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able Community. centre names new head honchos
Artful partners. Ausable Community Centre's new
executive director Barbara Beach, left, and her asst--
tant Owen Gidley pose in front of'Paletsio', on of
Lucan artist fan Brouwer's oil paintings featured ina'
the ACC 'Imagine' exhibition. (photo/Craig Bradford) •
By Craig Bradford
TIMES -ADVOCATE STAFF
LUCAN, -- The Ausable
Community Centre (ACC)
now has. a couple of
homers to run the show.
ACC president- Tom
McInerney announced the
hiring of executive direc-
tor Barbara Beach and
her assistant Owen Gidley
at the ACC's appreciation
night last Friday. Beach
and Gidley began their
new jobs on Monday. The
positions are part time till
new government funding
comes in sometime in the
new year.
Beach has over 20 years
of administrative experi-
ence including three years
as director of development
with the London Museum
of Archeology, her last
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Before that position,
Beach served with Canada
Employment and
Immigration and was the
executive director of
London's Women's
Community House.
Beach has lived in
Biddulph Township for the
last 13 (and a half) years
with her husband Kirk
Wallis and their two chil-
dren, Christopher, 17, and
Alyssa, 14, both Medway
High School students.
Beach was clearly excit-
ed about taking on the
challenge of running the
ACC.
"I think the (ACC) is a
gem," she said. "I7i's a
treasure. We are very for-
tunate to have it in the
community."
Success through co-,
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0001 don is one _ of
Beach's goals.
~It's my belief to work in
a team framework," she
said. "I'm a firm believer
in that"
idley lived in Lucan
from '89-96 and now lives
in Ilderton. Last year he
served as the Lucan
Optimist Club president.
His full-time job is as . a
painter with London's St.
Joseph's Health Centre.
The ACC held its appre-
ciation night to recognize
its community partners
and sponsors.
Those partners include
the Lucan Optimists,
Lucan Area Heritage, the
Lucah-Biddulph
Community Policing
Committee, the federal
government, . Huron
Resources I yvelopment
Canada, the Ontario
Trillium Foundation, the
provincial government
and the Township of
Lucan-Biddulph.
Corporate sponsors rec-
ognized included Tom
McInerney and Scotia
McLeod, Premium Pork
Canada, Gollan Holdings,
Douglas Cassan and Royal
LePage Trimark Realty
and C. Haskett & Son
Funeral Home.
McInerney said the
appreciation night was
also a celebration of rural
partnerships the ACC has
been able to foster over its
almost two years of exis-
tence.
The accomplishments
include the employment
resource centre, youth
projects, helping with
Communities In Bloom
and fund-raising.
While Perth -Middlesex
MP John Richardson was
not able to attend, several
other dignitaries were on
hand including I-(RDC's
Noreen Davis, Perth -
Middlesex MPP Bert
Johnson, Lucan .Area
Heritage president Sally
Hodgins, Lucan Optimists
president Len Anderson
and Friends of the Lucan
Library's Claire Anderson.
McInerney noted the
ACC originated with the
Friends of the Library.
The celebration' also fea-
tured the premiere of
Lucan artist Jan
Brouwer's 'Imagine'
exhibit at the ACC and
showcased local young
singers.
McInerney took the
opportunity to update
those in attendance on
ACC news.
He said the ACC will cow
tinue to support and. cre-
ate partnerships at its cur-
rent location since the
township blocked its move
.to relocate to the former
Village of Lucan offices
across the street.
McInerney said the two-
year term of the ACC
directors including himself
are coming to an end -and
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they are looking for volun-
teers and new board
members.
Those interested are
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invited. to attend the next
board meeting on Dec. 14.
For more information on
the ACC, call 227-1453.
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