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Two
local
golfers
qualify
for
national
event.
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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
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Bill Thomas...page 4
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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.
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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.