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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1982-05-12, Page 19Apley nears. Lucknow Sentinel, Wednesday, May 12, 1982 -Page 19 Noon hour fire at Huron workshop wasn't serious BY AB WYLDB At the noon hour on, Tuesday of last week the fire whistle sounded and soot the two trucks weretravelling north on the fifteenth out. of Ripley. They went „,tq . the Morford Mackay works"ltop on. Concession 10 west in, Huron Township with{' everything under control, the firemen and trucks were soon -bad to the Brehall. The last week in April and the first one in May provided nice dry weather forspring seeding throughout this area. Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday had nice summer conditions. outside. So the dandelions burst out in bloom and the leavescame out on the trees. The sugar maples left around Ripley were yellowish green with their hanging flower clusters. On Wednesday. a pair of Canada geese were observed sleeping in the sunshine in the gravel pit south west of Ripley. Later they were joined by a third one swimming on the water. Firsttrain of 1182 During the mid afternoon last Thursday the Sound of a different, whistle was heard. It was the welcome nostalgic whistle of a train coming into Ripley from the direction of Lucknow. Once . it reached the crossings here the signals were flashing their red lights and ringing their bells leaving no doubt. that the first train since last fall was in town. It spotted two empty open top steel cars on the rail siding by the Ripley Grain Elevators with that done it went towards . Kin- cardine to deliver a car loaded with supplies . for manager. Don Morrison at the Bruce Agromart Fer- tilizer Plant at the railway crossingon the twelfth Con- cession west in. Huron Township. With these jobs done it was headed back through Ripley and Lucknow - the firsttrain to run on this Kincardine to Palmerston branch line in 1982. At the first of last .week Greg Dahmer made a good job of sweeping the cement water gutters along ' the edges of the pavement on Ripley's main street. He. gathered the sand and gravel left from .the sanding operations last winter into small piles. These were loaded by village, foreman Don Peterbaugh and removed in his truck. Before noon,last Wed- nesday Alex Viseskie along with a friend paid a brief visit to his shop of Antiques on the main corner.of Ripley. Alex spent some time during the past winter in hospital back in. his home area in Eastern Ontario. Last Wednesday Ben Ruttle of Kincardine was ,in Ripley visiting some of his many friends here. Jean MacDonald of the Pinecrest ' Manor Nursing Home Staff in Lucknow spent the weekend with. her sister Noreen MacDonald at their home oh Malcolm Street in Ripley.. Last week the Ripley and District Lions had their Wednesday evening bingo in the Huron Township hall with a good crowd according to the number of cars coming away at the end of the games. Mso it was the first night for the floodlights to be turned on at • the ball diamond behind the town- , ship hall. Cases of lengthy, times taken in delivering pieces of mail are told iii the news. Well -here is one that must qualify for the opposite reason namely speed of delivery. On Tuesday of last week a parcel was air mailed in California and on 'Thur- sday morning it was in, Ripley Post Office. Post master ' Marg. Thompson called to say eat was here. At the post office assistant post master Lois Irwin handed us the parcel before ten. Maybe the fact that it was live bees had something to do with the speed. Thanks for the good help, these bees were all in hives by mid afternoon. Last year within the same time limits, Tuesday to Thursday, a similar parcel arrived here from California and all for a dollar and fifty-six six cents shipping charge. The Ripley Huron Figure Skating Club executive would like to extend a sin- cere "thank you" to all those who supported and helped. make' their Garage, Bake, and. Plant Sale such a great success Un Tuesday afternoon of neat week from two to four .in the. Ripley Legion hall the Ripley and District "'Hor- ticultural 'their Society are holding their Annual Spring Flower Show and Tea: Ladies, of the Society made use of the fine summer ' weather last Thursday afternoon to work in the rose border at the Legion Hal lawn. Ted Kaminskas of Kin- cardine started working in the Thompson Feed and Supply Mill a week ago: Ted has moved down to Ripley and is living in an apartment in the Bob Love building on Queen Street west. On Tuesday last week. Bob Thompson and Ted put the new name sign high up on the front wall of the mill. On the staff with Bob arehis wife. Judy on the book work in the office and in the .mill Lorne Emmerton, Ted, and. Bill Robinson in the mill and driving the feed truck. Bobby, Strathdee of Hanover and formerly of the 10th sideroad east of Ripley, George Harkness of Bervie, and