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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1982-01-20, Page 14Mpley iage Blizzard takes out power: iii Ripley By Ab Wylds Lowry °with his snow plow. call. They made the long and. Wok , them along the. Lake difficult trip down. Highway For the secondweeioend in Shore road' and in the 8th 21 and in the 8th concession a row thismonth of January concession to Ripley. from Pine River Corner, the whole area has been • often wondering how much brought to a stand still by a No power further they. could make it. bitter blizzard sweeping iabomes ' . Well they got up the nth to a across the' whole country. – From midnight to about point west of the Ripley Nigh winds, 'snowing, and five Sunday morning #be. Huron Central School.. real low temperatures. It homes in the west end of Village foreman Donnie. started overnight, Friday Ripley were without elec- Peterbaugh• with the Ripley evening to Saturday mor- tricity. " •tractor snow blower cleared ning. Early. Saturday there The power interruption ' the road and they were able 1 were 14 cars on the parking was due to the slim storm. to make it Into Ripley about lot at the front of the Ripley High winds had piled snow two in the morning. Curling rink . for the on the branches of the big After locating the trouble scheduled bonspiel and at evergreen tree at the manse they workedfor the next least ten of these were still justwest of . Knox three'hours. By using a chain sitting there all snow Presbyterian Church. Thesaw the limbs were cut away covered on Sunday. Snow weight on the limbs . caused and removed from the wires drifts,' and poor to zero them to bend down on the which were then restored in 'visibility. made road travel hydro wires to the manse place: About five in the impossible. Asa result many where Rev. and Mrs. Hugh morning they went to, the were stranded away ;from Nugent and family live. Ripley. fire halland stayed home These wires in turn pulled there. Later George McLean Among these were two the hydro pole located across went over to seethem and Ripley hockey teams both the street, A short resulted they. came bade with him taking part in tournaments, when the live wires touched and his mother Mrs. Jennie one in. Southampton and the the neutral or . ground wire McLean made them hot otherain . Paisley, The one in and the fuse was blown. Also coffee.- • Paisley made it to Walkerton thepull on the pole pulled the Withthe storm still in full .where they stayed with Ron hydro bracket from the' swing and poor road con - and Marilyn Farrell. Bch of home of Alex and Muriel dations they stayed "put" in the Pine River area. Rbn.and , McAuley. Ripley till .afternoon. The Marilyn , had 35' at .their The Kincardine P.H.C. , Bruce County plow opened home. On Sunday afternoon hydro truck with John the 15th north to. number' 3 they made it to Kincardine. Adams, . and Earl 'Kay school house 'and it had to and from there Wayne , responded to the midnight return to Holyrood. Then Purple Grove folk caught in snowstorm George Didcieson of Ripley got the Huron: Township grader with attached plow . out of the •Huron. Township. ' garage at the east end of Malcolm street. And with it George cleared the 15th to the 12th corner and then down the 12th to highway 21 and Iran there John and Wrl made it back . to Kin- cardine with the P.U.C. truck late. Sunday afternoon. At the same time another pick-up truck was able to get down the 12th Huron Townshiphas three of these big powerful grader plows with .a driver operator for each –George Dickieson, Ivan Cook, and. Ron Irwin. However, Ivan and Ron were away at the time with the hockey teams. At nine thirty on Monday evening of last week, Jan. 11, the Ripley fire trucks were called tothe home of .Clarke Ferguson at Point Clark to put, out a fire which started from the fireplace.. To complete the . job L was necessary to skill saw part of the flooring for its removal according to reports. Turn to page 5• The stormy : weather has shut down most of Purple Grove's activity this week.. Arthur : Collins and daughter Lisa were storm stayed io Kincardine this • weekend Betty Needham . .was stormed stayed in•.. Kin- cardrte at the .home of Sadie Holland,. • Janet Farrel was visiting with her daughter Janice Miller in London this Friday, and Saturday night. • Bob Needham was .reported to have .,run a Toad ' of cattle to Toronto on Saturday. Upon_ returning home he was storm stayedin .Paisley. - News •from the Boyle residence tells that Francis and Kevin were at a hockey tournament.in Southam pton on.Saturay. They were' both :storm .stayed in Southampton that night. Kevin plays for the Midgets. They won the tournament. Bonnie Bayle was home. from London for the weekend. ,Mr. and Mrs. Norval. Stanley visited with Mrs. Blue in Wiarton this week. Visitors with Catherine Scott this week were Mr. and Mrs. Clayton Watke of the Hanover area, and also that. same day were Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Nicholson. Mr: and Mrs. Les Gawley L cknow UMW, Wednesday, imus ry20, 1942—Pago 14 have recently returned home to their home in Powell River, British Columbia, after visiting with' friends. and relatives in the area. Visitors with Anne and Don McCosh air Saturday were, Marj Thompson, Elaine and Lisa Cote, Mrs. D. MacDonald, Mrs. Marj Reid, and Mrs. A'nneJ. Scott. Howard Thompson -was , stormed out on the farm with Bert Thompson. HANOVER HOLIDAY TOURS 286A -10ti ST. HANOVER. ONT. • • COME AND JOIN US ON TOUR ALL OF FLORIDA DELUXE CIRCLE TOURS -15 DOI 4 DEP sat. 23, Feb. 13 & 27, & Mar. 13 Get away from Old Man Whiter ills year and join • Hanover Holiday Tears on our Deluxe Pbrlda C2scle Tour. 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