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Woman dies
during single
vehicle crash
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in Huron East
A 43 -year-old Morris Turn -
berry woman died during a
single -vehicle collision in Hu-
ron East on May 10 shortly
after 9 p.m.
Louise Laplante was pro-
nounceddead at the scene
after a vehicle going west on
Hullett-McKillop Road west
of North Line rolled into the
south ditch. Laplante, the
passenger, was ejected from
the vehicle.
The 53 -year-old driver, a
North Huron man, was taken
to London Health Sciences
Centre where he remains in
stable condition.
OPP Technical Collision in-
vestigators remained on scene
for most of the night gathering
evidence and piecing together
the sequence of events.
The investigation remains
ongoing and police expect
charges to be pending.
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St. Anne's takes on CHSS...
Photos of the match that had the two
teams battling it out on the soccer field
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Hog prices
dropping as
HiN1 virus
dominates the
headlines
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Darcy Williamson fetches the winning ducks for his dad Terry as the Seaforth Opti-
mists hold their first rubber duck race on Saturday at Lions Park.
Wind energy project draws protest
Dan Schwab
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Not in our backyard.
That was the resounding message
from the most outspoken residents
attending a public open house for the
St. Columban wind energy project at
the Brodhagen Community Centre
May 5.
About 60 local landowners attended
the meeting, with many expressing a
See NOISE, Page 6
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Dan,Schwab
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Overblown media coverage of the
H1N1 virus is the reason hog prices
have dropped significantly in recent
weeks, the president of the Huron
County Federation • of Agriculture
says.
The so-called "Swine Flu" has domi-
nated news headlines -in recent weeks
and Wayne Black is worried that peo-
ple might be getting the wrong idea
about the virus affecting pigs.
The H1N1 virus contains genes from
bird, human and pig viruses, but the
media has associated the virus with
infected pigs, triggering a panic among
several countries worldwide that have
since banned imports of North Ameri-
can hogs, he says.
The World Health Organization and
World Organization for Animal Health
have jointly communicated that there
is no justification for trade measures
to be imposed on pork or pigs that can
be attributed to this flu virus.
Still, hog prices have dropped dras-
tically to about $125 a pig last week,
down almost $25 per pig from late -
April, before the Swine Flu began
spreading north from Mexico.
"For a farmer who ships 100 pigs
a week to market, he is losing about
$15 per pig. That's $1,500 less than
before," Black says. "Pork prices have
already been in the dumps for a while.
It's kind of like stabbing a guy in the
See HURON, Page 3