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Week 49 - Vol. 001
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Brief
Tuckersmith
man dies in
Highway 8
crash
A 67 -year-old
Tuckersmith man died
after a two -vehicle
crash on Highway 8
just northwest. of
Holmesville by
Kitchigami Road on
Saturday at 6:30 p.m.
Sander Vandorp,
who was driving with
his wife Willemina, 66,
as passenger when the
collision occurred, died
at the scene.
Willemina Vandorp
was transported to the
Clinton Public
Hospital for medical
attention.
A 59 -year-old
Kincardine man was
the driver of the
second vehicle. He was
also transported to
Clinton Public
Hospital for medical
attention.
OPP Technical
Traffic Collision
Investigators were on.
scene trying to
determine the cause
and were still
investigating at press
time.
Inside...
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Hamilton, of Staffa, are
enjoying success in the
circle track racing circuit
at Grand Bend
Speedway. pg.14
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Susan Hundertmark photo
Cathy Harrison, next door neighbour of Bob and Sandra Fisher, fills out a
card to the Fishers after giving blood for the first time in their son,
Mackenzie's memory, at Monday's blood donor clinic.
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Bob Fisher went through boxes of kleenex, moved
by the response of the Seaforth community to a
blood donor clinic in memory of his son Mackenzie
on Monday.
"It's been a hard day but a good day," said Bob,
who was on hand to talk to donors at the Seaforth
arena a day after a memorial service and the same
week as Mackenzie's birthday.
Mackenzie, who died from leukemia at age 18 in
September, was the inspiration for close to a dozen
first-time blood donors and numerous lapsed donors
who hadn't given blood for close to five years.
"They (clinic organizers) said they were booked
solid," said Bob, who added he'd talked to four first-
time donors during the afternoon.
His wife Sandra said she was grateful for the
response to the clinic.
"We'll do anything we can do to promote the
clinic," she said of their attendance at the event.
A request from the Fisher family in Mackenzie's
obituary that community members become regular
blood donors as a tribute to their son gave organizer
Nancy Denham the idea to hold the clinic in his
.memory.
Denham said donors had been filling out cards
from Canadian Blood Services all day, with close to
90 cards conveying their thoughts and messages to
the Fisher family.
Erin Brydon, of Canadian Blood Services, said the
Seaforth clinic collected 146 units of blood, two more
than the target of 144. In that total, 17 were first-
time donors.
"The community did a great job. We're
encouraging anyone who didn't get in Monday to go
See BLOOD, Page 3
Grow operation found in Seaforth
Seaforth man charged after $643,720 of pot seized at his residence
A 56 -year-old Seaforth man
has been charged after
$17,775 worth of psilocybin
(magic mushrooms),
$643,720 worth of marijuana
and $612 of cannabis resin
were seized at his residence
on Nov. 30.
The OPP's Drug
Enforcement Section, with
the assistance of the Huron
OPP, executed a Controlled
Drugs and Substances Act
Warrant at 42584 Huron
Road in Seaforth and found a
large indoor marijuana and
psilocybin grow operation.
Police also seized $1,720 in
cash and $54,500 in growing
equipment including a large
generator and a van.
Jeffrey Tyndall, of Seaforth
and 43 -year-old Fredrick
Comrie, of RR 6 Goderich,
face charges of production of
marijuana, possession for
the purpose of trafficking
marijuana, production of
psilocybin, possession for the
purpose of trafficking
psilocybin and possession of
cannabis resin.
Both are scheduled to
appear in court in Goderich
on Feb. 6.
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