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Central
Huron
wants to
share
policing
Central Huron
council is asking if
neighbouring
municipalities want to
partner with police
services.
Currently on a '5.1
policing system,'
Central Huron
receives policing as
needed and is charged
per call.
Last November,
council looked into
contract policing for
Central Huron but
decided to poll its
neighbours as well
about sharing policing.
Clerk -Administrator
Richard Harding said
a county -wide policing
system could save
money and allow
municipalities to direct
policing to areas of
need.
He is
hoping to
receive responses by
May 16, and set up a
meeting in the near
future.
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Tennis anyone?... Tennis
lessons in Seaforth are
becoming more popular
with students from
throughout the county,
says Binnendyk... pg. 12
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get included
Wednesday,
May 16, 2007
Susan Hundertmark photo
Seaforth firefighters fight a brush and tire fire in a wooded spot on the Seaforth Agricultural Society
grounds after receiving a call Monday night around 8 p.m.
Local firefighters pleased
with new compensation rules
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GMEBEEMMID
New provincial legislation compensating
firefighters for work-related illnesses will be
a "godsend," says Seaforth District Fire
Chief Tom Phillips.
"I know firefighters have been fighting for
this for years," says Phillips.
"I give the government a lot of credit for
protecting us a little bit better. We like to
come home in the evening to our families like
anyone else," he says.
The proposed amendment to the Workplace
Safety and Insurance Act will compensate
firefighters for fire -related illnesses
including eight types of cancer and work-
related heart attacks, retroactive to 1960.
The eight types of cancer include brain,
bladder, kidney, colorectal, Non -Hodgkin's
lymphoma, leukemia, ureter and esophageal.
Heart attacks that occur within 24 hours of a
firefighter attending a fire will be presumed
work-related.
Huron -Bruce MPP Carol Mitchell says in a
press release that firefighters deserve
compensation for work-related illness.
"Firefighters and their families in Huron -
Bruce make sacrifices every day to keep
Ontarians safe. We're working to make sure
our firefighters stay safe and healthy but if
they do get sick, we want to make sure they
get the support they need," she says in the
press release.
Mitchell's press release says the legislation
covers full-time firefighters and will consult
with volunteer firefighters, part-time
firefighters and fire investigators to develop
the regulations on how the eight types of
cancer and heart injury would apply to
theses groups.
Huron East Fire Chief Marty Bedard says
he understands the legislation will apply to
volunteer firefighters but he's not sure if
anyone locally will be able to benefit right
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Four face
charges
after
break-in,
shooting
A 25 -year-old Goderich
man is suffering from life
threatening injuries at
London Health Sciences
Centre after showing up at
Clinton hospital with a
gunshot wound in his lower
abdomen on Wednesday,
May 9 at approximately 10
p.m.
Huron OPP report the man
received the wound at an
attempted break-in at a
residence on Beechwood Line
in Huron East.
Zach Rounds, 20, of
Clinton and Jennifer
Greydanus, 22, of Goderich
appeared separately in bail
court in Goderich on
Monday, May 14.
Rounds was charged with
break and enter of a house
with the intent to commit an
indictable offence and one
count of disguise with intent.
Greydanus was charged
with one count of robbery
and one count of break and
enter of a house with the
intent to commit an
indictable offence.
Chad Amstrong, 25, who
is still in hospital, faces one
count of break and enter of a
house with intent to commit
an indictable offence, one
count of disguise with intent,
and one count of possession
of weapon for dangerous
purpose.
Paul Murray, 65, of Huron
East, faces one count of
pointing a firearm, one
count of aggravated assault,
one count of production
schedule II (cannabis
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