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Week 48 - Vol. 001
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Annual
RIDE
campaign
begins
From Nov 25 to -Jan.
2, the Huron OPP will
join the annual Festive
R.I.D.E. (Reduce
Impaired Driving
Everywhere) campaign
across Ontario.
OPP officers will be
in your neighbourhood
in an effort to remove
the threat of the
impaired driver.
Last year, during the
five-week OPP Festive
R.I.D.E. Initiative,
officers stopped
450,582 vehicles at
roadside checkpoints,
294 persons were
charged with criminal
code alcohol-related
offences and a total of
664 12 -hour licence
suspensions were
issued.
Officers also issued
315 of the 90 -day
licence suspensions.
As well last year,
officers investigated 37
fatal collisions in which
41 people lost their
lives, three of which
were alcohol related.
Blustery weather
brings Santa Claus
to town...
OSeaforth's annual Santa
Claus parade fills Main
Street with visitors and
floats Friday pg.28
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Wednesday,
November 30, 2005
Seaforth firefighters fight a house fire just outside Seaforth on Highway 8 Sundaynight at 10 Susan Hundertmark photo
gutted the house, is not yet known.
g Y g p.m. The cause of the fire, which
.ire
Seaforth-area .house
Roden family gets out of housewith l -
Susan Nundertmark Says.
The house, which was still
GMEIZEIM
Anne Roden awoke
coughing sometime after 9
p.m. Sunday night and
roused her husband,
daughter and two
grandchildren before their
RR 2 Seaforth home was
totally engulfed in flames.
"The upstairs was full of
smoke and we got the
grandchildren downstairs
and out just as the kitchen
ceiling exploded on top of
me," says her husband Paul.
"We got out just in time in
what we were wearing.
Thank God we all got out -
that's the main thing," he
smoldering Monday
afternoon, was totally gutted
by fire, leaving the Rodens
homeless a month before
Christmas.
"We haven't figured out
where we're going to stay. My
garage is still OK," says
Paul.
While no cause of the fire
has been determined, Paul
says he thinks it was related
to the electrical system.
Animal lovers with a large
collection of pets, the Rodens
lost almost all of their
animals but two family dogs.
A family cat named Katie, a
pot-bellied pig, several birds
and 200 fish housed in close Seaforth District Fire Chief
to 20 aquariums all died in Tom Phillips.
the blaze. Firefighters went through
While the house was so much water fighting the
insured, Paul is frustrated fire that a tanker and several
that he just spent $40,000 on firefighters were called from
renovations to the house Clinton.
including a new roof, new Huron East Fire Chief
exterior siding and new Marty Bedard says an
carpeting and drywall inside. estimate of 50,000 gallons
Seaforth firefighters was a likely amount used to
responded to the call at fight the fire.
about 9:30 p.m. and could see With a strong wind coming
the flames shooting through from the east, the fire spread
the Rodens' roof as they left quickly and the roof caved in
the town limits on Highway 8 around 2 a.m., says Bedard.
heading towards Clinton. Firefighters fought the
"It was visible at the edge blaze all night until 4:30 a.m.
of town - we could see it was when the majority of the
a major fire. It was going
good when they called," says See SEAFORTH, Page 2