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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1995-08-30, Page 1AGRICULTURE A new facility treats specialty beans R with the S s gentleness they Briefly 1 Marijuana found in Hibbert Forty marijuana plants, some reaching six feet tall, were discovered in a Hibbert Township . Cornfield on Thursday. Sebringville OPP said the plants, discovered after a tip made by a farmer, had an estimated street value of about $15,000. Two officers removed the plants and destroyed them at the Sebringville OPP detach- ment office. Church to hold services at high school Bethel Bible Church, of Egmondville, will be holding church services temporarily at Seaforth District High School starting on the Labour Day weekend. The church will hold its Sunday School and Sunday morning services at the high school while the• congregation starts a building fund. Pastor Rick Lucas said the high school site provides more space for Sunday School, lot of parking and accessibility to the disabled. "The high school is not a permanent home for us," sail' Pastor Lucas. "It's a temporary solution but it's a good sol- ution." Sunday morning services will remain at 1 a.m. and Sunday School takes place at the same time, 10 a.m. The Sunday evening service< at 7:00 p.m. will remain at tht church site in Egmondville Meetings of the church "elder and the offices will also remair in Egmondville. A building fund is bcinf planned to help build a perma nent building, said Pastor Lucas. Library needs volunteers for big move They aren't sitting around vith some good books and heir feet up at the . Seaforth r.ibrary this final week of Cummer holidays, even though he building itself isn't open. Staff and various volunteers are moving the library to new emporary digs up Main Street. ervice is expected to resume n the vacant, former Stewart Brothers store after this long weekend, next Tuesday. Librarian Trudy Broome says the town will open tenders for renovations at the old building later this week. She expects the library won't be moving back to its regular home until late this year or early next. She also adds that if anybody is sitting around lost for things to do with the library tem- porarily out of commission, they could always come down after 9 a.m. any day this week to lend a hand with the exodus of books.. INDEX Bill Thomas...p. 5 Years Agone...p. 5 "Your community newspaper since 1860...serving Seaforth, Dublin, Hensall, Walton, Brussels and surrounding communities." This Space Could Be Yours Call Terri or Mary 527-0240 EDUCATION The new Roman Catholic High School in Clinton almost ready to open. see page seven. Business People who STOP advertising to save money... are like people who STOP a clock to save time! littAlitemitmow Whatever the snobs say, musicals are big hit with the public. see page ten. BIG FIRE IN McKILLOP - An explosion at RR 5 Seaforth, possibly caused by spark while blowing straw, followed by a fire which blazed like an "inferno", caused an estimated $200,000 damage and resulted in the deaths of more than 100 pigs at the farm of Jim Ryan } GREGOR CAMPBELL PHOTO at Lot 1, Conc. 9 of McKillop Township last Wednesday afternoon. While the Seatorth and Area Fire Department was battling that blaze, two other fires broke out in Hibbert Township. The Mitchell Fire Department had to respond to them. Firefighters busy with rash of fires BY GREGOR CAMPBELL Expositor Staff Area firemen had a busy time last Wednesday afternoon and evening. Two barns and a passing hay -loaded flatbed truck, were destroyed by fire within a span of two hours. An explosion and fire, that broke out at 3:48 p.m., at the farm of Jim Ryan, at RR 5 Seaforth in McKillop Township caused an estimated 5200,000 in damage and killed 118 pigs. The Seaforth and District Fire Department was at the scene for about seven hours, until about 10:30 p.m. that evening. Meanwhile another alarm was sounded from Lot 27, Con. 9 in Hibbert Township at 4:52 p.m. at another blaze, at the farm of Jack Butson. Because the Seaforth brigade was busy the Mitchell Fire Department answered that alarm. Complications arose. Mitchell's initial path was blocked because nine minutes later, at 4:59 p.m., Mitchell also got a call, because of a burning flatbed tractor -trailer that had passed by the Butson blaze, to Perth County Road 16, about one .mile west of Staffa. Ryan, Deputy -Reeve of McKillop and its representative on the Seaforth and District Fire Area board, says vv' teers managed to keep tractors and equipment away froni the "inferno", and 200 pigs H :re saved. He says they were blowing. straw, something probably went up the stack and caused a spark and the upper part of the bam "exploded". Even if firemen had been sitting out front of the property at Lot 1, Con. 9 he figures the barn would have been lost. He was loading a truck close to the barn when it happened, and says he had been in the Local infant found after frantic search A 22 -month-old infant was found in good health, sleeping at the edge of a bush after a frantic five-hour search in Tuckersmith Township Monday night. Aaron Martin went missing from his parent's new home at Lot 13, Conc. 2 and 3 of the township at approximately 4:30 p.m., according to a press release from the Goderich detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police. Three large corn fields surround the Martin residenee. The parents couldn't find him and called the OPP at 5:45. Four fire departments assisted in the search along with approximately 150 local residents who volunteered. The OPP's canine unit attended, as did an Emergency Response Team platoon of the provincial police and individual members of the Goderich detachment. A formal search of the area started at about 7:30 p.m. "Aaron had travelled through a large plot of corn when he carne to a bush area where he decided to lay down and go to sleep," the police press release states. He was found shortly after 10 p.m. building 15 minutes previously, commenting it was dusty. A stiff wind from the north- west seriously threatened a couple of sheds to the im- mediate north of the bam. "The wind was against us early, but later it veered to the north," Ryan says. As it was the siding of the house was getting pretty hot, he adds. On Monday neighbors and friends worked from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. helping him gut the destroyed barn so another can be rebuilt on the same site. Kevin J. Smith, 28, of RR 5 Clinton was the driver of the burning truck near Staffs. "By the time I looked out the rear-view mirror, it was too late," he said. "I didn't even have time to pull the (trailer) pin. I just got out." The truck and trailer were both completely destroyed. Mitchell Fire Chief Bill El - see Barn, page three PROVINCIAL CHAMPIONS - The Seaforth bantams, an area elite fastball team, surprised their coaches but perhaps not themselves by sweeping to five wins and a Provincial Women's Softball Association championship at Brampton on the weekend. The young ladies were in a mood for celebrating on the firettuck when they made it back to Seaforth later Sunday night. Back row from left" Lisa Reynolds, Tory OREOOR CAMPBELL PHOTO Westbrook, Erica Bums, Melissa Robertson, Denise O'Reilly, Jamie Rayburn. Front row: Kara Pepper, Brennan Crawford, Amber Ruttan, Kristen McFarlane, Lisa Roosenboom. Coaches: Sandy Bums, Heidi Elliott (seated), Georgina Reynolds, Janet Buchanan (standing), Kathy O'Reilly (in cab). Details on page nine.