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The Lucknow Sentinel, 1981-11-04, Page 2$ia upy llsbed In LuelMow, Ontario; • Wednesday; esday; November 4, 1981 20 Pages Lucknow's OHA Intermediate ' C hockey team, the. Lucknow Lancers, announced last week that the club will fold• due to 'circum- stances beyond their control. ; According to the team' -s coach, Tom 'Hill. the major reason behind the club's decision to hanguptheir sweaters, •• is the club' s inability to guarantee the Ontario Hockey Association that.six members of the team at everygame will be residents of the. village silage of Lucknow.- Hill said they could have started the season, but had they been successful. in reaching the playoffs, there could have been complications. unless the team could dress' six Lucknow residents for everygame. ; Hill said the club's inability to produce a guaranteedbase from the village led to the decision to fold. He said the team losta couple of players who ,.decided to give up OHA hockey dueto age or for personal reason and some of the players went west to find employment. Hill said he hoped he would acquire new players from the Luck- now Juvenile team, but that didn't happen. It is difficult to maintain the six Lucknow residents on the team, said Hill, because players such as Randy Alton are considered .to be from Lucknow, but when you look closer you find that Alton actually lives West Wawanosh Township. Late Ice A Problem Hill also commented in in interview ' Monday nigt, that the lack of ice in the Lucknow Arena' until the first of November . -makes it .difficult for any of the Lucknow teams to get organized to beginpractices. Hill saidit's difficult to know what yu''have for a team to mike -a -commitment to MIA before you even have Ice in your arena. Hill claims all of the Lucknow Minor Hockey Association teams begin their season's games, without sufficient . practices and are expected to play against teams who '" have had ice in their arenas for almost a month. Hill said he and .:the Lancers' manager, Kevin ustin tried to find ice timefin•other arenas : foet the team organized, but they 8 would have had to travel to Hayfield: Arena because the only ice ` time available in neighbouringarenaswas at midnight. The Lancers' coch said he could notunderstand that the Lucknow Arena Board maintains kit costs too much to make ice in early October, when: the weather th!s ` year. was . colder vnUlNm'.4u•orniv! ..J<unemvs• Air.•' ;�. E., •. . earlier .in October than4 it has been since. the ice went It cyst the Lancers 5500 to get ice time in other arenas for early season practice and that amount would have paid the arena manager's salary for a week and `a .:half, stated Hill. 'He said there are several teams practicing out of town, including the midgets and juveniles, and the combined cost paid to out • of town arenas would Surely pay for the cost of producing ice in Lucknow. • • A4 Good Rivalry I k The Lancers' withdrawal from the league will hurt other neighbouring clubs, • Hill points out. The club's rivalry with Goderich. drew a good crowd. in Goderich arena and: it will affect their gate receipts this season because the Lancers are not playing: Hill said the rivalry with Goderich was • a "good rivalry; , left on the ice". • The Lucknow Arena Board stands tolose money also. Hill and • Austin : took the intermediate team from a deficit situation three years ago to a club which made $2,000 at the end of .last year. A portion of the Lancers' .:gate receipts is returned to the Arena Board. The moneyy remaining in, the club s account will be used to pay : the rent on storage forthe team sweaters. .Hill said it is a shame' the club has folded, because he estimates .in the nexttwo years there will be between 10 and 15 players from the .Lucknow Juveniles or coining back from. Junior C who will have no place to play: OHA is ath' re good class of.hockey and. P only one in 10 players will take the year to learn how to play intermediate hockey, noted Hill. He said most players are unwilling to sit on the bench . their first year and , learn how' to play the game In this league: Top Quality Hockey Hill said the' quality of . hockey and the calibre of players inthe league' is three times as good as when he and Austin started with the team. He said Rased to be a "knock'em• down and pick *em up affair", which he doesn't relish. Hill observed that he received ' personal , satisfaction .playing before a full house .in the . Lucknow arena where` the Lancers drew a good crowd. He said you get a good feeling whenyou can fill' an arena with some consistency. • . The introduction of a WOAA Intermediate • team in Lucknow this season did not affect • • 4 Teri! to page 56 • Cheesefactory ire damage thegrades at Lucknow Central The children of prlmary Heine Albite School held <a Hallowe'en Party at Pinecrest Manor Nurshig Home oon Friday morning., Three of the characters who took part in the costume contest were from the left,. "Snaggle Puss" [Jennifer Cranstonl; "The Doctor!' [gobble Crich) and "Had?' of Laurel and Hardy joy - . [1VIlchael' Schlosiser]. Ttie residents nig ed•the visit from the trick or treaters and the children received a trent before returning to school. The Lucknow Kinetics *Misted with the party which was planned by Plnecrest acti r ty dii eetor, Donna Crich'. [Senthiei Staff Ptioto1 over :I million Damage' is estimated at over 51 million in a fire which destroyed the Pine River Cheese factory October' 26. The Ontario Fire Marsh- all's office is continuing their investigation and the cause of the fire remains • uiide- terniined: t • Approximately 300,000 pounds of cheese were destroyed in the three alarm blaze which was fought by Ripley, Lucknow ' and Kincardine Fire Departments. , Glenn. Martin, manager .of the Pine River Cheese Co-operative, said Monday, the co- operative will be meeting within the month to receive the reports of the damage caused Torn to page 2• OFA prsents annual -brief to cabinet "We have been aware for some time that the Government of Quebec provides their farmers , with a more varied and (generous financial) support program than those prov- ided to the farmers of Ontario. "in Ontario, we have "the natural advantage of better soil and climate...Ont- ariofarmers are as well. if not better, trained- and skilled in their craft as Quebec farmers. "The question then arises, why, in 1980., did Quebec farmers have an increase in realized net income of approximately 2.3 per, cent, while Ontario farmers had a decrease. in realized net income of 23 per . cent?" This 'is an excerpt from the Ontario Federation of Agriculture's annual brief to Premier Bill Davis and. his cabinet. Besides looking at interest rates, the brief studies the lack of a good food strategy in Ontario, and the need for a policy to protect the farmers' right to farm. There is a detailed study of the inequitable hydro rates to rural customers, and an analysis of the meagre budget the province allocates to the .im:portant industry of farming. The brief will be presented: Wednesday, October 28. 1981.