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The Lucknow Sentinel, 1978-10-18, Page 56Receives card explainin Last week a card, arrived here from Grenoble in France. It showed some huge black stones standing, on end, against a blue sky with white Cumul.us .clouds in the background. The card was called Legende de Carnac and if your francais was good enough iyou could get the story of the stone soldats of Carnac - a stone circle like Stonehenge in England or the Callen - dish Stones' in Lewis Island. The card was from John Moore, son of Mr. and Mrs. Reg Moore, Board of, Education who is attending where his sensible ideas university in Franceand remarks sometimes John said the weather stirred them up. A over there was terrible teacher from Oakville too. In some places like attending the Annual the mountains near George McDonald Sale in Switzerland some snow the Ripley Huron Com - fell in August. And they plex this summer was have strikes too. At the sure that he was not time of writing it was the complimentary about railway' strike. Oh yes, some things in the schools the legend or story, of to -day. He is now retired Carnac. Well away back, from that board only to Saint Cornely was the use his talents in other pope in Rome but some ways. President for the soldiers chased him out past two years and a and right across France. charter member of the Corning to Carnac in board of directors of the Brittany he could go no Oakville Senior Citizens' • further for the ocean (it residence - 167 apart - says sea),, go he turned ments with 174 rooms and and at his Sign the soldats dining room. Then he is •all beca'me stones. And I the Halton Region representative of the guess he was able to return to Rome. And it Federal Business was nice to hear from Development Bank; on John. the Advisory Committee. for Environment and Mr. and Mrs. R.F. Ecology, a member of the •Goodin, , of 129, 7avistock M Midwestern Ontario Square in Oakville came Travel Association. But through Ripley last then Dick siill likes to ,Saturday afternoon and help out in food pick called at the house •production in Ontario here to say, 'hello". Mr. such as turnips, potatoes and' 1VIrs. ,Goodin had just and finished', closing their Since 1969 maple syrup. „ he has. been Bruce. Beach cottage for secretaryotreasurer of the the winter and were ntari heading back home. This Council o RWabaga trip was the last one of 18 of ouThe last edition .the Farm ,and .County round trips they had magazine has one of his made this past summer newsitems on the export • between Oakville and of turnips. Next he Bruce •Beach, one way promoted the formation - between 132 and 140 • and is a member of the miles. Since several -- Ontario Maple Syrup people from this area have been on the bus trips to Agawa Canyon - that is in Algoma, north of Sault Ste. Marie and then return through Northern Michigan, they will be interested to know that Dick was the tour leader on one in September. He serves as •a guide for several .different tours organized by Clare Burt, also known to several people here, and who is at 16 Queen Street West in Brampton, Some of these go to --Florida, California, Maritimes, even Australia and New Zealand. Dick was saying the next one will be Nov. 28 and it will head for Las Vegas. Arizona, then on to the Imperial Valley in California, Dick was with the Ontario Department of Agriculture in Toronto for 35 years where he was the assistant director of the Field Crops Branch, also first secretary and Market DeVeloprnent Specialist of the Ontario Food Council, It was during those years that people from here used to Meet With Dick when he was one of the judges of the C.N.E,grain show in the Coliseum - Jim Needham, John C. MacDonald, Ab Wylds all of Ripley and Norman Schmidt of Mildmay and now. Walkerton, all considered Dick a very competent judge of the grain sheaves which they were showing. Dick retired December, 1968 only to take on many other positions to help his own community and the farmers of Ontario. He served for 10 years on the Oakville -Halton County Producers Association. All this and Dick still finds time to grow • potatoes in his garden at the Royal Winter Fair in the Coliseum in Toronto two years ago. Mr. and Mrs. A.J. Gardner and sons Aaron and Brandon visited on the weekend with Donnie and Carol • Fludder, Tammy and Jason, with s Glen Harris and with. Evelyn. and Jack John- son. Somehow it seems that there is a western song which refers to the lowly Jimson weed. Well one of the .students in Mrs. Helen Henderson's Science class brought in a piece of just that plant last week. Then what was it? It belongs to the same plant family as the tomato and potato - in science that is the Solanaceae and all parts of this odd tropien1 looking plant .are poisonous. It has been growing On the hills of the Robertson farm on the 6th as long as this writer can remember. Strangely enough by instinct the cattle and horses always avoided it in the pasture, Recently, Mr.' and Mrs. E,O. Forrester of Malcolm Street returned home from a trip north in Ontario, Miss'13etty Peterson of Barrie visited last Wednesday afternoon with her aunt Fran and Ab Wylds. Betty is a nurse in Barrie Hospital. Her mother, Mrs. Fran Peterson, along with Betty, visited with her sister Mrs. Mae Bennett in Kincardine. Mr. and Mrs. Metro Nestor of Oxford, , Michigan, have been) visiting with Mr. and Mrs. Frank Scott for two weeks and, stayed for Thanksgiving. Also Mr. and Mrs. D.A. MacIntosh of St. Thomas spent the weekend with Mr, and Mrs. Scott. • Visiting with Nick and Grace Peet of Ripley are Mrs. Corrie Hoogendam and Mrs. Raie Muns of Mississauga. Don and Anne McCosh of Ripley spent last weekend with • Mrs. Audrey - Schandlen • in Mississauga. • Their• 1, • lociaeow:Sea " 07:874.1, , `Legende de Carnac" daughter, Mrs. Anne Kukoly Who has been visiting here with her parents and with her brother Dick McCosh, and als Q other relatives in the area flew home from Toronto Airport on Sunday to Kitimat, British Columbia. Folks in the Ripley and Purple Grove areas in particular were glad to meet Mary Anne again. Mr. and Mrs. Orville Needham of Vancouver, British Columbia, visited on Sunday with Mrs: Gladys Arnold in Ripley. Mrs. Marjorie Reid of Ripley attended a Reid family gathering on Sunday at the home •of Mr. and Mrs. Raynard Ackert at Paradise Lake, Lucknow. Mrs. Mary (Donnie) MacDonald of. Ripley is spending this week in Brampton with her son, wife, and family - Farquhar and Mac MacDonald and family. Mrs Violet _ (John) Coiling of Ripley is a patient in hospital in London. And on Monday morning of this week Mrs. Vera (Gordon) Scott of Ripley was taken by 1 Johns'ton Bros. (Bothwe(l Ltd.) • Dungannon, Ontario.. 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