The Huron Expositor, 1995-11-29, Page 1viest
Close-up
A local woman tells
her story about
importance of
Lung Association.
See page 2
Santa's here!
Crowds lined Main
Street Friday night
to see the floats
and costumes.
see pages 16 & 17
Drama
The SDHS Drama
Club is staging a
funny play
starting tonight.
see page 18
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Your Community Newspaper Since 1860 — Seaforth, Ontario
Briefly
Skunk rabid
Tests have come back on
the two skunks that were
recently shot in Seaforth.
One was shot at Seaforth
Public School. The other
was killed in Harpurhey.
One tested positive for
rabies, the other did not.
Goderich St. resident Paul
Haley, who initially reported
the skunks, says even
though one skunk tested
negative, officials thought
that was because the disease
hadn't had time to develop
yet.
Haley commends the staff
and principal at SPS for
keeping students separated
from the wandering skunk
recently.
Although i t ' s
undetermined if the skunk
that was shot at the school
was the one that had rabies,
Haley says he wouldn't be
surprised because it
"smelled bad" when it wan-
dered through his yard
which isn't considered nor-
mal.
Local man hit
A pedestrian in dark
clothes with a white toque,
who was standing in the
middle of the intersection
and directing traffic on his
own at the corners of
Goderich, East William and
Victoria Streets, was struck
by a northbound vehicle on
the highway and taken to
Seaforth Community
Hospital with what police
describe as "serious in-
juries" after the Santa Claus
Parade in Scaforth Friday
night.
The Goderich detachment
of the Ontario Provincial
Police says Brian Urbach,
51, of Main Street S., in
Seaforth was not in any way
connected to that successful'
parade.
The driver of the vehicle
was not injured. Police say
nobody was charged as a
result of the incident .at
about 8:04 p.m.
Boy injured
A six-year-old boy from
Tuckcrsmith Township was
taken to Scaforth hospital by
car after running out in front
of a moving vehicle near
Egmondville United Church
in the early afternoon a
week ago Sunday.
Provincial police at
Goderich say David Haney
was injured in the accident
at the intersection of Centre
Street and London Rd. at
12:28 p.m., Nov. 19.
Reeves to run
The reeves of Logan and
Wallace townships are let-
ting their names stand for
election whcn Perth County
Council selects a new war-
den Dec. 13.
Logan Reeve John Van
Baked and Wallace Reeve
Meridith Schneider hope to
replace the incumbent War-
den Walter McKenzie when
the Hibbert reeve's one-year
term ends next month.
Dream fixed
The Huron chapter of The
Heart and Stroke Foundation
of Ontario has seen to it the
dream home, damaged ear-
lier this year in a storrh, that
it offered as a recent draw
prize has been rebuilt. It
now is ready for delivery to
the Clinton man who won,
Roy Voddcn.
November 29, 1995 — 75 Cents Plus GST
Hundreds enjoy annual Sank _as parade
BOILERSMITH EXPRESS - This float entered by Boilersmith Ltd. of Seaforth won the best overall prize in the 1995 Lions' SDAVID SCOTT
anta Claus
PHOTo
Parade held Friday night down Seaforth's Main Street. The winning float featured a model of an old-fashioned steam-engine locomotive.
Children on board helped light up the float with sparklers during the parade. For more parade photos see pages 16 and 17.
Signal -Star chain sold to Bowes
Signal -Star Publishing of
Goderich, publishers of nine
community newspapers in
Midwestem Ontario, has
confirmed the sale of. its
operation to Bowes Publishers
of London.
Goderich-based Signal -Star
Publishing, which serves the
counties of Huron, Perth and
Bruce through its community
newspapers in Goderich,
Mitchell, Seaforth, Clinton,
Zurich -Grand Bend,
Lucknow, Kincardine,
Walkerton and Port Elgin and
Focus and Journal
newsmagazines, bi-weekly
products serving Huron and
Bruce counties, was
purchased from Bob Shrier by
Burgoyne Community
Newspapers of St. Catharines
in 1987.
