The Lucknow Sentinel, 1978-07-26, Page 27Lucknow Sentinel, Wednesday, July 26, 1978 --Page 27
Workshop discusses use of wind generated power
The Energy Conservation
Centre of Lucknow, last
week, conducted a Wind
Energy Workshop, in their
Lucknow office, where the
historical importance of the
wind generator in Holland's
industrialization and its pot-
ential useage in Southwest-
ern Ontario, was discussed.
John Siecker, of St. Helens
and a member of .the
Lucknow E.C.C., gave a slide
presentation and discussion
on Holland's windmills. The
first wind drive law was
passed in 1210 and with
every improvement and new
development more laws were
passed to ensure that the
growth and potential of their
windmills continued. Siecker
explained, that of the 10,000
windmills built in Holland
that 1,000 are still standing
and the majority of these are
still used for their original
purpose.
Probably the horizontal
a is windmill, (like the Dutch
windmill) is the most familiar
in this area and can be seen
throughout the country side
pumping water. Tony Mc-
Qail, of the, E.C.C., pointed
out the wind generator that
was on display in the
Lucknow Centre saying,
"Thirty years ago this gener-
ator provided the electrical
power for aradio. And this is
where wind generators come
into their own, providing
electricity -when you are far
away from existing power
lines. It may cost you less
than to have the lines
Bruce County Archives
The Bruce County Histor-
ical Society has received a
New Horizons Grant to set up
an Archives in Southampton
in the three rooms designat-
ed for it in the Bruce County
Museum and volunteers are
hard at work sorting through
the material that has been
collected over the last several
years.
The Archives will be a
repository for records of
Bruce County for research
use and will include textual,
cartographic and pictorial
material' as well as public or
private manuscripts deemed
worthy of preservation. Cur-
rent information will also be
collected and there is a
reading room where the
public may come and re-
search whatever subject per-
taining to Bruce County they
are interested in.
New Horizons offers
grants to groups of retired
people, who will undertake
activities forthe benefit of
themselves and others in the
community and each project
consists of at least ten volun-
teers who will serve as the
project directors, the major-
ity of whom must be retired.
In addition to the direct -
Finnigan
ors, a wide range of people
may volunteer to help with
the project but generally
most of these participants
should be retired people who
can put their talents, exper-
ience and energies to work.
Directors for the Bruce
County Archives Project are:
Mr. William Collins, Kincar-
dine; Mr. and Mrs. James
McClure, Chesley; Mr. Rob-
ert Courtney, Ripley; Mrs.
George Downey, Tiverton;
Mrs. Earl Ferris, Cargill;
Mr. John Sim, Tara; Mrs.
Hugh McIntyre, Elmwood;
Mr. Pharis Mathers, Luck -
now; and Mr. Murray Tel-
ford, Oliphant. The Project
director is Mrs. Sheila Gatis,
Wiarton.
The Archives would be
glad to receive \ any printed
material that reflects the
history of Bruce County,
everything from old post
cards and pictures of people,
places and things, to family
histories, maps, and scrap
books.
At the moment the Archiv-
es rooms of the Museum are
open Monday, Wednesday,
and Friday from 10 until 4
when volunteers are most
welcome. Come in and see
what's happening.
clan reunion
The 20th reunion of the
Finnigan clan was held
on July 9 in the
Dungannon hall with
around 70 family
members present.
After a bountiful
smorgasbord dinner,
Chester Finnigan, vice-
president, extended a
warm welcome to all.
Greetings were read
from Hilda Finnigan of
Toronto, .the Moore
Finnigans of Kingston,
the Gordon Reids of
Amherst Island, and the
John Purdys of Michigan,
who were unable to at-
tend.
A minute's s i;ence was
observed to honour
family members who had
passed away during the
year.
President for next year
is Chester Finnigan;
vice-president is Everett
Finnigan; secretary -
treasurers are Ethel and
Harold Finnigan; games
Committee - Carol and.
