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Home My WebLink AboutHuron Expositor, 2005-01-05, Page 70O 1 in Review THE HURON EXPOSITOR, Jan. 5. 2005-7 The Seaforth Cooperative Children's Centre opened the doors of its new Chalk Street facility March, 2004 From Page 1 hosted by the Seaforth Figure Skating Club on Feb. 1. As one of the leading scorers in the German Elite Hockey League right now, Seaforth's Dave McLlwain is having one of his best years yet with the Kolner Haie (or Cologne Sharks). "It's going pretty good. Most of my shots have been been going in this year," says McLlwain modestly during a telephone interview from his home in Germany. Ontario's first minimum wage rate increase in nine years was a welcomed announcement by many Seaforth employees but business owners are questioning how they will make up for the rate increase. 4 A blue box program will -t be implemented in Tuckersmith "as soon as possible," Huron East council decided at its Jan. 20 meeting. Blue boxes will be delivered to the just over 1,000 households in Tuckersmith by Huron East staff and the recycling program is expected to begin sometime in May, said Clerk - Administrator Jack McLachlan after the meeting. After three more snow days last week have upped the total to eight at both St. James and Seaforth Public School, both systems are beginning to look at the impact on students. "The number of snow days is being discussed at the central office and there's already been a request for feedback from the schools," said Steve Howe, media relations officer for the Avon Maitland District School Board. "The scary thing," he said Friday, "is that it's still only January. We still have potentially two more months of winter weather to deal with." Introducing a one -cent tax on food to help farmers make ends meet was one suggestion put forward at an Ontario Federation of Agriculture -hosted town hall meeting at the Betty Cardno Centre in Clinton on Friday. CFA President Ron Bonnett reported the current economic picture for the agricultural industry is bleak. Some sectors, notably, beef and pork producers, feel under siege thanks to the rising value of the Canadian dollar and the Bovine Jason Papple, of Seaforth, holds a meeting to try to make a local bid for the Seaforth Junior D hockey franchise in March, 2004. Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) crisis. A Seaforth teen was one of four young women from Huron County competing Jan. 29 and 30 with the Huron Modern Pentathlon club at the Canadian Winter Nationals in Guelph. In her first ever pentathlon competition, Alina Shepherd, of Seaforth, showed that with more experience she too will become a force in the sport, says her coach Baird Robinson. Seaforth Cooperative Children's Centre (SCCC) will receive the lion's share of one-time federal funding announced recently for five Huron County daycares. Seaforth will receive $33,600 of the $44,300 distributed to Huron County for repairs, maintenance, agreed Huron County council at its Feb. 5 meeting. 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. A group of Seaforth investors wants to keep junior hockey in local hands. Jason Papple, former Centenaires coach, told the Seaforth arena board Thursday night, that seven Seaforth-area investors are scheduled to meet with the Ontario Hockey Association on March 21 to present their bid for the Seaforth Junior D franchise. Papple said he started approaching local people to invest in the team after attending a public meeting last week held by a group of London investors who have applied for the former Centenaires' franchise. March, 2004 It was a successful afternoon for organizers and participants of the district barbershop competition in Seaforth. "There was a good turnout and it was a very successful day. We're very pleased," said organizer John Elligsen, and member of the Seaforth Harmony Kings who hosted the district competition on Saturday, Feb. 28 at the Seaforth Public School. The smell of death is still in his nostrils and the sound of mothers crying is still in his ears two years after the two weeks that forever changed Bert Gauthier's life at Ground Zero in New York City. Gauthier, a funeral home director in Orangeville and soldier in the Salvation Army, spoke at Brotherhood Night in Seaforth last Thursday at the local Legion. While the Community Care Access Centre offers most of its services through home visits, executive director Kathy Scanlon says the CCAC's new building in Seaforth will give the centre more visibility in the community. CCAC's 40 employees moved last week