The Lucknow Sentinel, 1976-10-20, Page 1, 1976
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Senior Citizens Home Becomes Area
Project, Lack Of Enough Lucknow Tenants
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The Ontario Housing Senior
Citizens "Rent-geared-to-income"
housing project on Walter Street in
Lucknow is within a month or so of
completion.
The Only thing that is missing at
present is enough people to fill the
20 one-bedroom apartments.
With the caretaker occupying
one of the units,,, there were 19
Local Rider
Wins In Toronto
Horse Show
Brenda Taylor, 16, 'daughter of
Mr. and. Mrs. Ken. Taylor, R. R. 3
Lucknow, 'competed in the 1976 All
Arabian, Horse Show, October 15,
16, 17 at the CNE Coliseum,, in
Toronto.
Riding a 4-year-old grey, pure-
bred Arabian mare, .Am Joves
Spitfire; Brenda competed against
some of the top Arabian riders in
Eastern Canada and United States.
She placedlst in open junior rider -
English Pleasure Hack, 3rd in
junior English. Equitation on the
Flat, 5th, in purebred English
Pleasure Hack, and 5th in. junior'
Water Steady. Hands.
These wins' at the, 1976 All.
Arabian Horse Show are especially
satisfying for Brenda as_ she
personally broke and trained this
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available for the residents of
Lucknow. Up to , last week, only
eight village ..tenants had shown
their interest.
When the original -survey of
Lucknow, was taken to indicate
interest in this type of accommoda-
tion, 27 people showed an interest.'
Eighteen of those 27 are still living
in Lucknow but only 2 have decided
to make the new facility their
home.
Art Matthewman,. local repre-
sentative for the Ministry, said that
he had contacted each of these
people prior to the meeting.'
At the 'meeting were ,Lucknow
Council, Reeve Bob Lyons of West
Wawanosh, ReeVe Leo Murray of
Kinloss, Reeve Warren Zinn and
Twelve Hunters
Get 4 Moose
DUNGANNON NEWS
A local hunting party of twelve
spent last week in the Sudbury area
and bagged four moose (2 bulls, a
cow and a calf). • '
The hunters were Harold Erring-
ton, • Roger Pentland, Ken McNee
and David Dawson 'of Dungannon;
Eric MCNee, George Sillib, _George
MacKinnon, Gary Sproul of Nile;
Bruce Johnston of Wallaceburg;
Jim Hunter, Mactier; Bob Wallace,
Lucknow; and Bill Krepps, Strat-
ford.
Deputy Reeve Finlay MacDonald of
Asfifield.
The proposal was put to the
townships to make the senior
citi'ens facility an area venture to
include residents of the townships,
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Injured In Fall
The condition of Ken Elphick of
Lochalsh 'is steadily improving
following .a serious accident at his
farm on Thanksgiving- weekend.
Ken fell from a straw mow to the
barn floor and sustained a cracked
vertebrae.
He is a patient in' Wingham
Hospital.
The Reeve of Lucknow, George
Joynt, and members of council,
Murvin Solomon: -Oliver Glenn,
Gordon Maize and Gary Ritchie are,
certainly not in, accord on the
queStion -of holding the customary
ratepayers meeting preceding the:
village nominations this year.
The date for the meeting had
been mentioned' as Monday; Nov-
ember 1st until discussion at the
council table at October's meeting.
questioned 'the value of such a
meeting in view of the fact that only
handful of people attend.
The four Council members were
of the opinion that the meeting was
not required in view of the lack of
a
Hospitalized After
Two Car Crash
Theresa Huber,,,:17, Lucknow was
transferred, from. Wingham Hospit-
al to Victoria Hospital in London
following a two vehicle accident on
Saturday night about 10.45 p.in. on
Campbell. Street, Lucknow, High-
way 86, just east of Havelock
Street, the United Church corner.
She was a passenger in a car
driVen by 18-year-old John Ander-
son 'of R. R.' 1 Dungannon which
was proceeding east.' Her condi-
tion is reported as satisfactory.
Upon going over the hill at the
church , corner, he was in collision
with the rear .of a car' driven by
Mrs. George (Nancy) Brooks,
Gough Street, Lucknow. Mrs.
Brooks was signalling to make 'a
left turn, according to provincial
police at Kincardine who investig-
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McKay's. Fruit
Market Sold To
Wingham Man
Mr. and Mrs. Rod McKay of
Lucknow have sold McKay's Fruit
Market to Jim. Pain of Wingham
who will take over the `new business
'on November 1st.
