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August 4, 1999
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Local weather
Wednesday Cloud j
vyith showers - and
thunderstorms High 24 . .
Thursday -Mix sun cloud
chonte of showers .High
25 Low 15 -
• Friday --Sunny. with
cloudy periods -sigh 24
• Low 12
. Saturday- Sunny
• 24 -ow near I-2 .
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In brief
Citizens'
group
continues
to be ready
to support
one -tier
government
A mid-August meeting
is being planned by the
.Concerned Citizens for
the Promotion of a Single
Tier Government, says
the group's representative
Ken Campbell.
"We're• looking into
'how we can, position
ourselves if the decision
they've (county •
councillors havel,made
doesn't work. % says
Campbell.
In July. Huron -County
council voted against a •
motion that the Strategic
Planning 'Committee look
at the single,tier option to
meld • all 27
municipalities into one. a
movement begun by the
Concerned Citizens'
group.
The Concerned
Citizens,' group has not
met since Huron County
council's 40 to 21 vote
defeating the move to
look, at a single tier
government for Huron.
While,Campbell says
his group is not trying to
"force" anyone to -go
with a single tier system.
he wants his group to be
able to "encourage" the
county to look at single
tier again if for any
reason. county coprkil or
the provincial
government does not give
its approval to the cuirent
restructuring proposal. '
"It's not a dead issue.
We have to wait until the
action the councils are
doing plays itself out." he
says.
While a date for. a
meeting of the Concerned
Citizens has not been set
yet. Campbell says it will
probably be held in
-Clinton and include an
update on how Huron
County is progressing
with restructuring and a
speaker from a
municipality that chose a
Single -tier system .
"We'd like to hear
from a- speaker with
experience with single
tier government who
could tell us how they did
it," he says.
By Susan Hundertmark
Playwright
tackles school
issues
Pagel
Thailand
visitors untie
Pagel
KNOB cool
al the pool
Pees IS
Horse play
Kyle McNichol ('topl. Shaun Brooker and Kyle Kirkconnell were keeping coot at tt'e :ions pool
Thursday afternoon as temperatures and humidity made life uncomfortably hot around town
last week
^t'--dgerccr' ;notc
Businesses
want police
here Zq. hours
Large break-ins prompt BIA
to request more policing':
By Scott Hilgendorff
_. csdCr='!itgr
Atter ••.c,. _ ent ;tire reale-ins. n he,..ar!'. •flour. the- i
morning,. The Seafrrth•Bu•ane-. i,upr '.em*nr •\tea .illi
like to ,ee officer, 4)n pairfl-_4-nn,r. t .lac • ' '
•
. The.iurrent .aintract her•.te•e:n the •trrw°i tnd tlntavto
Prm.tnctal Polite •,y e'. ,rtticsr, •tesi,in: ltd 30 the n;wn for 2.0 -
hour eacli•Jye - , .
'Vit just don't-. int in:.,n re .r,ndali,m .irt�li treat in,.
,ani $1.-\ Chair Susan 1-j.tlf,;enn•.
• t. tew'week.s aUI. rht/usands .1t!collar; north or.;h)thing
.; i •alien in .i hraak•ttnc:r,'aer'rOni of a c. ; Melts \year'and -
luring the winter. the _: i, ti i--.ma.ned :n i ..unci';
Se.Jf4)rih Jeweler, es -hi :h it ..1-)41, r 14n!'
mer4handise hest:_=taken -
H.ilipenn2. aid :t
ac:dents occurred around
J.m...'hen. people know•;here
.trent .;lny police girl dtit. m
dist~ :n the town-. ri
\ Motion' reccar to 1 t
B1.\ rritnure. .upp4 r� t
recque:st for 21-litJour poin.:if ne
which. thr iui,h -the. •ninute,.
• will he on Seaforth Council's
auil1$,agenda. for pos,ihitr
,iiscuiision. ,. . • • .
Halfpenn.s said t:he BI.\
Luncerned :aminal, are a:r.:i_ ;e
routines .trod know when the:. ..:an :nme ;m cc'i mmit
.rime, r .
-These sire protessronals. TheS .cmin•g n .int: :rinL. 'he •
places, Thee aren't-k.ds aid H n peens
.They're tri and out n'three ,ninute .arid ;nogg esacr;.
what•the're taking.' she said. 'ddingr :t - :inc:dental
that both mime, took place .'.:hen -there .tre9 ' 7, itce .i,4i,-rle1
to the. town. •-
• V'vhile•,he hasn't hada-hirsute., 'n 4-14,sviiow •i •,, ;ii:t`ti .,'P
ion_. ,he helieves•hreat :and.enter. ••t •t,i n.r_ situ,:e tr: nix ,
•"t stunt recall stn.thine like •,u... hien .1/4e ha: ','v,
she ,aid. -•— -- - - • - -- -
:Halfpenns •. as under :he mire'-tt:n nt-i ire 401 n fur..
from -4 a.m. tv ti.p -ur t';r )PP •_ t, • i, iC":.,
20.hours each :;t .
