The Lucknow Sentinel, 1987-03-25, Page 1ESTABLISHED IN 1873
"THE SEPOY TOWN" ON THE
HURON -BRUCE BOUNDARY
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One of Lucknow's most distinguished citizens, Stuart Collyer died on March 17 at the age
of 70. He served as the principal of the Lucknow Public School for 26 years as well as an
active member of the Lucknow United CHurch, Lions Club, Masonic Lodge, Legion, Lucknow
Fire Department and the Boy Scouts.
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Council to hold
Lucknow council discussed a number of
suggestions for Government Week from
April 13 to 17 at their March council
meeting.
Reeve Herb Clark's suggestion of having
an Open House at the Town Hall with all
the . members of council present was
adopted by council, although no date for.
the event was set at the meeting. Coffee
and donuts will also be made available at
the open house.
In other business, Marilyn Murray,
representing the newly -opened Play
School at the former Kinloss Central
School, attended the meeting. She asked
for a grant from the village of Lucknow to
defray the cost of insurance for the play
school.
She explained that the school currently
has 17 pre-school children attending the
school one morning per week. The parents
of the children work at the school on a
volunteer basis.
open house
Council responded that it would discuss
the matter and inform her of its decision.
Council received an application for the
Experience '87 program from the provin-
cial Ministry of Citizenship and Culture.
Under this program, which will provide a
75 per cent subsidy for hiring student
workers from June to September, council
hopes to hire two students to work for the
village doing jobs such as cutting grass.
The deadline for the program is April 7.
Council received a letter from A. Joe
Legrand of Campbell Street in Lucknow
concerning a problem with drainage on his
property. Council motioned Reeve Herb
Clark and Councillor John McLeod will in-
vestigate the matter.,
Councilreceived a letter from Dale
Wilson of Heritage Ontario concerning a
new heritage grant program whoich would
raise yearly grants for heritage restora-
tion grants from $2.000 to 1;3.000. The
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Citizens support ,finding new bank
A public meeting in Ripley Monday night
voted in favour of establishing a committee
to solicit an alternative financial institution
for the village. The secret ballot resulted in
73 supporting the motion made by Jim
McTavish and seconded by Ron Nicholson.
Eighteen voted against the motion.
The vote in favour of looking into the
possibility of luring a Credit Union or Trust
Company to the village followed ardent
assurances by Royal Bank officials Mar. 6
that twinning the Ripley branch with the
Kincardine branch of the Royal bank would
not result in a loss of service or the closure
of the -bank in Ripley.
The twinning process will see current
Ripley bank manager Wayne Watson
operate out of Kincardine overseeing the
Ripley agricultural accounts. He will visit
Ripley by appointment to meet with people
seeking agricultural bank loans. Other loans
however, will be handled by various account
managers in the Kincardine branch.
Glenn Grubb, who chaired the meeting,
said many people don't believe the bank's
assurance that the bank will remain in
Ripley as long as the people of the area sup-
port the bank. He said the bank would close
the doors now but they would lose 100 per
cent of their customers.
"Instead they're phasing things out slow-
ly. They'll get people used to going to Kin-
cardine for their banking needs and they
won't lose customers when they `'decide to
close the bank," said Mr. Grubb, who is
manager of the Huron - Kinloss Telephone
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Principal, community leader
dies in hospital at age 70
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Stuart Earl Collyer, a resident of the
Lucknow community since early childhood
• and principal of the Lucknow Public
School for 26 years, died Tuesday, March
17 at St. Joseph's Hospital in London where
he had been a patient for about two mon-
ths. He was 70 years of age. Death was due
to kidney failure.
He was tho. son of the late Joseph Collyer
and Sarff and was born in.
Thurso, Quebec, on July 28, 1916. He came
to Lucknow with his parents as a young
boy and attended Lucknow Public School
and Lucknow Continuation School. Follow-
ing graduation from High School, he was
employed for three years as a salesman
for William Hornell in what was known as
the Market Store, a dry goods and variety
store in Lucknow.
In 1938, Stuart attended Stratford Nor-
mal School where he obtained his teaching
certificate, first teaching school at S.S. 9,
Kincardine Township, near Bervie, later
moving to Westwood in Peterborough
County where he taught for two years.
In 1939, in Peterborough, he was united
in marriage to the former Kathleen Thom
of St. Helens in West Wawanosh Township.
