The Lucknow Sentinel, 1986-02-05, Page 1BEST ALL BO1i[di'®:,COM MUN1TY
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Program to
keep kids
out of trouble
By James Friel
Lucknow Central Public School is one of
three Bruce County elementary schools
participating in a pilot program designed to
help students recognize potentially harm-
ful situations. ,
"We're talking about a lot of things,
really, that sometimes we don't talk
about," said Carl Bailey, a teacher at the
school.
The program currently underway is
called VIP, which stands for Values,
Influences and Peers. The board of educa-
tion's guidance office is working in con-
junction with the Ontario Provincial Police
(OPP) and, in Lucknow, the Kinsmen Club
to stage the course.
Some of the subjects examined over the
course of the program include, From
Values to Standards, Creating Impres-
sions, Belittling Others and Peer Pressure.
"It's basically for the kids to say no to
situations that could get them in trouble,"
said Bailey.
The course, which the Lucknovv school
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plans to run over a six month period
although it can be done within three to four
months, is aimed at Grades 5 and 6.
"In Grade 5 and 6 they're at perhaps
their most impressionable age," said
Bailey.
The program started in Eastern Ontario
and has been subsequently adopted by
various boards of education "so it's going
to be done throughout Ontario."
Tony Lloyd, the community services
officer with the Walkerton OPP is as
enthusiastic about the program as Bailey.
He finds his more regular presence at the
school makes students more comfortable.
"I do the schools as part of my job as
community services officer. Because I've
• been coming to this school . more • than
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Instructors hope to give students VIP pins at gradua-
Waterwell;..
The Lucknow and District Agricultural Society elected its new
executive at its annual meeting Jan. 21 at the Lucknow United
Church. This year's committee are, front row, Left to right, Allan
Miller, Archie Purdon, Ross . Errington, Bruce Skillen, Elaine
Errington and Leo Murray. In the back row are: Lloyd Morrison,
Lorne Hackett, Murray Irvin, Ken Mewhlnney, Norris Messenger
and Don Bell. Absent are Ian Clarke and Norm Bolt.
(James Friel photo)
mrsinasne
By Jaines :Friel
"There's nothingathe matter with a good
repair job, said Councillor Ab Murray,
summing up council's decision to make
only needed repairs on one of the well
pumps supplying the village with water.
Town foreman Gary Austin informed
council at the January council meeting
that, in accordance with a maintenance
schedule set out by council, the pump in
well no. 4, one of the village's two wells
had been inspected. Council directed the
pumps on both wells be inspected every
seven years.
inspected. Council directed the pumps on
both wells be inspected every seven years.
"The outside casing threads are worn
and the coupling is rotted off," said
Austin. He noted that the shaft in the well
had been replaced in 1977 after the
previous one had been in use since 1959.
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No line needed if efficiency practised:FoodIand Hydro Committee
By Stephanie Levesque
If Ontario Hydro practises energy
efficiency there's no need for the $432
million transmission line it proposes to
build out of Bruce Nuclear Power Devel-
opment (BNPD).
The Foodland Hydro committee, a
group of about 1200 landowners from
Southwestern Ontario and Energy
Probe of Toronto want to prove the
proposal to get power out of I3NPD isn't
necessary.
"We want to question whether there
is a need to build," said Foodland
Hydro representative Tony McQuail of
RR 1 Lucknow.
The joint hearings board, chaired by
R. B. Eisen, is listening to evidence on
Ontario Hydro's proposal to construct
transmission lines from Bruce to Essa
(near Barrie), from Bruce to London
through Huron County and frotin London
to the Nanticoke generating station on
Lake Erie.
Both Energy Probe and the Foodland
Hydro committee are bringing in some
heavyweights to back up their state-
ments. The two groups presented their
direct evidence on Day 24' (Jan. 23) of
the hearings being held at a hotel in
Guelph.
Amory Lovins, an energy consultant
frdtn Colorado, was the first witness
called to testify for the anti -transmis-
sion line group.
Lovins demonstrated that an I8 -watt
compact fluorescent light bulb could cut
the use of hydro power by half. The
American energy consultant said these
bulbs sell for about $15 in, the United
States, not easy to find in ,Canada, are
four times as' efficient and last 10 times
longer than standard incandescent
bulbs. He said that in the U.S. regular
incandescent bulbs use about 42 per
cent of all lighting eiectricity.
However, after some sheepish grins,
Lovins changed some of his calcula-
tions. A mistake in his figures made
Lovins concede that Hydro would save a
fifth, not a half, the power it produces
yearly.
In his testimony, Lovins said Ontario
Hydro should take advantage of local
electricty generation. This is available
in two forms in Ontario - co -generation
in industry or small hydro -electric
power plants.
The energy -consultant ,said local
generation stations will reduce the need
for the large centralized system most
, utilities have now,
The America x ,also cautioned that
hydro cufot04in his' 'country are
working so hard to 'save energy, that
there wilt be no market for Ontario
Hydro's electricity export. He also
predicted that efficiency would enable
the utility to back out .of coal -bunting
generating stations first the 'nuclear.
But Hydro and the provincial board of
inquiry looking into the proposal ques-
tioned how the bottled up power would
get out of the Bruce station:
'If 'this board turned down this
proposal, Ontario Hydro could get to
efficiency load management, and con-
centrate their minds wonderfully,"
Lovins told the board.
Besides Lovins, the Foodland Hydro
committee plans to bring in Dr. John
Robinson of the University of Guelph, a
load forecast specialist and Michael
Rau, plant manager of the Huron
County Board of Education. McQuail
says Rau has developed energy savings
methods.
The hearings are expected to con-
tinue in Guelph through February.
After that they will move to London,
Sirncoe, Markdale and Clinton. The.
hearings are eitpected. to bit Clinton on
Apr. 1S.
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