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HomeMy WebLinkAboutHuron Expositor, 2002-05-01, Page 13Reptiles create excitement for area students at special open house • i 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. 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