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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1983-08-31, Page 14t 411 19 ^. 4+ 4` 1 tictolova."tit►,^' ^', Huge puff ball found in Huron Twp Out for bicycle ride and hike last Sunday afternoon Rick Martin, son of Mr. and Mrs. Austin Martin now of Lucknow and formerly of the Fourth Concession east in Huron township, found a rather large puff ball in a woodlot north west of the town. Later Rick and Austin with the car ,took the "find" home. In talking with Ab Wylds Austin said that the puff ball weighed 0/ pounds and measured 50 inches in circumference. For his two questions we did not have any certain answers - How big do they grow? And how does one get them ready to eat? Only once have we eaten them. Then the ball was sliced and fried in butter, We remember that War- ren Lever would come each fall to this area from Detroit to look for puff balls and at the game time visit their daughter Pat Lever who resided with her wide and atmt Albert and Alice Harr- ington on the 4th concession and took her high school work at Ripley Continuation School rather than in Detroit, +++ The members of the Ripley Women's Institute are reminded that their meetings start again for the season with a ten o'clock one this Friday, Sept, 2 at the home of Margaret Gemmell on Tain Street in Ripley. More rape seed More farmers in this area are going to be growing rape seed or Canola as a crop next summer. Last Wednesday Aug. 24 Jerry Huber had the fifty acre Jack Rhyver farm at the corner of sideroad 20 and concession 8 west in Huron Township planted with the fall type canola. Do- ing the seeding job in six hours with his special seeder from Germany was Hans Peter Prehn of Reids Cor- ners. Summer school over Summer play school for the young children ended last Friday. The leaders for the Point Clark School were 011ie Liddle, Denise Watson, Debbie Van Kooten and L db- bie Mair and for the Ripley School they were Cathy Fludder, Michelle Williams, and Kathy Boyd, +++ While roller skating Thursday evening Ron Kock had the misfortune to sprain an ankle, Still he would like folks to know that he will be visiting homes in the area as the sales representative of a family product company well known since 1868, +++ On the weekend Don Mac- Tavish, secretary of the Ripley Agricultural Society, has placed extra Riley fall fair prize lists at four dif- ferent places. They are the George and Jay McLean store, the Cecil Sutton Store, and the Bob and Judy Thompson Feed and Supply, all in Ripley and with Nina Wyld at the Pine River Cheese Factory Store. Married 47 years Percy and Olive Schacht recently reached their 47th wedding anniversary. Their two sons Brian and Carta -rile and their families visited with them for a couple of days coming from Cam- bridge and London respec- tively. The fact that Percy who suffered an attack of the rare Guillian Barret syn- drome some four years ago leaving him a wheel chair person did not deter them from going to their favourite local trout pond for a few hours of fishing. Coming up with a catch of fine lovely rainbow trout, Olive excelled with a catch of three for the outing. Married in their home town (Berlin) Kitchener they recall rent for the apartment was $35M0 per month, also Percy bicycling three miles to work each day, Olive was somewhat more fortunate, riding the street car, Kitchener to Waterloo for the price of five cents, Percy, still taking weekly therapy at the Kin- cardine hospital, has still his optimistic outlook that some day he will walk again and hopingthat Olive and he will be abe to do their favourite polka dance on their 50th wedding anniversary celebration, The Schachts live on the lith concession, exactly two blocks east of Ripley. +++ Judy Hawrylyshyn librarian at the Ripley library reports that all bran - INTO FALL WITH A GREAT SELECTION OF BRAND NAME ATHLETIC •. SHOES WE'VE GOT ALL YOUR FAVOURITES ches of the Bruce County Public Library system in- cluding Ripley will be having an amnesty walk from Sept. 1 to 9. Amnesty means a par- don of offenders hence please return all overdue books without paying any fine, On Tuesday morning last week August 23 secretary Don MacTavish had the first distribution of the new Ripleyfall fair prize lists. The air is on riday and Saturday, Sept. 23 and 24 - three weeks from this weekend. Car fire here Just at the end of the noon hour, one fifteen to be exact, last Friday, August 26the fire whistle sounded in Ripley. The call was to the home of Jim and Isabelle Brook just east of the Ripley Huron Central School in the west end of town, Here Jim had started their brown sedan and headed it down the driveway when he noticed smoke coming from the front end, Reacting to the situation Jim stopped the car and got the hood up. Seeing the fire at the distributor, doused it with water from the garden hose while the fire hall was called. The following firemen responded to the call - Doug Martyn, Ivan Cook Harvey Pollock, Ray Fuller, Bob Johnston, Bernie Twolen, Brian Pollock, Ted Rouse, Clarence Pollock, Dan Mac- Donald, and Don Peter - ba ugh. The Brooks - Jim and Isabelle express their thanks to the Ripley firemen both for their prompt action and for their offers of help for transportation. Both say that It was fortunate that it did not happen out on the road somewhere with no help available, Working late as he often does in his busy schedule mechanic Brian Pollock had the car back running by Fri- day midnight. ++ Dr. and Mrs. Kenneth J. MacKenzie of Listowel, visited with his mother Mrs. Violet V. MacKenzie in Ripley. +++ Mr. and Mrs. Fred Wigle of Kitchener visited on Sun- day evening with Leslie and Dorothy Wardell an the 4th con. west. Also with Les and Dorothy Wardell for holidays now are their grandchildren Tina and Vin- cent Wardell of Preston and Christen and Kathleen Kelly of Ripley. +++ On Monday morning Mrs. Nina Wyld of the Sixth Con- cession West left the follow- ing note - Last week, August 22, a pony horse camp was held for members of the Huron Bruce Pony Club at the 13111 and Nina Wyld farm on the Sixth Concession, The camp consisted of skills for prepar- ing your horse and self and equipment for show. A cross country jump trail was en- joyed along with riding lessons, trail rides and swimming. On the final day a horse show was enjoyed by everyone. Anyone interested in join- ing the club, please call Nina Wyld 395-2721 Ripley or Marion Nesbitt 390-3277 Kin- cardine On Tuesday last week the Ripley Seniors took a bus trip to Whitby to visit the Cullen Gardens there and return. A very close game with no scoring in the first half developed between the two teams last Thursday even- ing. Shortly after half time Ralph Grass scored to put Ripley ahead. After a few anxious moments, in which Kincardine was awarded a penalty shot, but missed, Darryl Bolton scored an in- surance goal. Steady on defence were Susy Paquette and Chris Hodgins, Troy Snobelen had the ghut-out, As this was the last game for the Squirts for this season coaches Marlene Wolfe and Tom Stevenson would like to thank the coaches and players of the Kincardine Minor Soccer for some fine games and good sportsmanship. The Squirts close out the season with a game against the parents on Thursday at WOO p,m. at the public school. Thanks goes to Debbie Stevenson for making a special trip into Ripley with the above report. Everything Must Be Sold INCLUDING FIXTURES ALL General Merchandise MANY OTHER IN-STORE SPECIALS Hours. 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