The Lucknow Sentinel, 1984-10-17, Page 3•
Printed in Lucknow, Ontario, Wednesday,, October 17,1984
24 pages
Lucknow bank employee retires after 28 years
Jessie Chester, who has been asseciated -with. thethinhletIVIOiltreal:branCitIn Lucknow.for
the past 28 years, retired October 5. Bank management anit'stafflield a retirement dinner
land reception to honour Jessie at the Lucknow Logien, October 6. "[Photo by Sharon DIetzl
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Jessie Chester, customer service
clerk administrator with the Luckno*
branch of the Bank of Montreal has,
• retired following a 38 year assotiation
• 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. manage i: Dorothy
Brintnell ,and her husband, Den, and
Bruce Stickle, at'ea manager for the
domestic banking 'unit, Bank of Mont.*
'teal, Hanover and his wife, Diane.
Over 60 people attended the recep-
tion including Jessie's children, Marg-,..
aret of London; Joan and Mike Courtney
of Ashfield Township; Tom and Julie'
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Chester of Wingham; her brother, Jack
Henderson of Lucknow and Jessie's
close friend, Marnie Dickout of London.
A telegram from "Jessie's son, Bill of
Brandon, Manitoba was read and Doro-
• thy Brintnell, master of ceremonies,
Bruce Stickle, area manager, Helen Bri-
• iban of Guelph who worked. with Jessie
• in ,Lucknow in 1940 and Mary Boyle, a
foirmer long time employee •of the
`Lucknow•,branch brought messages of.
• congratulations. '
Jessie iSt looking " forward, to ' her
0•4'etireinentl,,vand- plans 'to take the
occasional tour, she%saya. She and ; her
husband enjoy 'spending, time at their
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 1939 as a junior staff member
with the Lucknow branch. She. worked
• for 10 years in Lucknow, and in Toronto '
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.' • -
After working as a junior staff
member for 'one year delivering drafts
and writing up passbooks, Jessie was •
• 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 Withresponsibil-
• ity for tellers 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 dair meant she
• didn't want to go out socially. She
enjoyed the privacy of her homelife
"-leter.being,li front of the public. all day:
at her job.
• She always enjoyed .coming to work ,
however, and always usedto say 'I go to
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LN THE NEWS
Nurses one
.k
Public health nurses in Bruce County
remain on, strike after walking off the job
October,3. The nurses were locked out by
the county ,board ' 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 with:the
'outcome to be final and binding. The Hoard
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
Thomson, who was nominated to
carry the Conservative banner in Huron,
Bruce in the next provincial election, has
.declined the nomination.. Thomson who
Won the nomination over Bruce County
Warden Maurice Donnelly at a nomination
meeting held in Lucknow October 1 said he
decided to decline because 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.
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ouncilstrateu 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 purchase on land, owned by
• Chester • Finnigan of Lucknow, which is
located just east of Huron County Road 1;
south of Lucknow in West • Wawanosh
Township: The Ministry requested addi-
• fional site specifications last December and
.1 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
lower thereal estate, value of 'their
• propeity.•• ,
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• Village solicitor George Brophy 'deliver.;
ed a letter from: a Kitchener lawyer to
• council at their October meeting:Cotincil is
seeking the advice of the lawyer regarding
• Lucknow's position 'since the objections
have been raised by the West Wawanosh
residents.
Council did riot discuss the contents of
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the letter at the meeting but decided 'to
review copies of . the letter and consider it
• later. ••
Willard Page, Owen Sound district
officer of the Ministry of Environment
informed Lucknow council in July the
• ministry , 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 decision is
made. No , date has been set for the
hearing.
• Councillor Ab Murray commented coun-
cil has been receiving lefter# 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; sgive clerks •,..;900.taise..:,
By Stephanie Levesque
Starting in the new year, commission
from the investment of trust funds will be
paid to the Corporation of the. County of
Huron instead of to the clerk and deputy
clerk.
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* both
the clerk4reasurer-administrator and de-
puty' clerk -treasurer by $3,900 a year.
Currently •the clerk-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 county's executive committee earlier
• thisyear with the intent of bringing back a
• recomMendation to county council,.
•, The recommendation calls for any com-
missiOn payable from investing trust funds
or other county funds. at Standard Trust
and Victoria and Gr'ey Trust Company,
both in Goderich, to be turned over to the
corporation.
"Huronview Trust Funds shall be invest-
ed at all times to the, of the
resident arid within the, guaranteed . limits
of the trust company. Other county funds
shall be invested to the best interest of -the
County of Huron," states the recommen-
dation approved.
• Earlier this year, deputy clerk Bill Alcock
• said both he and the allerk.administrator
receive a finders' fee for -investing about
• $3.4 million of Huronview residents'
assets. The two county employees also
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received for the first time, a finders' fee for
investing county reserve funds this year.
', ;In 1979, county council apprOved of both
the clerk and deputy civic becoming agents
for Vitoria and.Grey: -At that ti e Victoria ,
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and Grey, was the milyirtiit any in the
area but recently Standard. rust has come
into the county. •
• 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 remain firm
every year. He was concerned about the
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