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$5,000
ATV
stolen
from
residence
in Huron
East
An ATV, valued at
$5,000, was stolen from a
Cardiff Road residence in
Huron East sometime
overnight on Aug. 12,
reports the Huron OPP.
The dark green 2001
Honda 350 four-wheel
drive ATV . had been left
outside in the laneway
next to the barn with the,
keys in the ignition.
Anyone with related
information is asked to
call the Huron OPP or
Crime Stoppers.
Huron East car
windows smashed
Two windows of a car
were smashed while
parked at a residence on
Amberley Road in Huron
East sometime during the
week before Aug. 21,
reports the Huron OPP.
The victim " returned
home after a week away
to find the front
windshield and driver's
side window destroyed in
his beige 1992 Nissan
station wagon,
Anyone with related
information is asked to
call the Huron OPP or
crime Stoppers.
Huron East woman
charged with drinking
and driving
A 46 -year-old Huron
East woman was charged
with drinking and driving
after her vehicle was
stopped on Gdoerich
Street in Seaforth on Aug.
22 at 4:15 a.m.
The woman's white
1991 Ford Mustang was
stopped for traffic issues
and the driver was found
to have alcohol on her
breath. She failed a
roadside test and taken for
breath tests, where she
was found to have more
than twice the legal limit.
She is scheduled to
attend court in Gbderich
on Oct. 4.
Second Survivor
challenge a
hit..
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local family
takes up
microsprint
racing...
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Lions Club celebrates Both anniversary
`Serving the community' a tradition for volunteers of the Seaforth Lions Club
By Jason Middleton
Expositor Staff
For 80 years Seaforth
Lions Club members have
been interested in one thing
— serving their community.
That's why
they decided
that instead of
hosting a
traditional
anniversary
dinner with
dignitaries
apd club
members,
they will host
a family day
at Lions Park
this Sunday.
" W e
decided this
year we
helping," said Elliott.
For John Turnbull, who
joined the club in the late
'40s. being a member of the
Lions Club means "helping
with the community and
helping others."
Quoted
'All our work is
on behalf of the
community and
our success is
because of the
community,' --
Lions chair
Cathy Elliott
would do something a little
different and try and involve
the community," said
Seaforth Lions chair Cathy
Elliott.
"All of our work is on
behalf of the community and
our success is because of the
community," she said.
Since the club was
chartered in 1924, the Lions
have been working with the
community to make Seaforth
a better place.
According to Elliott, the
Lions help both both
charities and people in need.
"Whether they're a charity
or not that's who we're
T h e
Seaforth
Lions help
with a variety
of charities
including the
Easter Seals
and the
Canadian
National
Institute for
the Blind
(CNIB).
Elliott said
that the
money raised
by their club
could also be used locally for
people in need.
"Anytime anybody needs
anything, they can just come
to the Lions Club and ask."
said Elliott.
"That's our mandate. The
money's raised in the
community and we want it
for the betterment of the
community," she said.
The club donates Lions
Pool passes to the Children's
Aid Society.
Last year. the club raised
more than 520.00( by
holding events such as an
elimination draw. pool
fundraising, TV bingo and a
Cathy Elliott, Seaforth lions Club chair
old pictures of the local club's history.
TV auction in conjunction
with the Dublin and Mitchell
Lions.
In their 80 years of service
in Seaforth. the Lions have
always helped out in the
community.
During the early '30s. the
Lions provided parcels of
warm clothing. toys and focal
to a number of homes at
Local skateboarders
learn to 011ie, flip, grind
By Susan Hundertmark
Expositor Editor
With the sound of hard
plastic grinding against
plywood, kids ranging from
age eight to 16 arc riding
their skateboards up and
down the quarter -pipes
recently installed at the new
Seaforth All -Wheels skate.
park.
Some have taken up the
sport during the past month
now that a skate park has
been available in Seaforth.
Others, until recently, have
been for years using every
available step, railing.and
sloping piece of pavement
throughout Seaforth to learn
how to ollic; flip and grind
like the pros they watch on
television and video games.
"We've been
skateboarding for two or
three years," says Kyle
McNichol and his friends
Kyle Feeney and Chris
Sheppard. "it's something to
do and it looks neat."
"Before this park, we just
skated wherever hut we got
kicked out of a lot of places."
says Sheppard.
The three jokingly describe
themselves as "hard core"
See SKATEBOARDING, pg.12
Kyle McNichol, of Seaforth,
Seaforth All -Wheels Park.
Susan Hundertmark photo
allies onto a ramp at the new
Jason Middleton photo
and longtime Lions Club member John Turnbull look over
Christmas.
Also at that time, the club
organized Santa's visit to
town, an event where free
movies. skating and
stockings with fruit, candy
and a toy were all provided.
The club has also helped
support local causes such as
helping to raise money for
the arena roof in 1976 and
the Seaforth Community
Hospital in 1965.
The Lions Club has also
hosted the Santa Claus
parade, which has been
running since 1977.
The Seaforth Lions have
continued a long-standing
holiday tradition of visiting
retirement and nursing home,
SN LIONS, Page t
Ontarians need
to tighten belts,
says Sorbara
By Susan Hundertmark
Expositor Editor
it's time for Ontarians to tighten their belts.
That was the message delivered by Ontario Finance
Minister Greg Sorbara during a bricf visit to Huron
County last week.
Joined by Huron -Bruce MPP Carol Mitchell on Aug.
18 at the Bcnmillcr Inn, Sorbara said he and Premier
Dalton McGuinty are committed to providing
accountability to taxpayers as the province works to wipe
out a provincial debt of nearly $6 billion.
"Premier McGuinty talks repeatedly about being able
to show results for the money that we spend." Sorbara
said.
"Accountability is really about making sure that every
single tax dollar that we allocate is well -used." •
Sorbara said accountability would continue to serve as
a cornerstone for government spending - echoing
comments made during the Liberals' first
provincial budget where the provincial auditor assumes
responsibility for doing value money audits on hospitals,
universities and community colleges.
"We're doing all of this because the people that elected
us have insisted on greater.accountability for every single
tax dollar that we asked them to pay into the province of
Ontario," Sorbara said.
For that reason, Sorbara said it's time for hospital
administrators to "tighten their belts."
"(We're) moving from a hospital-based system of
health care delivery to one that is more directly rooted in
•
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