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THIS WEEK:
GRADUATION - Pg. 9
Local Grade 8 students honoured
as they move onto high school
FIREFIT - Pg. 22
Huron East FireFit team
earns berth in nationals
FESTIVAL - Pg. 27
`Judith: Memories of a Lady
Pig Farmer' hits the stage
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Serving the communities of Blyth and Brussels and northern Huron Co my Thursday, July 5, 2018
Turning the corner
With summer now in full swing, area parks and fields are full
with local youth playing soccer and baseball. On June 27,
Brussels was the destination for sports fans. Not only was
the village's U15 Girls team in action against Wingham, but
dozens were at the Optimist Ballpark as the
Brussels Tigers took on the Australian Junior Men's Steelers in a
rain -shortened double-header. On the pitch, the girls from
Brussels were victorious, claiming a 2-1 victory over their
opponents, Wingham's Gift Chest U15 Girls team. (Shawn Loughlin
photo)
Panovski
guilty of
Hullett
murder
By Shawn Loughlin
The Citizen
Boris Panovski, a 74 -year-old dog
trainer and hair stylist from
Scarborough, has been found guilty
of the 2014 murder of Don Frigo in
the Hullett Wildlife Conservation
Area.
After a trial that lasted several
weeks, the jury came in with a
verdict of guilty for Panovski on
both the count of killing Frigo and
for aggravated assault in regards to
Frigo's wife, Eva Willer Frigo on
that fateful day in Central Huron.
The jury came in with its verdict
on Friday. It is still unclear whether
Panovski plans to appeal, although
his lawyers have strongly
recommended it.
Panovski's defence largely hinged
on his lawyers, John Fennel and
Christopher Hicks, claiming that no
one could identify Panovski as being
at the scene of the crime that day.
During her testimony, Willer Frigo
said she couldn't positively identify
Panovski as the shooter that day.
Over the course of the trial,
however, the Crown Attorney
attempted to prove its case by
showing that because of Panovski's
erratic behaviour, like ridding
himself of his possessions and
travelling to Macedonia, he showed
that he was guilty.
According to Jane Sims of The
London Free Press, after the court
found him guilty, Panovski leaned
over in the prisoner's box, wanting
to talk to reporters and inviting them
to the jail to hear his story.
Victim impact statements will be
heard on July 5 in Goderich and at
that time Panovski will be
sentenced.
Thompson named Ford's Minister of Education
By Shawn Loughlin
The Citizen
On Friday morning, Huron -Bruce
MPP Lisa Thompson was sworn in
as the province's Minister of
Education under Premier Doug
Ford.
Thompson has been an outspoken
critic of rural school closures in
recent years, an issue that has
garnered the attention of many
Huron -Bruce residents and the
Ontario Federation of Agriculture, to
name a few.
On her Twitter account, Thompson
said that she was proud to stand
alongside her fellow MPPs while
they were all sworn in at Queen's
Park and as a former 4-H member,
she said she pledged to employ the
"4 Hs [head, heart, hands and
health]" in all that she does in her
new post.
"We have an all-star team that's
ready now to give the people of
Ontario the kind of leadership and
direction they deserve," Ford said in
a press release. "For too long, the
people of Ontario have worked more
and paid more, but gotten less.
Those days are over. Help is here."
Now in her third term as Huron -
Bruce MPP after defeating Liberal
Carol Mitchell in the 2011 election,
Thompson has served in several
capacities in her time with the PC
Party of Ontario.
She has been the PC Caucus Chair
as well as serving as the PC Critic
for international trade and
Indigenous relations and
reconciliation. She is a member of
the Standing Committee on General
Government and was selected by the
Speaker of Ontario's Legislative
Assembly to represent Ontario on a
steering committee for
Commonwealth Women
Parliamentarians, Canadian Region,
for a three-year term.
During the lead -up to the election,
Thompson's name had been floated
as a candidate to be the Minister of
Agriculture when PC hopeful Ford
had said that he wanted a farmer to
serve as his Minister of Agriculture.
She was unofficially shortlisted for
the position alongside Monte
McNaughton of Lambton-Kent-
Middlesex, Toby Barrett of
Halidmand-Norfolk and Ernie
Hardeman of Oxford County, who
was named to the position on Friday.
With voter turnout at nearly a 20 -
year high, Thompson was declared
the winner of her riding just 15
minutes after the polls closed on
June 7 thanks to electronic ballot -
reading technology. This came after
party leader Doug Ford had already
been declared the next Premier of
Ontario with a majority government
predicted.
Thompson received 27,646 votes,
over 52 per cent of the riding's votes,
followed by Jan Johnstone of the
NDP with 15,326, Don Matheson of
the Liberals with 7,356,
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