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Six strikes and you're out.
Huron East employees who
are caught using their cell -
phones while driving will
have six chances before they
are fired, according to a new
disciplinary policy passed at .
council's Nov. 17 meeting.
Mayor Joe Seili told coun-
cil the policy was "standard
housekeeping" created to re-
spond to new provincial law
that makes it illegal to use a
cellphone while driving in On-
tario.
Clerk -Administrator Jack
McLachlan said that because
the municipality provides its
department heads with cell-
phones for useon the job, the
See CELLPHONE, Page 10
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Susan Hundertmark photo
Alex McGlivery points to a hole made in his home's upstairs window by an egg while his wife
Alex Beasse holds a photo of the egg smeared across the upstairs hall during a recent inci-
dent of vandalism at their East William Street home.
Seaforth couple frustrated by
continuing vandalism at their home
Susan Hundertmark
While they've only lived in Seaforth for
five years, Alex Beasse and Alex McGil-
very are almost ready to leave town after
having their East William Street home
vandalized seven, times during the last
two years.
The most recent incident happened two
weeks ago on Beasse's birthday.
The family had just gone to bed at 11
p.m. when they heard a crash - someone
had lobbed an egg breaking through an
upstairs window and egg was smeared all
,over the hallway wall and glass littered
the floor. The front door of the house was
also cohered in broken eggs.
Their 18 -year-old son saw five young
people running away from the house and
their descriptions were given over the
phone to the Huron OPP.
"We were outside in our pajamas wash-
' ing down the front porch at 11 p.m..I gave
up waiting for the police at 1 a.m.," says
McGilvery, adding that he's still waiting
for the police to show up.
The vandalism started during June
of 2007 after the family erected a fence
around the back yard of their corner lot to
contain their two dogs.
They had just finished putting up the
fence when sections of lattice were kicked
in, causing several hundred dollars in
damage.
Several months after they were re-
paired, , the same sections were broken
down again, this time using an old office
chair someone had left in their garbage.
See ONGOING, Page 2
Council
confirms
$125,000
motion
Susan Hundertmark
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After receiving a legal opin-
ion, Huron East decided at its
Nov 17 council meeting to con-
firm its commitment to contrib-
ute $125,000 towards the con-
struction of Robert Street in a
new subdivision proposed for
the site of the former Seaforth
Public School.
But, three local residents ac-
cused council of wasting Sea -
forth tax dollars on a private
developer and making the
wrong decision by confirming
its commitment.
"I hoped council would do
what was right, not what was
easiest and most expedient, and
I don't think you did that," said
Kathy Pletsch after the motion
was passed.
Barbara Box told council that
no other developer has ever
been given tax dollars to de-
velop a subdivision in Seaforth,
pointing out that while the
agreement to contribute the
$125,000 was tied to a March 6,
2008 deadline to tear down the
existing school and remove the
rubble from the lot, that dead-
line was not met.
"No one's against development
- it's the idea that the Seaforth
reserve fund is being given to a
private developer," she said.
"It's very unfortunate that
council didn't ask to read the
development agreement before
they did the third reading of
the bylaw. Now, they're tak-
ing a motion passed in March
of 2007 and changing it to suit
their needs and the needs of the
developer," said Don Pletsch.
Seaforth Coun. Joe Steffler
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