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October 11 2000
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Local weather
Wednesday --Sunny
Vdind to 30 km/h High
near 15
Thursday --Sunny nigh
18 Low6
Friday --Mainly sunny.
High 19 Low 5:
Saturday --A mix of sun
and cloud. High near 18.
Low near 7
From Environment Canada
In brief
Four more
candidates
to run in
Huron East
Four more candidates
have declared their
intentinons.to run in this
fall's municipal election in
Huron East. creating a race
for deputy -mayor and a
race in Tuckersmith
Township ward. •
McKillop Township
Reeve Bill Siemon is
running against
Tuckersmith Township
Reeve Bob Broadfoot for
deputy -mayor of Huron
East.
In Tuckersmith.
.Tuckersmith councillor
Jim MacLeod has joined
the race against former
Tuckersmith Deputy
Reeve Larry McGrath and
Councillor Paul Spittal for
one ofthe two seats to be
filled in that ward
In Grey Township, Dale
Newman has filled the
second seat with Grey
councillor Alvin
McLellan. Both positions
are so far acclaimed.
Five all -candidates
meetings will be held. one
in each ward. of Huron
East before the election.
The first will be held
Oct. 19 at 8 p.m. at the
Brussels -Grey Community
Centre in Brussels ward.
On Oct. 25 at 8 p.m-, an
all -candidates meeting will
be held in Grey ward at the
Ethel Community Centre
and on Oct. 26 at 8 p.m.,
one will be held in
Tuckersmith ward at the
Brucefield United Church.
All -candidates meetings
will also be held on Oct.
30 at 7:30 p.m. in
McKillop ward at Cavan
United Church. in.
Winthrop and on Nov. 2 at
7:30 p.m. in Seaforth ward
at the Seaforth and District
Community .Centre.
Exeter woman
charged after
collision
A 36 -year-old Exeter
woman was treated for
minor injuries after a two -
vehicle collision at the.
intersection of London
Road and Kipper Road in
Kippen on Oct. 3 at 4 p.m.
She was driving
.southbound on London
Road when a 21 -year-old
woman, also of Exeter.
tried to make a left turn
onto Kipper; Road.
The younger woman has
been charged with a traffic
offence over the collision.
Haircut
raises $1,289
for Special
Olympics
By Susan Hundertmark
Expositor Staff
Top donors Terry Johnston and Paul Menary's brother Phil
pulled out the garden shears and a pair of scissors to make
the -first cut to Paul's hair last Friday afternoon at Seaforth
Public School.
By ,cutting his hair. Menary raised -51.289.55 for the
Special` Olympics - his top donors contributed S50 each - and
his 12 -inch shorn braid will be made into a wig for a child
receiving chemotherapy treatments.
Menary. a teacher's assistant at SPS who coaches a Special
Olympics team in track and field and five -pin bowling.
collected pledges'for a month after his. wife Brenda came up
with the idea of using his locks (which have never before
been cut) to raise money for his team, the Seaforth Cubs.
Menary kept his beard but had his head shaved by local
barber Bob O'Brien afterfirst cut took off his braid amid
the cheers of an auditorium full of SPS students and teachers.
"_Everyone's. been running Weir fingers through my hair for
the last couple of days. Now. they'll be rubbing my head." he
said after the haircut. -
Student Steven McNichol presented Menary with a wig
and Menary's mother. who attended the event along with
Menary's sisters and brother, said she hadn't seen him
without long hair since he was a baby.
Menary's contribution will.go towards uniforms and busing
costs for to yarious Special Olympics competitions.
