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Fight at
Seaforth
residence
ends in
charge
A 28 -year-old
Blenheim man has
been charged with
assault causing bodily
harm after police were
called to a Seaforth
residence where two
men had been fighting
on Dec. 6 just after
midnight, reports the
Huron OPP.
Police say one man
smashed the other
over the head with a
beer bottle, causing a
severe laceration.
The victim was
treated at hospital for
non -life threatening
injuries.
The man charged is
scheduled to appear in
Goderich court on Feb.
4.
Beery Merry Christmas..
Jordan Simonsen is
collecting bears for London
cancer patients...pg. 6
Susan Hundertmark photo
Corbin Marshall, 5, of Seaforth, ponders what he wants for Christmas as he chats with Santa
during the Seaforth Optimists' Breakfast with Santa Saturday morning at the arena.
Well woman's clinic to open
Susan Hundertmark
A well woman's clinic for orphan
patients or women who prefer a woman
clinician is beginning in Seaforth next
week.
The clinic, which starting Dec. 17 will
run Monday mornings from 9 a.m. to noon
at Dr. Carolin Shepherd's office on
Goderich Street, is the first project to
come out of the Huron family health team
(FHT) in Seaforth, says nurse practitioner
Cate Verberne.
"There are a lot of orphans out there
who, when they phone for a pap test or a
physical, have to wait four to six months
for that so there's a need," she says.
Verberne says important annual exams,
like a pap smear to test for cervival cancer
and a clinical breast exam to test for
See WELL, Page 3
Maplewood
owner fined
$30,000 in
provincial
court
Susan Hundertmark
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While charges were dropped
against Elfreide Sobottka, her
corporation Selective Investments
Ltd. was fined $30,000 after she
pled guilty in provincial court in
Goderich Thursday.
Sobottka and Selective
Inyestments Ltd. were charged
with six counts of knowingly
recovering possession of a rental
unit without complying with
Section 52 of the Residential
_,Tenancies Act, 2006 after an
abrupt closure of -Maplewood
Manor in Seaforth in March left
21 tenants looking for housing.
The charges could have
involved fines as high as $25,000
against an individual and
$100,000 against a corporation.
Frank Mencarelli, crown counsel
with the Ministry of Municipal
Affairs and Housing asked that
the charges against Sobotka be
dropped since she agreed on
behalf of the corporation to plead
guilty.
"The corporation is her for all
intents and purposes. She was the
main operating officer of the
corporation and it was sufficient
to proceed against the
See SELECTIVE, Page 2
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