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The Lucknow District Co-op opened their
new store and warehouse on Huron County'
Road 1; just south of Lucknow on
Wednesday evening January 17, with the
offcial ribbon cutting ceremony following
their annual dinner meeting.
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Warren Andrew, the youngest member of
the Lucknow Co-op, son of William Andrew,
a director on the Co-op board, cut the ribbon
assisted by Jack Curran? one of the oldest
members of the Co-op.
The president of the 'Lucknow Co-op,
store.
Doug Cameron, was master of ceremonies
for the meeting. and the ribbon cutting
ceremony. He said that the new store and
warehouse will provide a service to members
and the Co-op patrons that should make
Lucknow Coop members justifiably • proud.
p, ,.Co-op, on Wednesda Jann . 17. Warren was.
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Warren .Andrew owi est. membe>t' isf 'thd 1(.ncknow District Co -o by one of the
cuts the ribbon to officially open .the new store' crud warehouse, which oldest.. members ;;of the Coop, , Jack Curran, ' left, his .father, RIU':..
,was hint thisyear by the .Co-op, on Huron, County Road 1, just swath. Andrew, and Dong Cameron,::;,president of • the Comp_ board of
of •Lucknow. The ribbon cutting ceremony wit* held in: the warehoase .. • directors; right
of'the 'new. building; folio
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Cameron said that "that the facilities will.
provide a much higher leveirof service for the o
members which has been 'badly needed for
some time and that the board of directors is
proud to announce that the cost of the
facilities ' is on budget." The property
committee met weekly, on site, during the
store construction, .he. said, and after exper-
iencing the bankruptcy of °the general
contractor," which resulted in a five week
delay in construction; the Co-op moved into
the new 'loeation on December 18, 1978.
In his report • to the members, Cameron
.said that the competitive pricing and rising'.
operating costs resulted Qin .a break, even
financial statement, even though the volume
of business''increased in 1978. .
Co-op manager, Nelson Hill, said in his •
report,. that he .was pleased with sales, which
increased in every department during, 1978,
and he was also "pleased .to be associated
with Lucknow and .a part. of a new era at
Lucknow."
The expandedstere',and warehouse space.
at the new location ._will allow all .the farm
supplies,., hardware, seed and chemicals to
be sold from one location: •
'Three directors tvere elected to a three
year term on the'. board of directors during
the annual meeting. Doug Cameron who had
completed a three' year term, stood again
and was re-elected. Doug. Martyn, who was
'eligible to'stand again; retired after: a three,
year term 'and. Albert' Taylor retired, not
being eligible to stand again, having' served
two three,yearcterms.•.Bill MacPherson and
Charles Wilkins were- ,erected. to. 3 . yea''
terms.
A Grand Opening was .held at the new
store on • Thursday, Friday and Saturday,.
January 18 20, with opening specials, and
tours of the new' fa'c lities.'' A dance to
Summer. Rain was held an the-warehoitse on •
•Saturda .. evening, as of the.'. grand
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The Ripley Ladies. Curling rink only. won...
one , •'game, • wtien they ;: competed in the
Southern ,Ontarioo..Ladies' Curling Finals in
Peterborough last week, but they were given '
a standing ovation from the other players at-
the,victory party, for being such good sports,
Harry
oyle.
will peii fair
Harry J. Boyle, author and CBC broad-
caster, formerly of St. Augustine, will return
to the. area to open the Lucknow Fall Fair in
September, 1979, it was announced at the
Lucknow Agricultural Society's annual meet-
ing on Thursday, January 18. The Paul
Brothers and Shirley will .entertain at the
Saturday evening show which will be
followed by a dance, withmusic provided by
Norm Dunsmoor.
Directors Robert Aitchison, Tony McQuail
and Larry Cowan retired from the executive -
and Ian Clarke, Leroy Rintoul, Bruce Skillen
and Brenda Naylor were elected :as third
year directors. Naylor is the first • worri_an. to
be elected to the Agricultural Society
executive, excluding those weinen who have
held office in the ladies' division.
