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HomeMy WebLinkAboutHuron Expositor, 2005-07-27, Page 66 - THE HURON EXPOSITOR, July 27, 2005 HAVE YOU GOT NEWS? Call the Seaforth Huron Expositor at 527-0240 BCH Minor Hockey School Sept. 12-16 & 19-23 Clinton Arena Contact Barb Dale 482-3760 Pam Bernard 482-7863 Chrissy Baer 233-3202 Forms also available at www. bchminorhockey. ca and in the weekly Focus Flyer Bag "Want FREE oil chang Join the TMP Oil Change Club! Buy 3 oil changes and you'll get the 4th oil change Free! With each service Oil Change Club Members also receive... FREE 25 Point Inspection FREE Exterior Wash FREE interior Vacuum e.)1Q OIL CHANGE CLUB MEMBERS OIL CHANGE $2495* Includes chassis lube, oil replacement with up to 5 litres of Quaker State 10W30 premium motor oil, oil filter replacement. 'For most domestic cars and Tight trucks (excludes diesel engines) LIMITED TIME OFFER TERO OTOR PRODUCTS = AUTOMOTIVE SALES & SERVICE Dain Street S. Seaforth 527-2291 Susan Hundertmark photo Seaforth and Brucefield firefighters were called to a wheat stubble fire on the Kippen Road last Friday afternoon. Brucefield Deputy Fire Chief Dave Roy said the fire was started by someone driving a car into the field, causing the stubble to catch fire. While the car was destroyed by fire, he said there was limited damage to the field. Testimony begins in trial of teacher accused of sexual exploitation By Paul Cluff Stratford Beacon Herald Staff A witness at a Stratford sexual exploitation trial told Provincial Court July 13 she had sex with a Mitchell District High School teacher in a car in the driveway of her parents' home. The female, a minor whose name is protected by court order, also told court she remembers the exact date last October when it happened because it was the first time she had sex. "I remember because I was looking forward to being alone with him on that date," the witness said, noting her parents were not home that night. James Sampa, 47, a teacher and sports coach at the high school, faces three counts of sexual exploitation involving two females. Both females, under 18 and students at the high school at the time of the alleged offences, testified before Justice George Brophy July 13 on the first day of Sampa's trial. The youngest student said she had known Sampa since Grade 9 at the school and she eventually "really liked him" i MUNICIPALITY OF HURON EAST CLASS ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT FOR REPLACEMENT OF TRUNK SANITARY SEW ERS COMMUNITY OF SEAFORTH PUBLIC COMMENT INVITED The Municipality of Huron East is planning to upgrade the sanitary sewage system in the community of Seaforth by replacing trunk sanitary sewers in the southern part of the community. At this time. a preferred strategy for the planned sewer replacements has been developed. The key components of the plan are outlined below and generally illustrated on the accompanying key plan. Proposed Replacement Plan: - Replace existing trunk sewers situated along Coleman Street and sections of Crombie Street with larger diameter sewers. The new trunk sewers would be constructed within the existing road allowances and would be designed to accommodate existing and future development within the related sanitary catchment areas. - Construct a new trunk sewer from a connection point near the intersection of Crombie and Coleman Streets to an existing trunk sewer located along Oak Street. This 270 m t section of sewer would replace an existing thunk sewer which extends between the Crombie Street / Coleman Street intersection and Oak Street (beneath Silver Creek). The new sewer would be constructed within both existing and new servicing easements. The project is following the planning process set out for Schedule B activities under the Municipal Class Environmental Assessment (Class EA) document. Schedule B projects are approved subject to a screening process. The purpose of the screening process is to identify any potential environmental impacts associated with the proposed works and to plan for appropriate mitigation of any impacts. The process includes consultation with the public, stakeholders and government review agencies. For further information on this project. or to inspect a copy of the Class EA document. please contact the consulting engineers: B.M. Ross and Associates, 62 North Street. Goderich. Ontario, N7A ZT4. Telephone (519) 524-2641. Fax (519) 524-4403. Attention: Scott Allen, Planner (e-mail: sallen@bmross.net). Public input and comment are invited for incorporation into the planning and design of this project and will be received until August 10. 2005. Subject to comments received and the receipt of necessary approvals, the Municipality intends to proceed with the planning. design and construction of the project this year. This Notice Issued July 20. 