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Maplewood
Manor owner
faces charges
Susan Hundertmark
The owner of Maplewood Manor, which closed last
March, will be facing charges in Goderich court on
Dec. 6 at 10 a.m.
Elfreide Sobottka and Selective Investments Ltd.
have been charged with six counts of knowingly
recovering possession of a rental unit without com-
plying with Section 52 of the Residential Tenancies
Act, 2006.
The charges involve maximum fines of $25,000
against an individual and $100,000 against a corpo-
ration. -
Jim Torretto, manager of investigation and
enforcement for the Ministry of Municipal Affairs
and Housing, said last week that investigation
began into the closure of Maplewood Manor last
March.
"We tried to contact the landlord and explain what
the law says but we didn't get any compliance," he
said, adding that prosecution was the next step.
Section 52 of the Residential Tenancies Act says
that landlords must give three months' compensa-
tion or another unit acceptable to the tenant when
closing down a building.
As well, tenants are entitled to 120 days' notice.
Torreto said that any fines levied will be given to
the municipality of Huron East.
He added that if tenants are seeking personal
compensation, they need to contact the Landlord
Tenant Board to go through a separate process.
Maplewood Manor is still up for sale through
Village Park Realty.
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St. Nick's children's shopping
day to continue a second year
Local craftspeople busy making gifts for families
Susan Hundertmark
After the success of last year's St. Nick's
Children's Christmas Shopping Day at St.
Thomas Anglican Church, organizers are
planning a second one on Saturday, Dec. 8.
"It's only our second year but we're hoping
to get bigger and better each year," says this
year's chair Susan Earl.
Last year, the Parish of the Holy Spirit
(including Anglican Churches in Clinton,
Seaforth and Mitchell)- attracted 200 children
to do their shopping for family and friends at
St. Thomas Anglican in Seaforth.
Over 500 items - some handcrafted by vol-
unteers and others donated - were offered for
less than $5 each for children aged two to 13
to shop for their parents, siblings and pets.
The point is to allow children a chance to sur-
prise their parents and family members with
a gift.
Proceeds of close to $500 were split between
the three Anglican churches and given to a
local children's charity.
This year, the proceeds to St. Thomas
Anglican will go towards a free day of skating
at the Seaforth arena and that suggestion
may be used in Clinton and Mitchell as well,
says Earl.
Craftspeople at St. Thomas Anglican have
been working every Wednesday morning all
year to create handmade gifts - such as boxer
shorts, barbecue aprons, dish towels, scarves
and jars of ingredients for soups and cookies -
to donate to the children's shopping day.
"Children don't have to belong to a church
to shop," says Earl.
Volunteer elves are on hand to help each
child find the gifts on his or her list, gift -wrap
and tag the presents during the event which
goes from 10 a.m. until noon.
Earl says the event will need about 50 vol-
unteers and she's hoping high schopl students
needing volunteer hours will get involved.
"We're nowhere near the 50 we need yet,"
she says, adding she's contacting the high
schools in Mitchell and Clinton for volunteers.
Earl says the hurch volunteers are getting
excited as the sal approaches since they have
so much fun creat g the gifts and watching
the children shop.
"We have a ball and the kids are so cute.
They have their lists and they know what
they want. They're very focussed," she says.
While there was talk of opening up the
shopping day to every church in Seaforth,
organizers decided to wait until next year to
take thatstep.
"We were afraid of the event getting too big,
too fast and that -we wouldn't be able to sup-
ply all the kids with gifts. That idea's on hold
but, we'll start thinking about it in the
spring," she says.
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Wearing a festive hat, Lois Scoins, of
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many items being offered for kids to buy
for their families at the annual St. Nick's
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