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Page 10
January 3, 2007 • The Huron Expositor
Year in Review
Sit-a-thon raises close to $15,000 for Lions pool
Being the first year the
MedQUEST camp is being held in
Seaforth, this July, organizers were
hoping for a strong show of interest
from students, and they weren't dis-
Appointed. All of the positions avail-
able to Grade 10 and 11Atudents
from Huron and Perth Counties
were quickly filled, according to
Laura Overholt, project manager
with Healthkick Huron, which is
helping organize the week-long
camp. The MedQUEST camp will
give students realistic experience in
medical situations through simulat-
ed training, peer workshops and
watching medical professionals at
work.
A classroom set up in a downtown
storefront on Main Street has given
the registered practical nursing
(RPN) course out of Georgian
College a more permanent home,
says a representative of the college.
The part-time four-year RPN
course, which began in September
of 2005, has completed two semes-
ters and four courses and is current-
ly mid -way into the third semester.
A fourth semester with two more
courses will be held during July and
August.
June, 2006
Two St. Columban-area cousins
are enjoying their debut on the
Stratford Festival stage as singing
and dancing orphans in this year's
performance of Oliver! Thomas
Murray, no stranger to the stage at
age 12 after several shows in Grand
Bend and Drayton, is joined by his
11 -year-old cousin -Nick Van Bak&
in the Victorian -era play, adapted
from Charles Dickens' novel Oliver
Twist.
Five dollars from each ticket sold
for the last performance of the
Blyth Festival's Another Season's
Harvest will go towards the
Seaforth Community Hospital
Foundation as a kick-off for the hos-
pital's second year in the CKNX
Health Care Heroes Radiothon.
Calling the kick-off a "Harvest for
Health," Seaforth Local Advisory
Committee (LAC) vice -chair Sheila
Morton told the LAC on Wednesday
that the foundation has begun plan-
ning its radiothon fundraiser with
the kick-off on Sept. 2.
In a presentation to Huron East
council last week, Seaforth Golf and
County Club general manager
Carolanne Doig and golf course
employee Maureen Agar spelled out
their plans for bringing the
Canadian Professional Golf Tour to
Seaforth in the summer of 2008.
• Quiet Operation
• Up to 95% Efficient
• Professional Installation
• We Service What We Sell
Some set, up iv -
Ing rooms on
Main Street with
couches, Lazy
Boy chairs and
televisions.
Others created
an outdoor office
with laptops and
phones,' even
completing mid-
night business
deals. Still oth-
ers tried to stay
comfortable in
lawnchairs and
loungers for the
24 hour Cash for
Splash filled
Seaforth's Main
Street with par-
ticipants raising
close to $15,000
for the Lions
Pool.
While the con-
tents of 12 -year-
old Lynne
Harper's stom-
ach in a.1959 autopsy lend credence
to the Crown's charge that the girl's
murder occurred June 9, the state of
the body's decomposition suggests
the time of death could have fallen
on June 10. That opinion was
expressed by Dr. Michael Pollanen,
Ontario's chief forensic pathologist
Monday morning during the first
day of what is expected to be a
three-week long Ontario Court of
Appeal hearing.
Tracy's Go -Getters, a team com-
posed of friends and family of
Egmondville's Tracy Lee, were the
top fundraising group for the
Canadian Cancer Society Relay For
Life, held dune 16-17 in Goderich.
The Go -Getters raised over $5,500,
contributing to the roughly $81,630
raised in total for the Goderich
event.
An estimated $150 million
ethanol plant, the largest of three
being supported by the province,
has been slated for Hensall.
Commercial Alcohols Inc. Hensall is
receiving $12.5 million from the
McGuinty government towards con-
struction of the plant, which will
produce 190 million litres of
ethanol annually and employ
approximately 60 to 75 people.
With the splashes from swimmers
this past Monday in Seaforth, Lions
pool re -opened after a $225,000 ren-
ovation project, highlighted by the
many generous donations from the
community. And, it opened right on
schedule.
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
Pete Martene dozes in a comfy chair on Main Street during
the 24-hour Cash for Splash sit-a-thon, held to raise money
for the Lions Pool renovations.
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.
July, 2006
Sheila Morton is Seaforth's
newest representative on the
Huron -Perth Healthcare Alliance
board. Morton joined the board at
the Alliance's recent annual meet-
ing in Mitchell, replacing outgoing
representative Bob Norris.
With standing room only at the
Friday night talent show and over
115 floats in an hour and a half
parade, Grey's family came home
for the ward's 150th anniversary
over the weekend.
Seaforth will soon be home to the
new Huron -Perth Crimestoppers
office. The announcement comes
after the OPP decided to amalga-
mate the two counties'
Crimestoppers offices, which have
worked separately since the pro-
gram's inception, 18 years ago.
.While the Seaforth family health
team (FHT) has not yet received
final approval from the province, a
nurse practitioner has been hired by
the Huron East economic develop-
ment officer. Cate Verberne, who
graduated as a nurse practitioner
from the University of Western
Ontario in September, interned for
five weeks in Seaforth last spring
with Dr. Dan Rooyakkers.
Seaforth and Clinton will be pro-
ceeding with two separate family
health teams (FHTs) after a meet-
ing in Seaforth last Thursday with
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