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The Huron Expositor, 1995-10-04, Page 17Abduction attempt in area Exeter OPP are investigating a possible attempted abduction of a nine-year-old Zurich girl, after the youth reported being approached in a car by strangers on a local street last week. Police said the girl was walking near the local United Church Street around 3:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 19 when a vehicle occupied by 'an elderly couple,' approached her. The female passenger opened the door and said 'Come here Sweetie,' explained Constable George Finch. The girl described the couple as elderly, 'in their late 60s,and the car as reddish in colour with flaking paint. Finch stressed police can't be certain the couple intended to abduct the girl. 'It could have been a case of asking for directions,' he said. However, he added that the child responded appropriately when 'she screamed and ran away.' Finch said police are not concentrating on the possibility that the incident was connected to either of two similar occurrences, one of which occurred the same day in Naim and the other in Hensel, August 19. However, he said 'It's interesting to note,' that all three incidents occurred in the afternoon and involved a male and a female couple in a vehicle (although the type of vehicles vary widely). The Nairn incident occurred around 4 p.m. on Sept. 19. A six-year-old boy was approached by a couple in a blue/green 'newer type' car said Finch. When the male driver said 'Why don't you get (47. CARDS OF THANKS MILLER Sincere thanks to everyone who helped in any way when I fell and when George had his eye,implant. Special thanks to Doctor Kosaric, C. Shepherd, Arciszewski, Walker and the staff in emergency at both Seaforth and Stratford Hospitals. Also for the flowers, cards, food brought to the house, visits, phone calls and the Town and Country Homemakers. Also Alma for helping drive and Deb for all the trips to Stratford and the other errands you did for us, we couldn't have done it without you. - George and Joyce 47-40x1 in?' the child said 'No,' and ran away. In Hensel!, on August 19, an 11 year-old boy was approached while walking down King Street, by a couple in a light blue 'Bronco -type' vehicle. The occupants of the car were described as a couple between 35-45 years old. The woman, who had red curly hair repeatedly asked the boy to 'come here,' police report. The youth in this case also refused and fled. While the descriptions of the couples involved vary, Finch conceded 'it's a possibility,' that the description given by the Zurich girl indicated that the couple might have been wearing disguises, including wigs. 'The good thing here is that in all cases the children reacted properly. They ran away. That's what we want them to do,' Finch stressed. - Finch said police are asking parents when keeping an eye on their children to watch for anything suspicious and try to remember details such as licence numbers to report to police. Zurich Public School president Patricia Breton said the school responded to news of the incident with educational measures. Classroom teachers discussed proper reactions to such situations with their classes. 'That way students could talk to their individual classroom teachers if they had any question,' she said. Three girls approached Exeter OPP reported Monday, that another possible abduction attempt occurred this past Friday evening in Hensel. Three local girls ranging in age from 11 to 13 -years -old were walking east on Main Street when they report a silver and red pickup truck with a white topper pulled up beside them. One of the occupants reportedly said either 'Come here,' or 'get in the truck,' said Exeter OPP Sergeant Paul Holmes. 'The girls took off running,' he added. Holmes said the girls said the driver and passenger reportedly exited the vehicle and ran down an alley on the east side of Drysdale's Appliances. 