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The Lucknow Sentinel, 1978-03-15, Page 12Page 12—Lueki ow Sentinel, Wednesday, March 15, 1978 Olivet BY LORRAINE McGVIRE Mrs. Peter VanSickle and children spent a few days last week visiting her parents Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Munch andother relatives in Cambridge. Mr. and Mrs. Andy Reihl and Mark and Mrs, Albert Reihl of Goderich visited. on Sunday, evening with Mr. and Mrs. Walter Black. Mrs. Betty Frazer of, British Columbia ° is visiting with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. ' Stan Blackwelland also with Mr. and .Mrs. Bob Blackwell and family. Our deepest sympathy is ex- tended to Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Stewart on the passing of their uncle, Mr. Jaynes Stewart. Mr. and Mrs. Stewart reside on the former Allan Irwin farm on the 4th concession. Mr. • and Mrs. Timms of Toronto visited on the weekend with • Mr. and Mrs. Robert Blackwell and family. Mr. and Mrs. Allister McKay visited on Wednesday evening with Mr. and Mrs. Ray Hamilton and family, Mr. and Mrs. Ray Hamilton and family and Rod McDonagh of Lucknow were dinner gdests on Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Paul Hamilton and girls of Hanover. Mx. and Mrs. "Ron McGuire and Christopher visited on Sunday evening with Mr. and Mrs. Brian Scandrett. A large crowd attended the figure skating carnival in Ripley on Sunday afternoon. Miss Shan- non Blackwell, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Blackwell, participated in the event. Miss .Joyce. awl Joan Osborne .. and Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Fitzgerald, Sean and Kelly enjoy- ed a 4-H bus trip to the College Royal at Guelph on Sunday. Congratulations to those child- ren of the Ripley District School who participated in 'the Public Speaking ,contest, sponsored by the Ripley Lions Club which was held in the Legion Hall last Wednesay evening. In a mechariic's overalls If you call on Lorraine McGuire through the day you are likely to find her' in a pair of mechanic's coveralls bent under .the hood a car removing a carburetor. She helps her husband, Jack and their son, Ron, operate their business, 'Huron Auto Wreckers, on their farm at Olivet, Jack started the business asa hobby 18 years ago, says Lor- raine, but when he started working away from the farm, she found herself running the busi- ness fot him .during the day. "People would come in and someone. had to remove the car parts for them and where I once didn't know a carburetor from a • starter, I'm now a mechanic except I don't have the papers that say so,' she laughs. Lorraine is also a registered saleman for used cars. They sold used cars ten years ago and have now gone back to selling them because their son, Ron, who just finished his mechanic's appren- ticeship, wants to operate the business on a larger scale. Lorraine writes the Olivet column for the Sentinel, during SteerhideRope gioves Yours,NoCHAAGE, with your next purchase of beef supplement Order your next 2 tonnes of any CO-OP beef supplement and pick-up your steerhide Roper gloves at NO CHARGE! • Genuine 'steerhide • Straight thumb • Dome fasteners • Tan colour • Retail value $7.89 Offer valid until March 31/78 Limit 2 pairs per customer. ' the spare; time she finds after working 16. hourdaysin the shop. She finds the community is smaller than when. she first mov- ed there because somany of the farms have been sold to absentee"` owners. Many of the owners rent their land and only come to their farms from the city on weekends. ,Some of the houses are rented out while others stand empty. Only about three of the community's residents phone Lorraine with their news, but she finds that one neighbour usually knows about another and she can phone to make sure. Lorraine was born and raised in Auckland; New Zealand, and came to Canada with her mother to visit her aunt 23 years ago. She married Jack and has lived in Canada since then. Her only ambition is to go back and see her family and as soon as Ron is established in the business she and Jack plan to visit New Zealand. They both would go tomorrow but they find they cannot just up and leave family and business. Lorraine's brother and his wife were to Canada eight years ago to visit her . but, she has not been back to New Zealand since she left. She still thinks of New Zealand as home. Countries can change she admits, but if New Zealand is still as•she remembers, it will be home to her always. She feels she may want to stay if she does return and would go back there to live if her family would follow her. She finds it impossible to understand that a person would not know his next door neighbour. Even in the cities in New Zealand everyone is friendly and knows their neighbours. She also remembers with humour, the firsttime she cooked asparagus for dinner. She had never seen the vegetable and did not know how it was prepared: She thought -the heads had all gone to see, so she cut them up and boiled the lower half of the stalk as the vegetable, instead of preparing the heads. She finds Christmas, even after all the years celebrating a winter Christmas, to be "terribly differ- ent". iffer-ent". She enjoyed Christmas at the beach in New Zealand much more. There was no concern that the family wotdd not be together because the weather would be too stormy. She misses the close family Christmas in New Zealand that develops because you know everyone will be together. Lorraine is active in her community and through teaching Explorers she and her sister-in- law started the Rummage Sales which are held each spring and fall in Lucknow. The Explorers wanted a project and decided to adapt a child overseas and started the rum- mage sales as a means of raising the money to support the child. It was a community rummage sale and the first year, with the Olivet community donating ' the clothing, and it was held in a Lucknow store front. They made $80. The sale has grown each year and. is now sponsored by the U.C.W: ;Unit 5'of Ripley United Church which is the former Olivet Church unit. Since the closing of the. Olivet Church the congrega- tion worships at Ripley United. The rummage sale has been held • in several places. The "stuff" as Lorraine calls it,� for lack of a better word, was being stored in her rec room, until her family asked, politely, for .their recreation area back. They held the sale at the Silverwoods building after they were asked to vacate the store front and left the articles there until it was leased to Ball Auction, two years ago. CONTINUED ON• PAGE 21 <45 Lorraine McGuire, the Sentinel's Olivet correspondent, Loves animals and her Eskimo Spitz dogs, Tara, Left and Twinkles, right, are important members of the McGuire. household. Lorraine has been instrumental in the organization of the Rummage' Sales sponsored by the Olivet unit of the Ripley United Church Women.