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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1995-07-19, Page 1ter,.:>;.> SPORTS Two local golfers qualify for national event. page seven. r1 Is Briefly Accident near Dublin wrecks vehicle The vehicle a St. Marys' '' woman was driving was demolished and she received minor injuries after an accident on Highway 8 just wcst of Dublin Thursday morning. The Sebringville detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police says Kathryn Switzer -Ferguson, 42, was westbound, near sideroad 20 in Hibbert Township, when her vehicle veered off the road, hit a tree and flipped over. She was treated for minor injuries at St. Marys hospital. Major injuries suffered in two -car crash Both drivers .received "major injuries" in a two -vehicle col- lision just north of Seaforth a week ago Saturday night. Ontario Provincial Police at .Goderich report Robert Linden - field, 41, of Exeter was bound west at a high rate of speed in a pick-up truck on Concession 2 and 3 of McKillop Township then failed to yield at its inter- section with Huron County Road 12. His vehicle and a small car driven by Margrit Freiburger, 35, of Formosa collided there at approximately 8 p.m. The Seaford' and Area Fire Department assisted with fire prevention at the scene and the OPP say both victims were taken to Scaforlh Community Hospital with major injuries. Last week police were not available for comment prior to press time. MP Johns named parliamentary assistant to health minister Premier Mike Harris has appointed Huron MPP Helen Johns Parliamentary Assistant to the Minister of Health. The role taken on by Helen Johns as Parliamentary Assistant is to provide support for Jim Wilson, the Cabinet Minister in Health, by preparing legislation and bringing it before the House for consideration. Johns is also responsible to the Legislature for the Health portfolios when the Minister cannot be present. Girl with local con- nection wins award from Governor- General The youngest winner of thc Governor -General's Canada Remembers Award is con- nected to Seaforth. Samantha Walker, of Peterborough, is tllc grand- daughter of John` -hiss Walker, RCAF, of Seaforth. She is the great grand- daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Walker, of Walker's Furni- ture Store which was located on Main Street in Scaforth (at the current site of Robert Watcher's studio). INDEX Years agone...page 4 Bill Thomas...page 4 "Your commuhity newspaper since 1860...serving Seaforth, Dublin, Hensall, Walton, • Brussels and surrounding Communities." A!! Roads \ Se s fortfl e ' Lead to P trict \` _,�; omecoming Augusta -6,1995 Seaforth, Ontario, July 19 ,1995 - 75 cents plus G.S.T. WORLD WAR 11 The war which ended 50 years ago led to overseas marriages. see pages 2,3,5,12 (pads Lead to ort%i tf' trict August 3-6,1995 orneColntng COMMUNITY Two foster. kids battled extreme heat to bike 1,200 km. see page 14. WIND DAMAGE - The storm with tomado-like winds that crippled Goderich for the weekend and may have caused up to $2 -million damage wasn't felt as fiercely in the Seaforth area as it was near Lake Huron, about a half hour's drive away. Tombstones at Maitland Bank Cemetery in McKillop Seaforth escapes worst- st of severe storm. GREGOR CAMPBELL PHOTO Township were toppled by an old maple tree that was scheduled to be removed. An Adam's family 'stone more than a century old was broken into three pieces. The good news is it probably can be put together again. BY GREGOR CAMPBELL Expositor Staff Seaforth and immediate area escaped relatively unscathed from Thursday evening's vicious storm that caused es- timated damages of between $1 -million to $2 -million at Goderich, a mere 30 -minute drive away. Communities all along the Lake Huron shoreline in this area were hardest hit by the tornado -force winds. Power did not go out in Seaforth but was interrupted next door in Egmondville. Public Utility Commission manager Tom Phillips says his workers were busy getting branches away from power lines here in town in the after- math of the blast, then worked overtime assisting at Hensall and Grand Bend Friday and Saturday. Tuckersmith Township seemed hardest hit north of Vanastra but south of Highway 8, where many limbs fell and big trees were ripped out by their roots and blocking the road. Damage in McKillop Township was similarly slight, although large trees at the Maitland. Bank Cemetery smashed a few tombstones when they came down. Last week's weather was a serious double -whammy for Township Reeve suggests numbered roads for 911 Coun. Bill Carnochan of Tuckersmith Twp. has asked county councillors to consider a numbering method versus renaming municipal roads, as part of the municipal address- ing preparations for 9-1-1 in Huron County. "There has been some dis- cussion at the (9-1-1 commit- tee) meetings, and particularly our council, why we would not go back and re -look the numbered method as they've done in Perth. We 3reem to see more advantages in that instcad of struggling with the names and having diverse names all up the major arter- ies," said Camochan. He said the numbering sys- tem