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By Dan RankinSouth Huron’s Mayor, CAO and several coun-cillors recently attended a four-day conference Aug. 16-19 in Niagara Falls put on by the Asso-ciation of Municipalities of Ontario (AMO), taking part in delegations with some provincial cabinet ministers, and hearing presentations from pro-vincial leaders including the premier and leaders of the other provincial parties.South Huron Mayor Maureen Cole charac-terized the four delega-tions she took part in as

“very successful.”“It’s important just to let them know we exist for one thing, and that we’re working on the same problems and have the same issues as every other municipality,” she said. “They’ve acknowl-edged that we are in the same position as other municipalities and they thanked us for giving our time to them. It was very

positive. I myself felt I learned a lot at the con-ference and received good ideas and feed-back to move forward.”It was the first such mu-nicipal conference at a provincial level for Cole, as well as for South Hu-ron councillors Ted Oke and Marissa Vaughan, and Cole said she en-joyed the chance to hear about things happening outside the municipality from her counterparts around the province.

“I get that at county coun-cil, because it’s all of Huron County, so, it’s great to get out and see the big picture,” she said.

“There might be solutions all of us can work on. It opens up a lot of brain-storming for us, really, when we come back to council.”South Huron Councillor Marissa Vaughan said she felt “South Huron was favourably received by all of the ministries,” who were “vocally ap-preciative of us sharing

the successes we were having in our community through municipal initia-tives, economic develop-ment and independent volunteer organizations.”

“We were also encour-aged to utilize our con-tacts at the ministries for support when applying for assistance through future grant processes to maximize new oppor-tunities, and to provide further input as they fine tune legislation or pro-vincial policies,” she said, specifically referencing upcoming community safety and correctional services and agriculture initiatives.Both she and Council-lor Ted Oke agreed that, though their time with each ministry during the delegation process was short, “It was a plea-sure to promote what a vibrant and diverse mu-nicipality South Huron is, to share ideas, and to have the opportunity to strengthen our

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By Dan RankinSouth Huron was suc-cessful in its application for funding to conduct bridgework on Exeter’s Main Street bridge over the Ausable River. The municipality will receive about $300,000 from the Small Communities Fund, a joint federal and provincial grant, for work on the bridge, which is expected to amount to two-thirds of the project.

“Basically all the levels of government kick in a third,” South Huron CAO Stephen McAuley said.

“Each level is doing just over $150,000 each.”McAuley said that a rou-tine inspection showed some work was in order for the upper portion of the bridge, including its railings and sidewalks.

“The structural compo-nents underneath are in good shape,” he said.

“But, if we just let it go, it will deteriorate on top and start to affect those pieces underneath. The

idea was, if we go in there and do some work now we can maintain the expensive structural part of the bridge.”He called the bridge a “pretty vital piece” of local infrastructure. “If it weren’t there you’d basically have to go a mile and a quarter either way to get through Ex-eter,” he said. “So, you wouldn’t want to have any kind of a failure on it.”The roughly $150,000 South Huron will be ex-pected to pay for the project is already in the most recent budget, McAuley said, placed there “subject to finding out if the grant applica-tion was successful.”A request for proposals will be sent out to area engineering firms within the next week or two, and construction is ex-pected to begin on the bridge next year, he said.

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Find the answers to the weekend quiz on page 19

Weekend Quiz

1. “Hushabye Mountain” is featured in which musical film?

2. Who painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel?

3. What is a baby seal called?

4. What is the surname of the singer Rihanna born February 20, 1988?

5. How many keys on a standard piano?

6. In TV’s The Simpsons, what is the name of Ned Flanders two children?

7. Who were the backing group for Bill Haley?

8. Which capital city lies on the Potomac River?

9. How many dots are there in total on a pair of dice?

10. What is the capital of The Bahamas?

Looking AheadSaturday, Aug. 29 & Sunday, Aug. 30 - Toonie bowling at Zurich’s Town & Country bowling lanes between 1 pm - 5 pm

Thursday, Sept 3 - South Huron Council Meeting

Saturday, Sept 5 - Middlesex Plowing Match (hosted in Lucan)

Wednesday, Sept 9 - Exeter Bridge Club starts at 7 pm downstairs in Legion

Saturday, Sept 12 - Centralia United Church annual beef BBQ

Sunday, Sept 20 - Terry Fox Run starting at 10 am at MacNaughton Park (Dalton Finkbiener Pavillion)

This Sunday is “Canada Baseball Day” at Rogers Centre

Exeter Chrysler Ltd.

