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Home My WebLink AboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1983-07-06, Page 8ripley news Lucknow Sentinel, Wednesday, July 6, 1983—page 8 Janice Needham is named Queen of Ripley fair By Ab Wylds Congratulations go to Janice Needham daughter of Jirn and Dorothy Needham, Concession 10 east in Huron Township. She is the 1983 Queen of the Ripley Fall Fair. The runner up was Kathryn Boyd, daughter of Glenn and Anne Boyd of the 6th concession west in Huron Twp. They were sponsored by the Allan Tranter Poultry Farms in Ripley and the Lynn Lowry Farms Systems of Amberley respectively. The other five girls in the close competition were Deb- bie van Kooten, Andrea Far- rell, Helen Kempton, Diana Latta and Tammy Sorbara. All three competitions to date for the Ripley Fall Fair Queen were held in the Huron Township hall on the last Wednesday evening in June and were arranged by Barbara Gamble and Judy Hawrylyshyn. The 1981 Queen - the first for Ripley was Debbie Lowry, daughter of Perrin and Marion Lowry at Lurgan and the 1982 Queen was Michelle Mac- Tavish, daughter of Jim and Marj MacTavish of Smoky Hollow, concession 2 west in Huron Township. Also congratulations go to Shelley and Larry Barker of Collingwood and formerly of Ripley on the birth of their daughter Robin in the Coll- ingwood Hospital on Satur- day June 25, 1983. She is a sister for her two year old brother Dustin. Shelley is well known here from the years she has clerked in the Ripley Grocery Store for her parents Pat and Carl Bren- nan. Also Shelley and Larry lived in the upstairs apart- ment over the old Ripley Post Office on Main street. Top hay fields In June the hay fields entered in the field crop competitions sponsored by the Ripley, Agricultural Society along with the On- tario Ministry of Agriculture and Food were judged by Jim Richardson, R. 3, Walkerton. He was accom- panied on the tour by Ripley Secretary Don MacTavish. A separate competition was held this year for fields seed- ed in 1982. Since this summer is the first hay crop on these fields it is called "new seeding". The top field in the new seeding class was on the farm of Jim Scott concession 4 west or to some known as the former Bill Hooey farm back sideroad 20 from the fourth concession. His field scored 91 points out of a possible 100. Following it were Dennis Bridge 90, Carmen Bridge 89, Perrin Lowry 88, Blake Lotton 87, Ron Brooks 85, Dan A. Mac- Donald 83, Peter van Sickle 82, Rick Smith 81, and John Gamble 80. The second com- petition was for the established hay fields, two years or older. The top field here was entered by Brian Hooey with a score of 92 points - just west of the Jim Scott place. The other fields were as follows - Wes Smith 91, Bob Thompson 90, Bob Blackwell 89, Jim Needham John C. MacDonald 87, Gordon Pat- terson 85, Keith van der Hoer 84, Murray Wilken 83, Ker- mit Goodhue 82, John Far- rish 81 and Jim Farrell 80. On Saturday morning Donald Farrell reported that on Friday evening the Lucknow Jamboree fireworks lighted the southern sky like lightning flashes. The farm of Don and Kathy Farrell is the former Ben Ruttle farm on the Tenth and is about a mile from Ripley. Back to visit here Weekend guests with Mrs. Adeline Martyn were Mr. and Mrs. Gilles Boudreau of Alban - about 40 miles from Sudbury. Mrs. Boudreau is the former Janet Willocks, the older daughter of Mrs. Margaret Willocks of Mon- treal and the late John Wlllocks, bank manager here in the mid thirties to the forties. Janet met several old friends and saw many changes in the village after an, absence of 20 years. Her mother was a high school teacher here - Latin and English. First as Miss Margaret Armstrong from her home town of Seaforth in 1936 - 7: , she taught in the R.C.S. with principal Walton Eifert and Ab Wylds. THen in 1947 as Mrs. Willocks she ..... ♦... 41.11. W. 46,,...11011b ,16. 4..7....•41+.r..H.r...-..