HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1980-05-14, Page 18• by Ab Wylds
Saturday, May
07:00 p.m.
• ALL SALES CASH 4AND FINAL • NO LAY.A.WA VS
No STORE CREDITS ACCEPTED ON 2 FOR 1 SALE.
Boot n Bag co
t..
clean the rough grass
along the north side.
On Tuesday evening of
last week, shortly after
eleven and just at the end
of the national television
newscast a thunder and
an-711. *ghtning—aturui moved
over Ripley. In its course
there were three big
flashes. The second one
caused a real window
they met was Paul Harris
at St, Joe's.
The new correspondent
reporting the news for
Purple Grove is Mrs.
Judy (Bob) Thompson of
the 12th concession,
frurcuiTewnship.
When Ripley post-
master, Don McLay and
his assistant, Mrs.
Marion MOTavish .
Toronto and Mr. and Mrs.
Courtney MacDonald of
London. •
The Ripley and District
Lions Club attended a
regular meeting •of their
sponsoring- -
Teeswater Lions Club, at
the Vendome 'Hotel on.
Tuesday evening, May 6.
Everyone enjoyed a
turkey dinner and- took
Zone meeting May i2 also
May 21, ' the Senior
Citizens are invited to the
Ripley High School
(afternoon) 10 hear the .
Welland High School
1410, The June meeting
will be in the form of a
Bus Trip to the African
Lion Safari at Rockton on
June 12, with a picnic
lunch at noon.
Amelia. Cumming,
program convenor, in- Mrs. Donald Anderson
of. Waterford and Mrs.
Helen Christie of
Brantford spent the
Mother's Day weekend
with Mrs. W. j. Mackay
at Huronvilla in Ripley.
Mr:---and---Mis. All
Mackay, who recently
moved from Ripley to
Port Hope, spent 'the:
weekend at their house in
Ripley.
Barrie Wylds of Ripley
was interviewed on the
• CKNX television news-
last Saturday evening.
Representing Huron and
Ripley on the Bruce
County Board of
Education and .also a
Chartered Accountant he
gave a comprehensive
and clear picture of the
board's finances for this
year.
With- the nice weather
of last week continuing
into this week, the area
around here really came
alive as' farmers got, out
on the, land to get the
spring seeding started. In
Ripley lawns were
mowed - and gardens
planted. Ron Rock made
a nice job of cutting the
grass in Gore Park for
the first time. in 1980..
Prior to that Brent
Hodge, with some
assistance by Ross thereabouts. Les and his Denice Courtney visited
Stewart, raked it. And wife are here visiting. with Corinne MacDonald
village foreman, Donnie with his brother and wife, in Toronto and attended
Peterbaugh got the picnic Mr. and Mrs. Victor the musical production of
tables out from winter Gawley in Ripley. They "Oliver" by the students
are •from Powell River, of Hilltop Middle School.
British Columbia. Recent visitors with
Mary Fludder and Mr. and Mrs. John C.
Fran Wylds spent part of MacDonald were'Charles
last week Tuesday to Baker of, Belmont;
Friday in London. The Barbara Padrnore and
only former Ripleyite Corinne MacDonald, of
rattling thunder and
several people were
asking the next morning
if any place, had been
struck.
Last week Les Gawley,
former native of Purple
Grove, called in. for a few
minutes to renew
acquaintances with the
writer. Les and myself
attended the ,Ripley
Continuation School in
the period 1923 to 1925 or
received the- mail from
the thick last Thursday-
afternoon they were
greeted with a box of live,
buzzing '.bees. The bees
had been shipped just.two
days before,' namely
Tuesday, May 6 a Palo
Cedro; California. This
was fast delivery coming
all that distance.
Mr. and Mrs. John C.
MacDonald, . Florence'
MacDonald, Steven, and
storage and placed them
in 'the park ready for
summer. It is a place
often used by workmen to
eat their noon lunches. On
Monday morning of this
week Donnie was '"using.
the tractor and mower, to
iroduced Ann Bo,trgeois,
a teacher at Ripley Huron
Central School and her
Grade 3 pupils who put.on
their. Mime, Show which
they had prepared for
their school. concert. This'.
.was well done and much
enjoyed, .both the action
Henson Livestock Sales ltd.
`Consisfing of: Steers Heifers and Calves
Victor Hargreaves [519] 482.7511 Clinton:
or '
Barry Miller [5191235-2717 Exeter or
229-6205 Kirkton
Doug Carruthers 237.3734 Dashwood
Greg Hargreaves 262-2831 HensaLl
Auctioneer: Larry Gardiner
part in the busineSs of.the
TeeSWater Lions and
meeting with the This week in members.
A good crowd enjoyed •
the Happy Hearts Senior
Citizens' pot luck lun-
cheon at, the Ripley
Legion Hall. Following
the meal the president,
, Gladys Arnold in-
troduced the speaker, a
representative of Woods
Gordon 'management,
consultants who are
conducting a Senior
Citizens housing survey
for the County of Bruce.
Reg Godfrey,,. vice-
president, conducted the
meeting opening with the
Opening Song and 0
Canada. A sing-a-long
was conducted by
Florence Kirkpatrick
with Violet MacKenzie at
the piano. The secretary,
Margaret Scott read last
month's minutes. Dates
to remember are, the
ive G us this dal,
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