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The Lucknow Sentinel, 1972-10-04, Page 12• : • .•••• 7 ' • • 4 . • PAGE .TWELVE 10, THE LUCI NOW SENTINEL,. LUCKNOW, ONTARIO WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 4th, 1972 DIAN! LOCAL TELEGI . SEND PAUL I U. • •c, ...."••••••," 1st TELEGRAI PAUL HENDER Your hoMetown Ludt your outstanding perform Mother and all are sl yesterday. Best-of-luckin todaq 'AND. COUNCIL 01 2nd TELEGRAI PAUL HENDEI HELLO PAUL What a winner! The Sepoy Town is art in today's game. You have not only br to yourself, but to your Canada you represent. Kindest regards. 0 • • "IT WAS UNBELIEVABLE" - / Mrs. Garnet (Evelyn) Henderson " of Lucknow relives her son Paul's finest moment in Moscow Thurs- - day as he emerged the hero of Team Canada., "We hollered and hooted like a bunch of schoolkids ." Mrs. - Henderson , said. Looking on are Paul's sisters Sandra (left) 11 and Carolyn 17. K. W. Record Photo. AND LI - HENDERSON - TOWN'S -HERO other reaps her dreams lied , Wings and- finally to To- ronto • Maple Leafs and Team' Canada: "He often had to use second- hand equipment' and 0110 • • • can remember -him playieg 'in • ' s ates- • la . were' . rce e. . J FROM THE KITCHENER RECORD 1,U(KNOW — ,Evelyn Hen- derson looked back 20 years last night and 'remembered with 1 isle ho•w-lier---rubbei ring jam jar covers frequently vanished from her kitchen. Her son. Paul. Canada's new hockey hero, 'would borrow them to hold his Eaton's cato- logue shinguards 'in place be- cause the Henderson family couldn't afford• fancy, hockey equipment. It was memories like that one which "set her bawling" During the hockey game — in the words of daughter Lucknow's main street was Sandra, .11 -- , when Paul completely empty of cars with scored'the last-minute goal in:..no passers-by to read the huge the eighth Canada-Soviet game downtown sign which states: to give Canada a 6-5 win and Vote for Paul Henderson No. the series. 19 best on ice, the pride of Lucknow and all Canada. Go Team Canada.' Village councillors said they wanted a life-size pin-up of Paul to stand outside the 'cor- rugated .' metal arena,, "the, home of Paul Henderson." In past years, when minor hockey teams have brought home'thampionship honors to Lucknow, the village fire truck has- gone out to meet players and carried them vic- toriously into town. As part of the . hero-comes-home party, Lucknow hopes, to meet Paul 'Henderson with the same fire '- truck. Paul's goal, with just 34 sec- . onds remaining in the game, the third straight game in which he scored the winner. "It wa.g. simply marvelous, unbelievable . . . we all tried to yell when he scored and it , just cameout like a squeak. Then We hollered and hooted like a bunch of schoolkids . it, was so good, so good," said Mrs. Henderson. Because her television re- ception was bad she watched the genie on -a neighbor's set *• with daughter Sandra yam was off sick from school. , "And'4'she really was sick . . we went to the -doctor only today, insisted Mrs. Henderson in between a stream of telephone calls froth neighbors „ offering congratu- 4 Although Lucknow residents would hotly dispute the issue, Paul was probably born in • . nearby Kincardine.. "As always, he was terribly fast," joked Mrs. Henderson. "We were snowed, and _couldni___get. him_ to_Arosni _ time and he was born aboard a sleigh on the way to . now w years ago." "But he's a Lucknow. boy. he's ours," argued • Reeve 'George Joynt wilt-T.1dt app c picking to come into the vil- lage to Congatulate Mrs: Henderson. "We hope to give him quite „ a homecoining," said Reeve Joynt producing a telegram of congratulations' sent to Paul in - Moscow by the village. It read: "What a winner. The Sepo9 Town is astounded hy- your accomplishinents. You have not only brOught a great deal of distinction to yourself' but to yOur family and this' great country of Can- ada." Paul often returns to Luck- now to open a public 'building or address minor hockey players. Mrs. Henderson said when Tani was three years old he , Was "always on' the move and running away." She said she once put him in a harness and tied him to a clothes line to keep him in the backyard. , "'When we came out he was nowhere to be found, ,the harness and his pants were dangling from the line and he was gone way up-the street." She said her husband coached Paul at hockey from the age of six and Paul was 'active in athletics and foot, He played for Lucknow and GOderieh Jinn& )3 teams be- fore going on to Hamilton Jun- ior A, to the NHL and Detroit too big . . . he put in insoles .to pad the boots. After school. he would ,work at' a general store to earn extra cash befOre going on to hockey practices," said Mrs..Henderson. 'And now that they've worked. so hard for this they have to break up 'as a team. I think it's a pity they couldn't. ' stay together as a Canadian team and we couldn't create a league in Canada with just . Canadian players." Around the village everyone knew Paul: "He was fast, always so fast on skates. I used to transport Paul and some of our•peewees around' ' years ago. I re- member one game when he scored 17 goals.. . . there was no catching him," said Bill Hunter, a hockey fan. who runs a downtown service sta- tion. Harold Ritchie, a hockey • coach and past president of the village legion, stopped a Thursday night bingo game to look back on Paul's career. ."I can „remember that kid when he was a bantam, when herwas just 14 coming down to practise with the .18:year-olds. His father used to really drive him on . I think his dad knew he'd make the top.'' Vp at the public school, Stuart Collyer, principal, said FROM PUBI WNERE .PAUL PAUL:HENDERSON, T Congratulations! W We'll be cheering for FROM PUBI PAUL H ENIXERSON, Congratulations on performance.' We are very proud ,he taught Paul in school, Sun- day school and the boy scouts. "We sent him a telegram from the kids saying we'd be cheering for him on Thursday. threeTV sets and they sure ThcheeelUreddshi wmal:.ch:d the game on' "I"couldn't have been bap. -Myself . . we were all SOI super if rolil'Od..s,cored that goal p Meanwhile, at Paul's Missis• Heather, 9, JCnnifer, 7. and sthaeiru gow.ap home: Heather, daughters) Jill, 2, began a celebration d "1 watched the, game al school and the whole school went mad," said, Ileather, "I WAS - almost torn apart They were hugging me, kW ing me, putting me up on thei shoulders . they mac, tti • i 4 • 70 miles northwest of Kit hen- lations. Ever since • the end of the game Mrs. Henderson. was answering the phone or front door at her home'in this vil- lage of 1,100 near Wingharn. er. "And I couldn't watch the game at schoo . . . I had to watch a o eyball tour- nament," comp ained Coralyn Henderson, 17. Mrs. Henderson, whose hus- ban d Garnet died'four years ago, has two other. children, Marilyn, 26, and 'Bruce, 24.