were there ,
was better than we had been 'tee-
eiving down here irt the banana
belt•t kapuskasing is this year
observing its 50th ;anniversary and
land 15 years a .o.and the plane
had ,touched down at Moncton
New' Brunswick to;refuel. . find".[k ,...
hiirrself, in the airport coffee shop,
without' money''to pay for the_cof.
fee the gent Ka ;.uskasin Y
was.'a.ssisted by.the late' Campbell
Thorn son of Luckn'o'w Mr and P
Mrs. Thompsoi•paid for the mail's
coffee•and entered into.conversa
tion with •hien fifteen years '•
later, he; still remembered a sirtr-
.kindness .•` When' we arrived
rri
hoe ,. we asked morn about it
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SCHLEMMER to Mr., and Mrs.
DaVe schiemmer on Saturday;
Annette. '
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