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Huron not
identified
for lead
testing
Huron County may
have to get the lead
out but the question is
who is going to pick up
the tab.
That was a topic of
debate Wednesday
during county council's
June session.
Penny Nelligan,
director of the Huron
County Health Unit,
told council that 36
communities have
been identified for
additional testing for
lead, but Huron
County is not among
them.
"It's becoming a huge
political issue," she
said, noting those most
at risk for lead
poisoning are children
under the ages of six
and pregnant women.
She added the risk of
getting lead poisoning
through a water tap is
"very minute."
Warden Deb
Shewfelt said many
communities will pick
up the charge for
replacing lead pipe. He
added it's his hope the
province will ante up
with funding, if
necessary.
McGillvery leads the
pack... Nicholas
McGillvery , of Seaforth,
earned gold at OFSAA in
the ambulatory 100 -metre
race pg. 14'
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Susan Hundertmark photo
The Seaforth and District All -Girls' Marching Band welcomed former members to march along during a parade that was part of its
50th anniversary celebration Saturday in Seaforth. Joan Racho and Barb Goodspeed march along with drummers Hailey Hunt,
Shawna Duff, Emily Semple and Christine Bone. For more photos, see page 28.
All -girls' band on the march 50 years
Anniversary brings 300 to Seaforth to honour marching band
Susan Ilundertmark
Reliving some of the best moments of
their high school days, former members
of the Seaforth and District All -Girls'
Marching Band were able to parade
with the current band through the
streets of Seaforth on Saturday.
During the band's 50th anniversary
celebration at Seaforth Public School,
close to 300 people, including alumni
from as far back as the first all -girls'
band attended the festivities at
Seaforth Public School.
While much of the reminiscing was of
the way the band froze during Santa
Claus parades and boiled during
summer parades, a lot of memories
were shared about the original band
leader, the late George Hildebrand,
who led the band from 1957-78.
Bonnie (McLeod) McTaggart, of Eden
Mills, played the baritone bugle in the
first band and returned to Seaforth for
the reunion.
"I was in Grade 11 and George
stopped me in the hall and asked me to
come out for band. I think he wanted
someone tall for the back row," she
laughed.
"I thought I might as well try. He
said, 'Just come to practice and you'll
pick it up,"' said McTaggart who was in
the band from 1957-59.
She and former member Eileen
(Smith) Ross, who played bugle from
1958-62, wore the original uniforms of
black skirts, white blouses, black capes
with mandarin collars, black pillbox
hats and white wool jackets with the
Seaforth District High School crest.
- "It was pretty wonderful," said Ross
of her days in the band.
"We practised in the lunch room in
the basement of the old part of the
See BAND, Page 9