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Home My WebLink AboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1976-03-03, Page 17It's time to spring into action, and we're Offering special Iciw prices on all new MF farm tractors under 80 pto hp. Check how much you save:. Saturday 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. f. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 3, .1976 THE LUCKNOW SENTINEL, LUCKNOW, ONTARIO PAGE SEVENTEEN RIPLEY DISTRICT SCHOOL selected to achrance to 'the finals, j, ' 4 'or 5 the speakers "were Carol MacKay 1 Body Language; , Cheryl • McGarvey - Mononucleosis; 'Heather Boyle - Farm Vacationers; and Kevin Cook -Clearwater, Fibrilla. In this group Carol MacKay, Cheryl McGarvey. and Heather Boyle were selected' to avance to the finals. The finals will be held, on Wednesday, March 3 in the Legion Hall, Ripley beginning' at 7 p.m: They are sponsored by the. Ripley branch Of the Royal Canadian Legion. Parents and friends are invited to attend. The Ripley Lions' Club are holding , an Effective Speaking Contest for 'Secondary students at their meeting Wednesday, March 10. SCIENCE FAIR Ripley District High School held our annual' Science Fair on Monday, February 1,6 from 7:00 - .9.00. The winners of each division were announced at 8.45. The fair had over 40 exhibits displayed this year. In the senior division the first place winner was Donna Huber on her display "Beauty lies within nature and we have destroyed it". She had different samples of water from streams and she explained how we could rid our streams -of pollution: Second place was Denise Huber and 'Jane Messenger's exhibit on Nuclear Energy. Third was Nadine Woods on Uses ,of Electricity. Other exhibits in • the senior division were Chrystal Radio by Greg Roue and Erroll Lindy, A Project on- Weather by Mark Stewart. ' In the Grades 7 anc1.8 division the first place winners were Nancy MacDonald and Debbie Lowry's exhibit oh Rockets, Their, exhibit featured • a Rocket blast-off every halt hour when, they would record all kinds of information on length of flight, times , of flight and the successfulness of the flight. Second place was won by Larry Needham' and Murray Scott with their display on Molds. • T.hird was ,Mike Lamb and John MOIntosh's display on' Conductors' and non conductors. Other exhibits were Jenny Reiger and Linda MacDon- ald's on "testing for things that dissolve in water, salt water and vinegar", Properties: of Air by, Janice Elliott and Sandra Stewart; Earthquake Proof Bbildings by David, Ingard; Heather MacDonald and Ann Courtney had an exhibit entitled Let's Conserve , our Ener- gy; Sarah Lee Stewart and Susan Dawson 'had a project on plants; Paul Culbert's project was "Get off the Ground"; Joan 'Osborne and Jane Farrell had a project on "What is• Colour"; Different Liquid Absorbing Papers by, Shelley Farrell and Michele MacTavish; Electricity by Robbie Farrell; The Telegraph by Geoff Farrell; A Simple Water Filter by , Kirk Nicholsdn; Doug. Graham's project of the principle of ,a thermostat; VolcanOs by Ronald Harris and Gerbals by- Amanda Ball. In the Grades 3 to 6• section the winner was. Danny Lamb's , display on Magnetism. Second was . Mike. Nicholson's Terrarium, Third was Brent 'Hodge's Simple Electric Motor. Other exhibits. were Ann Marie Clever's project on, We Cher; Dave, Mej,ean's project on Fahren- heit - Celsius; Fruit Flys by Paul Keelen; Marty Guikema1 s Flash-. light; The Light Bulb by Janice Needham. In the Kindergarten td Grade 3 the ' first place winner was Ian Culbert with his terrarium; second was Electricity by Debbie Lamb and :Leslie Baxter;. third was A Dairy , Farm by Robert Campbell. Other projects were My Bird- House by Danny Wood's; Dennis Germ- an's Periscope; Leaves byTheresa Cote;' Christine Cover '.and Beth Thompson's project on Mystery Powders;, Gregor Peebles' Bird House; Randy Collins! Bird Feed- er; Doug Harris' Rabbits; Dwayne Carnochan's' Paddle Boat. The Primary Class had a display on Seeds; Flowers and Leaves. There were many very interest- ing and worthwhile exhibits, on display. It was deemed quite successfnl. The judges, were Sam Malhotra and Brian Caslick from Kincardine. Let's hope we haVe • even more exhibits On display next year: Congratulations to those who won and to those who didn't. The