would be a benefit for both tourists finding their way around and emergency response vehicles. "It seems that even for emergency vehicles if some- thing happens and your address is between a 2 and 5, it seems to make more sense that's where you would go to and follow the numbers corre- spondingly all the way up a road rather than looking at individual names and not being able to remember where the names are," said Carnochan. Seaforth approves capital budget for PUC projects Council approved the and meters are on tap at a cost Seaforth Public Utility Com- of $6,000, services are mission's 1995 capital budget budgeted at $6,000, water of $46,444 at Tuesday's regular tower engineering fees at July meeting. $3,000 and miscellaneous Wator mains are budgeted for equipment at 53,500. $28,944 of this, made up of four projects, the largest on PUC Manager Tom Phillips Huron Street and smaller ones estimated, if construction grants on Brantford, Ord and Louisa are approved without any Structs. glitches, Seaforth's new water New and upgraded hydrants tower might go up in 1997. 4 Huron County farmers though. Not only did they have the wind to contend with, but also oppressive heat and humidity that took its toll on livestock and had emergency generators in short supply and working overtime. Temperatures and humidity created +40C plus humidex conditions. Sam Bradshaw, district crop insurance co-ordinator at the Clinton office of the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food, says some Huron County crops were laid flat by the high winds, particularly five or six miles north and south of Goderich and about 20 miles inland, but the extent of the damage won't be known until harvest. "We will have to wait and see," he says. "The corn will be there but it will be real tough getting it. Last week was real miserable and frustrating because the crop was look(` gam." Bradshaw says some corn stalks are broken and others have goose -necked. He adds if the weather stays humid some area wheat, due to be harvested in about two weeks, and spring grain may sprout. The OMAFRA spokesman estimates 70 per cent of Huron farmers have crop insurance. Dennis Martin, dairy advisor (also at the Clinton office), says heat and humidity had area livestock under stress regardless of the power outages but most operations have back- up generation. Without ventilation he says livestock can suffocate in as little as 15 minutes. Those who didn't have generators or couldn't get them running had problems. Many chickens, and turkeys (especially heavier birds), pigs, cattle and mink in the county died because of the heat, but like the wind damage the final figures have yet to be tallied. Some operations took to watering their livestock with a hose to keep the animals cool, but even that met with limited success because the humidity prevented evaporation. Seaforth alters dog bylaw Seaforth has amended its dog bylaw to allow residents to .own up ,to four of the pets, approving a recommendation from the most recent meeting of its finance and general government committee. The bylaw dates back to 1949 and limited owners to two dogs in residential areas. A local resident, who was not identified but owns four, told the committee she "would simply move'd the bylaw was enforced. Council modified it and amended licensing fees to include a third dog at $75 and fourth for $100. But not without discussion. Deputy -Reeve William Tcall asked committee Chair Michael Hak if the purpose was seen as a service for dog owners or "source of revenue". He said he hears more complaints about cats than dogs. Coun. Hak said thc municipality can't do anything about cats and the amended bylaw was intended "more of a deterrent than anything else". Council rioted exotic pets and such things as pit bulls aren't mentioned in the 46 -year-old bylaw, and discussed in pas- sing the possibility of sometime bringing it more up to date. Local firm keeps Goderich cool BY DAVID SCOTT SSP News Staff Goderich has had a hard time trying to stay cool lately. With the electricity sell of in most of the town Friday after the storm, and refrigeration systems in businesses and homes not working, there was a great oto keep food and beverages The Huron Ice Company in Seaforth did a booming business in the Ooderich area. All five of the company's trucks were on. the Lakeshore early Friday afternoon and going back to Seaforth for second and third loads of ice. Owner Kurt Stryker said he had enough ice on hand for the emergency. The o3tly problem was keeping up with requests in the delivery area. --.-"We've been delivering ice from Amberley in the north to Forest in the south. People were driving up to Amberly from Goderich-to buy ice," said Stryker. One of his drivers was at the Becker's store in Forest and sold 40 bags while the truck was loading up a freezer in a store that only held 150 bags of ice but ended up selling the store 175 bags because people were buying ice faster than they could stock the freezer. This is normally the busiest time of the year for ice companies but it make things even more hectic when a disaster strikes. 'Y could use 10 trucks right now," said Stryker.