'I don't know why they would do that,' said Holmes, adding that the suspects must have returned and took the vehicle as it was not found. The suspects are described as 'non-white,' in their 20s or 30s and both described as'skinny and short,' said Holmes. New senior bowler has high triple of 565 Newcomer Art MacElmon set the standard of achievement at this season's opener of Senior's Team Bowling. Art rolled the high single of 238, and the high triple of 565. Sandy Doig and Betty Oldacre bowled games over 200. Nudging the magic 200 game were Shirley Strong and Bob Harris. Welcome again to the 38 bowlers, to a season of fun and keen competition. Huron County takes aim at smoking women The county has received $44,000 from the federal gov- ernment to help women quit smoking. "Women have been targeted as a priority group by both the federal and provincial govern- ments," health promotions specialist Cheryl Feagan said. Health Canada's Tobacco Demand Reductions Strategy has given funding to The Huron County Action Group J Community Calendar � WED., OCT. 4 1:00-3:00 p.m. - Parents' and Tots' Skating at the Arena 1:30-4:00 p.m. - Senior Shuffleboard at the Arena 2:00 p.m. - Girls' High School Basketball - CHSS vs. SDHS 4:30 - 5:30 p.m. - Ringette at the Arena 5:30 - 6:30 p.m. - Minor Hockey practice at the Arena 6:30 - 9:00 p.m. - Ringette practice at the Arena 8:00 - 10:00 p.m. - Recreation Volleyball at the High School THUR., OCT. 5 2:00 p.m. - Boys' High School Volleyball - SHDHS vs. SDHS 4:00 - 5:30 p.m. - Figure Skating at the Arena 8:00 - 10:00 p.m. - Recreation Basketball at the High School FRI,, OCT. 6 1:00-3:00 p.m. - Seniors' Bowling at Starlight Lanes 1:00 - 3:00 p.m. - Free Public Skating sponsored by the Agricultural Society 4:15-5:15 p.m. - Houseleague Hockey Practice 5:15-6:15 p.m. - Atom II Hockey Practice 6:15-7:15 p.m. - Pee Wee I Hockey Practice 7:15-8:15 p.m. - Ringette Practice 8:30-10:00 p.m. - Legion Oldtimers Hockey SAT , OCT. 7 8:30 - 4:00 p.m. - Ag. Society Broomball Tournament 4:00 - 5:00 p.m, - Novice Hockey Practice 5:00 - 6:00 p.m. - Atom II Hockey Practice 6:00 - 7:15 p.m. - Atom I Hockey Practice 7:15 - 8:45 p.m. - Pee Wee II Hockey Practice 8:45 - 10:15 p.m. - Pee Wee I Hockey Practice SUN., OCT. 8 11:00 - 2:00 p.m. - Recreation Hockey at the Arena 2:00 - 4:00 p.m. - Minor Hockey practices al the Arena 4:00 - 8:15 p.m. - Ringette practices at the Arena MON, , OCT. 9 4:30-9:00 p.m. - Figure Skating at the Arena 7:00-9:00 p.m. -Furniture Refinishing at the High School 7:30-10:30 p.m. - Bingo at Arena - Hall opens at 6:30‘p.m. TUES. , OCT. 10 9:00-11:30 a.m. - Parents' and Tots',Playgroup at the Northside United Church • 9:00-10:00 a.m. - Fitness is Fun at the Arena . 10:00-11:00 a.m. - Line Dancing at the Arena 10:00-12:00 noon - Parents' and Tots' Skating at the Arena 1:30 p.m. - Seaforth Women's Institute meeting at Market St. Senior Apts. Guest speaker. 4:30 - 5:30 p.m. - Teachers' Hockey at the Arena 5:30 - 6:30 p.m. - Atom 1 Hockey Practice 6:30-8:00 p.m. - Bantam Hockey Practice 7:00-9:30 p.m. - Water Colour Painting at the High School with Gwen Kiar 8:00 p.m. - Seaforth Hospital Auxiliary Meeting in Conference Room #2. 8:00-9:00 p.m. - Dog Obedience at the Arena 8:00-10:00 p.m. - Centenaires Hockey Practice WED. , OCT. 11 1:30-4:00 p.m. - Senior Shuffleboard at the Arena 2:00 p.m. - Girls' High School Basketball - GDCI vs. SDHS. 4:40 - 5:30 - Ringette Practice at the Arena 5:30 - 6:30 Minor hockey practice at the Arena 6:30 - 7:30 p.m. - Ringette practice at the Arena 7:00-8:00 p.m. - Step Training at the Arena 7:30 - 9:00 p.m. - Minor Broomball at the Arena 8:00-9:00 p.m. - Fitness is Fun at the Arena 9.00 - 10:30 p.m. - Ladies' Broomball at the Arena 10:30 - 11:30 p.m. - Men's Broomball at the Arena If you're organizing a non-profit event of interest to other Seeforth area residents, phone the recreation office 527-0882 or the Expositor at 527-0240, or mail the information to Community Calendar, The Huron Expositor. Box 89, Seaforth, Ontario, NOK 1 WO well in advance of the scheduled date. Free listing includes date, time, name of event and location only. Space for the Community Calendar is donated by The Huron Expositor. 