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Huron Expositor, 2017-02-01, Page 88 Huron Expositor • Wednesday, February 1, 2017 Huron Hurricanes break personal bests Old local newspapers being and meet Penny Oleksiak at swim meet digitized for online access On the weekend of Janu- ary 20, 12 Huron Hurri- canes travelled to the big city of Toronto to attend the TSC University of Toronto Winter Invita- tional Swim meet. The athletes brought home with them many successes and memories; the club had a record- breaking number of new personal best times achieved. To the surprise of the. Hurricanes, swimmer and Olympic Gold Medalist Penny Oleksiak was awarded the Lou Marsh Trophy during the swim meet, the most prestigious% award for a Canadian Ath- lete of any sport. Many Hurricanes were a little star struck as they watched the presentation up close on the pool deck. They were able to get autographs and photos taken with the famous swimmer. Senior girls Kayla, Sarma and Natalie competed with varsity swimmers from many universities including former Hurricanes Ken- nedy and Natalie on the U of W team and Lesley on the Brock University team. Most memorable for the Hurricanes might be swimming in the same pool and same event as World Silver Medallist and Bronze Olympic Medallist Kylie Masse. Kylie was the winner of the 50m Free- style event. New personal bests were as followed: Braydon Grandmaison - New times - 50 Free, 100 Free, 100 Breast Noah Middleton - New times"- 50 Free, 100 Free, 200 Free, 100 Breast, First times - 200 Breast, 200 IM Walker Teal - New times - 50 Free, 100 Free, 200 Free, 100 Back, 200 Baek, 2013 IM Michael Zolob - New time - 50 Free, First time - 100 Back Charlotte Campbell - New time - 50 Free, First times - 100 Free, 100 Back, 100 Breast Caitie Cox - New times - 50 Free, 100 Breast Janelle Ditner - First times - 100 Back, 100 Breast Kayla Gauthier - New times - 50 Free, 100 Free, 200 Free, 50 Fly Anna Heywood - New times - 50 Free, 100 Free, 200 Free, 100 Back Paige Heywood - First times - 100 Breast, 100 Free, 50 Free Sarma Martinsons - New times - 50 Free, 100 Back, 50 Fly, 200 IM The Hurricanes are grateful to volunteer coach Sandy Foreman for attend- ing with the swimmers. The Hurricanes' next swim meet is hosted by the Region of Waterloo Swim Club at the Wilfrid Laurier University Athletic Com- plex on Feb 4-5 and then they will be off to Port Elgin on Feb 9. Mc 1(1 LLOP MUTUAL INSURANCE COMPANY Notice of Annual General Meeting The 140th Annual Meeting of the Members of MCKILLOP MUTUAL INSURANCE COMPANY will be held the office of McKillop Mutual 91- Main Street South, Seaforth, Ontario Wednesday, March 8th, 2017 at 6:30 p.m. To receive, consider and approve the 2016 financial statement and auditor's report. The statement will be available on the Company's website at www.mckillopmutual.com and a member may request a copy by contacting the head office in Seaforth, Ontario at least 14 (fourteen) days before the Meeting. To appoint Auditors for 2017. To elect two qualified Directors for a term of three years. Any qualified member wishing to seek election must file his or her intention to stand for election in writing with the Secretary of the Company at least 21 (twenty-one) days in advance of the Annual Meeting. By order of the Board of Directors McKillop Mutual Insurance Company Rob Moorehead, CIP Seaforth, Ontario Corporate Secretary 'S RE C Justine Alkema Postmedia Network This week, historic Clinton New Era newspapers, now known as the Clinton News Record, will be available online. It isn't just the Clinton New Era that is making its debut on the interweb, but all of I-luron County's histori- cal papers. This project is being done by Cultural Services at the County of Huron, the I luron County Library and Huron County Museum. Cultural Services is getting the papers from old micro- film belonging to the local library of each respective paper. For example, Clin- ton's library has microfilm of the Clinton New Era. However in the past, if someone wanted to view an old paper, they had to go to the library and look at the film on a microfilm reader, like the one pic- tured with this article. On a microfilm reader, one must manually scroll through film to find what they're looking for. Now with papers being available online, the process will be far easier, and avail- able to people in their homes. First, it is easier to find a specific article or topic as words are searchable; this is made possible due to a computer program that "reads" the text as best as it can and creates a transcript that can be searched. On top of that, online images of the paper are higher quality than microfilm. Curator of Engagement and Dialogue Sinead Cox, who was the Special Projects Coordinator when the pro- ject started last fall, said the project is important for sev- eral reasons. First, she said, it's crucial for researchers. They see researchers coming in often for information of local his- tory and genealogies. "We see researchers all the time," said Cox. "Now we've already had feedback that people from GTA and California who can't drive up here to do that research are finding their families online and stuff they never knew." She said it's also an important project for pres- ervation of the old papers as microfilm gets scratched and dated. It's also conveni- ent for students doing research. "We want to make the papers accessible to as many people as possible, and they may be used in more ways than maybe we even know." "The program will be ongoing for years," said Cox. "We have so many papers OFFICE HOURS The Office Hours for The Seaforth Huron Expositor are as follows MoIdays - 9am 5pm Tuesdays - CLOSED Wednesdays - 9am - 5pm Thursdays - 9am - 5pm Fridays - 8am - 4pm lluSeaforth ron Expositor 8 Main Street, Seaforth ON PH: 519-527-0240 www.seaforthhuronexpositor.com out there. So if people notice the paper isn't there, it might take some time to come up." The papers are available on www.huroncounty.ca/ library and www.huron- countymuseum.ca. Papers that are online thus far and will be put up in the future are listed below. Online thus far: The Blyth Standard, 1893-1977 The Brussels Post, 1884-1929 The Exeter Advocate, 1888-1924 The Exeter Times, 1873-1924 The Exeter Times Advo- cate, 1924-1926 Huron Gazette (Goder- ich), 1848-1849 The Huron Signal (Goder- ich), 1848-1936 The Wingham Times, 1885-1916 The Wingham Advance, 1902-1921 Still to come in the future: The Seaforth News, The Seaforth Sun, The Brussels Post, The Huron News Record, The Clinton News Record, The Advance (Zurich), The Goderich Star, The Her- ald (Zurich), The Lucknow Sentinel, The Wroxeter Star, The East Huron Gazette (Gorrie), The Huron Expositor (Seaforth), The Wingham Advance Times and more. Justine Alkema/Clinton News Record Before the newspaper digitization project, those wishing to view old newspapers had to go to the library in the town of each respective newspaper and scroll through microfilm on a microfilm reader like the one pictured here.