The Lucknow Sentinel, 1972-07-12, Page 1'Noy 'Noy
10c.
Collecting Stomp-s. $ince Childhood '
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$6.00 A Year In Advance --.$2,00 Extra To U.S.A.
'jot's Will Speorhead.Fund:,.Roising Drive
WEDNESDAY, JULY 12th, 1972 Singis Copy 15c 24 Pages.
firm gave the matter close atten-
tion and have provided the work-
ing drawings and sketch plans
for the proposed pool foOthis
community.
The pool would be of the vinyl
liner type with 14 gauge galvan-
ized steel framework.' There
would be a 4", concrete slab
under the vinyl because of exist-
ing soil conditions at the site
.CO-NTINUED, ON PAGE 22
TONI Co0 Of Completed Pool About $3.5,000
SWIMMING P 1 OL
GETS APPROVAL
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.ally fine talent contest ,on Satur-
day evening received praise from
those who attended.'
The Lucknow Recreation Plan-
ning and Development Commit-
tee, organized under the Oppor-
tunities for Youth program of the
federal government , and working
in conjunction with the local Rec-
reation Committee , was respon-
sible for the event and did an
exceptionally fine job.
Lucknow•DistriCt Lions Club hags
agreed to spearhead a drive to
raise funds by public donation to
install a swimming pool in Luck-
now to serve the surrounding area.
The decision to go ahead with
a pool was reached at a meeting
in the Lucknow Town Hall on
Thursday night of last week. Rep-
resentatives attended the meeting
frOm Kinloss Lucknow , West
Wawanosh and Ashfield Recrea-
tion Committees, Luc know-Coun
.Lucknow, Community Recreation_
Showcase, staged Fridayand 'Sat-
urday in the Lucknow arena , was
lucknow Gopher
Second In Heat
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The stamp collection of Mrs.
A. E. McKim of Lucknow attract-
ed wide interest at the Recrea:
tiOn Showcase last week end.
Mrs. McKim , left , shows Mrs.
onor
day,
noon'
George McInnes
Minim-Car,
$500 To Staff
George McInnes of Lucknow , an
employee of J. E. MacDonald's
Imperial Service Station,; is. the
proud owner of a new .car and 'two
fellow employees, Doug Haldenby
and Mike Courtney , are' each $250
her ariresult of George's good
fortune.
George was-one of the winners
in Imperial Oil's Muscle Building
Contest. Additives sold at the
garage, contain lucky tokens
Inch are inserted by the company
as part of the :Contest.
George, in his normal duties at. •
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Art Breckles Sells
Main Street Block
Left England 26
Years Ago, First
Visit With Mother
S NEWS
Mrs. A. Allan Of Farnharn, England arrived Saturday 'for a
month's visit with her daughter ,
Mrs. Donald J. Maeintyre, Mr.
MacIntyre and family. It is"
twenty-six years since Daphne • came to Canada as a war bride
and this is their first visit together..
. •
Purpose of the two Oa)/ Sti°34-7- ,Walden, riding-olubi--Mrs,---K-e-n- --
case was to help area people be- Taylor; skating club, Mrs. Barry
come more familiar with the McDonagh; sports equipment,
ortunities avail-
Lucknow and District Lions Club
'recently entered .a challenger; in
the World Gopher Derby at Eston,
Saskatchewan. The world- derby:
is sponsored by, the Eaton Lions.
Club.
300 Lions Clubs from the North
American Continent entered the
fromderby and from these 64 were
drawn as runners.
About4CLOO-people---watched•-each
of the nine races run every hour
on the hour,
While the Lucknow Club did
not place in the big money which
was won by clubs from Leader,
Saskatchewan $400; Oyen , Alberta
$200; Vancouver Central "
$100, they did:place second in the
first heat and as such picked tip
5 $1 -, -wkirehTWas- not a bad- invest-
ment for their $5 entry, fee.
Lucknow will no doubt ,be
back in there next.year when the
world's top gophers .run again.
Art Breckles has sold his apart-
ment block on Campbell Street
to Mt. and Mrs: TonY Bedford
of Tbronto. Mrs. Bedford is the
former Sharon Stanley, daughter
Of Mr. and Mrs. Ezra Stanley of
Lucknow.
Mr. Breckles built the block 21
years ago , Art doing most of the
work himself. it has two. apart-
ments upstairs, presently occupied
by Mrs. jake HUnter and Mrs.
