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Home My WebLink AboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1982-01-13, Page 5carnrimuni#y news Whom , Weinewitay. Jawaory 13.1 S' eceives Junior Farmer of the year award By Ali Wylie A week ago the Bruce Associate Ag Rep Ooln Ream annoutncedthet Ken Craig of the Ripley Junior. Farmers was presentedwith the Junior Farmer of the Year Award for 1911. Ken is the grandson of Mrs. Donald* Gossell in Ripley. His mother is the former Laic Gosse&; On talking ,to Lois the other evening she told us that she and Don are now retired. in Kincardine and son Ken is now running the family farm north of Kincardine. Lois attended the . R.C.S. from. September 1942 to June1947, Intense storm At this time of writing, Sunday afternoon', January 10, 1952, the most intense snowstorm of this winterhas skirt everything closed. West winds . are carrying snow squalls into all Western Ontario and combined with their driving force ; are producing a wind chill factor. of minus 45 degrees: The fine powdery snow being whipped around resulted in whiteouts where one can ° barely see across the road into Gore Park right here in themiddleof Ripley: Intermittent snow squalls started before noon' on;. Friday: The first hint of trouble was the an- nouncement on the C.K1v.X. Winghan radio that . the school buses' carrying the students at the ,Ripley Huron Central School . and Ripley Distract School were being sot out t nom "Ilts wiz soon followed by a. *hole list , ofwheels cloned dolor. Later in the afternoon people were advised both by the and the highway rests to stay Wall roads, .' While the: steam c overs the county, .cancellations are the order of the day- church smokes, hockey matches, :public skating, all motor travel ncbiding the travel' buses. all snowplowing; Everybody is staying put • where they are - or °Nobody going anywhere' . The weather report on C,.K.N;X. says that . now in mid , af- ternoon the snow squall warning has' been cancelled,. In its place they say that itis now a snow blivard war- ning. ar-ni ng. The writer goes along with that It has been some hours now since we can see, , on looking out the front window, the George and Joy McLean store or, the main intersection On lodl;rg out the back here the Ripley District High School; just a few stone throws away, does notezist - nothing bit a white wall of faking and blowing. snow. Now .it is Monday noon and stillsnowing like, mad. Memories 01 the February - March ebruaryMareh: whiter'. in 1947 are coining back when it smiled every day for three weeks. What a winter might it was outside last night. Winds howling and= bowing swept the snow .amlendtill it was real compacted. Reharaedfre Athena r-- Mr. :and Mrs. Oliver' rksand Mr. and Mrs. Eldon Russell of Kincardine arrived hone hist Wed- nesday after spending the Christmas -New Year's two week vacation in Phoenix, ', Arizona.. They motored down to Oakville from Kincardine 10 have Christmas with their daughter-in-law Mrs, Jean (Allan) Mcarades, ' Susan, Karen and Gregg onSunday, DeoemberM. Next day, December .31., Mr. and Mrs.Mcch. es and Mr. and Mrs. Russell flew Man Toronto airport ' to Phoenix. There they booked into the . Howard , Johnson Caravan 'Hotel. From Phoenix they made a number of bus tours; One was a trip to Merica and to 11iscon. At Tuseon they had a telephone visit with Merles McDonagh, former native of Lucknow and. brother of Bary and Rod McDonagh of Lucknow. Qiarles McDonagh now lives in'Fuscon. Then they also hada tour to Oak Cre&Canyon north of Tuscon -: a Wutifit place to visit. By windingturns the. bus carried them down over six thousand feet into the Canyon and it was a real exciting experience. On the way to the Canyon they went; through ai real ghost town - an abandoned _mining village. On , another tour ort of Phoenix they went to South DOMINION SEED HOUSE FREE 1982 SEED & GARDEN BOOK 8 you are plana to garden in 1982, Canadas largest Direct -Mail Seed Supplier to the Canadian ■ home gardener offers the country's favorite. most comprehensive Seed and Garden 'Book, with 460 , la color illustrations and more than 50 new listings -yours for the asking: More, than 1500 listings include seeds Of many award-winning vegetables, flowers, and house plants: seed -starting material, , bulbs, perennial roots, books, garden aids and accessories -all chosen specifically for Canadian 1 gardeners. Mail coupon to -day. DOMINION SEED HOUSE, GEORGETOWN: ONT. LTG 4A2 If you.ordered trorn.us in 1981, you will automatically receive our t982catalog. Name (Please print) Address .,., 1. 