The Lucknow Sentinel, 1983-04-06, Page 14ripley news
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Ripley and area residents attend board of eduction meeting in Chesley
By Ab Wytds
On Thesday of last week
March 29, about 20 people
from Huron Township and
the village of Ripley area
travelled tc Chesley to at-
tend the monthly meeting of
the Bruce County Board of
Education. This board of 17
trustees - seven ladies and
ten men, representative
trustees of the different
areas in the county from
Tobermory in the north
down to Highway c in the
south is headed by chair-
man Barry Schmidt of Kin-
eardine and vice-chairman
William C, Setterington of
Walkerton,
Five spokespersons read
letters and made comments
in the following order to the
board, namely Bruce Clift of
Kincardine, John Gamble of
Huron Township, Sheila Pep-
per of Point Clark, Jim Far-
rell of Reids Corners, and
Cameron McAuley of Ripley.
John Gamble the deputy
reeve on the Huron
Township council presented
three letters in support of the
Ripley Secondary School re-
maining open, The first one
was signed by the councils f
Huron and Ripley, the se=
rond one by the high school
teachers at the Riley school
and the third one by the
students of the Ripley
visit at Langside
By Lillian Young
Intended tor last week
Mr. and Mrs, Rick Jones,
Chris and Sonia of Thunder
Bay visited with her parents,
Mr, and Mrs, Robert Wynne
and also with friends here at
Langside,
Win Osband of London
spent last week visiting with
friends here and returned
home on Saturday,
Friday visitors with
Lillian Young were Mrs, Os -
band of London and Mrs,
Donald England, Kathy and
Carla of Whitechurch,
We are sorry to report that
Millicent Carter is a patient
in University Hospital, Lon-
don. We wish her improved
health.
Lillian Young, Ken Young
and Russell Springer
motored to London on Satur-
day.
Recent visitors with Mr.
and Mrs, Thomas were
Kathy's brother, Brian and
friend Angela of Cambridge,
Several Grade 12 & 13
students took advantage of
the holiday week to go for in-
terviews at different col-
leges and universities.
Apple dumpling gang
enjoy gingerbread
By Colleen Van Oseh
The fourth meeting of the
Kingsbridge Apple Dumpl-
ing Gang was held on March
21 at the home of Mrs. An-
tone Van Osch. The 12
members answered the roll
call. There are 65 vartetieS of
pasta, name one.
Nancy Miltenburg read
the minutes of the last
meeting and Debbie Dren-
nan gave the treasurer's
report.
The leaders divided
members into groups to
make recipes. After the
recipes were ready they
were baked.
When the recipes were
ready to be served all en-
joyed the Greek -style Apple
e and Antipasto but most
didn't like the Middle
Eastern Stuffed Vegetable.
13y Agnes Van Oseh
The Kingsbridge Apple
Dumpling Gang held their
fifth meeting on March 29, at
the home of Hannie Scott.
The twelve members
answered the roll call, Name
a Chinese, Japanese, East or
West Indian dish you have
had"
The members were then
divided into three groups to
make the recipes for this
meeting. The leaders
discussed the food customs
of the Chinese, Japanese,
East and West Indians.
Members enjoyed sampl-
ing the food which they had
made including Ginger-
bread, Kima, Peanut Punch
A44N/ +,,,
Trinity Homemak!rs
chose achievement topic
by Debbie Baynard The club divided into two
groups, Debbie Haynard,
The fifth meeting of the Sherry Nixon, Vickey
Trinity Heritage Hackett and Diane Haynard
Homemakers was held on prepared rima. Suzanne
Saturday, March 19 at Mary Alton, Brenda Hackett,
Lou Raynard's home. Brenda Gibson and Donna
The subject of the Haynard prepared
Achievement program for Gingerbread. After the food
the club was discussed and was cooked, the members
the topic chosen was Maple sampled the food and was
Syrup. enjoyed by all,
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school Both Jim Farrell and
Cameron McAuley, a former
member of the Bruce Board,
made impressive presenta-
tions according to reports.
Others attending were
Dianne Heinisch, Helen
Moore, Doug Martyn, Mur-
ray Culbert,Marion owry
[Aron, Lurn, 3arbara Elliott
Dorothy Needham, Bill
Scott, Bob Rutledge and Bob
Scott. • They feel that they
were well received by the
board. They hope that there
is a better understanding
now of the situation.
