Huron Expositor, 2016-04-27, Page 3Wednesday, April 27, 2016 • Huron Expositor 3
Chicken dinner paves the way
Shaun Gregory
Huron Expositor
For a home cooked catered meal,
the Vanastra Recreation Centre
gravel parking lot was jam-packed
from front to back. All with the
intentions of possibly having some
pavement to park on.
This is the second annual
chicken dinner, last year they man-
aged to spread the word with about
120 plates sold, roughly 12 months
later they tripled their intake with
more than 300 tickets sold for the
special day.
Lissa Berard, facility manager for
the Vanastra Recreation Centre is
certain the much larger draw of
new faces compared to the previ-
ous year is because the users of the
facility want the space paved.
"The reason we all want to do it is
because in the winter time with
snow it becomes a sheet of ice, it's a
safety hazard," Berard said as she
welcomed a line of people in the
centre's gymnasium.
"We've got so many people com-
ing to the facility wanting to use it
for health benefits, but they're at
risk of falling on a icy parking lot."
Since it's a dirt surface, salt can-
not be used to defuse the situation
she said. Along with the risk of fall-
ing during the colder months,
when it rains the location is con-
stantly filled with mud and pud-
dles. Which is then tracked into the
facility.
Recognizing the importance of
the fundraiser, the owner of Rolling
Roaster in Seaforth, Scott Saunders
cooked 320 pieces of chicken, lots
MP Lobb's Bill C-232 up for debate
On April 22 in the House of Com-
mons, Ben Lobb, Member of Par-
liament for Huron -Bruce, will
debate Bill C- 232, An Act to
Amend the Excise Act, 2001 (Spir-
its) during its second reading.
Lobb's private member' s bill aims
to reduce excise tax rates for spirit
distillers in Canada.
The proposed legislation would
set the excise tax rate to $6.00 per
litre of absolute ethyl alcohol for
the first 100,000 litres of production
and $11.00 for all production past
100,000 litres.
"Lowering the tax rate for distill-
eries will increase production and
revenue, jobs will be created and
more Canadians will be employed.
The benefits of lower tax rates are
not limited to distillery industry,
Canadian farmers will benefit
from increased sales of alcohol's
main components, corn, wheat,
barley and rye. The Conservative
Party continues to work hard to
reduce taxes for Canadians and
help foster development in vari-
ous sectors of our economy , said
MP Lobb.
Currently all distilleries, regard-
less of size or production output
are taxed at the same rate of
$11.696 per litre of absolute ethyl
alcohol. Lowering the excise tax
rate will allow for the Canadian
Spirit Industry to become more
competitive on an international
scale and allow for investment into
new technologies.
Shaun Gregory
This trio is from the
Scott Saunders Rollin'
Roaster in Seaforth.
From the right,
Stephanie Leyten, Scott
Saunders and Dawn
Snell. They prepared
the meal for the annual
chicken dinner April 22.
of beans and potato salad. they're helping me out because I'm When it was all said and done,
"It feels good to help out. It's a a new business in Seaforth," com- the chicken night gathered $1,200
small community and it's local and mented Saunders. to put towards the parking lot.
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