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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 11,1976 PAGE $EVENTEIES.
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THE ,IVCKNOIN.,,SENTINK; LUCKNOW, ONTARIO
Week 10-RiPle
BY AB: WYLDS
Last week M. and 'iMrs. Ray
Fuller left' Ripley on a vacation trip
to Florida, , •
Despite wintry conditions Mrs.
Violet. MacKenzie ,was able to
return to her honie in Ripley last
Friday evening. Mrs. MacKenzie
•spent three weeks visiting with Mr.
and Mrs. R. M. Scott in Hunting-.
ton, Michigan.
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Well, the old fashioned winter
continues with its ' blizzards and
drifting 'snow. Blocked roads have
been 'the common .thing this past
week.. On Friday night • the
Bluewater highway south from
Kincardine was closed • by the
Ontario 'Provincial Police. Donnie
Fludder, returning' from officiating
at a hockey game in Owen Sound,
got as far as Kincardine, then took
the lakeshore road out about two in
the morning and was able to 'make
it home to Ripley. Again on'
Sunday morning highway 9, or the
Durham road, was blocked through
Bervie. Last Wednesday 'after the
big storm the best way in and out of
Ripley was from Kinloss Corners,
, better knoOn as Blackhorse, to
Holyrood and then in the eighth
concession to. Ripley. People
• returning to Toronto used this way.
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Allan Wyld, who underwent
surgery recently in St...Joseph's
Hospiial in London, was able to
return home. last week.
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A former resident of Kincardine,
Mrs, Susie Nelson McConnell of
Washington, in the state, of
Michigan, ,sends along a letter
containing news of the death of a
former LucknOw resident, Mri.
Jack Barnes,. the former ,Annie
Canipbell, who passed away in
Vancouver, B.C. in 'June --19/5.'
Mrs. •McConnell thinks that "many
folks in Lucknow will remember
her. She was a telephone operator
in Lucknow back in 1916. Later she
and her father moved to Alberta.
Here she was married and lived in
Binclloss, Alberta for years and
then lived in Lethbridge. She was a
widow since 1968". "Mrs. McCon-
nell adds that she just received
word at Christmas.
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Vice principal George W..
Armstrong of the Ripley Huron
Central School staff passes along
that a Ripley Science Fair will
held, in the Ripley District High
School auditorium next Monday
evening, February 16 starting at
7.30 p.m. Mr. Armstrong is the
chairman of the committee in
charge.
Mrs. McConnell, in her letter •
last week, also includes-the news
that Mrs. Thomas • Awrey, the
former Wanda Curtain of Ripley,
passed away in Bloomfield Town-
ship on Monday, December 22,
1975 and was buried in Acacia Park
Cemetery, Birmingham, Michigan.
It will be, 'an 'early shift next
Wednesday morning for those
delegates' taking the-bus for the
convention of Ontario Agricultural.
Societies in'the Royal York ..Hotel
Toronto. The schedule calls for the
pickup here at the Ripley Post
Office" at- six twenty-five 'in the
morning cif February 18th,'
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•
- 'Wednesday evening, Feb-
ruary 11,. Musicamera program on
the •Wingham 'television' is "Ion
Vickers - a Man and. his' Music".
This7prOiram will be of special
interest to folks 'in the Ripley area
Where ' Mr. -Vickers ' is known
personally.
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A house belonging to Lorne
Eadie of Holyrood was destroyed
by fire on Sunday morning.
Blizzard conditions made it extre-
mely difficult for the LuCknow Fire
Department to get to the • scene.
The house was reported, to be on ,
the former Bob MacDonald place
on the eighth concession, about
halfway between Ripley and Holy-
rood. If this is the 'house it will be
theope from which the Ripley vet -
Dr:.Donnie Hodgins moved last fall
to the Allan Coiling or Murdock
Glee place, just east of Ripley.
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The pupils.• of Mrs. Marion
Gamble, Royal Conservatory Ex-
amination results, are as follows.
Grade II Theory, honours, Miss
Mary Jo Henry, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. James A. Henry, R. R. 1
Ripley; Grade VIII Piano, pass,
Robbie Sutton, son of Mr. and. Mrs.
Cecil Sutton, 1. R., 3 Ripley.
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DUNGANNON
United Church service 'was held
in the basement for the few who
braved the storm to turn out: Rev.'
H. G. Dobson continued his series'
of , sermons from the Gospel of John .
with a talk entitled "The New Life"
based on the story orNicodemus,
Greg Lawrence •of Brantford who
taught French at Brookside last
year renewed acquaintances With
friends in Goderich, Dungannon
and Lucknow iecently. He is
teaching in 'Brantford this year.
Steven AndreW, William Irvin
and terry Zinn enjoyed a holiday in
Hawaii in :January.
Warren Zinn returned e- home
after being in Wingham Hospital
for a while. /
Newlyweds Sharon and Leonard
Heggs were Stormstayed over the..
week end until Tuesday at the
home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Neis Pearson,, before they could
proceed on their honeymoon for the
rest of 'the week. They will rina"ke
their home in St. Catharines. Mrs.
Gordon Congram. was also storm-
stayed at the Pearsons.
Mr. and Mrs. Smith and two
children, enrOute from, Listowel to
their home On Highway 21, became
stuck in the snow on the fourth
Concession and stayed with Morris
Ivers until Tuesday.
•
'Mr. and Mrs: Herb Wilkins went
to Sudbury for last week end and
were not able to get home until
Tuesday.
Church service .at Christian
Fellowship Church were cancelled
on Sunday due 'to the inclement
weather conditions.; Plans to have
a group from Zurich share in a
Sunday program, have had to be
postponed.
Robert Irvin has put in A
miserable week with .ulcerated
teeth which caused .swelling. and
pain.
Mt. and Mrs. Gerald Watts and
Carole of Allen .Park, Michigan
spent the week end of January '25
with Mr. and Mrs. Glen Olson and
family and attended the Cradle
Christening of their granddaughter
Amy Marie Olson in • Kingsbridge
Roman Catholic Church. Aniy was
dressed all in white in a long
christening gown which is a family
heirloom. Mrs. Olso d children ,•
returned with her p rents t spend
a week in Allen Pa k. When Glen
was bringing hi atnily home last
week end they were stormstayed in
Goderich for a couple of days.
GeOrge Errington returned home'
on Thursday after a 10-day stay in
Wingham Hospital.. He is still
weak and must be careful 'not to
overdo in this 'weather.
John Young came home, from the
Goderich Hospital .on Wednesday
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and is going back to work this -
week.
Debbie Vella spent the week end
'with her aunt, Mrs. Mary Bere and
family . and also visited Mr. and
Mrs. GrahaM McNee. ‘J,
Bill and Colleen Naylor Of. Sarnia
spent the Week end with • her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ben Parks.
A question uppermost on many
lips now is, "What is being done
.about a DungannonFair for 1976?
.There is a feeling 'of disapPoint-
ment over the cancelling- of the fair
last year' and a wish that the
tradition of having an annual fair.
night be contkinued. The commun-
ity would appreciate some feedback
from executive and directors of the
Agricultural Society as to the future
of the fair. • '
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