Author: Bridge Michigan

April 30   Members of the Scone Crokinole Club met on Saturday, April 30th at the Chesley Fire Hall.  A warm welcome was given to Kim Moore. Great to have new attendees. Scoring high for the men was Dan Hepburn with 58 points, Clare Kuepfer was second with 54 and George Ribey had 39 for […]

The Pine River Watershed Initiative Network (PRWIN) handed out 6,000 seedlings during their annual Free Seedling Give-Away Program, on Friday, May 6. On May 7, the 4H Conservation Club planted seedlings in Huron Township. The selection of seedlings for this year included white cedar, Norway spruce, black walnut, white birch, red and white pine, red […]

MAN RESCUED AFTER GETTING LOST IN THE SWAMP   A senior from South Bruce is no doubt feeling exhausted and quite fortunate after he was rescued early morning on April 27 by police out of the Saratoga Swamp. The previous night, just before 11:00 p.m. Huron County Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) received a 9-1-1 call […]

Annika Rear of Ripley, Ontario, earned the champion title in Amateur Trail at the 2022 Nutrena AQHA East Level 1 Championships on April 30th, 2022 in Wilmington, Ohio. Rear showed the American Quarter Horse Maybeline, owned by Annika Rear of Ripley. The 2015 chestnut mare, by Batt Man and out of RL Sudden Fancy, was […]

Plants have best friends, just like people do. Marigolds help tomatoes to grow better by deterring bugs, like the tomato-hornworm, that would harm them. This is called companion planting. Ripley and District Horticultural Society’s Youth club “ For Our Youth” leaders therefore picked “plant –buddies” or with a fancy word “cooperation” as the theme for […]