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The Lucknow Sentinel, 1987-03-25, Page 1ESTABLISHED IN 1873 "THE SEPOY TOWN" ON THE HURON -BRUCE BOUNDARY WednesdaYt M well 251,19$7 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. • 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 Turn to page 6 • 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 Turn to page 8 Principal, community leader dies in hospital at age 70 . • • 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 Turn to page 2 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 .Turn to page 6 • "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.