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Eleanor Weiss [left" and Marlene O'Hagen of RR 3 Walkerton look at some of the
merchandise offered by local crafter Dorothy Meyer of Point Clark at the craft festival over
the weekend. • [Alan Rlvett photo).
Ripley has a new restaurant
BY AB VITYLDS
For a ldng time Ripley has needed a
restaurant. Well it is hard to believe, but it
has one now. Aug. 1, 1986, Friday
at 4 p.m. it opened for business. Centrally
located between the John Kosmerly Hard-
ware and Appliance stores it is in the middle
of the mainstreet in the former Variety
• Store owned and operated by the late Walter
Culbert and then operated by Mrs. Judy van'
Kooten. The new owner of the restaurant
business is Mr. Mark Oliphant of
• Chatsworth who has expanded over from
Teeswater where he also has a restaurant.
• His manager and head waitress is Mrs.
• Terri Biglow who has worked in the
Teeswater restaurant. Assisting Terri on
Friday afternoon were Mrs. Joan (Charles)
Murray of Holyrood area and Miss Melissa
Middelkamp of the Ripley area. On Satur-
day forenoon Jodi Miller of Teeswater was
here.
Restaurant is a meeting place
Bill Bushell of the 4th concession of
Kinloss was visiting last Saturday with his
sister Mrs. Katherine Colling. in Ripley.
Some years ago Bill was the Ripley baker,
'then he clerked in the Hardware store for
Dime' MacArthur. So naturally he dropped
into the new restaurant and soon had a con-
versation going with Terri as we were fin-
ding the location of her home. Sure enough
Bill knew some of her neighbours on the
10th. •
Society preparing for fall fair
Secretary of the Ripley Agricultural
Society Don MacTavish called to remind tis
that next Monday evening is the time for the
monthly meeting. So at 9 p.m. on August 11,
1986 directors and officers will meet in .the
Ripley Hutto Central School to get ready for
the Ripley Huron Fall Fair on Friday and
Saturday, Sept. 26 and 27.
Marion McTavish moves to Kincardine
On Sat. July 26 Mrs, Marion McTavish
moved her household effects from her home
at the north end of Ripley to her new place in
Kincardine. Last weekend the new owner
Dave Stewart, his wife Phyllis, and three
children were moving • into the McTavish
home.1t will be handy for Dave who drives a
feed delivery truck for Bob and Judy
• Thompson at the Ripley Shur Gain Mill (the
Ripley chopping mill). -
Mary Whitney passes away
Oliver McCharles received word that his
aunt Mary (Barkwell) Whitney had passed
away in Tampa, Florida.at the age of 90
years. Mrs. Whitney was the youngest and
last survivor of the Barkwell family, a sister
of Mrs. Daisy McCharles (Oliver's mother)
and Mrs. Ruth Brooks mother of Omar and
Gordon Brooks. The Barkwell family had
lived on Highway 86 where Frank Van
Diepenbeek now lives next to the Oliver Mc -
Charles place.
Oliver, Henders, Flaxman and Gilbert
brothers all predeceased along with the
three sisters above were the family of the
late James- Barkwell and Alice Andrew.
Mary (Barkwell) Whitney was a nurse.
She received her R.N. at Victoria Hospital
in London. Then Mary Barkwell nursed in
Detroit where she met and married Harry
Whitney. They lived since the early 192% in
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Tampa, Florida. Thanks to Mrs. Marion Mc -
Charles for this item.
Visitors to Ripley • -
Her mother is Shirley Culbert, daughter of
Mrs. Annie Culbert and the late Walter
Culbert of Ripley. Shirley is a Grade 13
graduate of the Ripley District High School.
As Ab Wylds writes this he is looking at a
picture of our school cheerleaders as it ap-
pears in the Ripley and Vicinity History
compiled by the Ripley Women's Institute in
1963, and also in the London Free Press.
The picture was taken in. Owen Sound
Park by the 'London Free Press reporter
Merrill Cantelon of Wingham. Above the
picture is the heading -"Cheer Ripley C.I. on
to Victory" and below the picture in the
paper it said - "Helping to cheer Ripley Col- -
legiate Institute on to victory this season is
This group of cheerleaders. They recently
won the Owen Sound School Association
Trophy for the second straight year for best
school spirit and sportsmanship." In the
front row are Amelia Carruthers, Anne
Pollock, Majorette leader Gail McArthur in
her white outfit, Margaret Ann Thompson
and Marilyn Harrison. In the back row stan-
ding are "Peg" Margaret MacTavish, Joan
Wilson, Ruth Hutton, Shirley Courtney,
Marilyn Parker, Myrna Irwin, Shirley
Culbert and Frances Scott. • -
Since it states for the second straight year
of winning it, it would be October 1955,
Again in 1956 we won it for the third and
final time. This trophy still sits in the wall
case in the school down here. In 19551ater in
.October the girls were over to the new
C.K.N.X. Television studio and were
"taped" putting on their drill for the open-
ing night for the station. We remember the
taping was necessary for the R.D.H.S. in
body attended the Royal Winter Fair in the
Coliseiungn Toronto and since we would not
be here it was taped.
Ab Wylds thanks Annie Culbert - Liz
Sled's grandmother, for bringing around the
newspaper account. As you may or may not
know, Annie is the oldest in the family of
Shirt and Kate Bowers who lived on the 15th
two blocks south of here, in their family
were Annie, Hetty, Jack (just retired Direc-
tor of EducatiOn, for Bruce County) and
"Peg" - Mrs. Sandy MacCharIes. Everyone
with any history of the Ripley area
remembers Shirt playing hockey for Ripley
- they say for 50 years. In Annie Culbert's
family there are Shirley, Katherine, and
Tom. Congratulations from the "believe it
or not" Ripley in Ontario go to Liz Sled and
best wishes for her continued success in
Mrs. Dick Dodd of London, the former
.•Mary McGillivray, visited' for a week with
her cousins Marion McCharles, Tillie Smith, •
and Jean Wylds in Kincardine and all
originally from the Ripley Huron area. The
parents of Mary Dodd were Mr. and Mrs,
John McGillivray with family Goldie, Jack,
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