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Page 20 Times-Advocate, December 23, 1976
Former Exeter woman cited for valor •
A former Exeter area resident
has received the highest award
available to Ontario Provincial
Police officers, a certificate of
valor.
Receiving the honors is Con-
stable Diane Brock who
graduated from the first class of
OPP policewoman in 1974. She is
the daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Key Carpenter, Exeter and is
a member of the Sebringville
OPP detachment.
The 33-year-old Ontario
Provincial policewoman still
doesn't know where she found the
strength to lift an unconscious
man through the torn-out roof of a
burning car last summer and she
doubts she could repeat the feat.if
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she had to take the time to think
about it,
"I couldn't do it now," Con-
stable Brock said Wednesday as
she recalled the still-vivid details
of the few brief seconds six
months ago which earned her the
award.
Constable Brock was preparing
to go off duty shortly before
midnight June 15 why her radar
detected a car travelling more
than 70 miles per hour,
"I recognized it as being a car
we were looking for," she
remembered,
Giving pursuit to the car,
reported stolen in London earlier
in the evening, she chased it for
13 miles at speeds she was
reluctant to specify.
Things happened in a hurry on
a narrow rural road near the
hamlet of Rannoch,
The car she was pursuing went
out of control and struck a tree,
Constable Brock explained.
"All I could see were just lights
going around in the air, It rolled
over several limes and sub-
sequently burst into flames."
She immediately radioed for
help from the St. Marys fire
department and then tried to
extinguish the flames with her
portable fire extinguisher.
"But it didn't put it out,"
The car had landed upright and
its engine was on fire, A
passenger had already scram-
bled out of the car through a hole
in the vehicle's ripped-out sun
roof but the driver was un-
conscious inside with head in-
juries,
Constable Brock hopped up on
the car's gas tank several feet
from the burning engine and
grabbed the injured driver by the
. shoulders. That's where she runs
out of easy explanations for what
happened,
Outweighed by 30 pounds and
with almost no leverage to brace
herself, she jerked the man out
cleanly and dragged him to
safety.
How she managed to do it is
something Constable Brock still
can't explain.
There was no one else in the
area to offer assistance and the
passenger, although uninjured,
was in a state of shock from the
accident.
Both occupants of the car were
wearing seat belts, Constable
Brock was quick to point out.
Without them, they would have
been killed or seriously injured,
she said,
The driver recovered to spend
the next two months in jail for
dangerous driving and the
passenger received six months
for possession of a stolen vehicle.
The driver also received two
years' probation for his part in
the theft.
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GET COUNTY AWARDS — County honours were presented at Saturday's Middlesex 4-H Achievement
Day. Back, left, Susan Adams, Shelley Davies, Cathy Wilson and Brenda Tomlin. Front, Kim Siddall, Susan
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By DONNA PROUT
Grade 8
Usborne Central
The street lights are adorned
brightly,
Overlooking the ice slippery
town,
That glimmers and glistens
nightly.
While a soft, white, delicate
sheet flutters down.
Christmas Lace
Down the road, a Christmas tree
is in place,
Decorated with tinsel and lights;
man-made;
But Mother Nature must add her
Christmas lace.
Of snowflakes dancing in a
constant parade.
On the next corner stands a jolly
ol s
omas grateful
d
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snow,
For without it how could his
reindeer fly?
And too, it makes Rudolphs nose
glow!
As snow crystals dance, caroling
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Of Christmas, it's joy, spirit and
cheer,
And in the background, church
bells ring,
That a snowy Christmas is here.
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