HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1978-03-01, Page 17Page 18—Lucknow Sentinel, Wednesday, Mar, 1, 1978
ThiS:
. Yesterday morning (Tuesday,
February 28) Reg Moore of Ripley
and his cousin, Reg Manley, of
Fergus, flew from Toronto Air-
port to Dorval airport at Mont-
real, Then they were transported
to the new Mirabel Airport also in
the Montreal area. After the take
off at Mirabel they were headed
non stop for Europe. Seven hours
later the plane was scheduled to
land at Malaga on the south coast
of Spain - sorne tdistance east of
Gibraltar. Then they were to go to
the town of Fuengirola right on
the .coast of Sunny Southern
Spain. Here this group from
Canada will spend the next few
weeks. What a wonderful way to
say goodbye to winter.
* * * * * *
In last Thursday's edition,
February 23, of the "Western
Ontario Farmer' Lnewspaper pub-
lished in London, Ontario, there
was a real human interest story
by D. A. Campbell. This farm"
newspaper has as its slogan "The
weekly newspaper for Ontario's
Golden Acres" and it has Canada
wide coverage. In 'fact. it's
advertising business is handled
by a national business firm on
Front 4treet in downtown Toron-
to, not -far from the Royal York
. Hotel. Donald Campbell lives two
blocks south and one block east of
Ripley, the former Edgar Watson
farm, on the fourth concession
east in Huron Township. His
story is called "Acres of Mem-
ory" and it is well worth reading
if you can find a paper - a
nostalgic story in a modern
setting. This is his second story in
the paper.- Donald Campbell has
written professionally for more
than 25 years. he has a column
called "The Naked. Point!" ready
for release. It is entirely different
in content and format of writing.
It is concerned with the modern
trend of the open hands in
Canada waiting on the great
"Rip -Off"
* * * * * .*
In a split " second a most
unfortunate accident happened
on Tuesday morning of last week
at the . place of Donald and
Marlene Coiling on Ripley Street.
This is the site of the long gone
eek in Ri•
pley
Ripley Flax Mill . and then the
Walden Bros. (Bill and Eric) had
their repair garage for their
transport trucks. Now the Coiling
brothers, Gerald and Donald,
operate their gravel trucks from
there. 7n an attempt to get one of
the trucks started on that real
frosty morning last Tuesday,
Gerry was using a set of booster
cables, a common practise. At the
instant of contact With the truck
its batter exploded splashing
battery acid in his face and some
pieces of the case and the force of
the concussion from the explo-
sion. Gerald got to Donald's
house nearby. Mrs. Marilyn
(Bob) Johnston, a neighbour
across the street and a nurse was
called. She immediately irrigated
Gerry's eyes with water. He was
taken to Kincardine and District
Hospital where Dr. J. B. Tindall
had hint rushed to Owen Sound
Hospital for treatment of his
serious condition. Ripley folks
wish Gerry recovery from this
sudden misfortune.
* * * * * *
Taking the place of Circle Eight
Ranch on Tuesday evening on
Wingham television were the
popular Blue Ridge quartet and
the Mark Four band with their
blue grass music. During the
week they gave ' three different
evening performances in this part
of Western Ontario - Owen
Sound, Hanover, and Listowel.
From their program the writer
understood that they appear each
Saturday evening on the Jam-
boree in Wheeling, West Virigin-
ia and that - Martha and Earl
Heywood, well known Wingharn
musicians organize bus trips
down. Our thanks to Mrs. Marion
McCharles of Lochalsh for the call
last Tuesday evening that they
were on CKNX.
* * * * * *
Bob Campbell in his ,-'secoi
year at the College of Agriculture
Last week Mrs. Irene (Doug)
Liddle of Ripley and Clarks, and
Mrs. Betty (Jack) Scott of Ripley
were patients in Kincardine
Hospital.
How nice it is to see,February
ended this week. Last week's
frosty weather brought back
memories of those winters just at
the end of the First World War
when the month of February was
always noted for its frost. Then
there was that frosty February
night in 1934 when it was minus
55 degrees Fahrenheit at Walker-
ton and many of the apple trees in
this area were killed. On College
Street headed for the Maple Leaf
Gardens it was minus forty - the
same on both the Centigrade .and
F hren'heit scales. At this' point
mercury, normally a liquid,
at Centralia was home last, freezes.
weekend with his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Donald Campbell, on
the fourth. A graduate of the
Ripley High School, Bob returned
there on Friday afternoon 'in
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LUCKNOW
In the February issue of the
paper "Education in Bruce"
published by the Bruce County
Board of Education, pictures of
persons in this area are ,shown.
.Among these are Principal Floyd
Stanley of the Ripley Huron
Central School here. Floyd is
shown as one of the eleven
teachers making up the Bruce
County Fastball Club which
played in the Annual Ontario
Teacher's Fastball Tournament in
Windsor last Jnne. Then there
are both the past board . chairman
Cameron MacAuley of the 8th
concession east of Ripley and the
present chairman Lloyd Ackert of
Holyrood.
* * * '* * *
The Ripley and District Lions
Club had a membership drive to
recruit new members. At the
February meeting of the club held
in the Ripley Huron Legion Hall
the new members were introduc-
ed by . their sponsors. Thanks, to
Peter Klukach who lives on the
4th concession west in Huron
Township on the Irwin homestead
across from Mr. and Mrs. 'Mike
Snobelen's home place, the
following members with their
sponsors is listed as follows -
Norm Stensall by Grant McDon-
ald, Bill .Carson by Jerry Huber,
Barr ' Wylds. by Charles Liddle,
Allan MacTavish by brother Jin}
MacTavish and Donald Martyn by
Frank van Kooten. Those .Lions
who received pins for getting new
members `last year were Frank
van Kooten, Bob Fes, and John
Langley. The annual local public
speaking competition sponsored
by the Ripley Huron Lions will be
next Wednesday, March .8 in the
Ripley Huron Legion Hall and it is
open to the public.
******
Gerald Colling's accident takes
this writer back to April 1st,, 1930
when he had an acid explosion ink .
a chemistry lab at Western
University. Thanks to two fourth
year chemistry students the eyes
-are still here and also to the late
Dr. Vince Callaghan at Victoria
Hospital; even though the second
section of the London Free Press
on April 2nd had as its headline
"University student loses sight of
the eye".
Ripley .. Folks attended the
Kinloss Cotnmunity. Centre last
Sunday. In charge of the meal
were the members of the Silver
Lake Women's Institute. The
centre now has nice new panel -
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