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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Times Advocate, 2007-12-26, Page 113 ugGO= or E :-c E 3 � ' 3 Fgf`24% 02-22mE-'L'3 aEc a E mIgais a E w cr2 o= Wednesday, December 26, 2007 Times—Advocate 11 AUGUST 1 • About 1,000 family and friends attended the Monday morning funeral of Bill and Helene Regier, found slain July 23 in their Bronson Line home. Bill, 72, and his wife of over 50 years, Helene, 73, were laid to rest at Our Lady of Mount Carmel. Police continue their search for prime suspect Jesse Norman Imeson, 22, of Windsor, who is also suspected in the murder of Windsor bartender Carlos Rivera. Mourners filled the church Monday while hundreds more sat outside to listen to the service led by Rev. Ray Lawhead. Throughout the ser- vice, Bill and Helene were remembered for their devotion to their family, their church and their community. AUGUST 8 • Relief swept the area July 31 as sus- pected murderer Jesse Norman Imeson was captured near Portage -du -Fort, Quebec, on the Ottawa River about an hour upstream from the nation's capi- tal. It now appears the 22 -year-old sus- pect in three southwestern Ontario murders had been hiding in the area for at least a week. The first clue Imeson, subject of a Canada -wide manhunt, had fled to the Upper Ottawa Valley was the finding of a pickup truck missing since at least July 23 from the home of the Regiers, SEPTEMBER SEPTEMBER 5 • The Municipality of South Huron is looking for a new chief administra- tive officer. Current CAO Larry Brown, who has been with South Huron since 2000, has decided to leave his post with the municipality to become the chairper- son of the Ausable Bayfield Maitland Valley Drinking Water Source Protection Committee. He is tentative- ly scheduled to leave his CAO job at the end of September, when he goes to Toronto for training for his new job. Brown will remain a South Huron resident, living outside Grand Bend. SEPTEMBER 12 • "How's your blood pressure?" was the question posed by market analyst Don Good to farmers at a customer appreciation day put on by Borland Farm Supply Ltd. Sept. 6. Good, owner of Good Crop Services Ltd. in Stratford added, "markets and the world are changing, get used to it." Good was the keynote speaker fol- lowing a crop tour earlier in the day as well as other speakers including Dean Shantz and Bruce Irons from NK Seeds and Jonathon Klapwyk and Dan Kerr from Pride Seeds. "I'm not a pessimist but I am a real- ist," said Good who added while volatility will be the order of the day it will bring "unbelievable opportuni- ties," and good operators will have success. SEPTEMBER 19 • A preliminary hearing is sched- uled Nov. 23 for all five suspects con- nected to an armed robbery at Four Seasons Jewellery Designers in Exeter June 5. Jeffrey Averill, 20, Steven Averill, 26 Robert Cornish, 32, Jerrilee Julien, 26 and Melissa Facey, 23, will appear at the Goderich Court House at 10 a.m. SEPTEMBER 26 • An event at Goderich Aircraft gave the company a chance to celebrate the present and honour the past as a dedication ceremony was held to rename the airport for the company president's late father. Goderich Aircraft bought the Centralia Airport in April and have officially renamed it James T. Field Memorial Airport. A dedication service in Huron Park Sunday included speeches, entertain- ment, a Harvard aircraft fly -by and skydivers. two of his alleged victims. A Whitewater Region resident stumbled upon the 2006 GMC pickup truck on a seldom - used trail off the south end of the Kerr Line near Chenaux about 7 p.m. July 30. AUGUST 15 • Jesse Norman Imeson was formally charged Friday with two counts of first-degree murder in the shooting deaths of Mount Carmel's Bill and Helene Regier. Imeson, shackled and under heavy police guard, was led into the Goderich Courthouse where he was formally charged with the murders. He had already been charged Aug. 2 with first-degree murder in Windsor for the stran- gling death of Windsor bartender Carlos Rivera. AUGUST 22 • The Ontario government has chosen Blue Water Rest Home to kick off a pilot program to redevelop rest homes across the province. Minister of Health and Long -Term Care George Smitherman and Huron -Bruce MPP Carol Mitchell made the announcement at the Rest Home. AUGUST 29 • Tony Demas, owner of the Wilberforce Inn on the Main Street of Lucan, asked Lucan-Bidddulph council Aug. 23 to waive or partially waive a building permit fee for his restaurant. 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