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Huron OPP
investigate
gunshot
damage
to Brussels
restaurant
window
A single gunshot that
damaged the front
window of a restaurant
in Brussels shortly after
midnight on Jan. 28, is
being investigated by
the Huron OPP.
The large double-
paned front window of
Grumpy Old Men on
Turnberry Street' was
found in the morning
with a hole through it
and shotgun pellets were
found lodged in a wall
inside the restaurant,
reports the Huron OPP.
Police say someone
driving by the business
after hours took a single
shot at the business.
Earlier that night a
vehicle related to the
business was found
damaged in Lucknow.
The owner of the
business • after closing
the restaurant the
evening before drove to
his residence in
Lucknow on Palmerston
Street and parked his
brown 1998 Ford
Windstar van on the side
of the road.
A person stopped
beside the van and shot
one single blast from a
shotgun through the
driver's side window
that exited through the
passenger side window.
Anyone' with related
information is asked to
call the .Huron OPP or
Crime Stopper at 1-800-
222-8477(TIPS).
Air dispenser stolen
from Seaforth garage
The third of a series of
air dispenser thefts at
garages throughout
Huron County occurred
in Seaforth at Archie's
Service Centre on Jan.
25.
Stolen from the wall
of the garage, the 25 -
year -old air dispenser
was unbolted from the
wall unit holding it in
place and had its air
hoses cut.
Tracks left at the
scene indicate that the
culprits arrived in a
truck.
The unit is estimated
to be valued at $800.
Anyone with related
information is asked to
call the Huron OPP or
Crime Stoppers.
Literacy day
event held at
Seaforth
Library...
Pate 10
Telephone
survey shows
Huron East's
support
of hospital
By Susan Hundertmark
Expositor Editor
Results of a telephone survey of Huron East users of the
Seaforth Community Hospital are being distributed to
stakeholders this week.
And, the hospital study group who compiled the results, is
"thrilled" with the results.
"These numbers are really revealing. They don't provide
us with all the answers but they do show a powerful support
for the hospital," said study group member Ken Larone on
Monday.
"It's very clear to us that when you sift through the results,
the hospital is the most important institution we have," he
said.
The phone survey, conducted in December, interviewed
478 households - 310 from the Seaforth area (including
Tuckersmith and McKillop) and 168 from Brussels
(including Grey), 10 per cent of both communities in Huron
East.
The results showed that the community placed highest
value on the SCH services of patient stabilization with 92 per
cent of respondents rating it as very important (and the
remaining eight per cent rating it as important) and the
emergency department with 88 per cent of respondents rating
it as very important (with the remaining 12 per cent rating it
as important).
The heliport received a 73 per cent as very important, the
X-ray facility received a 70 per cent as very important and
telephone consultation received a 68 per cent as very
important.
Lab work was rated as very important by 66 per cent of
respondents, chronic beds were rated as very important by 56
per cent and both out-patient surgery and diet services were
rated as very important by 53 per cent.
Physiotherapy was rated as very important by 50 per cent
See HOSPITAL, Page 2
Susan Hundertmark photo
Inuit wrestling
Grade 2 student David Metzger seems to be enjoying himself as Seaforth Public School
students gave Inuit wrestling a try during the school's Winter Carnival on Friday.
As world remembers Auschwitz, Seaforth
woman recalls time in concentration camp
By Susan Hundertmark
Expositor Editor
As world leaders last week
marked the 60th anniversary
of the liberation of
Auschwitz, the Nazi death
camp in Poland, a Seaforth
woman remembered the
three days she spent there as
a prisoner during the Second
World War.
Tasia Anderson, 79, who
lives at the Seaforth Manor
Retirement Home, spent
several months during the
end of the Second World War
at the Dachau concentration
camp near Munich, Germany
as a teenager.
She still doesn't know why
she was . shipped to
Auschwitz for three days and
then returned to Dachau,
where she spent the
remainder of the war.
"They sent four of us there
to Auschwitz but I never
found out why they sent me
there and then back to
Dachau. Maybe they found
out I wasn't Jewish. All I
know is that it was a stinking
place," she says.
Her strongest memory of
the death camp was seeing
the buildings that housed the
gas chambers where 1.5
million people, mostly Jews,
were sent to their deaths.
"I saw the three furnaces
where they threw people in
one after the other," she says.
Originally from Romania,
Anderson says she was taken
from her family to work at a
munitions plant in Germany
when she was about 15 years
old.
"They were lacking men to
do it because they were all
soldiers," she remembers.
Taken from her parents,
two sisters and a brother,
Tasia says she never saw her
family again. When the war
ended and the Red. Cross
conducted a search for her
family, no one could be.
found.
Tasia Anderson
On the way to Germany,
the Romanians rode in
freight trains, which would
be bombed by the Allies who
didn't know whether humans
or military equipment and
weapons were being
transported.
One day during the
journey, her train was
bombed and while she was
trying to jump from the train,
she caught her heel and her
foot was crushed on the
wheel of the train. As well,
her shoulder and collar bone
was broken during the fall.
"And, I had shrapnel in my
head and !leg from the
bombing," she says, pointing
to her temple.
Tasia was taken to a
hospital in Hungary where
there was talk of amputating
her foot.
"Oh God, it was painful.
There was nothing for the
pain," she says, adding she
was terrified she would lose
her foot.
A Russian woman whom
she had befriended helped
her jump out of the window
of the hospital and took her
See SEAFORTH, Page 2