1 on Women and Smoking to develop smoking cessation groups in the county. The action group includes repre- sentatives from the Huron County Health Unit, Women's Shelter and Counselling Services, Women Today and Phoenix House. Women Today will admin- ister the funds and a part-time project co-ordinator will be hired. The funding period is September 1995 -March 1997. THE HURON EXPOSITOR, October 4, 1995-17 DAVID SCOTT PHOTO LIFE IMITATES ART - Artist Jo Manning, of RR 3, Blyth, posed for a photo beside her self-portrait during the Huron Society of Artist's annual studio tour Saturday. One hundred and sixty-nine lawn bowlers end season with banquet The Seaforth Lawn Bowling Tuesday evening. Following Club officially ended its season the meal, eight tables of euchre hosting a District 4 banquet on Friday evening. One hundred and sixty-nine members attended at the Seaforth Legion Hall, with the banquet catered to by the Legion ladies. Mr. Roy Triebner of the Exeter Club and this year's District Chairman was the Master of Ceremonies. The program opened with a speech and song by Bob McMillan of Seaforth. Various skits were performed and songs sung, and draws were made at intervals during the evening. The program ended with a rousing sing song of bowling songs led by Paul Zurbrigg with Carol Carter at the piano. Next year's District Chairman will be Dennis Schmidt of Goderich. More than 40 members attended the pot luck supper at the local club house last were in play, also several greens of lawn bowlers. Prizes for euchre went to: ladies' and men's high, Mary Finlayson and Phillip Thomas; lone hands, Gerrie Driscoll and Ken Preszcator;. consolation, Betty Hulley and Bob McMillan. The last tournament of the season; a men's pairs, was held at the Seaforth greens last Wednesday. 'Winners for the day were Tom Philips and Thelma Coombs with Betty Tilley filling in for Tom for the first game due to one London team not coming. Second went to Don Breutigan and partner of Hanover and third, Bob Hart and Bob McIntosh of London Fairmont. In men's pairs at Mitchell, Fred Tilley and Eric Matzold won second prize on Thursday. OPP warn of scam attempts Goderich OPP are warning area residents to beware of a scam from someone posing as a representative for a Windsor hospital - that doesn't exist. The complaints were for- warded to Goderich OPP by Huron -Tel, the phone compa- ny in Ripley, early last week, says Goderich OPP Const. Steve Beasley. It is a computer-generated call in which the recording advises the recipient that "the Windsor Community Hospi- tal" has an "emergency call for you." The recipient is then told to punch in either his or her Bell Calling Card number or credit card number. "If people do that, the com- puter grabs their card number, and the criminals can use it," Beasley says. Neither of the two com- plainants complied with the request, says Goderich OPP Staff -Sgt. Brian Baldwin. Instead they called Huron -Tel to register complaints. "We call (relatives) directly if we have a phone number," says Gloria Burt, assistant director of nursing for Alexandra Marine and General Hospital. "If not, we ask police to fol- low through on it. We don't call collect. We don't ask peo- ple to reimburse us for the call." The caller appears to be tar- geting people in the Dungannon and Port Albert areas so far, says. "We want to warn people. We're asking people to simply hang up. It's never a good idea to give }our charge card num- ber or the expiry date over the phone," Beasley says. Directory Assistance could not find any reference to a Windsor Community Hospi- tal. Windsor's four main hos- Metropolitan, Westem IODF Hotel Dieu and Grace, - ha nalgamated into two: \k int.' ! "!gional Hospital (cons )f Metropolitan and Westt,n) and Hotel Dieu/Grace. Goderich area band releases new CD There's a party goin' on. But the guest of honour isn't a person. It's somnabulant, the first CD by the ashgrove, a local four -member band. Not bad for a band that's barely into its second year as a hand. "We got the [band] name from an old Celtic tape called the 'Faery Round'," explains bass player Chris Colbourne, who describes himself as a "big fan of Celtic music." 'Ashgrove' was the name of the last song on the second side. "We had pages and pages of names, and 'the ashgrove' made it to the final four, and that's the one we decided on," Colbourne recalls. Drummer Rick Lobb has had formal training in envi- ronmental technology. He liked the name because it had a 'positive, green ambiance. somnambulant is a collec- tion of 10 songs. All the lyrics and music are original, most written by guitarist Ryan Buckley (the fourth band member, Jeremy Jongejan, is the vocalist). They've already had two 'release' parties for somnam- bulant, but the local one is scheduled to start at about 8 p.m. this Sunday, at the Candlelight Restaurant, Goderich. the