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THE INVESTMENT
CENTRE
26 Main St., Seaforth
527-2222
In Brief
Barry
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remains
in custody
until court
Sept. io
Thomas Barry, a 19•
-
year-old Seaforth man
charged in connection with
a series of arson fires in
Seaforth, remains in
custody after a first court
appearance Monday, Aug.
14.
He has been charged
with 10 counts of arson
and one charge of
possession of an
incendiary device after
being arrested by police in
Victoria Park on June 4
where an alleged attempt
had been made to burn
down a pavilion in the
park.
Those charges were put
over until Sept. 10 to
spoken be to again in
Goderich Criminal Court.
Barry has been charged
with arson for a December
car fire on High Street, a
Feb. 11 garbage dumpster
behind Donna G's
Restaurant -on-Goderich
Street and a series of fires
in the downtown core set
between April 15 and
June. 4 including one that
badly damaged a storage
building attached to the'
back of Sills Hardware on
Main Street and one that
caused more than
$400,000 damage to
buildings owned by
Quality Jersey Products
and a neighbouring
residential garage.
Hensall man drowns
A 65 -year-old Hensall
man was identified as a
drowning victim pulled
frog Lake Huron at 3:40
p.m. on Aug. 9.
Edgar Gingerich had
been swimming alone near
Port Blake Conservation
Area and his body was
found floating in about
four feet of water, 100 feet
from shore, say Huron
OPP.
He was brought to shore
by other swimmers and
pronounced dead at the
scene. The weather and
water conditions at the
time were clear and calm.
Cause of death is still
under investigation.
The incident is no linked
to an on-going search for a
58 -year-old man presumed
drowned in the area of
Cedar Cove Marina, about
15 kilometres south of Port
Blake.
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LeBeau appeal denied
Judges release their reasons for denying appeal in drunk driving case
By Scott Hilgendorff
Expositor Editor
An Ontario Court of Appeal released its reasons
Monday for denying Sarah LeBeau an appeal of
her conviction of charges stemming from a drunk
driving accident that claimed the lives of four area
people.
An appeal was launched after LeBeau was
sentenced to four years in jail on Jan. 25, 2000, for
convictions on four counts of criminal negligence
causing death, one count of criminal negligence
causing bodily harm, four counts of impaired
driving causing death and one count of impaired
driving causing bodily harm.
LeBeau was found guilty of the charges in a
Goderich court on Oct. 15, 1999.
LeBeau had been charged after a Nov. 25, 1996
accident when her Camaro crashed on Huron
County Road 31 near Varna, killing Neal Atchison
and Pamela King, both 20, of Clinton and Brian
Hill, 21, of Stanley Township. Two weeks later, a
fourth victim of the crash, Mark Webster, 19, of
Stanley Township dies in hospital.
Both LeBeau and a fifth passenger, Brandon
Gardner of Vanastra were seriously hurt.
An appeal was launched and LeBeau was
released on bail nine days into her four-year jail
sentence.
Part of the appeal asserted that the verdict was
unreasonable.
During the trial, LeBeau's defence attempted to
prove that Atchison was actually the driver of the
vehicle when it crashed.
"In our view, there was ample evidence
supporting the trial judge's conclusion that the
appellant [LeBeau] was the driver," said the
statement of reasons for denying the appeal heard
Aug. 8 in Toronto before Judges J. J. Carthy,
Louise Charron and D. McCombs.
Four other grounds for the appeal were also
rejected including one that a blood sample used as
evidence had not been properly preserved by the
Crown.
LeBeau was returned to custody the night before
the hearing, a standard condition of bail and
remains in custody after the appeal was rejected.
Scott Hilgendorff photo
Cool at the pool...
DylanVan DenAssem "launches" his son Reuben as the Brussels -area family came to the Seaforth Lions Pool last Wednesday to
cool down during a heatwave that broke records across Ontario last week. The whole family came including daughters
Morgan, Caroline and Melissa, son Aidan and wife Mary -Ann.
After
school
activities,
sports
to return
By Stew Slater
Special to the Huron Expositor
Acting on a compromise
of sorts offered in June by
Ontario's education
ministry, the Avon Maitland
District School Board and
its teachers have reached an
"interim agreement" which
should see the large-scale
return of extra -curricular
activities to the board's
secondary schools.
"It is anticipated that
extra -curricular activities
will return to previous
levels in all of our public
secondary schools and both
the Board and the
Bargaining Unit encourage
all teachers to volunteer fors
extra -curricular activities so
that students may once
again enjoy the full range of
school based activities,"
states a Thursday, Aug. 9
press release, issued jointly
by the board and District 8
of the Ontario Secondary
School Teacher's
Federation.
According to board chair
Wendy Anderson, the
interim agreement came in
response to changes in the
province's Education Act,
announced in June by
education minister Janet
Ecker.
In what was perceived by
some to be a slight
concession in its ongoing
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Opportunity grows for local hockey players
Mudbugs see great potential in Seaforth for its support of hockey
By Scott Hilgendorff
Expositor Editor
Recognizing Seaforth's strong
hockey tradition, the Louisiana
Mudbugs have found reason to come
a more than 20 -hour drive to both
help young hockey players and scout
out new ones for their team.
"Seaforth's got a great tradition of
hockey. I can see that slowing down
very little," said Scott Muscutt head
coach with the Mudbugs, Western
Professional Hockey League
champions.
Muscutt has been an instructor
with the Dave McLlwain Hockey
School since it started and is back
this year with more Mudbugs than
ever, both coaching the two week
school and holding tryouts for the
team.
The team recognizes great
potential in the community for
helping develop young hockey
players.
The growing opportunities to make
it into junior, provincial, college and
national hockey has come out of a
"cycle," that Graham Nesbitt,
recreation and facility manager for
Huron East and an organizer of the
hockey school, describes --a cycle
that is creating amazing opportunities
for Seaforth's young, dreaming of
hockey careers.
The cycle began with Seaforth
producing hockey talents like Dave
McLlwain, Rem Murray and Mike
Watt.
And while the town, and it's strong
support of the sport was able were
able to produce some young talent, it
was only the beginning of the cycle.
With local talent coming back and
staying involved in the community,
like through McLlwain helping
establish the ever-growing hockey
school, the wheel was set in motion
to help reach the next stage of the
cycle.
The existence of the school was
able to draw coaching staff from the
Mudbugs and universities and began
attracting attention of scouts and
coaches.
That gave local players like Danny
Wildfong and Derek Nesbitt,
Graham's son, a chance at
scholarships and university hockey
careers as they were discovered
through becoming coaches
themselves at the school.
For Danny, it meant becoming a
Mudbug who is now the team's most
sought-after player.
And for the Mudbugs, it meant
recognizing a community and hockey
programs from Seaforth Minor
Hockey to the successfully run
school, that so strongly supports its
young players; so much so they saw.
reason to hold Mudbug tryouts here
from Sunday through tonight (Aug.
15).
Such tryouts are virtually unheard
of, especially when it means
travelling to another country, let
alone to a small, rural town.
Wildfong said making it in hockey
used ,to just take natural talent but
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