The agreement with Bowes
means that Signal -Star papers
join a growing stable of
Bowes publications which
includes five daily
newspapers and nearly 40
community papers across
Canada. The company's head
office and main web -offset
plant is located in London
where it publishes London
Business Magazine, Ontario
Farmer and other agriculture
related magazines.
The sale to Bowes was a
natural fit for Signal -Star,
chief operating officer, Tom
Flynn said, adding that
cultures and operating
philosophies are compatible.
'Bowes has a fine
reputation in the industry and
they certainly know the
community newspaper
business' he said. 'We think
our styles and philosophies
are compatible and that this
agreement presents great
opportunities for both,
companies.'
'Our company also has an
outstanding reputation in the
newspaper and printing
community and we will be as
committed as ever to
producing quality community
newspapers in each and every
community we serve.'
W. R. Dempsey, 'CEO of
Bowes Publishers said, 'The
acquisition of the Signal -Star
group increases our presence
and gives us • an aided
dimension in southern
Ontario. We're pleased to
welcome the Signal -Star
group to our family of
community newspapers and
specialized publications.'
Signal -Star publishing grew
from a single, family-owned
paper in Goderich to include
nine community newspapers,
two tourist -related magazines,
two country -wide
newsmagazines and a thriving
web -offset printing division.
The company was one of the
first in Canada to make this"
risky move to web offset?,
printing in the 1960s and was
the printer for over 20 weekly
publications in Midwestern
Ontario area. <f
Today, Signal -Star;
Publishing employs 146
people, about 90 of whom
work out of the company's
head ;office and central,
composing and printing
facility in Goderich. While
some administrative functions
will be moved to Bowes head
office in Hyde Park, London,
the sale will mean business as
usual for Signal -Star
Publishing.
DAVID SCOTT PHOTO
CRITTER CAPTURED - Mike Costello, right, has a hold of
a pot -belly pig that has been missing since the Seaforth
Fall Fair on Thanksgiving weekend. Mike, along with
daughter Jessica, left, Dave Hulley (not in photo) and
hunting dogs Spot and Brandy, cornered the lost pig in the
woods behind the Seaforth high school on Sunday and
managed to capture it safely. It doesn't look any worse for
the wear after being at large in the wilderness for about
seven weeks. The missing pig, which caused a bit of
chaos when ft ran across the racetrack at the fairgrounds
after its escape, will be returned to its rightful owner.
Grade 13 will be eliminated by 2001
BY AMY NEILAND3
SSP News Staff
this month that a new four-year
high school program will be
developed and put in place for
those students entering Grade 9
in 1997.
Once fully implemented in
2001, government figures
indicate $350 million will he
saved annually.
"We arc working to develop
proposals to influence direction
as it unfolds rather than sitting
and waiting to see what hap-
pens," says Huron County
Board of Fclucation Director
Paul Carroll.
years of high school," says cement," says Clinton Central
Seaforth District High School Huron' Secondary School prin-
principal Jim Moore. "Some cipal Linda McKenzie. "There
are prepared intellectually and has been so little information."
emotionally and some arc not. She says there are many
And with tuition going up, questions surrounding a new
that's the last thing a family four-year program, such as
needs is another year. It's too whether the current program
costly." would be compressed into four
"1 have mixed emotions years or whether universities
about this," says Moore. "I'm would revise their programs.
not sure it is the educational The fink year of high school
thingto do but it certainly is was introduced in Ontario in
the nancial way to go." 1929, she says. Grade 13 was
originally implemented to
"It was a hasty announ- Continued on page 7
The Royal Commission on
Learning recommended a year
ago that the fifth year of high
school in Ontario, or Grade 13
as it was once known, be
abolished, as it has been for
many years in other provinces.
It is a subject educators have
bceh bandying about for at
least the past three decades.
John Snobelen, minister of
education, announced earlier
With a loss of one year of
high school, the board will be
preparing for a reduced level of
staff, which will be done
through attrition, he says, the
same route the local board
followed for Social Contract
cutbacks.
Arca high school principals
are concerned about the effects
getting rid of the fifth -year of
high school will have on
students.
"What concerns me is kids
going to university after four