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In brief
OPP across
two
counties
called
to break up
street fight
in Seaforth
Seven police cars,
containing more than a
dozen officers were called
to Seaforth from across
Huron and Perth Counties
1 early Sunday morning to
_break up a street fight that
filled the road on Highway
'8.
"It was just like a scene
from the wild west. The
whole street was full of
people fighting," said Sr.
Const. Don Shropshall of
the Huron OPP.
While the 12 to 14
officers were able to break
up most of the fights, a 23 -
year -old Huron East man
was charged with being
intoxicate in a public place
after he refused to stop
`fighting. Police held him
overnight and released him
in the morning.
Shropshall said the fight,
which occurred at 2 a.m.,
started between locals and
people who had arrived at
the bar on a bus.
Shropshall said he did
not know where the people
in the bus were from or
what their destination was.
The fight broke up after
officers convinced the bus
driver to leave town.
Police chase follows
break-in at Archie's
in Seaforth
Despite a police chase
that included a spike belt
and the canine unit, police
are still looking for two
men who broke into
Archie's Service Centre in
Seaforth and stole $3,000
in cigarettes on April 28.
After receiving an alarm
from the gas station, police
arrived 10 minutes later to
find the front door forced
open and the lock snapped.
A citizen told officers
that an older model red
Dodge Caravan fled the
scene towards Stratford on
Highway 8.
An officer in South
Huron spotted the vehicle
on Heron Line near
Woodham and attempted to
stop it. When the van
would not stop,'the officer
pursued it to Middlesex
County where a spike belt
was placed across Adelaide
Street near 10 Mile Road.
The belt flattened the
van's tires and the two men
fled on foot into a nearby
field.
The canine unit was
{ called and tracked the two
towards London until the
Itrail was lost.
The van was discovered
to be stolen from London.
The cigarettes were
recovered in the van.
t Anyone with related
'information is asked to call
the Huron OPP or Crime
'Stoppers.
Inside...
Local students
learn about
safety from
War Amps..
M. 5
Lacrosse
workshop held
at arena..
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Four-year-old Luke Horst, of Kitchener, admires the trout he caught Saturday morning at the
Lions fishing derby before deciding to throw it back into Silver Creek.
Rain reduces attendance
at annual fishing derby
By Susan Hundertmark
Expositor Editor
Rain kept close to half of the usual 200
local fisherfolk away from the Scaforth
Lions Club trout derby at Lions Park on
Saturday.
But, more than 100 intrepid
sportspeople, most wearing rain gear and
holding umbrellas along with their
fishing poles, still lined the banks of
Silver Creek in an attempt to catch some
of the 300 trout stocked in the stream for
the annual derby.
"There are a lot of happy kids here but
some of the parents look like they fell
into the creek," said derby committee
chair Paul Stephen on Saturday morning.
Stephen said a couple of diehard
fishing enthusiasts, around age 11 or 12,
arrived at the derby at 4:30 a.m., even
though the official start is 7 a.m.
And, while attendance was small at
first, numbers began to climb around 8
a.m. despite the rain that came and went
all morning.
The fishing derby, a Seaforth tradition
for children 14 and under, has been run
by the Lions Club for the past six years.
Stephen said he guessed that the
fishing would be good at Silver Creek
throughout the week following the
derby.
"About 300 fish went into the river
and we've only got 28 fish caught so far.
There's a lot more fish to be caught in
there," he said.
Community
policing group has
successful start-up
By Susan Hundertmark
Expositor Editor
After several years of attempting to get a community
policing committee going in Seaforth, Lions Club president
Cathy Elliott is planning a May 17 information night after a
successful initial meeting was held with eight local citizens
in mid-April.
"It feels good to see some interest in the town for a
community policing group. I like it when people are able to
take control and solve their own problems," said Elliott.
Citizens from Seaforth and Egmondville attended a start-
up meeting on April 19 with Huron OPP Const. Dave Oillan
and Elliott said the group will continue to meet informally
until the group decides how many times a year it will meet.
"We don't want it to be a really formal group. We may
need to meet once a month or only four times a year. The
group will evolve as interest and needs dictate," she said.
Elliott said the May 17 meeting will concentrate on ways
that citizens of Seaforth and area can be alert to protect
themselves and their property from crime.
"We want to teach people what to look for, how to
recognize something is not right and how to report that to
SN ELLIOTT, Page 1
Wind energy
meeting
attracts 200
area farmers
By Cheryl Heath
Clinton News -Record Editor
If attendance is any indication, change is in the wind.
More than 200 area residents came out to Holmesville hall
Tuesday night to hear the Huron County Federation of
Agriculture's presentation on wind energy.
In the past few months, several area farmers have been
approached by 22 Degree Energy Corp., which is currently
asking property owners to lease property in order to begin a
feasibility study for a large-scale wind farm.
Ted Cowan, of the Ontario Federation of Agriculture, said
if the blackout of August 2003 is a precursor of things to
come, Ontarians must Look into other energy options.
Cowan said investigating alternative energy sources is
especially important to farmers because they are large energy
consumers.
He pointed to statistics that reveal while residential
consumers pay 4.7 cents per kilowatt hour for energy, farmers
pay 9.8 cents per kWh on the metered system, 13 to 22 cents
per kWh on demand and seven to 30 cents per kWh on the
interval system.
He noted a mid-size dairy operation uses about 150,000
kWh per year, for an energy bill of about $60,000 per year.
A large mushroom facility uses about 10,000,0000 kWh of
energy pear year for an energy bill that is several million
Soo WINO, Page 1
Second meeting
planned for Agar's
Country Festival
By Jason Middleton
Expositor Staff
A second public meeting
is being held on May 11 to
discuss the possibility of
creating the Come Home to
the Country festival.
Maureen Agar is heading
up a group of citizens
interested in creating a
summer festival in 2005.
Right now the group is
trying to collect ideas on
what people would like to
see at the festival.
"It'll be similar to what
was done (during the
planning) for the
homecoming. We can talk to
each group to find out if they
have any ideas," said Agar.
So far four groups have
shown an interest in the idea
of the festival. The Business
Improvement Area (BIA),
the Optimist Club, the
volunteers at the Van
Egmond House and the
Seaforth Golf Club are all
interested in being part of
the festival.
Agar is hoping more
groups will become
interested when they find out
about the festival.
"We're going to start
finding out when all the
community groups' meetings
are so that we can go make a
presentation to them and tell
them where we are with the
idea of the Come Home to
Country festival," said Agar.
The meeting takes place
on May 11 at 7 p.m. in the
upstairs board room of the
Huron Business Centre.
Susan Hundertmark photo
A pirate's life for me?
Jim Hawkins, played by Alex Cardno, is menaced by pirates, including Kelly Coleman, Alan
Rowntree and Jeffrey Denham, in Seaforth Public School's Treasure Island last Thursday. For
more pictures, see page 6.
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