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ObituariesMARY ELIZABETH COULTESMrs. Mary. E. Coultes ofWingham, passed away at BraemarRetirement Centre on Sunday, Oct.
24, 2010. She was 93.
The former Mary Dow, she was
the beloved wife of the late Norman
Coultes who predeceased her in
1994.
She was the dear mother of Jim
and Sheryl of Edmonton, Alberta,
Ken and Linda of Elmira, Doug of
Ripley, Ruth and Neil Olson of RR
5, Wingham and Doris of Milverton.
She was the loving grandmother of
Judy and Stephen, Denise and
Pierre, Jennifer and Rich, Joanne
and Brian, Jeff and Mark and Nicole.
Mary is survived by her step-
grandchildren Darrell and Leigh,
Resee, Doug and seven great-
grandchildren.
She was predeceased by her
parents James and Mary Anna
(McBurney) Dow, her son Grant
Coultes in 2004 and her cousins
Eileen and Cyril Canning and Velma
Dow.Mary was a life member of theBelgrave Women’s Institute. Shewill be remembered for her smile
and her gift of music that touched
many lives.
Visitation was held at McBurney
Funeral Home, Wingham on Oct. 28
from 2 - 4 p.m. and 7 - 9 p.m.
Memorial services were held at
McBurney Funeral Home on Oct. 29
at 1:30 p.m. Elly Dow officiated.
Her final resting place is at Brandon
Cemetery, Belgrave.
Memorial donations to Wingham
Hospital, Wingham United Church,
Knox United Church, Belgrave or a
charity of one’s choice would be
appreciated as expressions of
sympathy.
Online condolences may be left at
ww.mcburneyfuneralhome.com
JESSIE LYNN
Jessie Lynn passed away
peacefully into the presence of her
Lord and Saviour on Wednesday,
Oct. 27, 2010 at Caressant Care,
Listowel. She was in her 86th year.She was the beloved wife of thelate Fraser Lynn. Jessie is survivedby her sister Marie Stenhouse, niece
Morag Stenhouse, and nine other
nieces and nephews, all residing in
Scotland. She is the sister-in-law of
Doreen McIntosh and Nora Lynn,
both of Listowel, and the aunt of
Pauline and Brian Edge of Alberta,
Jim and Charlotte McIntosh of
Listowel, Kathryn and Jan Dadson
of Rockwood, and Cheryl and Blake
Greenwood of Mississauga. She is
also remembered by her special
friends Susan Pegg of Bluevale and
Helen Hordyk, of Listowel and all
those who cared for her at Caressant
Care.
Jessie was predeceased by her
parents Sarah and Jasper McKean,
and her brothers Jim, Sam and
Jasper McKean. Visitation was held
at Knox Presbyterian Church,
Listowel on Oct. 310 from 1 p.m.
until time of the funeral service at
2 p.m. Interment was in Molesworth
Cemetery.Memorial donations toSamaritan’s Purse would beappreciated and may be made
through the Eaton Funeral Home,
Listowel.
Online condolences may be left at:
www.eatonfuneralhome.ca
GENEVIEVE LOUISA (JEAN)
SEILING
Genevieve Louisa (Jean) Seiling
went home to be with her Lord on
Friday, Oct. 29, 2010. She was 85.
The former Jean Weber, beloved
wife of Henry Seiling was the dear
mother of Patricia and Ron Pearce of
RR 3, Ilderton, Valerie Porter and
her companion Thomas Shepstone
of Berkeley and Douglas and
Heather Seiling of Toronto.
Jean was the loving grandmother
of Daniel, Heather, Scott and Sherry,
sister of Verna Weber of RR 2,
Brussels, Nelson and Wendy Weber
of RR 5, Flesherton, Dorothy and
Ron Dill of Stratford and Ken and
Dale Weber of RR1, South River and
sister-in-law of Vera Weber of RR 2,
Brussels and Margaret Weber of
Burgoyne.
She was predeceased by her son-
in-law Cliff Porter, her sisters
Flordine Weber, Ruth Kennedy,
Beatrice Weber and her brothersLloyd and Lorne Weber.Visitation was held at McBurneyFuneral Home, Wingham on
Monday from noon until the time of
the funeral service at 2 p.m. Pastor
Gary Fischer officiated. Interment
was in Wroxeter Cemetery, Howick
Township.
