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New owners for Seaforth dress shop
Shaun Gregory
Huron Expositor
It's been 39 years for
Anna and her clothing
store in Seaforth, but after
almost four decades she's
finally hanging up the
dress for good.
Anna Hamilton, 68,
tagged along with her
mother when she first
opened Anna's Dress
Shoppe on Seaforth's
main strip. After her
mother became ill sud-
denly and could not be
involved with the busi-
ness due to her health,
Hamilton kept at it and
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Arnold Ramsey stands on Main
street in Seaforth, he would
like to thank the man without a
name or face, who paid for his
birthday dinner.
developed decades of
customer service for
women in the area. The
Brussels native has cho-
sen to sell the store to a
couple who are highly
experienced in the cloth-
ing industry. She has
advised all customers
nothing will change. The
store will have the same
staff, customers and
clothing lines.
"I've worked all my life
and I'm ready for retire-
ment," Hamilton said at
the store last Thursday.
"It's going to be hard, but
it's nice that the girls that
have worked for me for
years are still going to be
here to make the ladies
comfortable that come in
the door."
Carrying the torch will
be Tom and Nancy Hartai.
The couple said they are
more than familiar with
the retail of clothing. For
the past 31 years, they've
owned Brigitte's Fashion &
Thomas H. Menswear in
Exeter. They also pur-
chased Thompson's
Ladies Wear 10 years ago
in Bobcaygeon from a
woman who owned the
establishment since the
1950s. The two are confi-
dent they can follow
Hamilton's lead and keep
the continuity going for
years to come.
"The big difference is
she's (Hamilton) not here,
that's the only difference,"
Hartai, 51, said.
"I go out the front —"
began Hamilton
"—and we come in the
back," Hartai finished.
With 39 years under her
belt, Hamilton said she'd
going to miss going to
work every day.
"I had such great
customers over the
years, it was a pleasure to
come to work," Hamilton
said.
Shaun Gregory Huron Expositor
From the left Nancy Hartai, Anna Hamilton and Tom Hartai.
Hamilton is selling the store to Hartai's after owning the store
for 39 years.
Birthday boy is baffled by kind gesture
Shaun Gregory
Huron Expositor
After finishing a meatloaf
meal at a restaurant in
Grand Bend for his birthday,
Arnold used the washroom
and returned to pay the bill,
only to find out an unknown
generous man covered the
tab and had vanished before
he could thank him.
Arnold Ramsey, 73, from
Seaforth, had dinner with his
wife Barbie Ramsey at
MacPherson's Restaurant last
week. His wife mentioned to
the other waitresses that it
was her husband's special
day. The birthday boy was
"blown away" after discover-
ing the staff covered both of
their desserts and the man
that who Ramsey had no clue
was directly behind him, paid
the $35 dinner.
"It was unexpected, it's
something that you hear
about on TV, you might read
about it in a newspaper or
magazine, but it doesn't
happen to me," Ramsey said
in an interview at the Exposi-
tor office.
The experience is every-
thing Ramsey could have
asked for he said, the three
waitresses sand him a birth-
day jingle and attached a lit
candle on his dessert. The
good deed is far from unno-
ticed and Ramsey said he
would like at least say thank
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you to the kind man who
strayed away without a name
or a face.
"I don't know what else to
say it was totally awesome,"
Ramsey said.
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