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Single
vehicle crash
causes life
threatening
injuries
A 23 -year-old Huron East
man received life threaten-
ing injuries in a single -vehicle
crash which closed London
Road between Staffa Road
and Centennial Road for sev-
eral hours on Saturday morn-
ing.
The crash occurred shortly
before 6:30 a.m. Saturday
north of Kippen on Highway
4.
The man, who was the only
occupant of the vehicle was
airlifted to London Health
Sciences Centre.
OPP Technical Collision in-
vestigators closed the road to.
gather evidence . to piece to-
gether the facts about the col-
lision.
IVIemodes at Christmas...Huron
Hice has set up a memory tree at the
hospitalSeaforth to helpthe bereaved
cope with te festive seon... 8
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Wednesday, Dec. 9, 2009
Susan Hundertmark photo
Egmondville residents look over the details of four options for a sewer system for the village
at a public meeting last Monday where the estimated costs of each were discussed.
Egmondville asked to vote on
choice for sewer system
Susan i_u_ndertmark
While the questions .that appear on the
ballot have yet to be determined, Egmond-
ville residents will be voting during the
next few weeks about what sort of sewage
system, if any, they want for their village.
At a public meeting held last Monday
night, engineers from B.M. Ross and As-
sociates Ltd. presented the approximate
costs of each of four systems, two tradi-
tional gravity systems and two alterna-
tives.
"We've selected a preferred alternative
we're presenting tonight but we still want
your feedback to be able to move forward
to a final recommendation to council," said
environmental planner Kelly Vader.
Both the technical steering committee
and Huron East council came to the meet-
ing recommending the traditional gravity
sewer system, a choice supported by engi-
neer Bruce Potter.
"We've tried to be as neutral as possible.
But, I'd rather have gravity if it was up to
me," he said when asked by an audience
member.
Vader added that the community of
Wardsville, which has had a STEG (Sep-
tic Tank Effluent Gravity System) for 10
years is happy with its choice.
"We toured the system and had a look
and they're quite pleased with it," she
said.
'Going through the four choices, the pre-
sentation outlined the pros and cons of
each one. While all of the systems would
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Funeral
director and
longtime
community
volunteer
dies
at age 63
Susan Hundertmark
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Ross Ribey, who touched al-
most everyone in Seaforth - ei-
ther by helping them through
their grief as funeral director
for 41 years or through volun-
teering with the Lions Club, Ag-
ricultural Society and other or-
ganizations - died last Thursday
at age 63.
"We moved here in 1975 and
Ross loved Seaforth - he wanted
it to be the best it could be," says
his wife Joyce.
During the time he ran Whit-
ney-Ribey Funeral Home in
Seaforth, he was also active in
the Seaforth Oddfellows, the
Kinburn Foresters and the Sea -
forth Boy Scouts.
Raised on a farm in Bruce
County, Ribey had a lifelong
love of anything rural. As a
member of the Seaforth Agricul-
tural Society, he was one of the
instigators of the tractor draw,
which ran for 18 years, and the
building of the Agriplex.
"So many brainwaves of the
Ag Society were thought about
having coffee around our kitch-
en table," says Joyce.
"He was involved in plans to
build the Agriplex right from
Day 1 and he was always over
there - he called it his cottage,"
she says, adding that he rigged
up his riding lawnmower to be
able to water plants at the Agri-
plex along with the gardens of
See ROSS, Page 3