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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1979-01-24, Page 1ow. 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. • 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. � Y g . , P �`.. ....: .. 3''. �' *anon assisteid .... 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 • 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 Y g part win the annual diener meeting µ g Af the .. , :: �;_ . . ; .. _ � •. ... .:. : FSentlnel Staff :phdto} open rug. $i 1 A Year In Advance 521.50 To U.$,4 and Foreign WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 24, 1979 :Single Copy 25c 24 PAGES 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 - CONTINUD ON PAGE 5 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 • • 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. 1 \.