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Home My WebLink AboutThe Huron Expositor, 1998-07-01, Page 5THE HURON EXPOSITOR, JULY 1, 1998-5 Business retention interviews almost done BY wort, HILGENDORFF Expositor Editor Surveys to help learn what local business and industry needs to grow are almost complete. A group of about 50 volunteers has been working for the business retention and expansion committee has been interviewing 78 business, including farms and industry, to help determine what is needed to help strengthen the business community. "There's a lot of information in them," said Joe Steffler, committee chair. "We are seeing a lot of valuable information out of the surveys." The committee has reviewed some of the results so far but isn't planning to make information public until September, after all the surveys are finished and there has been a chance for the committee to give them a proper review. Steffler said a public meeting will be held to go over the results. The town is one of seven rural communities selected in the province by the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs for the program that helps coordinate this effort. It builds on a committee that forms about a year ago in response to concerns from some citizens, worried about the town's future and the disappearance of some of its larger businesses. Since linking with OMAFRA's program, the focus of the committee because more specific until the work on the survey is done. It originally wanted to work on promoting business, industry and the community and this program fit that mandate. Once the surveys have Many teachers from local boards are saying farewell An unusually large number -of teachers have retired from Seaforth and area schools this year, partly thanks to a new retirement package that was offered. The number of years employed added to the age of the staff member needed to total 90 until this year. Now, it has dropped to 85. Retirements" last year in Huron and Perth counties totaled about 60. This year the number is more than 110. Local teachers retiring from the Avon Maitland District School Board are: Mary Demers, Huron Centennial Public School. Norma Gemmell, Huron Centennial Public School. Gary Jewitt (principal), Huron Centennial Public School. Richard Burgess, Seaforth District High School. Ali Farag, Seaforth District High School. Don Renshaw, Seaforth District High School. Mary Carroll, Seaforth Public School. Ross Carter, Seaforth Public School Crystal Jowitt, Seaforth Public School. Gen. Patterson, Seaforth Pub11c'School. Ruth Ribeyy (secretary), Seaforth &book Arlene. Van Dep 'Akker, Seaforth Public School. Also retiring is Paul Carroll, director of education with the board and Bill " Weber of Egmondville who is retiring as a teacher from Central Huron Secondary School. Retiring from the Huron Perth Catholic District School Board are: Dan Bishop, St. Mike's in Stratford. Agnes Gaffney, St. Patrick's School. Theresa O'Donnell, St. Anne's. Paul Zybura, St. Anne's. Police looking for public's help after area man dies in hit and run Ontario Provincial Police have asked for public assistance in looking for a vehicle involved in a hit and'run that killed a 30 -year-old Goderich .Township man, at about 2:30 a.m. last Friday morning on Highway 21, just south of the town of Goderich. They are looking for a vehicle with damage to its front end. Dead is Shane Derek Worsell of Bluewater Beach. "Investigators now believe the victim was struck by a vehicle while jogging or walking southbound on the highway," according to an OPP press release. They say they "have completed examining a tractor -trailer unit and a car, both of which had come in contact with the. body." Findings from the - autopsy performed in London support an OPP traffic specialist in concluding "a vehicle struck the victim sometime prior to the two other vehicles having come into contact with the body," the press release continues. Investigators ask anyone who was travelling, or knows of anyone who travelled, in the area of the fatality between 2 and 3 a.m. on June 26 to contact the Huron detachment at 524-8314, or Mt. Forest, OPP communications centre at 1-888- 310-1122, or anonymously through Crime Stoppers at 1 -888 -222 -TIPS. Investigators also ask the public to keep observations for any vehicles with damage to the front end, and to record licence plate numbers and the vehicle's description. Marijuana produced in Tuckersmith Two people from Tuckersmith Township were charged after Ontario Provincial Police executed a search warrant on their residence last Wednesday. Police seized more than 80 suspected marijuana plants in various stages of growth, growing apparatus and about one-half pound of dried marijuana. A 25 -year old man and 18 - year -old woman, both from Tuckersmith Township have been charged with production of a controlled drug. They were released on a promise to appear in Goderich Court on Aug 10. Impaired driver charged A 25 -year-old Vanastra woman was charged with impaired driving, over 80 mg and breach of probation after striking a vacant apartment with her car. Police were called to the accident in Vanastra on June 12 at 2:15 a.m. and located the driver a short distance away. She was arrested and taken for a breathalyser test in Clinton. She appears in Goderich court on Aug. 10. Break and enter in Hullet An assortment of tools were taken after a break and enter at Craigs Saw Mill in Hullet Township. It was reported June 19 at 7 a.m. when the owner discovered during the night the rear part of the saw mill had been entered. Some of the items taken include two chainsaw (Stihl and McCullough), two six- inch Mikita grinders, a half- inch Mikita, two -speed hammer drill, a Black and Decker Skil saw, a Wagner LeLand half-inch bench grinder and a fifty -foot orange air hose. Board announces principal placements Administrative officials of the Avon Maitland District School Board have announced further principal and vice- principal placements in the secondary panel for the 1998/99 school year. The placements