Memorial donations to the
Canadian Cancer Society of Hospice
of London would be appreciated as
expressions of sympathy.
Online condolences may be left at
www.mcburneyfuneralhome.com
North St. West, Wingham
Mac & Donna Anderson
519-357-1910
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Rural crime down since Rural
Agricultural Crime Team started
Crime in rural Ontario is down
since the Rural Agricultural Crime
Teams (RACT) were put in place in
1998, two members of team told the
annual meeting of the Huron County
Federation of Agriculture, Oct. 28.
Detective Sergeant Rick Dekonick
and Detective Sergeant Dennis
Thompson of the Ontario’s
Provincial Police’s Western Region
RACT squad said the five teams
were set up in 1998 with the goal of
cutting crime in rural areas by five
per cent. They achieved a 7.4 per
cent reduction.
The results in dealing with break
and enter crimes are even more
startling, with a 37 per cent
reduction in the OPP’s western
region, though only nine per cent of
that was directly agriculturally
related.
Dekonick explained that 94 per
cent of breaking and entering cases
are perpetrated by just six per cent of
the law breakers.
Often, he explained, teams of
burglars will slip into an area,
commit a few burglaries, then move
on to a different area. Often police
don’t make a connection with
burglaries that happen elsewhere
across the province but the RACT
team works across jurisdictions and
is on the watch for similar patterns
in a wider area.
Each RACT has six hand-picked,
highly-trained officers, one
identified member and five
investigators. They’ve taken part in
investigations of the fraudulent sale
of cattle embryos to foreign buyers,
the Aylmer Meats investigation into
the unlicensed selling of meat and
the collapse of Grey Bruce
Marketing Limited which left cattle
producers in that area out more than
$750,000, though eventually the
crown attorney dropped the charges
against those involved.
As well as agriculturally related
crimes, RACT investigators help out
as needed on other cases, many of
them high-profile such as the Tori
Stafford murder case in Woodstock
or the murder of Bill and Helena
Regier at Mount Carmel.
The team brings specialized skills
to their jobs, Dekonick said. They
are leaders in DNA sampling and
collection and warrant preparation.
They have a metal specialists to help
with crimes such as the case where
thieves overnight stripped all the
copper wiring out of a house under
construction.
If you’re reporting a crime to your
local police detachment and it’s
agriculturally related, ask the front
line officer to contact the RACT
team, Dekonick said. Often local
detachments do, but if they forget to
inform RACT, crimes may not get
picked up that fit patterns seen
elsewhere.
Thompson, a Belgrave-area native
who is a veteran of the Wingham
detachment of the OPP and is
himself a part-time farmer of Angus
cattle and sheep, gave tips on
preventing crime or at least helping
police solve the crime.
Identify your property, he said. In
the case of cattle, record CCIA bar
codes and number tags and take
regular counts of your livestock to
make sure none are missing. It
becomes very difficult to recover
cattle that have been stolen, taken to
a sale barn and then trucked out to
the farms of buyers.
If you’re selling through a niche
market, you may not have the same
protection for payment as through
regular channels.
Thieves breaking into houses love
to get their hands on documents like
passports, cheque books and deeds.
He warned people to be careful of
setups where salespersons double
scan credit cards, then sell the
information to criminals who make
duplicates and run up large sums on
your credit card.
Watch also for efforts to steal your
debit card information. If you deal
only with the bank that issued your
debit card you’re protected against
loss, he said.
Thompson also warned parents to
control their children’s participation
on the internet. “You really need to
know what your kids are doing on
the internet,” he said, saying it’s
shocking what some kids put on the
web. “Don’t let them have a
netcam.”
Pedophiles will drive three or four
hours to meet a young girl they
contact through the web, he said.
On the other hand, criminals too
seem to be hooked on social media,
said Dekonick. “We identify 80 per
cent of our criminals through
Facebook. They put their pictures on
it. It’s great!”
Ooops, we goofed...
In the Oct. 28 issue of The
Citizen, several F.E. Madill
Secondary School students were
identified as recipients of the
Mustangs on the Move award.
These students have contributed
positively to life at the school and
have now moved onto post-
secondary education or the
workplace. Mistakingly omitted
from this list was East Wawanosh
student Mike McDowell.
The Citizen apologizes for the
error.
By Keith Roulston
The Citizen
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