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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1995-10-18, Page 1T+ t t'!v,,,,-, _. '-�.� �'•-+.11r..1-T1-.-•••••-••111-+- • 4., SPRING IN THE FALL St. Columban students plant tulips at school. see page 15 RECREATION Senior Games participants receive awards. see page 7 SURVEY What does Vancouver know about Seaforth? see page 5 Community Newspaper Since 1860 — Seaforth, Ontario Briefly October 18, 1995 — ,75 Cents Plus GST Police Services Board 'fine tuning' OPP agreement Expositor now on the Internet Your community newspa- per has entered the future. The Huron Expositor is. now on the Internet, the "Information Highway," cyberspace or whatever term you want to use. Each week, at least one story frOm the current• edi- tion of the paper will appear on the Internet. For those using the Hometown net- work, the Expositor can be accessed by selecting: Item #2 Newsstand(info) #8 - Newsstand (local pape13) #2 - Seaforth Huron Expositor For ' those who want to access the Expositor using the regular Internet (URL), our address is: http://www.sos.on.ca/"cap- tain/she/sheindex.html Seaforth singer heading to international competition A Seaforth singer will be competing in an interna- tional competition in Salt Lake City in June, 1996. David Campbell, 29, had a successful weekend at an Ontario singing competition held in Hamilton. His barbershop quartet, "Pas- • time," finished second. B u t his first -place finish with the • Scarborough Dukes of Har- mony earned the chorus the right to represent Ontario in the international competition next year. Grants dropped Ontario's Ministry of Culture and Recreation has notified Seaforth its desig- nated properly grants program has been cancelled • permanently. Council had been counting on such a grant to offset the costs of a roof for the new police station. Parade on Nov. 24 This year's annual Santa Claus parade in Seaforth has been scheduled for Friday, November 24. The Seaforth Business Improvement Association (BIA) has also decided to discontinue its adopt -a -pole promotion this Christmas season, "instead taking the prize money and enhancing the tree lighting event for the children's participation". • Prominent local politician dies Mayor Irwin Johnston paused al last Tuesday night's Seaforth Council meeting to remember a prominent area politician and personality who died earlier in, the week. William Dale, 85, former Deputy -Reeve then Reeve of Seaforth, died after a lengthy illness a week ago, Sunday, Oct. 8, and was buried last Wednesday. He was born in Hullctt Township and, among many other accomptishment& in his lengthy career of public aeinrlce.. was Warden . of Huron County in 1954. }Os obituary is on page 13 of this weeks paper. DAVID SCOTT PHOTO LIGHTS, CAMERA, ACTION - Seaforth was the scene of a recent television taping by CFPL cameras. A story on the Hospice of Huron's 'Fall Feast for Four" was shot for a recent edition of "One O'Clobk Live". Pictured here, (left) former CFPL producer Peter Nott, of Seaforth, holds a piece of paper up for a "white balance" before the interview and gives cues to Dr. Robert Shepherd and Trish Nott, who will be preparing the. fundraiser feast. The dinner will take place on Saturday, November 4 and a draw will beheld prior, on October 30 with all proceeds going to benefit Hospice of Huron. Tickets may be purchased locally at A Fine Romance on Main St., Seaforth or by calling Hospice of Huron at 527-0655. Food inspection offices to be amalgamated, located in Seaforth BY MICHELE GREENE SSP News Staff The Ministry of Agriculture.Food & Rural Affairs is looking at Mitchell or Seaforth as a potential location for the amalgamated office of the Food Production and Inspection Branch. Sue Novosad, project manager for the dis- trict office consolidation project, said the min- istry is proposing to amalgamate the Stratford, Seaforth and Exeter offices and locate it in either Mitchell or Seaforth, where most of its clients are located. The plan is now in consultation with its external clients which includes client associa- tions, governments councils, producers and animal exporters. Their comments are expected back at the ministry by Oct. 31. Perth County Council recently received its package front the ministry asking for its input. Reeves referred the matter to its community services committee which will prepare a response. Once the responses are returned, the ministry will do an analysis and make a final decision. Novosad said the plans won't cost jobs. ."We aren't looking at jobs. We're looking at reducing costs. The workload will still be there," she said. Results from the cost -benefit analysis are not yet completed. She also said fanners should not experience any lack of service as a result of the amalgama- tion. The biggest change will be the distance 'inspectors drive. There are 45 inspection offices across the province and they are all facing amalgamation. Novosad said the ministry has not said how many offices it is aiming to 'educe. 