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Network appearances
J.n
April, then five-year-old Gracin
Black spent time in Toronto where
he began work on TVO's second
season of the reality pre-school series
The Ocean Room. Gracin was one of sev-
en 'students' cast in the hands-on learning
program that hit the air Nov. 2.
Local entrepreneurs L. Michael Rob-
erts and Paul Safr went to battle in the
name of green energy last week as they
entered the Dragons' Den. The inventive
pair travelled the nearly 300 kilometres
to Toronto on Monday, June 1 where
they pitched their conceptual product, a
high -efficiency 24-hour lightbulb, before
a panel of Canadian business moguls on
the CBC's idea maker -or -breaker pro-
gram, Dragons' Den.
Three decades after the Khmer Rouge
turned Cambodia upside down in a frenzy
of bloodletting, a UN -backed war crimes
tribunal is at last underway to bring the
faction's surviving leaders to justice.
Thousands of Cambodians worldwide,
however, seek a different kind of closure.
They want to find or account for loved
ones who vanished during those dark
years from 1975-79, during which the
Khmer Rouge killed, tortured, starved, or
worked -to -death somewhere between one
and two million people. Former Goderich
resident Y Dang Troeung and her family
have recently unravelled their own mys-
tery - what happened to her uncle, Ch-
eung Kok See, who vanished after being
lured back to Cambodia from his studies
in Moscow.
Troeung debuted her 15 -minute docu-
mentary on the CBC Radio One's Out -
front series. Her piece, The Lucky One
Returns, told . the story of her family's
escape from a tortured nation, and her
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return to find answers. The documentary
originally aired in May, and broadcast
again Aug. 14 on the CBC One network.
No free lunch
2 009 marked the end of free
lunches in Huron County Coun-
cil chambers, after a drawn-out
debate over who would foot the bill for
feeding members of council. The year's
bill worked out to about $19,000 in mid-
day chow, and a motion was cast May
19 to do away with the menu during the
thrice -monthly committee -of -the -whole
and council sessions. An 11-8 recorded
vote at county council June 3 confirmed
council will have a lunch break, but their
bill won't be picked up by taxpayers.
Black Bear roaming
lone male bear spent a chunk of
2009's summer season patrol-
ing the Lake Huron shoreline.
Wildlife officials fielded 30 reported
sightings of the animal since June 1,
reported to be a two or three-year-old
male Black Bear. After hearing from a
seasonal resident who won't be return-
ing to her Huron Sands cottage until
the bear problem was remedied, Huron
County councillors decided Aug. 5 they'd
send a letter to the Ministry of Natural
Resources and Huron -Bruce MPP Carol
Mitchell supporting the letter -writer's
concerns about bears on cottagers' decks
and breaking into sheds. Senior Fish and
Wildlife specialist, Bev Stevenson of the
MNR Clinton office said in the July 15
GSS they had received word of seven ad-
ditional Black Bear sightings in the area.
Reported sightings stretch from the Sun-
set Beach Road area up to Kingsbridge.
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