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Home My WebLink AboutHuron Expositor, 2004-02-18, Page 1• Sham Medd, A>dsdste Bicker M.V.A. Appr»her Visit: s•aa.ca for information of !Whip is Hares/Perth 1 <n \lain ♦I.. N. N..ilurth 1t)) 527-0560 DiscowIt Mortgage Canada Inc. Joy Finlayson & Sharon Medd Mortgage Consultants "Finally, a company that starts with a discount" Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2004 X1.25 includes GST •rltd;q7: f 3T. Doug Eltlott, CFP. B.Math •Iaocootvlrai mtilyCcio�e G Mom at Fehnrry 17.2004 Best Rates Daily Interest Savings Account 205%* 3 Year 3.00% 3:81 % CARTIER PARTNERS FINANCIAL SERVICES 1(:III•II 111 26 Main St., Seaforth 527-2222 In brief High winds, blowing snow cause four • crashes in Seaforth area Friday - High winds creating blowing snow and white- out conditions on Friday caused four crashes in the Seaforth area, reports the Huron OPP. The four in the Seaforth area were only a few of the 21 crashes throughout Huron County from 9 a;m. to 9 p.m. that day and a Huron OPP press release says that speed. was also a factor, along with the road conditions, in some of the crashes. Two single -vehicle ,accidents occurred on Highway 8 between Seaforth and Dublin within an hour of each. other on Friday morning. At 10:15 a.m ,-ir 2902` Pontiac Montana lost control due to road •conditions and the driver, a 21 -year-old Mitchell man, crashed into a snow bank. He received minor injuries in the crash and was treated and released from Seaforth Community Hospital, says Huron OPP. At 11:15 a.m., a van flipped on Highway 8 when a 28 -year-old Elma Township man hit a snowdrift, skidded on ice and bit a anowbank. The man was not injured. At the same time, a crash occurred between a transport truck and a car on Highway 8 between Clinton and Seaforth but Huron OPP could not provide anymore details about the 'people involved in the crash, except that no one was injured. At 3:30 p.m. on Friday, a single vehicle accident occurred on Centennial Road near Hensall when the 33 - year -old male driver and his 29 -year-old female passenger left the road, hit a telephone box and a fence because of road conditions. Again, there were no injuries. Inside... Counterfeit money workshop held Thursday.. Page $ Huron County doggers d Manor... POP 6 Alina Shepherd challenges herself in pentathlon... page 12 Susan Hundertmark photo Q and U say 'I Do' Seaforth Public School Kindergarten students celebrated the most enduring union in the English language last week with a wedding ceremony for the letters Gl and U. Principal Kim Black officiated at the ceremony while students Taylor Malone and Zilibien Blanchard stood up for the letters, as classmates and family members looked on. Avon Maitland school board plans return to semestering By Stew Slater Special to The Expositor Four years after angering many students and the local secondary school teachers' union -- and after four years of hearing sporadic opposition from both groups -- the Avon Maitland District School Board has almost entirely reversed its January, 2000 decision to eliminate semestered timetables. from its secondary schools. Though the wording of a motion approved Tuesday, Feb. 10 is somewhat ambiguous -- "support(ing) flexible scheduling in its secondary schools" for the 2004-05 school year forward -- director of education Geoff Williams confirmed in an interview following the meeting that the vote will almost certainly mean all 10 of the board's secondary schools will revert to semestered programming next year. That means students will no longer study Soo FLEIUSLE, Pogo a Council aims for five per cent increase in '04 budget By Susan Hundertmark Expositor Editor With a first draft budget showing a 12 per cent tax increase, Huron East councillors talked at their Feb. 10 meeting about how to decrease that increase to five per cent. Cutting $135,000 from the budget will bring 2004's budget down to five per cent, said Deputy -Clerk Brad Knight, who presented ideas about how to cut $139,000. But, since the 2003 deficit of $275,000 was not included in the calculations, Mayor Joe Seili asked councillors to come up with further savings. "Come back and we'll beat the living heck out of this (budget)," he said. "I'd like to see a further $15,000 to $20,000 come off at least," he said. While council heard from three more department heads about their 2004 budgets, Public Works Coordinator John Forrest's budget received the most attention. Several councillors wondered about reducing the public works department's road construction projects. Deputy -Mayor Bernie MacLellan asked how cancelling all road construction in Tuckersmith, McKillop and Grey wards for the year would affect the budget. "We've got to get this budget down. What can we drop that doesn't have to be done?" he asked. "If a road is usable, we may need to divert the money somewhere else. If some projects can be held off, we need to do that." MacLellan added that he didn't want road construction to Soo COUNCIL„ Pogo 2 Jr. D meeting attracts 30 locals By Sara Campbell Expositor Staff Although many questions of financing and commitment were asked at the public meeting for a proposed Jr. D hockey team by a London group, the main question was why Seaforth? "There've been many questions as to why an out - of -the -area group is coming in to run a team but we heard about an opportunity in Seaforth to start a team through the OHA (Ontario Hockey Association) and we jumped at it,"said Derek Askew, president of the McGafka-Pro Group. About 30 people attended the public meeting at the Seaforth arena on Feb. 10. "Seaforth is a hot -bed for great players and had a successful team. We all have a great interest in hockey; we either had boys in hockey or play ourselves," said Askew. So far, Askew said the group has made a financial investment of $6,000 to move the team forward, including an initiation fee of $5,000, and a $1,000 bond to the OHA when applying as a new team. "We have 14 committed members willing to invest in this team," he said. The McGafka-Pro Group Soo PUNK, Pogo 2 Youth group leaders Mark and Susan Campbell have Seaforth's `Biggest Hearts' By Susan Hundertmark Expositor Editor Mark Campbell has been on the road trucking for the past month because of the financial pressures facing his pig farm and his wife Susan has been at home single parenting their three children, ages nine months, two and four. But, the winners of the Seaforth's Biggest Heart contest - a new citizenship contest created by the Seaforth BIA - still find the time to run two youth groups at Cavan and Northside United Churches, teach Sunday School and drop off cookies to friends and neighbours. "They don't think of theatselves.They see a need and they go about it quietly, without fanfare and get the job done. They are a very unassuming couple who love to help people," says a letter Mark and Susan Campbell sit at Northside United Church with their three children, from left, Wendy, Jessie and Jack. nominating the Campbells by Terry, Connie, Melissa and Kelsi 'hotter. While they've been involved in the churches' junior youth group for the past five years, the Campbells started running it last year and in September, began a senior youth group for high school students. "It's a place to meet and have fun. We don't read the Bible to them but it is a Christian atmosphere with acceptance, inclusion and no judgement," lays Mark. "Every week we pick a quality we hope the kids will develop, like working as a team, being a good listener, being a good person," adds Susan. Susan says she and Mark decided to get involved in the youth group because they wanted to work where their gifts are best used. "I like the energy. I feel more alive when I'm around the kids," she says. Last June, the Campbells decided to encourage their youth group members to learn how to use their gifts and gave them $20 each to invest in a fundraising project to earn more money for charity. "Some people thought we were crazy but we thought that everyone has a gift and we wanted them to have a chance to use them.," says Susan. Thirteen youth group members took up the challenge and raised $331.45 through various ventures including yard sales, See CAMPIIIILLS, Page $ 1