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Home My WebLink AboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1976-08-25, Page 19M CARTHY'S SERVICE STATION Bervie, Ontario, Highway 9 OPEN 7 DAYS A WEEK 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. Sunday .included ,FREE GIFTS WITH . COUPONS The University of Western Ontario will be offering the following courses at KINCARDINE DISTRICT HIGH .SCHOOL beginning at'6:30 p.m. on the dates indicated: HISTORY 025 PSYCHOLOGY 140 PHILOSOPHY 020 ry Canada: A Survey from the French Regime to the • Present Child Development Introduction to. Philosophy TUESDAY, 'SEPTEMBER 14 TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14 THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 16 DEADLINE FOR tildy STUDENTS APPLYING FOR ADMISSION FOR THE FIRST TIME IS: September 3rd, 1976 Admission AppEirtisn Forms are available at'the Main Office of 19.ncardine District High School, Infcrn ,alion Handbooks; and. Admission 'Application Forms are also r • available .fom The Summer. School and Extension Department; The .University of Western Ontario, London, N6A 5-$8. (519). 679-3632 or 3634. Other courses are l,-.?r,(1 offered at Walkerton •District .High School, in Walkerton., Goderich Mstrict gate, and at Central Secondary SChool in Clinton. THE LUCKNOW SENTINEL, LUCKNOW, ONTARIO 11 STILL AVAILABLE FOR SUNDAY NIGHT'S 6 Million :Rollo ,Diaw DON T WAIT - THEY'RE GOING FAST THE LUCKNOW SENTINEL A 4 WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 25, 11176 ____-----.....---- BY AB WXLDS Last Friday a Travelways bus left the Ripley Huron Legion hall about ten in the morning 'bund for Toronto and the Canadian National Exhibition grounds. The bus was fiad with folks from the; area', The attraction was the •Scottish Festival with pipe bands and dancers at the grandstand in the evening. The return to Ripley was 'close to three on Saturday morning. Transfer to a second bus,. was made before the return due to trouble' with the first bus and this delayed the return trip briefly. * * * * *. * • ,Last.' Tuesday afternoon the Ripley and District Horticultural Society memberS held their annual . summer flower show in:the Ripley Huron Legion hall with a good showing. In connection with it they had a bake sale and refreshments. Able to return home over a week ago was Mrs. Alma (Donald) Gillies from St. Joseph's hospital, in.. London. Ripley area folks are glad to see Mrs. Gillies back from St. Joe,s where she had undergone surgery . and wish her continued recovery. Last:. Saturday afternoon the , wedding ceremony for Miss Debbie Peterbaugh, daughter, of Mr. and Mrs. Don Peterbaugh, was held in St. Andrew's United Church. The ladies of the church Served the wedding dinner. * * * • * The writer was just thinking that all this fuss over bringing back the B.N.A. Act to Canada could be ended quite simply. Just cremate or burn the old document over in 'London, England and send the ashes to Ottawa in' a' suitable container. Doug Shaw of London and formerly of Guelph passed away in his •62nd year at his home last week after an illness of six weeks. His wife, who snrvives, is the former Elsie Gemmell of Ripley, sister of ,Francis Gemtheil and Mrs. Marion McTavish here.. Funeral service was held in Guelph.' * * * * * * Miss Anne Craig, daughter of Donald and Lois Craig of the Arinow area of Kincardine Town- ship, spent a week's holidays in Ripley with her grandmother, Mrs, Donalcla (Ellis) Gossell in Ripley. Last week John MacKay started the tearing down of the Mrs. Ernie. Pollock house just north of the main intersection in Ripley. At this time of writing, along With sons Bryan, Ken., and Ian and John C. MacDonald with his tractor, the roof has been removed. Back about 1912 the house, originally built by Albert Woodgate, first planing mill ' and lumber yard operator, was moved' three blOcks north along Ripley's main street pulled by the late Charlie Wylds' steam thresh- ing engine. Charlie had not yet bought the -Ripley Chopping Mill. He was a brother of Dan of the 12th concession of Ashfield. Mrs. Ellis Gossell recalls that her father, the 'late Dan B. MacLeod, had bought the, house from Harry.. McMullen and also that her brother Danald MacLeod, now 'of Windsor, was born in the house. Over the ,years different people have liyed •in the house and it has had