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Bayfield tragedy
BAYFiELD - Funeral ser-
vices were held yesterday for
a Bayfield boy that was struck
and killed while walking
down the northbound lane of
Hwy: 21.
Twenty -three -month-old
Wesley Coombs. who accord-
ing to the Ontario Provincial
Police (OPP) was under the
care of a hahysitter. wandered
from his 49 Main Street home
Saturday evening and was hit
hy a 1995 GMC van.
" (Co omhs t had wandered
away from his• residence 'and
was walking along Hwy_ 21
before being struck.
Constable John Marshall of
the OPP stated in a release.
"Coombs was transported to
Clinton Public Hospital hy
ambulance whereupon he
died several hours later.'
The van. driven by 58 -year-
old Richard A. Erb of Stanley
Township, was travelling just
south of Huron County Road
3 and Cameron St. when the
accident occurred.
The funeral service was
held at Northside United
Church in Seaforth.
Expressions of sympathy can
be made through memorial
donations to the Seaforth
Community Hospital.
Mayor, Dave Scott. took
office and the oath, along
with other members of the
recently elected Seaforth
Council in ceremonies at
Town Hall Monday night.
Hearing set
WiltreJ Nliller ot. RR 3
Scatorth who was arrested
for pointing a firearm hollow-
ing an armed stanJott at
Seaforth Lions Park on
September 16. has be sched-
uled tor a pre-trial this
Friday. December S. at
Stratford Provincial Court
He remains in custody in
Stratford Jail.
Another food
drive organized
Because ot the success tit
an earlier food drive in June.
Dave Sullen and Steve
Delchiaro. manager ot
Seaforth Food Market. are
once again organizing a food
drive for the Seaforth and
District Foodbank during the
pre -Christmas rush
Up until December 12 food
donations around town will
go to the Huron County
Christmas Bureau. Staffen
said. to not interfere with the
bureau donations, they will
host a food drive from
Thursday, December 18 to
Tuesday. December 23 A
large box will the located at
the grocery store for dona-
tions of non-perishable foxed.
As well. food hags worth S5.
$iOand SISwill bemade up
for donation options.
December 3. 1997 -- $1.00 includes GST
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SANTA CLAUS PARADE - Main Street was bustling with seasonal sights and sounds Friday night for the annual Santa
Claus Parade, organized by the Seaforth Lions Club. The parade took about•an hour to pass. More pix on Page.3.
Santa was here
-Terrific. teratic. terrific."
was Seaforth Lions Cluh
Santa Claus parade marshal)
Mike Hodgins. favourite
adjective Monday morning.
He thought the word was
fitting for all the floats. par-
ticipants and spectators in the
local parade down Main
Street Fnday night.
The weather was perfect.
The parade. took about an
hour to pass.
"it was One of the hetter
parades we've had." the
parade marshal) said. "All the
floats were well dome."
St. James Schools float
was selected as the "hest illu-
minated" One.
The parade had close to 100
entries. Hodgins said. tour
hands and four Katon twirling
_Froups.
And rolling up the rear was
the fellow most came to see -
Santa Claus'
After the parade he ;topped
at the Roundhouse. where
Hodgins estimates Jose to
500 children ended up sitting
On his knee.
Hot dogs and cider were
• also popular there.
Seaforth sluggish but United Way surpasses its goal in Huron County
BY JACKIE FITTON
Expositor Editor
Once under threat of clo-
sure. the Huron United Way
nas surpassed it's 1997 goal.
Kim Brlcke. of Kippen
who took over the pisiton of
executive director in
September this year says
although the area heat out
other area United Ways'
Seatorth's donations dropped
drastically from last years
total.
She said she hoped it was
due to the impending postal
strike which coincided with
the organizations mai lout
campaign.
Bilcke said a mail and
open letter campaign has
heen hell annually in the
town tor Seaforth residents
and has regularlybrought in
around 5100.000_ "This year
we'll be lucky to hit the
54.00) mark.-
Seatorths total tallied only
53.500.
"We do tallies by town and
Seaforth has always been a
mailer town. We're hoping
it•s the mail stnke. Seaforth
has always heen one of our
hest locations."
Arrangements have been
made with the Seaforth
branch of the Toronto
Dominion Bank for area resi-
dents as a drop- off point to
accept Donations throughout
the duration of the postal
stnke.
Postal stnke
Although Bticke accepts
none of the credit for the
agency caking first place.
"It's the people of the com-
munities that ;till believe in
us and the work we are
dotng." •
The Huron United Way sur-
passc..1 its total goal of
Si '.'41)0 for a total of
5141..;1,0 in donations.
Beat.ng the Goals of Lrincd
Way of Kent C.iunts.
