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The Lucknow Sentinel, 1966-05-11, Page 160@S TO CALGARY Bruce CoIwaII To Be Pad Of Boy Scout Exchange Bruce Colwell, 15-year':.old son. of Mr.; and. Mrs, Currie Co1wie11 of the 2nd of Kinloss, b$is,been chosen participate in the 1966 Boy, Scout .InterprOVinicial Exchange Bruce, a grade 10 student at Lucknow District HighSchool, belongs' to. the Kinloss.. Venturers' which is a section of the Scouting movement in,which older, boys participate. Bruce is a Queen's Scout: The exchange will be with 'Albert George 0' Neill , 15 , of Calgarry', who is the Troop Leader of. the 1.8th Calgary Troop. • The O'Neill youth;willocome here,' sometime this summer and. spend 'two weeks,with the Colwell fam-:' ''ily while Bruce isthere_, It is:. ex7. petted Bruce will return with him.. and spend two weeks in Calgary. .It is planned oto have Bruce visit in the west in late summer so that', he cap participate n a bus trip to • Vancouver: and Seattle being sponsored' by the Calgary Scouts • towardsthe,:end of August. • AtteS..Course. Jack Hewitt of Kinloss last -week attended a postgraduate course at the Canadian College of Em- balming; in Toronto. Jack is employed at Johnstone and Son -in Zucknow. WILLIAM McCREATH William "Bill". McCreath, well known furniture dealer and under- taker of'Ripley, is the new clerk of the village of;Ripley. Bill was sworn into the new Off- ice at the regular meeting of Ripley council last week. He succ .•eeds'Walter Needham who retired for health reasons. ,Bill has been .in the furniture business in Ripley for the past 20, .years. In the -early years he was associated with Neil McLennan as an employee and a partner, and about 10 years ago acquired complete interest in the business. Bill is a licensed embalmer and through these years he has assisted Neil McLennan with his funeral home service in Ripley. It is the intention of the new clerk to continue his ,furniture business and his association with the funeral home in Ripley. of Atte f'thef Chti ' froth st treat uct alto. novel 1 be SHARON WEST• Sharon Louise West, daughter f Mr. and. Mrs. Richard West of shfield Township, graduated rom St; Joseph's Hospital.School f Nursing, London, on May "6th.. Among those attending the raduation Exercises were Mr. nd Mrs. Richard West, Mr.. and rs. Elmer 'Smeitzer, Mr. and rs. James West, Miss Mabelle acDonald of Windsor, Mt. and•. rs'. Lloyd MacDougall, Miss race Macr ugall and Mr ..Alan acDougall.• A reception.followed at the 'tinge Restaurant, London. Mrs. J. C. Johnstone will this .weekend.be reunited with .her parentsand sister in England who she, has not seen for 20. . years sincet ozning to Lucknow as a war bridefolio, wing. the second world war,. and Mrs, Johnstone,: the former Joyce :•Norman,,' were. marr"fed.in England'while J C... was serving in the Royal'Cana& ian Air Force. Following. the . War,. Mts. Johnstone and her year-old son Tony came to. . Canada and the 'Johnstone family 'nave made their, home just- north of 'Lucknow, on the •Holyrood road, since that time.. J. C. is an employee 'of Ont- ario Hydro. at Douglas Point and 'Mrs. Johnstone will leave Toron- to this Sunday about rnidight do a special chartered plane' arranged by Ontario Hydro. She will fly to'London and her', final. destination will be north- • with in the general. Liverpool area. 'She will spend four Weeks in England It will be a happy/reunion for. . Mrs. Johnstone with her parents; • Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Norman, her sister: and brother-in-law. Mr. and Mrs. ,Stanley; Lawton . . and their daughter Judith. dVoted' Queen of the Lucknow .District High School for 1966 was Wendy MacKenzie, 18, daughter. of Mr. and Mrs. Bob MacKenzie of Lucknow and a grade' 12 student at the school: Doug Johnston, 16; son of Mr. and. Mrs.. Albert pammie of Lucknow was voted , King ;of the school by .his fellow students. 