Retiring president, Russel Irvin, said the,
Society was involved in the canvass for the -
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The Ripleyrink of :Diane Brooks, Hilda
Andrew, Dianne„Farrell and June- Paquette,
started off the tournament on a'winning note•
by defeating Stayner 9 - 5: Stayner was the
other rink from a small town and also found
competition against thecity rinks very keen.
The' Ripley: rink lost. to Orillia 10 4 on
Monday afternoon and to Oshawa 10 - 4 and`
Boulevard 11 - 1 ,on Tuesday. They played
Kingston and lost , 5 - 1 on Wednesday
morning and :decided to change .their game
•for the afternoon game against Kingsville.
The city rinks were playing a hit'and roll
game, which ,is played to win rather than
score points. The Ripley rink plays a draw
game in 'area bonspiels to get points,
because the number ofpoints at the end of a
bonspiel determines the winner, rather than
the number of wins.
The, Ripley rink played a hit and roll game.
Wednesday afternoon and their scores for
the rest of the competition were lower. Blit it
takes 'practice .to learn to playthis type of
game, says Hlda Andrew.
They played Kingsville Wednesday after-
noon and lost 5 - 1 and St. Catharines, who
won thecompetition, defeated them 8 - 3 on
Thursday morning. -
The teams at this competition were really
top-notch,” said Hilda. Several of the
spectators, who came to watch, commented
that the curling was better than that seen in
competitions on television. The city rinks
practice every day and in some instances are
coached. Ott rink is coached, by a profes-
sional.They evert use stop watches to time
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their rocks. ••
The Ripley rink hasonly been • playing
together since before Christmas, When they
got together to play in thedistrict competi-
tion at Wingham.
The girls may have been losing their
games,. but •they never lost. 'their sense of
fun.- Their mock .expressions of disbelief,
when they misseda rock, kept the, specta-
tators in .stitches. They tried' to keep their
sense of fun said Hilda,' `'it got a little tricky
but. we kept smiling."
They were presented with the "`Horse's
Ass"'trophy by.the Stayner. rink, for taking
the•only game the: Stayner girls thought they
could have won.- -
The,girls say they went the experience,
becausethey never expected to get as far as
they did, so they never hoped to win.. They
went out to give their, competition a good
game and even when thy were -down by a
big score, they kept' smiling. •
ccident at Belfast
Blowing snow and poor visibility caused a
three vehicle pileup ., at Belfast, south of
Lucknow, Monday' morning.
Ruth. Bogues, Lucknow, suffered bruises •
when the station wagon, she was driving,
slid into the back of a Chisholm fuel' truck,
driven by Grant Chisholm, Lucknow, and
then was hit from behind by a pickup truck,
driven by Doug Cameron, Ashfield Town-
ship.
Mrs. Bogues was following the -fuel truck
when she left Lucknow. The truck went into
a whiteout atjelfast and . Mr. Chisholm
stopped, because he could not see.. Mrs;
Bogues could not see that Ivtr. Chisholm had
stopped, until she was within 10 feet of 'the
truck, and she slid -into the back of him.
Within seconds, Mr. Cameron hit the back of
the Bogues station wagon, because he was
unable to see the stopped vehicles in.. the
blowing snow.' • •
The driver's door on the Bogues car was
jammed because the frame of the ' car is
buckled, and Mrs. Bogues could not open
the passenger door or the hatch door of the
station 'wagon. Mr. Cameron' was able to
open the back passenger door and Mrs.
Bogues crawled over the front seat 'and out
into a snowbank to get out of the car.
Mr. Cameron suffered bruises, when he
hit the steering wheel of the pickup, he was
driving. 'The driveshaft of the pickup truck -
was damaged and the steering wheel is bent.
Mr. Chisholm was uninjured and the fuel
truck was not damaged. "*
Goderich Provincial Police investigated -
the mishap. No charges were laid, due tp the
weather conditions, at the time of—the
accident.
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