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Home My WebLink AboutThe Times Advocate, 2005-02-02, Page 3Wednesday, February 2, 2005 Exeter Times–Advocate 3 CNIB holds fundraiser EXETER — The Canadian National Institute for the Blind (CNIB) is holding its Focus on Crocus fundraiser this week. CNIB board member and volunteer Gordon Hill said the CNIB will have a display set up at Hansen's Independent Grocer Thursday (Feb. 3) starting at 10 a.m. and continuing until 3-4 p.m. Focus on Crocus is a major fundraiser for the CNIB. Crocus pots cost $4 each or $10 for three pots. Money raised is used locally and to pro- vide service to CNIB clients. Hill said the CNIB has 19 clients in the Exeter area. The CNIB serves clients who are partially blind, blind or deafblind. Clients are assisted with cooking, shopping, bank- ing and with using a white cane. Counselling sessions are also made with the clients' family members. The CNIB also helps with career devel- opment. For a cost, the CNIB also provides technical aids to clients. Created in 1918, the following are some facts provided by the CNIB: • The Ontario division of the CNIB serves nearly 50,000 clients, nearly half the Canadian client population. That number is expected to double within the next decade. • The CNIB serves all age groups, including children, working -age adults and seniors. • By age 65, one in nine Canadians will experi- ence some form of vision loss that can't be correct- ed, a figure that increas- es to one in four by age 80. • The CNIB has 1,000 staffers and 20,000 vol- unteers in 53 offices across Canada. • The CNIB Library cir- culated 1 8 million items in 2002, or 5,000 items per day. Services include talking books, braille books, electronic books, braille music and descriptive videos. • The CNIB has a national operating bud- get of $77 million. Speed device found BLUEWATER — On Jan. 15 at approximately 3:30 p.m. an officer was con- ducting radar enforce- ment on Zurich-Hensall Road in Bluewater. The officer observed a westbound dark coloured Ford pickup truck travel- ing at a high speed. Radar indicated at first that the vehicle was in excess of 30 km over the speed limit. The officer was also run- ning a radar detector when the speed in the vehicle quickly slowed. The officer stopped the vehicle and after some discussion with the driver a measurement -warning device was given to the officer from the vehicle's glove box. A 54 -year-old man from Michigan has been charged with a speeding offence and driving a motor vehicle with a radar warning device. He will attend court in Goderich March 17. Trailer found BLUEWATER — On Jan. 4 a farmer checking his bush lot on Pavilion Road a short distance from Parr Line, came across a trail- er. The farmer called OPP officers to the bush lot, who discovered the trailer had been stolen along with two snowmobiles from a business on Harriston Road in Howick Dec. 10. The homemade black 1995 snowmobile trailer had been stolen during the night from the dealer- ship lot along with a 1995 Ski -Doo and a 1998 NOTICE OF ANNUAL MEETING The 129th Annual Meeting of the Members will be held in the HEAD OFFICE of McKillop Mutual Insurance Company 91 Main Street South, SEAFORTH, Ontario on Wed., February 23, 2005 at 1:30 p.m. • To receive and dispose of the 2004 financial statement and auditor's report: • To appoint Auditors; • To elect three qualified Directors for a term of three years; • To consider amendments to By -Laws # (33) Remuneration (53) Adjustments and Settlement of Claims • To transact any other business that may properly come before the meeting; • The retiring Directors are Eric Anderson, Jeff Campbell, and Brad Carnochan. Jeff Campbell and Brad Carnochan are eligible for re-election; • Any qualifying policyholder wishing to seek election must file their intention to stand for election in writing with the Secretary of the Company at least seven days in advance of the Annual Meeting (by1:30 p.m. February 16, 2005.) (By -Law No. 21 (d) ). Ken Jones Secretary -Treasurer -Manager Polaris. It has been returned to the owner but police are still searching for the stolen snowmo- biles. If you can help solve this case call the local OPP or Crime Stoppers at 1- 800-222-8477(TIPS). Local welding course offered CLINTON — Space is running out on a local welding course designed to offer some tech train- ing not available in the county. The beginners' course in welding runs Feb. 7 to March 1 at Central Huron Secondary School in Clinton. Run in con- junction with the Huron Manufacturer's Association (HMA), the Avon Maitland District School Board and Fanshawe College, the course is filling up fast. Committee member Jim Muir, a tech teacher and guidance counsellor at Central Huron, said students will learn weld- ing theory, arc welding, MIG welding and how to perform different welds. The course costs $431, including taxes, material and the textbook. Classes will run 5-10 p.m., Monday to Thursday. After the welding course ends, the involved groups hope to offer a fabrication course where students will learn things such as bending metals and making projects. The welding course is a precursor to a manufac- turing techniques course the HMA, school board and Fanshawe want to offer next fall. That pro- gram will include machine shop and weld- ing. Those who have already taken the weld- ing and fabrication courses won't have to take those components of the techniques course, Muir said. Muir said the courses are an effort to make tech training available locally. Once that was decided, a location was needed and Central Huron was chosen. Anyone interested in the welding course should call Muir as soon as possible at 482-3471, ext. 165. RATES SUBJECT TO CHANGE WITHOUT NOTICE. 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