ashgrove will begin playing at about 9 p.m. Both Lobb and Colbourne say the group wanted a name that would not immediately suggest a specific sound. "If anyone wants to label us I think the closest label woult he a kind of rocky pot sound," Colbourne says. . "I'd say we're a modern rood or alternative pop band," Lobb says. "We're lucky that Ryan who writes most of the music, writes intelligent lyrics," he adds. Both Lobb. and Colbourne say Buckley is the core of the group. "People can relate to them (the songs)," Colbourne says, laughing. "We hope. "We almost have that old 70s mentality, where the gui- tar player and the singer are the centre stage; they're the ones you pay the most atten- tion to. "Jeremy and Ryan are the hooks and we're sort of the beat. You know, you can dance to it, or you can listen to it." When the ashgrove first started playing gigs, they wore the standard ripped jeans and T-shirts, Colbourne says. "Now, we've brought up the point - several times - that maybe we should start worry- ing about our image." They don't want a 'trendy' image - "Trend kills; it changes so fast," says Colbourne - but they do want a professional look that suits their music. They point to U2 in its early years. "They didn't wear anything flamboyant when they first started," says Colborne. "They were just musicians, and they just wanted to play." subject, but "we don't rely on singing about getting drunk or , using drugs to write psyche- delic music. "Ryan writes intelligent lyrics, and he doesn't rely on that type of thing to sell music." "We didn't sit down and make a conscious decision not to use this type of language," Colbourne says. "We might, if we became a political hand. It just happened." "Ryan writes about what he knows, and he's travelled in Europe, but what he knows best is the Goderich arca," Lobb says. 'Leaving,' the first song on the first side, is about getting out of the city and "getting back to a small town, where life is real." Like many young bands, the ashgrove didn't have the resources available to many bigger bands: the big chunk of money, access to a studio and equipment, and distrihution and promotion left to the experts in the record company. "We aren't signed," Lohh says. "And this is a popular trend now, all these indepen- dent bands making CDs." The ashgrove took a chunk of the money' it's earned from gigs, augmented that with a person- al 'oan, and took the plunge. "We booked studio time and we'd go in nights and aftcr work," Lohh says. "You go in to record and then you mix, and then you get it manufac- tured. As far as distribution is concerned, our manager [Darin Addison, located in Toronto) is distributing it." Addison has started up his own record company, automatik records, Colbourne adds. The songs on somnambu- lant are songs you could play in multi -generational compa- ny without a qualm. "There's no swearing, and there's no references to pro - chemical -abuse, whether it be drugs or alcohol," Lobb says. They're not trying to give their music a moral stance on the "It's that classic small-town thing: you know everybody," ColNurn says, while Toronto is more anonymous. "A lot of our friends are very supportive - they've come to see us time and time and timeagain; they keep coming out," he says, adding wryly, "That helps us. The bar owner doesn't know who they arc." 'Sleepwalking,' one of the songs on somnambulant, has gotten air time on several radio stations - providing something of a linguistics problem for at least one DJ, says Lobb and Colbourne appreciatively. "He said, 'This is the first single off the ashgrove's new CD called songnam... som. . . I'll get hack to you on that'," Lobb says. Their music reflects the diverse interests of the four band members: Buckley, who is from England, has a prefer- ence for British pop; Colbourne likes Celtic music; Jongejan listens mainly to blues and rock and Lobb is partial to "alternative music." "We're all joined by the fact that we have a really strong love for the band U2," Lohh says. "As part of the music cul- ture in Canada, you fight the -U.S. [influence) constantly," Colbourne says. "But since the '90s, there's been a boom- ing Canadianism. We're hop- ing Canadians will begin to listen more to Canadian hands, and our goal is to make the type of music that a lot of different people like."