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Please see clinic for details. [11 http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/82-625-x/2015001 /article/14156-eng.htm OO t'"tTrademarks of AIR MILES International Trading B.V. Used under license by LoyaltyOne, Co. and Canada Hearing Ltd. LUCO2 NSP-FATH-CLIN Marco Vigliotti/Postmedia Network Steve and Barb DelChiaro, pictured, are retiring after serving as owners of the Seaforth Foodland grocery store for the past two decades. Owners of Seaforth Foodland set to retire Marco Vigliotti Postmedia Network In the over two decades Steve and Barb DelChiaro have owned the Seaforth Foodland grocery store, one night stands out in their minds as providing unquestionably the greatest professional challenge they've ever weathered. It also spawned what they believe was one of their great- est achievements. April 27, 2013. In the early hours of that fateful spring day, a suspicious looking blaze gutted the com- munity's only grocery store, threatening to spell the end for one of the anchor tenants of Seaforth's Main Street. As the DelChiaros prepare to retire at the end of the month, transferring ownership to MJ and Kevin Baer who also oper- ate the Lucan franchise, they maintain that there was never a moment when they consid- ered not rebuilding the store. Their logic? It was the right thing to do, not just for them but also for the community. "We had a sense of need to do the right thing (and) rebuild the store - (to) do what is right for the community, do what is right for the employees," Steve said in a lengthy interview with the Expositor conducted inside that newly rebuilt Seaforth store. "People asking me on the very first day, 'do you plan to rebuild?' And we said yes" Reflecting back, he said the roughly eight month reconstruction process represented the "hardest challenge" he had encoun- tered over the course of his entire 43 -year long career in the grocery business. Meanwhile, the opening of the new modern -looking Sea - forth store in December 2013 was a "proud accomplish- ment," as well as a record rebuild for Sobeys Ontario, the parent company of Foodland, the DelChiaros said. "We're proud of the out- come of this. We moved at such lightning speed, right from the demolition - they were pulling the rubble away and it was still smouldering," Steve explained, adding that the actual construction of the new store only took about 16 weeks. "We couldn't have done it without the support thatwe got from our staff, our head office," Barb added. Now that, in the words of Barb, the "store is all put together;' the couple decided to retire while they were still young enough to travel the world. As owners of what is likely Seaforth's busiest retail opera- tion, the DelChiaros said they've been unable to squeeze in more than two consecutive weeks of vacation time since they first started at the local Foodland store back in Octo- ber 1994. Citing the example of come- dian Jerry Seinfeld, Barb said the couple wanted to "get out while still healthy and doing good," and did not want to make their exit "too late" "I'll be 59 this summer, so it's time to retire. We want to travel, now is the time, while we're young, to travel - it's hard to do that when you own a business" Steve said, noting that a 13 -day trip to Europe last year was the longest they were away from work in about 28years. Although planning to visit England and Quebec in the near future, the DelChiaros maintain that they have no intentions of permanently leav- ing Seaforth, where they've raised their children and own a home. In fact, the community's quiet and peaceful rural charm was one of its strongest appeals to the DelChiaros when they first decided to setup shop. The couple, working in the Greater Toronto Area at the time, said they were lured by the opportunity to return to more familiar terrain - Steve is from Stratford, while Barb hails from London - and Seaforth's more relaxed pace compared to the bustle of the infamously congested region centred around Canada's largest city. "It seemed to be a nice, quaint small town - a good place to raise your family," Steve said of his first impres- sions of the community. 'And it was, I don't think we have any regrets:' added Barb. While eager to start retire- ment, the DelChiaros acknowl- edge that they'll leave a bit of family behind in the Foodland staff, some of whom predate their tenure in Seaforth. "We do enjoy our staff, they're good people," Barb said.