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Members of the Seaforth Figure Skoting Club held a fund raising car wash of Archie•s Service Centre on Saturday.
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Scott books donated to -saved high school
By Susan Hundertmark
Expositor Staff
Because reading Sir Walter Scott was
"mandatory" for Seaforth District High
$School principal Jim Moore when he was
a boy. he was "thrilled" to accept a
donation of the 10 -volume Complete
Works of Sir Walter Scott this week.
was horn in Scotland and was
brought up there until I was eight. My dad
'made Sir Walter Scott mandatory reading
for my brother and myself,' he said during
the donation ceremony at the school.
library. Monday.
The donation is the completion of a
fundraising project by retired SEMS
English teacher Dick Burgess, who sought
sponsors for the each of the I() books in
his private collection to contribute $100
each to the Save Seaforth Schools legal
fund.
Burgess, a collector who owns several
thousand rare books; bought the set in an
auction last year. Published in 1850, the
150 -year-old set could be possibly one -of
a -kind since Burgess could not find one .
like it during a recent Internet search.
Burgess decided to target members of
the local Scott families, those with
Scottish backgrounds and lovers of great
- literature to sponsor the books.
Sponsors include Ken Scott, Bill and
Gwen Scott, Alf and Joy' Ross, Dick
Burgess and his family, Dave Scott and his
family. the Doig family, Noreen Mitchell;
Harty and Maureen Scott. Katie Teall and
Bill and Nancy Mitchell.
"Dick Burgess is a tireless. worker for
this school and this donation is an example
of the tremendous community support this
school has," said Moore. '
He said students will be able to'use the
books during school hours but because of
their value, the hooks will not be able to he
signed out of the library. •
"I doubt any other school in the county
has books of this calibre. It's a tremendous
addition to the library." said Moore.
Burgess made the donation under•tht:
condition that the books remain on loan to
the school as long as Seaforth DistriFt
High School remaSns open. If it closes. the
books,
will then go to .the Seaforth and
District Museum.
Stores opening Thursdays in new BIA effort to increase service
By Scott Hilgendorff events taking place downtown also a•common "pay day" for raffle tiL'kets for months now
positor Editor
Thirty-nine stores in
Seaforth are open Thursday
nights now.
Fourteen of those had never
been open Thursdays before.
The Thursday night
opening is part of a new plan
by the BIA to make their
shires available tq customers at
more convenient hours to
. them.
Coen.. Heather Robinet
told council those were the
• results: of the Business
improvement' Area's plans t0
encourage businesses to offer
later hours on Thursday night
during herMay 23 report.
She told council ether
businesses may decide to
extend'thcir hours later.
The decision was made
following recommendations
. from the Business Retention
and Expansion Committee to
have `stores. stay open late
Fridays with entertainment and
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Not knowing this was the
direction 'the BR+E was
suggesting. the BIA decided
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as amore convenient night for
local shoppers. Thursdays are
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for the downtown. With two.
murals in place and more
planned, thebusiness
community has been selling
is "very short" of, its S3.000
fundraising target.
She said they are afraid
people are holding oft' until the
last minute to buy their tickets
for the draw later 0n2 thre
summer.
THE HURON EXPOSITOR, June 7, 2000-3
NOTICE
TO THE RESIDENTS OF
THE VILLAGES OF BAYFIELD, HENSALL &
ZURICH, THE TOWNSHIPS OF HAY AND
STANLEY
As of January 1, 2001 the above municipalities
will amalgamate
to form the MUNICIPALITY OF BLUEWATER
The Bluewater Transition Board, consisting of all Council
members of the above noted municipalities, and its
Committees:
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are currently working to create a dynamic municipal structure
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manner to all residents of the new municipality.
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The Board next meets on TUESDAY, JUNE 27th AT
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please contact your local municipal office.
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