The Lucknow Sentinel, 1984-10-17, Page 1•
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Printed in Lucknow, Ontario, Wednesday, October 17, 1984
24 pages.
Luelmow bank employee retires after 28 years
• Jessie Chester, customer service
clerk administrator with the kucknow•
branch of the Bank of Montreal, : has
• retired following a 38 year assddiation
with the 'bank.
,Jessie .was honoured by bank man-
agement and staff at a dinner and .
reception held at the Lucknow Legion on
October 6. Head tables guests included
Jessie and her husband, Ken; Lucknow
domestic • banking manager Dorothy
Brintneli and her husband, Don,. and
Bruce Stickle, area manager for the
domestic banking unit, Bank of Mont-
real, Hanover and his wife,1Diane.
Over 60 people attended he recep-
tion incIdding Jessie's children, Marg-
aret of London; Joan and Mike Courtney
of Ashfield Township; Tom and Julie
Chester of Wingham; her brother, Jack.,
Henderson of Lucknow and Jesaie's
close friend, Marnie Dickout of London..
• A telegram; from ;Jessie's son, Bill of
Branclorii'ManitOba was read aind Doro•
• thy : Brintnell, master, of ceremonies,
• Bruce Stickle, area Manager, Helen 13ri-
• sban of Guelph who Worked with Jeasie
in LucknOw in, 1940 and Mary Boyle, a
former long time employee of the:
• Lucknow Abranchbrenght messages of
congratnlatiens. . •
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the past 28 years, retired October 5. Bank niamigement and stafthelti* retirement dinner husband enjoy • spending
and reception to honour Jessie at theLucknow Legion, Oetober& [Photo bY Sharon Dietz/ ; cottage at Port Albert. and Since the
installation of a stove, they 'find early
• spring and late fall weekends enjoyable
at the lake. "
Jessie 'started her banking career in
July 'of 1'939 as a junior staff member
• with the Lucknow branch. She. worked
for 10 years in Lucknow and in Torolito
before moving back to Lucknow to raise
a family. She did not return to her
career until her youngest child was nine
years old .in 1956,•
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After working as a junior staff
, member :for 'one year delivering drafts
and writing up passbooks, Jessiewas
appointed to the 'position 'of teller and
• she worked as a teller and ledger keeper
for the nine years she Worked in '
Toronto. .
When she returned to banking she
• worked as a clerk doing posting and was
supervisor of deposits with. responsibil-
• ity for tilers when the Lucknow branch
moved to its new, location. She Then
became a customer service representa• -
tive and worked, in' customer service.
• clerk administration, . waiting on 'cust-
omers and handling securities and
• investments, until her retirement.
Jessie says she enjoyed working with
the public but she found that Serving so
many people through the day meant she
• didn't want to go out socially., She
enjoyed the privacy of her homelife •
Vterbeingsindrontxotthe.public all day
at her job• ..
She always enjoyed coming :to work
however, and always used,to say `I gold
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THE, NEWS
Nutses on strike
Public health nurses 'in Bruce County
remain on strike after walking off .the job
October 3. The nurses were 'locked out by
the county hoard of health last week.
Mediation talks broke down September
27 and the Ontario' Nurses Association
(ONA) proposed all outstanding issues be
settled by a board of arbitration wiith the
Outcome to be final and binding. The board
of health refused.
The county presented a package offer
that ignored all of the nurses' non -moni-
tory concerns and refused to change the
offer in any way, according to the. ONA
negotiating committee. The Bruce County
nurses are seeking parity with other public
health nurses in the province as they are
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Declines nomination
Bill Thomson, who was nominated to
carry the Conservative banner in Huro'-
Bice in the next provincial election, has
declined the nomination. Thomson who
Won the • nomination over Bruce County
Warden Mauriee DonnellY at a nomination
meeting held'in Lucknow October 1 said he
deckled to decline .beeause of the unexpect-
ed retirement of Premier William Davis
and 'the 'uncertainty surrounding the 'date
of the provincial election.