2005 John McLachlan, Administrator/ Clerk Municipality of Huron East KEY PLAN MOMENTSEWAOF 11 WOW l.irmi mord Krbt» I 1 0000 oo a —1t 1 II CM • cONNEcrIONPOW .... PROPOSED SEWER - Ex+STW sari; L CIMAX MUT 11111111117 Nor ro after their relationship had started out as teacher/student. She visited his class, "any chance that (she) had" and on breaks and spares from classes. The relationship eventually became physical or suggestive, she said, and they touched each other in sexually suggestive ways in classrooms at the school. The female testified that on the night Sampa went to the student's home, she talked to her teacher on the phone until he pulled into the driveway. They held each other outside the car, she said, and agreed it was good to be alone. Sampa eventually moved his car behind trees for privacy and they had sex, she said. Eventually the female told her parents and they called police. "I didn't want to go to the police, but my parents dragged me there." She also told court she made an excuse to go to school the next day, before going to the police station, to warn Sampa she had "betrayed him." She testified he told the student to change her story and she said she would do the best she could. She said she lied in a videotaped confession of what happened and only came forward with the truth after seeing a counsellor. The first student to testify, the eldest, said she had consensual sex with the teacher in June 2004 in the male coaches' room of the gymnasium. She had not had sex before the alleged incident, court heard. Defence counsel Howard Rubel suggested the elder female had spread rumours about Sampa to draw attention to herself and suggested she had a history of embellishing stories and telling lies around school. Some of those the witness admitted to, including a rumour she let spread around school of her false engagement to her boyfriend and a car accident she testified never happened. Rubel suggested the sexual acts could not have happened in classrooms with such open access and the sex in the men's coaching room was unrealistic because Sampa's daughter was at the practice. "You spread rumours about (Mr. Sampa) and now they are coming back to haunt you because the police got involved," the lawyer asked. "Yes," the woman answered. Teacher denies allegations during trial's second day By Paul Cluff Stratford Beacon Herald Staff A teacher denied accusations of sex with two of his students July 14, testifying in Strafford Provincial Court there was never anything more than a student/teacher relationship between them. James Sampa, a coach and educator at Mitchell District High School, said he often hugged students and at one time had hugged and kissed the forehead of the younger of his two female accusers. The 47 -year-old has pleaded not -guilty to three counts of sexual exploitation. Justice George Brophy is presiding over the trial. The females, both minors on the date of the charges, said they consented to sexual touching and sex. Each has testified they didn't know of the other's involvement with Sampa. The younger female said she had sex with Sampa in his rented car in the driveway of her parents' home last October, a date she said she remembered because it was thc first time she had had sex. Sampa said July 14 he dropped his wife off at a meeting in Stratford on that date and returned home around 8 p.m. He put his daughter to bed and did not leave the house again that night. The female testified Sampa arrived at her parents' home shortly after 8 p.m. and they had sex in the back seat of his car. Their relationship had grown through high school, she said, and she eventually"really liked him." The older student claimed she had sex with the teacher in a coach's room in the school gym after a volleyball practice last Junc. Defence counsel Howard Rubel said it couldn't have happened because Sampa's daughter was at the practice and the room was too accessible. Janitors arc often waiting for the volleyball players to get off the court so they can clean the floor, and that was the case that. night, Sampa said. The teacher said he didn't leave his daughter alone in the gym. Both students testified they had engaged in sexual touching with their teacher in classrooms at the school during school hours, something Rubel suggested was unlikely because of high visibility in the rooms. Defence counsel has questioned the 'credibility of both witnesses. 1 The younger female told police in her initial statement that nothing of a sexual nature had happened. She spoke with a counsellor and later gave a second, different statement, however, Rubel pointed out, she did not swear under oath before doing so. She also lied to her parents by telling them she was pregnant and made up a story about fighting with a boyfriend that she didn't have, court heard. The older student, defence counsel said, admitted she told friends about a false engagement and made up details about a car accident. Rubel suggested the younger female made up stories about having an affair with a married man and enjoyed being the centre of attention when the stories circulated around school. Only after there was a threat of a police investigation did she back away and give a statement to police that there was no sexual relationship, Rubel suggested. "It made you a very interesting person to the people who would have heard those rumours," Rubel suggested. Crown attorney Denis Harrison asked Sampa how the younger female could have known he was driving a rental car when the teacher only had the vehicle for three days. The female described the vehicle accurately during earlier testimony. Sampa said she may have seen it at school, but then, when pressed by the Crown, said she had asked him at school if he had bought a new car. "In thc context of this case, that's pretty important isn't it?" Harrison said. The trial continues Sept. 23. Seaforth van has window smashed Ilnron OI'I' Huron OPP are investigating after a van, which was Icft in the parking lot of a Chalk Street childcare centre, had its passenger side -sliding window smashed on thc night of July 1. The green 1993 Chevy mini-yan was left in the parking lot overnight. Anyone with any related information is asked to call the Huron OPP or Crime Stoppers.