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Exeter Times --Advocate
Wednesday, August 25, 1999
Lucan Heritage Days ce1ebmtes1og cabin opening
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Top left: Lucan Area
Heritage celebrated their
Heritage Days on Saturday
with the grand opening of
the log cabin on Frank
Street. Helping out with
the ribbon cutting from left
are Brad Greaves, Harry
Hardy,Austin Hodgins,
Mike Anderson and Linda
Thompson.
At left: Full steam
ahead! Ron Debrouwer of
Lucan amused Lucanites at
Heritage Days with a 114 , .z
scale steam engine, built in
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Below: at left: Garden
tour. The Communities
Bloom garden tour took
place in Lucan Biddulph
Township over the week-
end. Pictured here from
left,Ashley, Brett and
Latoya Hodgins visited
Bryan Smith's garden at his
home on Beech Street.The
garden tour featured 11 ,
homes in Lucan, Biddulph
and Granton. Smith told
the T -A he had received a
lot of visitors Saturda
KatieVeinod, front; and Valerie Callcott took part in
the pony rides on Saturday.
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Four-year-old Lucan resident Billy Ellison was one of
many children who had their faces painted by Carrie
Stephenson on Saturday.
Lucan artist Jan Brouwer works on a painting during Heritage Days on the week-
end. Brouwer had many of hispaintings, mostly of natural settings, on display.
Heritage .Days also featured pony rides, a bake sale and horse drawn wagon rides.
Organizers estimated 200 people attended the events. Lucan Area Heritage com-
mittee member jean Hodgins said the committee was happy with how the day
went.
Helping celebrate the grand opening of the log cabin in Lucan were two former
residents of the cabin, which was moved to Lucan from Bruce Township. From
left, Edna McInnis moved into the cabin in 1910 and her sister Greta Inkster was
born in the cabin in 1916.