Jim Brisbit► and Karen
and Michael Finnigan
and lunch committee •
Arnie and Kitchener and
Elrr ira and Gordon
Finnigan.
The executive is to
choose a location for the
1979 picnic to be held the
second Sunday in July.
Games were held for
the young conducted by
Karen and Michael
Finnigan.
Oldest lady present was
Violet Elgie; grand-
mother with the most
grandchildren at the
picnic was Nora Fin-
nigan;
in-nigan; and the youngest
child present was
Bradley Finnigan.
A prize was given for
the persons who had been
most active in tracing the
family tree. They were -
Jim Brisbin and Lloyd
Finnigan.
Old, photos were on
display and caused a lot
of interest and fond
memories.
Relatives were present
from Windsor,. Cam --
bridge, Burlington,
London, Toronto,
Pickering, Caledon,
Wingham,. Seaforth,
Etobicoke, Lucknow,
Goderich and Dungan-
non. non.
brought in." MeQuail ex-
plained that this area is in,
"the best high speed wind
regime in Ontario". He also
feels that right now the most
economical use of wind
power is the way it has been
used in the past - for
pumping water. But, McQail
also. feels that, "we should
be collecting data now, the
information will be needed".
It is quite possible, according
to McQuail, that wind gener-
ated power will become
valuable electricity to be fed
into the Hydro grid during
the peak usage time.
McQuail is currently ne-
gotiating with Ontario Hydro
to monitor and evaluate the
effectiveness of his proposed
wind generator that he hopes
Obituary
BESSIE E. EMERSON
Mrs. Bessie Elizabeth Em-
erson (nee Sterling) died at
Hillcrest Place, Brandon,
Manitoba, May 19th, 1978.
Mrs. Emerson was born in
Bruce County, . at Bervie,
Ontario, on September 10th,
1892. She grew up on her
parents' farm, receiving her
education in the Bervie
district. On February 24th,
1914 at Hamiota, Manitoba
she married Robert Gordon
Emerson. The couple farmed
in the Hamiota district until
1949 whenthey retired to the
town of Hamiota. In 1973,
the couple moved to Bran-
don.
Mrs. Emerson is survived
by her husband, Gordon, of
Brandon; one son, Elton, and
his wife, . Rita, of Rivers,
Manitoba; three daughters
and their husbands, Lily,
Mrs. Russell Bushell, of
Holyrood, Ontario; Eleanor,
Mrs. A. Peirson, of Kenora,
Ontario;, Betty, Mrs. B.
Millar, of Minnedosa. Two
sisters also survive,: Mrs.
Jack Dahmer of Kincardine,
Ontario and Lila Sterling of
London, Ontario.
She was predeceased by
one son, Robert Bruce, in
1968, one brother, Lawrence
Sterling, Kincardine, Ontario
and one sister, Mrs. Wes
Thompson of Kincardine,
Ontario.
Also, there are eighteen
grandchildren, six great
grandchildren and one great
great grandchild who sur-
vive.
Rev. E. V. (Buddy) Myers
officiated at the funeral
service held in Hamiota
Pentecostal Church on May
22, 1978.
Interment was in Hamiota
Cemetery.
Pallbearers were R. Rid-
dell, Bill Rutherford, Jimmy
Emerson, Donald Roberts,
Wayne Scarrow and Mervyn
Pedlow.
(The Hamiota Echo)
Whitechurch
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and Mrs. Neil Rintoul of
West Wawanosh on the
arrival of a baby boy at
Wingham Hospital, Monday,
July 24, 1978. A brother for
Steven and Scott.
will be hooked into Hydro's
grid with a synchronous
inverter. He advised those
attending the workshop,
mnimilmunnimmommi
"Before you invest time,
money and energy in a wind
generator, know your pres-
ent electrical consumption.
This way, you will know if it
is, economically feasible.
Conserve your energy wisel-
ly.
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