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The Huron Expositor, 1995-06-28, Page 1Seaforth, Ontario, June 28 ,1995 40 YEARS Dr. Malkus and wife picked up in limo for 40 year anniversary party in his honour. see page two. RETIRING Grader i:. operator from McKillop gets ready to retire. see page three. Briefly Local girl is still missing The search For a missing 16 - year -old Godcrich girl con- tinues. Mistic Nichols Murray was repoii... ,uissing June 2. She is the daughter of Steve and Anne Murray, formerly of St. Colum - ban. Provincial police at Goderich report there is no indication of foul play and the case is clas- sified as a "missing person". They have scaled down their search and say they remain available as resource people. Members oI' the OPP dive team searched the main har- bour at Godcrich, the municipal inarina and other areas for two days but found no tract of the girl. Police describe her as white with short, reddish -brown hair, blue-green eyes, about 160cm tall weighing about 52 kg. Church votes to relocate Bethel Bible Church may soon have a new location for Sunday services. • Pastor Rick Lucas said the congregation voted by a large majority to hold Sunday ser- vices in a larger facility. "We're excited about the opportunities of ministry more seating will give us," he said. Thcrc were two meetings on the relocation, one on May 31. and another on Junc 7. issues such as wheelchair -accessibility and parking were considered in choosing the new site, which has not yet been announced. The church will hold its first church service and Sunday School program at the new facility on Labour Day Sunday, Sept. 3. The office of Bethel Bible Church will remain in l gmondviIle. Commission OK's end of police force The Ontario Civilian Com- mission on Police Services has consented to the abolition of the Scaforth Police so.thc town can contract with the Ontario Provincial Police. The commission held a public meeting here near the end of April and- its decision was announced at the June 13 regular meeting of Scaforth Council. "It is evident to us," ruled commission .Chair Murray C'hitra, "that what is Icing protxrsed will provide -the Town of Scaforth with a Icvcl of policing services which is at least equivalent to that which it currently enjoys." "That level oI' service appears to have served the community well over the course of the past years," the commission's ver- dict continues. "There is no reason to believe that it will not continue 10 do so.,, INDEX Entertainment... page 14 Rec. preview...page 16 Sports...page H. "Your eonu►r►otitit W1(1til)lrl)r'Y sine(' 1R60.. serving Seafortli, Dublin, Ileusrrll, Walton, Rr,,ssr'ls and surrorr►rrli!I. Conr►nur►ilirs." OLDEST AND YOUNGEST BABIES - Ruth Malkus smiles broadly as her husband Dr. Malkus meets Randy McClinchey and Jacob McClure, the very first and the most TIM CtivLM.\G PHOTO recent babies he delivered in Seaforth. Jacob is three ane a half months and is son of Larry and Lynn McClure. School to be ready by autumn. BY GREGOR CAMPBELL Expositor Staff School's out, for this summer but St. Anne's Catholic Secon- dary School will be ready for students when it is again time to break out the books next September. Principal Ray Commis says construction is "on target", all staff has been hired and should report for work at the new school on thc east edge of Clinton August 15, the same time others in the Huron -Perth County Roman Catholic Separate School Board start. St. Anne's will have a first- year enrolment of 125 students, according to the principal's figures. All will be in grade.9 the school's first year, grade 10 and 9 will be accommodated the next year, three grades the next, and so on. The school has a projected enrolment of 600 to 700 students by the time it will encompass all secondary grade levels, which will also mark GREGOR C.\\IPHII.I. PHOTS NEW SCHOOL SOON READY - Principal Ray Comtois says construction and preparations at St. Anne's Catholic Secondary School at Clinton are in high gear. the end of phase two of its construction program. By this mid-August end of the first phase of construction, the school will have the space to handle 30() students and, among other things, have a gymnasium, lunchroom, drama and information design and communication facilities. Comtois, a principal at Si. James School in Scaforth for six years in the early 1980s who has been on the job as principal of St. Anne's since hired in April, says the two- phase construction plan enables trustees to "be very careful with costs", by financing space