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Bob Rae opens IVDP office in Dungannon
BY MIKE WILLISCRAFT
With an election call in the near future,.
NDP leader Bob Rae opened the first ever
riding office in the Huron -Bruce District in
Dungannon last week.
Most of the crowd of about 50 people
were voicing their concerns about the free
trade issue as it affects agriculture.
"As you know we've akways been
against free trade. (Premier David)
Peterson has been two-faced on the issue
all along," charged Rae.
"He has to something about the free
trade deal."
He added that he thinks farmers live
"very close to reality" and that a lot of
their ideas should be used as a barometer
when deciding what is right or wrong with
the controversial deal.
With the current surge of support for
federal NDP leader Ed Broadbent, Rae is
hoping his party can gain some ground in
the province too.
"This is the first election when we can
say we're running with the idea offorming
a government," stressed Rae.
"There is nowhere we don't have the
potential to take a riding."
He noted that the upcoming election is
federal not provincial but he hopes his
MPPs can ride on the coat tails of their
federal conterparts popularity.
"We did really well provincially last
year as compared to previous years," he
noted.
Our level of support across Ontario is go-
ing up draznatically. Our party (at the
federal level) is going into this election 20
points higher in this province than in the
last election."
It is that growing support, according to
Rae, which has supplied the orgnization
with the funding to maintain a constituen-
cy office in the Huron -Bruce riding.
"We got enough contributions to keep an
office open which will give us more of a
presence, which is important," he
explained.
"Dungannon is the geographic center of
the riding. It will allow us tof cover the
riding better."
The office, on Dungannon's main street,
is in the upper level of the old Goderich
Rural Telephone Company building which
is over 100 years old.
According to locals it was originally a
barber shop.
Extensive renovations were needed to
the structure and a group headed by Al
Sherwood volunteered to take care of
much of the work.
The present owners of the building Phil
and Pauli Sommer were already doing
renovations on the ground level to make
way for the studio -workshop of their glass
business.
The Sommer's, glass designer -artists
who donated the upper level to the NDP to
use as office space, will operate a small
boutique.
The Huron -Bruce NDP office, located in Dungannon, was of-
ficially opened for business over the weet; 'nd u, 4) Rae,
leader of the provincial NDP Party, was oi, hat,' ifrr his sup-
port. Also joining the ribbon cutting ceremou, , 'rom left,
Paul Carroll, Paul Klopp, Gwen Pemberton, Mr. Rae, Norma
Peterson, Tony McQuail and some younger supporters. About 50
people turned out to meet with Rae Saturday. (Photo by Mike
W illiscraft )
Latest search for Lois draws blank
An intense search conducted in conjunc-
tion
onjuncttion with the mysterious disappearance of
Lois Hanna has turned up no new leads in
the case. The search, which covered bush
land and fields around Holyrood, was call-
ed off by OPP on Thursday, August 25.
The decision to search the area south of
Kinloss Concession Road 8, a half mile east
of Bruce County Road 1, came following a
report from an area couple that they saw
what might have been a female wearing
pink wandering a field there early on the
morning of July 4, the day Lois was
reported missing.
This area was originally searched three
times by the Hanna family and a number
of local volunteers and then twice again by
an OPP helicopter. On Tuesday, August 16
a Ministry of Natural Resources plane
equiped with a highly sensitive infra -red
camera joined the search.
The infra -red camera indicated that
there were "eight warm spots in the area
which could be decomposing flesh" accor-
ding to Bill McKeag of the Kincardine OPP
detachment.
A ground search conducted on Tuesday,
Wednesday and Thursday of last week
turned up little more than six dead cattle,
a dead cat, a dead rabbit and a dead rac-
coon. No human remains were discovered.
The area searched last week was in-
dicated by the boundary of County Road 1
to the west, Concession 8 to the north,
Sideroad ck) to the east and Concession 6 to
the south
L o i natters a big help
According to an OPP spokesman, ap-
proximately 40 volunteers joined the 12
Opp officers during the three days of
searching.
"We certainly couldn't have conducted a
search this thorough without the help of
the volunteers," said Mr. McKeag.
"They've been a big help."
In addition to the animal carcasses
found, searchers came across a deer
skeleton, a tape measure and a small
pocket calculator while combing the area
in question.
"The fact that we found an item as small
as a pocket calculator just shows the inten-
sity of the search," said Mr. McKeag. "It
shows that a proper search under the
direction of trained personnel can turn up
many things. If there had been a human
body in that area, we would have found it."
It has been just over eight weeks since
25 -year-old Lois Hanna disappeared and
her whereabouts remains a bizarre
mystery.
The Fair approaches
As local students are well aware, the
1988-89 school year begins on Tuesday of
next week. Teachers and other members
of the area schools staff have been busy all
week preparing the classrooms for the ar-
rival of the eager youngsters.
As always, the open of the schools is
followed closelyby the ever popular
Lucknow Fall Fair. This year's event is
scheduled for Friday and Saturday,
September 16 and 17.
All the activity of the weekend kicks off
Friday evening with such events as nail
driving, log sawing and bag tying as well
as the official opening ceremonies.
Come Saturday, the village will be abuzz
with horse shows, baby contests, bale roll-
ing, a midway and, of course, the mam-
moth parade which starts at 12:30 sharp.
One of the biggest attractions at this
year's Fall Fair will be the annual Miss
Mid -Western Ontario pageant. The crow-
ing of the beauty queen will take place at
10:00 p.m. Saturday, followed by a dance
to the sounds of the Leahy Family.
Be sure to mark these times and dates on
your calendar and take the time to have
fun at the Lucknow Fall Fair