into the new building, which was built by the Seaforth community development trust behind the Seaforth Medical Clinic. Compliments came through the front doors along with the children as the Seaforth Cooperative Children's Centre opened for business Monday at its new location on Chalk Street. "Everybody was very excited when they came in. They couldn't believe the size, the light and the brightness of the new building," says director Sandra Jansen. During the year-long project to build a new centre, SCCC raised $165,000 but because all the bills have not yet been received, the final costs of the building are not yet known, says SCCC president Lauren Rooyakkers. Despite some concerns that not enough money has been raised locally yet to fund a Junior D team's annual budget, 16 of the close to 25 people who attended an organizational meeting last Thursday signed up to join an interim executive. Organizer Jason Papple, who has been leading a local effort to resurrect a Junior D The first Drownin' Dog canoe race was held on the Bayfield River last April. Ontario's new free vaccines will protect kids team in Seaforth two years after the demise of the Seaforth Centenaires, was trying to build local support for the effort Thursday night. Seaforth's proposal to start up a Junior D hockey team after a two-year absence was turned down Sunday by the Ontario Hockey Association's junior development league. While organizer Jason Papple pointed to the loss of Seaforth players from the Mitchell Hawks for the 7-6 league vote against Seaforth, the OHA's junior development chair Karen Phibbs said the whole league was concerned about the number of available players in the area. When Egmondville United Church decided to "fill a tent for Lent" for the local food bank this Easter, the church's custodian Bill Price decided to live in it for the week before Easter. Price, who's moving into the tent this Sunday and living there 75 per cent of the time over the next week, is seeking sponsors to raise money for the Canadian Cancer Society. April, 2004 Seaforth is back down to six doctors after Dr. Vince Tong left the Seaforth Medical Clinic for Vancouver recently. "It's hard when doctors leave but we're going to have to work hard to attract some others," said Huron -Perth Healthcare Alliance recruiter Gwen Devereaux on Friday. When Brett Lee bought a house in Egmondville almost four miles down the Bayfield River from his friend Brian Melady's place, the two almost immediately began talking about organizing a canoe rally between their houses. The Brett to Brian's Drownin' Dog canoe rally, held Good Friday with 45 teams participating, was the result. After close to 30 dears on Main Street, Triangle Discount is closing at the end of April. The Seaforth store is one of two in the chain of 17 Triangle Discount stores closing as owner Nelson Franks, of Wingham prepares for retirement. Because no one from the public attended the public meeting dedicated to the 2004 budget, there was little discussion as Huron East See VIOLENT, Page 9 SEAFORTH INSURANCE At BROKER LTD. 527-1610 1r • Home • Commercial •Auto • Farm • Out of Province Travel Insurance 41 Main St. S. Seaforth Ken Cardno, Joanne Williamson, Christa O'Neil and Barb Watt CRRJSTJUSCLERARCE soi off Christmas stock 25% - 35%off selected items 17 Victori .St., Clinto 482-82 Huron East Business Growth and Economic Development Invites all Huron East businesses First Annual General Meeting Huron East Chamber of Commerce Monday, January lOth, 2005 7:00 to 8:30 pm Seaforth Golf and Country Club Bavficld St., East, Egmondville The government of Ontario is helping kids stay safe from chicken pox, meningococcal meningitis and pneumococcal disease. Here's how it works: • Vaccine for pneumococcal disease is now available free for children born on or after .January 1, 2004. • Vaccines for chicken pox and meningococcal meningitis are now available free for one -year-old children born on or after September 1, 2003. • Five -year-olds and high-risk people of any age who haven't had chicken pox can also get the free vaccine. • Twelve -year-olds, 15- to 19 -year-olds and high-risk people of any age can get the free meningococcal meningitis vaccine. For more information, talk to your doctor or local public health unit. Call 1-877-234-4343. TTY 1-800-387-5559. Or visit HealthyOntario.com. Featuring presentations on: • A Vision for the Future • Benefits of Chamber Membership • "cools for Downtown Revitalization • Get-togetherReception and Networking Corporate displays encouraged. Contact Ralph Laviolette, 519-527-0305