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.
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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.