ULCH Trailer Sales Ltd.

Learners Business Law Group

The Ridge

Hensall District Co-operative

Hansen’s YIG

Denield Livestock Exchange

Crabby Joe’s Exeter

Adecco

Libro Credit Union

90.5 myFM

Hamilton’s Machine Shop

MicroAge Basics

McCann Redi-Mix

JMR Electric Ltd.

Hay Communications

Agway Metals Inc.

Keller Rooing

Country Corners Rent-All

Exacon

SGS Canada

Smith-Peat Rooing and Sheet Metal Ltd.

Huron Tractor

MacLean’s Home Hardware

Stratford Memorials

Exeter Lioness

Miller’s Country Store

JLT

Dave Moore Fuels

Kenpal Farm Products Inc.

Townline Auto

United Plastics

Miller Wood Products

Carter’s Trucking and Excavating

Mike’s Signs

W&K Financial Planning

Union Gas

Tenex Communications

Godbolt, Ciufo Insurance & Financial Services

FD Rooing—Justin Fields

Delta Power Equipment

HJV Equipment

South Huron Ofice Solutions

GM BluePlan Engineering Ltd.

Tirecraft - Haugh Tire

Premium Transportation

Ward & Uptigrove

Huron Family Restaurant

BDO Canada LLP.

Guardian Pharmacy

Exeter Lion’s Club

Klomp’s Landscaping & Hot Tubs

Holtzmann’s Foodland

Glavin Eavestroughing

Road Apple Removal

Hurondale Excavating

Ellison Travel

Pinder, Taylor, McNeilly, Godkin LLP

Edward Jones

Dairy Queen

Exeter (HDC) Gas Bar

South Huron Fire Department

J. Marshall & Company

THANK YOU FOR YOUR GENEROUS SUPPORT!On behalf of the Exeter Rodeo Committee and the South Huron Community Services

Department, we would like to thank the following businesses, individuals and community groups

and organizations, for their inancial support, in-kind donations and/or partnership. Your support

enabled the success of the 19th Annual Exeter Rodeo. Special thanks to the spectators who came

to the Rodeo and for supporting the vendors. We also want to thank the Exeter Legion Ladies

Auxiliary for hosting the country style brunch on Sunday morning. Watch for details and event

schedule for the 20th Annual Exeter RAM Rodeo August 5th – 7th, 2016. Amber Marshall,

Amy of CBC’s Heartland has already conirmed attendance to co-announce the show!

By Dan RankinThe lucky first 20,000 fans into the Rogers Centre for

“Canada Baseball Day” on Sunday will not only get to see the Blue Jays take on the Tigers (projected To-ronto starter: R.A. Dickey), but will also each go home with a red replica Blue Jays jersey.On a day celebrating base-ball in Canada, naturally the St. Marys Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame was also invited to take part in the festivities.

“We will be down there with a large display space in the 200 level outfield area,” said manager of operations Scott Crawford.

“We’ll also be presenting [Toronto Star baseball col-umnist] Richard Griffin with his Jack Grainey Award and giving [Toronto Sun baseball columnist and 2015 CBHFM inductee] Bob Elliott his induction plaque in front of his home crowd. We’ve already presented both awards, but the team thought this would be a great opportu-nity to promote St. Marys and the Hall of Fame.”To go along with the theme of Canada and baseball, Rogers Sportsnet recently produced a documentary titled “There’s No Joy in Beachville: The True Story of Baseball’s Origin,” about former St. Marys resident