'overt trip"wil1 nl Y BY DAVID SCOTT Expositor Editor It's not a holiday, education in life, Five Seaforth youths will be heading to the Dominican Republic from November 18- 25 on a poverty awareness trip. Jen Marion, Tracy Janmaat, Don Silts, Kelly Rau and Jen DeJong are alt OAC (Grade 13) students at St. Michael Secondary School in Stratford, The five arc part of a group of 25 senior students heading south from St. Michael. Three of the five are enroled in a 'i<pecial Third World co-op program this year which tics into the trip. St.tchael is the First school in Ontario trying •his, according to the group. Learning Spanish is also a of the course. After their return, the students will con- lttuc the program, which runs until January, and report oti their experience, For the Seaforth group, this wilt be a new experience with the exception of Sills. "We can't change anything in a week," he admits. But that didn't stop him from returning this year. The trip is a chance to experience Dominican culture and their way of life, said Marion. When Sills travelled to the it's an e stn Seaforth Council delayed giving third . reading to the bylaw that would authorize an agreement with Ontario Solicitor General to officially switch over the town's police force from municipal to OPP service at last Tuesday night's meeting. The switchover is slated for the end of this month, Oct. 30. Administrator Jim Crocker termed the delay "fine tuning" the contract between Seaforth and the provincial police before it is signed. The matter was clarified the following night at the regular meeting of the Seaforth Police Services Board. The town wasn't sure it would be getting exactly what it wanted from the OPP in terms of two, 20 -hour shifts and wished to continue negotiating. The OPP had designated a portion of one of those shifts for extended -zone policing, which might mean officers wouldn't necessarily be in Seaforth all the hours expected by Council. BttW'fcuhdWith car. BY PAT RAF1'IS SSP News Staff The Ontario Coroner's Office has listed "probable drowning" as the cause of death of Harold Patrick Smith, 74. Smith's car was found in a Hay Township farm pond. October 9, 18 months after the Zurich man was last seen alive. Exeter OPP Detective Constable Rick Borden said Smith's Red 1990 Plymouth Acclaim was spotted Monday, October 9, by two hunters. "The water level had dropped substantially and there were several inches of roof that could be seen above the water line," said Borden. Police were on the scene con- tinuously after the discovery and by early afternoon Tuesday there were about 10 police vehicles in the field on the south side of the nes, Hay/Stanley Townline, about two miles west of Kippen, where the pond is located. The pond is about 900 metres from the roadway at Townline, but Borden said the vehicle entered from the east, off another sideroad running north and south, where the field sur- face is "rattier flat" leading up to the pond. The vehicle was pulled from the pond using a tow -truck, about 4 p.m. Tuesday, October 10, after a backhoe had been brought in to dig out part of the pond. Borden said the windows of he car were "so polluted and covered with a dark green sub- stance," that police could not see in. In order to ensure "we didn't' lose any evidence," Borden said the doors were not opened, so Smith's body was Continued on page 7 s appreciate eliere DOMINICAN -BOUND - These fve St. Micheal Secondary School students from Seaforth will be heading to the Dominican Republic in November on a Poverty Awareness Trip. From left: Jen DeJong, Kelly Rau, Don Sills, Jen Marion, Tracy Janmaat. country on his last trip, he had no prior knowledge of the country. But with the new course it will prepare the group so they can "take it all in" while they're there, said Janmaat. Each member of the group will b tfg down a ,c;u lKiitr ._ case full of medical supplies, "realize what kind of life we eye -glasses, toys, towels, cloth- have here in Canada," said ing or jusi about anything that Rau. • could be of use to citizens of An inter -city walk is planned the Third World country. for Toronto at the end of Octo- Donations from the public are ber so students can be made accepted and are appreci- aware of poverty in our own country. The: FiR4:441446c4m,The group will also travel to • Welland . before their trip to participate in a pilgrimage walk to raise money for the Third World. The five youths are asking the public and service groups for personal donations to help fund their trip. - Each student has to pay $1,000 for air fare. They ate being billeted with families in the Dominican to further their experience of local culture. Each student will stay with a different family but will get together with other students for group activities. "I went last year and it was the most amazing experience of my life," said Sills. "Here you reach in your fridge and your closet and grab what you want. There they' might have a broken dowtl fridge and an old stove with one burner working. Some don't have anything," he said. The five youths sold vanilla from the Dominican Republic at the Fall Fair and "greatly appreciate" the support they received. All of the proceeds from the sales will go to the people of the Dominican. On the first Sunday of November, "Dominican Sun- day" will be held at St. James: Church in Seaforth. Coffees donuts and other treats will be sold to raise money. Accompanying the students on the trip will be teacher Continued on page 7 Atitioirm