Mr. and Mrs. McKay and family
have operated the business since
purchasing it from Cyril Brown of
Lucknow 15 months ago. The
building is included in. the sale and
Mr. and Mrs. Bain and family will
resideapartment in the above the
store .
Mr. and Mrs: McKay, Carey and
Cindy Will move to St. Cathatines.
Their son Rod, who s employed at
Winghani, will remain in' the area.
The sale was• completed by Bill
Adamson, Lucknow, local salesman
for DOn Hoist Real Estat
Reeve :Joytit, in requesting a
recorded vote, found that: he was
outnumbered• four votes' to one.
But while he was outnumbered
on the issue, Reeve Joynt is not to
be oUtdone. • He later told The
Sentinel,, "As Reeve, I feel
obligated to give the people a
chance . to meet and diScuss
municipal questions and I personal-
ly, will• be at the town hall on
Monday, November 1st at 8 p.m. to
participate in a question and
answer period with ..interested
village ratepayers". '
So the customary meeting will go
ahead, minus four" council mem-
bers.
Defer Decision On Apartment Building
On Hamilton Street, Approve Second
Location For. Project By Gerrie Glenn
response by taxpayers. They
stated that present election proced-
ures do not require it to be held.
Reeve
that
expressed the
opinion that the ratepayers meet-
ing had 'been a ' tradition which
allowed council members to ex-
press:their prOgram, explain what
had been done in the past term and
plans for the future term and that
council owed this courtesy to
taxpayers who might wish to
'attend. He' also said that the
meeting gave prospective new
candidates a chance to state their
intentions prior to nomination.
The meeting was voted down and
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Ratepayers Seeting..Voted..Downi,
.Reeve- Will -"Golt Alone"
Gerrie Glenn of Lucknow met
with Lucknow Village Council 'on,
Tuesday of last week at their
regular meeting to seek aPproVal
for an apartment building on
Hamilton Street, 'across from the
Anglican Parish Hall. He had also
attended the September .meeting
this regard.
After considerable discussion
with council, the request was
deferred until . Gerrie could get
agreement from neighbours near
the' proposed building.
Reeve George Joynt spoke in
favour of the proposal citing Mr.
Glenn's past record of similar
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Schools Cause Increase
construction. He said planned
work on Inglis Street in the 'future '
would correct any drainage prob-
• lents which -might exist.
Councillors Solomon and Ritchie
spoke against approval of the
property for an apartment building
using :in argument the Official plan
of the village which has. been drawn
,up, but is still ,not adopted. The
plan 'shows this area ,as 'single
'dwelling residential' property and
the councillors felt •that• an excep-
tion in this case is contradicting the
official . plan they have been
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DRAPERIE*4
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Lucknow Village , tax bills are in
the mail this k‘,eek showing very
modest increases from that of last
Year,
The village managed to lower the'
tax rate this year, a pleasant report
for Villagers, by taking advantage
of a surplus in last year's business.; e .county rate is also down
continue to rise offsetting the lower
tales hi otherareas.
, The new 1976 rates, with the 1f01)17
10Swt:tes in brackets, are as l
'General, farm and residential,
6.670 (11,908). commercial, 7.847. 00.480),
County, farm and residential,
2.639 (2.954); commercial, 3:105
(3.475).
Public School, farm and residen-
tial, 5.855 (4.458); commercial,
6.506 (4.953).
Separate School, farm and resid-
ential, 6.349 (4.727); commercial,
7.054 (5.252).
Secondary School, farm and
residential, 5.913 (4.134); commer-
cial, 6.570 (4.593).
Total public, farm and resident-
ial; 21.077 (20.454); commercial
24.028 (23.561).
Total Separate, farm and resid-
ential, 21.571 (20.723); commerc-
ial, 24.576 (23.800).
ANNUAL MEETING
HELD AT LUCKNOW
About 50 Junior Women's Insti-
tute of Ontario members attended
the , annual meeting at Lucknow
United Church On Saturday.
Pictured, left to right, are, front
row, Margaret Minor of Wainfleet,
vice presidedt; Cindy Cordingley of
Milton, president; Linda Middleton
of Welland, retiring secretary who
was succeeded by Marion Koepke
of North Grey.
Standing, are Helen McKerch.er,
Director of 'the Home Economics
Branch of the Ontario. Ministry of
Agriculture and Food for over 20
years and an employee of the
Ministry for over 30' years who will
retire at the end of October; Sylvia
Jackson, Caledon East, completing
her, second year as a Junior Board
Director; June 'Alton, Lucknow,
who is commencing her second
year as a Junior Board Director.
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