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The Huron Expositor • May 10, 2006 Page 11
Challenge between 'fast food kings' for a good cause
Susan Hundertmark
Call it the battle of Huron
County's fast food kings.
Egmondville's "Pizza Bob"
Fisher, retired owner of Pizza
Train in Seaforth is issuing a chal-
lenge to John "Willy's" Bezaire
that Huron East can raise more
money for the Canadian National
Institute for the Blind than
Central Huron.
The challenge grounds are the
Menesetung trails along the
Maitland River in Goderich where
the ninth annual CNIB Walk for
Independence is being held May
28.
"If John raises more money, I'll
work for him for a week but if I do,
he has to cut my lawn with a
pushmower, wearing a certain
item of apparel," says Fisher, who
would not specify what the item of
apparel was.
"It'll be nothing that reveals too
much," laughs Bezaire. "I have a
bad feeling about this."
Fisher says he got to know
Bezaire when Bezaire owned
Seaforth's Freeze King for three
years and decided to challenge him
to make this years' CNIB fundraiser
Reti red
Burger Stop
CNIB.
owner
of Pizza Train in Seaforth
Susan Hundertmark phot
Bob Fisher and John Bezaire, of Willy'
in Clinton, get set for a friendly competition to raise money for th
more interesting.
"He laughed and said he'd go with
it," said Fisher of Bezaire's reaction
to the challenge.
"I'd go to the ends of the earth for
this man," Bezaire says of Fisher.
Fisher, who owned Pizza Train for
26 years before selling it last year,
began losing his sight a few years
ago.
He says Central Huron is a big
fundraiser for the CNIB, especially
with Clinton's Gwen Stirling, a
woman who raises $2,000 a year
herself for the organization.
"Gwen's pretty tough to beat,"
says Bezaire.
However, Huron East's
fundraisers include Grade 1 stu-
dent Jason Lamont and his family
and Milton Dietz, who have been
involved in the Walk for
Independence for the past several
years.
Fisher saysthe challenges have
helped boost donations to the
CNIB, which keeps the majority of
the funds raised in the walk in
Huron County to help serve its
300 blind and visually impaired
clients.
While $15,000 was raised across
Huron County last year, Fisher
° says he's hoping for $20,000 this
s year.
e Sponsor forms can be obtained
at Desjardins Credit Union,
Dundee Private Investors' Inc. and
the Huron Expositor in Seaforth
and at Willy's Burger Stop and the
News -Record in Clinton.
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