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things happen all day, Steffler said
that without Londesborough’s Brent
Scrimgeour, as well as Steve
Schraeder, who organized the minor
hockey games, there’s no way the
day could have happened.
Despite the game being in Clinton,
less than an hour from London, the
Erie Otters were the home team and
they benefitted from the rub of the
green, winning the game by a score
of 7-2.
Brendan Sellan, Brendan
Hoffmann and Emmett Sproule all
scored for Erie in the first period to
put the Otters on top early.
Billy Moskal of London scored
the Knights’ only two goals within
three in-game minutes of one
another.
Moskal scored the Knights’ first
goal at 18:05 of the first period and
then came out flying in the second
period, scoring his second goal of
the game just 40 seconds into the
second period.
After Moskal’s two goals,
however, it was all Erie, with Luke
Beamish scoring in the second
period to keep the score at 4-2 for
the Otters.
The Otters’ Daniel D’Amato, Elias
Cohen and Danial Singer all scored
in the third period to put the game
out of reach.
The Otters more than doubled the
Knights on shots on goal, with the
Otters managing 48 shots on goal,
compared to the Knights’ 22.
The referees had their hands full
on Saturday night, handing out 40
minutes of penalties to the Knights
and 20 to the Otters. Many of the
penalties were assessed in the third
period, which was full of rough play
and fights once the score was put out
of reach for the Knights.
For the Knights, Billy Moskal,
Connor Federkow and Max McCue
all received major fighting penalties,
while Brendan Kischnick and Kurtis
Henry of the Otters also received
major fighting penalties. McCue was
the only player on either team to
earn a match penalty.
The game represented continuing
bad luck for the Knights in Clinton.
When they were last in Huron
County in 2016, they also played the
Otters in Clinton, losing by a score
of 5-2.
The Knights and the Otters
currently sit beside one another in
the OHL preseason standings. The
Otters are in seventh place with two
wins, one loss and one shootout loss,
while the Knights have two wins and
two losses.
The 2019/2020 OHL regular
season begins tonight (Sept. 19) with
the Sudbury Wolves taking on the
Niagara Ice Dogs. The rest of the
league is then in action over the
weekend, with London playing its
first game at home on Sept. 20
against the Peterborough Petes.
After Reeve Bernie Bailey had
espoused the work done by himself,
North Huron Council and North
Huron staff to address a labour
shortage in the municipality and its
surrounding area, Economic
Development Officer Chris Watson
has verified council is taking “bold”
steps that will benefit the
municipality in the long run.
Watson attended council’s
Monday night meeting to address
the labour shortage in North Huron,
explaining how the county has been
attempting to address the issue for
years through the creation of
consultation committees and events
like job fairs.
Unfortunately, Watson said, many
of those initiatives have hit snags
due to distance from major areas and
a lack of housing, an issue that North
Huron is hoping to remedy.
After Watson walked council
through the process, starting with
economic development plans set in
2016 and carrying on to the most
recent work with industries in and
around North Huron, Bailey
explained that the biggest barrier to
industry finding skilled labour is a
lack of housing.
“There is no place to live,” he said.
“What manufacturers have been
doing is busing people in, but that
makes for a long day.”
Bailey explained that local
industries are bringing people from
places like London for a 12-hour
shift, meaning four hours of travel
time and 12 hours working, making
for a 16-hour day.
“That’s why we’re developing
Hutton Heights,” Bailey said, as
well as indicating there are other
projects council is considering that
can’t be discussed yet. “We’re really
working as a team between North
Huron, Morris-Turnberry and the
county.”
Bailey pointed out that only one of
the industries that the municipal and
county representatives are working
with is in North Huron, with the rest
in neighbouring municipalities.
He said that’s why North Huron
Council is eager to work with its
neighbours, but said in no uncertain
terms that he wanted the residential
development that remedies this
housing stock shortage to be in
North Huron.
Watson offered kudos to North
Huron for taking that initiative.
“That a bold step and one that will
pay dividends,” he said. “It’s an
excellent path you’re going down
right now.”
Watson said the resolve North
Huron was showing was mirrored in
a project the economic development
office recently proposed to the
county that included eight initiatives
to help address housing shortages
county wide.
Bailey said the solutions couldn’t
come quick enough, pointing to
Wescast as an opportunity the
municipality could lose.
“Wescast is short 50 people a day,”
he said. “That’s a worldwide
company. If they can’t do it here,
they are going to move it to China or
Mexico.”
NH addressing labour shortage
Knights open regular season Sept. 20 vs. Petes
No stopping the Otters
It was the Erie Otters who ended up on top of Saturday’s contest with the London Knights in
Clinton by a score of 7-2. However, the day raised thousands of dollars, as well as plenty of
awareness for the Tanner Steffler Foundation, which was the real goal of Huron County
Hockey Day. Here, the Otters’ Brendan Hoffmann worked towards the Knights’ net, with Gerard
Keane doing everything in his power to stop him. Keane stepped just over the line on this play,
however, earning a holding penalty. (Hannah Dickie photo)
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