that won't be used until the enrolment is there. Phase two will kick in when an enrolment of 300 has bccn reached. St. Anne's even has its school colours and teams' nickname chosen. Comtois says both were selected by this year's grade 8s in Huron Coun- ty, to give them a sense of ownership before that first bell rings. They will be called the "Eagles", with symbolic tie-ins to St. John according to the principal, and the school colours will be navy and silver. Comtois has also bccn prin- cipal of Kinkora and St. Ambrose schools in this arca since leaving Scaforth. Acting Chief joins local force Scaforth's neW acting police . chief started work here Moth day. He is Sgt. Brad Sadler from • Exeter. He replaces acting -chief Const. Charlie Akcy, who in turn was an emergency fill-in for Chief Ilal Claus who is recovering from a heart operation. Sgt. Sadler comes from the Exeter detachment of the On- ' tario Provincial Police, the force that will officially take over from the Scaforth force • October I. Sgt. Sadler, 44, was a mem- her of Exeter's municipal force when that municipality also switched to provincial Ixalicing. "I've done this before and was acting chief in Exeter so I'm returning to my roots," Sgt. Sadler says. "'That's probably why I was chosen, because of nay familiarity with municipal policing." He began his carver in April 1974 and served three years with the Metropolitan Toronto Police Force h. foie going to Exeter, where he has remained GREGOR CAMPBELL P1I010 since, MEET SEAFORTH'S NEW ACTING CHIEF - The Ontario Provincial Police have provided Sgt. Sadler is mai ried and Seaforth with a new acting -chief. He is Sgt. Brad Sadler from Exeter who began duty here has two sons. Monday. INC CEREMON1Y The community soccer Project Vw in St. Colurnban receives grand opening. see page eight. WANTED: Long-term health care consumers BY GREGOR CAMPBELL Expositor Staff Long-term health care plan- ners in Scaforth and the county are having difficulty selling "consumers" on the idea of getting involved in the process of.long-term care reform. It's crucial because if the people who will eventually need care don't involve them- selves in planning the health care system we end up with in Ontario won't be client - focused, commented Yvonne Kitchen at last Thursday mor- ning's regular meeting of the East Huron Long -Term Care Advisory Committee at Seaforth Community Hospital. The committee has a couple of openings for consumers and isn't getting an avalanche of applications. Thcrc has not been a large response from consumers at the county plan- ning level either. "Don't close our hospital - that's what gets them going - not, 'When 1 need health care am 1 going to get it?" said Kitchcn. She added many people feel it isn't important because no matter what their opinions they won't be heard. "This is not true," she said. The Ontario government defines its reformed long -tern care system as one that "will serve seniors and adults with physical disabilities, family caregivers, and people of any age who nccd health and per- sonal support services. These services will be delivered in a variety of settings, including the home and general workplace. The new system will also serve children in publicly funded schools who need health services delivered at school so they will take part meaningfully." East Huron committee mem- ber Ruth Hildebrand said everything arca planners asked for they got earlier in the process but "it is sometimes difficult to sec the forest for the trees". She also observed that some people become discouraged with the process because their pct ideas don't end up ac- cepted, but this is how plan- ning in our political system works. Rain welcomed by farmers Arca farriers slept sounder after Sunday's thunderstorms. Before the deluge a prolonged dry period didn't do any damage but crops were "stressed" in Huron County says Bob Humphries of the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food at Clinton. The dry spell began at the start of this month after a storm unleashed four to five inches of rain in one hour in central Huron. Humphries says that storm resulted in replanting for 50 white bean growers and 30 soybean growers in the townships of Tuckcrsmith, Goderich and Stanley and the lengthy dry spell that then followed, ending Sunday, didn't do wonders for thc early development of these fields. OMAF describes the hay crop in Huron as,high quality" and Humphries says the dry spell also resulted in .arca strawberry fields being ir- rigated when required, so the crop wasn't unduly damaged.