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Huron Expositor, 1999-08-18, Page 3In brief Thursday's Showcase Hockey Game brings wealth of talent to Seaforth While the August beat may still be here, the Dave McLlwain CCM Hockey. School is •going to put things on ice Thursday night. That's when the' Summer- Showcase Hockey Game takes place at the Seaforth and District C.om.inunity Centres. • The hockey, school, which began on Monday, brings a wealth of hockey talent to town and the school's celebrities take to the ice on a fund raising game for Seaforth Minor Hockey. "People are probably going to see the best hockey game they'll see all year." Arena Manager Graham Nesbitt. It will feature talent from the NHL. OHL and American Hockey League and will see the hockey school staff challenge other local professional and amateur talent in a game that showcases much of the amazing hockey talent -that has been produced in Seaforth over the years. "You're looking at guys wbo can skate and move the puck," said Nesbin. Without' any heavy hitting. fans will see on - ice skills of the likes they aren't used to seeing in regular hockey games. Rem Murray of Edhmonton Oilers fame will be on one team against New York Islanders' Mike Watt. And that's just one example of how the teams are matched up. Also on the ice will be NHL linesman, Scott Driscoll, Dan Wildfong of Colgate University and Mike Martin of the New York Rangers: --- The game gins at 7:30 Pm• . by Scott Hilgendorff Inside... Dory in life of.. Dairy K POP i Huron Hospice fly knelt Pogo 1! Motocross in Woltoes Pogo 14 August 18, 1999 $1 (includes psi.) Local weather Wednesday -•Sunny. with - cloudy periods High 21 • Thursday --Mainly 'sunny High 24. law 14. . Fridoy=-Sunny- Htgh 25. :ow 13 Saturday 7.unny -ugh• 26 low near 14 From Environment Canada, Hildebrand proud husband George has place on Main Street mural By Susan Hundertmork Expositor Staff While she doesn't remember the specific, parade ., mural shows het late husband leading. Hazel Hildebrand is very proud that George will be immortalized in the work being painted on a Main Street wall. "I was always there at all - the parades and .i was_ always. very proud." she• Says.' "George would be very pleased_." -' • She guesses • that in George's '21 -years as bandleader of the Seaforth District High School•All- Girls Marching Band. he travelled the route down ` Main Street at least loin times a year during. parades and cadet_inspections. And. she remembers helping to make the capes the girls are shown wearing in the mural at a sewing bee at' the high school. , Hazel ha,s also. helped remember the colors of See MURAL'S, Pogo 2 Scott -ilgendor�' Mural artist Allen- Hilgendorf works away at -his depiction of o 1956 photo -•of the:'Seaforth .District High Sch9o1 -u ._:r s Marching Band he is painting on a Main Streetwalt Murals bring history to life, says artist By Susan Hundertmarit Expositor Staff Painting murals is an interactive experience for Allen Hilgendorf. • - . The Chatsworth painter. who is currently working on a mural of the Seaforth District High School All -Girls Marching Band on a Main Street - wall. says he's often.challenged by passersby on the -color -of a building or -the design -of -a horses harness while at work painting. And occasionally, he finds himself sharing v•ivid memories with those involved in the story being told in the mural. . Once, while painting a mural in Wilberforce of. soldiers coming home by train from serving in the. S d particular train's engine.camearound to see him.. "It was like history..coming to life with the .n vivid memories that came back to -him. It.gaye me goose bumps.'. he saes. . Also, a traibuff who collected model train sets was a'great n help to him by bringing .his books so that Hilgendorf could get the color, :inti proportions of the train just right: • • "i always welcome comments and that eeneralls leads to a tot of interaction. !lust keep painting and . 7alking , Hildgendorf began working as a mural artist in 1993 after a car accident in 1941 shattered his . pelvis and..forced. him to quit.the work he'd been doing as a laborer and retrain. . Always artistically -inclined. he decided to attend the School of Design and Visual Arts at the Owen econd Wori ars the last engineer to fire that • Scott Hilgendorf photo Garden delights Marie Kelly takes a closer Zook at one of the Seaforth Horticultural Society flower show displays on Thursday afternoon at the legion. Winners of this years show were Ddys Finnigan (first), Eleanor Horst (second) and Jean Durst (third) Sound campus of Georgian College. hire he made the dean's list all four semester, anti ‘.t, n ' ev,eral awards. "Before - the accident. 1 had no ,confidence to pursue my an but my confidence g.rows with each • . . mural I paint." he saes. • ' • The Seaforth mural is about his 40th since. he began sic years ago: His first mural Was -in Durhiam.. w here he's since painted ti'e. He has also painted murals in many other town'.'tncludin' • L uc know- C --I t nton r-Port_E1gin._RiclunoniLHtll.— Lions Head. Haliburton and Muskoka: "\tura!s are a growing business that nia.take me, beyond Southwestern Ontario." he says. addm,2 that the three murals he's painted -tor International Plowing Match in- Dashes +,gid Th!-. SeePASSERSBV, Page ? Ambulance service will continue in January Owner is committed to community despite lay-off notices, he says By Susan Hu ndsrtmark Expositor Staff --.-,Ambulance•-services. will_continue.-.to. be provided in January, regardless of the lay -.oh notices recently given to paramedics. in Seaforth. Clinton and Zutich, says ambulance provider Brad Lucas. • "1 want to assure the community that they should have no fear of being without ambulance services. Morally, 1. wouldn't allow that to happen;" he says. - "Ambulance service is more than a business. it's a commitment to community and 1 don't want to leopard:it health in any was," says Lucas. Paramedics working for Luca. were _t•rn. their.pink slips during the fiat w.:6; f . August; to•meet Luras's legal o0h11,eat...n under the collective agreement with the Ontario Public Service Employees' l'ni,+n i OPSEU *. tov. hich the paramedics v. ho w • r K for him belong. Their collective a icer requires four months' notice'for las "T e paramedics -Piave :i rtgh t ; t what's going on and need to opportunity to plan their Iiyes. I hay e deal of respect for them and want them to be • aware of the situgtion," says. Lucas. • Huron Countycouncil has been gis e.n a year's.e;tension to a Sept: 30 deadline from the province to decide how it will provide land ambulance services. which were recently See LUCAS, Page 2 Huron Plowing Match reduced to one day By Scott Hifgendorff Exposttortditor Despite being knee deep in furrows in preparation for this year's international Plowing Match, organizers are sparing time for the Huron County Plowing Match which will take place on Friday. "We wanted to give our local plowers a chance at competing in their own county and to prove that Huron's able to do it and even though we're busy at one thing, we've got time to look after our plowmen." said Huron County Plowing Match President Paul Pentland. Because Huron is hosting the international match. organizers had a choice not to hold a county -level competition because of the enormous workload involved in hosting the international match. But Pentland said they decided to go ahead with the match to ensure local plowers had a chance to compete and earn the points necessary to be eligible for international competition. He said some plowers might not be able to get to other county matches. This year. they have decided to host a single -day event instead of the traditional two days to Lessen the workload and to add an extra day where plowing takes • place at the international match. Pentland said there normally isn't plowing at the final day of the international Plowing Match but this year. they have moved the Huron 4-H Sodbusters achievement program to that day. Sept. 25. where young piower's will' take to the. fields' and spectatora of the IPM can watch. • See HURON, Page 2 Your community newspaper since 1860 t;