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Exeter Times–Advocate
Wednesday, December 29, 2004
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JUNE 2
• South Huron District High School's first ever
Relay for Life was an overwhelming success, raising
$15,500 for cancer on the weekend.
The 12 -hour event, from 7 p.m. to 7 a.m., May 28-
29, saw 175 participants (including volunteers)
walking the track at the high school to raise money
for the Canadian Cancer Society. The event's goal of
$10,000 was quickly exceeded and attendance was
strong, despite the frigid temperatures.
• Six and a half years after efforts were made to
start a new medical centre in Grand Bend, the brand
new Grand Bend Area Community Health Centre
(GBACHC) held its grand opening .
The sod turning for the nearly $3 million, 15,000
sq. ft., two-storey building was held in April 2003,
with construction going until early this year.
Saturday's grand opening included speeches, a rib-
bon cutting and tours of the new state-of-the-art
facility.
JUNE 9
• The Municipality of Bluewater celebrated the
grand opening of its new community centre in
Zurich June 5.
At a ribbon cutting ceremony Mayor Bill Dowson
said it was a long process, but he was glad to see the
day arrive when the new arena was officially open
for business.
JUNE 16
• Bluewater's beaches are generally in good shape,
but testing needs to continue and public awareness
of the hazards of faulty septic systems needs to be
raised according to Pam Scharfe from the Huron
County Health Unit.
Scharfe was at Bluewater Council's meeting to
brief the council on the Health Unit's water program
testing program in 2003 and what it intends to do
this year.
JUNE 23
• For the past two years, athletes at South Huron
District High School have had access to a service few
if any other high schools can offer.
With a special inhouse program organized by Bio -
Connections owner and athletic therapist Kendra
Craig, injured Panthers can walk off the field and be
treated immediately at the school.
• There will be some traffic detours this week due
to construction on the Hwy. 4/83 intersection.
South Huron operations manager Dennis Hockey
reported to council that traffic islands will be
removed from the intersections Wednesday and
Thursday. Asphalt will also be laid down those days.
JUNE 30
• Paul Steckle will return to Ottawa for a fourth
term, defeating contenders Barb Fisher of the
Conservative Party and Grant Robertson of the NDP
by a solid margin.
Steckle had almost 50 per cent of the popular vote
in the Huron -Bruce riding. Steckle campaigned on
his record of representing the people of Huron -
Bruce even when it meant going against his own
party, and he promised to continue, as he greeted
family, friends and campaign workers at the Sacred
Heart Church hall in Wingham more than an hour
after polls closed.
• By the time Conservative Barb Fisher arrived at a
party in her honour at midnight, her supporters
already knew she had gone down to defeat at the
hands of incumbent Liberal Paul Steckle.
Steckle won his fourth term Monday night, receiv-
ing 25,311 votes, with 227 of 229 Huron -Bruce polls
reporting. That number is nearly 4,000 more than
Steckle received in the 2000 election. His election
total represents 49.9 per cent of the popular vote,
the same as he received in 2000.
MUNICIPALITY OF
BLUEWATER
HAYFIELD - HAY HENSALL • SANLEY-ZDHI7 2001
MUNICIPALITY OF BLUEWATER
Christmas Tree Recycling
Residents may drop off their Christmas trees
at the following locations for chipping.
HENSALL:
at west end of Richmond St. South West
ZURICH:
at the yard waste pile on East St.
BAYFIELD:
behind the fence on Howard St. East
Trees shall be free of all decorations. The final
drop off day is January 7, 2005
Ross Fisher, CRSS
Public Works and Property Manager
And the
winner
is...
South Huron Mayor Rob
Morley reads out the
name of the winner of
the Stephen Firemen
Association's draw while
chairperson Doug
Lightfoot and firefighter
Greg Clarke look on at
Country Corners Rent -
All Dec.4.The winner of
an Arctic Cat snowmo-
bile was Ron Pickering of
Exeter. Second prize, an
MTD walk -behind snow
blower, went to Mark
Stire of Hensall.The
association would like to
thank everyone who
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JULY 7
• A delegation from the Ausable Bayfield
Conservation Authority (ABCA) spoke to Lucan
Biddulph council about concerns regarding a draft
agreement between the municipality, the ABCA and
the Upper Thames River Conservation Authority.
Council reviewed the draft agreement at its last
meeting and made the decision to request representa-
tives from the ABCA attend the meeting in Granton to
clarify council's questions.
• It has been 40 years since the decision was made
to take the students from eight one -room schools in the
township and educate them all in one location.
In September 1964 the first students entered the
brand new Usborne Central School.
JULY 14
• Fifteen children from the Gomel region of Belarus
are spending six weeks in Huron County in the seventh
year of Huron County for Children of Chernobyl.
The 15 children and their interpreter arrived June 20
and stay until Aug. 1. Six children have taken part in
the program before, as has interpreter Lena
Zaichenko. Host families are found in the north of the
county as far as the Teeswater area and to the south in
Exeter, Dashwood and Hensall.
• After the retirement of Dr. Bill Steciuk, patients
thought their medical needs would be taken care of by
a replacement, but according to at least one patient, no
doctor is available.
Helen Pratt told the Times -Advocate she is without a
doctor after hearing rumours Dr. Helen Frye, who took
on Dr. Steciuk's patients, is not seeing patients.
JULY 21
• Enforcement of an overnight parking bylaw in the
Municipality of Lucan Biddulph was the topic of
discussion at a council meeting.
The issue was addressed in correspondence by
Granton resident Alex Westman, last raised at the July
5 meeting.
• Four local musicians will be in New York this week
as finalists in Little Steven's Underground Garage bat-
tle of the bands.
The Chickens, made up of Exeter's Fred and Dave
Robinson, Murray Heywood, Dan Preszcator and Ken
Mikalauskas of Oshawa, won against 20 other bands in
Cleveland June 21 to qualify for the finals in New York.
JULY 28
• If a public meeting last week in Hensall is any indi-
cation, the Municipality of Bluewater is not one big
happy family.
A "deamalgamation meeting" was held at the Hensall
United Church July 21 to discuss the issue of Hensall
breaking away from Bluewater, which it joined in 2001
along with Zurich, Hay, Stanley and Bayfield. About
200 people packed the United Church for the meeting,
organized by Hensall's Concerned Citizens group. Also
attending the meeting were similar groups from other
areas not happy with amalgamation — Flamborough,
which wants to pull out of Hamilton, and Ridgetown,
which wants to leave the amalgamated Chatham -Kent.
• A fund has been set up to help a Crediton man
who was hit by a transport truck July 21. The collision
occurred on Highway 4 just north of Clinton in Hullett
Township at approximately 4 a.m.
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