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Home My WebLink AboutThe Huron Expositor, 1997-01-08, Page 1• "M New Year's Baby ',The first baby of 1997 s- arrives at Seaforth -"" Community Hospital. See page 3 World Champion Local residents offer congratulations to Boyd Devereaux. See pages 6 & 7 Curling Twelve area curling clubs compete for Nokia Cup in Seaforth. See page 14 Your Community Newspaper Since 1860 — Seaforth, Ontario Wilson sentenced to six months A former English teacher at Seaforth District High School was sentenced last Thursday to six months in jail on sex- related charges that involved teenage male street hustlers. Buryl Leroy Wilson, 53, was convicted by a jury of three charges of paying for the sexual services of some- one under age 18 and one charge of gross indecency after a five-day trial last October. The latter offence took place in the 1980-82 period and the others in the early 1990s. He was living in London and teaching in Scaforth when arrested in May 1994. "1 have a great deal to say Your Honour, hut it would be futile," Wilson said before Ju,ticc Gordon Killeen passcd sentence last week, according to a report in The London Free Press which covered the trial. The judge said Parliament was trying to protect young males "from themselves...and from being trapped in male prostitution...(to) curb an evil in our communities." He added Wilson's 25 -year teaching career is likely gone for good and his arrest has caused him considerable pun- ishment already. Assistant Crown attorney Mike Thomson said Wilson was convicted of communi- cating for the purposes of prostitution in 1989 and•ftned ($500), adding he was a teacher then and being charged was obviously no deterrent. January 8, 1997 --- 1.00 includes GST VON week January 19-25 Health care professionals, voluntccrs and supporters of the Victoria Order of Nurses for Canada (VON Canada) will celebrate VON week Jan. 19 to 25. It is the 100th anniversary of the organization, which notes in a press release that "VON pioneered community nursing in Canada at thc turn of the century, and since then has introduced many of the programs and. services that have become mainstays of the nation's current health care system." In Huron and Perth, VON has branch offices in Hcnsall, Stratford and Listowel. Contributions include visiting and shift nursing in the home, adult and Alzheimer day away programs, palliative and friendly visiting pro- grams and footcare clinics. VON is made up of 70 local and nine provincial branches, 9,000 volunteers and 7,000 staff. It "directly serves more than 3.000,000 Canadians and their families each year," thc press release concludes. Two game -winning goa s Boyd leads Canada to fifth -straight old 0 BY GREGOR CAMPBELL Expositor Staff Seaforth jumped for joy with Boyd Devereaux on the weekend. He was a hometown hero here, deep in the heart of hockey country. Boyd was one of best play- ers on the ice in the games that counted, as Canada's National Junior Hockey Team won the World Championship for a record- setting fifth -straight time in Geneva, Switzerland. Only great teams win five in a row - the Montreal Canadiens, New York Yankees, Boston Celtics, UCLA Bruins - and now Team Canada's juniors. And Boyd was best Friday against the only other junior hockey team to ever win four -consecutive World titles - the Russians. Early in the game his pass- ing was superb, but Canada failed to finish. Then, when we trailed 2-1 late in thc sec- ond period and had a poten- tially disastrous five-minute major penalty, he helped Canada kill it off without allowing thc Russians a sin- gle, solitary shot on net. But the hest was still to come. Thirty-six seconds after that penalty expired Devereaux's goat tied i1. And about nine minutes later he put away the winner. He was named the Most Valuable Player in this semi - PHOTO BY DAVID SCOTT SAVOURING THE VICTORY - Boyd Devereaux, middle, savours the victory of Canada winning its fifth straight World Junior Hockey Championship on Saturday on TSN. He's pictured here with the gold medal around his neck and the team's championship plate. On either side of him are the team's two assistant captains. final for Team Canada. it was a game worthy of the adjective "classic," one for the ages. Boyd also scored what proved to the winner, in the final that set the record, a 2-0 win over the United States. That kind of avenged senior Team Canada's loss to the Americans in the first World Cup of•Hockcy late last sum- mer. Boyd scored four goals in the two-week tournament, and went from fourth line leftwinger to second -line rightwingcr in coach Mike Babcock's eyes, while earn- ing his gold medal. Devereaux, 18, is now actu- ally a second -year centre on the Kitchener Rangers (see pages 6 and 7). But he learned to play the game here in town. helping three Seaforth minor teams to