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Lueknow Sentinel, 'Wednesday, April 28, 1982—Page 12
How does the robin know to change to daylight time?
Spring aheadand fall back
is• the familiar saying for the.
spring and fall . changes in
the time. Last Sunday
morning at two was the time
to push, turn or spring ahead
the timepieces that extr a
hour. What is a puzzle to the
writer is how did the robin in
the back yard ' know. On
Saturday morning he started
singing at four thirty.
Standard time. Well on
Sunday morning there he
was in the same old maple
tree back of the Royal Bank
singing away at four
Daylight Saving – an ad-
vance of one and a half
hours. Not only that but
there were all his neighbours
cheering away.
On Tuesday afternoon of
last week Apr. 20 the Ripley
and District Horticultural
Society held , its monthly
meeting in the Ripley Legion
hall:
Also last Tuesday evening
was the time of the last
scheduled hockey .game at
the Ripley Complex. The
Ripley ,Intermediates ''.won
the W.O.A.A. Intermediate
Grand Championship pin this
game. They made it in the
best of a seven game series
with Durham, winning four
games to one loss. Prior to
this 'series Durham had won
the A class trophy and
Ripley the D class trophy
whichshows that Ripley
played good hockey.
Mr. and Mrs. Reg Moore of
Gladstone St. in the south-
west. part . of Ripley recently.
moved to Hanover where
they are now living.
Last Friday was the first
day for farmers out working
in their fields. With sunshine,
warm temperatures, and a
drying wind prevailing,' it
was real spring . seeding
time. The grass started to
Lucknow ladies attend
horticultural meeting
The annual meeting of
District 8 Ontario Horticult-
ural Association was held in
Markdale ons. April 17 with
the Lucknow . and District
Horticultural ; Society being
repres>;nted by Mrs. J. Arn-
old, Mrs. B. Mole, Mrs: M.
MacGillivray, . Mrs. Jean
Whitby and Mrs. R. Bogues.
Dean Richard Hook, of
Humber College, presented
,the latest information on
pruning trees, both fruit and
look green again. The last of
the winter snow was gone.
On Friday evening shortly
before dusk two large flocks
of gulls flew over Ripley on
their way ' back to Lake
Huron for the " night. They
had spent the day with the
- farmers eating the ear-
thworms on the cultivated
fields. On .Saturday af-
ternoon the I4pley main
streets were bare .- no cars
due to seeding operations.
The Happy Hearts, the
Ripley Senior Citizen Club,
held their annual dinner last
Thursday in the basement
dining room of St, Andrews
United. Church in Ripley with
an . excellent attendance.
There were two noon settings
for the dinner - one before 12,
and the second by one. Folks
from Kincardine and
Lucknow areas as well ' as
those in the Ripley Huron
area attended. At it were
ornamentals. "
Lucknow and District entry
in the photographic compe
tition was, ,awarded second
place.
The next annual meeting
of District 8 Ontario Horti-
cultural Association will be
held 1 in .
Lucknow in April,
1983 to celebrate the 25th
anniversary of the , reorgan-
ization of the . Lucknow and
District Horticultural Soci-
ety.
Library presents
plant program
The Lucknow Brandi Lib-
rary was host to a pres-
entation last 'Tuesday '"even-
ing by Fred Prescod,. Ex-
tension Horticulturalist, from
the Outreach Program of the
.Royal Botanical Gardens of
Hamilton.
Mr. Prescod gave an hour
long '.talk called,, "Foliage
Plants For Indoors". Illustra-
tingwith slides, he suggest-
ed suitable tropical house-
plants for every corner of the
home or office, answering
questions as he went along.
He also remained ' after the
program to talk with the
audience and. to allow inter-
ested members of the aud-
ience to examine his posters
showing . foliage' plants for
different conditions and
problem houseplants have.