+.41...H... Announcement Cliff's Plumbing & Heating HAS TAKEN OVER THE BURNER SERVICE AND CLEANING FROM HAMILTON FUELS Wm. Humphrey has been engaged by Cliff Mann to carry on with the burner service. Future calls from Petrocan customers regarding BURNER SERVICE ONLY CALL 528-3913 4 i • • returned to the R.C.S. staff and with principal Margaret MacKenzie and Ab Wylds went through the changes at the time of the school fire. She remained teaching here to June 1956. From here she joined the staff at Clark Road Col- legiate in London and then went to Etobicoke Collegiate in Toronto. Elliott Courtney auction Last Thursday June 30 auctioneers Grant McDonald and Wallace Ballagh held a sale of new and used farm machines for the Elliott Courtney Farm Supplies. Folks are sorry to lose a good local dealer like Elliott but are thankful that a man like Cecil Sutton has bought this business to serve farmers in this area. Assistant Harvey Pollock spent several days cutting the grass on the lot. Then the machines old and new, were placed in a big circle for easy inspection , and sale. With a good attendance ac- cording to the weather and the fine haying day the bid- ding moved right along. Several men coming right after the noon hour were sur- prised to find the sale had just finished. Mrs. Joyce Courtney and Mrs. Evelyn Elliott set up a lunch booth on the lot. They were joined by other ladies in serving coffee and eats of excellent quality. Oat sheaf returned General manager of the Cereal Division of Stewart Seeds in Ailsa Craig, Ontario Mr. Lawrence Lockhart, his wife Linda, their daughter Lori and son Mark had a visit with Ab and Fran Wylds Saturday afternoon July 2. They were returning to Ripley the oat sheaf entered by Frank in the Royal Winter Fair last November where it was awarded first prize in its class. Along with the wheat sheaf it was taken to Toronto on Wednesday morning November 3 by Jim and Dorothy Needham. In two weeks Dorothy went back to the Winter Fair to attend on our behalf the special noon luncheon presentation to the world champions. There she accepted the award from Mr. Lockhart. he was to pick up the sheaves in January but a mix up occurred at the Coliseum and he was only able to get the oat sheaf when he went there in January. Since that time he has had the sheaf on display in his of- fice in Ailsa Craig. Both Ab and Fran were surprised at the still perfect appearance of this sheaf - not a grain stalk nor a ribbon band out of place. It will be on display the week of the Ripley Craft Show when it will be in the John Rosmerly Appliance store on the Ripley main street. A retirement tea was held in the Ripley Huron Central School on Monday afternoon 2 to 4. June 28 to honour Grade 1 teacher Mrs. Eileen (Doug) MacDonald. ' ,ileen received thanks and well wishes for her many years of fine teaching here. A.J. and Glenda Gardner, sons Aaron and Brandon of Vanastra spent the weekend with Donnie and Carol Flud- der, Tammy and Jason and Glen Harris. While here they also visited with Mrs. Evelyn Johnson and attend- ed the Lucknow Jamboree. Visiting last Sunday after- noon with Mrs. Evelyn Johnson were her daughter Marion and husband Jack Lawrie from Bruce township. Jack is just back from surgery and a lengthy hospital stay in London. Hit by half ton truck On Tuesday forenoon last week there was an anxious time at Gore Park when Brad Stanley riding his bicy- cle out the George McLean alleyway collided with Klaus Heinisch driving his pickup truck east on the main street from the 4 -way stop. Brad, young son of Delbert and Turn to page 19. =NMI 16 rebuild re col1ar WHITE PINE 1 x 6 TBG Vmatch FOR BARN AND GARAGE DOORS also BARN DOOR TRACK, GALVANIZED TRACK COVER, BRACKETS Lags end Trolleys CONCRETE BLOCKS 4"-6"-8"-10" also CHIMNEY BLOCKS St. Lawrence Cement PORTLAND AND MASONRY IN STOCK BUILDING CENTRE JcHN W. HENDERSON LTD, LUCKNOW, ONT. PHONE (519) 528-3118 BUSINESS HOURS MON. TO FRI. 8 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. SAT. 8 a.m. TO NOON