are: Dave Hurley, principal at Mitchell District High School to principal at Stratford Central Secondary School; Gwen Bestard, vice-principal at Stratford Central Secondary School to principal at Mitchell District High School (formerly transferred to vice-principal at South Huron District High School effective Sept. 1998); Herb Klassen, teacher at Mitchell District High School to vice- principal at Mitchell District High School (formerly transferred to be vice-principal at Stratford Central Secondary School effective Sept. 1998); Laurie Langstaff, teacher at St. Marys District Collegiate and Vocational Institute to vice-principal at Stratford Central Secondary School; Pete Heeney, teacher at South Huron District High School to vice- principal at South He was part of Lancaster crew FRAM Page 4 train ride from Halifax he rather matter-of-factly mentioned that he crossed from Liverpool on the Aquitania. I'm sure he wondered why I smiled and said something like, "For God's sake what a coincidence". "....my dad came home on the Aquitania after the first war in the spring of 1919." And, like Beans, took the train from Halifax to Seaforth...twenty six years earlier. As the years passed Lorne went to rehab school in Kitchener and began working for the express department of the C.N.R. at the busy Victoria Street station. Now retired he has lived in Kitchener for over 50 years. Our 1932 class picture taken on the lawn of what is now Maplewood Manor shows the many faces of those now gone. The three on the left in the front row, 4 Lorne (Beans) Ibbotson, yours truly (cute except for the big ears) and Don (Chip) Woods are alive (and all rather old). The other five, Jack Elliott, Ross Green, Jim Southgate, Art Fraser and Charlie Case, sadly arc gone. Long after the war while on the job with C.N. Express Beans noticed a man waiting every day for the arrival of the morning train. Each day he would pick up a parcel of kosher meat sent from Toronto. They met most days and chatted, waiting for the train to arrive. One summer day in the mid 1960s Beans noticed a tattoo mark on the man's arm - the kind many had who were in concentration camps in Europe during the war. In the conversation that followed the man said because he was a Jew he was put to work in a slave labour camp in Germany at a place called Nordhausen...Beans smiled at the man and said, "You are lucky to be alive." He went on to tell the man that in the spring of 1945 he was part of the crew of a Lancaster bomber that dropped three tons of bombs on the hated German SS headquarters in Nordhausen. The conversation continued and became a bit spirited as Beans confirmed the man's recollection of the time the bombs were dropped, "Yes the raid was exactly at noon" the kosher meat man remembered. "I still remember it clearly." "For although the bombs were dropping all around us, we cheered and shouted for joy as we watched the destruction that noon of the hated SS soldiers and their headquarters." Now they stood on the train platform in Kitchener together. Both glad to be alive and remembering that twenty years earlier they had been in a terrible war only a few thousand feet apart. 1 Complete Automotive Repair "Class A Mechanic" TIRE SALES, SERVICE & REPAIR ARCHIE'S maize eeaete U1.1.1 527-0881 24 Goderich St. E. Seaforth Ir1:77 CUT THE CABLE NOW! STAR CHOICE DELUXE SATELLITE SYSTEMS Limited Time Offer 6 MONTHS No Interest, no payments, and no money down! CALL FOR COMPLETE DETAILS! c4jlea Sfulkto ...Rut lit Esbandratad COUNTRY KABLE 1-800-263-0626 www.altnstubbs.00m been finished, within the next couple weeks, and the results have been examined, Steffler said the OMAFRA program is finished. ' But he stresses the committee's work isn't. "This committee is going to stay together for sure," he said. "It's going to he there for the betterment of the community." He said they will let the survey results determine a plan of action for the group. Otherwise, he' said there is no point in doing the survey. All the results arc being kept anonymous so the businesses involved can answer freely. PIANO TUNING • REPAIRS • REBUILDING KEYS RECOVERED DAI:IPP CHASERS • REGULATING •BENCHES BRUCE PULSIFER 345-9223 SfITCIWIL MASSAGE THERAPY r:1111Regestered MassageTherapest M hese tirnr,glwn NAT 527-0780 Taal Image E Tiu rs/Sai NOTICE The Municipal Office will be CLOSED the following dates for holidays: Monday, July 6 Friday, July 10 Monday, Luly 13 Friday, July 17 and Monday July 20 Cherries - Raspberries U -Pick - We Pick Sweet Cherries June 25th - by the pound Raspberries - July 1 in pint or quart containers Pie Cherries - soon after by the pound Blythe Brooke Orchards 1 mile west of Myth on County Rd. #25 Phone for information 523-4383 Cherries Raspberries Cherries Raspberries Cherries Raspberries CONGRATULATIONS Seaforth & District Minor Hockey Association Fundraiser Draw and Dance would like to congratulate this year's Grand Prize Winner of 510,000 Gerard Meidinger We would also like to thank those who donated prizes. Your donations were greatly appreciated! Tickets for next year's' Draw & Dance are available from any Executive Member. Only 500 to be sold! EARLY BIRD Winner of 4 Blue Jay Tickets: Murray & Chris McClure AvonSCHOOLT BOARD Maitland Learning for a Lifetime SUMMER SCHOOL SCHEDULE 1998 SECONDARY IMPROVEMENT COURSES July 6 - July 28 English and Mathematics - Grades 9 through 12 Classes run daily from 8:30 a.m. to 12:00 noon CONTINUING EDUCATION ' for Adult Students is available all summer DRIVER EDUCATION July 6 - 17, 1998 FEES: All courses are free except for Driver Education. LOCATION: All courses, except Continuing Education, are offered at Central Huron Secondary School in Clinton. Bus transportation is provided from Exeter, Goderich, Wingham and Seaforth. Continuing Education courses will be held in Vanastra, Exeter, Wingham and Goderich. For further information contact your local school or Rob Parr Principal, Summer School 482-3471 • PAUL CARROLL Director of Education ABBY ARMSTRONG Chair bre. 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