The Lucknow Sentinel, 1982-08-11, Page 1•
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Published In Lucknow, Ontario' Wednesday, August 11, 1982
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Lucknow lawyer
remanded
• Lucknow Lawyer Robert Campbell was
remanded in provincial court Goderich on
Monday until October 18 for a preliminary •
inquiry.
This was Campbell's fifth appearance in
court since being charged with one count of
theft and one count of uttering a forged
document inq4arch, following a lengthy
investigation 'by the Ontario Provincial
Police.
Intermediates
tz.ter playoffs
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Lucknow Legion Intermediates, after
playing some excellent ball, winning seven
straight games and 10 games out of the last
12, finished one of their most successful
regular season schedules.
• They entered into a best of five quarter-
final series against Allenford, Sunday, ,
August 8 and came up flat in all areas. losing
6 - 2. Thesecond game will be played
Wednesday, August 11 in ,Allenford.
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home games of the 'series. The team also
plans to attend the annual Deep River
tournament which .they have won two years
in a row.
• A mite boys baseball team has been
organized, managed by Doug Stevenson and
Ray Cranston. Team ti`Ifi orms have been
supplied by the Lucknow Legion and equip-
• ment was purchased by the Lucknow Kin-
ettes. •
the 'boys have finished their season
schedule with a 6- 3 record and will enter a
two day WOAA playoff tournament to decide
the season champs.
' T -ball action continues at the school
diamond on Wednesday nights and the older
boys age 11 and up are practicing at the ball
park to prepare for exhibition games before
the season ends.
• Extinguishfire
• Lucknow firemen answered three calls this
• week including a call to the Lucknow Sales
• Barn.
Firemen were called Wednesday, night to
the Sales Barn when a fire started in the
• office wall spreading to the 'Ceiling. They
• were able to Wing the fire under, control but
considerable damage resulted to the office
area of the building.
• On. Saturday night firemen answered a call
to the first concession of West Wawanosh in
• the Nile area where a truck load of grain
caught- fire on the farm of Jim Hickey:
• Firemen were radioed that the fire had been
• put out by people at the scene while on their
• way to the fire and they returned to base.
On Tuesday, August 3, firemen rushed to
the station to discoverlightening during the
thunder storm had triggered the siren
causing a false alarm.
Fire Chief ,George Whitby commented a
page system would eliminate such false
alarms and indicated he submitted a
propoial in his budget to the four munici-
palities served by the Lucknow Fire Depart:
ment in the spring, suggesting they look at a
page system for. the department. Whitby
• said he suggested the system be phased in
over a period of time with the first phase
costing each municipality fibout 5600. Fire
chief Whitby said he has not been contacted
by any of the municipalities regarding the
• page system. None have acknowledged his
proposai.
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The official opening of the Elizabeth McKim Brownie House at Camp
Keewaydin was held Friday evening when the Brownie Blouse,
aysdale Senior Staff Building and Taffy's Place, the 'junior staff
building, were officially named and dedicated., Shown cutting the
ribbon to open the Elizabeth McKim Brownie HOuse.nre from the left,
• Mapiesvay Area Commissioner, Nancy J. MacLennan, Mazy [McKim]
Graham of Toronto, Mrs. McKlm's daughter and George McCague,
M.P.P. representing the Mhdstry of Culiure and Recreation. The
, three Brownies who assisted hicluded Nancy Torginson of Stratford,
Melissa Meaford of Stratford and Kristen McNaughton of Kipton.
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Open Elizabeth McKim Brownie House
• The official opening and • dedication
ceremonies of the Eli"zabeth McKim Brownie
House were held at Camp Keewaydin on
Friday evening.
Clydesdale House, the senior staff build-
ing and Taffy's Place, the junior staff
building were also named and dedicated at
the ceremonies attended by representatives
• of the Ontario Council for Girl Guides Of.
Canada, the Mapleway Area Council, and
the Keewaydin Campsite Committee. Also
in attendance were Brownies, Guides and
Guiders who are attending the cantp this
summer, local Brownies, Guides,, Pathfind-
• ers, Rangers and Cadets, Junior Leaders,
Guiders and former Brownies and Guides
who have camped at Camp Keewaydin.