'Doug is in Grade 1:3 The awards were announced at the, Spring Formai at die school last Friday night by teacher Mrs, Jack Hewitt, after being introduced. by the student council president. David Thompson. Pictured recently in the Kitchen- er Record itchen-er"Record was Jack Blue of Palmer- ston, son of Mr, and Mrs. Donald Blue 'ofRiPleY, ashe disheded up. 2000 pancakes at a. dinner sponsor- ed by North Huron Masonic Lodge with proceeds to go to. a Centenn- ial swimming pool at Palmerston. Hi h ,Scl ool B�ardi 9 Confer . On :Mer!er Representatives of the Wingham. and Lucknow District High School 'Boards' met on Wednesday' night of last`week: at the Wingham Dist- rict High School with the con- sultative committees of Huron and Bruce Counties. ••A :by-law was drafted which will be presented to county conn cils at their June session calling for the dissolution of the Wingham District High School Area as it exists today, and the forming of a new area which will include, the Lucknow District High School Area as well as those previously in the'Wingham area: If this is passed by county coun- cils, it will become effective the first of next year. NAIL. INJURES KNEE Youngster Home From Hospital Mx and Pits Gordon Elliott have sold their 200 acre farm at Amberley to Mt. .and Mrs; Peter . Huizinga 'of Clinton. • Mr. Huizinga gets possession ,May.:. 19th. He. has been operating a. dairy farm at Clinton. Mr. and: Mrs.' Huiz.inga.have two, children, a daughter .18 years old and a son who is 17:. • Their, two other. sons were .both killed in separate car accidents a few" years ago. : The sale: was made by:F.'•C. •VanEyl, local agent for John Bosveld °Real Estate. A good stocker sale 'was; reported; at the Lucknow Community Sales Barns on. Monday of this week with 010 head consigned. The top .three calves were con- signed by Allan Petrie of Dungann on, 'and were purchased by Flem Black of Bluevale at 30.25. The top nine heifers averaging 550 lbs. were consigned by Wes - Ritchie Of Ashfield and purchased hy.Victor Hargraves of Hensall at 23.80. ,Two lots of western steers, con- signed "by Bob McIntosh,' brought the top. price of 28.50. :Eight. averaging 650 lbs. were .sold to Gordon Roulston of Huron Town- ship, and seven averaging 570 lbs. were sold, to Evan. Keith of Kinloss. Township. Bill` Ross of Lucknow suffered' burns to his. eye and face` when. splashed with liquid nitrogen last ,week. • Sill was operating, the Lucknow Co=op liquid' nitrogen spreader athe farm , arm of Peter-Verbeek in, .� . East Wawanosh Township, The hose came off the, spreader and as' he was attempting to get .it back in place the nitrogen splash- ed in his face. Douglas Blake, 5 1/2 -year-old son of Mr and Mrs. 'Howard . Blake of 'Ashfield, has returned to his home after 3 1/2 weeks in Wingham Hospital., Douglas fell on a nail, injuring his knee. Complications followed which caused him 'to be hospital - lied. A merriorabie event occurred . .at the Old Light Lodge Rooms in Lucknow on their regular meeting. night last Thursday. J. Wesley Joynt was presented with his 50 - 'year Mason 0'year'Mason button by his son • George Joynt, also a member of Old Light ,Lodge.. The`presenta- tion of the '50 year Mason button is not a common occurrance' by any mean$,. but another Mason, Thomas Salkeld, was also prey- ented with this award by his son • • Lawrence about a. yeat ago, when Lawrence was Master of the ledge,. pictured',left to right, are, Donald Maclntyre, present Master of Old • Light. Tho as Salkeld, treasurer of the � for the past thirty years and 51 years a Mason; 1.;W,. Joynt receiving his 50 year button. from his son George Joynt Reeve N of the Village of Lucknow