different 'owners.. One of the owners for a number of years was Bill Steer; now & resident in Pine Lodge Rest Home in Lucknow. * * * * Thanks to Mrs. Clara Shiells of Ripley for the following report .on the flower show.. The Ripley and District Horticul- tural Society held. their summer flower show on August 17th in the Legion Hall. President Edna Marge MacLean had the highest combined points in both spring and summer show, winning the Royal Bank trophy. Runner up was Elizabeth Geddes. * * * * Mrs. George McLean' of Ripley and her aunt Mrs. Clarence Hedley of Greenock TownShip, flew from Toronto to Calgary on July 30 and returned with a stop at. Winnipeg on August 15. They visited with cousins Mr. and Mrs. Loren Gebert in Calgary for a few days and visited Banff, Lake Louise, and the Columbia Ice Fields in the Rockies. While on a,viSit to the 'Calgary ZOo, Joy met.Donna and Mary Needham I of Ripley, Bob Simpson Jr. and a Taylor lad. from Kintail. They also visited a ranch in the Sundre area, whiCh is straight' west of Didsbury and Olds, with another cousin Mr. and' Mrs. Joe Ness. Mr. and Mrs. Dennis, Leask of West- ward Ho took Joy; and her aunt Zilla west again from there, over the . Forestry Trunk Road in the Rocky, Mountains Forest Reserve. The scenery is • beautiful here and not commercialized like the Banff area. The scenery from the plane over the. prairie, Manitoba and Lake Superior was beautiful. However over Ontario it was cloudy. * * * * * * Last Wednesday evening Gladys and Elmer Wylds of Kincardine were over to Ripley• With Fran and Ab Wylds. The Huron Bruce Crafts and Arts . Inc. group held their first social get.,' together meeting in the Ripley Huron Legion Hall. This group, with Oliver and Marion McCharles • as conveners, had 33 attending the • social time. The ladies of the Ripley Huron Legion Auxiliary with president Mrs. Barbara Paquette, served a fine meal. • , Then Oliver McCharles called the meeting' to order and called on OMar Brooks, the treasurer of the craft show. Omar presented John D. MacKay of the Ripley Huron Recreation Complex committee With a cheque covering the cost of an aluminum name sign to go PAGE posEtEFN • across the front of the complex.. Its size will be 32 by '4 feet and it .will have permanent coking'and letter- ,ing on it. They hope to have the sign here' and installed in' time for, the Ripley Fall Fair vxhich is on Saturday, September 25th.. Dona- tions of money were also made to the Ripley Huron Legion and to the I *Ripley and' District Lions Club for their 'co-operation in putting on the annual craft show in Ripley. A donation was also made to the Ripley Junior Farmers but it was returned. Miss Dianne MacKay stated that the 'Junior Farmers wanted the Huron Bruce 'Crafts and Arts to have some money left for next year's show. Reg Moore said that no organization has come int6 the village and made such gener- ous donations for the benefit of the community , as thiS one has done in the past three s ears. As a result paintings, which are much .admir- ed, line the walls of , the Riple> Medical Centre and 'Huron Villa' the Senior Citizens Home., Also donations were made towards the complex and to the Ripley Agricul- tural Society. 'After this business was cOpleted those prese.nt had a social time - cards, dancing, and singing. Then all hurried home to see the pictures on CKNX late television news on. Saturday even- ing , with reporter Anita Glasher giving the commentary. CONTINUED ON PAGE 21 5, 1916 [aim, aynard tended Camp at the Edith tended he 1st ny. B. ;E Stanley welcomed everyone and opened• the flower shOw-.; - The number of exhibits were lower this year, but the quality of flowers made up for it. There were many beautiful arrangeMents. Dorothy Brooks'. and Mae Osborne assisted the judge who, was Mrs. Schaus Of HanoYer. Door prizes 'were won by Willa Smith, Florence Liddle; Peggy Davis, Jennifer Hanson, 'Jeffrey Norman, Joanne Norman, Olive Vogan, Valerie Mills, Jean Mae- Donald, 'Dorothy Brooks, Mae Osborne, Minnie •Wylds, Utha Culbert, Annie Mason, Nellie MacLeod, and Clara Shiells. 'The three exhibitors with the highest points in the show were, Marge McLean, Marie Farrell and Jean ‘illill1111111111116. This Week In Ripley 1976-1977 Farrell. THE UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO Extension COUrSeS for Kincardine and Area