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Scott Hilgendorff photos
Scott Forde, Matthew Springall and Sherry Lee Wernham hold
a boa constrictor to help give the rest of their Seaforth Public
School classes a better view
Scott Campbell, Jessica
Jefferson and Devin
Simpson Zook at a collection
of reptiles including turtle
and sakes, part of the
Indian River Reptile Zoo
which helps sick animals,
runs breeding programs
and travels to communities.
teaching about reptiles. The
zoo was brought to the
Seaforth Veterinary Clinic for
its annual open house held
last Tuesday and
Wednesday.
I've seen more happen in two weeks...
From Pogo 1
front page.
It doesn't mean we couldn't
have gone out and found some
but this week, events in the
community have directed our
coverage and dominated our
time.
Events have included more
arsonist attacks, a serious
daylight assault and robbery
situation at the Shell Station
and more issues surrounding
the fate of Seaforth District
High School.
People coming into the
office or that I have talked to
on the street say they are
alarmed, scared or upset by all
that has happened again this
weekend and the fact there is
no good news for the front
page this week reflects that:
But, take heart. On the
pages within, there are some
necessary news items of a
neutral nature and some
photographs to reflect many
interesting and fun activities
that took place in town in the
last week.
While none of them made
the front• page this week, any
number of them could have on
a more typical week.
I just wish I could promise
next week will be different but
Huron can rise
From Pogo 1
schools to look in the future.
We hope that people
will tell us what their
priorities are for the
education of their children.
These reports will be
received by the end of
September and will be
invaluable to the Board in
planning for the future.
As part of their standard
practice, the consultants
report included some 51
options for consideration
that named specific schools.
The alarm that this has
caused in our District is
unfortunate indeed. The
options do not take into
account many of the other
things that the Board will
alarmingly, the potential is still
great for even bigger disaster
in town as police continue
their search for the arsonist.
This is my appeal to the
community to offer their
support to the Citizens on
Patrol program that is being
started.
If we want to see More good
news on the front page in the
weeks to come, lets band
together and help find the
person or persons doing this
and continue to work together
to make this community a
safer place --a community
where business owners and
residents, myself included,
don't have to worry if their
homes or livelihoods will be
lost or where a young store
clerk can feel reasonably safe
opening a store in the morning
without fear of being attacked.
We meed to pressure the
police for a more visible
presence and we need to be
willing to give them a hand.
My concern is that the COP
program will see residents on
patrol more than the police
have been in the past few
weeks leading up to the
current crisis facing the
community. There will need to
be a balance but the bottom
to the challenge
need to consider.
To name just two- the age
of the buildings and the
transportation costs, not to
mention the results of the
public consultation that is
Just beginning.
Those things and many
others will be considered.
The quality of the
information in the CAS
reports is dependent on the
willingness of people to take
an objective and informed
look at the challenges that
we are facing.
I know that the people of
Huron and Perth counties
can rise to that challenge.
Be assured that, the Board
will be listening.
Wendy Anderson
line is, no matter how many
police there are, they can use a
hand making the town safer
than it is right now.
I've lived in town less than
three weeks and have seen
more terrible things happen
than I saw in three years living
in both a typical Toronto
neighbourhood and in its
downtown core.
I have seen a pack of more
than 20 kids pursue another,
found a drunk young person
passed out in my apartment
hall after puking down the
steps and watched the back of
Jim Sills' store burn. All this
in the course of two weeks,
concluding with more fires
and a woman attacked as she
tried to open the Shell Station
Monday morning.
I never worried about my
safety in Toronto.
I'm worried about it now.
Adrian Philpot of the Indian
River Reptile Zoo near
Peterborough shows students
a baby alligator.
THE HURON EXPOSITOR, May 10, 20.1-7
Notice is hereby given that the
Public is invited to the
ANNUAL MEETING of
Seaforth Community Hospital
to be held Monday, June 25, 2001
at 8:00 p.m.
in Conference Room 2
of Seaforth Community Hospital
for the purpose of receiving the Annual
Reports of the Board of Directors and of the
officials of the Hospital, for the election of
Directors, for the appointment of Auditors,
and for the transaction of such other
business as may properly come before the
meeting. The By-laws of Seaforth Community
Hospital provide that the Board of Directors
shall include trustees to be elected by
members of the Hospital Corporation.
Membership granting voting privileges may be
purchased for two dollars before 4:30 p.m.,
May 25, 2001. Membership sold after that
time will not entitle the purchaser to a vote at
this Annual Meeting.
By resolution of the Board of Directors.
Andrew Williams, Secretary
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