Huron Expositor, 2000-03-15, Page 5News
Seven injured
in March 5 crash
Seven people were injured,
one seriously, after a March 5
accident in McKillop
Township.
John King, 18, of Goderich
was travelling east on Conc.
2/3 when he failed to stop for
a stop sign and entered the
intersection at County Road
12.
Murray Scott. 58, of East
Wawanosh Township, was
travelling north on County
Road 12 and his 1992
Chevrolet pickup truck
collided with King's 1992
Mercury, broadside, forcing
both vehicles into the
northeast ditch. "ftri.-
Seaforth Fire Department
was called to the scene to
assist extricating people from
the vehicles.
King, Daniel Clarke. 18, of
Mitchell and Alice Scott. 91,
received serious injuries.
Katie Patterson, 18, of
Goderich. Murray Scott and
Wilma Scott, 56 received
minor injuries.•
Three of the injured were
taken to Clinton Public
Hospital by ambulance. Two -
were taken by ambulance to
Seaforth Community
Hospital.
Stolen truck found in town
A pickup truck stolen from
Toronto was found in
Seaforth March 9 at Seaforth
Food Market and the suspect
was found sleeping in a home
veranda not too far away. •
Police came across the
truck parked at the grocery
store at 3 a.m. and later in the
morning, the suspect was
found sleeping in the veranda
of a neat by home.
He was arrested and is
currently in a Toronto
hospital for mental
assessment.
Decoys stolen
Two Canada goose decoys
were reported stolen from a
North Street home in
Seaforth March 8 at 9:45 p.m.
Sometime the night before,
the decoys had been taken
from the front lawn.
The following morning,
one was found abandoned on
the front lawn of a home on
Church Street.
The other goose remains at
large.
Bicycle stolen
A McKillop Township
resident reportes his bicycle
was stolen from where it had
been left at a friend's home
on Ord Street in Seaforth.
The bike was a George
Hauffman red and silver stunt
bike with chrome fenders.
It was removed from the
Ord Street property.
Flower shop entered again
A small quantity of money,
mostly coins, was taken after
a second break and enter in
the past month at Flower
Magic on Main Street in
Seaforth.
Between March 4 at 6 p.m.
and March 5 at 8 a.m.
someone entered the store
leaving no signs of forced
entry.
Because of the number of
thefts that have occured from
the store, the owner told
police s'he believes someone
has obtained a key to the
store.
Scott Hilgendorff photo
Those hazy days of winter
Tim Sills spent last Wednesday's unusually warm weather
raking up the Main Street boulevard.
Group'hopes to meet with Johns, board
to find resolution before May 19 court case
what will happen." said Leitch.
"We're going into the third
period now so hang on.; said
Doig.
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unfair through the process it
followed to close the school.
The hearing could result in
the board having to put off its
plans to close the school until
the community has been given
a fair chance to propose
alternatives that could
potentially keep the school
open. •
Using Seafdith's history as a
hockey town. Doig described
the current situation as a
hockey game to a group of
about 40 parents and. students
who came out to a community
meeting last Wednesday right
at the Seaforth and District
.Community Centres.
Going into court last week to
seek the injunction, Doig said
it felt like they were heading
into the third period. losing one
to nothing.
But even though the ruling
was in the board's favour, in a
brief written statement, Justice
Heeney informed the hoard
and community's lawyets that
the community had a strong
case.
"The fact Justice 'Heeney
feels that way is like us scoring
a goal." said Doig.
, "He's convinced me. we're
going into the third period and
it's all tied up:" said Doig of
conversation she has had with
their lawyer, Fred Leitch.
Leitch described their court
action as an attempt to
"handcuff" the board until the
May 19 hearing but they were
unable to prove the court there
would be irreparable harm to
the community members
named on the law suit if thc
board was allowed to proceed.
In court, Leitch had said the
harm would conic to the
school through teachers and
students having to make
choices to leave that. if thc
school could be saved later this
spring or summer. would not
come back. ensuring the
school would be lost anyway.
Justice Heeney did not see
any direct irreparable harm to
the community members.
Leitch said_Heeney was
•
satisfied the board needed to
be able, to go ahead with
making preparations to close
the school, knowing those
preparations could be reversed.
if the judicial review decides in
the community's favour and if
the hoard decides to change its
decision to close the school.
Despite not receiving an
injunction, Leitch said thc.
three judges who will hear the
case in May will receive a
report from Justice Heeney
outlining his reasons for
making his decision.
Leitch is hoping that,. as
Justice Heeney tries' to explain
how he reached his decision, it
will include how the
community was treated
unfairly.
Given that Justice Heeney
thinks they have a strong case,
Leitch said that view point will
likely be expressed to the other
•judges and will be one of the
first things they see before
getting into the volumes of
paper work from Leitch and
the board's lawyer. Barry
Brown, that make up the case.
Justice Heeney will be
releasing his reasons for not
granting the injunction in the
next week or two.
Leitch said Justice Heeney's
favourable comments give the
local group an opportunity to
go back to the school board's
trustees and suggest they may
want to put their closure
decision on hold now and give
the community more time to
prepare an alternative plan,
rather than go through the
costly court process.
Smith said they have been
speaking with MPP Helen
Johns who would like to have
a meeting between the
community leaders, herself and
the school board to talk about
the situation.
Smith is hoping then to ask
the board to reconsider
carrying on to the judicial
review in May.
While Johns maintains there
is enough funding ant the
board does not have to close
schools. the board maintains
there are no other effective
alternatives to make up "for a
more than $2 million loss in
funding.
New funding has been
announced by the Ministry of
Education and Maureen Agar,
a member of the committee
opposing the school board,
said Monday. Johns is looking
into how much funding will be
coming to this board.
Agar said Johns will also
approach the board about thc
new funding when seeking a
meeting between the two
groups.
,A member of the crowd
asked about Liberal Education'
Critic, Gerrard Kennedy who
has in the past offered to work
with the town in his fight in
the legislature to` get more
funding to rural boards so they
don't have to close schools.
She wanted to know if the
community group was willing
to pursue that as well.
Maureen Agar, another of
the school fight leaders. said if
a meeting with the board and
Johns doesn't get results. they
will pursue involvement with
Kennedy.
The group and Leitch
believe if they are successful
in court in May, it could be as
late as August before the board
will be able to vote again on
whether or not to close the
school.
"It may mean they would
defer closing for a year. It may
mean they would come hack
to the committee's idea (of
moving Grade 7 and 8 into the
high school and Walton Public
School to Seaforth Public
School.] It's hard to know
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