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Nb A*ISI ST CO $,&.. : 111111111111! 26 Main St., Seaforth 527-2222 In brief Canine unit called to find disoriented driver after single -car crash An OPP canine unit was called to the Seaforth golf course last Wednesday when a Seaforth man wandered away from the scene of a single -vehicle crash on Front Road in Egmondville at 11:30 a.m. The 29 -year-old man was seen exiting his black 1998 Pontiac Sunfire "in a dazed state" after it left the road going westbound and entered the ditch, striking a culvert and rolling several times, taking out a section of fence, says the Huron OPP. The driver wandered off across the golf course towards Seaforth and was tracked by the canine unit to the town's industrial park area where the scent of the man was lost. Later that day at 4 p.m., the driver was located when a friend picked him up walking. Huron OPP offered medical attention at the local hospital for the man but he refused and was returned home. The investigation continues while the investigating officer decides what charges will be laid. Carpet stolen from Bluewater Interiors A carpet valued at $500 was stolen from Bluewater Interiors on Main Street in Seaforth on Oct. 21 during a break-in. A trailer behind the business had its lock cut off and a 10 by 12 -foot brown carpet was stolen from it sometime in the three days before Oct. 21. Anyone with related information is asked to call the Huron OPP or Crime Stoppers. Inside... Dan Pepper wins street racing title... MN 11 Seaforth ringette team wins tourney... page 12 Jason Middleton photo Laughter in the leaves Kristen Poppe, 7, of Seaforth, plays with her friends in the leaves while taking a break from raking on Saturday afternoon. Spook-tacular events planned for Halloween By Jason M ddi.ton Expositor Staff If you are looking to have a spook-tacular Halloween weekend in Seaforth you don't have to look that far. Throughout the area there are several activities that youngsters and adults can participate in this coming Halloween weekend. At the Optimist Park, the Seaforth Optimists are hosting Halloween is for Kids, an afternoon with creepy crafts, goblin games and a movie, on Saturday from 1 until 3 p.m. The event is free but donations to the Seaforth and District Food Bank will be. collected. Registration for the event is required by calling Dianne Wood at 527- 0448. Seaforth Manor Retirement Residence will be hosting their Grandparents Fall Festival on Saturday. The festival will run from 2 to 4 p.m. on - See HALLOWEEN, Page 2 Seili questions Mitchell with local concerns By Susan Hu ndertmark Expositor Editor • Armed with a list of 12 local concerns, Huron East Mayor Joe Seili met with Huron -Bruce MPP Carol Mitchell last Friday. "We're hoping that the provincial government cleans up its act," said Seili at last week's council meeting before visiting with Mitchell. Seili said he asked for the meeting with Mitchell because of the number of issues Huron East is dealing with that need provincial input. "In a lot of cases, Carol is going to be looking into it," he said after the meeting. Since it's been a year since Mitchell, a former municipal politician, was elected as an MPP, she said she's glad to improve communications with local mayors. "I'm delighted when the mayors come forward and talk to me about conerns being raised," she said. Seili said his main concern involved the province cancelling the -municipal drainage program this summer and offering a six per cent tile drainage loan interest rate. "We find it very disappointing that given the financial difficulties being faced by our agricultural economy, that the province would withdraw the $5 million program cost from this sector of the province's economy," said a letter Seili presented to Mitchell. "We are sure the government can borrow Sea POLICING, Page 2 Seaforth water upgrade decision expected soon By Susan Hund.rtmark Expositor Editor A meeting between Seaforth and Tuckersmith councillors, Huron East staff and B.M. Ross and Associates will determine whether Huron East will join an $11.1 million pipeline project that would bring Seaforth's water from Lake Huron. "We've got enough information from B.M. Ross that we can make a decision now," Public Works Coordinator John Forrest told council at its Oct. 19 meeting. He said that once a meeting is held, whose date has not yet been announced, council can either drop or pursue the pipeline project. Since water is area -rated (paid for only by the area that uses it), the rest of council will not be in attendance at the meeting. B.M. Ross has been working on the engineering plans to upgrade Seaforth's water supply and investigating the costs of joining the pipeline project that will be proceeding in Exeter. Huron East also hired B. M. Ross to study .whether or not Soo DECISION, Page 2 Rod Doig, co-founder of Seaforth Golf Club, dies By Susan Hund.rtmark Expositor Editor Rod Doig, co-founder of the Seaforth Golf Club, died Oct. 15 in Seaforth Community Hospital at age 74. A native of the Seaforth area, Rod and his brother Ken built the Seaforth Golf Club in 1960 on the family farm they grew up on. The two decided to build the golf course after Ken returned from playing hockey for 10 years in Scotland, where he took up the sport of golf. Ken interested his brother in the game and the two became members at the Mitchell Golf and Country Club before Seaforth had its own golf course. After Ken played in the Canadian Open at Cherry Hill Golf Course in the Niagara Region with Rod caddying, they saw how flat the course at Cherry Hill was and the two decided they could make a course out of their farm outside Seaforth. They walked the farm and laid out nine holes, taking green fees out of the family's stone house during the early years. In 1967, Rod, an apprenticed carpenter and self-taught stone mason, dismantled the farm's barn and used the materials to build the existing clubhouse over the next three years. In the 1970's the course expanded to 13 holes and then again to the existing 18 holes. Rod also rebuilt the family's stone house, that was originally erected in 1849. He was also a self-taught greenskeeper and inventor who could fix almost any machinery. "Uncle Rod was inventive and ingenious and was truly a product of the lean years of the 30s. When the golf course was first begun, Rod Rod Doig and Dad would cut corners any way they could - often with hilarious results - designing an4 building a roller that the tractor couldn't pull, a sod cutter that couldn't cut sod, an irrigation system that left minnows flopping all oer the green - all a part of the adventure of building the golf course," says his niece Carolanne. "Rod loved the game of golf and was very good at it. He gave lessons and nurtured the golf course," she says. While Rod had no children of his own, he was constantly surrounded, by young golfers, who benefitted from his time and attention. "At the end of a long day at the course, Uncle Rod would often pile those kids S.. ROD, Pogo 2