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charged
with
assaulting
police
officer
A 43 -year-old Huron
East man has been
charged with
assaulting a police
officer after he was
stopped on Ontario
Street in Clinton on
June 20 at
approximately 9 a.m.
Stopped for having
improperlicence
plates, the man
became agitated after
the officer seized the
plates and assaulted
the officer.
The man is charged
with one count of
assaulting a peace
officer, one count of
using plates not
authorized for the
vehicle and one count
of unnecessary noise.
He is scheduled to
attend court in
Goderich on Aug. 21.
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Race a `fabulous
time'...
Contestants from the Seaforth
area enjoyed everything from
roping calves to paintball in
this year's race. pg9
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. Susan Hundertmark photo
The supervisor with the demolition crew looks on as the historic 95 -year-old St. Columban Church building was demolished Monday.
St. Columban Church demolished
exactly a year after parish's final mass
Susan H u n d e r t m a r k
Exactly a year after the final mass at
St. Columban Roman Catholic Church,
the 95 -year-old building was razed to
the ground as students of St. Columban
School and members of the community
gathered to watch.
"A lot of Catholic churches are going
to be coming down. We'd better get used
to it," said Frank Cronin as he
videotaped the demolition of the church
whose parish he was born into over 80
years ago.
"I went to school across the road," he
said pointing to the building now used
as the Knights of Columbus hall. "You built in 1911.
have a lot of memories with that length
of time."
St. Columban Church .was closed by
the London diocese a year ago, the first
of a number of Catholic churches in the
area to face closure during a
reorganization of rural churches in the
diocese.
As the oldest parish in the Huron
Tract, St. Columban parish formed in
1832, building its first log church in
1858. The log church was replaced with
a more elaborate church in 1864, which
was destroyed by fire in 1909. The
church being demolished this week was
Gerry Ryan, one of the committee
members of the St. Columban
transition team, said it was hard to
watch the church come down.
"We didn't know until Friday that it
would be today (that the building would
be demolished.)" he said.
"It's a hard day for everyone. Even
some of the kids here were baptized in
the church," agreed Anne Murray, who
was taking pictures for a scrapbook of
the church.
The tables on the deck of Denneny's
Grill were full of locals watching the
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