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Home My WebLink AboutHuron Expositor, 2004-05-19, Page 1Wednesday, May 19, 2004 '1 ■25 includes GST In brief Truck stolen in Seaforth found abandoned in field An unlocked truck was stolen from a parking lot on Goderich Street in Seaforth on May 15, only to be found. later in the day abandoned in a field near the intersection of Hydro, Line Road and Maple Line. Huron OPP` say the black 1990 Chev Blazer was stolen between 10 p.m. May 14 and 2 a.m. on May 15. The vehicle was found undamaged and returned to the owner. Anyone with related information is asked to call the Huron OPP or Crime Stoppers. Impaired driver chases vehicle on Highway 4 A 26 -year-old Parkhill man was chd with impaired drivi er he was stopped on ighway 4 .pear Vanastra on May, 15 in the early morning hours. Huron OPP were contacted by a 'driver whose car was bumped and chased down the highway, having bottles thrown at it', near Hensall on Highway 4. The victim called police by cell phone about the blue Chev Cavalier, which was stopped near Vanastra. . The Cavalier's driver showed physical signs of impairment and was found to have two and a half times the legal limit of alcohol in his blood after he was given breath tests. He is scheduled to attend court in Goderich on June 21. Police seek high school paint pellet vandals Huron OPP are looking for three males seen near Central Huron Secondary School with paint guns near midnight on May 15. More than 65 paint pellets were fired at windows and doors of the Princess Street high school in Clinton, leaving orange paint marks. At least eight homes in the area also had pellets fired at them. The three males were seen wearing white shirts. Anyone with related information is asked to call the Huron OPP or Crime Stoppers. Developers Iry Teper and Bill Maclean and salesperson Karen Jeffrey startdhear the site where building will soon begin on a 16,000 -square -foot recreation complex, at the centre of the Bridges of Seaforth adult lifestyle community. Bridges of Seaforth to build 248- home adult lifestyle community trying to do and what we're trying to from the Bridges development. ri�+�g�Md •lo storehdierrelerepetbiR'trim-that-W&re - says Teper. using big Toronto builders over local MacLean has a list of 90 amenities tradespeople. Our first choice has that Seaforth and arca has to offer to always been local trade, unless it's not potential buyers from across available or too expensive," says Teper. Southwestern Ontario "We want to be part of this "We've got a lot that we're going to community. That's why we've be communicating to potential buyers intentionally made it not a gated in Toronto and Kitchener about the community," adds MacLean. benefits of living in Seaforth," he says, MacLean says the development will listing the over 50 men's hockey league add a "tremendous tax base to the and ball teams, the Carnegie Library, coffers." nearby live theatre and the safe and While researching the Bridges fricndy community as just a few. community, MacLean and Teper "From the community's point of travelling coast to coast across Canada view, this development means more and the United States looking at adult people curling, bowling, buying gas communities and asking the residents and groceries and eating out. From a their preferences. business perspective, it's wonderful for "We asked, they told and we listened the town," says MacLean. and delivered," says MacLean. "The "Most of the people coming are not most exciting thing to me are the going to be taking jobs; they're going beautiful homes themselves." to be creating them." For example, the 36 styles of Teper adds that with $55 million in available homes being built through construction to be done, local tradespeople will also he benefitting By Susan Hundertmark Expositor E icor A dream that began 10 years ago is becoming reality this summer as the Bridges of Seaforth opens a sales office June 12 and begins building a recreation complex and model homes this summer. "The pot's been simmering for quite some time but everything's ripe and coming together now," says Bridges partner Iry Teper, who along with Egmondville native Bill MacLean, is developing a 248 -home adult lifestyle community within the Seaforth Golf Club. With 70 interested buyers on a list already, both partners are excited to begin promoting both their development and the community of Seaforth. "The first question we have to answer for people is, 'Where is Seaforth?' A lot of people have heard of it or driven through but never stopped. That's what the town has been SN ADULT, Pette Fisher and Dietz face off to raise money for May 3o CNIB fundraiser By Susan Hundertmark Expositor Editor Whether it's wearing the winner's business name on a t -shirt or cooking the winner a meal, Bob Fisher and Milton Dietz are determined to find "something embarrassing" for each other to do if they win a challenge raising money for the Canadian National Institute for the Blind. The two local businessmen, who are both facing challenges with their eye sight, are participating in the CNIB Walk for Independence in Goderich on May 30. "We're going to have some fun," says Dietz. "We thought it would be fun to razz each other a bit. We haven't finalized the penalty yet," adds Fisher. Fisher, who's been losing his eye sight for several years with a rare condition called central retinal vein occlusion, it entering the fundraiser for the lint time this year. Dietz, who has age-related macular degeneration but SittLOCAL, Page ! Bob Fisher and Milton Dietz pretend to arm wrestle as they launch a challenge to raise the most money by gathering the most sponsors for the Canadian National Institute for the Blind during a Walk for Independence in Goderich during the afternoon of May 30. BSE closed, border for one year on May zo By Matt Sherrie Goderich Signal -Star Editor Stan Eby remains confident the border will soon reopen to all Canadian beef exports. • It was one year ago tomorrow (May 20) that 17 farms in Alberta, Saskatchewan and British Columbia were quarantined after one cow in northern Alberta tested positive for bovine spongiform enccephalopathy (BSE) - the so-called mad cow disease. Since then the border has remained closed to most Canadian beef exports. In Septem4er, box meat began moving across the border. However, beef producers continue to sit and wait for the United States to reopen its border to all Canadian cuts of beef. . Eby, president of the Canadian Cattleman's Association and a Bruce County resident, called a visit to Washington last week "promising" as both sides wait to see what might happen next. "That's one of the most asked questions," Eby said when asked when the border might reopen. "Thing$ look promising that we're going forward. They're moving on it." Eby praised Canadian beef producers calling them a "resilient group" for hanging on over the past year. "(The BSE crisis) really pointed out our dependence on an export market," Eby said noting that Canada was the third largest exporting market in the world as of 2003. "(The border closure) will take its toll." Eby said one year later he's still shocked to find a closed border since Canada has adopted numerous beef protection measures over the years including firewalls that were put in place in the mid- 1980s. "In Britain they had 158,000 cases of BSE whereas we had one," Eby said. "But we weren't treated any different than the United Kingdom." Eby expressed disappointment that politics - not just science - had entered the border debate. He pointed to an American organization called RCALF that continues to lobby government officials to keep the border closed to Canadian beef exports. Despite the political pressure, Eby said the beef industry is poised to move forward in a short while. "I think our industry is well-positioned to move forward," Eby said. "We can react and we can change but I think we're in a positive 11411 CATTLUMi> , Pepe $