The Lucknow Sentinel, 1979-08-15, Page 25Pine Grove
folks holiday
at .Niagrctra
Mr.. and Mrs. Bob
Thompson, Robbie and.
Todd spent last week
holidaying in Niagara
Falls. •
Mr. and Mrs, John
Rirnm.elzwaan spent a
few days away on
holidays last week.
Mr. and Mrs. Jack
Farrell held a family
gathering on Sunday in
the form of a shower for
Fran togtenberg.
A number of folks frOm
Purple Grove attended
1 the, Colwell reunion at
Purple Grove Com-
munity Centre on Sun:
day.
Mr. and Mrs. Francis
Boyle and family at-
tended the wedding of
Dianne Alexander and
Tom ••, Slumskie in
Pinkerton on Sat. Aug. '4.
Kevin Boyle attended a
ball tournatn_ent •in
Wiarton on the. weekend.
Bonnie Boyle of London
spent the weekend with
her parents Mr. and abs.
Francis Boyle.
Mr. and ,Mrs. Raymond
•g II ig of St..Clair Mich igan
were weekend guests of
ip le
efrom page n
• a,good attendance..
Rebent visitors with
Les And Dorothy Wardell
were. Tena and Vincent
Wardell of Tiverton,. Lois
Wardell of New. Ham-
burg, Faith Howie of
•Kitchener •also,, Milce
Kelly ofNew Hamburg.
Mrs. Margaret
Harkness of Bernie and
• Mrs: Dorothy Wardell of
Huron recently put on two
programs for the senior
• citizens. One was at the
• Princes court in Kin-
cardine and the other was
at the new Senior
Mr. and Mrs, Earl Elliott.
Visitors with Mr. and
Mrs. Donald Gillies on
the weekend were Mrs.
Eudora Owens of Owen
Sound and Mr. and Mrs.
David Gibson, Julie and
Dan from London.
Mr. and Mrs. Roy
Collins and family visitesr
with Mr. and Mrs. John,
Howell and family of
Orangeville on Sunday
and brought. Veronica
home with them for some
holidays.
Lochals
°from page 21
Simpson returned home
from a trip to Calgary
where they were guests
ata wedding.
Congratulations to Mr.
and Mrs. Ken Littlejohn
on the arrival of a baby
boy.
Visiting Mr. and Mrs.
Ewan MacLean were Mr,
and • Mrs.. Donald
MacLean of near Hun-
tsville and Mrs., Frank
.Whiten and family of
Victoria B.C. •
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Citizen's Apartments in
Lucknow.
Home on vacation from.
the Pine Crest Nursing
Home in ,Lucknow is Miss
Jean MacDonald, of
•Ripley.
The Ripley and District,
Horticultural Society are
changing the location of
their Flower Show and
Tea to the Huron town
ship hall. In the past it
has been held in the
Ripley1uqn Legion
Hall. Mrs, Lenore Hooey
reports that ft will be held
next Tifesday, August 21
from. 2.30 to 4:30. p.ti.
with. everyone welcome.
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retunon
efrom page 23
again that evening at the
Lucknow Community Centre
for dacing. to the music of
Norman Dunsmoor
orchestra. His Scottish tunes
and singing were much en-
joyed and added to the occa-
dion2 A number of neigh-
bours and friends in the
community also attended the
• dance, one being Mr. Ray
Dalton who favoured the
audience with some familiar
songs. The evening drew to a
close with the singing of
Auld Lang Syne, after which
a smorgasbord lunch was
Served.
On Sunday afternoon ap-
proximately 100 people re-
turned to the Cedar Grove to
attend a pork barbecue, host-
ed by Mr. and Mrs. George
MacDonald. Clete Dalton
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was chef of the -day and the
• pork proved to be delicious
as well as finger -licking
good.
• It was very gratifying to
have such a large attendance
at the 50th reunion and those
attending from a distance
were: Mrs. Janet Manthos
• and. family and Mrs. D. L.
MacDonald from Virginia;
Gordon MacDonald • from
Merrit, B.C.; Finlay Mac-
Donald from Stettler, Alber-
ta; Alice Richardson from the
Queen Charlotte Islands; Mr.
and Mrs. Tom MacDonaid
and family from Port Nelson,
B.C.; Mr. and Mrs. George
Richards and family from
• Sparta, New Jersey and Mr.
Donald Andrew and family
from Olds, Alberta. Relatives
also attended from Kingston,
• Ottawa, Chicago and Detroit.
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Members .of Theatre Passe Moraine anentsome dime behind
bars at1 the Huron Historic . Jill In . Goderich . recently
preparing for their production.of The Death of Donnellys,
.ivhich opens .at the Blyth Summer Festival. on August 21.
Were the pennellys high spirited, fun loving . boys,made• -
seapegoata for every misadventure, in :Biddulph Township
Barn burner
of a play
• The Donnellys 1 ride into
town on ,August 21, complete
with barn-burnings, fisti-
cuffs and • 'mayhem. The
Death of the Donnellys, dir-
ected by Paul Thompson,
opens August 21 on the stage
of the Blyth Memorial Hall,
and is a joint production of
the Blyth Summer Festival
and Theatre Passe Muraille.
Writer Ted'Johns has con-
• structed a script that illumi-
nates both sides of the con-
troversy. The Donnellys
were they villains or victims?
Come to Blyth, weigh :the
evidence and make your own
judgment.
Actor David Fox plays the
role of Jim Donnelly, the
patriarch of the clan, who
ruled his family with a strong
hand even from the confines
of a jail cell. Janet Amos
• plays, Julie Donnelly, the
mother of a brood of -unruly
sons • and One daughter.
Layne Coleman, Bob Collins,
William Dunlop, John Jarvis,
Paul Kelman, Hardee Line-
ham, Sam Malkin, Peter
Snell and Karen Wiens
amongst them play the other
Donnellys and the residents
of the Lucan area who took
part in the hundred year old
saga. The action is accom-
panied by three musicians
with rousing • Irish • fiddle
• tunes.
• The play runs every night
except Sunday at 830 p.m.,
with matinees on Thursday
at 2 p.m. Tickets are $S.00
for adults, $4.25 for senior
citizens and $3.00 for child-
ren and are available from
the box office or from any
ticket outlet. Call 523-9300
for reservations and further
information.
or,were theY Violent and malevolent monsters Wined out by
good men driven to desperate. means? Chodse a side, and
step, 'to the fiddle as the devil calls Av. tune In this
spectacular retelling of the Donnelly legend. Jhn Donnelly,
father of the "Black Donnellys" Of Lucari„ Is said to have
• Spent time hi the Goderich jail .under sentence for 'murder.
(Photo by Dave Sykes]
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