The Lucknow Sentinel, 1973-02-21, Page 1winds and zero tempera-. The blaze, caused when sparks
pered efforts by -firemen'. from a propane torch being used
save a burning farm- Lto thaw out frozen water pipes
West Wawanosh. Town- spread, to the home , destroyed
2 miles east of Dungan- the two-storey residence of. Mart-
le sideroad between inus Bakker.
id 4th concessions.. Mr. Bakker, his wife; three-
n Public Speaking Contest Held On
y, Fourteen Entries In Two Classes
id Kerr Is
ed President
ig the annual meeting
Wawanosh Mutual
nce Company. on Fri7
iredtors met at the •
iffices.to elect their
r the coming year.
<err of R. R. 6 Goder-
new president-of the
ucceeding.Charles
Lucknow who 'has
ffice for the past two
Whinney of R. R. 1
is vice president.
rectors are Charles •
George Feagan, John
Austin Marti.P.
hompson is the com-
tary-treasurcr.
0.00 A Year In Advanca $2.00 Extra To U.S.A. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 21st, 1973 SlogIo. Copy 150 20 Pogos,
Holyrood Girl Wins,Sehlot .tegion- Contest
Get garket Way! Treatment
0 "
Lucknow's Assessment
Totals Over Six Million
in the senior division 14, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
know Legion Public1 Blake Alton of Belfast who placed
contest are pictured, I second; Mary Eadie, 13, (laugh-.
lit; Mary Anne Alton,'. 1 ter of Mr, and Mrs. 'Lome Eadie placed third in the group. •
I of Holyrood who was first place •
winner; Donna Frayne, 13, daugh-
ter of. Mr. and Mrs. Donald
Frayne of .R. R. '3 Goderich who'
The resignation of Eldon
Wraith, senior councillor' in Luck-
now , was accepted with regret
at the regulartmeeting of Luck-
now Village Council.
M. Wraith has left the corn -
• munity and, is presently residing
in Sarnia.
Gordon Maize of Luckno,w was
week-Old daughter and Blyth
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Reeve George Joynt of Lucknow
told 'The Sentinel MOnday that
calculations made at the Lucknow
municipal office concerning the
new market value, assessments
received by Lucknow property
owners this past week, indicates.
what the mill rates would have
been l6cally last year if the new
assessment, as presented, had
beep in effect.
Mr. Joynt stressed that these are
estimates only, but believed the
estimates to be very close.
Luckpow residential ratepayers
last year, based on the new asSess-
ment, would have paid 18 -
mills. Commercial prop.erty hold
ers would have paid 29.2 mills.
Died In Hospitcil
Clarence .Bell of• Lucknow passed
away in Wingharp and District
Hospital, Wingham on Monday,
February 19th in his 78thyear.
The funeral service will be held
at MacKenzie Memorial Chapel,
LucknoW on Thursday, February
22nd at 2 p.m.
Masonic Service will be held
Wednesday at-8.30 p.m. and
Canadian Legion Service' at
3 p.m.
Temporary e,ntornbment as at -
South Kinloss Mausoleum. -
Lucknow's total assessment
under the' new "market value", sys-
tem is $6.032,560, raising
$125 ,516 for local expenditures..
The residential assessment is'
$4,513,455 with revenue of
$81,097 while the commercial
assessment is $1,519,105 raising
$44,419.
Property owners are urged to
read the ad from the village in
this issue telling them how to
calculate their...,new tax and what
to do if they consider themselves
improperly assessed..
Lucknow was assessed, under'
the former plan, at a total of •
$1,158,575 for 'the municipality.
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TOTAL IS NOW $26,991
Firemen Give $500
To The Pool Fund
• Lucknow Fire Department has
donated $500'to the. local
swimming pool fund.
Campaign chairman Bob Finlay
stated that the total donations' to
the fund now stand at $26,991.91.
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Died In London
Mrs. Robert J. Webster, the
former Violet Buchanan, passed
away in Victoria Hospital,. Lon-
don, on,Monclay, February 19th
• in her 89th'year...
The funeral will be
held at MacKenzie Memorial
Chapel, Lucknow on Thursday,
February 22nd at 3.30 p.m.
Temporary entombment is at
South • Kinloss Mausoleum.
• A Ladies Auxiliary to Canad-
ian Legion Service will be held
at 7.45' on Wednesday evening.
-The annual•public ,speaking
contest, sponsored by LUcknow
Branch 309, Royal Canadian •
Legion, was held at the Legion
Hall, on Friday evening.
Students from area schools,
Kingsbridge Brookside,• North
Ashfield, ,Lucknow, Kinloss par-
ticipated in the event. There
were two divisions, junior and
senior. Each student entered in
the contest had been a winner in
his or her respective school.
Chairman for-the evening was
Don Cameron, vice principal
at Brookside Public School. Jud-
ges were Edward Brown of Luck-
now, a teacher at Ripley District
High School; Mrs. Walter Palmer
of Goderich, a councillor and, ex
teacher; Bob Wright of Dungannon
a teacher at Goderich District
CoRegiate Institute.
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Gordon Maize Appointed To Fill Vacant
Seat On Lucknow Municipal Council
Four Men Elected Friday
A bout 150 interested policyhold- • erson who was ill.
citizens housing unit . ssibility for Lucknow
formation meeting for ratepayers. Joynt asked for the permission of
ast week's council
held at nomin'ation time last fall, council members to proceed with
said that he" would propose a study a feasibility study of such a phi ,-
of such a' unit for Lucknow in the ject. •
near future. - He stated that he expected to
(5 ge JoYnt, at the in- At: last week's meeting, Reeve be in Toronto at an early date
,.'4...e.9,Le-x4,.o.),....91t4;-4-A-401t4-x.Ost4-0-0 .0-x4i-k4->tolt.o-:ceit4-'<.4-,<4,-x.ott.9se:).
Invpstiga te Housing,For Senior Citizens
and would look into the possibili-
ties of such a project here.,
Council apprOved the, study' and
gave the Reeve' their OX to pro-
ceed.
..6-itax.o,t6qtax.a,e~44-1t4-4.9)<.-4~tx~u.e-itow
S ix Ditego.e.:Now..:$etve
Wesf.VVawanosh ..M0061
was reported and an
increase in risk of $5,609,000.
Premium income increased by.
$21,500.
ers attended the annual Meeting Following, the minutes of the A. M. Harper.and Co: were
of the West Wawanosh Mutual Fire last general annual meeting read again appointed auditors for 1973.
In§urance Corripany at the Dungan- by the secretary-treasurer Frank In order to 'comply with reVi-
non Agricultural Halt on Friday • Thompson, the auditors' report sions in the Insurance Act and the
afternoon. was read by Mr; 'Thompson. „Corporations Act,' by-laws were
amended in 1972 and affected
. Gerald Kerr, vice president of • A steady pattern of growth was
rearded by the company in 1972, operations 'as follows - the company, was chairman in the
absence of president Charles And An increase in surplus of $58,559 Firstly, as of September 30th, • -' e. • 1972, all Agents of Farm Mutual
Companies must hive qualified
and bb6ined an Insurance. Agents
Licence. John Ma.c1.,ennau
iDonald MacKay , Fred
Mason Robinson and Delmar
Sproul, who were DireEtor-
Agents, obtained their licence
and are now appointed the Agents
of the Company.
Secondly, as'oflanuary 1St.,
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By Fire
named by council to fill the vac-
ant seat and attended his first
meeting' last week.
A Meyers 7 foot blade was rec-
,
ently purchased by the village
from Hackett Farm Equipment. at.
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