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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1979-03-21, Page 42Pa 14-+-L u'cku, Sept .l,, Wednesday, Murch 28, 1979 r . Storm of March, '47 was soifle storm BY AB WYLpS Saturday night of this past weekend marked the return of winter. After those mild days last week left the ground bare, Sunday Morning everything was covered with a blanket of fresh white snow. Well that brings back t� mind that last weekend in March in 1940. That was some storm. It started:on Sat., Mar. 23 and lasted through Sun., March 24. On Saturday night the now extinct Ripley CNR station was jammed with people waiting for the ten forty five train. to Kin- cardine. Outside the blizzard was howling, The late train, as it was normally called was late. It got to Ripley around 4 a:zn. Sunday morning and it was close to five when it reached Kincardine. Fran was on it and her brother Charlie - just before, he went overseasfor five long years. On that Saturday -Nelson Hodgins was up in the Ripley cemetery helping his father thelate George Hodgins dig ' a grave needed on Sunday. Nels says -'that it was six. feet to the bottom of the grave where his father filled thebucket with ground and'Nels standing' up on eight feet of snow, had to pull it up 14 feet With a rope: Next day, Sunday afternoon, the writer attended the funeral of the late Dan' B. MacLeod) Ripley hard- ware merchant at . his home where Mr. and Mrs. Graham Cook andfamily now --live." "'Funeral director Neil McLennan had three horse drawn sleighs to go to, the cemetery, one for the hearse, one for the pall bearers and family, and'.. the third one for others. It wasnever filledas braving the storm was so ',severe. No, that was, not the winter when the Exchange plants at Horticultural meeting On Tuesday afternoon of last week, March 20, the Ripley Horticulture Society held its monthly meeting in the Ripley Huron Legion hall with a good attendance of members.. Mrs. Reg Godfrey opened the meeting with 0 Canada and: prayer, followed by a poem. The minutes of the previous, meeting were read by Mrs. Mervyn Hooey (and adopted. The roll call was an exchange of plant slips and plants. Mrs. Duncan MacLeod, as convenor of this program, gave the topic on "The Value of Birds". Courtesies were ex- pressed by Mrs. Wrn. MacKay. A tasty lunch was served by Mrs. Elizabeth Fair, Mrs. Reta Irwin, and Mrs. Adelene Hackett. Mrs. Joan MacLeod reported the meeting. trains could not diet through; that was March 1947. Starting last Tuesday there were a number of nice mild days last week, With the rising tem- peratures everyone was thinking. So were the birds and the bees. Among the birds noted around Ripley back from the South were robins, redwings, bronze grackles, kildeers and song sparrows. Maple syrup In one of the local papers dated Mar. 14 the editor wrote . a very descriptive article on the making of maple syrup. If you have ever tried it then you will appreciate the description. The writer, as a kid out on the sixth concession, learned by the method described in a neighbour's bush lot. as a helper. Then the spring before' starting in Ripley as a teacher, forty gallons were made for the late Mac McGuire at Olivet. Then last week we tried it again in • the backyard on ' Malcolm Street and itis work. Slippery roads . and snowy sidewalks., here it is Monday morning, Mar. 26, and winter has returned. So people console: themselves with saying that it is better to come now than later in the season, 'Well, if the weatherman puts any more snow on . the sidewalk from here to the bank corner, we a're going to let.him take it off himself. Monday mor- ning was the last time for us. A week ago Last Thursday afternoon Bruce County Highway workmen cut down' : the second last sugar maple in Gore Park here. It was dead - killed by the "Die Back" disease which over the past 20 years has eliminated easily half of Ripley's fine maples. Even the last maple in Gore Park . is marked with a red painted X sign - since it is infected. These two trees were by the° roadside at the Ripley Chopping, Mill crossing. Since that the nen have been busy cutting , down maples along the 15th north in front of . Mrs. Marion. McTavish's place and Gerry 'Huber's barn (the former MacTavish barn) Forestry experts seem to know very little, about this disease. Some blame air pollution • and pavement for it saying the trees are under stress. However, . the writer has observed that if one tree becomes in- fected then next year the one beside it willhave the disease and so on down the aline. The first sign is a few dead twigs at the top of the tree and also early colouring of the leaves, in the autumn, It is not the same , disease that was discussed on .last .