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Week 13 Vol. 136
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No. 07656
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Bringing Together
Huron & Bruce
Film on Afghan
War to premiere
in Clinton...
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Peer leaders
reaching kids
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of srno
Mornin
Smile
g is
nature's way of
saying, "Let's
partY!"
—Robin
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Photo by Cork Reid
Lancers up 2-0 onThundercats
Lucknaw Lancers te Erol Kahraman gets in position to stop a shot attempt
against a Durham Thundercats planer, while he had to contest with a crowd at the
front of his net.The Lancers took a 2-0 series Ind over the weekend with a 5-4 win
on Friday night and a 5-2 win on Saturday night. See story on page 8
ocai women's
institute disban
BY GARrr REID
• Sentinel Staff
The Silver Lake
Women's Institute started
August 30, 1957, but are
now disbanding due to
lack of membership.
Silver Lake was a big part
of the communityin and
around the Kinloss area.
They helped put together a
lot of community events
and given their support to
a lot of the clubs in the
area.
There are other factors
that went into the deci-
sion, such as a difficulty in
getting new members who
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could bring new ideas to
the club.
"A lot of the young peo-
ple move away these days
and they have other inter-
ests. A lot of the, younger
generations work away
from home," • said Erlma
Haldenby an executive
member of the Silver Lake
Women's Institute. "Most
of us have been recycled
through the executive and
we're just tired. After a
while it just came down to
a couple of us trying to
come up with ideas and it
just wasn't enough."
Continued on page 2
No cuts to draft
budget by counci
BY PAT HALPIN
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Special to the Sentinel
A tax increase f of 4.69
per cent stood up to a sec-
ond round of review by
Bruce County councillors.
Councillo rs didn't make
any cuts to the draft budg-
et' in spite of .earlier con-
cerns about new staffing
costs.
Provincial directives
give : the county little
choice about filling some
of the positions, said
Warden Bill Goetz.
"So we do the best we
can. I think Bruce County
has always been noted to
move ahead and I think
they're doing that again,"
Goetz said.
And delaying infrastruc-
ture work is a false econo-
my, he .said.
"I don't think you can
save a ,dollar here and
think you're going to catch
up next year, because it
costs you twice as much to
catch up."
The increase per
$100,000 of assessment is
just under council's three
per cent target at 2.89 per
cent, but reassessment puts
the overall tax increase
compared to last year at
4.69 per cent.
Reassessment hiked the
average value of a single
family home in Bruce
County to $167,000 - a
$12,000 increase from last
year.
"The difficulty this year
is the reassessment," said
Sauge,en Shores Mayor
Mike Smith.
The increase proposed
for the 2009 budget
amounts to $23.83 more
on an average assessment,
putting the total county
share at $750 for a home
assessed at .$167,000.
"1 thought there would
have been a lot more ques-
tions," clerk Bettyanne
Cobean said after the rela-
tively brief budget review.
Continued on page 7
A group of kids enjoying the last day of public skating
Sports Complex were twisting their way along the ice in
was sponsored by the Lucknow Chamber of Commerce.
Photo by Gorit Reid
at the Lucknow and District
a line on March 20.The event