HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1985-09-04, Page 20Page 2/—Lacknow Sentinel, Wednesday, September 4, 1985
Society meeting last before Ripley fair
BY AB WYLDS
Next Monday evening September 9, 1905,
the Ripley Agricultural Society will be
• holding the monthly meeting. It will be An
the Ripley Huron Central School at the west
end of the village. This meeting will be the
last regular meeting together before the
• holding of the Ripley Huron fall fair which is
on the last Saturday of September -- the
28th.
The executive officers include past presi-
dent Keith van der Hoek, • President Cecil
Sutton, vice presidents - Bob Forster and
Bob Thompson, treasurer Sheila. Mac-
Donald, and secretary Don MacTavish; the
executive for the lady directors section -
president Wilma Sutton, vice-president
Marj MacDonald and secretary Evelyn
Elliott of Pine River will be looking for a full
meeting.
list two weeks later - Monday, Sept. 23
will be the annual Monday night work
meeting and things go from there.
• Announcing the fall fair
Two weeks ago president Cecil Sutton and
and a former president Jack Farrell both of
RR 3, Ripley, the Purple Grovesection of.
• Huron Township, put up the road side signs
for the fair. There is one at each of the four
entrances to the village. Each is a painted
foot square of half inch thick • wood held in•
by steel fence posts. Maybe you have
already seen them. •
If not slow down your car speed and look
• at the artistic lettering m red, black, and
green colours with some yellow outlined col-
ours on a white background.
"Last Saturday in September
Ripley Fall Fair'
a friendly fair in the Country".
Brian Boyle to open the fair
• This year it Will be officially opened by
• our own Brian Boyle, Agricultural
Representative for Lambton County (the
• Sarnia County). Also back this .year after
several years absence will be the Seaforth
District High School Band.
Queen of the fair
The committee in charge of the Ripley
Queen of the Fair competition are Bertha
(Bill) Scott of the 4th Con. west, Thelma
(Bill) Godfrey of. Lurgan and Ricki
(Helmut) Kolke of Point Clark: Right now
they would like a few more, enthusiastic
• girls from Ripley and Huron between the
ages of 17 and 22,to let them know that they
• intend to enter. •
Just give anyone of those ladies a phone
call and they will be real nice to you for it.
Kincardine had their fall fair last Satur-
day - the last one in August. What a wonder-
ful day it was weatherwise - Dry, sunny, and
mild - just a real nice day to be outside,
Quite unlike the early part of the week. May
this pattern continue for the rest of the fall
fair season. This weekend it is the Mildmay
411 fair, also the Blyth Threshermen's Reu-
nion.
Home from hospital
Ripley folks are glad to learn that Mrs.
Helen Henderson was recently able to
return home from Kincardine and District
Hospital to be with her husband Dave: Red
Cross Homemaker Mrs. Lynn Thornicroft of
Clarks (Con, 12 West Huron) is helping them
at home here.
Attended Toronto wedding
On a recent Saturday in August Bob and
Shirley Harris of the 12th Concession west in
Huron Township motoredlo Toronto. Along
with them were his parents Goldie and Lola
Harris of Lambton Street west in Kincar-
dine and aunts, Evelyn Johnson of Ripley
and Greta Harris of Wingham. All were
guests at the wedding of Joan Harris,
daughter of Ronald and Shirley Marie Har-
ris of Rexdale (Metro Toronto). "
Ron, a bank manager m Rexdale, is. a
brother of Bob and his "'Wife is the former
Shirley Marie Campbell, daughter of Walter
and the late Jean (Campbell) Farrell of Kin-
cardine and Huron Township. All four men-
tioned aboVe, Ron and wife Shirley Marie,
Bob and his wife, Shirley Courtney of
Amberley attended the Ripley district High
School back in the 1950's.
Bruce County plowing match
The Bruce County Plowing Match was
held last Friday under nice sunny skies and
good conditions. The location was just west
of Walkerton on the south side of the
highway going into town.. In fact the road
there is a part of both Highways 4 and 9
together from the Teeswater junction on. to
Walkerton where they again split in two
separate roads.
The plowing match was at the farm of Jim
Richardson. The barn is painted red with
the lettering "James Richardson, Silver
Creek Farm". Jim is well known in this area
for his work in judging both field crops and
fall fair exhibits. When Friday, Sept. 27
• comes around, Jim will be in the Ripley
Complex judging vegetables and likely help
Glenn Dickson of Moorefield finish judging
the large display in the grain, corn and hay
display.•
Garrison's Carage a must see
One Tory accountant said to Blyth
Festival guest Alan Pope, MPP for. Coch-
rane' South and Ontario / PC leadership
• hopeful, that the script needed a bit of
updating. Still, there were enough dead on
• darts ahned at senior levels of government
and accountants in the Festival presenta-
tion of Garrison's Garage, to •keep the
audience in an almost non-stop laugh.
