The Times Advocate, 2005-03-16, Page 22
Exeter Times–Advocate
Wednesday, March 16, 2005
Regional
wrap up
Hospital gets
provincial
boost
GODERICH — The
Liberal government has
committed more than
$2 million for fire and
life safety improvements
at Alexandra Marine
and General Hospital in
Goderich.
According to The
Goderich Signal Star,
Huron -Bruce MPP Carol
Mitchell made the
announcement March 4
at the hospital's board
meeting.
The $4.8 million pro-
ject is required so the
hospital meets building
standards and fire
codes.
Construction is expect-
ed to start in early July
and should wrap up by
the spring of 2006.
Top marks for
Hullett
Central
CLINTON — Kudos to
Hullett Central Public
School in Londesboro
for being number one.
The Clinton News -
Record reports the
school has been hon-
oured by the Fraser
Institute of Toronto
with The Garfield
Weston Award for
improvement in educa-
tion.
The award is based
on a five-year analysis
of academic results
from almost 3,000
schools province -wide.
Hullett Central has
also received a statue
and $3,000 for clinch-
ing the top spot.
Closure hurts
rural parish
DUBLIN — St.
Columban Church near
Dublin is expected to
close its doors for good
in June.
According to the
Huron Expositor, The
Diocese of London has
been considering the
aging church's viability
for some time.
The Diocese is assess-
ing nearby parishes
(St. Patrick's in Dublin
and St. James in
Seaforth), hoping mem-
bers from St. Columban
will join one of them.
No one has stepped
forward from St.
Columban to be part of
the transition team
because it could be per-
ceived as a move to
close their rural
church.
Artists show their talents at Paint Ontario
By Scott Nixon
TIMES -ADVOCATE STAFF
GRAND BEND — Art
and nature lovers will
want to check out the
Paint Ontario art show
and competition at the
Lambton Heritage
Museum.
The exhibit (formerly
called Paint the Huron
Shores) held its opening
reception March 11 and
continues until April 3.
Show founder and
Grand Bend artist Barry
Richman is pleased with
the quality of this year's
work, adding the show
improves every year and
has developed a reputa-
tion.
Paint Ontario features
125 pieces of art, selected
out of 235 entries. As well
as featuring many local
artists, Richman
explained artists in Paint
Ontario come from a wide
area — Windsor,
Kitchener and Ohio.
He stresses that he
doesn't just want land-
scapes for the exhibit, but
different kinds of paint-
ings, including figurative
work, historic work, flora
and fauna and scenes
depicting Ontarians at
London artist Ken Jackson, centre, received best in show for this year's Paint Ontario exhibit which runs at the
Lambton Heritage Museum until April 3. Jackson is flanked by the hosts of the show, artists from the River
Road Co-op Gallery. From left are Dave Bannister, Barry Richman,Teresa Marie, Jackson, Lynda Crossman,Vic
Jansky and Josy Hikes Britton. (photo/Scott Nixon)
work.
He added the show is an
important vehicle for
artists to have their work
displayed. Usually, artists
don't get a venue as large
as the Lambton Heritage
Museum in which to dis-
play their art — for that,
Richman thanks the
museum for supplying the
space for free and "bend-
ing over backwards" to
accommodate the show.
This is the eighth year
for the show, but the first
year for the new name.
Richman said allowing
paintings depicting scenes
from all over Ontario
resulted in about 30 per
cent more paintings than
previously.
Twenty-seven pieces of
art were sold at last
year's show, averaging
$700 each. This year,
Richman said there is a
painting for sale at $7,000
and one in "the five fig-
ures."
There are several
awards for this year's
show, including one
which will see the win-
ning piece displayed in
the museum permanent-
ly. Eventually, Richman
hopes to have enough
pieces to tour the display.
Hours for the show are
10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Jetsgo's demise strands local woman in Dominican
By Scott Nixon
TIMES -ADVOCATE STAFF
EXETER — The bankruptcy of discount airline Jetsgo has made
one local women's vacation in the Dominican Republic longer than
planned — and given the weather here, that's probably good news.
Nineteen -year-old Amanda Bregman arrived in the Dominican
March 5 to visit some friends at a missions school. Bregman had
previously taken a Youth With A Mission course there last year.
After spending a week in the Dominican, Bregman was due to
return home March 13, but her travel plans were thwarted with the
news of Jetsgo's collapse. She bought her plane tickets online with
her credit card because it was cheaper that way.
In the meantime, Bregman is staying with friends.
Bregman's mother, Jeane Lennips of Exeter, said she isn't sure
when Bregman will return home or whether or not she will be able
to get a refund on her useless Jetsgo ticket.
"She's not heartbroken," Lennips says of her daughter's situation.
"My only regret is that I didn't go with her. She's safe and she's with
friends, so I don't have to worry about that."
"What better place could you be stranded in?" Lennips said with a
laugh. "A warm country, when we in Exeter, Ont., are having quite
the winter."
Jetsgo's collapse has left 17,000 passengers stranded during the
March Break holidays, one of the busiest travel periods of the year.
The company was Canada's third-largest airline, but lost about $55
million over the past eight months.
OPP report
to council
Continued from front page
Resources enforces
beach areas, the OPP
would "take appropri-
ate action," in problem
areas.
Deputy Mayor Paul
Klopp asked why there
were sometimes three
or four patrol cars
around one accident.
Mason replied it was
determined by the shift
supervisor and depend-
ed on the location,
time, risk and accident
seriousness.
"Most people don't
realize...there are a
whole bunch of things
going through our
minds," said Mason.
Mayor Bill Dowson
asked what it would
take in terms of cost to
crack down on speed-
ing.
Mason said the costs
of such a crackdown
were being worked on
and were to be turned
over to the operations
manager soon.
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