The Lucknow Sentinel, 1983-08-24, Page 13Apley news
by ab wylds Lucknow Sentinel, Wednesday, August 24, 1983 -Page 14
Irwins in Ripley to search for family roots
Shelley Barker, young son
Dustin and infant daughter
Robin of Collingwood, have
been visiting since last week
with her parents Carl and
Pat Brennan on William
Street in Ripley. At the Bren-
nan Grocery Store on Main
Street Shelley renews ac-
quaintance with folks and
helps with clerking as the
regular clerk Janet Nixon is
presently on vacation.
Hunting For Roots
Last Friday afternoon,
Aug, 19 David and Shirley
Irwin of Windsor drove into
Ripley looking for first-hand
information on his family
background.
At the McLean Storeust
east of the main intersection
they met the owners George
and Joy McLean. Here
George took them on a tour
of the building which was the
former Commercial Hotel,
Also there they talked with
other folks including Johnny
Smith of the 8th concession
east in Huron township, Next
door they went to see the
display of antiques and taut
with owner Albert Verheye
in the big corner store.
They were down to the
Ripley Huron Community
Centre Complex and
marvelled at the fact that
this small place had such a
fine facility, At the Ripley
Legion hall they went to the
community library and talk-
ed to the librarian Mrs. Judy
Hawrylyshyn. Judy then
phoned Ab . W yids to arrange
a meeting for them.
At the house they met with
Ab and Fran Wylds to get
more family history. Here.
David was told that his
grandfather, Hill Irwin, and
my father, Russ Irwin, were
brothers. And that their
parents' were David and
Sarah Irwin, He was quite
surprised to find that he had
been named after his
greatgrandfather.
Then David and Shirley
drove Fran and Ab over to
the Ripley cemetery to see
the Irwin family tombstone
with its names and dates and
also nearby the Ida Irwin
stone -- the first Mrs, David
B. MacDonald.
On a brief tour of the
village they were shown the
blacksmith shop where
David Irwin was the
blacksmith in 1881. It is now
used by Clarence Pollock as
extra storage room for sup-
plies of the Pollock Electric
irm. Also the location of the
King Edward Hotel run by
Mrs. Sarah Irwin prior to
1900 was pointed out - now
the separated homes of Mr.
and Mrs, Don Fludder and of
Mr. and Mrs. Earl Tout on
Huron Street south. They
were shown the present Roy
Jackson house which Mrs.
Sarah Irwin had Ripley
carpenter John Robertson
build for her daughter Verna
and husband Bert Harris.
Here she spent her last few
years of retirement.
Also we pointed out the lot
where the present Knox
Presbyterian manse now
stands. The lot was owned
for many years by Mrs. Ir-
win and she intended to build
her retirement home there
but it never happened.
When David and Shirley
left here for Goderich they
said that they would be back
for the 1985 Ripley" Reunion.
It's a small world
ft is a small world a
statement sometimes made.
'J he house, on the Sixth con-
cession east in Huron
township tA t r�+11w1
crossing where Judy
Hawrylyshyn, husband John
and family now live, was
once the home of Mrs. David
B. MacDonald (Ida Irwin) -
a great aunt of David Irwin.
This will be news to Judy
Hawrylyshyn and David Ir-
win as they would not know
this when they were talking
last Friday afternoon.
Visiting here
John and Anne Marie
Langley and family Ialan,
Gordon, and Elizabeth of
Port Hawkesbury, Nova
Scotia spent the past two
weeks visiting ' Doris and
Clayton Nicholson. It is five
years since the Langleys left
Ripley. They enjoyed
meeting the Ripley people
again and John got his pic-
ture in both papers as he
tried to climb the greased
pole at the Ripley Lions
Funfest here on Sat, August
13.
Three soccer teams
There are three soccer
teatns from the Ripley area
playing in the minor league
- one Squirt team and two
Atom teams. They play on
Thursday evenings at the
south side of Kincardine
(Penetangore Row) . There
are both girls and boys on
the teams.