provincial crowns along the way, then signing with Scaforth's junior Centcnaires when he was 14, only 5'4" and 115 lbs, but all of it heart. Mike Watt and Dave McLlwain, both out of the Scaforth systems, have also starred on Canada's National Junior Team in the past decade. • Farm assets up Between 1993 and 1995 total farm assets climbed 10 per cent in this country, from $144 -billion to $158 -billion, according to the 1996 farm financial survey recently released by Agriculture and Agri -Food Canada. CONTINUED on page 14 1996 in Review Summertime fire changes face of Main Street Continued from last week. JULY 3 Fire early Sunday morning on the Canada Day weekend destroys a Main Street build- ing, and a craft business and resource centre, leaving neighbors with extensive smoke and water damage. Containing it required the aerial ladder truck from Godcrich and assistance from the Godcrich and Clinton fire departments. The building dated from 1877. The cause of the fire is undermined and the Scaforth fire department was on the scene for about nine hours after the Alarms sounded at about 6:40 a.m. The ruins started smolder- ing again at 5:45 the next morning, before the firemen's annual Canada Day weekend breakfast, and hot spots were extinguished in half an hour. *** Bill Flanagan of RR 1 Scaforth wins the big prize at the Seaforth Agriculture Society's annual tractor draw and Saturday night. He chooses a John Deere tractor. *** Provincial Court Judge Garry Hunter decides after a five-day preliminary hearing that 46 -year-old Steven Murray, of Goderich and for- merly St. Columban, will stand trial on a second degree murder charge in connection with the disappearance of his adopted daughter. Mistie Murray has not been seen in more than a year, since May 31, 1995. She was then 15. JULY 10 Unsigned written allega- tions implying misconduct in the administration of Huron County are widely distrib- uted. County council narrowly defeats a motion to investi- gate after nearly an hour of debate in closed session. "if you don't have the balls to sign it, don't ask us to look at it," comments Coun. Bruce Machan of Wingham. *** Vacancies arc filled by the appointment of three new members to the board of directors of Seaforth Community Hospital. Bob Broadfoot of Brucefield, Rudy Jansen of Dublin and Mary Stretton of Brussels wero recommended by a nominating committee. The local hospital's recent- ly -approved operating plan notes 72 babies were deliv- ered here in the last fiscal year, compared to only a dozen a mere four or five years ago. A mare owned and trained by Karen Bennett of Seaforth continues to set thc track ablaze and has PR people abuzz with adjectives at Elmira Raceway. The pacer Tra Lyns Light came from six horses back in the stretch to win her fourth - straight race Friday night in a time of 2:02.1 The horst has earned $5615 so far this season. JULY 17 Prominent local citizen, Francis Hicknell of McKillop Township, dies July 13 at Seaforth hospital. He was 65. He had been a member of the Seaforth Agricultural Society for 33 years and was a past trustee with the Huron - Perth Roman Catholic Separate School Board, among many other accom- plishments. *** Council is unanimous in passing without comment a recommendation from Scaforth's Local Architectural Conservation Advisor ICommittee "to maintain 'nd stabilize the second -floor masonry facade of the 120 -year-old Main Street building destroyed by the big Canada Day weekend fire so that the town's streetscape be preserved. * ** Council asks the Ontario Municipal Board to dismiss thc appeal of a local man of a recently -passed bylaw, approving new plans for a subdivision north-west of town. Council describes W. George Ring's appeal as "frivolous and (is) made for the purpose of delay" in a motion passed unanimously. * * • Dr. Shawn Edwards, origi- nally from the Dorchester area, joins the Seaforth Medical Clinic staff." *** Rev. Robert Hiscox, 26, is new Deacon at St. Thomas Anglican Church in Seaforth and St. Paul's in Clinton. JULY 24 • Scaforth-native and hockey linesman Scott Driscoll is one of 12 NHL officials cho- sen to officiate in North American games of the next month's World Cup. Meanwhile, his former next door neighbor, veteran NHL forward Dave McLlwain signs a one-year contract with the New York islanders. * ** Walton correspondent Patty Banks reports at least 2,500 people attended Friday's grand opening of McGavin Farm Equipment's new building. * * * The Scaforth Women's Resource Centre is busy spiffing up new premises across Main Street from where fire destroyed their old office June 30. JULY 31 Dublin's 10 -year-old sum- mer fun program falls by the wayside. Chair Ernie Fleming, also of the Dublin & District Lions Club which organized the day camp activities for children while school was closed for each summer, said CONTINUED on page 2