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OPP preparing
for busy Labour
Day weekend
Gerard Crecea
The Labour Day long week-
end is fast approaching, and
at the Huron detachment of
the Ontario Provincial Police,
the traffic detachment is gear-
ing up for a busy weekend on
the roads, on the water and on
the trails and beaches.
Acting sergeant, Craig Sol-
dan, said there are three main
concerns the traffic unit will
be focusing on this weekend:
traffic safety,, marine safety
and proper ATV use.
"Our focus for the long week-
end is to not have any fatali-
ties and no serious injury or,
accidents," Soldan said. "We
know all the main factors."
Drinking and driving,
speeding, inattentiveness and
young drivers are the major
causes of long weekend acci-
dents, he said. The best deter-
rents are a mix of enforcement
and education.
Where alcohol and automo-
biles are concerned, Soldan
said new legislation that does
away with the old 12 -hour sus-
pension and replaces it with
a three-day for drivers who
blow a `warn' on the screening
device - between .05 and 0.1.
Giving the three-day sus-
pension teeth is the fact that
licences are sent back to the
See POLICE, Page 3
Local mites win championship...
Seaforth and Winthrop mites won the
A and Bchampionshipsat a year-end
tourney in Bl .recent r...p, 16
Brian Unk, of Columbus, Ohio, holds
ning the $20,000 prize Sunday.
Dan Schwab photo
up the Seaforth Country Classic trophy after win -
Brian Unk, of Ohio, wins second
Country Classic golf tourney
Dan Schwab
Columbus Ohio's Brian Unk had two
reasons two celebrate on the evening
of Aug. 30 -- it was his sixth wedding
anniversary and he'd just won the
Seaforth Country Classic golf tourna-
ment.
The 35 -year-old edged out Califor-
nia's James Hahn by three strokes to
win the $20,000 prize.
Unk, who was billeted by Seaforth's
Doug and Kathy Elliot last week, says
during the final few holes of the tour-
nament his mind was not only on his
game, but on his wife Elizabeth and
three-year-old daughter and one -year-
old son.
"I'm going to buy some diapers with
this cheque," Unk joked after the win.
Unk said he spoke with his wife on
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the phone from Seaforth the night be-
fore the final day of the tournament.
"I wish she was here but I know she'll
be really excited to talk to me," he said.
"Obviously I feel great."
Unk said he "never took anything
for granted" on the course, even when
he took a comfortable lead in front of
Hahn and the rest of the pack.
"I'm proud of the way I kept my com-
posure and kept my head down and
played my own game," he said. "I real-
ly didn't think about what other people
were doing."
Unk, who's been a pro golfer since
1997, finished the final day with a
seven -under -par 64 and completed the
tournament at 28 -under for a score of
256, breaking the Canadian Thur re-
cord. '
See GOLFERS, Page 28
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OMB hearing
on subdivision
to go ahead
tomorrow
Susan Hundertmark
An Ontario Municipal Board hear-
ing will go ahead tomorrow (Thurs-
day, Sept. 3) and Friday despite a de-
feated motion at Huron East's Aug.
25 meeting to defer it.
Tuckersmith Coun. Larry McGrath
asked Huron East to defer the meet-
ing since the main spokesperson of
the neighbours of a proposed sub-
division development at the former
Seaforth Public School site on Mar-
ket Street, will be away on vacation.
"The complainants are coming
to represent themselves and they
should have the opportunity to be
there," said McGrath, adding that
the vacation was booked a year ago.
. The OMB hearing, into the zoning
bylaw amendments that would allow
32 buildings which could range. from
single detached to quadplez units in
the subdivision, had already been
postponed once from its original date
of July 4 and 5 when a death hap-
pened in the neighbourhood.
Several councillors stated they
didn't think a vacation would be
grounds to qualify for an extension
of the hearing date.
Six neighbours of the Barnim de-
velopment appealed the zoning by-
law amendment, citing concerns
about the lack of a second access
to the subdivision off of Goderich
Street, the lack of any parkland in
the development, the density of the
housing allowed under the rezoning
and its impact on storm sewers and
sanitary sewers.
Concern about Huron East council
contributing $125,000 towards . the
construction of Robert Street in the
development with the condition that
the existing school building be torn
down and removed within one year
was also raised.
Three months ago, the municipal-
ity turned over complaints by the
neighbours' about two large piles of
rubble at the former public school
site to the bylaw' enforcement offi-
cer, who reported recently to council
See COUNCILLOR, Page 2