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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1982-03-17, Page 5Jamboree '433 9. Stidents at S. S. 011 Clover Valley School, Huron Township • in 1937 included. baek.row,from the left: Virens [FinWeevil • Thompson; EVelyn 40173. Maq ChteGekei Mae Iftarkwell) Smith; Been [Griffin) Waggon Dorothy [McGuire] Engel; Margaret Campbell; Denaldi .(MacChar, les] 'Slater; Merlon Massillon] Campbe0; Mary Cook -and ' . Margaret (MacCharlesi Taylor. Second row,.fro M the left: Ray Cook, Sandy MseChatles, Charley Romblon, Gorden McGuire, Gordon Brooks, John Roulsten, Gordon Irwin and Roddie Mad:barks. Third row, fiem the left: Ross Cook, Jack Barkwell, Arnold McGuire, Lovell. McGuire, Frank 'Barbra! and Jack McGuire. The picture has been contributed by John Roulston. a Cabin fever soon to be spring fever By Ab Wylds - •Today, is Wednesday, • March 17 - St. Pati ck's Day, and it will soon be the tune to change ' this winter cabin • fever for the feeling of spring fever. With C.K.N.X. reporter Bill Thompson on the news reports last week was Mark MacAuley of the 2nd Con- • cession east in Huron Township commenting on hog production, and its • current problem question of supply management. Ripley folks are glad to • know that Ambrose Gamble who had been a patient in Kincardine and District • Hospital is back home in • Ripley on Ripley Street. All • wish Ambrose continued • recovery. . Just when writer Ab Wylds was thinking of putting all those • newspapers on the bonfire along comes word fir* Jan Fludder that the Brownies and Guides are going ahead with their paper • drive on May 8. Jan is also counting on those Zehr tapes for the Figure Skating Club. . There is a bag receptacle at •- theRipley Huron Communi- ty Centre Complex to receive • them'. Thanks to Mrs. Mary Scott Of Queen's Street east in •, Ripley fer the following news item - Ripley residents ex- tend sympathy to Rev. and Mrs. Philip Ruch of St. Paul's Anglican Church on the death of his father Rev. • Richard A.E. Ruch of • Dundas/ Ontario. The late Rev. Riehard Ruch served in the diocese of Athabasca, the • diocese of Huron, and finally in the diocese of Niagara retiring in 1975. The funeral • service was held in St. Jude's •Church in Brantford with interment in Eastnor Cemetery, Lion's Head, • John Smith , of 'the 8th Concession east of Ripley was •able to return to his home •last Friday. Now • recovering ' Johnny •un- derwent surgery earlier in the week' at the Kincardine This weekend Glenda and A.J. Gardner of. ,Vanastra and Carol and Donnie • FlutIder of Ripley motored to the Huntsville and Burks Falls areas to visit relatives there. It was a special oc- casion for Mr. and Mrs. Collins - grandparents of Carol and Glenda. Miss Jean MacDonald of the Pinecrest Manor Nursing •staff visited with her sister Miss Noreen MacDonald at their ' home on Malcolm Street in Ripley this past weekend. Miss Eunice Stanley of Windsor and native of the Purple GroVe area of Huron Township died last Wed- nesday, March 10, 1982, in • and District Hospital. On Friday afternoon the fire whistle sounded in Ripley around five o'clock. Lucknow firemen were on •the 12th Concession west in Ashfield Township fighting a • house fire on the farm of John Miltenberg and' they needed more water. Ripley was called for 'their water • tank truck. Ripley firemen Doug- Martyn and Bernie Twolen took the truck and hauled water to the fire. The house was destroyed in spite of the efforts of the firemen • to prevent it. To many people the farm is better known as the farm of Jack. and Bertha MacKenzie who now live on Highway 86 at the west edge of Lochalsh - one block north of their home ,on 'the 12th Concession.• Bill Steer, resident at the • Pinecrest Manor Nursing Home in Lucktiow; was able to return there. last Thur- sday. Ripley arealolks were glad ;to hear this good news. A few weeks. ago Bill Suf- fered • a broken hip .with complications. From Wingham hospital he was transferred to University Hospital in London for treatment. Bill first came to Canada to work ort Con- • cession 10 east in 'Huron Township in 1907. Grace Hospital in Windsor at the age of 78 years. The funeral service was • con- ducted last Friday in the Don •Morris Funeral Home in Windsor.. Temporary • en- tombment will b'e in the Kincardine Cemetery • Chapel with spring burial • there. She • was the last surviving meniber, of a family of .12 children whose parents • were the late Tom Stanley and Ellen Hodgins. The eldest member in this family was Hattie, wife of the late George Mooney, • editor and owner of the Ripley 'Express neWspaper. • Fifth in the family was the late Milton Stanley of. Purple •Grove. Eunice was aunt to Mrs: Adeline (Ross) Martyn of Ripley, Cecil Mooney of Woodstock, Glen Stanley of •Clarks on the 12th Con- cession west, Russ Stanley on the 6th Concession east, and Norval Stanley on the home farm on the 10th Concession east - all in •Huron Township as well as many more away from this area. Her father, when he • retired moved the house into Ripley, renovated it • and bricked the exterior; It is now the home where Mrs. • Mildred • VVylds lives on, the • main street south in Ripley. Sympathy is extended at this time of bereavement to all •the family relatives. Cecil Sutton of Purple Grove is presently delivering • the mail each morning on RR 4 from Ripley Post Office. Route, 4 covers both the 8th and 6th Concessions in Huron Township. For this year at least the groundhog and its shadow on February 2nd is ,proving true. Back six weeks from • yesterday March 16 it was Tuesday , Feb. 2 - a bright sunny winter day and, there has been six weeks of winter since that day. • The lusty cawing of that pair of crows in the west end of Ripley brings thoughts of the coming spring. They find home and shelter in the large • spruce trees in the vicinity of • the former Ripley Publi• c School. On Sunday morning a killdeer ,was heard flying overhead and last Saturday morning ,• a. •redwing •blackbird was sighted ina: tree at the back of the Redvers Johnson place but nosrobins to date, only a few • unwanted Starlings. • • This week thanks goes to the following for news write ups placed in the news bags at the front door, namely Mrs. Gladys Huston of Huron Villa for the February meeting • of •the Knox Presbyterian W.M.S.; to •Miss Christena Robertson • • for the March meeting of the Ripley Happy Hearts Senior Citizens Club; Mrs. Elaine • Pollock for the Ripley Minor Hockey news; to Mrs. Marjorie • Thompson of William Street, Ripley for the Purple Grove News; and to Mrs. Mary (John C.) MacDonald for the following - item - ° • Mr. and •Mrs. • Bill McCreath, Mr. • and Mrs. John C. MacDonald, Mrs. Gladys Huston and Mrs. ' - Gladys Cameron were at Erin United Presbyterian Church, Roseville, Michigan • to attend a special worship service commemorating 25 years of ministry of Rev. • J.R. and Mrs. MacDonald in • that church. His brother, Rev. Donald C. MacDonald of Toronto preached the sermon. Also present were their daughter Helen Carlsen of Kamloops, B.C., their sons David of Craigieith, Ontario and Gordon of California. A memorial window is being installed in the church to mark the occasion. A coffee hour was enjoyed following , the service..• Mrs. Cassie Price, sister of Gladys Huston and her family en- tertained the people from Ripley at her home during' the afternoon. • Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Johnson of Kincardine were guests on Sunday with Mrs. • Katherine Coiling on Park Street in Ripley: latiamt SsIe, W•1111011(4% Moth 17, 1932—Page Full Gospel Service Et Mery When Sot. 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