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Shared
garden in
area in
the works
Interest in
community
gardening;
January 31
pfans are underway to ex-
tend the Community
Shared Garden concept to
North Huron and Southern
Bruce counties. ,
During the past five years, the
Huron Community Garden near
Goderich has been providing
fresh organic vegetables to its
members in Central Huron. Pau-
li Sommer, who helped organize
the earlier garden, has scheduled
a meeting for Tuesday, January
31, in the Lucknow Town Hall
at 730 p.m. This meeting will
explain the Community Shared
Agriculture (CSA) concept and
start organizing to establish a -
garden in the Lucknow area for
the 1995 season.
Bob and Bev Budd, who op-
erate the Goderich garden, will
speak of their experience over
the past five years and describe
the benefits of a CSA project to
the members and community.
The Goderich garden provides a
wide variety. of fresh organic
vegetables during the growing
season for weekly and many en-
joy the opportunity to show
their children how their food is
grown.
Area farmers, Tony and Fran
McQuail have offered their farm
as a site for the garden. There
will be a question period follow-
ing the presentation and then
those interested in participating
in a Community Supported Gar-
den will start organizing for the
summer.
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Turnberry Township
Council debate the
future of development
in Lower Town.
Page 3.
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The Maitland Valley
Conservation Authority
1995 Annual Meeting
was held last week.
Helen Hewitt reports.
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Liberal
Association
meeting
The annual general meeting
and delegate election to the
L.P.C.O annual general meeting
for the Huron -Bruce Liberal As-
sociation will be held at the
Lucknow Legion on January 31,
starting at 7:30 p.m.
Guest speaker for the evening
will be MP Paul Steckle.
Madill News
Editorial
Letters
Sports
Community
T.V. Guide
Classifieds
Obituaries
Crossword
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A LOOK AT —
The annual meeting for the
Maitland Valley Coriserva-
tion Authority.
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ale Station fire• fighter 'r
floor of Cannonball Elatia.Si
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Centurynold building
engulfed in fl ; II es when
first truck arrived on scene
Factory closed last fall, was to be torn down
By JIM BROWN
The Advance -Times
Thick black smoke covered
downtown Wingham last Tuesday
afternoon as the former Cannon-
ball Bed factory was gutted by
fire.
Fire broke out around noon and,
before long the billowing thick
black smoke was hanging over the
downtown core. Smoke could be
seen as far as away as the Diesel
Car Diner and Belgrave.
The cause of the fire, according
to Wingham Fire Chief Harley
Gaunt, was a spark from workmen
cutting steel with a cutoff saw.
The spark ignited sawdust and
soon the former furniture faetbry
was engulfed in flames.
Chief Gaunt said members of
the Wingham Area Volunteer Fire
Department were assisted in fight-
ing the blaze by fire fighters from
Station Two — Gorrie, and from
the Blyth VOltmteor Fire Depart-
ment in a three -department mutu-
al ahl call. Thirty fire fighterand
four pump= were on the scene
for abo hth&trs fighting and
en n!ninn—tgd* .
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A small Crew of Wingham fire
fighters were back at the scene
Wednesday morning to hose down
hot spots inside the factory.
Josephine Street had to be
blocked off to allow the fire crews
access to fire hydrants, with main
sffeet traffic re-routed up Scott
Street to Minnie Street, and then
toJohn Street
In addition, the Lockridge Me-
morial Arena was closed last
Tuesday evening, because a loss
of power to the lobby and the front
dressing rooms. During the fire,
the front lobby was turned into a
rest area for the fire fighters, eager
to get a sandwich and cup of hot
coffee.
The arena had its power re-
stored by noon last Wednesday,
and it was "business as usual," ac-
cording to facilities Manager Pete
Quennell.
He noted that smoke did not get
into the arena, because the wind
was blowing the smoke towards
the main street.
The Canadian Imperial Bank of
Commerce on Victoria Street also
had,to close its doors because of
the loss of power,
Branch manager Laurie Doolit-
tle said because employees could
not use their computers. The auto-
mated teller machine also could
not be used and the branch closed
about 12:15 pin.
"We re -opened for business
around 3:15 p.m.," he said.
Doolittle said smoke could be
smelled in the bank, but it was
"nothing to be concerned about."
Businesses in the south end of
Wingham were also left without
power as the Public Utilities Com-
mission (PUC) cut the lines from a
hydro pole located on Victoria
Street, in front of the burning
building.
PUC general manager Ken Sax-
ton said about 50 customers (resi-
dential and business) were affect-
ed by the power loss.
"We shut the power off about 1
p.m., and it was back on shortly
after 4 p.m.," said the PUC general
manager.
Saxton said there were no real
problems faced by the PUC He
noted that the PUC received about
six phone call s from customers
without power.
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