The Lucknow Sentinel, 1983-07-06, Page 8ripley news
Lucknow Sentinel, Wednesday, July 6, 1983—page 8
Janice Needham is named Queen of Ripley fair
By Ab Wylds
Congratulations go to
Janice Needham daughter of
Jirn and Dorothy Needham,
Concession 10 east in Huron
Township. She is the 1983
Queen of the Ripley Fall
Fair. The runner up was
Kathryn Boyd, daughter of
Glenn and Anne Boyd of the
6th concession west in Huron
Twp. They were sponsored
by the Allan Tranter Poultry
Farms in Ripley and the
Lynn Lowry Farms Systems
of Amberley respectively.
The other five girls in the
close competition were Deb-
bie van Kooten, Andrea Far-
rell, Helen Kempton, Diana
Latta and Tammy Sorbara.
All three competitions to
date for the Ripley Fall Fair
Queen were held in the
Huron Township hall on the
last Wednesday evening in
June and were arranged by
Barbara Gamble and Judy
Hawrylyshyn. The 1981
Queen - the first for Ripley
was Debbie Lowry, daughter
of Perrin and Marion Lowry
at Lurgan and the 1982
Queen was Michelle Mac-
Tavish, daughter of Jim and
Marj MacTavish of Smoky
Hollow, concession 2 west in
Huron Township.
Also congratulations go to
Shelley and Larry Barker of
Collingwood and formerly of
Ripley on the birth of their
daughter Robin in the Coll-
ingwood Hospital on Satur-
day June 25, 1983. She is a
sister for her two year old
brother Dustin. Shelley is
well known here from the
years she has clerked in the
Ripley Grocery Store for her
parents Pat and Carl Bren-
nan. Also Shelley and Larry
lived in the upstairs apart-
ment over the old Ripley
Post Office on Main street.
Top hay fields
In June the hay fields
entered in the field crop
competitions sponsored by
the Ripley, Agricultural
Society along with the On-
tario Ministry of Agriculture
and Food were judged by
Jim Richardson, R. 3,
Walkerton. He was accom-
panied on the tour by Ripley
Secretary Don MacTavish. A
separate competition was
held this year for fields seed-
ed in 1982. Since this summer
is the first hay crop on these
fields it is called "new
seeding".
The top field in the new
seeding class was on the
farm of Jim Scott concession
4 west or to some known as
the former Bill Hooey farm
back sideroad 20 from the
fourth concession. His field
scored 91 points out of a
possible 100. Following it
were Dennis Bridge 90,
Carmen Bridge 89, Perrin
Lowry 88, Blake Lotton 87,
Ron Brooks 85, Dan A. Mac-
Donald 83, Peter van Sickle
82, Rick Smith 81, and John
Gamble 80. The second com-
petition was for the
established hay fields, two
years or older.
The top field here was
entered by Brian Hooey with
a score of 92 points - just
west of the Jim Scott place.
The other fields were as
follows - Wes Smith 91, Bob
Thompson 90, Bob Blackwell
89, Jim Needham John C.
MacDonald 87, Gordon Pat-
terson 85, Keith van der Hoer
84, Murray Wilken 83, Ker-
mit Goodhue 82, John Far-
rish 81 and Jim Farrell 80.
On Saturday morning
Donald Farrell reported that
on Friday evening the
Lucknow Jamboree
fireworks lighted the
southern sky like lightning
flashes. The farm of Don and
Kathy Farrell is the former
Ben Ruttle farm on the
Tenth and is about a mile
from Ripley.
Back to visit here
Weekend guests with Mrs.
Adeline Martyn were Mr.
and Mrs. Gilles Boudreau of
Alban - about 40 miles from
Sudbury. Mrs. Boudreau is
the former Janet Willocks,
the older daughter of Mrs.
Margaret Willocks of Mon-
treal and the late John
Wlllocks, bank manager
here in the mid thirties to the
forties. Janet met several
old friends and saw many
changes in the village after
an, absence of 20 years.
Her mother was a high
school teacher here - Latin
and English. First as Miss
Margaret Armstrong from
her home town of Seaforth in
1936 - 7: , she taught in the
R.C.S. with principal Walton
Eifert and Ab Wylds. THen
in 1947 as Mrs. Willocks she
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returned to the R.C.S. staff
and with principal
Margaret MacKenzie and Ab
Wylds went through the
changes at the time of the
school fire. She remained
teaching here to June 1956.
From here she joined the
staff at Clark Road Col-
legiate in London and then
went to Etobicoke Collegiate
in Toronto.
Elliott Courtney auction
Last Thursday June 30
auctioneers Grant
McDonald and Wallace
Ballagh held a sale of new
and used farm machines for
the Elliott Courtney Farm
Supplies. Folks are sorry to
lose a good local dealer like
Elliott but are thankful that
a man like Cecil Sutton has
bought this business to serve
farmers in this area.
Assistant Harvey Pollock
spent several days cutting
the grass on the lot. Then the
machines old and new, were
placed in a big circle for
easy inspection , and sale.
With a good attendance ac-
cording to the weather and
the fine haying day the bid-
ding moved right along.
Several men coming right
after the noon hour were sur-
prised to find the sale had
just finished. Mrs. Joyce
Courtney and Mrs. Evelyn
Elliott set up a lunch booth
on the lot. They were joined
by other ladies in serving
coffee and eats of excellent
quality.
Oat sheaf returned
General manager of the
Cereal Division of Stewart
Seeds in Ailsa Craig, Ontario
Mr. Lawrence Lockhart, his
wife Linda, their daughter
Lori and son Mark had a
visit with Ab and Fran Wylds
Saturday afternoon July 2.
They were returning to
Ripley the oat sheaf entered
by Frank in the Royal
Winter Fair last November
where it was awarded first
prize in its class.
Along with the wheat sheaf
it was taken to Toronto on
Wednesday morning
November 3 by Jim and
Dorothy Needham. In two
weeks Dorothy went back to
the Winter Fair to attend on
our behalf the special noon
luncheon presentation to the
world champions. There she
accepted the award from
Mr. Lockhart. he was to pick
up the sheaves in January
but a mix up occurred at the
Coliseum and he was only
able to get the oat sheaf
when he went there in
January.
Since that time he has had
the sheaf on display in his of-
fice in Ailsa Craig. Both Ab
and Fran were surprised at
the still perfect appearance
of this sheaf - not a grain
stalk nor a ribbon band out of
place. It will be on display
the week of the Ripley Craft
Show when it will be in the
John Rosmerly Appliance
store on the Ripley main
street.
A retirement tea was held
in the Ripley Huron Central
School on Monday afternoon
2 to 4. June 28 to honour
Grade 1 teacher Mrs. Eileen
(Doug) MacDonald. ' ,ileen
received thanks and well
wishes for her many years of
fine teaching here.
A.J. and Glenda Gardner,
sons Aaron and Brandon of
Vanastra spent the weekend
with Donnie and Carol Flud-
der, Tammy and Jason and
Glen Harris. While here they
also visited with Mrs.
Evelyn Johnson and attend-
ed the Lucknow Jamboree.
Visiting last Sunday after-
noon with Mrs. Evelyn
Johnson were her daughter
Marion and husband Jack
Lawrie from Bruce
township. Jack is just back
from surgery and a lengthy
hospital stay in London.
Hit by half ton truck
On Tuesday forenoon last
week there was an anxious
time at Gore Park when
Brad Stanley riding his bicy-
cle out the George McLean
alleyway collided with Klaus
Heinisch driving his pickup
truck east on the main street
from the 4 -way stop. Brad,
young son of Delbert and
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