Perhaps as one commented,
that a volatile issue had been
defused.
Shur Gain Feed
A Shur Gain Feed spon-
sored day for this area was
held on Tuesday of last week
in the auditorium of the
Ripley Huron Community
Centre Complex. The morn-
ing seminar from 9 to 12 noon
was for dairy farmers and
the afternoon seminar from
1 to 4 p.m. was for the pork
producers.
Here for the seminars
were three experts - Bob
Robson, manager of the Shur
Gain farm at Maple; Dave
Steckley, Shur Gain nutri-
tionist -from St. Marys and
John Thomson, Tuco Drugs
from Orangeville.
About 150 farmers in total
rotting from this area which
Includes Bruce, Kincardine,
Huron, Kinloss, and Ashfield
Townships attended the
event. Mrs. Betty Needham
of Huron Township north
boundary served them a nice
roast beef dinner.
Arrangements for the day
were made by Bob and Ju
Thompson of the Ripley Mill
and Feed Centre.
Back home Now
Last Thursday morning,
Niels Frederiksen arrived at
his home on Malcolm Street
in Ripley after a five month
holiday in the southern
United States. He left there
at the first of November just
as the first flakes of snow
were falling. From Riley he
went to Toronto and from
there flew to San Antonio,
Texas, where he stayed with
his brother Hans
Frederiksen and wife Ann
until Christmas week. Then
they drove to Gaston near
Birmingham, Alabama - a
two day trip. At Gaston they
had Christmas with Niel's
niece Karen i Frederirksen )
Rae, her husband and
daughter Andrea.
Next they went to Fort
Walton Beach for a two day
New Year visit with his
nephew, wife and family,
Steve and Debbie
Frederiksen. Fort Walton is
a short distance r 25 miles)
east of the big U.S. Naval
Base at Pensacola in north
west Florida_ Here Niels re-
mained after the New Year
holiday while his brother
Hans and wife Ann returned
to San Antonin and then left
for South Africa where Hans,
an engineer, will be in
charge of his company there
for the next few years.
In mid March, Niels flew
from Pensacola to Orlando
in central Florida. Here Jim
Bell of Kincardine met him
at the airport. Then Niels
toured in Florida with Jim
and Ann Bell and family
from Orlando to Daytona
Beach and St. Augustine.
They returned to Kincardine
last Wednesday and Jim
drove Niels to Ripley on
Thursday.
Easter Holiday
Mabel and Norm Barnard,
Dawn Carruthers and son
Cole all of Ripley along with
Dale and Ann Rock and
daughter Ellen of RR 1, Kin-
cardine spent Easter Sunday
with Michael and Shirley
Burnham in Kincardine.
Mrs. Pam George and
children, Mandy and Eric of
Ajax visited with her grand-
parents, Redvers and
Mildred Johnson and with
her aunt Joy and George
McLean in Ripley on Easter
Sunday.
Visitingwith Leslie and
Dorothy ardell on Easter
bundav were Mr. and Mrs.
James Renwick of Belmore
and Mr. and Mrs. Irwin Flet-
cher of Kincardine.
Fire Near The t)ump
About four thirty on Satur-
day afternoon the fire whis-
tle sounded in Ripley.
Answering the call were
firemen Ray Fuller, Doug
Martyn, Joe Hodgins, Bod-
die MacDonald, Bill Robin-
son, John Dodds and Jack
Scott out with the trucks and
George McLean and Ted
Rouse at the fire hall.
The high north east winds
blowing on Saturday must
have blown something on
fire to a big dead tree in the
former Sandy and Dan
Robertson bush just south of
the Huron Township dump
and set the tree on fire.
Firemen cut the tree down to
extinguish it.
Mr. and Mrs. Carl Bren-
nan are on a three week holi-
day in Florida. While Carl
and Pat are enjoying this
vacation in Hollywood Beach
between Fort Lauderdale
and Miami on the east or
Atlantic side of the state,
daughter Shelley Barker is
in charge of the grocery
store on the Ripley Main
Street. Shirley and young
son, Dustin of Collingwood,
are living in the Brennan
house on William Street.
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