The Lucknow Sentinel, 1998-02-18, Page 5Roiicali proves to
be .educational too
Elaine Errington hosted
the February meeting of
the St, Helen's Women's
Institute at.her home last
week. This, meeting: was
on public relations.
Muriel Moffat acted on
,behalf of the president.
Rollcall was answered
with :the. 13 members
using an unusual word in a.
sentence and explaining
its meaning. Everyone
learned some new words.
Communication from
• the president told .about
'the interesting, workshops.
taking place 'at the`
Conference in Belleville
in. July. A `video of the
100th anniversary of WI
can be obtained from Lois
Elliott. A Slice of Huron
takes place in Seaforth in.
Ancil, and the St. Helen's
_. group will be taking part:
The group has been
Children's Hespital. ice
storm relief in Ottawa end
Quebec, and to the
Lucknow Fall Fair. The
theme for the group's dis-
play at the fall this year -
will be Autumn Fantasy.
The pot luck supper, to
raise funds for the light
fund, will•take place on
March 27 with group two
in charge.`The ladies will
eater to the Lions May
- meeting.
Mrs. Errington had the
topic speaking on volun-
teer hours..Each member •
is asked to keep track of
their hours and tell Elaine.
She also read an artiele on
Public Relations Officers
.asked to have :homemade and one an • Priorities.
gifts for a booth -at the , Other. ,readings were
,1999 ' International • Oysters frour•Florence
•• Plowing .match . near •McConnell and Friendship
Dashwood. They are ask-. . Quilt from Muriel. Moffat.
ing.for 168 gifts divided, Happy birthday was
petween the six WI's, with sung. to Helen Todd and
• a -value' of.$8 to $10. This Caroline Menary..Florence
will he discussed more at. .McConnell and Norma. •
another meeting, • Raynard served a lovely
Donations.. of $25' will lunch:
be Made to the Miracle. (submitted by Elaine
Network telethon for • Errington)
- Mrs.
hosts
ameron
Euphemia Cameron
welcomed. the Members of
the Lucknow Presbyterian
WMS 'to the, Glenn Haven
Apartments for their.meet-
ing an Feb.. 11. :.
Joanne Lennips was in
charge of•the program and
welcomed • .everyone
including Some of the.resi- •
dent's of the apartment
building..She opened .with
a poem "Rejoice;" and
praiyer;
' Shirley 'Hawthorne led
in ,the devotions reading
scriptures'from ° 2nd -
Samuel, :6. :16 - 22• and
Matthew it:. 16 - 20. Her
mediation, w'as' :on the
hymn "The Lord of :the
Dance; using art article
written by Gwyneth
Whil>;n>.ith, talking about •
the joy •yore should find in
• serving the:Lord:
Joanne led in the offer-
tory: prayer. .
.The, rollcall. was•
answered with 'a Bible
v•erse on love.
For her topic Mildred
`Loree `told the 'story of,
several Well, : known
'hymns,their-authors and
some of the 'circumstances
when they were written.
Donalda tvloffatplayed the
,accompaniment and .we
sang. some of them. •
Grace: Gammie made
arrangements for the vari-
ety number, a tape of
Elton John singing
"Candle in the .Wind" end -
One of the other hymns
sung at Princess Dianas
funeral,
Shirley Hawthorne, °.
brought' highlights from_
the Presbyterial Executive
meeting and..mentioned
some •upeon itig dates and.
programs,
,Following. the closing
hymn Joanne react poem
Alice ,Taylor and Joyce
Johnstone served lunch to
'everyone'presettt, ending
tip with:pink ice cream.
cones 'and little baskets of
Valentine treats
(Submitted by:. M'rldsed
Loree):
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Nre
1
heir bes
Pre -tykes
Winghamcould do n
wrong when they conic td
Lucknow on Saturday.
Garrett .Meths made some
great.saves in net for
Lucknow. A great, game
• was, played by.. Grant
Alton, Marlee` Alton and
Tanner Simpson:
Final score Wingham 8,
Lucknow 2, with goals by
Brandon' Howald , and
Nathan McMurray, and .
'Howald, picking. up 'an
Assist.
Luekno
$neath*el, WetinieS4a ¢, F'elituary t8,1998 - rage 5.,
What do you think of '
when you l�ok at these pictures:
'Huge, high voliage towers footed like
thud melted under the weight of theioe:
Ark it was as if a giant hocl trampled the
fermis and the power lines
IN military was wonderful: They did `
a.let of the hardest work and they never .
complained. Yeu could say the same thing
obout the police and firefighters.— dlf'
the people involved. Things were tough...
and people ropily pulled together.°
• lityou luskwk d at the ice, it was almost pretty.
4I0yost reatetbered that there were about 120,000
Wpm*. fomites who:had no power. if you looked -.
'around et night, it was oboist surreal. Where we'd been,
Would see light. But you looked ahead into totui
dwknsss—so you aanl<ed•up the tnrdi sawed fotwatt
•
'•'We were working 14.hour days. kid even the workers`
iron Thunder Bay.oid Mamtoho said it was. the oddest
they'd ever been: You couldn't,help but miss your home
' and family, but it was too cold to waste time. People
'needed their power bad( ori."
You might want to; tear out : this page to help you remember
how the whole community worked. together during the Great
Ice Storm of 1998..
There were thousands,ofpeople workingin the cold in a sort
of war against the darkness 'and'the cold that followed • the
ice Storm • Soldiers; Police. officers and firefighters:. Family,
memlers.help jig each other Neighbours helping neighbors:
Volutteers.
Ontario's Power Workers were •there, too alongwith
skilled' workers: froth other ittilities• and, unions. We rebuilt
,.the electrical`d•istribution: sy`stern.— pole by pole and concession
road'by oonce;sion road And other Power Workers organized -
the work, tmakirig sure we had the equipment and supplies.:..
we needed to "do the job. •
Bythe time we had power back on for everyone, we'd
used almost 85,000 insulator's, 12,000 new poles, 2,000
transformers and almost .3;000: kilometres of wire and cable
And we.got the lights bock on
For more photos, visit our we de et http://www.pwa.ca
►r The people part of Hydro
Telephone: 1-800958.8798 Fox., (41 b). 481-7115
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