Although Revenue Canada has under-
• gone a change - at least that's what we're
• told - there is still a snug satisfaction at
seeing the department which always seems
totake far too mnch of our money, brought
to its knees by the denizen's of Garrison's
Garage.
• In fact, Garrison's Garage turns out to be
a veritable black hole for Revenue Canada
accountants.
• Intrepid accountant Mair Daniels, play-
ed by David Fox, is getting his car fixed at
• the garage by Frank the manic mechanic.
Blairlwas a very religious man who lost his
faith but found a placebo in the tax act -
• 1,500 pages of beauty, at least according to
this highly idealistic and warped man. And
he peddles it with the obnoxious fervor 'of
those with extreme religiosity.
Ftank the mechanic is working on Blair's
car with a style which helps to fill
Garrison's junkyard, when the bumpkin is
faced with the horrible prospect •of being
audited. The true extent of the bad news is
apparent when one notices that the floor of
the shop, and other Convenient locations,
have been used to file his accounts.
• Blair offers his services, but only after
• Ionia. Springer, played by Marriarie
IVIcLsaac and Garrison's poison -tongued
Sharp-witted daughter arrives on the scene
to Unintentionally watm Blair's heart's
somewhat pathetic •Cockles with her
business philosophy.
• His being a Revenue Canada accountant
soon forces him to some ethical decisions in
a wonderfully funny soliloquy, the most
crucial choice to let his discoveries slide by
or to report to his government the
mysterious Claire, and then face Lorna
with her bodkin bare.
Garrison, played by Ted .Johns who
doubles as the playwright, and Burt
Amberly, by Festival favorite Ron Gabriel,
round out the fine cast portraying
respectively mean conniving businessman
and long suffering father, and a confused
rural councillor Out of whose mouth shrewd
observations are periodically iejected.
These characters aren't supplied with a
great deal of depth, but who cares? Ted
Johns was going- for plain fun when he
wrote thisjust as when he wrote that other
Blyth Festival favorite, Country Hearts,
and the audience ateit up opening night,
August 27.•
All the actors give excellent comedic
performances and Marriane McIsaac as
Lorna Springer has the best ammunition in
the shots taken at the revenue arm of the
federal government, including some right-
eous anger outlining practices and the
scheme to get Blair to reconsider Ins evan-
gelical Stance on his department.
• The set puts us;#ght into a garage, not
as they are s� ofterfnow with their spacious
• well -it bays, but the grubby unhealthy
looking places of surly mystery.
Katherine Kaszas dirlects the play with
the aplomb and intimate sense of timing
she's shown in the past. The production is
a must see.
Speaking of a big display George McLean
just mentioned that he has that from his or-
chard. Over the weekend he has had his
Bartlett pears picked and there • were
several bushels. His nieces Nkicy and Joan
were over on Monday helping him unload
the tree. •
The Bartletts are a good perserving pear
and they are being offered at a reasonable
price at the store by the basket:.
Municipal auditor at work
Municipal Auditor Mabel Barnard is busy
covering the village of Ripley this week. -
Grandchildren payed a visit
Aaron and Brandon Gardner and friend of
Vanastra spent four days last week with
their grandmother, Mrs. Evelyn Johnson. '
LOUGIIEED - We welcome with love the
birth of David Alexander Hewson Loug-.
. heed on Saturday, August 3,1985. Sean, •
Margie and Dale. •
Dm' ner guess
SOUTH
by. Fluth.Butba)eiei
Mrs. Jean Betts of Culross was a dinner
guest on Sunday with Mr. and • Mrs: Bill
MacPherson of Holyrood.
KRAFT DINNER 225 43
:ac and Cheese
KELLOGG'S 725 G..
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Rice , spies
• KELLOGG'S 300 G. •
Special K
• GOODTIMES 50'S
Lunch Bags
McCORMICK'S GRAHAM
2/1.001-
'Wafers & Crumbs
SCHNEIDER'S FOUR VARIETIES 175 G. •
400 G.
• 2.99
1.99
Cooked Meats
SCHNEIDER'S 900 G. GOX •
Breaded Cmcken.
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SCHNEIDER'S 175 G. •/
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1.09
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Shepherds Pie .89
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Oranges
1 ONTARIO 2 LB. BAG
Onions
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DOZ.L49
Turnips
DIETRICH 12'9"
Scone Rolls
RASPBERRY ••
JeIlyRolls
7
.35
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Catuliflower
ONTARIO,
Cabbage . ,
1.09
1.29
2/1.50
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