HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1986-07-30, Page 11Liaciutow Seitariel Wedoeslay, Jully 3 11986 Page
Three old friends recall fond Ripley memories
en Ruttle of Kincardine was down to
Ripley last Wednesday noon. On the wooden
bench seat at the front of the George
McLean arness Shop and Men's Clothing
Store (the old. Commercial Hotel) he chatted
with writer Ab Wykls and with Don Gillies.
He was quite surprised to see that the Jim
rooks house at the corner of the 12th con-
cession and fifteenth ( :,ruct; County Road 7)
had disappeared. We recalled memories of
it as •the Dave Brooks place and before that
the MacLeod farm.
• Jean MacDonald of the Pinecrest Manor
Nursing Home staff in Lucknow visited with
her sister Noreen MacDonald at their home
on Malcolm Street in Ripley.
First loads of grain are arriving
The first loads of grain have started to ar-
rive at the Ripley Elevator.. Talking to
Kevin Harrison between shower sprinkles
last Friday morning we learned that there
were already 15 tons of new wheat and some
Canola delivered. The wheat came from
Sandy Pollock on the 15th north and also
from Rod MacDonald on the 8th west while
the Canola was from Len Farrell on the 12th
west. Kevin Harrison and Wayne Kerr have
been working at the elevator for the past
month getting things ready and changes
made to make it easier to get around inside.
On Friday morning Tom Kempton was
there with his bulldozer grading and levell-
ing the grounds and Ken Johnson was bring-
ing truck loads of crushed rock. When they
finished the grounds around the Ripley
elevator are wide and level - lots of room for
trucks to drive, pass and park. Also June
Paquette has moved back to the weigh scale
mobile for the havest season.
Insulate north end, of arena
On Monday last week Bob Harris and his
volunteer workers were back on the job at
the Ripley Complex to insulate the north end
of the arena. By Wednesday they had com-
pleted the job. In the gang were Gary and
Dave Henderson, Glenn Boyd, • Sandy
Pollock, Ken MacKay, Allan. Gamble, John
Gamble of Green Acres con. 12 west, Jack
Campbell of .Amberley, Ken Farrell, Jim
Farrell, Peter Van Siekle, Ralph Grubb, and
Bob Bob
Thanks and appreciation, goes
to Bob and all those who helped hhn get this
work done.
Former student of Ripley District retires
Donald R. MacKenzie, son of Violet and
the late Roy MacKenzie of Ripley, retired
from Peterborough County Board of educa-
tion ,at the end of June 1986, He got his
Elementary and Secondary education at the
Ripley Public School and at the Ripley Con-
tinuation School. While in Ripley he was
very interested in church activities and in
ports, and one year attended Boys' Parlia-
nent. Before going to Toronto to further his
Education and later to Peterborough, he
taught at Lothian, *Gorrie, and Chesley
lublic Schools. He elk,. played in the
MacKenzie Orchestra, playing the Sax -
phone. They had two retirement parties for
lm in Peterborough. Another one was held
t iis past Saturday July 26 at the home of his
m lan in Unionville for the MacKenzie
f mily. Ian and his wife Laurel and their
nns Bruce and Edwardmoved recently
from Oshawa. Don MacKenzie was head of
the geography department in the Peter-
borough Collegiate and Vocational Institute.
In a press interview he. called geography -
"a dynamic subject". He has completed 36
years of teaching. Our congratulations goes
to Don - one of the many fine. studentsto
come out of that "little school in Ripley - the
Former Ripley resident writes .book
Mr, and Mrs. T. Huffman Harris of Parry
Sound visited .q'om Tuesday evening to
Thursday noon last week with his cousin
Mrs. Marion Munn at her home at the cor-
ner of Tain and Ross streets in Ripley. Huff,
better known locally as Huffy, was a good
baseball and hockey player here, and com-
bined with his brother Bill Harris and Jack
Bowers formed a pod forward line in
Junior Hockey back in the late Thirties. It
was in late March, or early April 1937 that
the Waterloo Juniors played here and were
hustled to beat Ripley with a 7 to 6 score. Bill
Crawford sat beside Fran Peterson; later
Fran Wylds, and kept her informed of the
Ripley names. Incidentally .if memory
serves me, the Waterloo team had the line of
Bauer, Schmidt and Duxnart who, later
became the famous Kraut line on the Boston
Bruins.
Later in the summer of 1945 Huffy spent
an afternoon with Fran aand Al at their
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Malcohrt street home teaching them how to
score a baseball card so that it would carry
useful information. Something which we
still remember.
Last Wednesday noon Huff was down to
see Ab Wylds around at .the back here
building a wheat sheaf. We recalled how he
had to replace that Modern History subject
which he passed but did not require, with
Upper School Algebra. Once that was done
Huff graduated from the School of
Engineering in the University of Toronto.
think Huff took Electrical Engineering and
Harold Donnelly from here Chemical
Engineering in the same years at U,T, H f
is now retired and he and his wife Shirley
spend their summers at their home in Parry
Sound and winters in Naples, Florida.
They left here Thursday noon to visit with
his sister Mrs. Adelene Ladd in Kitchener.
They have a family of two sons and a
daughter - all through school and. college
and into career work. Dr. Ron Harris is a
Presbyterian minister in Timmins. David
Harris is in B.C. and works in radio and
daughter Carolyn is head of a music pro-
gram just set up in a town adjacent to St.
John's Newfoundland,
Huff brought a cornpli,mental'yeopy of his
new beok "Open the Door Wide to ,Happy
Living" by T. Huffman Harris,' BA,,Sc,
P.Eng., and published in 1986 by Carlton
Press, New York.
• Here are some lines from the press
release on the book - "This inspirational
book has universal appeal for young and old
alike. A book overflowing with wisdom and
understanding. A new and refreshing ap-
proach to happy living, centering around
our deepest needs - inner peace, self-
esteem, fulfillment, forgiveness, faith and
love.
"Mr. Harris focuses on those areas that
give meaning and direction to our lives -
thoughts, attitudes, beliefs, self-discipline,
goals, values, and priorities. Hereis a hand-
book you will turn to again and again, mak-
ing it your most important counsellor after
the Bible.'"
.After reading the first chapter of the six in
the book, Ab Virylds can see that Huff has put
much thought into writing it and that he
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