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Seaforth
man
struck
and killed
by train
Dec. 22
A 68 -year-old
Seaforth man was
killed when he was
struck by a train while
walking across the
tracks on Main Street
in Seaforth on Dec. 22
at 6:15 p.m.
William Allen Geddes
was walking south
when he was hit by a
westbound train at the
unprotected railway
crossing, reports the
Huron OPP.
Emergency signal
lights had been
activated at the time of
the collision.
The railway crossing
was closed to traffic for
four hours - cutting off
direct access between
Seaforth and
Egmondville - while
the accident was
investigated by the
OPP Technical Traffic
Collision Investigative
Unit.
Inside...
2006 Year In Review...A
look _ back at what
happened in Seaforth and
area during the past year.
pg. 8-1.1. and 21
Susan Hundertmark photo
Jessica Holthuysen, 5, of Brussels, enjoys a skate at the Brussels arena wearing a painted
Dalmatian face during the village's New Year's Levee, a kick-off to the 135th anniversary
being planned for July 27-29. For more pictures, see page 24.
Brussels New Year's Levee
kicks off 135th homecoming
The close to 300 Brussels and area
residents who attended the New Year's
Levee celebration to kick . off the
village's 135th anniversary on Jan. 1
delighted organizers.
"I'm amazed at the crowds. I'm very
happy. I thought half the number would
show up," said organizer Don Sholdice.
The New Year's Day party offered free
public skating, face painting and clowns
for the kids, local musical talent and a
"delightful and unusual fashion show"
which featured 13 local businessmen,
town councillors and local personalities
See FASHION, Page 2
$125
pert included
Wednesday,
Jan. 3, 2007
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Three
Egmondville
homes
broken into
Susan Hundertmark
Mike Binnendyk, of Seaforth, got a
phone call shortly after 3 a.m.- last
Wednesday, reporting that the alarm
had gone off in his parents Hank and
Yuette's Egmondville home.
Ten minutes later, he was sitting out
in front of the house, waiting for the
police to show up to the break-in.
"Someone had thrown a block
through the basement window and
whoever went in probably came out as
fast as they went in because there's an
audible horn in the basement that
probably scared the bejesus out of
them," said Binnendyk.
The William Street home was one of
three to be broken into on the street
early last Wednesday morning.
Binnendyk says all the screens of
his father's house had been cut with a
knife, causing hundrdeds of dollars in
damages.
John and Mary Melady were
awakened at 4 a.m. the same morning
during a Christmas visit to their son's
house 200 miles away with the news
that their Egmondville home had been
broken into.
The Meladys arrived home later
that day to find mud tracked through
the house, blood on the walls and
throughout the house and some of
their belongings missing.
"Every drawer in the house had
been opened. People always say the
worst thing is the sense of violation
and it's true," said John a day after
the incident. '4
"To know someone had been on my
computer and left bloody fingerprints
was very unpleasant," he said.
An 18 -year-old Seaforth man has
been charged with three cants of
break and enter.
Huron OPP found numerous items
had been removed from the three
houses.
See ALCOHOL, Page 20