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In brief
Bridges
condos
almost
cleared
to build
A plan of
development is being
prepared as, after almost
three years of seeking
approvals, the Bridges
of Seaforth development
is only a few political
steps away from
beginning.
Huron County's
•planning committee
gave approval to a draft
proposal for the
condominium
development last month
with 18 conditions that
must be met for final
approval to be granted
and the development to
begin.
• First proposed as a
retirement community
with separate dwellings,
the project has since
,evolved into a
edindomlinium plan with
248 residential units.
The switch to a
condominium was
legally needed in order
for the development to
allow residents to travel
the retirement
community in golf carts
The development will
occur on land 'adjacent
to the Seaforth Golf and
Country Club and will
also feature a recreation
centre and an area of
public parkland.
A public meeting had
been held almost a year
ago, on Oct. 17 to hear
any complaints against
the necessary rezoning
to allow the
`development to take
place.
None were made.
Huron East council
has given its full
support for the
development.
Liquor stolen
More than $800 worth
of liquor was reported
stolen after a break and
enter at the Commercial
Hotel on Main Street in
Seaforth.
The owner of . the
hotel, also a bar, called
police on Sept. 18 at
5:15 p.m. when he
found someone had
forced a door open to
get into the bar.
By Scott Hilgendorff
Barry pleads guilty
to setting bandshell fire
By Scott Hilgondorff
Expositor Editor
A 19 -year-old Seaforth man
pleaded guilty to a charge of arson in
Goderich Criminal Court on Oct. 1.
Thomas Jeffery Barry, who has
been in custody since his arrest in
Seaforth on June 3, pleaded guilty to
one charge of arson.
Barry admitted to setting a fire in
the band shelter in Victoria Park
where he was arrested by police, at
the scene of the fire.
Barry had been charged with a
total of 10 counts of arson and one
count of possession of an incendiary
device following his arrest in relation
to a series of fires in Seaforth's
downtown core between last
December and June 4.
A building attached to the rear of
Sills Hardware had been badly
damaged, three fires 'were set at a
grain receiving facility and one
caused more than $400,000 in
damage when a local industry's
warehouse and a residential garage
were destroyed, among several other
fires set in garbage dumpsters at the
rear of buildings and one where
burning material was placed under a
store's rear door.
The incidents culminated in a large
undercover operation involving
police and community members
patrolling the community at the end
of May.
Following Barry's plea, a pre-
sentence report was ordered to be
presented at Barry's next court
appearance on Nov. 26.
The remaining nine charges of
arson and the charge of possession of
an incendiary device will be
presented in court again that day.
Barry, who underwent a 30 -day
psychiatric evaluation in June,
remains in custody.
Clayton Boyes gets help from his uncle, Andy Moore of
Benmiller, with more antique harvest equipment.
Ciderfest rules
Scott Hilgendorff photos
Rayna Moore and Was Boyes process some corn the oldfashioned way with Ryna's mom, Tracy.
The family were at the Van Egmond House on Sunday for the annual Ciderfest event put on by
the Van Egmond Foundation.
Patricia Spittal serves up some hot apple cider.
Smith hopes to change how board sees enrolment
No discussion on the issue
was carried out at the
meeting. Smith
submitted the document at
the conclusion of the
evening, under the "new
business" section, and
expressed a desire to have it
dealt with at the board's next
meeting, Tuesday, Oct. 9.
There's some question as
to whether or not this will
happen, since the board has
committed the bulk of that
By Stow Slater
Special to The Huron Expositor
Central Huron trustee
Charles Smith, through a
"Notice of Motion"
submitted at a regular
meeting Tuesday, Sept. 25,
hopes to force the Avon
Maitland District School
Board to declare a target of
85-90 per cent capacity in its
schools, on a "full -tithe
equivalent" (FTE) basis.
meeting to 30 -minute
presentations from
Community Accommodation
Study Committees, as part of
its process of examining how
to deal with excess student
capacity.
But Smith feels the FTE
issue should be dealt with
promptly, since it could have
an effect on the student
accommodation study.
In his Notice of Motion,
Smith states board officials
have continually calculated a
board -wide under -capacity of
about 4,000 students, using a
100 per cent FTE basis.
He suggests, however, that
both a board -commissioned
consultant and the provincial
Ministry of Education have
acknowledged that optimum
FTE capacity is actually
somewhat less than that.
Reasons for this include
the -fact that Kindergarten and
Junior Kindergarten students
account for only 1/2 FTE,
despite the fact that, during
time periods they're actually
in the school, they take up an
entire student space.
"In Perth County, every
school which is at more than
90 per cent capacity on an
FTE basis has portable
classrooms," Smith told
reporters following the Sept.
25 meeting.
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