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Blustery cold day greets crowd at Ripley Winter Carnival

Liz DadsonBy: Liz Dadson  February 16, 2015
Blustery cold day greets crowd at Ripley Winter Carnival
There was plenty of snow for the Ripley Winter Carnival, Saturday, but it was blowing around, causing problems for motorists and anyone trying to enjoy the great outdoors.

The cold, blustery weather didn't stop people from coming out to the Ripley Complex for the many activities, unless of course, you wanted to go for a horse-drawn sleigh ride. Doug and Andrew MacDonald had "Herc" and "Toby" on hand for about an hour-and-a-half, before calling it quits because of the high wind and freezing temperature.

Inside the complex, about 350 people enjoyed breakfast, while watching hockey games between the Ripley and Kincardine Tykes and Novices. Following the games, there was a hockey skills competition, including contests in accuracy, speed and stick-handling, and then the ever-popular ice-painting.
The event also featured euchre and family bingo.

Due to the inclement weather and closed roads, the afternoon hockey games were cancelled, as was the game between the Ripley Wolves and Lucknow Lancers Saturday night.

Image Gallery

Andrew MacDonald drives the team of horses, "Herc" and "Toby," through the blowing and drifting snow, providing horse-drawn sleigh rides at the Ripley Winter Carnival, Saturday morning
Huron-Kinloss mayor Mitch Twolan (L) flips flapjacks under the watchful eye of Audrey MacDonald at Ripley Winter Carnival
Allan Thompson (R), federal Liberal candidate for Huron-Bruce, learns the "drill" from Brittany Eccles on how to scramble eggs for the breakfast at the Ripley Winter Carnival, Saturday morning at the Ripley Arena
Gathered for breakfast at the Ripley Winter Carnival, are four generations of the MacKay family, Debbie (L) holding five-day-old Brent Phelan, Sarah, and Joan holding Blake Phelan, 19 months
Marlene Greig (L) of Lucknow helps her granddaughter, Alexis Greig, 6, get some breakfast at the Ripley Winter Carnival
Jeremy Pope, 9, of Kincardine stick-handles the puck in the hockey skills competition
Kurtis Smeltzer of Ripley competes in the stick-handling relay at Ripley Winter Carnival
Eve Snobelen, 9, of Ripley shoots pucks during the hockey skills competition
Kyle Smeltzer races for the finish line in the speed challenge at the hockey skills competition
Maddox Burgess, 8, of Ripley fires pucks at the net in the accuracy challenge at the hockey skills competition
Stacey Gibson of Ripley fires a shot in the accuracy contest
Brandon Holland, 10, of Ripley takes part in the stick-handling challenge during the hockey skills competition
Parker Nixon, 7, of Ripley shoots the puck for accuracy at the hockey skills competition
Andrew Gibson of Ripley slides across the finish line in the skating race, part of the hockey skills competition
The Kincardine Novices (in green sweaters) take control of the puck against the Ripley Novices, during the game Saturday at the Ripley Arena
The Ripley Novices (in white sweaters) take on the Kincardine Novices in a game during Ripley Winter Carnival, Saturday morning
Hailey Farrell, 10, of Ripley paints a rainbow on the ice surface at the Ripley Arena
Eve Snobelen, 9, of Ripley splatters paint on the ice surface at the Ripley Arena
Jackson Lush (L) and Michael Berry, 4, of Ripley enjoy the ice-painting activity at Ripley Winter Carnival
Maddox Burgess (L), 8, of Ripley gets some pointers about ice-painting from his dad, Mike
Doing some ice-painting, are Stacey Gibson (L), Sophie Twolan and Andie Lush
Megan Pope, 7, of Kincardine paints on the ice surface at the Ripley Arena

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Liz Dadson is the founder and editor of the Kincardine Record and has been in the news business since 1986.



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