Dr. Adam E. Ford’s writ-ten account of a game that took place in nearby Beachville, Ontario on June 4, 1838. It’s widely accepted (though not in Cooperstown) as the first recorded baseball game in history.Crawford said filmmak-ers with Sportsnet got in touch with the Hall to ask their opinion of the game in Beachville and Ford’s letter, which was first pub-lished in the Philadelphia-based “Sporting Life” mag-azine over 40 years after the fact in May 1886. The letter, entitled “A Game of Long-ago Which Closely Resembled Our Present National Game,” describes watching a game on “Militia Muster Day” being played by teams of between sev-en and 12 young men on a five-sided playing field in which a pitcher threw a ball to a “knocker,” whose hits were either fair or “no hits” (foul). The length of the game was determined by innings, not by which-ever team scored a certain amount of runs.

“We agree that this was the first recorded game of baseball,” Crawford said in an interview Wednesday morning, prior to the docu-mentary’s airing. “I haven’t seen it yet, but I expect it will give an overview of that game, its history and how the sport first spread

around Southern Ontario.”Here a few more important dates in Canadian base-ball:May 1, 1879 – Bill Phil-lips becomes the first Ca-nadian to play in a Major League game when he appears at first base for the Cleveland Blues. They lose 15-4 to the Provi-dence Grays as Phillips, of Saint John, New Bruns-wick, goes hitless. In 1880, he hit his one and only ca-reer home run, becoming the first Canadian to hit a homer in the Majors.Sept. 5, 1914 – As a mem-ber of the Providence Grays, Babe Ruth hits his first professional home run at Hanlan’s Point Stadium on Centre Island in Toronto.April 8, 1969 – The Mon-treal Expos play their first regular season game at Shea Stadium in New York, going on to beat the New York Mets 11-10. A week later on April 14, they played the first regular season MLB game outside the United States, and the Expos got their first home victory at Jarry Park, in an 8-7 win over the St. Louis Cardinals. They would fin-ish the season dead last, with a record of 52-110.Oct. 23, 1993 – For the first time in MLB history, a come-from-behind walk-off home run won the World Series, as the Toronto Blue

Jays repeated as World Series champs. The pitch-er was Philadelphia closer Mitch Williams. Toronto’s Joe Carter hit his famous homer with a 2-2 count in the bottom of the ninth, with two men on, down 6-5 at SkyDome. The Blue Jays haven’t been back to the postseason since.June 30, 1997 – Though they had faced off in mid-season exhibition games dubbed the Pearson Cup since the mid-70s, it was on this date that the To-ronto Blue Jays and Mon-treal Expos first played a regular season interleague game against one another. Thus, this was the first time since World War II that the American National Anthem was not played before a regular season MLB game. The Expos won 2-1.Aug. 28, 2002 – It was on this date in 2002 that Los Angeles Dodgers closer Eric Gagne, of Montreal, began his record streak of 84 consecutive successful saves. His streak of saves stretched almost two years, with his 84th coming on July 3, 2004. Over a course of 89 innings pitched, he allowed just eight earned runs, striking out 139. In 2003, Gagne became the ninth reliever to ever win the Cy Young Award, and just the second Canadian after Ferguson Jenkins.

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By Dan RankinOver 60 kids around Hu-ron County this summer, didn’t let the excuse of being out school keep them from reading a few good books.On the afternoon of Fri-day Aug. 21 at the Lion’s Den on John Street, the Exeter Lioness Club threw an end-of-summer barbecue for the par-ticipants in the TD Sum-mer Reading Program, which took place at the 12 Huron County Library branches on Friday af-ternoons throughout the summer.

“There are tons of prizes that they get at the end and there’s a book-read-ing challenge the kids really look forward to as well,” said Huron County Library branch manager Cheryl Rau. “So you see a lot of kids taking on the initiative to do a little ex-tra reading in the summer time.”Rau added that the pro-gram benefits kids aged four to 12, and was so popular this year that they ran three sessions consecutively on Friday afternoons.

At the Lion’s Den last Fri-day, Lioness club mem-bers, Annie the Original Clownette and Huron County Library mascot Pete the Cat were hand-ing out a lunch of hot dogs, chips, chocolate cake and juice.

