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Vanastra
youth
charged
for littering,
being
intoxicated
A 17 -year-old
Vanastra youth was
charged with being
intoxicated in a public
place and with
littering after he
walked past a Huron
OPP cruiser in Clinton
on March 31 at
approximately 11 p.m.
Officers were located
in a fully -marked
police cruiser at the
intersection of Mill
and Albert Streets
when a lone male
approached the cruiser
from the south.
He was unsteady on
his feet and threw
garbage on the front of
the cruiser as he
walked on Albert
Street's east sidewalk.
The youth ignored
the officer's request to
pick up the garbage
and was displaying
obvious signs of
impairment by alcohol.
He was held for the
night and released in
the morning upon
sobering up.
Seaforth local league
midgets win WOAA
championship...Seaforth
beat Walkerton 6-5
Tuesday... pg. 10
Susan Hundertmark photo
Cole Glendenning, 9, of Seaforth, was one of many children
wheeling around town during the balmy spring weekend.
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Maplewood
closes despite
attempts to find
buyers for facility
Susan Hundertmark
After a roller coaster week
when staff and the ,few
remaining residents were
told the residence could
remain open under new
management with a couple
of different possible buyers,
Maplewood Manor is closed
and empty and the 13
employees terminated.
Twenty-one Seaforth
seniors found themselves
searching for a new home
March 13 after the manager
of Maplewood Manor and
CEO of Selective
Investments Ltd., Elfreide
Sobottka, announced she
would be closing the
retirement home facility at
the end of March.
While 14 residents found
new homes at the Seaforth
Manor, all but one of the
remaining six moved out
last week. One has left her
belongings at Maplewood
and gone to stay with family
for two weeks when she's
been told the facility will
reopen.
While representatives
from the Seaforth family
health team (FHT) board,
the municipality of Huron
East and the Seaforth
Community Development
Trust toured the facility last
week looking at whether it
could house the FHT, Huron
East Mayor Joe Seili said
Friday that the
municipality, the
development trust and any
other possible partners will
not be buying Maplewood.
"We met and talked about
it but it's beyond our realm
and our mandate. We
cannot buy it - it's too
expensive," he said, adding
it would be less expensive to
put up a new building for
the FHT.
Sobottka said last
Wednesday that she was
negotiating with a possible
buyer from Toronto who
stipulated that the staff
must get rid of its union,
Service Employees
International Union (SEIU)
for the deal to go through.
"It's only a small
retirement home - why does
it have a union? It doesn't
make any sense," she said,
adding that getting rid of
the union could save the
stafrtheir jobs.
"I had several offers
before but the interested
parties didn't tolerate the
union either," sbe said.
The staff decided against
quitting the union.
Then, Thursday Sobottka
said she had decided to
make a proposal to Huron
East and the FHT so that
the municipality could buy
the building.
"I am giving them really a
bargain. There is great
interest from the city
(Huron East) and I made
them a good proposal," she
said Thursday.
Seili said Friday that the
proposal made to him
Thursday involved the same
amount of money he was
quoted when he first asked
the selling price of the
building.
"Her offer was the same
as before. The numbers
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