The Lucknow Sentinel, 1974-05-01, Page 1A Man With A Mission
He's Trying To Save The Bluebird
0 New Horizons Grant Awarded For Project
Graham MacNay ties suet to a tree to attract his lost friends
eve Says Ripley Logical
pot For Area Complex
eting was held in Huron
p Hall on April 18 with
!utive of Ripley-Huron
Recreation Coniplex and
ratives from councils of
Township, Kincardine
p, Kinloss Township ,
ownship and the Village
f. along with Jack Peir-
isuliant, Peirson Bldg,
sent at the meeting was
Recieation Consult-
lover; Ron Bakker, Corn-
Centres, Toronto; Win-
on and Doug Taylor ,
r, Econoniici and Inter- •
lental Affairs, London,.
was a lot Of discUssion
g the Ripley-Huron co.m-
he feeling the iliPley-
)nnittee got 'from the
tent guests was that they
ke to sed one large
to serve several commurt
ides.
Clayton Nicholson, Reeve of
Village of Ripley, as asked if he
cared to comment on this aspect
of the meeting. He said "Due to
the fact Port Elgin is now building
a swimming pool, the only logic-
al place for another one is Ripley
where it could serve Huron, Ash-
field , Kinloss and Kincardine
Townships-, the ToWn of Kincar-
dine and, the villages of LucknOw ,
along with Ripley. The land, is al•
ready purchased in Ripley for the
complex and working drawings al-
MOSt completed , but the commit-
tee 'would be open for discussion
at any time'.
The goverrunent guests were
planning a similar meeting on
Friday morning with the Town of
Kincardine , regarding their Com-
plex.
Reunion
Reflettiott.
was staying in south London.
Fire , breaking out at the front
entrance, trapped Sharon and her
three companions on the second
floor: All four girls 'a're patients
in Victoria Hospital receiving
burns and fractures as they made
their escape.
Ernie Coiling and his mother
Mrs. Katherine Coiling visited
with Sharon on SundaV. Sharcin
suffered severe and painful frac-
tures to both' heels as
she jumped from the second storey
landing on the cement sidewalk
below. Surgical treatment will
be undertaken by the doctors
at Victoria sometime this week.
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,days, bluebirds seem to
ore often in elementary
42* than in the
as they supposedly inhabit.
ds are almost extinct,', .
g to retired research.
from the department of
e, Graham MacNay of
nd a native of this corn-
Graham is a brother of
cNay of Lucknow and
cNay of Ashfield.,
he, and rose sparrow like
,re once regular summer-
dents in Eastern Ontario
bers have drastically dee
vet the past 20 years, says
,Nay.
in has obtained a $3000
tizons grant with nine
ho have an interest in the
The grant is over a 2-
iod. They hope 'to save
from extinction and build
copulation - particularly
'Dear Don,
Thank you for the Invitation to
come to. the Re -union in July. I
do not think I will be able to
come but I do wish you folks a
very very good and happy time
that week end. The folks of Luck•
now are very friendly and I am
sure there will be lots of old
friends back there for this big
week end. I,clo enjoy having the
Sentinel every week end: It is
a very good paper.
Mrs. I. Hawkwood,
Cochrane , Alberta .
• • • *
Dear Don,
Thank you kindly for your in-
vitadon to the •Old Boys and Girls
,reunion. Last one I was at was
around 1910 and would you belieVe
me , was around 100 in the shade
SY AB WYLDS
Miss Sharon Coiling spent two
days 'visiting with her mother. Mrs.
Katherine coiling in. Ripley
week 'ago. Then on Saturday', •
Mrs. Coiling received, the startling
news/that Sharon had narrowly es-
caped from the home where she
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Lightning Strikes
At St. Helens,
Kills Cow hi Barn
Lightning struck on the farm of
Tom Todd at St. Helens •on Sun,
day and killed a cow in the barn.
None of the other livestock was
injured.
It is believed that"the 'bolt
struck about 1.30 Sunday after-
noon blowing fUses at Todd's',
blowing the covers off the elect-
rical switches and putting the
furnace and the telephone out.
Other homes in the neighbour-
hood had lights blOWn out and the,
disruption of phone service.,
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Died In London
Mrs. Frank Hamilton of 'Luck-
now passed away at Mason Villa,
Hospital, London on Monday,
April 29th in her 78th year.
The, funeral service will be held
at MacKenzie Memorial Chapel,
LucknOw on Wednesday , May 1st
at 2 p.m.
Interment will be in Greenhill
Cemetery.
temperature.' Every night there
were the worst electric storms.
One night my cousin Naomi Boyle
from Bemington, Kansas, who
was visiting my Grandina and
Un6le Glen Boyle ,, counted 11
buildings burning at Once and I be•
lieve it was the s,ame year that
Janet Switzer's boy was struck and
killed on, he 8th con. My grand-
mother was also over at Fred John-
ston's perforniing her midwife
act for Mrs. Johnston. Will likely
be seeing you in June.
Mrs. Irene MacKenzie,
Moose Jaw, Sask.•
• •
Dear. Don,
Recent Graduate
DEBBIE HA LDENBY
Miss Debbie Haldenby , daugh-
ter of Mr. and Mrs: Jim Halden-
by , of theVestford area of Culrost
Township , graduated from Marvel
Beauty School and Fanshawe
Sdhool of Men's flair styling, Lon-
don, on April 19.
Debbie begat 'her apprentice-
ship with Clan Hairstyling in Kin-'
cardine.
Homes Needed
Mrs. Noble Johnston of Luck-
now was recently named chairrilan
of the billets committee for the.
Lucknow Reunion over the, July 1st
week end.
After two weeks of publicity in
the Sentinel, Mrs. Johnston has
only two replies from homeowners
willing to billet reunion visitors
on the June 28 to July 1 week end,
one of these replies coming from
a rural resident.
If you would have space avail-
able,in your home for the reunion
week end ,.give Mrs. Johnstbn.a
call. ' Lucknow Reunion is less
than two months away.
Couple Plan
England Holiday
Mr. and',iMrs. Russell "Buster"
Whitby of Lucknow leave this
week on a vacation to England.
Mabel, a native of England,
will bereunited with her mother
and father , two sisters and two •
brothers.
Buster and Mabel were in Eng-
land on a similar visit in 1970 and '
this was Buster's first visit back
since 1945 when he was in the
Canadian Armed Forces and where
he met Mrs. Whitby.
The couple hope to visit Scot-'
land and France while on their
holiday. Mabel's family are cen-
tred around Croydon in southeast •
England.
in the Ottawa area
Mr. MacNay is president of
,klie,grpup,ausWeald.ing..,MagNay
is secretary. Members are setting'
up.,horne-made bluebird boxes in
rural areas in the .Ottawa area
from KemptVille to South March.
"Until ,a generation or two '
ago, this beautiful songbird was
common,in southern areas of East-
ern Canada , usually making its
nest in hollow posts and trees and
cavities made by woodpeckers,"
explains Mr. MacNay.
"Then farmers began replacir.,;
rail fences with wire, requiring
ferer posts and these were later
commonly replaced by metal
posts... nesting cavities have be-6
come very scarce ," he cordnues.
"But scarce nesting sites have
not been the bluebird's only prob-
lem. During the winter 'of 1957-
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I th'ank you Tor your letter with
the information about the plans
made for the corning events of
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Fire Traps Girls On SeCond Floor,
Ripley Girl Fractures Heels In Escape