Mrs. Katie Irwin ,are among the Ripley area folks reported to be in hospital this past week. Ric Irwin, son of Ron and Lois Irwin of William Street in Ripley, has left to work for the summer at the Chateau Hotel on Lake Louise, Alberta. Ric .has completed his first year at Georgian College in Barrie and when the summer is over he will return there for his second year. Barbara ' Paquette of the Fourth Concession Huron. Township is assisting Marg. Thompson at the Ripley Post Office on Mondays and Saturdays. On the remaining days of the week Lois Irwin assists Marg. The Ripley 4-H Horse Club meeting held recently at the home of Wayne and Nancy Fitzgerald on the 4th ,Con- cession has been written by the club reporter Lisa Gamble. • On Friday afternoon the sod turning ceremony for the construction of the new Pine River Cheese and Butter Co- op Factory was held with the president Gordon Patterson as the Master of Ceremonies. Originally it was scheduled to take place at three on the site of ,the new building but the downpour of rain which moved into this area shortly after dinner made' it necessary to change the location. Instead the and was turned inside the Reids. Conners Community Hall where it was dry and coma fortable. The federal government at 'Ottawa and the provincial legislature at Toronto were represented by locals members Dr. Gary Gurbin of Kincardine M.P. for Bruce and Murray Elston of Wingham M.P.P. for Huron - Bruce respectively. The warden of Bruce County Cliff Pegaloy of Walkerton and reeve Bert Elliott represented Bruce' County,. and Huron. Township in the ceremony. Glen Martin of . Burlington and Toronto, vice president of Continental insurance accompanied by company branch . manager Peter Amens were there to present the' cheque for the. insurance coverage. The Miller Slade Associates of Kincardine as the local insurance agent presented a plaque and the plated shovel for • the sod turning. Don MacArthur of Andrew family enjoy treat Hilda and Tom Andrew and family entertained with a barbeque dinner after church on Sunday, in honour of Mother's Day and Andy Rit- chie's birthday. .Those at- tending were ' Andy and Donalda "Ritchie, Beth Rit- chie, Alex and Catherine Andrew, George Anderson, Chuck and Nancy Becker, all of Lucknow, Tom and Dianne Dickson and family of Port Albert, Al' and Janet Decker and . Amanda of Goderich, Calvin Ritchie of Kitchener. Many lovely cards and gifts from relatives and neigh bours were received. Name $lane Stephenson Hon County Federation. of mAgriculture fieldman Bill Crawford is being promoted to the Ontario Federation of Agriculture 'in • Toronto as Director of . Insurance and q manager .01 Insurance' and Admin;istrtion Services. Cra*ford has, been the field - man for the , HFCA ince 1972. Blane Stephenson is his replacement. Kincardine the contractor in Mrs. Joyce Courtney had a charge of building the new part in the ceremony. factory and the executive of . After It was over the ladies. the Pine River Cheese and of the Reids Corners Coma Butter Co-op as follows plant munity Hall committee manager ' Glenn Martin, served a lunch of biscuits,. cheesemaker Don Martin Pine River cheese, , and and secretary -treasurer coffee to all present: Kinloss woman dies • Helen Mead [McClure] Gilchrist Helen Maud (McClure) of Kinloss Township died at Wingham and' District Hos- pital on Thursday, April 22, 1982 in her 80th year. Born in Paisley on April 11, 1903, she was the daugh- ter of the late, Lawrence Smith McClure and the late Mary Jane .Lloyd. She married Fred Gilchrist in ' Paisley on October 16, 1929. They farmed in Green- ock Township until 1946 when they . moved to Kinloss Township. She was a k •member, , of Lucknow . Presbyterian Church. , Mrs. Gilchrist nursed for. 13 years at' Pinecrest Manor Nursing Home in Lucknc w and was a' member of the Kairshea Women's Institute. She, is survived by her husband, Fred, two. sons, Jack of Vancouver and Bob of Kinloss Township; one niece, Shirley, Mrs. Gordon Mac- Donald of Kinloss Township and ten grandchildren. She is also survived by two sisters, Mary, McArthur and Martha Nelson and one brother, Lloyd McClure. She was predeceased by three brothers. . The funeral ' service was conducted from the MacKen- zie and McCreath Funeral Home in Lucknow on Satur- day, April 24, 1982 at 2 p.m.. by Rev. Hugh Nugent of the Presbyterian Church. Pallbearers were Lloyd MacDougall, Harvey Houst- on, Gert de Jong, . Herb Buckton, John MacKinnon, and Fraser : MacKinnon. , Flower bearers were grandchildren., Spring burial to . follow : in Kincardine Cemetery. 0 • Roy Chrastina Pat Chrastina WILL BE CALLING IN .THE LUCKNOW AREA SOON •WITH A SPECIAL OFFER FOR NEW'. SUBSCRIBERS TO THE LUCKNOW SENTINEL. TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THIS REDUCED RATE AND BECOME A READER OF THE LUCKNOW SENTINEL, YOUR HOMETOWN PAPER. 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