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The Ripley Juveniles are now in
a best • of five game series with
Ennismore - in the Peterborough
area. The first two games were in
Ripley last Saturday and Sunday
with the Littlock Coach Lines bus
bringing the team here on Saturday
afternoon. Nelson Hodgins is in
charge of bus arrangements for
next Saturday.
In charge of the Ripley team are
manager Wallace Pollock; coach,
Howard Harrison; assistant coach
and trainer, Larry Irwin; players
are goalie, Kevin Harrison; de-
fence, Donald Harkness, • Brian
'MacKay, Danny Walden, Perry
Elliott and Mark Henry; forwards,
Courtney and Greg. Liddle, Dave
tVlaeDonald, Peter MacDonald,
Rick Smith, Mike: Gallant, Jolmny
Elliott, Roger Farrell and Tommy
Kempton.
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Native of the Point Clark area,
Verner Brown, 64, passed away in
Kincardine and District Hospital.
The funeral was held on Saturday
afternoon with interment in Kincar-
dine Cemetery. He was predeceas-
ed by son Ronald. Sympathy is
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BY AB WYLDS
The late weather, reports on
Wednesday said that snow flurries
were coming but little did anyone
expect what was to happen on
Thursday and Friday. Just before
midnight, falling snow and .an
unseasonal, lightning flash herald-
ed the arrival of the worst storm of
the whole winter. By Thursday
morning a. violent blizzard was
blanketing all Western Ontario.
Schools were cicised and buses
cancelled. A few cars carrying men
' working at the Bruce Nuclear Plant
made the long hazardous ten mile
trip from Ripley to Kincardine and
no further. By Thursday noon they
' were glad to be back to 'Ripley by
taking the sole remaining open
route, namely Highway 21 sguth to
the 12th corner, then east on the
12th concession of Huron Township
and then by the 15th south into
Ripleyw
By Thursday early afternoon Jim
Brooks drove his truck home from
the Ripley arena and that was the
last vehicle noted along the main
street moving. Well Thursday
evening everybody and everything
stayed "put" at home because
outdoors pit was a wild white
howling mass of cold blowing
snow. At times one could not see
the width of the road, and to see
the far end of Gore Park from the
house was impossible.
The forces of nature can take
over and people can not do much
about it. Recall the three weeks of
snowstorms and blocked roads in
March 1947, or Sunday, November
9, 1913 when snow laden winds r*
fifty to a hundred miles per, hour
churned Lake Huron with waves
estimated at heights of 54 feet and'
among the ships sunk was the
newest and "best equipped - the
James Carruthers somewhere be-
tween Point Clark and Gocierich.
Well last Thursday and Friday's
storm was caused by a low pressure
area which formed over Colorado'
and swept eastward. I-uckily, by
Saturday; the blizzard • was gone
and the operators of the snowplows
were out and made a very good job
of opening the roads.
What .a difference two days can
make - on Thursday.evening not a
car on Ripley's street. While on
Saturday evening for the hockey
game t'he /streets of Ripley were
lined with parked. cars. It was the
first game in the Juvenile "E"
finals with Ennismore. The Liitlock
Coach Lines bus from the Peter-
borough area brought the team up
on Saturday afternoon and they
stayed over for the second game on
Sunday afternoon. For those
walking to the arena at the north,
end of Ripley, Jack Scott plowed
the sidewalk from the main corner
to the rink.
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Among the 25 people who were
reported on radio as storm bound in
the Arthur area were Mrs. Marjorie
Reid of Ripley and her daughter
and husband Mr. and Mrs. Jack.
Campbell of Amberley. Marj had
flown into .Malton airport at
Toronto and Jack and Linda
motored down to Toronto to bring
hack to Ripley. Mrs. Reid was
*
Tuesday of last week was the
first of April - April Fool's day. It
was , alSo the day that the
Fahrenheit readings of tempera-
ture were thrown out the window to
be blown away by Thursday's
blizzard., We now have the
teMperature in Celsius or Celecius
or something. This Celsius used to
be the Centigrade scale. Canada -
what a democratic country - no vote,
by the people .- just cram it down
their throats. In case you want to
change back to the Fahrenheit, just
double what the forecaster says
and add 32 and you will be close. If
you Want it exactly then use the
equation F . 915C +32._
Just think of all the' money that
those farmers and small business-
men .are going to make when all
their scales, tools, measuring, tapes
and so on are to be in the metric
system and they have to buy new
ones. Now Mount Forest reported
a snowfall of 21 inches - now just
multiply by 2.54 and that is 53.34
centimetres - much better - don't
you thin/ that it sounds deeper:
The officials are busy with metrica-
tion - no time for solving high costs,
unemployment, strikes, rural de-
population and such, things.
The stormy weather this past
week prompted Mr. and Mrs.
Harry Ramsay and Mrs.' Bette
MacLeod to search for warmer
climes. They plan to visit relatives
and do some sightseeing in, Florida
for the next two' weeks.
In the Alumni Gazette, Spring
edition 1975, received this past
week from Western University, the •
names, of two former Ripleyitei -
now both in Toronto - were noticed
- Miss Helen Yemen ,'and Mrs.
Margaret Willocks, former teacher
at the Ripley District High School.
extended to his wife, his daughters
Pat ' of St. Jacobs and Jan of
Kitchener.
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District A9 Lions held a mini
convention in Stratford on Friday
and Saturday evenings and on
Sunday morning. Alan McLean,
Past President of the Ripley and
District Lions, attended the con-
vention and still made it back "to
Ripley for the afternoon hockey
game. Alan was nominated and
acclaimed chairman for' Zone 3
which is the north part of District
A9. Congratulations to Alan.
BACK-LASH
Our spring weather can't seem
to make much headway — win-
ter must be filibustering.
Died At London
In 67th Year
Mrs. Sara Hastings of London
passed away Wednesday, April 2 at
St. Joseph's Hospital, London in
her 67th year.
She was predeceased by her
husband Fleury Ernest Hastings in
1969.
She is survived by her mother,
Mrs. Annie Jewitt of Lucknow; one
sister, Mrs. Ferris (Mary) Loth;
two brothers, Gordon and Dave, all
of Kitchener; one, niece, Mrs. Wm.
Bolt of Lucknow..
The ,funeral service was held in
the chapel of the Geo. E. Logan &
Sons Funeral Home, London,
Friday at 11 a.m. with Rev. David
Madill officiating. Interment was
in Mt. Pleasant Cemetery, London.
John Blackett of London and
former resident of this area had a
pacemaker inserted on Thursday,
March 27. By Saturday he was off
the monitor and hoping soon to be
able to move about. By now he
hopes to be home for a period of
convalescence - 223 Clarence
Street, London. John has -been a
patient in Westminster Hospital
and Ripley area folks ate glad to,
hear 'this news.. 'John is looking
forward to the Reunion in August.
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