The Lucknow Sentinel, 1979-09-12, Page 16r
• Paige 16—Luckasw Sentinel, Wednesday, September 12, 1979
Neighbours hold farewell party for Gambles
Mr. and Mr's. Jim Tout
of Ripley spent the
Labour Day weekend
with Mr. and Mrs. Grant
Evans and David of the
Orangeville area and also
visited with Mr. Fletcher
of Orangeville. They
attended the Orangeville
Fall Fair: Mrs. Tout
presented the prizes to
the winners in the Pony
Class in which her
nephew four year old
David of Penarth Farms
was one of the winners.
The September
meeting of the Ripley
Huron Agricultural
Society was held on Mon.
Sept. 3 with president
Dan A. MacDonald and
Secretary Don
MacTavish' in charge. By
the large number in at-
tendance the . feeling of
the coming of the Ripley
Fall Fair shortly on Sept.
28 and 29 was evident.
The president is calling
"the first work meeting for
8 p.rn. on Mon. evening
Sept. 24 at the Complex_
Morley Scott and Jack
Farrell who were second
Last year again volun-
teered to represent the
Society in . the Lucknow
.,,.fall fair log sawing
competition.
Mrs. Joyce Farrell,
Con. 10 east,1 was present
to discuss the showing of
the Ripley 4-H Horse
Club. It will be held on
Sat. morning Sept. 29.
General preparations
were discussed.
Those present at the
meeting were Barbara
and John Gamble Lester
Ferguson, Ray Ful r,
Bob Osborne, •bon
MacTavish, Morley
Scott, Gloria and Bob
Rutledge, Sheila and
Dan A. MacDonald, Janet
and Jack Farrell, Keith
Van der Hoek, Wilma and
Cecil Sutton, Bob For-
ster, Joyce Farrell;
Gordon Patterson, and
Ab Wylds, for a total of
Toronto motored to the
Ripley area last week.
Bill attended the Holstein
show at Walkerton on
Thursday. .In this show,
neighbour on the Tenth
concession of Huron
township, Jim Needhaln
of Mandeen Farms had
several entries.
This week in
by Ab Wylds
20, the largest number
since last January.
Mr. and Mrs. Guy
Ramsay of Toronto spent
a few dayus with Mrs;
Martha MacIver of
'Ripley.
Last Thursday evening
the folks in the Malcolm
Street area gathered at.
the home of Miss Noreen
khacDonald in Ripley.
e occasion was a
rewell 'party for Mr.
d Mrs. Wilfred Gamble
aid family. The address
and presentation • was
made by Mrs. Mabel
Barnard. Wilfred ..and
Dianne were presented
with a beautiful white and
green oil lamp, daughter
Shelley with an initial
locket and son Jeff with a.
pen and pencil set. A-
social. time , and lunch
closed the' party with best
wishes to the family.
William Robertson of
snow
Lo
In the evening, Bill
visited with Fran and Ab
Wylds and several in-
•cidents in local history
were discussed. Bill also
told about his recent tour
of Black Creek Pioneer
Village in Northwest
Metro Toronto. '
Last Friday morning
Frank van ` Kooten of
Ripley was noticed away
up, near the roof peak of
St. Andrews United
Church repairing the
west end brick wall.
Dianne MacKay,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Donald MacKay, con-
cession 10 east in Huron
township registered this
week in her final year at
.the University of Guelph.
Dianne is majoring in
History. During the past
summer she was em-
ployed in Port Elgin
cataloguing material
from the old 132nd Bruce
Battalion and its suc-
cessor at the time of the
First World War, namely
the 160th Bruce Battalion .
which served in the
trenches in France.
Last week Dianne was
back home,helping her
father sowhis fall wheat
at his faims on the Tenth.
Dianne called here last
Thursday shortly before
noon while sheaf building
[was going on in the
backyard.
Home for the weekend
was John D. MacKay
visiting with his wife Mrs.
Joan MacKay and family
at their home just north
of Ripley on the Fif-
teenth. , Earlier in the
!summer Johntran-
isferred from -the Bruce
Nuclear. Plant to the one
at Pickering.
Also home' for' the
weekend with her sister
Noreen at their place on
Malcolm Street was Jean
MacDonald of the staff at
Pinecrest Manor Nursing
Home in Lucknow.
Mrs. Patricia MacLean
of Thornbury, District.
Ten. Lady Director for
Bruce and Grey Counties
on the Association of
Ontario, Agricultural
Societies . will officially
declare the Ripley Huron
Fall Fair open on
Saturday afternoon Sept.
29.
Mrs. Frances Elliott
wishes toinform the folks
in this area that Mrs,,
Betty Jenkei))of Hanover,
area representative of
the. Arthritis Society will
beshowing the film
"Halfway to Promise". It
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