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
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`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
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