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HomeMy WebLinkAboutHuron Expositor, 2009-07-01, Page 1It!*' a • 1 i. • a • o — ante • ( ,r./.:. — -'{�. • • • FINE FURNITURE • FLOOR COVERINGS • MATTRESSES Box Furniture & Floor Coverings •1r 20 MAIN ST. SEAFORTH (519)527468D W W W.1 OXFU RN ITURl3•CA 1.. f 4... i S/ 4.:. 1 t)nnr4 f Week 27-Vol.005 - www.seaforthhuronexpositor.com Doug Elliott, CFP, B. Math Financial Plainer Top GIC Rates TYeir3Yaer SYar 1.90% -a00% 3.65% GIC rates as of June 29th, 2009 All rates are annual and subject to change without notice at any time. DU$DEE WEALTH MANAGEMENT Owen Mast Warm In. 26 Main St., Seaforth 519-527-2222 Wednesday July 1, 2009 1.25 gst included Motorcy�le. riders -have critical injuries after collision with car A 48 -year-old man and a. 47 -year-old woman, both - of Kitchener, received critical injuries when a motorcycle collided with a car at approxi- mately 3:30 p.m. on June 28 at the intersection of Cranbrook Line and Livingston Line in Huron East. The motorcycle, carrying the man and woman who were injured, had been trav- elling south on Livingston Line which is controlie0�vitl a Yield sign. The car, driven by a 17 -year-old male with a 44 -year-old female passenger, both of Brussels, was travel- ling west on Cranbrook Road. The two motorcycle riders were initially taken to the Li- stowel Hospital but were then taken to London Health Sci- ences Centre for treatment of critical injuries. The two occupants of the car were treated at the scene for minor injuries. Both had been wearing their seatbelts. The intersection was closed for several hours as OPP Thchnical Collision Investiga- tors examined the scene. The .investigation continues and charges may -be pending. ries, .St:7ames teacher Orli will be. retivnthered for the laughter she bmtl-gtAtc`.10°61"4416 Susan Hundertmark photo Holding up a photo of their stolen Jack Russell terrier puppy playing with the family's two-year-old dog, Izabella Gauthier, Melanie Dietrich, Kayla Gauthier and Jason Jr. Con- nors are a sad bunch. The children are hoping their puppy will be returned. Jack Russell puppy stolen from Egmondville residence Susan Hundertmark A four -month-old Jack Russell ter- rier called Jill was the latest addition to Melinda Hervieux's Egmondviile family until the puppy was stolen last Monday from her front lawn. "A blue mini van pulled up and a middle-aged white woman went onto my property and took the dog. The -kids are still crying about it," says Hervieux. . The theoccurred rred some- time between 2 and 3 p.m. on Monday, June 22 at the corner of Mill and Kippen Roads: ' • . While Hervieux was not home at the time, . her husband 'Jason had let the puppy outside. Jill ran in among the trees of the corner lot and,Jason did not gee the dog taken. He sent the kids, aged six to nine, out to look for Jill but it wasn't until they started asking .neighbours that they heard about the woman taking the Jack:Russell .tetrlet. . "The puppy wouldn't go near her so she chased the puppy and grabbed her. I'm very upset about it - I can't believe someone would do that," says Hervieux. • Jill was the playmate of the fam- ily's second Jack Russell, a two-year- old male called Jack. The family also has two Rot- tweilllers. Hervieux says she's re- ported the incident to the Huron OPP but couldn't share too many identify- ing characteristics. "We talked to the police but they said they can't pull over everyone with a blue mini van," she says. She's hoping anyone who may have seen the incident could provide more information to the Huron OPP. Jill the Jack Russell has a "perfect di- aiond marking on her head, a white diamond with a brown diamond inside it; She also wgs Wearing a black collar decorated with rineetones. 'A blue mini van pulled up and a middle-aged white woman went onto my property and took the dog,' -- Melinda Hervieux � %••.. ♦ a. , . ' ` .. . .. • Huron County Federation is asking for wind turbine moratorium throughout Huron County Susan Hundertnigrk The Huron County Federation of Agriculture will be visiting munici- palities throughout Huron 'County asking them to follow Huron East's leadgby passing interim control by- laws on commercial wind energy projects within their borders. HCFA directors discussed the cur- rent debate around wind turbine developments at their June meeting and passed two resolutions. One was to request lower tier mu- nicipalities in Huron to enact a mor- atorium on commercial wind energy projects pending results of an epide- miological study conducted into the health impacts of the specific infra- structure on residents living near such developments. The other was to support an epide- miol 'cal study conducted into the he th impacts of the specificinfra- structure of wind energy projects on residents living near such develop- ments. . HCFA president Wayne Black says he'll be attending council. meetings . throughout Huron County to talk to councillors about their thoughts about wind prc cts. • He says asking municipalities to enact a moratorium is basically ask- ing for an interim control bylaw, sim- ilar to the one Huron East recently . passed. "Huron Fast didn't influence us to pass the resolution but we are asking other munidpalities to do the same thing Hurof East did," he says. Black, wh o• lives. about seven kilo- metres metres fro*ai the EPCOR wind project in Kingsbridge, says that while he has brushed off arguments against wind turbines in the past as "a lot of See IIFCA, Page 2