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HomeMy WebLinkAboutHuron Expositor, 2009-03-18, Page 1• f 43. IN BUSINESS FOR 25 YEARS ARDEN EDDIE Sales Representative ACS© HO 513-522-N24 - CELI: 519-955-2410 FAX: 519-522-0023• EMAIL: cottagelovers@tccon.ca www.peakrealestate.com Independently Owned & Operated Stratford Office: 519-275-0333 •alt. - . •......_ ...�.,..•.• _ - .,�Srw`�y'',�" inre�` yr++was.'rf!r"=',�' ':�`L� : "r'�=^ES..=:', Week 1 2 -Vol .005 www.seaforthhuronexpcositor.com Gat1Way...: funding used tohire busines The recent decision by Huron County Council to provide $500,000 in fund- ing to the Gateway Rural Health Research Institute over the next five years has allowed Gateway- to get beyond the start-up stage. "" ,i r'.' z 'v' ` q- Y A business manager, Cheryl Shultz, of Bayfield, has been hired and a re- • search assistant is being recruited with the county funding, says Gateway vice president Gwen De- vereaux. "The business manager will look after the day- to-day business, proposal writing and promotion. She's really going to help get things going," says De- vereaux. She says Gateway hopes to hire a research assis- tant within the month of March. • Dan Schwab photo Jack Eisler pours some Irish stew into his bows during a St. Patrick's Day celebration at the Seaforth Legion March 13. • Swedish research ours Gateway Institui 1 + i t s 1 4 1 1 4 4 i t 1 $=11 4, t 1 9 6 t.1.. Petites win tournament...The Seaforth Storm petites took gold in . f�1f rin�►i ssgette tournament, list,weekend , 19`♦1 \ ui at pg , . t Vi e. it • 7 • )i s » a r_Lin _a. r. k While the Swedish County of Da- larna is even less populated than Huron County with villages of 200 people surrounded by forest and farmland, a researcher from Swe- den last week toured Huron Coun- ty where he said he sees more simi- larities than differences. "Huron County is a bit more pop- ulated than rural Swedenbut the similarities are striking," said re- seareher .Lars LarsgOn. ` , t ` Latason, wno, has, his PhD, in hu-40PN.VAWARVIrict$Wiltif#1,!Vi4tt with the Dalarna Research tn'sti tute, visited Paul Nichol, manager of the Huron Business Develop- ment Corporation and toured the Gateway Rural Health Research Institute in Seaforth, along with the new equine centre in Clinton, a wine operation in Bayfield,and: var- ious other HBDC projects' through- out Huron County. • - "You are more focussed on busi- ness development here and we could and should learn from that," said. Larsson. 4 coIDwe BAN t(CR 0 ALL RgAL.TY, BROKERA AIRS NOUSE ISS STySEAFORD,• 11 • KS OW www.eoidwelibankerfc.com 1 Main St. S. Seaforth Phone: (519) 527-2103 Wednesday March 18, 2009 $1.25 gst included • Almost • $34,000 stolen: in identity theft nightmare Susan n rtniark When Deb Falconer opened up her Master- card statement last October to find a num- ber of cash advances and a purchase in U.S. funds had racked up her bill to•:$11,000, she knew someone had gotten ahold of her credit card number and stolen from her: But, she didn't know it was the beginning of a two-month -nightmare of identity theft that would end up takiwtg close to $347000 from three credit cards and four bank accounts. "I hope everyone will sit up and pay atten- tion," says the Tuckersmith woman, of the. identity theft she says could happen to any- one. - Because she hadn't lost her purse or had her credit card stolen, she imagined that :. someone had taken her number during the y; frequent transactions she used it for: She : cancelled the card and went on with her life.: Two months later in the weeks before Christmas, however, she received a call -from VISA about a credit card she hadn't used for four years. While she had cut it up, she nev- er went to the trouble of cancelling :it with VISA and now she was being informed that $12,000 had been charged on the card after four years of inactivity. - • - "I was shocked when I got hit with my Mastercard but it happens all the time and I thought it was just that card. But, when it happened with the VISA card, they really got my attention," she says. And, - then it got worse. She wilt, into her bank to withdraw some money, asked, for her balances and realized something was very wrong. Cash advances of thousands of dollars were being made from her bank accounts and after she asked for a statement of the history of her accounts, she saw that most of the activity was happening from banks in Markham. "One Saturday, a woman had physically gone intd two banks in Markham and with- drawn money from our accounts. -That was the crunch - realizing there was someone out there pretending to be me," she says. While she's hoping the woman who stole her identity might have been captured on the bank's security cameras, Falconer says police are -still investigating. . < ? t, ,�, t �► :� .�s : _See. COMPUTER, Page 2.