Thomson, an open line talk show host
with CKNX radio, left his position with
CKNX to seek the nomination. He will
resume his job with the radio station
October 22.
Council frustrated with sewage project
'•Lucknow Village Councillors voiced their
frustration with the Ministry of the
•Environment at their October meeting as.
• Lucknow, still has not received ministry
approval .for its proposed site for the
sewage works treatment facility and tile
bed system. •' •
Lucknow submitted the application for
approval a year ago following the retention
of an offer to Ourchase on land, owned by
Chester Finnigan of Lucknow, whidh is
located just east of Huron County Road 1,
south of Lucknow in Vest Wawanosh
TOwnship. The .ministry requested addi-
tional site specifications last December and
the final: report was forwarded to the
ministry in June. Steven Burns of B. 'M.
Ross and Associates, • who prepared the
• report, expected ministry approval within
six weeks of the final submission.
Residents of West Wawanosh in the area
• of the proposed site have signed petitions
which •have been presented to West
• Wawanosh Council.. The residents object to
the location of the treatment facility near:
their homes because they believe it will
rower the real estate value of their
property. •
• Village solicitor George Brophy deliver-
• ed a letter from a Kitchener lawyer to
council at their October meeting. Councillis
seeking the advice of the lawyer. regarding
• Lucknow's position since the objections
• have beekraised by the. West Wawanosh
• residents. ••••
Council did not discuss the contents of
the letter at themeeting but decided to
review copies otthe letter and consider it
later. • .
• Willard Page, Owen Sound district
officer of the Ministry. of Environment
informed Lucknow council in July the
ministt:y would hold a public hearing to
• provide an opportunity to publicly present
the sewage works proposal and receive the
input of the public before a d clam s
made. No. date has been se
hearing.
• Councillor Ab Murray commented coun-
• cil has b.een receiving letters for seven
years and the sewage project still doesn't
have the go ahead. Murray suggested the
option on the land will be up next spring
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liminate finders' fees; give clerks $3,900 raise •
By Stephanie Levesque
Starting in the new year, commission
from the investment of trust funds will be
• paid to the Corpoiation of the County of
Huron instead of to the clerk and deputy,
clerk.
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Huron County Council, by a recorded
vote of 18 to 10, approved the administra-
tion change which has sparked controversy
• over the past few months. At the same
, time, council increased the salaries of both
the clerk -treasurer -administrator and deputy clerk-Ireasnrer ,by $3,900 a- year.
Currently the cleric -treasurer -adminis-
trator receives, $46,228 while the deputy
clerk -treasurer receives $39,000.
The question of the commission received
by these two employees was turned over to
the courity's executive committee earlier
this year with the intent of bringing back a
recommendation to county council.
• The recommendation calls for any c�m
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mission payable from investing trust funds
or other county funds at Standard Trust
and Victoria and Grey Trust Company,
both in Gbderich, to be turned over to the
corporation.
• "Huronview Trust Funds shall be invest-
ed at all times to the benefit of the
resident and within the guaranteed limits
of the trust company. Other county funds
• shall be invested to the best interest of the
County of Huron," statesthe recommen-
dation approved.
• Earlier this year, deputy clerk Bill Alcock
• said both he and the clerk -administrator
receive a finders' fee for investing about ,
$3,4 million of Huronview residents'
assets. The, tWo county employees also
received for the first time, a finders' fee for
•'investing county reserve funds this year,
In 1979, county council approved of both
theclerk and.deputy clerk becoming agents
for Victoria and Grey. At that time Victoria
and Grey was the only trust company in the
area but recently Standard Trust has come
into the county. •
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At the beginning of this year county
council added Standard • Trust to the
agreement. •
The $3,900 is an average of the fees
received by each of the two men over a *five
year period, said executive , committee
member Reeve Brian McBurney.,
Morris Township Reeve Bill Elston
asked .if the $3,900 would be added to the
employees' salaries or would it reinain firm
every year. He Was concerned about the
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