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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1981-03-25, Page 18• • ' • A Page 1.0-1-1melmow Seathielt Weduesdeq, March 2.50 1981 e e s Early last Sunday morn- ingthere was that first robin up in the big maple tree behind the Ron Nicholson Welding and Machinery Shop next to the Royal Rank • He was singing like it was April. Then he looked over the hack garden text door, to" see Jack's berry plants. Later we saw another robin in the, apple trees behind the one was in 1977. In this area, • house of Mrs. Mae Cotton at the Huron Bruce riding, • the end of Malcolm Street. there were 137 polls or voting. • So it was perhaps the first - places: Three of these .were wave of robins up from the in Ripley, two in the Ripley South. . On Monday of this Huron Legion Hall and one in week, Mar. 23, the smell and the , Huron Township Hall. feel of spring is really in the The dividing line in Ripley air: was down the 15th or Huron Last Saturday was March Street. At the table looking 21 and as such the first full after the voters on the east day of spring. However out- side were Florence side everything was covered Kirkpatrick, Joy.. McLean, with an` overnight fall of Janet Nixon, and Adeline snow about two inches deep. Hackett; and at the table for It sure looked and felt like the west side were Earl winter. So once more out Tout, Donalda McLean, comes the snow shovel. Out Brenda. McLean, ° and on the roads the „sanding Frances Godfrey. Reported truck was going back and as in charge of voting in the forth on the 8th and 15th Huron township hall were roads through Ripley. Donalda Pollard, Elva (W. At the four way stop or e,R.) Lowry, Cecil Sutton, and Ripley's main intersection% velyn Colling. On each • there was Terry Jamieson of. ` ot there were the names Lucknow with the Bruce_of the three candidates for County Highways truck:—This riding namely Murray Terry was using a post Elston, Gary Harron, and pounder to drive an iron rocbriffony McQuail. intothe paved boulevard atokOn Saturday returning of - the northwest corner of therificer George McCutcheon intersection to hold- up, theeareldised the official count stop sign there. Betvveenst doe . the above men as Ripley and Holyrood on the follows: 12,164; 11,940; and 8th concession east another -979 in that order thus giv- stop sign at a sideroad in- ' ing Murray Elston a majori- tersection had been broken S fyi;-• of 224 rather than .= as • A perion . or .persons - announced earlier. For all unknown did this damage those in charge of the polls ' between Friday even ng and last Thiwaday:.4tas, a long Saturday morning and likely day. MinisterotAgriCulture before the covering snowfall. Lorne Henderson, who open - On Monday morning the ed the Ripley Huron Fall Bruce County road ' crew Fair last September had a were back and', replaced the majority of 7,100 votes last broken standard. Thursday in the Lambton Last Wednesday morning riding where be 11,1iheen the the newscasts carried the member since 1963. • . . 1`, ThisweeIdn. FeleY• Ab *Wylds • results of two votes by boards of education on keep- • ing the strap in schools., The Grey Bruce Separate School Board voted 8 to 5 to keep it. We lost that one. The • London City Boartrof Educa- tion voted 8 to 6 against keep- ing it. We won that one. So it was quite timely that this • column carried the item on the Bruce .County Board of Education recent vote on this same issue. In that vote Muriel Aiken was the lone member voting against it. • An error was, made in the spelling of her surname. Also there was a second er- Ffrst place ror in the last paragraph of Congratulations go to the this item. It should have Ripley Junior Farmers on read "Christian compassion being awarded first place in is the way to make teaching the Bruce County Junior an enjoyable experience for Farmers Drama Festival. It all concerned" rather than was held in Paisley on the "Christian comparison" as weekend. The newscast on ft came out in some papers Sunday stated that they were Both votes above gave this also awarded first for top ac - writer, Ab Wylds, en- tor. On April 4, a week from couragement