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Huron Expositor, 2006-07-19, Page 8Page 8 July 19, 2006 • The Huron Expositor News , Beaman remembers summer of '59 as time of innocence lost for children of Clinton airforce base Cheryl Heath The summer of '59 was a surreal one for the children of Royal Canadian Air Force Base Clinton. Catherine Beaman said she believes now as she did then that the authorities got the wrong guy. "I've known Steven since he was eight years old, he didn't do this," she told reporters following her colourful representation of life as an air force child in the '50s at Truscott's long- awaited Ontario Court of Appeal hearing. Beaman said that fateful summer changed everything for children of that era. "Our innocence was lost," she said. "At the time, I did- n't know what rape was ... (but I found out). I •knew Lynne was not coming home." From the murder of her friend Lynne to the soon thereafter arrest of her friend ` Steven, the months between school's end at A.V. M. Hugh Gampbell school and that September were cluttered with memories she NOTICE OF NOMINATION FOR OFFICE MUNICIPAL ELECTION 2006 • NOTICE is hereby given to the Municipal Electors of the Municipality of Central Huron that Nominations for the following offices: REEVE 1 elected at, large DEPUTY REEVE 1 elected at large COUNCILLOR -- EAST WARD 3 to be elected (East Ward comprised of the former Town of Clinton and Hullett Township in their entirety) COUNCILLOR— WEST WARD 3 to be elected (West Ward comprised of the former Goderich Township in its entirety) may be made by completing and filing in the office of the Clerk, 23 Albert Street, Clinton, ON, nominations on the prescribed form. Such nomination papers must be accompanied by the prescribed nomination filing fee of $200.00 for the position of Reeve and $100.00 for the positions of Deputy Reeve and Councillor. The filing fee is payable by cash, certified cheque or money order. A nomination must be signed by the candidate and may be filed in person or by an agent during regular business hours, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. up to September 28, 2006 and on `Nomination.Day' September 29, 2006 from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. No person who proposes to be a candidate may solicit or accept contributions for election purposes; or incur expenses, until that person's nomination has been filed. A nomination must be certified by the Clerk, or designate, before such person becomes a certified candidate for the office for which.they are nominated. In the event there is an insufficient number of certified candidates to fill all positions available, nominations will be reopened for the vacant positions only on Wednesday, October 2nd, 2006 between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. and such additional requirements, if required, may be filed in the office of the Clerk. Electors are hereby given notice that if a greater number of candidates are certified than are required to fill the said offices; an election will be held. Voting Day will be Monday, November 13, 2006. DATED THIS 14th DAY OF JULY 2006. Richard Harding, Clerk Municipal Office, 23 Albert Street CLINTON, ON, NOM 1L0 (519) 482-3997 Cheryl Heath photo Catherine Beaman talks to reporters outside the courtroom at the recent Steven Truscott hearings in Toronto. wished she'd never had. "It was a very surreal summer. It was very strange," she said. Indeed, Beaman's ten- der memories of hanging out at the Red and White and holding barbecues at the Lawson farm are jux- taposed against hearing Lynne had been raped and murdered and learn- ing her friend Steven would be hanged for it. "Lynne was my friend, I miss her," said Beaman in an interview with reporters following her testimony at the Ontario Court of Appeal. She recalled that at the time, students were sure Truscott's name would be cleared. "I did not believe he could do that. We all thought he'd be coming home," she said. Beaman said though life went on in the years fol- lowing the summer of 1959, there have been many incidents over the years that brought mem- ories flooding back. Most recently, said Beaman, she was upset to learn the Attorney General's Office has ordered the exhumation of Lynne's remains when, Beaman thought, she should be allowed to rest. Beaman . also told reporters that she is a firm believer in Truscott's inno- cence. "None of us thought he did it," she said, adding the trauma she felt about Lynne's death doubled when Steven was sentenced to be 'hanged. "We all cried," she said, noting she remembers ask- ing her mother what "clemency" meant after Truscott was sentenced to hang. Today, said Beaman, the order of the day needs to be justice. "Steve deserves justice, and so does Lynne" she said. Beaman told reporters she believes the real perpetrator knew Lynne and that he "put her body where it could be found." In a short conversation with The News -Record fol- lowing the scrum, Beaman expressed confidence that Truscott's name will be cleared in connection to Lynne's death. She noted she continues to visit Clinton when she can, and had just visited the area on the Monday before she testified.