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u►derich Signal -Star • Wednesday. July 20, 20.1 I
rpstra loses appeal attempt
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Ontario court of Appeal
fitly dismissed an application
Tony 'Terpstra of Wingham to
his five -and -a -half-year sen -
e reduced for counselling and
Tiring to commit the murder
s wife.
the 41 -year --old Terpstra was the
central figure in a court case in
Goderich last May that involved
extramarital Affairs and an attempt
to have his wife Sheila, 42, killed.
His rnistress, Serrena Benninger,
40, also of Wingham, was sen-
tenced to two -and -one-half years
for her role in the murder plot;
considered to Ile of lesser
importance.
The appeal court rendered oral
reasons for dismissing the sen-
tence appeal and a written
endorsement was to be filed later.
The case to hire a hitman to
carry out the killing of Terpstra's
wife was heard in a Superior Court
oflustice trial last May in Goderich.
Tony Terpstra and Benniuger were..
carrying on an affair before mak-
ing attempts to hire a hitman to
carry out the killing of Sheila
Terpstra.
The man they hired for the job
turned out to be an undercover
OPP police officer.
When the pair was arrested
March 12, 2009, Terpstra had paid
out half of the requested fee,
$7,500, to the hitman as a down
payment and had the remaining
payment in his truck when it was
believed .the murder had taken
place.
Terpstra was described at trial as
a millionaire and former farmer in
the Brussels area who left the fam-
ily farm business to own his own
concrete construction business.
Benninger, a troubled and physi-
cally ill woman, dreamed of being
with Terpstra in a marriage once a
divorce was finalized.
Sentencing took place in Supre-
rior Court in Goderich last June
with Justice John McGarry deliver-
ing the judgement.
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Sifto Canada Corp., operator of •the
Goderich salt mine, has been fined.
$140,000 for a violation of the Occupa-
tional Health and Safety Act after a
worker was killed.
In addition to an underground mine,
Sifto's Goderich property contains large
domes in which salt is stored before
being loaded onto ships or railcars.
There are open grates in the floors of the
storage domes. These allow the salt to
flow down onto conveyors leading to.
the loading area.
On August 25, 2009, worker Murray
Nesbitt was using an excavator to move
salt within a dome. The excavator broke
down and a maintenance person was
called for repairs, While waiting for the
repair person, Nesbitt exited the cab of
the excavator and began clearing salt
from the machine. At this time, the con-
veyor under the dome started moving
and salt began falling through the grate
in the floor of the dome. Nesbitt was
pulled through the grate with the mov-
ing salt andasphyxiated.
Sifto Canada Corp. pleaded guilty to
failing, as an employer, to ensure that
the grate in the bottom of the dome was
guardedto prevent a worker from being
drawn in.
The fine was imposed by Justice of
the Peace Robert Seneshen. In addi-
tion to the fine, the court imposed a
25 -per -cent victim fine surcharge, as
required by the Provincial Offences
Act. The surcharge is credited to a spe-
cial provincial government fund to
assist victims of crime:
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A Lions work is never done. Members of the Goderich Lions Club were out on a work party last week, painting a substantial length of
chain in front of the Marine Museum at the town's Main Beach. Lions Ken Dunn, Doug Fines, Ken Hunter and others were out for the
morning work party.