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Will meet Thursday
Ripley Women's Institute will meet on
Thursday August 31st at 12:30 noon at
Marg Geinmell's home in Kincardine at
294 Queen Street. Brin a sandwich if you
wish. Dessert and coffee served.
Wedding this Saturday
There will be a wedding at 6:00 Sat.
afternoon in St. Paul's Anglican Church
in Ripley - Carol Jones and Sonny Roy -
friends from the Midlands, England
attending.
Won softball in 1945
The Ripley Ladies Softball team started
or. —e familiar road of years ago to the
championship by eliminating Kincardine
last week. It was on October 23, 1945,
they won the Western Ontario Champion-
ship over Hanover. Score was 18 to 14
and the game was played on the new shall
diamond in Winghani - estimated atten-
dace 2,000. Later in November we won
over Stratford 3 to 2 exhibition here in
Ripley.
Visited from Barrie
.Denise Swan of Barrie visited this past
week with her mother Donna Swan in
Ripley.
Welsh 'family reunion
The Welsh reunion was held on Aug.. 13
at Lurgan School with Marjorie and Ted
Wildfong 'making everyone welcome.
There was a good crowd .present and
enjoyed a dinner set out on .tables under
the big maple tree. They -were glad to
have three senior members present -
Jane (Welsh) Needham from Walkerton,
Marie (Welsh) Beatty from London, and
Francis (Brown) Johnston from Kincar-
dine. President - ' Pauline Flynn and
secretary Lauretta Elms took charge of
the business, .after which everyone had a
good visit while the young people enjoyed
playing ball. , The next :reunion will ,be
held in :two , years. thanks lo :Beta 'Irwin
of Ripley' for this Account. She was our
well liked cook in :the Ripley District
High School cafeteria - years .back.
• Believe it or not
"Believe It Or Not" - that well known
phrase was repeated here recently. Ab
Fritz who came to Ripley from Kincar-
dine and now lives in the Senior Citizens
.home here tells the story .as follows in his
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own words.
"On Sunday morning as 1 was walking
out from my Senior Citizen apartment,
there were two men looking at the name
chart on the wall for a Mrs. MacDonald
and they asked me which apartment she
was in. He explained there were two Mrs.
MacDonalds in the building - one on the
ground floor and the other upstairs on the
second. 1 told them 1 was new here and
not much .help to them. Then the other
said to me, your face looks familiar and
I asked him his name. He said, '1 am An-
dy MacDonald from Kincardine' so I told
him, '1 am Ab Fritz from Kincardine.' He
shook hands with me and said, 'You and
1 worked on jobs in Kincardine in 1934
and 1 went to Detroit in 1934, and have
been there ever since and just back for a
visit.'
This meeting is one for the Believe It
Or Not Ripley 'category.
The late Bill Robertson was in Florida
and Robert Ripley was in the same park
as the Believe It Or Not van so he went
up and introduced himself - Bill said you
are Robert Ripley - well I am Robert
Robertson from Ripley, Ontario, Canada.
"Believe it or not" the place with the
fluoride drinking water - good for the
teeth - believe it or not.
Kairshea Women's Institute
The Agriculture meeting of Kairshea
W.I. was held Aug. 17 at the home of
June Gilchrist. President, Muriel
MacKenzie presided and after the Open-
ing Ode and Mary Stewart Collect, the
Scripture, Psalm 23, was read by Roely de
Boer.
The minutes off the July meeting were
read by the secretary, Una Matthews
and the financial satement given by
Marion MacKinnon. An invitation was
received from Holyrood W.I. to attend
their Fun Night, Sept. 7 at 8 p.m.
The report of Kairshea's day at the
Craft Festival was given by Una Mat-
thews. It was another successful event
and all members were thanked for
helping.
The Fall Fair display was discussed
and more items found. Conveners are
Margaret Mowbray, Elsie Houston and
Elizabeth Dickie.
The bus trip to the theatre at Grand
Bend is Aug. 24. Bus leave Montgomery
Motors at 4:30 p.m.
Delegates were appointed for the Area
Convention in Thornbury Oct. 10 arid the
Bruce County Rally in Paisley, Oct. 19.
The Institute will canvas for the Ar-
thritis - Society the first two weeks in
September Maimie Roulston handed out
receipt books to the volunteers. More
family history sheets were also given
out.
The roll call - a "Childhood Chore"
was well answered such as, "going for
the cows" or "turning the grindstone or
fanning mill."
Irene Haldenby introduced the guest
speaker, Brian Ireland of the Queen's
Bush Rural Ministries. His work is with
the telephone help -line. They provide
direct support to rural families in crisis.
They listen and talk to those who need
help and direct them to legal aid, finan-
cial advisors and personal counseling.
He told of how they have helped many
with mental stress over financial and
marital problems. This is challenging
work and needs help from communities
and churches.
Brian was thanked by Una Matthews
and presented with a gift.
Irene Roulston, had an amusing
animal contest and a poem, The Zuc-
chini Dilemma.
Ann MacDougall for her convener
report on Education read exerpts from
a Readers Digest article - What Parents
Think of Our Schools.
There will be no meeting in
September, the October meeting will be
held at Alice Ritchies home on Oct. 26.
After the singing of the Queen and the
Institute Grace, lunch was served by
the hostess and directors: Alice Doehnan
and Elsie Houston.
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The final exhibition fo the Blyth
Festival Art Gallery features the water-
color paintings of St. Marys artist,
Mark Fletcher from August 19 to
September 16. A special reception open-
ing the solo exhibition of this contem-
porary artist is .Saturday, August 19 at
7:30 p.m. with everyone invited to meet
this talented artist. Mr. Fletcher's 1985
painting titled "Chairs At the Family
Picnic" was featured on the 1988- Blyth
Festival season poster.
Born in Hamilton and educated at
Trinity College School and the Universi-
ty of Guelph, Mark Fletcher established
his first studio in 1980 in Kincardine,
Ontario where he began an extensive
series of solo and group exhibitions. In
1981 he attended the Instituto Allende in
Mexico on an ,art scholarship. Returning
to Canada, he ;made .;the first in a series
of .annual . visits to Newfoundland ,and
established ;a studio .in Stratford. He has
taught for Georgian College, Gallery
Stratford and .,St. Marys .-Art Council .and
he is an active number of the Canadian
Society of Painters in Watercolour.
One of Mr. Fletcher's watercolors was
chosen in 1985 to become part -of the
Royal Collection of Drawings and
Watercolours at Windsor Castle
(England) as part of their Diamond
Jubilee Collection. His work has been
exhibited an many .galleries .and juried
exhibitions ;including Tori Thomson
Gallery (Owen Sound), Durham -Gallery,
Sarnia ,Art Gallery, Burlington 'Cultural
Centre, St. Thomas < n -''Gallery .gid
Kitchener -Waterloo Art 'Gallery.
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