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The Huron Expositor • January 3, 2007 Page 9
Year in Review
Bridges of Seaforth celebrates grand opening
April, 20W
2006
Seventeen -year-old Willem
Shepherd, of Seaforth, was accepted
to play with the National Concert
Band. A Grade 12 student at
Central Huron Secondary School,
Shepherd plays in the school's con-
cert, jazz and intermediate bands,
and the percussion ensemble.
An anonymous letter circulating
mailboxes in Grey last week is ask-
ing residents to attend another
meeting to discuss "reincorporation"
on April 12 at 8 p.m. at Grey
Central Public School. The letter
lists lack of transparency and lack
of responsibility at Huron East
council as reasons for deamalgamat-
ing from the municipality, along
with the assertion that no tax sav-
ings have been made through amal-
gamation.
Huron East Mayor Joe Seili is
running in this fall's municipal elec-
tion, he announced to council
Tuesday, April 18. Seili said the
province's plan to extend municipal
councils' terms to four years from
three made him stop and think
about whether to run again.
The Seaforth Creamery has been
purchased by jam and jelly makers
E.D. Smith Income Fund for $95.2
million, says a story by Canadian
Press. The sale, announced last
Thursday, adds Seaforth Creamery's
280 employees at its manufacturing
facilities in Seaforth and Cambridge
to the 800 -plus employees at E.D.
Smith. Close to 150 full and part-
time employees work at the
Seaforth plant.
Huron East council is hoping to
meet with local doctors after learn-
ing they have withdrawn their sup-
port for a Family Health Team
(FHT) for Seaforth. Describing the
process as a roller coaster ride,
Deputy -Mayor Bernie MacLellan
told council on April 18 that
whether or not the FHT proceeds
"lies in the doctors' ballpark right
now."
Seaforth doctors are going ahead
with a family health team (FHT)
but are still trying to decide the best
method of payment by the province,
says Seaforth Community Hospital
site chief Dr. Dan Rooyakkers.
The business plan for a Family
Health Team, originally planned for
Aeaforth and the rest of Huron
County, is going forward. But, if
Seaforth doctors don't "come on
board," the FHT will be located just
in Clinton, says steering committee
chair Penny Nelligan.
A local 26 -year-old farmer is plan-
ning to attend Huron East council
for the second time next week, in
hopes of convincing councillors to
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May, 2006
While they might still be "flying
by the seat of their pants every
month," the Seaforth and District
All -Girls' Marching Band plans to
keep on marching this September.
"We have been beating the bushes
for funds and we will definitely
start up again in September. We
plan to keep going as long as we
can," says long-time volunteer
Penny Breen.
Seaforth's Main Street merchants
aren't just sitting around watching
the Lions Club make $200,000 reno-
vations at its pool this spring.
They're going to sit around and
raise money, instead. The Cash for
Splash Challenge, which is sched-
uled to run for 24 hours from 4 p.m.
on Tuesday, June 6 to 4 p.m. on
Wednesday, June 7, will see down-
town businesspeople seeking
pledges as they sit on Main Street
round the clock.
With three model homes open for
display and five or six houses being
built for the first residents of the
new adult lifestyle community,
Bridges of Seaforth celebrated its
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an opening ceremony Friday, devel-
oper Bill MacLean expressed his
excitement at seeing the project,
begun in 1994, finally reaching the
point where retired couples can
begin moving in this summer.
Tourism kiosks will be located at
Archie's UPI in Seaforth and the
former FINA station in Brussels
beginning during Victoria Day
weekend, says economic develop-
ment officer Ralph Laviolette.
Concerned that the business plan
for a family health team (FHT) orig-
inally planned to be located in
Seaforth has "diverged from its orig-
inal intentions," Huron East is ask-
ing questions of the steering com-
mittee. "We do want to know what's
happening on behalf of the commu-
nity and we'll get to the bottom of
it," says Huron East's economic
development officer Ralph
Laviolette.
After joining their voices together
in harmony for 22 years, Seaforth's
Harmony Hi-Lites are disbanding.
But, not before their final competi-
tion this weekend at the London
Convention Centre, which the 24 -
member chorus is also hosting.
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