The late Elizabeth McKim organized the
Lucknow Brownie Company in 1923 and
served for over 50 years in local, provincial
and national guide work. She served as
• • captain of the Lucknow Brownies for many
• years and as District Commissioner. While
serving in this capacity, she was awarded
, the Medal of Merit in 1945. At the provincial
level, she, was lone Commissioner, Camp
Commissioner and International Commis-
sioner. She was instrumental in developing
the Doe Lake Camp and locally, Camp
•Keewaydin. In 1958, she was awarded the
Beaver Award for her outstanding service to
the Girl Guide movement.
Master of Ceremonies Nancy J. MacLen-
nan, Mapleway Area Commissioner, intro-
duced Reverend Robert J. Crocker of
Goderich who gave the invocation, Mrs. A.
B. Obrien, Deputy Provincial Commissioner,
The Ontario Council, Girl Guides of Canada,
George McCague MPP, .representing the
Ministry of Culture and Recreation, as well
as Murray Elston, Wingham, Huron -Bruce
MPP, who ,brought greetings.
Donald Mitchel of Mitchel Construction
Co. Ltd. presented the key to the ,Brownie
House to L. Pat Haraldsen of Port Elgin,
Keewaydin Campsite Chairman. Beverley
Thompson of Lucknow, Beaver Division
Commissioner presented a clock to hang in
Brownie House to Carol Farrell, Area Camp
Co-ordinator.
The ribbon cutting ceremony was 'con-
ducted by Mary (McKim) Graham of
Toronto, daughter of the late Elizabeth
McKim and George McCague MPP assisted
by Brownies, Nancy Torginson, Stratford,.
Melissa Meaford, Stratford and Kristen
McNaughton of Kipton. •
• Also in attendance was Betty •"Taffy"
Connell of Galt, a former Area Camp Advis-
• or for Camp Keewaydin, who unveiled a pla-
que to officially name the junior staff.build-
ing, "Taffy's Place". •
Mrs. Connell was the Camp Director for
Camp Keewaydin for many years and stayed
at the camp full time during the summer
months. She continued in her role as Camp
Directof until 1974.
The site for Camp Keewaydin was chosen
by Mrs. K. B. Clysdale of St. Marys, the
Area Commissioner, Mrs. McKim who was
Provincial Camp Commissioner and •Miss
Xenia Knechtel of Hanover.
• Mrs. Clysdale, former National Chief
Commissioner, served as quarter master in
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eport good sales at craft festival
Lucknow Agricultural Society sponsored
their 12th successful Craft Festival on July
30 and 31. There was a very definite increase.
in attendance for the two day event.
On July 29 the committee members met to
mark out the stalls, set up table and chairs
and hook up hydro for the various exhibitors.
• From 3 p.m. Thursday until evening a
number of exhibitors took advantage of ,the
extra day to set up their display. •
By noon on Friday all 70 exhibitors were
ready to sell their crafts. The committee
members feel that quality is more important
than quantity.•
Many exhibitors reported good sales.
Comments included, "very good show",
"excellent set up - especially down the
centre aisle with the four foot backdrop",
"very friendly people", "glad to be able to
drive vehicle into arena to unload", "not too
crowded".
Meals were served by the Kairshea
Women's Institute on Friday and by the
Lucknow Agricultural , Society on Saturday.
• Miss Lucknow Fall' Fair, Paula Murray,
made the draws for the major draw at 4 p.m.
on Saturday.
Winners were first, Mrs, Jim Hallam,
Lucknow, who won a one-half dressed
market pig; second, Mrs. Ida Patterson,
Harriston (wife of District Director of District
# 10 Ontario Agricultural Societies), who
won a $50.00 voucher at Bain's Groceteria;
third, Mrs. Rita Howard, R. 1 Lucknow, who
won a 550.00 voucher from Fairview Foods.
The exhibitors were very generous and
donated a total of 42 prizes for the free
draws,