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Week 47 - Vol. 001
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Brief
Santa
Claus
parade
Friday
Old Saint Nick is
returning to Seaforth
this Friday for the
annual Santa Claus
Parade, put on by the
Seaforth Lions Club.
As in the past, the
parade will march
south down Main
Street, beginning at 7
p.m. at the
fairgrounds and finish
at the Legion building,
where Santa will stop
to visit with kids.
This year's theme is
"Family Christmas,"
and will be just as big
as last year, promises
Lions Club member
Joe Steffler.
He says as of last
week there were four
bands signed up,
including the Seaforth
All -Girl's Marching
Band, Clinton Pipe
Band, Milverton
Legion Band, and the
Central Huron
Secondary School
band.
By Jeff Heuchert
SPS girls and boys
come third in
volleyball...
OA regional volleyball
tournament in Clinton last
week saw SPS come third.
pg.13
$125
gst included
Wednesday,
November 23, 2005
Angeline Swart, volunteer coordinator of the Seaforth Food Bank, is this year's Humanitarian award
winner in Seaforth.
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Feeding others is a
particular pleasure for
Angeline Swart.
And, as this year's
recipient of the Seaforth
Citizenship Awards'
Humanitarian Award,
Swart is being recognized
for her four years as
volunteer coordinator of
the Seaforth Food Bank.
Since both she and her
husband Roy have 10
siblings each and have had
five children themselves,
the Swarts are used to
feeding large groups of
See ANGELINE, Page 2
Ann Wood wins civic service award
u s a n H u n d e r t m a r k
After 18 years as a
Seaforth Legion member,
including two terms as
president of both the Ladies'
Auxiliary and the Legion
executive, Ann Wood is
surprised to win a
citizenship award.
"There must be others
more worthy," she says, of
her Seaforth Citizenship
Award for Civic Service.
Nominated by Maureen
Agar for Wood's contribution
to the Come Home to the
Country Festival in Seaforth
last summer, Wood
coordinated many of the
activities at the Legion,
which was headquarters for
the homecoming festival.
Ann Wood
"Ann was one of the first to
show up and become
involved. She actually
showed up for meetings I
forgot that I had made. For
one and a half years, she
inspired me with her
dedication towards doing
something for the
community," says Agar in the
nomination letter.
Wood says organizers of
Come Home to the Country
met once a month for over a
year, with things becoming a
little more hectic in the
summer.
At the first organizational
meeting, she volunteered the
Legion and its parking lot as
a home base for the festival
and "everything fell into
place," she says.
She adds she literally had
a legion of support behind
her as Legion members
stepped in and ran many of
the events, including a fish
fry and dance, a high school
reunion, a seniors' dance,
and a Sunday luncheon.
"I. got an awful lot of help
here," she says.
The success of the sold -out
Friday night fish fry and
dance has inspired her to
begin offering the event as
an annual part of the town's
Moonlight Madness.
"We had. up over 400
dinners sold and we could
have sold 500. I think we
may have started a
tradition," she says.
"We have the fencing and
the hydro in the parking lot
now - there's no reason that
can't be there for the town
every year," says Wood.
While she admits she was
exhausted after Come Home
to the Country, Wood says
See ANN, Page 8