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Huron Expositor, 2002-08-28, Page 5Sept A September 12, 2001 $1 (includes GST) Doug Elliott, CFP Itat , s of September I I, 2001 Best G.I.C. Rates 30 Day...31180" 1 Year...3■80% 5 Year...5■ 1096 THE INVESTMENT CENTRE 26 Main St., Seaforth 527-2222 In brief Police services board forms without two members By Scott Hllgondorff Expositor Editor A Huron East police services board has formed but without the planned membership. While council had endorsed Neal Murray to represent McKillop Ward and John Illingworth to represent Tuckersmith Ward, council learned those two candidates couldnot sit on the board until approved by the province. Council had previously advertised for members of each of the wards to seek positions on the police services board in hopes of ensuring that membership on the board represented all the wards. However, two members of the board are appointed by the provincial government which will be advertising separately for people to apply to be members of the boaid. As a result, Coun. Dick Burgess explained to council at its Sept. 4 meeting that only the council appointed membership could meet as a board. That includes Burgess, Brussels coun. Greg Wilson and Robin Dunbar, appointed by council to represent the board from Grey Ward. In advertising, council was only seeking representatives from the wards not already represented by council but the province will seek candidates from across the municipality before making its appointments. Burgess said both Illingworth and Murray would reapply for the positions. Fiddlers, special artist raising funds for cancer.. Pape 5 I run/ protests.. Pogo 13 Brianne Higenell holds onto a worm from a container harvested by the millions in Huron and Perth County. Scott Hilgendorff photo packaged for fishing. Worms are County produces great crop ofworms By Scott Hilgendorff Expositor Editor Tied into Huron County's high level of agricultural output is a growing underground industry, literally. Worm production in Huron County is among the highest in North America, say local experts. "Crop rotation and no -till farming, all of these come into play to give us more earthworms than the rest of North America," said Peter Johnson a soil and crop specialist for this region with the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs. John Alafogiannis, manager of Great Lakes Bait in Toronto also said the sheer number of farms in the area and the high use of manure because the larger hog farming operations found in Huron County contribute- to a great area to pick worms. As a result, Alafogiannis regularly sends crews to farmers' fields he rents for worm picking in Huron and Perth County. "Huron County is a very good place. It is one of the best," he said. "We usually try to go with the farms that use manure," he said, adding that worms feeding on soil with manure in it grow larger. "The bigger the worm, the better," he said. Dirk Dekker of Country Bait near Listowel is a worm wholesaler who gave up hog production for the worm industry, finding it more lucrative after coming across it through another wholesaler in the area at the time. Dekker eventually took See HURON, Page 12 West Branch attempts to renew ties to Seaforth By Susan Hundertmark Expositor Staff For the first time in more than 10 years, 40 people from West Branch, Michigan came to visit its sister city Seaforth on Aug. 29. "It's been a long time but afterall, we only have one sibling and that's Seaforth/Hur-on East," said West Branch administrator Pat McGinnis during a recent phone interview. McGinnis said he and the others who visited wanted to "reach out and touch" the community they'd heard about but never visited before. "It was just lovely. Everyone was most gracious and super polite. And, the tour was anything but dry or boring," he said of the three-hour tour led by Marlen Vincent of the Van Egmond House, Cardno Hall, School report confuses council Committee recommends to board moving Grades 7 and 8, saving Seaforth District High School By Scott Hilgendorff Expositor Editor A report from the West Central School Accommodation Study Committee left Huron East's Deputy Mayor unsure of what the committee was recommending in relation to the possible closure of schools in Huron East, including Seaforth District High School. "What is the actual recommendation? There is a lot of reading here but I don't see a line here saying what they would like to do," said Deputy Mayor Bernie MacLellan. Coun. Dick Burgess, who represents council on a similar committee affecting Huron East's schools in the north, said the west committee is recommending that no high schools be closed unless there is no other solution to the Avon Maitland District School Board's enrollment and funding issues. The board faces losing funding for schools under a provincial funding formula See COMMITTEE, Page 9 the town hall and Seaforth and Area Museum, along with lunch at the Seaforth and District Community Centre. "Marler Vincent was funny as heck. He had everyone just cracking up," said McGinnis. The recent amalgamation of Seaforth, Brussels, Tuckersmith, McKillop and Grey Townships into Huron East was of particular interest to McGinnis, who is wishing local governments around West Branch would do the same. "Amalgamation would be the solution to an awful lot of our growing pains in our area. I think Ontario did the right thing. You're miles ahead of Michigan in that," he said. Other members of the West Branch See WEST, Page 9 Dave Emslie photo Clinton and Blyth firefighters were called to a blaze in Hullet where a large amount of an accelerant was used to set three farm trucks on fire in a suspected arson case Sept. 7 at 3:35 a.m. The blaze occurred at a farm near Kinburn. Police are still investigating. • NCI I ORS NONTNS o • Furnaces • Air Conditioners • Fireplaces "We offer Complete Service &Installation"