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By The Sentine
Attention
correspondents
The. Sentinel office will .be closed
on Monday, July 2 for Canada Day.
As a result the staff will have only
one day to publish .the paper next
week. It would be appreciated If all
correspondents could submit as
• much of their news on Friday as
possible to alleviate the situation on
Tuesday.'
Kindergarten
graduates
Locknow, Kindergarten .graduates.
held their graduation assemblies on,
June 19 and 20. The little scholars
received their diplomas from Prin-
cipal Charles Davies as they prepare
to enter school full time in grade one.
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Summerfest
results
• Summerfest activities carried on
despite the cold weather last week-
end. The iJaseball tournament report •
and winners in the Soap Box Derby,
Bed Races and Car Show appear on
pages 12 and 13.
Tommy Gilmore, 11, Lueknow, won the
Canadian Boys Baton -Twirling Champion-
ship in Thornhill on Sunday for the fourth
straight year.
Competing in the boys category age 11
14 against two other entrants, Tommy
achieved 157.8 points of a possible 200. His
competitors, accululated 156.5 and 154.7
points in the competition.
The three day competition, June,22 24,.,
was held , at , the Thornhill Community
Centre. '
Prior to winning the Canadian champ-
ionship, Tommy won four other champion-
ships this spring. He was first in the City of
Guelph competition ono May 22. He also
won two major championships besides the
Canadian; the Central Canada Champion-
ship in Kitchener June 12 and the Ontario
Championship in Etobicoke on May 19.
Tommy is now eligible to represent
'Canada in the American championships in.
Indiana next month because he has won
three major championships.
Be is the son of Art and Rita Gilmore,
Lucknow.
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'Elizabeth Gower is !'house mother" to
the ten residents at Pipe Lodge Rest Home- •
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in Luckiiow. She, with the four ontafrar -
the Lodge, care for the needs—(the ten
senior citizens who make the Lodge their
home, do the housekeeping duties and
provide coMpanionship• .
Mrs. Gower works the six p.m. to 9.a.m.
shift 25 days of the month and- a part-
time staff member takes the shift for the
other five or six" days to—allow Mrs. Gower
one Week of days each. month.
The residents must be self-sufficient to
• live at the Lodge, but some are forgetful
and others cannot see well which means
they Could not live alone. • • '
• She finds the residents are alert how-
ever, and most are active so they find the
days .long.
"There is very little they can do—to keep
themselves occupied," says Mrs. Gower.
Some of the ladies cut yarn into three-inch
• pieces for Mrs. Gower to make into mats.
Others knit and one resident still writes
letters. They like to play cards but they
usually *ant a staff member to play aking
to assist the players who cannot see their
cards. easily. The men spend most of the.
• day watching television and only about
three of the regidents go out for walks.
Mrs. Gower finds it difficult to make
time to spend with the residents: She is
responsible for, bathing those who require
assistance, making the meals, cleaning the
house, washing the clothes and these
duties usually keep her busy. Through the
night she sleeps but must get up with a
residentif one cannot sleep or wants to get
out of bed for some reason.
' Occasionally a group will come to visit
• but usually visitors are relatives or friends
of the individual residents. Mrs. Gower
would like to see a more concentrated
effort by the community to bring entertain-
ment into the Lodge. as several groups do at
• Pinecrest Manor.
Mrs, Gower says she and her staff really
do not have the time to co-ordinate such
activities because their household routine
keeps them so busy. Mts.. Gower often
takes a resident to a doctor's appointment
•'on a day off,
• Last week, June 17 - • 23, was Senior
Citizens' Week in tucknow: Through their
activities co-ordinator, Pinecrest 'Manor
had a week filled with activities which
• included a trip to a .strawberry , patch,
entertaininent programs and visits frotif,
church groups. In contrastr Pine,Lodge had_
no activities planned. ,
The staff at Pine Lodge does not include
an activities co ordinator because the home
is a,pjvate rest home and is not eligible for
govetnment graiiidfdefIiskes
• of such a -staff true-mber. Because there is no
one to contact 'groups in the commtinity to
make arrangements for such activities, the
residents are leftto their own
Wilma Clark is the activities Co-ordinator
• at. Pinecrest Manor, She is in charge of
making the arrangements for all . of ,,the
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weather affects
ummer est attendance
• The cold Weather on Saturday was more.
like November than June. . It wasn't
Summerfest weather and as a result;
attendance was down at the fourth Kin •
Sunimerfest in Lucknow on the, weekend.
• Only .160 attended the beef barbecue on
Saturday evening and 3u0 came t� dance to
Bittersweet in the Community Centre in
the evening. Last year 270 attended the
barbeque .and a capacity crowd of 450
attended the dance.•
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Proceeds "" from the event will be
Weekend theft
an.d breakins
Three breakins in the village over the
weekend resulted in theft of close to $700.
Grain bags were slashed open when
vandals gained access to Anderson Flax
Products b breaking windows. •
• An estimated $255 in equipment and
coins was stolen from Lucknow Machine
Shop when thieves broke in some time on
Saturday or Sunday. They entered through
the south garage door.
Between 2.30 and 7.30 a.tn. on June 24,
thieves entered the Sepoy Restaurant
through a broken window stealing an
estimated $406 of property and causing
about 550 damage. Small amounts of
American money, a calculator, five full
boxes of Schneider's steaks, cigarettes,
chocolate bars and gum, tools and a tool
box were stolen.
No arrests have been made in the
incidents and Kincardine OPP are Con-
tinuing their investigation.
approximately $2 000—
ccor mg to .Sum-
merfest co -:chairman Rod McDonagh. The
money will go. towards the new tennis
courts recently built by the Kinsmen and
Kinette.clibs at VictOria Park.
Gaily decorated beds raced own the
main street on Friday night to open the
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festivities:' The Lucknow Agricultural Soci-
ety won first place in the bed races and
runnersup" were the Dungannon Slo Pitch
team and Lucknow. Leo Club entries.
•On Saturday morning youngsters in their
• soap box derby cars braved "the chill and
raced down the Wheeler Street hill from
Havelock to Inglis Street Tim Becker, Fred
Flanagan, Melissa Bekcer and John Curran
took first place in each of their respective
age cateiories. Melissa was the only girl to
compete in the derby. •
Wingham B. P. Intermediates won the
sixth annual Kinsmen Ball Tournament by
• defeating the Lucknow Legion Intermed-
• iates in \the final game Sunday 17 - 4. ,Ten
teams participated in the four day event
• Thursday night through Sunday afternoon.
Reitzel's Rentals of Kitchener took the
Consolation trophy.
At the car show in the arena, 40 antique
and street rod ors were displayed. Cat
show visitors voted on their favourite and a
1938 DeSoto owned by Dave Sake of Owen
Sound won the People's Choice trophy.
Winners in the 'four -scategerieg--were:
• Pre-war class, 1928 Model A Ford owned
by Bill Warren, Shallow Lake; Antique
clasg, .4930 Ford, owned by Jack Cook,
Goderich; Post war, 1955 Crown Victoria,
owned by Bill Richardson, Harriston; Best
Truck, 1954 Pontiac sedan delivery truck,
owned by Mike Carruthers, Clifford.
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