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The Lucknow Sentinel, 1985-05-22, Page 1Single copy 35c Published Lucknow, Ontario, SENTINEL Wednesday, May 22, 1985 20 Pages 4 May 15 was a special night for more than 250 area Girl Guides when they had the opportunity to meet the daughter of Lord and Lady Baden Powell, The Honourable Betty Clay (centre). For Goderich Guide Jill Sygrove (left) and her grandmother El ygrove (right) of Kamlachie the event was historical. Jill made a special presentation to M 'Clay. In 1935 in Cornerbrook, Newfoundland Mrs. Sygrove, then an 11 -year-old Guide saw the Baden Powells and their young daughter. Lucknow Pathfinder Vicki Owen, (back left) also made a presentation to Mrs. Clay at the May 15 gala event held in Clinton, .Laura Sygrove, (back right) was one of the many Brownies who also attended. (Shelley McPhee Photo) Guide president visits area By Shelley McPhee A . once-in-a-lifetime event was held in Clinton on May 15 when some 250 Girl Guides, Brownies and their'leaders had the rare opportunity to meet the president of guiding. The Honourable Betty Clay is the esteemed head of Girl Guides. She knows more about the organization than anyone else. Mrs. Clay is the youngest child of Lord and Lady Baden-Powell, the founders of Guides and Scouts. Mrs. Clay and her husband Gervas of England are visiting Ontario this month to mark the 75th anniversary of Girl Guides in Canada. Their whirlwind tour includes visits to Toronto, London and Ottawa and meetings with thousands of young Guides and Scouts. Clinton was chosen for an evening visit, as an opportunity to allow rural children the chance to meet the distinguished president of the girl guide movement. Brownies and Guides from among the 1,100 members in the area's Beaver Divisidn of Girl Guides were invited to attend the gala ceremony. Guides from Hanover to Clinton as well as St. Marys to Kitchener took part. Bev Thompson; commissioner of Beaver Division noted, "It was an honour for the girls in this area to see the daughter of Lord and Lady Baden Powell. The looks on the girls' faces showed their excitement." Turn to page 4 School coping with strike In the wake of a secretarial strike affecting Bruce County elementary and secondary schools, Lucknow Central Public School is doing it's best to cope with the absence of it's regular secretary, according to Principal Charlie Davies. "We're doing the best we can to make sure the phones are manned. It's difficult because she's such a valuable member of the staff," says Mr. Davies referring to the school's lone secretary, Gloria Ritchie. Mr. Davies says the teachers, in the school now have to write out their own tests rather than have the secretary type out the test questions which results in some extra work for the staff. The secretarial and clerical staff employ- ed by the board of education went on strike May 8 for wage parity with custodians and executive secretaries also employed by the board. School secretaries are currently making a maximum of $16,107 or $8.85 an hour while janitors and executive secretaries employed by the board are paid a maximum $9.58 and $10.54 respectively. Mrs. Ritchie, the school's secretary, / says she has no idea when she will return to work. She says there has been no negotiations as the board's negotiating team has yet to get in contact with the secretaries union (CUPE). As far as we know, they (the board) Turn to page 4 Town council will not renew sewage property options By Sharon Dietz Lucknow Village Council has decided not to renew the option to purchase land owned by Chester Finnigan and Michael Snobelen for the proposed site of the • sewageworks treatment facility. Council intends to instruct the Ministry of the Environment that the proposed design for sewage project which only services the core area of the town is obsolete and .they want the ministry to do a new assessment to determine how much of the village should have sewer service. Councillor Herb Clark told council - at their May 14 meeting he would not be part of a project that would not service the whole town. Clark said council must find a site for the treatment facility which will accomodate •expansion of thetreatment facility when additional areas of the town . are serviced. Clark said, the public meeting in Novem- ber, at which council addressed concerns of residents in the area of the proposed site for the treatment facility; on the Finnigan and Snobelen properties in ,West W awa- nosh Township, identified additional areas of the town which require sewers. Clark said Lucknow residents will object to the project only servicing part of the town when,a meeting is held to discuss the funding of the project. This design is already out of date, said Clark. Reeve George Joynt told council he and councillor Clark had met with Steve Burns of the village's engineering firm, Burns Ross and Associates earlier in the day and Burns wants to renew the options before May 31. Clark said he and Joynt asked Burns if the present project were completed, servicing the core area of the village, and later Lucknow receives permission to do the other areas of the town which require sewer service, would the W est W awanosh site allow the village to expand the treatment facility and Burns said "No." "What will we do, put one treatment facility out here (m W est W awanosh) and another out there?" asked Clark pointing to the east. ;Councillor Ab Murray said council has known all along the proposed treatment facility for this project would not accom- modate an expansion of the sewer service. But the ministry has no intention of doing the whole village, said Murray. "Now that we look into this, we see there's a hell of a lot more that needs service than we'Lve got here (in this project ), "commented Clark. " W e haven't even started and it is obsolete." "I agree there are all kinds of areas that should be serviced," said Murray. Councillor Clark suggested council hold a ratepayers meeting and ask the ratepay- ers of Lucknow if they want the whole town serviced and whether they are prepared to pay for servicing the entire town when the ministry will only fund that portion of the project which they consider requires service. "Will they pick up the tab if we do the rest of the . town and the ministry won't fund it? These are questions we have to have answers to," said Clark. "Council didn't want sewers and the people of Lucknow didn't. The ministry carne in here, put dye in the river and said we have to do this part (the core area) of the town," said Murray. "I'm all for looking at a site that would service the whole town if you can get the approval," said• Councillor Eldon Mann. "So am I," said councillor Russell Whitby. G "Herb's idea is that at least we'll have a treatment facility that would handle the whole town," added Murray. Reeve George Joynt said he was never in favour of going out to the W est W awanosh site in the first place. Councillor Ab Murray asked the reeve when he said that and Joynt answered "At the meeting in November" Turn to page 3 Cable T.V. to be installed in Lucknow bylate June By Alan Rivett Residents in Lucknow may receive cable T. V. by the end of June. according to Brian Walden, a representative with Kincardine T.V. cable. - Mr. Walden, who addressed Lucknow Town Council Tuesday night, says the Cable projeect could be' started by June 3 and could be operational by June 30. The cable company will also bring cable T. V. to the communities of Teeswater, Ripley and Tiverton. However, plans have been made to start the cable in Lucknow first. Customers of the cable system will be able to pick up channels 2, 4, 7 and 56 from Detroit; channel 8 W ingham; channel 10 London; channel 6 Global; channel 11 Hamilton; channel 13 Kitchener, as well as a French station, TWO and a local news channel. He also says Pay T.V. channels. /will be available. The cost for the cable service will be $13.95 per month plus tax. There will also be a $40 installation fee. However, Mr. Walden says the company will be offering a free hook up for customers who sign up in the first three weeks. The company already has approval of council for the service but still needs their approval for the use of the hydro poles in the town in order to carry the cable lines. The cable company is offering $7.75 per pole plus an inflation clause. Council will make a decision on the matter at the next meeting. Mr. Walden says the company also needs a tower site within the town. He said they are currently looking at renting the water tower site. The aerial on the tower will be used to pick up local channels from Kitchener, Wingham and London: All other channels will be received through the use of a satellite. Mr. Walden told council that he's confident the customers in Incknow will be pleased with the service. He warned, however, that Global may not be as clear as the others due to electrical activities that sometimes hinder the transmission of the, station.