Maud Sherwood; one downstairs
occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Alex
Hackett Sr. as well as the office
Of Crawford and Mill and Miller -
McKenzie.
The new owners obtained posses•
sion July L
cil, Lions Club, the arena opera-
tional committee and interested
citizens.
Bill Hunter, chairman of the
Lucknow RecreatiOn Committee,
acted as chairman for the even-
ing and introduced George Lyons
of Owen Sound, an engineer with
Imperial Pools, who explained
the proposed swimming pool. Mr.
Hunter and members of his com-
mittee have sought information
-On various pools. The Imperial
able in the area. !,
Displays were setup in the
arena which opened Friday from
'4 to 11 p.m. and again on Satur-
day from 12 noon until 11 p.m.
Displays included; flower ar-
ranging, LucknoW HortiOultural
SQciety; photography, ,Brian
Keith and David Lougheed; Wing-
ham Recreation Dept, , Jim Ward;
oil painting , Mrs. Ross, Shiells
Mrs—Vernon_Hunter , Mrs. C.
Roulston; pottery , Mrs. Merle
Gunby; ceramics, Mrs. Lorne
Hasty; rug hooking, Mrs. Ed
Wadel; stamp collecting , Mrs.
A. Glen.
Fanshawe Graduate
RICK PRITCHARD
Rick William Pritchard , Son of
Mr. and Mrs. John Pritchard. of
es awanos •, graduated rec-
ently with honours froth Fanshawe
College, in Recreation Leader-
ship.
Mr. and Mr's. Pritchard attend-:
ed the ceremony which was held
in Centennial Hall, London.
Rick is presently employed
the recreation program in Luck-
FioW
Ja,ck (Audrey) MacDonald of
Lucknow some of her collection
which she startedswhen she was
a child. •
resided and where he has been
fisr some time. Mr. and Mrs.
Itid have been residing in Kin-
cardine for 4 years,' in. Wingham
for 5,years prior to that and prior
to their living in Wingham, they
resided in Lucknow.
They have a family of two
boys, Terry 18 and Kevin 5.
Purchase Lucknow
Bowling Alley
Mr. and Mrs. David Sproul of
The Nile area have purchased the
Lucknow Bowling Alley from Mr. -
and Mrs. Bob Farrish. The neW
owners obtained possession the
first of the month.
Bob and Ina Farrish,purchased
the business the first Of this year
from Mrs. Fred (Dove) Horton.
Mr. and Mrs. Farrish have taker
up residence on their farm on the
12th of Ashfield. k
the ,formeryelen Gibson, a nat-
ive of Riverhurst. Hugh is a gar-
age mechanic at Millarville.
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The Sentinel until August 2. The
office will close this Thursday
and will reopen again on Mon-
day, July 31. There will be no
paper-published-on-July--19-a-nd
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be edited'throughout the holidays.
It may be mailed or dePositedi
in the letter slorin our door.
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Showcase Was Fine ',Community Activity
Albert Gammie employed as_aminsuranceagent
Sells Ross Street
Apartment House
Fire Destroys Home,
Lose All Possessions
Albert Gammie of Lucknow
has said his apartment building on
Ross Street at the southern
outskirts of the village to Irving
Reid of Kincard,ine.
Mr. Garrimie purchased the •
home from Herb, McQuillin thirty
years ago this coming October,,......"
Prior to that it was the Connell ,
residence. At the time of the
sale, July °1st , it contained six
apartments and the dWelling
Atse&lxy_Mr-landMrS. Gammie
The Gammies have moved to
their Ross Street home, just to
the north of the apartment Wild-
ing, between the residences'of
Armstrong 'Wilson and Clarence
Greer.
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.The new owner is no stranger
to' Lucknow where he formerly
•
and Mrs. Hugh Houston •
and family of MillarVille,
berta lost their home arid all their
possessions in a fire about 4 a.m.
Monday Morning of this Week.
Word was received by phone on
Monday evening by his parents, '
Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Houston of
Holyrood.
Fortunately, Mr. and Mrs.
Houston and their young son •
Heath, age 5, awakened in rtime
to get out of the house ," but It
fire had' aclvariced so quickly that.
FIngh was unable to get back into
the building to save anything.
Their 'older son Duane, age 7 ,
was visiting at the time with his
aunt and uncle at InVermere ,
It is four years since Hugh went
west to live. He is married to
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