He left literature in the
Library about the exhibits at
the Royal Botanical Gardens
and the programs ' available
there. The talk was made
possible by the support of
Georgian Bay Reg. Library
System, Outreach Ontario,
,and the' Royal Botanical Ga.-
' dens.. •
Express sympathy
Illy Roth Duchmeler
The community expresses
their sympathy to Mr. Fred
Gilchrist and M. and Mrs.
Bob Gilchrist and boys on the
loss of a dear wife and
mother. Helen, last week.
Their son, Jack, was 'home
from Vancouver to attend the
Mrs. Huntley Dawson
spent a few days last week
with her brother, Clarence
Munrow of Lambeth and at-
tended the funeral of her
sister-in-law, the former Ger-
trude MacVicar on' Tuesday,.
April 20. Besides . her hus-
band, she is survived by a
daughter, Phyllis, Mrs.
Grant Carron; a son, Ron
Munrow, both of Lambeth;
also three grandchildren.
The late Mrs. Munrow was a'
sister of the late, Lilly, Mrs.
Charles Mason, formerly of
Lucknow. •
Mr. 'and Mrs. Fraser Mac-
Kinnon and Murray were
Sunday evening dinner
guests with Mr. and Mrs.
• Jim Frayne of Goderich.
Mr. and Mrs. Ray Buch-
meier, Carol and Bruce and
Mrs. Stewart MacGillivray
,attended the baptism of
Amy, daughter of Mr. 'and
Mrs. Norm Le Clair' of
Toronto on Sunday. •
A farew!ll' party was held
at Holyrood Hall on Saturday
evening for Mr. and Mrs.
Ken Houston, Amy and Ang-
ela, who are moving to the
Pike Lake area in May.
Mr. and Mrs. Earl Stever
attended the baptism service
of their • granddaughter,
Michelle, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Don Kuntz of Kit-
chener last Sunday.
Reg and Harriet Moore of
Hanover and a Ripley group
from London namely Bill
and Wanda Harris, Dr. Jack
and Beulah. Tindall, and Ivan
and Opal Benson.
The waste paper drive by
the Ripley Brownies and
Guides with Mrs. Jan
Fludder in charge has been
cancelled due to the lack .of a
suitable market. This
salvage drive was scheduled
for Saturday, morning May
8th:
Ken and Ruth MacDonald,
sons Jeff and Chris of Kit-
chener visited with her
grandmother Mrs. Jennie
McLean. Also they visited
with George and Joy.
McLean and with Donalda
McLean and members of her
family namely Wayne, Mary
'Lynn, Debbie, Brenda, Betty
Jean andLiza.
Mrs. Vera Scott of Ripley
is reported in Kincardine
and District Hospital where
she underwent surgery last
week. '
Mso reported quite ill in
Walkerton this past week
was Lettie Gawley of Ripley,
Ripley carpenter Ray
Fuller recently built a
protective ' roof over the
Sunday school room en-
trance at the east side, of
Knox Presbyterian Church.
It will prevent ice and snow
from the church 'roof from'
falling ' on people using ,this
entrance.
Three home and one still to
come is the count of Ripley'
families back from Florida.
Recently Don and Anna
MacTavish, Burt and Irene
Griffith, and Francis and
Margaret Gemmel' returned
to their homes in Ripley
after spending winter
vacations at Tamarac,
Florida. Still to come are Mr.
and. Mrs. Walter Forster who
spend their winters at
Pinellas Park, Florida.
. BillMcCreath, 'who was in
Toronto the first part of last
week, 'was back home to.
Ripley on Fridayy for the
weekend.
George and Joy McLean of
Ripley and Mr. and Mrs. A.
Guest ,Mitchell of Kincardine
visited last Sunday with Mr.
and Mrs. Steve George and
family in. Ajax.
Mrs. Nick Peet . returned
home to Ripley last Thur-
sday evening Apr. 22 after
arriving at Toronto airport.
Grace flew from Toronto on
Mar. 31 for three week visit,
with her mother and other
relatives at Ermeld in the
Netherlands. It is a short
distance from Amsterdam.
She reports a good trip and
says the flowers including
daffodils, hyacinths, and
tulips all in bloom are
beautiful now.
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