The Squirts are coached
by Tom Stevenson and
Marlene Wolfe, The coaches
for the Atom A and Atom B
teams from here are Frank
Laverty and Chauncey
Soderberg respectively. The
scores for the games last
Thursdaywere Ripley
uirts 2 and Kincardine
Video Centre 1 and for the
Atom games it was Kincar-
dine Kittle Shoes 3, Ripley
A's 0 and in the second game
it was Ripley H's 2 and Kin-
cardine Legion 0.
First the report on the
Squirt game as made by
coach Tom Stevenson of the
Southline.
It was a rough and tumble
game with minor injuries to
both sides. Kincardine
scored first, before Deane
Stanley from Darryl Bolton,
evened the score. Much mid-
field play dominated the se-
cond half before Deane
Stanley from Tracy Rlntoul
notched the winner. Stan-
douts for Ripley were Jen-
nifer Johnston and Emily
Rotteau. Troy Snobelen and
Scott Martyn shared the
goalie duties.
Next the report on the two
Atom games was made by
Chauncey Soderberg as
follows - Ripley "A" came
out on the losing end of the 3
to 0 score against Kincardine
Klltie Shoes. Ripley "8" had
an exciting fast paced game
against Kincardine Legion.
The game was evenly mat-
ched with Ripley getting a
good effort from all its
players with a standout per-
formance by Scott Allen and
worthy mention to Mary Ann
and Michele Rhody. Goal
scorers were Scott Allen and
Lynden Johnston.
Hall is corning
The fall season of the year
is fast approaching. The
fresh north wind early Sun-
day morning reminded one
of the first chill of autumn.
In a few more days, it will be
September with school open-
ing and fail fair time.
1,00king at the calendar
locally Kincardine fall fair
leads off on September 2 and
3. It is followed in this area
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September 23 and 24 - the
last Friday and Saturday in
September and Ripley fall
fair time.
On Monday of, last week
Jerry and Anne Huber had
the moving van take their
household effects from
Ripley to their home in
Waterloo. Last Tuesday,
August 16, Grant and Bar-
bara McDonald and three
daughters moved into the
former Huber home in
Ripley from their farm on
the second concession west,
Field Crops
Secretary of the Ripley fall
fair Don MacTavish has
received the placings of two
more field crops sponsored
bythe RipleyAgriculture
Sciety and rcently judged
by Jim Richardson of
Walkerton.
In barley, the scores were
as follows: Jack Campbell of
Amberley 96 points, Ron
Brooks of Paramount 95,
followed by Dennis Bridge 94
and Carman Bridge 93, both
of the South Line, then Gor-
don Patterson 92, Rick Smith
90, Peter van Sickle 89, Dave
Stewart s s, Bob Emerson 87,
Hob Thompson 85, Jim Scott
84, Sandy Pollock 83, Murray
Walken 82, Jamie Walden 81,
Bob Blackwell 80, Hugh
Mason 80, Mike Snobelen 79,
Keith ven der Hoek 78, Jim
Farrell 77, Jim Needham 76,
Cecil Sutton 75, Kermit
Goodhue 74 and Wes Smith
73 points for a total of 23
fields in the barley competi-
tion. -
In the mixed grain the
scores were as follows: Gary
Courtney of the Second West
92 points then Sandy Pollock
of the 15th north 90, John
Gamble 89 and Keith van der
Hoek 88, both of the sixth
east followed by Brian
Hooey 87, Bob Blackwell 88,
Carmen Bridge 85, Dennis
Bridge 84, Bob Osborne 83,
John Parrish 82, Jim Farrell
81, Elmer Courtney 80, Lynn
Courtney 79, Dan Mac-
Donald 78 and Gordon Pat-
terson 77 points for a total of
15 fields. Remember to get a
plastic bag of grain ready for
the Ripley fair.
There are still three field
crops to be scored -- en-
silage corn, grain corn, and
the new one this year - soy-
beans.
Ken and Ruth MacDonald,
sons Chris and Jeff of Kit-
chener were on vacation this
past week visiting with
Grandma, Mrs. Jennie
McLean, in Ripley, also with
George and Joy McLean and
other friends.
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