The Lucknow Sentinel, 1980-02-27, Page 22o in Ripley ui
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that today, Sunday, the This week in
wires and tree limbs are
still sheathed in ice and
we are hoping that no
high winds will occur.
About five minutes to six
en Friday evening part of
the street lights and
many homes and
buildings were blacked
• *it when the Ontario
enough to 'melt the ice so • . .
still threatening to break
and fall over the wires at
-the beginning' of this
week, incidentally the
reason Wiltie: streets and
hOuses had lights •on
Agricultural Societies
,was- ,held in the Royal
York Hotel in doWntOwn
Toronto. Arrangements
for the bus" to transport
Ripley Society were Dan.
• A. and • . Sheila
. MacDonald, . Jack and
Janet Farrell,,..lohn. and
Barbara ,GaMble, Donald
Bangkok in Thailand; first of _the recent heavY
Bali, -Kuala Lumpur, rains. •
Singapore; to Melbourne; They Saw some very .
Sydney, and Canberra in modern . "places, and
Australia; to five places -Methods of livirig and
inTlew includiftV-Setue"-rather primitiVe.
Auckland and Christ- Three places they liked
church; then to Papeete very much were Japan,
On Tahiti; and , back to- " Australia and New
Los. Angeles 'to catch the • e --, to 23. Tom; Pag
hat fora the record and
tor those readers away in •
the South; last Friday
• was one of those_ wild
weird winter days
starting out with freezing
Ivan early'in the Morning-
This soon, covered the
Wad, trees, wires and
everything with an •icy •
glaze. Travel was made
itazardlous resulting in '
school bus cancellation's
and postPonement of
Ripley Huron Central morning till eight that
School .was burnt Out. evening. 'Then there was -
This meant that the work before and after,
Ontario Hydro truck from voting. The first one
Walkerton. had to • be listed as follows each
called. They arrived in time is the deputy
Ripley around eight. In returning officer, the
_ the meantime John second one the poll•clerk,
Adams and Earl Kay ,..4nd the remaining two
went up and down the are now called the
streets of the blacked out campaign agents.
part - of - the --village For the east side of
checking the pole tran Ripley they were Earl
Tout, Marlene Coiling, :dormers and hydro lines
in the village - even the Helen Wright, and Mabel
one down Finlay Road Barnard. 'For the 'west
past Mrs. Marion side of Ripley they were
• McTavish's place and Florence Godfrey, and
over to the Ripley Huron Donalda McLean. They
Central School, were in. the Legion Hall.
They found the main In the. Huron Township
trouble on the street Hall they were Mary
runni ng east from the Culbert, Violet Elliott,
Ripley Post-Office. In the , Marie Coiling, and
Donalda Pollard. Other vicinity , of Mrs. Adeline
Hackett's place a good voting stations -(polling
sized limb had fallen booths) set up in. Huron
across the lines shorting Township were Sohn
the main power line. This. Ferguson's house at
caused a burned out fuse Point Clark, Mike
Snobelen's house on the in Ripley as well as the
• oft on-the main-line west-- -I ur-th Gordon_
folks goes to those men on - Moore, Cecil Sutton, Bert
• the hydro trucks'. Earl Elliott and Mary Creech.
Kay and Kenny Hoover of This is only a partial list.
Kincardine were back on Harold Courtney and
Stewart Farrell were in , Saturday morning for
further checking. charge Of appointing the
__The trees in Ripley are officials for Ripley and
in line for a major , limb Huron respectively.
trimming operation this Last Wednesday and
summer. And this can be Thursday, February 20
easily seen as necessary and 21, the annual con
With the icy coated limbs vention of the Ontario
Friday evening was that
they were connected to
the original .Main hydro
line coming into Ripley
from Holyrood. Such was
the case just `outside the
front door here where the
street light owes shining
social events over a wide brightly, but inside the
----area-•In-fact-yesterday, -
Saturday, was not warm
line. So village foreman Were three'polling booths
Donnie Peterbaugh had set up in Ripley as usual.
tn start the auxiliary The two for Ripley voters
motor to pump water, were in the Ripley Huron
The Kincardine Hydro Legion Hall while the one
truck manned by John - for the folks on the farms
Adams and Earl Ka y was around Ripley was in the
called and on their way. Huron township hall.
into Ripley spotted that Those sitting behind the,
the fuse on the main line tables had a long tiring
at the pole just west of the day • from nine in the
of• the school. With the
limb removed and the
Ripley line fuse replaced
the hydro was restored
about five to nine when
the Walkerton hydro
crew replaced the main
fuse. The lights and the
heat never looked or felt
better.. It was a queer
sight to see some places
and streets with lights
while neighbouring' ones
were black and cold. And
the thanks of the Ripley
Cameron's Store at Pine
River, Wayne Lowry's
barn, and Purple Grove.
Community Centre. At
Wayne Lowry's polling
place there were two sets
of officers since it
covered the Huronville
subdivision. Some of
those, working at 'the,
above polling places were
Bob Courtney, Cecil
Humphrey, Evelyn
Coiling, Mary Walden,
Shirley Harris, Marjorie
an nna • acTiiiisti,
Vies and Margaret Smith.
They report an enjoyable
time and listened to Some
good speakers. The
Ripley poster display
shown at the Convention
Was designed by 'Mrs.
Dorothy Needham, Mrs.
Barbara Gamble, and
Mrs-- Gayle-7.-'-- (Ken*
MacLeod. In the coloured
slide competition
showing pictures - 'of
Ripley Huron ',fall fair
was awarded three thirds
and one fifth prize,
Our thanks goes to Mrs.
• Sheila MacDonald for
this information.
Jerry and Anne Huber
arrived back home in
Ripley. on' Monday of last -
week February 18,
Election Day, in time to •
vote ,at the Ripley Huron .
Legion Hall. They had
tour right -around the rim -
-of. 'the South Pacific.
From Toronto they flew
to Los Angeles then to
Honolulu with its Pearl
Beach on Oahu Island in
the. Hawaiian Islands; to •
Japan and its cities R. R.4 Ripley Phone 395-5773
Tokyo, Kyote, and
reserve yOur supply of 'these
1 1 .
earrnarK ot °want) high performance hybrids
Harbour , and Wakiki an Thonitts .
Funk's hot hybrids are in!
Popular numbers with 'proven
ability to Produce top yields...
pop out of the ground 'fast ,..
easy harvest, Call me today and ,
Osaka; to Hong Kong; to
t
area were made ,by
Stuart' Aitken of Kin-
cardine. The bus started
picking up 'delegates in
Tiverton then kin-
Cardine, Ripley; and on
east to Teeswater.
Delegates from
Dtmgannon went on the
Hydro line coming into.
Ripley from Pine River hOuse it was cold and same bus. Five couples
went dead. The electric black. from the Ripley Society
• motor on Ripley'S water On Mon., Feb. 18 for the gathered at the Ripley e t ere On Jan. 6 and — stand tough against winds and
well is connected to that Federal Election there Post Office and boarded since then have made a drouth ..and dry down fast for
the bus at•a quarter past
six last Wednesday • morning and by a quarter
past seven on Thursday
evening the bus returned
them home to Ripley
except for Mr. and Mrs.
Don 1VlacTavish who were
flying to Florida last
Friday.
Delegates from the