1 1 1 1 Postai Code . -_._ •aot•i samim mumimliiNaill♦ :Ey Mountain overloo deg the city of Phoenix. On this trip. they were accompanied by Mr, and • Mrs. Virdin Mowbray of Lucknow who have a , home in Mesa, Arizona and live there in the winter, Mso Raynard and Hilda Ackert of Lucknow picked them op and took thein to their hoarse. in Mesa for dlinnier.. Raynard and Hilda also have a whiter home in. Mesa..So the whole group had dinner with Margaret : and Virdin Mowbray the day before. Qnrstmas On New Year's Dada Margaret and. Virdin Mowbray etrbeitained Hilda and 'Wood Ackert, Marion andOliverMccharles,Sarah and Eldon Russel, John and Marie Elder, Len andMyrtle Flood'. At this dinner meeting, Margaret (Pell) Mowbray, Myrtle (McLean) Flood, Mame: (McLean). Elder and Marion (McGillivray) McQiarles had a great time recalling their days at the Ripley Continuation School.. Myrtle and Marie McLean, daughters of the late Mr. and Mrs. John Mclean, 'live:d. on Railway Street in Ripley in the , house . where Mrs. Charlotte. MacDonald . now lives. : They too winter in Mesa• , Marionreports an inter" state Indian ' pow Wow competition heldin their hotel which they were able to see. One of the competing groups was from Canada. They also had a visit to the • • • • Botanical Gardens' where all the :plants were: cacti in - eluding thestatt cactustree Which the ivory billed wootiecker drilb its nest. At Oak Cainyon they saw American tingles mating high over the mountain. The weather was delightful. One night ging their two. week holiday it rained, and this masunus<ial, sotheneztday everyone was talking about therein. On the return trip home Mr, and Mrs.. Russel .and Mr. and Mrs. McC ail s again spent the night with Mrs, Jean Mctbarles and children Susan, Karen and Gregg before *lob* back to Kincardine. Our thanks goes to Marion for this report and it was nice to know' that the ladies• recalled their days at the R.C.S. and also that they read this column of news out in Arizona. Fire Last Thursday morning the Ripley Fire Department was called to the Point Clark area to extinguish a chimney ire. Ripley firemen with the tricks were Chief IvanCook,' Don Peterbaugh, Brian Pollock, Ray Fuller and Qarence Pollock and at the fireball were George McLean, Doig Liddle and John Dodds: No treetlights Starting on 'New Year's evenieg, January lat,"Ripley had a_ three night blackout Friday, . Saturday and Sunday with., no street OnMont aytheKincardine hydro truck was over and there were lights till winds cared another short on the wlrts in the north end op- p hi --the- y Onibg ,ridi, So.oriT1>tesdrymorningthe be hydro truck and w John Adams, Ken and lion Frear were High winds in that snow storm on Monday night, Jan 4, caused the wires to sway backend forth till they touched. itgrlodhusl meet%g Secretary Don Mee'Tavish called to remind us that the annual meeting of the Ripley Agricultural Society '. is scheduled for . January 255. That is a week from ne=t Monday evening in the cafeteria room in the Ripley `. District High. School � . be a busy weekend for thesociety as. onJannelry 24 it will .be helping with the South ' Western Fan Tail pigeon stow in 'the :Huron township hall. This is the fust time the society has ,been involved in' a real winterfair. Donnie and Carol Flndder, Tammy and Jason onFtiday evening motored to Vanra south 'of Clinton. 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