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NOVEMBER
NOVEMBER 7
• About 60 members of the Exeter Business
Improvement Area (BIA) attended a meeting
last week to hear how they can promote
Exeter's business core.
The meeting Oct. 30 at the South Huron Rec
Centre, called "Empowering Your Business,"
was presented by the South Huron
Development and Promotion Committee and
focused on economic development for the
area.
Coun. Cathy Seip, who organized the event
along with planning assistant Trista Russell,
started the evening by encouraging everyone
to work together for economic
development. She said commu-
nication and education are the
keys in bringing different parts
of the community together to
work towards economic devel-
opment.
• The Municipality of
Bluewater will have additional
oversight into its policies of in cam-
era meetings beginning Jan. 1 under
new provincial regulations.
Bluewater voted to approve the use of
the Ontario Ombudsman after a report
from clerk Janisse Zimmeman gave sev-
eral options to council on how to meet
the regulations.
Zimmerman said under Bill 130, which
came in effect Jan. 1, as of Jan. 1, 2008,
the Municipal Act permits any person to
request an investigation as to whether
the municipality has complied with the
Act in regard to the holding of a closed
meeting.
NOVEMBER 14
• South Huron is hoping it sees a bit of the
grant money the federal government
announced recently towards the $350 million
Huron Elgin London Project (HELP).
The federal government announced Oct. 15
in London that it will provide $50 million
towards the first phase of the project provid-
ed the province matches it.
HELP is the Lake Huron water pipeline pro-
ject, for which the municipality has already
been awarded a $4.3 million Canada -Ontario
Infrastructure Program grant, with the
province kicking in $2.4 million and the feds
paying $1.9 million. Construction for that
project is nearing completion.
• Middlesex OPP Insp. Karen Moffatt pre-
sented the 2007 bi-annual police report at
Lucan Biddulph council Nov.5.
At the 2007 halfway point, the OPP have
received 113 calls from incidents in Lucan
Biddulph.
The highest number of calls were traffic
complaints at 39, followed by alarm calls at
24 and thefts at 17 calls.
There have been no robbery or arson calls,
with Moffatt noting that "they have been
very, very low in that area" so far.
NOVEMBER 21
• Thirty local manufacturing jobs will disap-
pear in a few months as the victim of the ris-
ing Canadian dollar, as Huron Park's Dunline
Rubber Products will shut down after 40
years in operation.
Dunline president Carl Harrigan said
the closing is the sign of a trend
that will see Canada revert
back to what it was decades
ago as producers of natural
resources that will be
processed in other countries.
Although the company said
sales of its specialized broad
rubber belt used in textile
machines were fine, Harrigan
said with companies in India
and China able to undercut Dunline's prices
by 80 per cent, the situation was hopeless.
NOVEMBER 28
• In an attempt to reduce costs, Ontario
Pork announced Nov. 16 it is downsizing its
staff by 25 per cent as well as eliminating
some services and re-allocatting funds to
combat problems faced by the industry.
Ontario Pork director of communications
and marketing Keith Robbins said there will
be both internal and external cuts being
made with the internal reductions covering
services such as janitorial, maintenance pro-
grams, promotional materials and reduced
audiences for consumer campaigns.
Externally Robbins said services such as the
Trucker Quality Assurance program will be
delivered by other groups. "The service is still
out there, it just won't be delivered by
Ontario Pork."
• A kid from Exeter can do anything," says
Tim Long, a well known former Exeter resi-
dent, and current senior writer and produc-
er for "The Simpsons," who was in town
last week.
Long, who lives in Los Angeles, with his
wife Miranda, visited his parents Earl and
Dorothy Long in London and made a special
trip to his old high school.
A bundle of joy
Lucan
Christmas
concert —
Lucan Public
School held its
annual
Christmas con-
cert last week,
titled "Home
for the
Holidays." Top
left from left
are students
Briar Gnay,
Carolyn Hardy,
Taeus Conard
and Hunter
Maslen per-
forming "Eight
Little Reindeer.
Bottom from
left are students
Zachary
Groulx, Jennifer
Nye, Dylan
Smith, Conner
Dufton, A.J.
Dixon and
Logan Palmer, in
"Santa's Pants
are Falling
Down." (pho-
tos/Nina Van
Lieshout)
Positive message — From left, Huron
Wallace, Brooklyn Schroeder, Derrien Small, Kevin Klassen and Dara
Meades brought a message of joy to the Christmas season at the school's
concert Dec. 18. (photo/Pat Bolen)
Centennial
students
Hannah
All together —Above, Connor Flynn, Ciara Airdrie, Jackson Graham
and Devon Durand work together to spell out love. (photos/Pat Bolen)
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