“The Lioness graciously offer a summer reading program summer bar-becue wrap-up party for us here in honour of do-ing the program,” Rau said. “The Lioness have done it for so many years. They’ve been so wonder-ful to do that. It’s some-thing that the kids always look forward to.”

Health & Wellness:Optimal Balance

Light the Fire from WithinAs a fitness professional, I often get clients who ‘need motivation’. And while I understand the con-cept of what these clients are after, most times if they are looking for me to provide motivation, they will often fail in their fitness goals and then blame me, as they couldn’t possibly be to blame. That statement sounds like a bad line to use in my advertising, does it not? I do pride myself on always being honest with my members, clients, friends and well, everyone….people may not al-ways like what I have to say, but you know that if I am saying it, it is the truth. Now those is my class-es will be shaking their heads and saying: Shel-ley- you LIE all the time!, and they are right…..I do lie when I say: nope, we aren’t over on time, and I have not been paying as close of attention as I should to the stopwatch, and then I start count-ing down and 5, 4, 3….2, 1 and done!! Or when I say: no more burpees today, and then I sneak in another set. Outside of those circumstances, you can trust what I have to tell you. Trust me!So, when people tell me they need me to motivate them, I have to tell them that they can’t count on me for that and then I wait for them to look at me like I am crazy. What can you count on your Per-sonal Trainer for then, you ask? Well, they provide safe, effective, balanced workouts to meet your goals AND encouragement, support and truth. They CAN NOT provide motivation. Most times people mistake encouragement and support as motivation. The truth is that the motivation to meet your goals, whether they be fitness goals or any other goal, they must be felt on a personal level and YOU must really want it, and YOU must dig deep to get it. Anyone, be it a trainer or friend……can yell at you, push you, beg you or bribe you to move to-wards your goals, but it just will not work if you aren’t into it. And then if you really aren’t in sync with your goals, you will look for the excuses or for someone else to blame. I could list a dozen excuses right now, but I am sure you have either heard them or said them before. How does one find the motivation to achieve? Well, the answer isn’t always easy. Sometimes you have to wait for inspiration to find you or wait for the right goal to come your way. Sometimes it is a matter of timing and life working together to set up the right circumstances. When its right though, you will feel it deep in your soul- the ex-citement, the passion, the desire to ‘do this’, the will power, and everything will fall into place. That doesn’t necessarily make it easy, but when you do something for YOU, you don’t need anyone else to get you pumped up about it, you don’t need anyone else to provide the motivation for you, be-cause you already have it!THE BOTTOM LINELight the FIRE from WITHIN and there is nothing that you can’t accomplish. YOU got this!

Exeter Lioness Club holds barbecue to close out Summer Reading Program

Huron OPP Investigate After 21-Year-Old Motorcyclist Found In Cornfield

From left are Exeter Lioness members Elaine Pinder and Audrey Zachar, Huron County Library mascot Pete the Cat and branch manager Cheryl Rau and TD Summer Reading Program participants Kobe Kingma and Sophie Gingerich.

Ryan Obre gets a spider web tattoo applied by Annie “The Original Clownette” Friday.

Police are investigating after a motorcyclist was found dead at a farm east of Bayfield Sunday afternoon.Huron OPP were called to the intersection of Mill Road and Goshen Line shortly after 4:30 p.m. after a citizen had discovered a motorcycle and its rider in a corn-field.

The scene was also at-tended by Huron EMS where it was determined that the motorcyclist had been in the cornfield for an extended period of time.The motorcyclist was pronounced deceased at the scene.According to their inves-tigation, police have de-termined that the motor-

cycle had been travelling north bound on Goshen Line approaching the in-tersection of Mill Road. The motorcycle proceed-ed north bound from Goshen Line, crossing Mill Road, and colliding with the “T-intersection” sign. The motorcycle and its rider came to rest in a corn field north of the intersection.

Police have identified the deceased as 21-year-old Zackary James Ma-cLean of Goderich.The West Region OPP Technical Traffic Investi-gation Unit attended the scene and is continuing their investigation.The intersection was closed for several hours, but has since re-opened.

