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Home My WebLink AboutThe Huron Expositor, 1998-02-25, Page 3imm Connie Devereaux, right, owns 'Just Naturally' a home-based business involving herbs, iridology and ear candling, helping her at the Seaforth Health and Wellness Fair demonstrating herbs is daughter Laura Devereaux. (Fitton photo) Wellness Fair a healthy success The Seaforth Health and Wellness Fair was a major - success. According to officials, the fair drew people from Exeter, Grand Bend. Elmira, Wingham, Godcrich and Mitchell as well as a large turnout of area residents. "By opening time people were just piling in," says one of the organizers Bonnie Johnstone. The event was hosted by The Looking Glass and Seaforth and District Community Centcrs, orga- nized by Johnstone, Jennifer Hargreaves, Jennifer Watt and Shelly McMillan. All proceeds from the fair were donated to the Huron County Hospice. The fair was the first of its kind, and according to Johnston: "it's to let people know there is an alternative out there." The 26 booths exhibited fit- ness, car candling, yoga, ear candling, reflexology, frology, herbal products, Aveda skin and body care, therapeutic touch, holistic animal care, holistic pork production, manual lymph drainage, Alpine air cleaning, Culligan Water, chiropractor, chinese medicine, massage therapy, acupuncture, shiatsu and Matol products. Participants attending the fair said it was well orga- nized and featured different aspects of alternative medi- cine. Johnstone said with the suc- cess of this year's fair, anoth- er for next year is being planned. Three face charges in liquid manure discharge A Clinton -arca dairy farm, its Goderich-arca representa- tive and a Ripley -area farm contractor face joint charges in the wake of an investiga- tion into a liquid manure dis- charge into Naftel's Creek. a popular Huron County trout ' Stteatn: ` Westbrook Dairy Farms Ltd., of RR 2 Clinton, its rep- resentative Larry James Westbrook of RR 2 Godcrich, and farm contractor Steven the creek by way of a drainage ditch. Darrel Fair of RR 4 Ripley The are scheduled to appear were jointly charged, under in Goderich Provincial Court the Ontario water resources act and fisheries act after an Ontario environment ministry investigation , with- discharg: ing or permitting the dis- charge of liquid manure into Wanted: Students to paint the town Going with the slogan there's no job to large- or small, Student Works Painting is an entrepreneurial work experience for universi- ty and high sehtx>I students. Chris Davies of Brussels, a Brock University student tak- ing a business administration course is looking for high school students to work evenings and college students who are in the process of looking for full-time work this summer. The coverage arca by Student Works Painting in the Huron Penh arca is from Godcrich to Mitchell. Davies says all students applying are thoroughly trained. "We're basically commer- cial and industrial painters although exterior and interior premises will be at the man- ager's discretion. As of now we are complet- ing free estimates at competi- tive prices, he said. Any high school student in thc area or university student looking for summer employ- ment can call Chris Davies at (519) 887-6912 until March 1 when the franchise number 1-800-803-1100 will be acti- vated. Blanket scam The Huron detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police has issued an alert, particular- ly to thc elderly, about a hand-woven blankets fraud. Police say the female sus- pect is "well known" to them, who they describe as: age 56, white, stout, wearing glasses with a slight Scottish or English accent. The "suspect has been mak- ing cold calls on numerous rural residences in the Blyth area and attempting to sell blankets that shec made herself on a loom," the OPP press release states. "She asks upwards of $400 per blanket and then will lower the price if thc poten- tial buyer balks. "A check on some of the blankets sold has determined they are of substandard quali- ty and machine made by a computer generated loom. "They would be worth at most $60 at any department store," the police press release adds. envie puts, r g t, receives a gold ring in recognition of 20 years service to the Seaforth and Area Fire Department from Dave Garrick, Special Events chairperson. (F. Phillips photo) .on March 5. "The incident came to light after a group of sports fisher- men noticed a strong odour and discolouration of water, along with a number of dead fish, in Naftel's Creek during a mid-November outing in 1996," says John Scarterfield of the environment ministry's investigation and enforce- ment branch. "The group reported its observations to the spills action centre, which alerted ministry officers." If convicted the fisheries act calls for fines of up to $300,000, according to the environment ministry press release forwarded from Huron MPP Helen John's office.. Under the Ontario water resources act, a corpo- ration could be fined up to $50,000, with an individual facing a fine of up to $10,000. Council OKs fire budget Council approved the Seaforth Fire Area budget on Feb. 10, with this town's share working out to $28,276, down from the 1997 actual of S30,386 and the $29,504 that had been bud- geted. The local tire area's total budget this year is $112,780, down from the 1998 actual of $120,858, and budgeted $123,060. All municipal shares for this year are based on 1997 assessments, with Seaforth's calculated at 33.4 per cent, McKillop's at 27.9, Tuckersmith's at 22.6, Hibbert's at 9.3 and Hullett's 6.8. FALSE ALARMS Before Seaforth Council unanimously okayed the bud- get at last week's meeting, Mayor Dave Scott wondered why last year's actual for false alarm expenses were so high, a $1,184 actual against the $320 that had been bud- geted and the $500 that has been budgeted this year. Clerk Jim Crocker said two kinds of false alarms are con- tributed factors: when fire- fighters arrive and there is no fire, and when an alarm is sounded but its source can't be identified. 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