science fair was successful' because of yon all so . keep it Up!! ELEMENTARY-NEWS WeiliieSdiST,February 25 th e Public Speaking •Contest W,as held. Representing Grades 7 and 8 were: Debbie 'Lowry' - Olympics; Linda MacDonald Ripley Huron Re- ..union; Michele MacTavish - Care-. ers; Corinne Boyle - 9lympics; Malry Kempton - ' Conserving En- ergy; Tom Wilson - 7 Natural Wonders of; the , World; 'David Ingard Brace's. The winners were Davidi Ingard, Tom Wilson, and Debbie Lowry. PHOTOGRAPHER • 'On Friday, February 27 the photographer came to take pictures for the yearbook. The Floor hockey houseleague is over. The winners are Orange Girls and Red Boys. . We had Monday, February 23 off from school as it was a Professional DevelopmeRt , KINLOUGH Mr., and Mrs. Roy Shaw Visited with friends at Woodville and Orillia. Mrs. Gertrude Walsh visited in the village on Monday. Mr. and. Mrs. Walter , Breckles are vacationing' in Florida. SECONDARY DEBBIE GETS BASKET The Junior Girls travelled to B.I.A. (Bruce InterSchool Associa- -tion) finals in Walkerton On Saturday. We played our first game at 10.00. We played. Wiarton and won by a score of ;46-21. The star player for this game was our' own Debbie Zipfel when she scored her first basket of the season. The team was so excited , they% almost forgot to go on playing! We played . our second game against Sacred Heart of Walkerton. We won a closely fought game by 'a score of 26-21. When we won this it gave us the B.I.A. Junior Girls Champion- Ship for the second year in .a row but it is only the third time Ripley has won it. We hope to do even better in the future. The girls team who will go on to C.W.O.S.S.A. in Shelbourne next Saturday are Laurie Coiling, Janice _Farrell, Donna Gallant,, Denise Huber, Jane Messenger, Alice Steininger, Shelly Hackett, Debbie Zipfel and Mary Margaret Smith,, Good luck next week at C.W.O.S.S.A. girls! BASKETBALL On Thursday /the Junior Girls travelled to Port Elgin to play against Saugeen. The final score ended 'up 33-10 for Ripley. You did it again girls! 'While that game 'was going on the, Saugeen _teatn came down 16 beat our junior boys by a score Of 61-29. Good try boys! , BASKETBALL The regular season of basketball has drawn to '.a close. The Junior, and Senior boy's have had a busy season. Mr. Brown was the coach of this year's teams. Members of . the Senior boys team were Mike Gallant, Kevin Cook, Ken MacKay., Mark Stanley, Larry' Farrell, Jeff Rouse, • Wray Thompson, Bob Campbell, Mike Peebles and Randy Ackert. • Members of the Junior boys team were Chris McGarvey, Robert Reiger, Brian Huston, Rick Clampitt, Glenn Grubb, •' Dave Linde, Greg Rouse, Brian Coiling, Jamie Gallant. Congratulations boys, you put up a good fight! PICTURES On Friday the school was buzzing with activity as the yearbook pictures were being taken. All team pictures were taken; club pictures and class, pictures. The yearbook is well on the way now and the Grade 12s 'are still busy working.. So keep it up! PUBLIC SPEAKING Semi-finals were conducted in Ripley District School on Wednes- day, Febniary 25. The judges were Mrs. Francis Gemthell, Rev. Cecil Carnochan and Rev. Allan Mac- Dowell. They selected the top 3 . speeches in each division. The grades . 7 and 8 competition was held hi the gym with Mr. Stanley as. chairman. Speakers were Mary Kempton = Conservation of Energy; Michelle MacTavish - Careers; Corinne Boyle 4.01ympics; Tom Wilson - Seven Wonders of the World; Debbie Lowry - Olympics; David Ingard - Railroad Track Braces; Linda MacDonald - Ripley Reunion. The; judges seleeted the speeches of Tom VVilion, Debbie Lowry and David Ingard to proceed to the finals. The Secondary Competition was held in, the cafeteria with Mrs. Collins as chairman. The speakerS. were Heather Boyd - Pet Rocks; Marlene' 'Huston - Baby Sitters; Donna Huber - Sharks; Joyce Osborne'- Deafness; Denise Huber Bermuda Triangle; Ann Drzazga eans; and Shelley 'Hackett - eenagers. Donna Huber, Denise uber and Ann Drzazga were )MF 230 Tractor 1VIF 235 Tractor. MF 255' Tractor MF 265 Tractor MF 275 Tractor Limited to available inventories until April 2, 1976 BUSINESS HOURS Monday fo Friday 8 a.ni.'fb 5:30 p.m. If you need a new tractor this spring, you can't beat theseprices: Come see, come SAVE! 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