in his viewthat this Saturday, they go down it will eventually be banned to Western University up on iii all Ontario schools Also it. the hill at the north end of was satisfying to know that London to present their play as the newscasts were coin- again in the Vrovineial com- ing over the air, there were petition. all those rural mail carriers putting these local Springdance newspapers in the mail This Saturday evening, boxes along the concessions March , 28, the Ripley in this part of Bruce county. Agricultural Society are holding their annual spring dance in the Ripley Huron Community Centre Com plea. There will be two separate draws for a half pork carcass. • Hospital patient Last Thurs., MAT. 19, Mrs. Jenny McLean"fof Ripley entered Kincardine and District Hospital for tests and treatment. In her 89th year this is the first time for Mrs.. 1VicLean as a hospital patient. Her granddaughter Mrs. Nancy Tout of ICincar- dine was down to. Ripley on Wednesday and took her to her horne in Kincardine and then to the hospital next day. Ripley •folks Wish Mrs. McLean restored health. • Ontario election Last Thus., Mar. 19, 1981, the folks of this area turned out to vote in the Ontario election, The one before this Visitors here Up to Ripley visiting on the weekend were Harold and Tena Wyld of Weston. Mr. and Mrs. D. A. Ivlaeln7 tosh of St. Thomas visited With Frank and Margaret Scott in Ripley over the weekend. Bowling finals Mr. and Mrs. Reg Godfrey Motored to Toronto on Sun- day with their daughter Catherine and son-in-law Terry Young of Stratford to watch the Provincial finals of the Youth Bowling Coun- cil. Their little grand- daughter Kathleen and her littleteammates of Mike's Bowling Lanes of Stratford had won their zone finals in Kitchener and went on to finish second in the provin- cial finals in Toronto with a score of 2504 points. &own Swisi G. Muriel E. Osborne of con. 4 east in Huron township reports on the Brown Swiss Dairy Cattle meeting as •follows • The Ontario Brown Swiss Association hosted the 54th annual meeting of the Cana- dian Brown Swiss Associa- tion on- March 11, 1981 at the Victorian Inn, Stratford. Mr. Myron Fledderjohann •\ of New Knoxville, Ohio, was special speaker, following the noon luncheon. Mr. John Wise, M.P., former Minister of Agriculture for Canada was the speaker at the even - nutter of follis in this area. watched Kitchener televi- sion W5 where Jim Reed of the Toronto television told of Ids hip to Mexico City and his success in his search for that missing girt Jim not on- ly found the girl but brought 4 her back to her folks. Jun is It native of Dungannon. His ° mother Mrs Frances Reed (the former Frances Mon- tgomery) resides in Huron - villa in Ripley and his sister Mrs Jewel (Del) . Stanley • lives at the east end of Ripley just around the cor- ner from William Street Our thanks goes to Mrs. Joy • McLean for Winging this • news item to our attention. Jack and Evelyn Johnson visited on Sunday with Jack and. Marion Lawrie in the • Niverton area. Mrs. Frances Elliott of. Ripley held a quilting bee at her apartment last week. Dinner guests with Mrs.. Gladys Mason •on \ the • weekend were Mr, and Mrs. • George Colwell of Lucknow, Mr. and Mrs. Albert Colwell of Kinloss, and Mr. and Mrs Don McCosh of Ripley. Walter Black of the 4th • concession west in Huron township is a patient in Kin- cardine and District Turn to page 23* it ;PIONEER. ix AN p • 978. 2650 hest units__ • CORN. .0 Outylelds all competitors - In its maturity ALFALFA P]rraorcewell ALFALFAweight yellow grain , SORGHUM 0 Yields best when planted at 24,000 seeds per acre • \ Bruce Baynard R. 1 Lucknow 528-6144 Advertisers! Get your message to the people who want your -product! Reach your target market with a special section ad in the Farm Supplement. If you sell a product or service to the farming community - take advantage of this opportun- ity. Num Farm Supplement Wednesday, April 8th Reach over 10,500 subscribers in Lucknow, Kincardine, Winghain and Goderich areas. . ADVERTISING DEADLINE THURSDAt APRIL 2ND AT ZOO Pholt!0 52862822todayl ....... ,•. 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