Staff Sergeant Gel'r_._ Lc;n,har• • N ht' ". • f
Clinton •and •Seaiorr nt
what hours ptolice are not ,r, .sur. .ti Seat rL
not want to•put that ant,rm.tt,, ti.,cit :ager: r i. -i,
criminals:
•He did ,ati that ...stifle there Jr-. ,tor ciur, nt,t
Huron detachment has- or f-cers on r'.ar d A nese -nutid'. :ire
,uppu:ed to brie them •air +ugh 'he . ir. c u • - mr,imu:e, n
See OPP, Page 2
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Quoted
'We just don't,
want anymore
vandalism or
break-ins',--
BIA Chair Susan
Halfpanny
ural project expected to begin this week
Business Improvement. Area Inco
By Scott Ht'Igendorff
Expositor Editor
The town's Business improvement Area has
been incorporated. allow ing it to begin fund raising
plansao help support a mural project.
,"This week. everybody finished signing the-'
documents to have the BIA incorporated." said
Chair Susan Halfpenny.
Already. plans are. prepared for two murals on
the sides of Seaforth buildings with work expected
to begin on the first this week and at least .two
other murals in the planning -stage,
rporates to. begin fund raising
Artist .Allen Hil_endorf.-from Chatsworth. has
taken photopephs and postcards to -develop the
murals and w i I I begin first on the band.' •
Each mural is expected to cost about 515.000.
Halfpenny said there are plans for fund raising
events that the BIA .will announce later and
donation•boxes will be-available.at area.atures._.__
She said some • individuals have alreadve
contributed donations toward the Seatorth Uistnc't
High School All -Girls tifarching Band mural.
Some of that was received during. the past few
months when the band faced losing funding. from
the school board. The town has also summated
toward the first mural,
It was that issue that put the Se:in'rh Band n ne
top spot as..i mural .uncept. •
Cathy Pletsth and Cathy Elliott,. tiirmer Local
Architectural -fid%isuryr Commtuee members. had•
"beenasked by the Bi.\ to use their local L;\C.\C.
and curnrnunit' resources to conte up with..spine
mural concepts. •
.The hand. with a history in town Dating baxk ru
—the i 430x; carne tii'itnpotianr i` ea -and the -dun
ere looking through old sear hooks tor
photographs of the band.
But the picture that w-orked best was found
through Hazel Hildebrand 'whose husband. George.
Se. ARBORETUM, Pape 2
`Memory Lane' arboretum project continuing to grow
By Scott Hilgendorff
Expositor Editor•
Memory Lane 1. a project
that will never stop growing.
This year has seen about
20 trees added to the town's
memorial park; next to the
high school. • '
it was started Iasi year as a
place where people could
purchase a tree in memory of
a 'family member with a
plaque honoring each person.
"We had approached the
high school and they gave us
permission to use that piece
of property with the
understanding it would never
be used for anything else."
said John Forrest. public
works superintendent for the
town. maintaining the
Project.
• 'hat property will always
remain a memorial area," he
said.
The town's two funeral
homes distribute information
about Memory. Lane and it is
also available at the town but
to date, only one plaque has
been placed in the park.
Forrest said when the
project was originally
proposed the Seaforth Lions
Club and the Seaforth.
Agricultural Society had also
expressed an interest in
purchasing a tree in honour
of past presidents each club
has had.
The trees are small right
now and with plans to add
even more varieties. the
project: is also growing into
an arboretum.
The Ausable Bas Yield
Conservation Authority w, is
briwght in to help design the
park with an arboretum in
mind. • -
There are about 23
•different kinds of trees in the
park and people can pick the.
one they would like to have
in memory of a loved one.
The name of tree is listed on
the plaque.
'There are stilt plans Tor
about. tune more trees and the
'arieries-range from 'pin
cherries and tulip trees to, ash
and and Kentucky Coffee,
Tree.
.Between .t nursery in.
Bavtield and one in
Hamilton. Forrest said they
have been able to find all the
trees picked out 'fur the
project, by the conservation
authority.
Unce.alJ the trees are sold.
the arboretum aspect of :hc
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