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HomeMy WebLinkAboutTimes Advocate, 1999-06-23, Page 1sal 4 St 83 Fxwr Z�-AM62 Keep cool with ur fresh deli salads • • flderton cowgirls PAGE 14 4 & $3 Exeter 2354262 • ' Delicious hot . meek 41-.-41441 too g TIMES -ADVOCATE Exeter, Ontari LeBeau verdict delayed until. October By Katherine Harding TIMES -ADVOCATE STAFF GODERICH — Sarah LeBeau will have to wait four months to learn her fate. LeBeau, 22, will found out on Oct. 8 if she's been found guilty of any of the 11 charges she faces after a crash on Nov. 24, 1996 left four youth dead. Justice Thomas Grainger reserved his - decision as the seven month trial ended last Wednesday in Goderich. LeBeau has been charged with four :counts of criminal negligence causing death and impaired driving causing death. She's also charged with impaired driving, criminal ;.::negligence causing bodily harm and impaired dri- ving causing bodily harm. Brian Hill, 21, and Mark Webster, 19, both of Stanley Twp., and Neal Atchison and Pamela King, both 20 and from Clinton, died in the crash when LeBeau's 1995 Camaro left County Road - 31 near Varna. Both Lef3eau, of df and Brucefield, e Brandon 1 Gardner, of V ares tra were seriouslyinjured in the accident. Canada l Wednesday, June 73, 1199 $ 1.00 (includes GST) i'cti looking to eter health clinic x . r. l_ �• • *itennigoinii::- -. ...; ::-<�{i•;�:'f ;.r,!f.:}::{4f': ti{=:7:, {; �; lir jr�? Huron num By Joe Thompson SPECIAL TO THE TIMES -ADVOCATE •: .•.�?.moi:. JJ P:• ••rr. } •: ri. er one in WINGHAM - According to Mike Scott of the Ontario Provincial 'Police's Special Crime Unit, every year Huron has the highest number of marijuana plants seized in Ontario. Scott spoke to a small group at the Brussels arena last Wednesday evening on how to spot marijuana growing and what to do if it is found. Area farmers and members of the neighborhood watch were able to learn about the plant itself and the �T i process of growing it. hX, • By Scott Nixon TIMES -ADVOCATE STAFF EXETER -- The movement to improve health care in Exeter is continuing with a group looking into setting up a primary health centre in town. Maureen Cole of the South Huron Hospital said the push to bring a health care centre' to Exeter came out of the doctor recruitment committee. She said the com- mittee realized if it was to bring more doctors to the area it would need more office space. The committee to bring a clinic to town is "just in the growing stages now" Cole says. She says it has to look at a model on which to base its project and adds it will be similar to Grand Bend's upcoming clinic, which has received funding from the government. A health clinic in Exeter, Cole says, will focus not only on the "curative or the medical side ... but the preven- tion and promotion side of health." Right now, Cole says she is trying to get the commu- nity involved and to get the community thinking about what kind of health care clinic the town needs. She said the group is still looking for people to come forward and help with the project. There are four areas that need to be looked into, according to Cole: public administration, technology, human resources and property and finance: Eventually, a location is g to have to be decided on for the new clinic. mole said that decision will come after the group decides exactly how much space it needs and what kind of services it will offer. That information will come from a survey that will go out to Exeter residents, ask- ing them what their health needs are. "Once we get those results, then we will know what kind of a clinic we need." The proposed Exeter clinic, Cole said, would serve a 10 kilometre area around Exeter. She said the group is limiting the clinic to the Exeter area bec4use it doesn't want to interfere with efforts in Grand Bend or Zurich. • a:Jthlfla growing Huron's mild `climate, sparse population, large water sources and remote areas make it a great location to plant pot. "Canada is now a net exporter of marijuana," said Scott speaking of the huge number of plants grown. He went on to say that it is not just the recreation- al users that are growing marijuana, but large . businesses that include motorcycle gangs such as Satan's Choice. "When you have organized crime involved you know there is money in it," he said.r,'_ The plant Normally the plants are grovvn to a height of five' feet. .., Growers like to keep the plants -small and bushy. This gives them more bud, the highest quality and most expensive part to smoke. The bud, or seed, has the highest consentration of THC (tetrahydrocannabinol), the active ingredient in marijuana. One pound of bud can bring $3,000-4,000 on :;:the street and can be harvested from as little as one plant: The rest of the plant can also be used, by adding a solvent to chopped up stalk and cooking it. A fire is built and the mixture placed over it until the liquid * on all regular priced merchandise SAVE G.S.T AND P.S.T. June 26 to July 4 See MARIJUANA page 2