$un- day's "Keep Ontario Green and Alive" prograrn which is caused by defoliation by the forest tent caterpillars, Grosbeaks Mrs. Margaret Blue reports sighting a large flock of Evening Grosbeaks settled in the nearby evergreen trees in the south part of Ripley. They are about the size of a robin and coloured yellow, black and white like a canary. No doubt they were migrating towards Northern Ontario but they must have had a feeling of the coming snow and cold weather which caused them to stay in the available shelter. They have been sighted eating the seed part of the -keys hanging on the Manitoba maple tree at the back of Noreen MacDonald's place on Malcolm street at times. Donald and Doreen Steele and son of Kit- chener Waterloo were home for the week end and visited . with their parents .Wilfrid ,Wand. Dorothy Steele, Wilmer and Marion MacLeod.. Last Thursday morning the people in the Ripley Huron area were .startled to learn the news that Reg Moore was a patient. in Kincardine and District Hospital having suffered a stroke the day before. All the folks here hope that .under the care of the doctors and nurses there, Reg will recover and they send him their best wishes to this end. Visiting with Florence MacDonald during the past week, which was the winter break week, were Cathy and Colin MacLennan of Agin- court. Their sister Laurie MacLennan of Woodstock was here the previous weekend. ' Kevin Morrison who has been visiting in Ripley with Donnie and Carol Fludder, Tammy and Jason during the winter break week, returned home to Melbourne last Friday. Kevin is in Grade eleven in the Strathroy Secon- dary School and is one of the leaders on the school's debating team. He plans on taking police training after •he com- pletes. grade ` 12.. His mother is the former Margaret Ann Thomp- son, graduate of the Ripley District High School, and a member of our school's trophy winning, marching cheerleaders for several. years at the Owen Sound Collegiate and. Vocational Institute 'invitational track and field 'com- petitions • back in the nineteen fifties. Mr. and Mrs, Jim Blue of Windsor and Mr. and Mrs. Donnie Blue, daughter Allison and son Neil of Toronto spent last weekend with their mother Mrs. Margaret Blue ` in . Ripley also visited with . their sister Betty. - Mr. and Mrs. Jack Scott in Ripley and with their sister Bertha- Mr.and Mrs. :Bell Scott and children on the fourth concession"west in Huron township. Hockey playoffs continue BY MRS. ELAINE POLLOCK1 The Atom "A" team went ahead 3-2 over Lucknow in the first period of their contest but couldn't .hold on in the second period. Lucknow scored 3 times, and once in the third period, before. Jeff Gamble put Ripley on the scoreboard again. Lucknow came back with another goal, to win 7-4.. Stephen Keelan scored 2 goals, one unassisted,. and one with:. some help from Alec Boyd. Clint Twolan got the other goal, unassisted. In' Pee Wee "A" playoffs, Ripley defeated Tara 4-3, getting all their goals early in the game. Paul Keelan scored a hat trick, with Shawn Morrison getting assists on them all. • Robert Campbell and Jeff Elliott also got assists. Danny Wood scored the other Ripley goal on a pass from Mitch Twolan. They play in. Tara Wednesday night. • The Atom "A" squad lost • to Teeswater 2-1. Stephen Keelan and Todd Farrell combined for the lone Ripley marker. In Pee Wee "B" action, Ripley gaveup the first 3. goals to Forbes before taking . control of the game to win 5-3. Brian Barnes scored twice, Geoff Dengtedt had 1 goal and 2 assists•, Mike Nicholson 1 goal and 1 assist, and Greg Dahmer made 1 assist. • You're doing well, guys. In the, first game of a best 3 out of 5 series, the final score was Ripley 3, Howick 2. Jeff Stanley, Mervin Storey and Dave Gamble each got';1 goal and 1 assist, and Ian Elliott had the : other assist. The next 2 games went to Howick, 7-2, and 6-3. In the second game, Terry Irwin got both goals, with 2 assists going to Kevin Boyle, and 1 to Ross Stewart. In the thirdgame in Howick, Ripley got their goals ail together, with, Jeff Stanley, from Dave Gamble, . scoring at the end of the second period, while Kevin Boyle, with Harold Peet opened the third period. Two Minutes later Eric vander Glas scored unassisted to tie the game. However, Hpwick went on to score 3 more goals. The Ripley Midgets took on the Kincardine "A" Midgets in an exhibition game, getting defeated 11-4. Jeff MacTavish scored a hat trick, 2 of these goals unassisted, and the other from Eion. MacKay and, Ric. Irwin. Ric Irwin. scored the, other 'Ripley marker from Murray Coiling ' and Jeff MacTavish. Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Elliott, Lea and Lyn. of Upsala, north of Thunder Bay have been holidaying with his parents Earl and June Elliott and family and with her parents Mr. and Mrs:'Ellison Hodgins and family at Kinloss. Stephen had attended a two week course in law at Dorset ' near Huntsville. After finishing school here, Stephen took the course in Forestry and has, since completing it been employed by the Departinent of Natural Resources, formerly known as the Ontario Department of Lands and Forests. Last Wednesday Mr. and Mrs. Tom Howie and children. Faith, Timothy and Melissa Anne of Kitchener visited with her parents Les and Dorothy Wardell and family_, on the fourth concession West in Huron township. They also. called on Mr. and Mrs. Jim Bradley on Highway 21 south of Amberley . On Sunday Lois Wardell of New Hamburg and Mike Kelly of Kite_ chener , called on her parents Mr. and M-rs. Les Wardell. ` Mrs. Violet MacKenzie visited. last week. in Unionville near Toronto with her son and family Mr. and"- Mrs. Lorne. MacKenzie, Robbie, Susan, and Heather. Mrs.:. Barbara Perry and Mrs. B. Stone of. Birmingham, Michigan, visitedover the week and. with Mrs. Violet: MacKenzie who returned with them to visit with Mr. and Mrs. Bob Scott in Huntington Woods, Michigan. Miss Barbara Grubb of Western University, London spent the winter break last week with her parents Ralph and Helen Grubb and brothers at the family home in Ripley. Mrs. Donna Reid and family of Stroud, near Barrie, visitedduring last week's winter break with her mother . Mrs. Arvilla Orr, and with her sister Miss Pat Mead at their home on Malcolm Street in Ripley. Donna also visited with her sisters; Bev, Mrs. Bill Peterbaugh and Gloria; Mrs. Bob Rutledge and their families as well as other relatives. At present Mrs. Elsie Forrester of Malcolm Street in Ripley is en- joying a four week vacation. Elsie caught the bus at Bervie last Sunday evening for Toronto airport. Then at ten thirty the same night she flew out bound for Florida for two weeks`' in the sunshine. For one week she is visiting with her • sister Mrs. Tom Kellington at Indian Rucks and then she is spending the second week with her brother Jack Wareham at Largo: Her brother owns his home in Largo and lives there as a year long resident. After returninghome from Florida in April, Elsie. plans to spend twoweeks with her daughter Mrs. Barbara Barber . at Norwood - east of Peterborough. Wheredid we hear about the place Largo in Florida? Oh yes, Morrison MacKenzie was here last Thursday af- ternoon and he, told us that he and his wife Mary of Inverhuron along with his sister Sybil and her husband Donald MacLean of Metro-, Toronto. -had spent' 5t enjoyable holidays this winter in Largo Florida. Many here ' will remember Sybil was the catcher on ' that remarkable Tiverton Ladies Softball team. Capture trophy BY DON MCLAY. Howard Hodge and his rink. of Elaine Pollock, Ed Fink and , Larry Irwin captured the Ross `H. Martyn Memorial Trophy at the annual wind-up bonspiel at the club on. Saturday. This rink 'ended the day with 'a record of three wins \ and a plus of eighteen, to edge out Ron Farrell's foursome who had three, wins and a plus of nine. Ron had`help of Vici Dahmer, Leroy Godfrey and Jim MacKenzie. Second place on the • early draw went to Allan MacKay with Mary Walden, Doug Coultes and Mabel Barnard, and third went to Bert Elliott curling with Marj. Hodge, Donald Pollard and Eileen Emmerton. Runner-up on the later draw was Sandy MacCharles curling. with Dianne Farrell, Jim MacDonald and Sandra Liddle, ° with' °'Lero'y' Walden's rink of Vici Funston, Ron Pollock and Mae Osborne, taking third position. Skipping other entries were Harry Scott, Nor- man -Barnard, Jim Elliott, Bob Love, John Fludder and Mervin Funston. The •bonspiel com- mittee is appreciative of the donation made by Gary Sutton to assist with the receipts for the day. +++++ Playoffs are underway inall divisions, with the Men's club winner planning on entering the Club Champion's event at Gray Granite LL in Owen Sound on Sun. Apr. 1. +++++ This week will wrap up the bonspiels for the season when 18 rinks will be competing for the Norm Barnard trophy. First round action will commence at 4:30 p,in on Friday, with the first game of the secondand third draws following at .5:30 and 8:30 respec- - tively. Play will eontinue ' with;, two games.' each on Saturday and' wind up on Saturday evening.