In 1942, he enlisted in the Royal Cana-
dian Air Force and received air crew
training in Western Canada at Brandon,
Saskatoon and Dafoe, graduating from
Portage La Prairie, Manitoba as a com-
missioned officer. For several months, he
was an air crew instructor at Jarvis, On-
tario before being posted overseas with the
Six Group Bomber Command at
Skiptonon-Swale in Yorkshire, England.
Following his discharge from the Air
Force in 1946, he returned to his teaching
profession at S.S. No. 7, Kinloss Township,
the 2nd concession of Kinloss and later at
Victoria Public School, Tecumseh.
In 1951, Mr. Collyer was engaged as prin-
cipal of Lucknow Public School, suc-
ceeding John' D. Ross. He remained as
principal for the next 26 years and had a
profound influence on the education of
many hundredsof young people who were
educated in Lucknow. He demonstrated
his ability to work effectively with young
people, with his teaching staffs and with
all who found themselves associated with
the school and its activities, a very focal
point of the community in those days. He
retired in June of 1977, 10 years ago, at the
age of 60, and was succeeded by Charles
Davies. During Mr. Collyer's term as prin-
cipal he secured a Bachelor of Arts degree
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Building permits up in Kinloss
. The Council for the Township of Kinloss
met on March 9, 1987 in the Township of-
fice, reeve Barry Johnston and all council
members were present. Council commenc-
ed at 10:00 a.m. and adjourned at 4:30 p.m.
Tenders are to be advertised for
crushing, hauling and spreading approx-
imately 34,000 cubic hards of "A" gravel
on township roads and for supplying and
spreading crushed gravel on ratepayer's
private roads; for loading, hauling and
spreading approximately 25,000 cubic
yards of pit run gravel on Township roads; •
for supplying and applying approximately
140 flake tonnes of calcium chloride to be
delivered at the road superintendent's
discretion; all tenders to be in the road
superintendent's office by 5 p.m. on Fri-
day, April 3, 1987.
The road superintendent is instructed to
advertise for quotations on heavy
machinery and truck rental for 1987,
quotations to be in his office by 5:00 p.m.
on Friday, April 3, 1987.
A motion was passed authorizing the
donation of $375 to the Wingham and
District Association for the Mentally
Retarded and for $100 to the Lucknow
District Agricultural Society. Both dona-
tions are the same as those for 1986.
Twenty-eight building permit applica-
Bicycles left
- at B and E
Two bicycles left behind during a recent
break and enter at the Lucknow Co-
operative south of Lucknow could help
police locate the offenders, said Constable
Andy Burgess of the Kincardine OPP.
Mr. Burgess said the break and enter oc-
curred March 21 at approximately 4:15
a.m. He said the culprits must have been
scared off when the alarm went off, leav-
ing their bicycles behind.
One bike is described as a men's white
Supercyle "Medalist" 10 -speed while the
other bike is a boys black Raleigh model
"Tracker MX".
Anyone aware of the identity of the
owners of these bicycles should contact
either the Kincardine or Goderich OPP.
tions were issued in 1986 for a total permit
value of $295,000.00 compared with 25
building permit applications issued for
1985 with a permit value of $256,100.00.
The road budget for 1987 was adopted as
presented by the road superintendent in
the amount of $517,200.00. Included in the
budget is a 50 per cent carryover for the
new grader of $68,000.00. Also included in
the budget is $2,000 for repairs to the
garage roof, $30,000 for a storage shed for
machinery, salt and sand and $5,000 for the
heating system.
An agreement was signed with the
Holyrood Playschool for the use of one of
the rooms, the gym and the grounds of the
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"No Stars"
Congratulations to the Ripley "No
Stars" hockey team who took the con-
solation championship at the World Cup
International Old Timer's tournament in
Montreal last week. Not only did they
bring home the silverware but $10,000 as
well. SEE PAGE 6.
__. Pee Wees
Congratulations also to the Lucknow
Pee Wee team who came so close to
bringing home the D championship in the
Young Canada Week in Goderich.
Column
In this week's Sentinel, the results of
the paper's recent readership are ex-
plored in the editor's column. SEE PAGE
4.
Memoirs
70 years ago, a controversy raged on
Lucknow Village Council over the hiring
of a new village constable. Two coun-
cillors even resigned over the matter.
SEE PAGE 4.