Sarnia-Lamhton. Strattord-
Perth. Elgin -St. Thomas and
Oxford County in the south-
west regulon.
Were thrilled .- she said.
Bticke says it was
Champion Road Machinery
Ltd. in Godench that came in
in a very hit! way . All toll
with an in-house campaign.
special events and a cooper-
ate challenge they closed the
campaign with 570.000
achieved in Just over a two-
week penod.
The Huron United Way
supports 17 agencies includ-
ing Big Brother Big Sisters
South Huron: Big Sisters
Goderich: The Canadian
Mental Heath Association:
Child Find: The Clinton
Coop Child Care Centre:
Epilepsy Huron: Family
Services Huron: Community
Child Abuse Coordihating
Committee: Safe Home:
North Huron Big Brothers:
Phoenix of Huron. Victonan
Order of Nurses: Wheels
Away: Wingham and District
Community Living: Wbmens
Christmas Seal campaign hurting
The postal strike is having
a devastating effect upon
the Christmas Seal cam-
paign. according to the
Lung Association. "Your
support is needed now more
than ever."
The association is funded
entirely by voluntary dona-
tions and the annual cam-
paign is its major source of
funds.
The Huron -Perth commu-
nity office has set a goal of
S78,000 for the 1997 cam-
paign to help continue their
work to help those suffenng
from respiratory disease. •
Chnstmas Seals have been
used around the world since
the early 1900s to raise both
awareness and funds to fight
lung disease. according to
an association press release.
"Monies raised support
vital medical research as
well as many health educa-
tion programs in the com-
munity. such as the "Lungs
Are For Life" school pro-
gram, the "Breathe Easy"
program and Asthma infor-
mation evenings.
Shelter and Counselling
Service: Women Today Peer
Education. •
'We are concerned' if peo-
ple think -we've reached our
goal they will .stop giving.
this was just one company
and it's employees that did
this. The rest of the co nimu-
nities still have an obligation
to those less fortunate than
ourselves."
We're hoping that they will
continue to !lyes
Bticke said the Hoven
United Way has set up with
the Royal Bank of Canada in
Clinton. Goderch and Exeter
to recteve donations at those
locations.
She said the Huron United
Was was receiving sir :F•
-12 cheques .t Jay and hen
the impending mai;
Backing into bayonets
threate•'.cd. dropping them
sown .F. 'ire cheque .t Jay. It
:hen stopped when the postal
,corkers actuaily went on
strike.
Biicke said "Its cxutng .vc
retched our 3Fi,tl. ^tit the
camrar_n without .t.hamruon
wou'J have keen down
Huron C aunty.
Kenya could use some Canadian democracy
BY GREGOR CAMPBELL
Expositor Staff •
Canada; "moral currency.'
is something Kenya could
use. where heing a Christian
can get you killed.
So can speaking up for
democratic values all
Canadians take for granted
Rev. Dr. Timothy M..Njoya
continues to hack into the
bayonets. and has the scars
to prove it.
Last lulu the Presbyterian
minister. who visited this
area two weeks ago. was
preaching in All Saints
Cathedral in Nairobi when
Kenyan riot police attacked
him and the more than 2.O04)
worshippers with bayonets
and tear gas.
Fourteen of them were
killed and more than 50 oth-
ers were taken to hospital
with injuries.
Rev. Njoya (pronounced
Enjoy-AHt lived because
three journalists covered his
body.
It wasn't the first time this
sort of thing has happened to
him. He sometimes now car-
ries a diaper bag when he
preaches in his country. to
put tear gas canisters in. and
water to spray his eyes•so as
to offset the blinding gas
when such attacks occur.
In 1990. Rev. Njoya was
targeted and brutally beaten
because of his efforts to orga-
nize workers for constitution-
al reform. Twenty people
were killed in a protest he
helped lead that July 7. In
1977 he fended off a machete
attack that has left him
scarred. In 1080 ;huts poured
gasoline .around his parish
house and burned it to the
ground.•
These are hut a few of the
incidents that have turned
veru violent that he has been
tnvolvstt in.
Rev. Njoya looked even hit
as hadly beaten .is some ,it
the hloodicd.scal pups you
see in images on teley,ston.
in some of the Kennan news-
paper accounts and pictures
he spread out :n trona yt Si.
Andrew's Preshyten.in
Church in Clinton wu
Saturdays. ago. where `te
detailed some of the prob-
lems list surviving in Ken' a.
where anthropological ev
donee indicates humankind
first emerged.
Now an East Atric.in nation
of 34 -million people. it 'his
been Lopped by more turbu-
lent violence this past year.
' CONTLNUED on Page 2.
Rev. Dr. Timothy M. Njoya