The Lucknow Sentinel, 1983-05-11, Page 11community news
Lucknow Sentinel, Wednesday, May 11, 1983—Page 11
Ab Wylds reviews s;oholastic record at Ripley school...
*from page 9
Margaret Willocks of
Etobicoke in Toronto, Mrs.
Elizabeth Fair and Ab Wylds
both of Ripley. That same
year 1955, there were four
Grade 12 namely John Gam-
ble, Sheila Irwin, Marion
Geddes and Eva Carter. On-
ly Eva returned and was
taught Grade 13 in 1955-56.
Now she is on the staff of the
W.E. Thompson School in
Kincardine.
And yes back in 1929 Ab
Wylds got a Carter Scholar-
ship for Kincardine High
School and for teachers D.A.
Sutherland, Viola Gilfillan
and Clara Norman. There
were six teachers and an
enrolment of 120 students at
Kincardine then. More next
week.
Remember the motto of
the Ripley Continuation
School and it s successor the
Ripley District High School
is FIERI POTEST - It can be
done.
Off to England
Donald and Angela Bell
will be in England in May at
the invitation of the Dam -
buster Association of the
Royal Air Force. They will
be attending and par-
ticipating in functions and
ceremonies designed to com-
memorate the 140th anniver-
sary of the breaching of the
Ruhr dams in Germany dur-
ing the Second World War.
An official tour of France
has been organized for the
end of May to visit the sites
of Hitler's Victory weapons -
V1, V2, and V3 - the buzz
bombs; and other targets
destroyed by the Dam -
busters. Receptions will be
given by the local com-
munities and authorities.
The Ripley Agricultural
Society held their May
meeting on Monday evening
this week. Details will be
given next week. The Ripley
Huron fall fair is on the last
Friday and Saturday in
September. .
For the record on this
Monday morning May 9
there was a heavy white
frost covering everything
and a thin sheet of ice on any
Lochalsh couple
welcome grandson
By Kae Webster
Recent visitors with Mrs.
Rhetta MacLennan were her
brother and sister-in-law,
Mr. and Mrs. Harold Jardine
of Harriston.
Congratulations to Mr.
and Mrs. Bob Courtney of
Point Clark on the arrival of
their new grandson who was
born on Saturday, April 30.
The proud parents are Tom
and Wendy Leonard of Mis-
sissauga.
Finlay MacLennan of Kin-
cardine, son of Mrs. Rhetta
MacLennan, is at present a
patient in the Owen Sound
Hospital. The community
sends get well wishes.
We are glad to report that
Mrs. Oliver (Marion) Mc -
Charles of Kincardine was
able to return home from
London hospital the first of
the week. Mrs. McCharies
had been hospitalized close
to two weeks following sur-
gery.
Bob, Sandra and Heather
Darling of Hanover have
been recent visitors with Mr.
and Mrs. Gordon Robb.
Mr. and Mrs. Gordon
Robb were dinner guests on
Sunday with Mr. and Mrs.
Leonard Eccles of Holstein.
Visiting a day or two with
Mr. and Mrs. Jim MacKen-
zie and gamily was Mrs.
MacKenzie's grandmother,
Mrs. Mae Rock of Seaforth.
Mrs. Georgia Mitchell of
the fourth concession of
Huron Township, the former
Avon representative for the
area, is able to be home
again, after being in and out
of hospitals (Wingham and
London) a good part of the
winter. Keep well, Georgia.
Lucknow UCW unit 4
see ylides of New Guinea
Unit 4 of Lucknow united
Church Women met on Tues-
day, May 3, 1983 with an
attendance of 29.
Mrs. Charlie Anderson,
assisted by her committee,
Mrs. A. J. Wilson, Mrs,
Lloyd Whytock and Mrs.
Velma Morningstar, read the
scripture and Mrs. Anderson
followed with prayer. Mrs.
Wilson led in a Litany of
Thanksgiving.
Mrs. Anderson and Mrs.
Wilson read an article, Stran•
ger in Paradise. taken from
the Mission Magarine, tel
ling the story of a ( anadian
girl and hc'r work as a nurse
in Papua, view Guinea This
year's study for the unit is
the South Pacific.
Mrs. Anderson intrnduc ed
the guest speaker. Mrs. .lim
Henderson of 1 w know Ear
1\ this year, Mr and Mrs.
