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Zurich Citizens News, 1975-07-24, Page 3Mrs. Laird Mickle and Mrs. Florence Joynt spent Tuesday in London visiting with Mrs. Rob- ert Mickle and Mrs. Charles Crouch and on Thursday in Kit- chener visiting the former 's daughter Mrs. Brian Collins. Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Keyes spent last weekend in Winnipeg, attending the wedding of their niece and also visiting relatives in Pilot Mound, Manitoba. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Chaffe, of Mitchell were recent visitors with Mr. and Mrs. Jack Corbett and Mr. and Mrs. James Sangst- er and Bradley. Rev. W.D Jarvis conducted service in Carmel Presbyterian Church on Sunday. Misses Beat- rice and Mary Thompson sang a duet "Mansion OVer the Hill- top" accompanied by Mrs. Malcom Dougall at the organ. The flowers in the church were placed in memory of the late Ernest Pym. On July 15, during Centennial Celebrations in Ridgetown, honor was bestowed to the Mickle families past and present, during a brief ceremony when the municipal officers and Lower Thames Valley Conservation Authority officials participated in the official opening of the Lower Thames Park area between Ebenezer and York street. The ceremony was held at the corner of main and Water Street on the site of the former Mickle's flour and feed mill. The park project which affords a flood control on the creek and a beauty spot in Ridgetown was jointly financed by the Province of Ont- ario, the town of Ridgetown and Lower Thames Valley Conserv- ation Authority. The $270,000 project was started more than two years ago and was completed last year. Under the original agreement, the Authority agreed to maintain the property as a flood control area only. The Ridgetown Council asked for and received permission to maintain the area themselves for an improved park. The whole town block area has been sodded and gardens planted and trees and shrubs set out to landscape it. Thos taking part in the cere- mony were heads of the. three different departments. To offic- ially mark the completion of the park a tree planting ceremony took place. The reeve thanked the Hortic- ultural Society for .their part in planting the flower beds by the students of the elementary schools and the funds for the planting of the trees and shrubs came from the neighbourhood Improvement Program under way in Ridgetown and to Mr. Hugh McVittie for the landscape planning and who did much of the actual tree planting as well. The park was officially declar- ed open by the Lower Thames Valley Conservation area chair- man. The mayor gave a brief outline of the history of the property upon which the park is located. He noted it was the site of the former Mickle flour and feed Mill. Mr. George T. Mickle first owned the mill and was lat- er known as George T. Mickle and Sons Ltd. A few years after Mr. Mickle's death in 1950 it became the prop- erty of his son Frank Mickle and was known as F.A. Mickle and Son Ltd., and upon his death a few year ago was owned by his son George. In 1964 the business was sold to St. Clair Grain and Feed who built a new facility on Morgan Street along the C & 0 tracks near where the rest of the firm's property was located. The old mill property was sold Zurich Citizens News, July 24, 1975 -Page 3 :o a Chatham firm who later sold it to the Lower Thames Valley Conservation Authority Mayor Luckham also noted the significant contribution to the community given by the three generations of Mickles. They have been active in social and business and church activities since they came here in 1882. Frank Mickle served on the local Board of Education for many years and his son George has been active in Municipal govern- ment since 1949 serving as councillor, deputy -reeve, reeve and Mayor and also served for several years on the PUC commis- sion. He announced with the consent of the authority the new Park was to be named Mickle Park in honor of the Mickle families who had made such a significant contrib- ution to the town. The park was then officially declared Mickle Park by the Chamber of Com- merce past president, Gordon Walker. The name of the new park was a complete surprise to Mr. George Mickle "you have over- whelmed me" he said and then thanked the town and the author- ity for the honor bestowed A Centennial flag was then removed from a small cairn revealing a bronz tablet procl- aiming that area "Mickle Park." WRIGHT REUNION Forty descendants of the Wright Family attended the an- ival Wright Reunion on Sunday, July 13, at the Kirkton-Woodham Community Centre. A special welcome was given to Mr. and Mrs. Clem Geisler, Midland, Texas, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Horne, Leamington and Mr. and Mrs. Murray Wright, from Kings- ville. The 20th Reunion will be held at the Kirkton-Woodham Com- r,iunity Centre, the second Sun- day in July 1976, with Lorne Ross as president and Mrs. Orl- and Reichert, Hensall as sec- retary. FRACTURES ARM A Hay Township area farmer, Ross Corbett had the misfort- une to fall while forking hay in his barn on Friday, fracturing his left arm at the elbow. He was attended by Dr. J.C. Goddard at South Huron Hospital, Exeter, where his arm was placed in a cast. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Hoy are holidaying at their cottage near Ripley. Mrs. Bert Horton, Mrs. Peter McNaughton, Mrs. Allan Busche, London and Mrs. Ed Corbett attended a trousseau tea in New Market in honor of Miss Kathy Vickers niece of Mrs. Horton and Mrs. McNaughton. 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