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Susan Hundertmark photos
Above, Paul Menary braces himself as Terry Johnston and Paul's brother Phil prepare to chop
off his braid while at bottom, he smiles as the barber's clippers shave his head
Ambulance hours cut in Seaforth/Clinton
By Sarah Caldwel and Susan Hundertmark
Signal Star and Expositor Staff
Ambulance services in Clinton/Seaforth and the
Exeter (Dashwood -Zurich) area will be reduced to'
one on-call ambulance after, 6 p.m: in
Seaforth/Clinton area and one on-call ambulance
after 9 p.m. in the Exeter area when the county
assumes' management of land ambulance services
on Jan. I. 2001. • •
Currently there are on-call vehicles at each
'ration in the same time periods.
"We've never heard the phrase 'patient care' in
all these decisions," says Seaforth Reeve Lin
Steffler, who says she is "not at all pleased" by the
reduction of services.to the Seaforth/Clinton area.
Steffler 'not at all pleased' by county council decision
Steiner says the response time of ambulances in
the Seaforth and Clinton areas could rise.. to as
much" as half an hour when paramedics are
required to drive from home to the ambulance
station and then to the scene of an emergency.
She says the county had earlier indicated that no
changes would be made to staffing when it took.
over management,of ambulance services.
Staffing changes are part of the Huron County
Ambulance .Draft Staffing Strategy which was
presented to county council by Jon Hambides. the
,county's ' consultant on -the transfer of land
ambulance services.
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The consultants said they found the existing staff
patterns generally acceptable based 'on.the call
distribution information but there were a few
changes they wanted to see when the county takes
over. while• reassessing approximately three
months afterwards.
Ambulance staffing patterns are made up of on-
site staffed vehicles and on-call staff. '
On-call staffing involves paramedics receiving an
hourly stipend for holding themsehes immediately
available for return to 'work in case. of an
ambulance call during low call volume hours,
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Rainy weather wreaks
havoc on this ear's beans
weather means that the test
weight will be a lot less."
This factor poses yet
another challenge to the
farming community.
Producing fewer bushels per
acre added to less weight per
bushel, equals a significant
reduction in overall harvest. .
Unfortunately, the outlook
is not much more positive
once the crops are off of the
field.
Ontario Federation of
Agriculture Member
Services Representative Paul
Nairn said that commodity
prices, dictated in the
American mid -west, will also
add up t0 lost revenue at the
scales for most fanners.
"All of the commodity
prices are determined in
Chicago, based on global
(supply and demand)." Nairn
explained. Since Canadian
farmers are competing with
American and. European
farmers that are heavily
subsidized by their
governments, the supply and
demand ratio is slanted
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By Carl Stavros
Onion News Record Staff
Heavy, rains and reduced
sunlight are wreaking havoc
on this year's bean crops,
industry insiders said
Monday.
Bill Steenstra, Pioneer
Feed dealer representative,
stated that "edible beans",
meaning black, kidriey.and
white beans, have all
suffered due to unusually low
levels of heat and sunlight,
combined with higher than
average rainfalls.
The wet conditions the
summer brought are
unfavorable to the
proliferation of edible beans.
'The rain has caused a lot
of root rot," he explained,
which damaged the already
reduced yield of the leans.
Marilyn Breadfoot is one
farmer that can attest to
challenges that lie ahead for
farming families in Huron
County.
"Normally the white bean
harvests are yielding between
25-30 bushels per acre, 40 is
excellent," said the Stanley
Township farmer. "Now, 1
have heard of yields as low
as eight or ever lower."
' Broadfoot. also added that
there are less pods per bean
plant; thereby again reducing
the total number of beans
brought off of the fields.
Not all of the crops have
had as much difficulty as the
edible beans. Steenstra
explained. Wheat, corn and
even soybeans are all
projected to have average
returns.
"As far as I have seen,
those harvests will be close
to normal," he said, based on
a five to 10 -year average.
However, "(Tate returns) will
be lower than they have been
in the past couple of yeah."
But the absence 'of
sunlight and heat have
stunted the growth across the
board.
"When there is high
sunlight and heat, the yield
has a higher test weight," he
explained, test -weight being
the weight of the crop per
bushel. "Cool, cloudy
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