Henderson had visited New
Guinea and spent some time
with their son. Jim. who is at
Kandrian in his third year
teaching under the Cuso
program. He teaches sci-
ence, mathematics, agricul-
ture and art at a school for
boys and girls, grades 8 - 10.
There are 600 different lang-
uages but the main one
spoken is Pidgin English.
The people are 80 - 90%
Christian. of different deno-
minations. "
Mrs. Henderson described
the country and customs and
showed interesting slides of
the beautiful area, flowers,
beaches and its people. She
was thanked by Mrs. Whvt
(ick.
Mrs Bryce E:Iliott took
( harp(' of the business, open"
ing w It a peen). 'sod's (lift.
Reports were heard from the
treasurer, the c nmmunit,,
friendship cornm,ttee, and
social functions committee
I he meeting closed with
prayer and a social time
followed.
open water. What the Coun-
try needs now is warm dry,
sunny weather to get tongs
growing and the spring plan-
ting finished. On Saturday
morning before the cold wet
weather front swept over
this area, a pair of Baltimore
orioles were over on Finlay
street - summer birds.They
were given this name by the
early settlers of Maryland to
honour Lord Baltimore who
helped in settling that state,
George and Joy McLean
and his mother Jennie
McLean of Ripley motored
to the Lions Head area last
Sunday morning to spend the
day there visiting with
relatives Mr. and Mrs.
Wilbert Hellyer, Mr. and
Mrs. George Hellyer, Mrs.
Clara Kaizer and son Eric.
They were surprised to
find that snow was
everywhere. Instead of rain
it had snowed on Saturday
and it was still there on Sun-
day. Later Sunday after-
noon, they attended the
turkey dinner at Clark's
Tavern in Lindsay township
about four miles north of
Ferndale and just east of
the new highway to Tober-
mory. George and Joy report
good progress on the new
community centre and arena
at Lgtis Saa
tSaturday morning
Mrs. Shirley (Brian) Dewar
and Girl Guides - Belinda
Courtney, Kerry Lynn
Grass, Terry Bowers, and
Tracy Farrell of Clarks
made a tour here collecting
bundles of newspapers in the
salvage drive.
Last Wednesday Mr. and
Mrs. Allan Mackay and son.
Bradley of Blind River near
Sault Ste. Marie visited with
his grandmother Mrs. Ger-
trude Mackay at Huron Villa
in Ripley. Allan has been
employed with the Loomis
firm since starting in 1974,
With his grandmother they
looked at a newspaper clipp-
ing of 1963 - 20 years ago -
telling of the school moving
to the new Ripley Huron Cen-
tral School building . at the
west end of Ripley. The Ken-
nedy firm with foreman
Austin Stillwell of Barrie
built it. This was also the
r that Burton Urquhart of
cardine with foreman
Art Dunlop of Kincardine
built the new part on the
Ripley District High School
building.
Last week John D. and
Joan MacKay of Ripley flew
to west Germany where they
are now visiting with Mr.
and Mrs, Robert Mac-
Donald, Bob is the youngest
member of the family of the
late Dan J. and Hazel Mac-
Donald on the farm a half
mile west of Ripley on the
8th concession. He is an of-
ficer with the Canadian Air
Force having served about
30 years sinceraduating
from Ripley District High
School. Bob and John D.
were at school here together.
Joan Courtney of
Yellowknife in the Nor-
thwest Territories made a
brief visit this last weekend
with her parents Elmer and
Joyce Courtney on the 10th
concession west and family
membersJoan was on a
return trip to Yellowknife
and had just crossed from
Southampton, England to
New York on the cruise ship
Queen Elizabeth. This is the
same Q.E.2 which was used
last summer to carry British
troops to the Falkland
Islands war and help recap-
ture the Falklands from
Argentina.
Wild flower show
Ripley librarian Mrs. Judy
Hawrylyshyn would like the
folks of the Ripley Huron
area to know- that on Tues-
day evening May 17 at 7:30
p.m. Lyn Lawrence of the
Royal Botanical Gardens
will talk on "Wild Flowers of
Ontario" in the Ripley
District School. It is free and
sponsored by the Ripley
Library - branch of the
Bruce County Library, It Is a
timely topic - coming at this
early summer season.
Family Sunday services
There was a large crowd
at St. Andrew's United
Church last Sunday to par-
ticipate in the Family Sun -
Turn to page 18•
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