The Lucknow Sentinel, 1985-06-05, Page 1Remember when?
Doyou remember any of these faces? This photo submitted.to the Sentinel by Mrs. Walter Scott was taken ata Lucknow High School Band
concert at the Lucknow' Town Hall in. 1951.. Those in the bandat this time period were, left to right, Murray McNein, Gladys Chin, Joan
(Campbell) Irwin, Charlie Chin, Elmer Umbach, Marilyn Kilpatrick, Frank Collar, Kenneth MacKay, Rev. Wynn, Rev. Bert Turner,
Danny Rose, Rev. Mumford, Morle j' Chin, Bruce Johnston, George Anderson, Joyce ( Campbell) Courtney, Don. Cameron and Everett
West.
Huron teachers
favorstrke
By Stephanie Levesque .
Huron County secondary school teachers.
voted 71.1 per cent in favor of strike action
last.week. .
Huron County's returning officer, Eldred
Simmons of Exeter, was in charge of the
voting conducted in the county's five secon-
dary schools. He reported that 165 teachers
voted in favor of strike action while 65 were
against. There were two spoiled ballots..
These figures, he saki, represent a margin
of just over 71 per cent of the teachers'.
federation membership.
The strike vote. wascounted after the
teachers turned down the Huron County •
Board of . Education's latest contract offer
by 84.9 per cent. In that vote„ 37 • teachers
voted in favor of the board's. offer and 197 .
voted against. There was one spoiled ballot.
Director of Education Robert Allan said
there was "no reaction" to the vote..•
•
Shirley Weary; chief negotiator of the On-
tario Secondary School Teachers' Federa-
tion, District 45, said no strike date has .yet"
been set. •
• The earliest the teachers could 'go on
strike is June 5. Earlier, Weary said that
was not the teachers' date, but the board's.
The board's offer started with a max-.
imam teachers' salary of $44,120 and the
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Fee increase for Wingham hospital.rneiubership
By Henry Hess
It will cost $5 instead of $1 for the
privilege of taking part in the business at
annual meetings of the Wingham and
District Hospital Association, if a bylaw
change approved by the hospital board is
ratified at the annual meeting next month.
The increase in the association's annual
membership fee, required for voting at the
meetings, was One of a number of changes
to hospital bylaws proposed by the
management wmmittee and approved by
the board two weeks ago.
Related changes include raising the fee
for a life membership tb $500 from $100
and adding a stipulation that any member
must have been a resident of a municipality
in . the hospital area for / at least three
months in order to vote at a meeting.
Other sections of • the bylaws govern,
business dealings with the hospital by
members of the board of governors or their
families, membership on the board and
board procedures. '
The proposed changes were read aloud
to the board after a showof hands
indicated that few board members had
read them. They then were voted on and
passed without opposition.
All changes still must be ratified by a
vote at the annual meeting set for June 20.
After the board meeting, Treasurer Gordon
Baxter said that, pending ratification, the
membership fee will remain at the old
level.
Mrs. Olive Blake of Lucknow displays a rack containing 98 thimbles which she has collected
over the past 15 years. She' says most of the thimbles she has are brought to her by friends
and relatives who have picked them up while on vacation. (Photo by Alan Rivett)
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The board was not told any reason for
the proposal to raise the membership fees
and no one asked. A similar proposal was
voted down at an annual meeting several
years ago.
However, the board Was told later in the
meeting that, as a result of its recent fund
raising drive, there sire now about 600 life
members . eligible to. vote at the meeting.
To accommodate the expected •high
turnout, the board agreed to hold the
meeting in the auditorium at the Wingham
Public School.
To be eligible to vote at that meeting, a
member must be at least 18 years old and
must have purchased a membership no
later than, Jude 5.
The board also was told that persons will
be permitted to buy memberships for
others, provided they bring a .letter of
authorization from that individual. it was
noted that this is in response to questions
raised about the sale of multiple member-
ships
emberships •for last year's annual meeting.
In related business, the board approved
a number of amendments to the medical
'staff bylaws dealing with appointment and
removal of staff me e , malpractice
insurance and procedural matters.
However, an attempt to get the board to
approve the terms of reference for a new
"quality appraisal committee" once again
ran into opposition. A number of board
members expressed concern that the ,win
mitee, as proposed, would be cut off from
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Mrs.. Blake's collectables
just a little out of ordinary
By Alan Rivett
Most people who accumulate collectables
usually gather together items such as
stamps, souvenir, spoons and matchbook
covers. For Mrs. Olive Blake of Lucknow,
her prize collectable could be said to be a lit-
tle different.
For nearly 15 years, she has' been collec-
ting thimbles of every shape and size. She
says, however,• that she didn't collect them
by design, by acquired them from friends
and relatives.
"It really never started," said Mrs. Blake
who lives in the senior citizens' apartments
on Ross St. "It just happened because my
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mother had quite a few thimbles when she
was a seamstress: •
"I guess I started collecting when people
would pick up thimbles while on vacation
and give them to me.",
Recently, Mrs. Blake brought her collec-
tion of 98 thimbles to the Goderich
Townships Women's Institute's
• Tweedsmuir Tea in Holmesville. There, she
gave a brief description of the thimbles and .
where they came from
Keepsake thimbles gained popularity in
the 18th and 19th century and are start'lo •
become popular again today. c
events pf interest to woman have been rancor -
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