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e Citizen
Serving the communities of Blyth and Brussels and northern Huron County
Volume 17 No. 50
Wednesday, Dec. 19, 2001
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Police
arrest 2
for
murder
Ontario Provincial Police have
arrested two young men in
the murder of Harold Chesney
McGee.
Eighteen-year.old Joseph Bruce
Carrick of Crawford Street,
-Dungannon and Jason Clifford
Brown, from Beilby Street,
Goderich were arrested on the
morning of Dec. 17 without
incident, police said.
' Carrick was remanded into
custody at the Stratford jail, while
Brown was taken into police custody
and was remanded into custody at 9
a.m. Tuesday morning in Huron
County court, Goderich to the
Walkerton jail. The pair will appear
in court Jan. 3 to answer to the
charges.
McGee, 78, was found dead by
officers Dec. 10 after members of
the Huron OPP went to his house on
County Rd. 1 in Ashfield between
Goderich and Lucknow to check on
his well- being at the request of a
family member.
A post-mortem later revealed he
had been beaten to death.
Since the investigation began last
week police received many tips
giving officers plenty of leads.
"The public assistance has been
overwhelming and helped greatly in
the arrest of Carrick and Brown,"
said Const. John Reurink, media
relations/community services with
Lambton OPP.
Officers conducted searches at the
homes of both the accuseds
following their arrests.
Police continue to investigate.
OPP dive team, emergency response
team and the Huron County Crime
Unit will be searching a rural area
and a portion of the Nine Mile Creek
near Dungannon Road and Mill Line
in an effort to locate further evidence
to help in this investigation, Reurink
said.
This little piggy
Aaron Keunen has yet to learn that he's to be the guest of honour at the family's Christmas
dinner in the East Wawanosh Grade 2's Charlotte's Web - The Second Generation, part of the
school's annual Christmas concert. (Bonnie Gropp photo)
Former Brusse • lite gets national nod
University. She went on to do
postgraduate work at the University
of Alberta in Edmonton, where she
met Miller.
Cardiff has settled for the moment
in Berlin, after a year-long
fellowship from the German
government. Although she will be
maintaining her links with the
University of Alberta in Lethbridge,
Cardiff and Miller now have a long
list of invitations to create works for
galleries in Europe, Japan and North
America.
Cardiff and Miller are being
honoured by Maclean's this year
with such other Canadian notables as
Lincoln Alexander, Carol Sheilds,
Nelly Furtado, Steve Nash,
Christopher Plummer and Louis
Lortie.
School
meetings
begin in
new year
By Stew Slater
Special to The Citizen
Beginning in the middle of
January, 2002, and continuing until
the middle of February, the Avon
Maitland District School Board has
scheduled a series of special
meetings aimed at collecting input
about the board's current round of
school closures. The meetings are
timed to occur prior to a planned final
trustee vote on the issue Tuesday,
Feb. 26.
Recommended dates, locations and
themes for the meetings were part of
a larger staff report which was
approved at the conclusion of the
board's most recent regular meeting,
Wednesday, Dec. 12.
Recommendations were also passed
stating five schools (Robertson
Memorial Public School in Goderich,
Holmesville Public School, Seaforth
District High School (SDHS), and
Stratford's King Lear and Juliet
elementary schools) should remain
on the potential. closure list, while the
placement of Grades 7 and 8 students
into Stratford's two secondary
schools should remain under
consideration.
All upcoming special meetings will
take place at 7 p.m. They'll begin
with what are being called "public
community meetings," at which
information will be provided about
the nature of change being
considered.
The first, Monday, Jan. 21 at
SDHS, will feature information about
Huron County schools which don't
face closure, but do face some other
type of change. These are Colborne
Central Public School, Victoria
Public School, Clinton Public
School, Central Huron Secondary
School and Seaforth Public School.
A similar information meeting is
scheduled for Thursday, Jan. 31, with
a site yet to be determined, for
Stratford schools facing non-closure
changes.
These are Romeo Public School,
Anne Hathaway Public School,
Bedford Public School, Stratford
Central Secondary School and
Stratford Northwestern Secondary
School.
Separate "public community
meetings" will be held for each
school facing closure. They take
place Wednesday, Jan. 23 in
Holmesville; Monday, Jan. 28 at
Juliet Public School; Tuesday, Jan. 29
at King Lear Public School;
Wednesday, Jan. 30 at Robertson
Memorial; and Monday, Feb. 4 at
SDHS.
According to the Dec. 12 start
report. two additional meetings will
be held, solely to allow •'coniniunity
members to make their views known
to the board before any decision . . .
is made." For those schools facing
non-closure changes, this meeting
will take place Monday. Feb. II at
Continued on page 6
"A prophet is not without honour
save in his own country..." is a
quotation from Matthew familiar to
many. However, for locally born
artist Janet Cardiff and her husband
George Bures Miller that is
definitely not the case.
Cardiff and Miller have just been
named to Maclean's 16th annual
honour roll. Each year the news
magazine celebrates the
achievements of 12 Canadians
chosen because of the way all have
"enriched the country with their
creativity, intelligence and passion to
make a difference."
Cardiff, the daughter of Jack and
Audrey Cardiff of RR5 Brussels has
created a considerable stir in the art
world lately both at home and
abroad.
In March, her sound installation,
Forty.-Part Motet, at the National
Gallery of Canada, won the gallery
foundation's inaugural $50,000
Millennium Prize, over international
competition. In June, Cardiff and
Miller staged a collaborative work,
The Paradise Institute, at the Venice
Biennale.
Here they became -the first
Canadians to win an award at what is
arguably one of the top two or three
art competitions in the world. Yves
Pepin, from the cultural division of
Canada's foreign affairs department
commented, "When you get invited
to Venice and win it is hard to
go much further."
Cardiff graduated from F.E.Madill
Secondary School before taking a
fine arts degree at Queen's