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Exeter ExaminerTHOUGHTS OF THE WEEK

Before we say anything negative about anyone we should always stop to ask ourselves three questions:

1. Is it true? 2. Is it kind? 3. Is it necessary?

You learn nothing when you only talk about yourself.

Focus on what you do have, not on what you don’t.

Time wounds all heels.

Editorial

Quote Of The Week“I have no indication that anything was done illegally or improperly, or any shortcuts were made. He could be as mentally ill as the day is long, but unless someone has been legally adjudicated as such, they can purchase a firearm.”Tom Faison from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, commenting on the shooter of the two TV employees (Alison Parker & Adam Ward) this week in Virginia.

*Please note all Boo’s and Bravo’s must be signed in order to be considered.

Bravos and Boos are submitted by community members and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the Exeter Examiner

BooBravoWe have two Boo’s this week. Our first boo goes “to the young people who constantly feel its okay to litter their garbage wherever they feel is necessary. Stop making our good fast food merchants look bad!” Our second boo goes “to the stores who do not clean their front windows with cobwebs and dead flies. This does not make a great impression for tourists as well as your store alone.”

We have two Bravo’s this week. Our first bravo goes “to the gentleman who returned my purse with my wallet full of money to me. Your honesty and generosity is much appreciated.” Our second bravo goes “to those stores who keep a nicely put together front display. The beautiful flowers and gardens look great.”

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New traffic laws start next weekStarting on September 1st, new traffic laws which were approved in June will come into effect. The bill is called the “Making Ontario Roads Safe Act” and will come into effect just before the new school season starts. Here is a look at of some of the new traffic laws that are most likely to affect your everyday driving as of next Tuesday.Distracted driving: If you’re caught looking at your phone, texting or talking on your phone while driving, you will face much bigger fines and more demerit points, the province is warning. The current fine for distracted driving is approximately $200. As of Tuesday, those found guilty of distracted driving will face fines up to $1,000 and more demerit points. Drivers

with G1 or G2 licenses could have their permits suspended on the spot.Pedestrian crossovers: Drivers will have to wait until pedestrians have completely crossed the road at pedestrian crossovers and school crossings before proceeding. About half of all fatal traffic accidents involving pedestrians occur at intersections, the Ministry of Transportation said. The new law is an attempt to make roads safer for pedestrians. This change will take effect in January.Passing cyclists: Drivers will have to give cyclists at least one metre of room wherever possible. The fine for breaking this rule has not yet been set. Motorists who open the door of their vehicle into the path of a cyclist without checking will face fines between $300

and $1,000 and three demerit points.The “move over” law: As for Sept. 1, drivers will be require to slow down and move into the next lane whenever they see a stopped emergency vehicle with its red and blue lights flashing. This will apply to stopped tow trucks that have amber lights flashing. The fine for breaking these rules will be $490 and three demerit points.Alcohol and drugs: Those caught driving under the influence of drugs will now face the same penalties as drunk drivers, the ministry said. These include between a three and 90-day license suspension and a week-long vehicle impoundment. More than 45 per cent of drivers killed in Ontario were found that have drugs or alcohol in their systems.

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Meet Allan Thompson: Liberal Party Candidate for Huron-Bruce

By Stephanie EgeltonThe 2015 election cam-paign is heating up in Huron-Bruce, with con-firmed candidates from four parties: Conservative, Liberal, New Democrat and Green. The Exam-iner spoke with the Lib-eral candidate for Huron-Bruce, Allan Thompson about issues in Huron-Bruce, why a change in government is needed and how young people contribute to a unique cul-ture in the riding. Allan was born and raised in a small village in Bruce County called Glammis,

however his activity in the community isn’t limited to just his hometown. He has been canvassing and meeting constituents for 18 months since winning the Liberal nomination in Huron-Bruce, with the help of his son Laith and wife Roula. An alumnus of the Carleton University journalism program, he is a well-known journal-ist, spending the majority of his career with the To-ronto Star as a Parliament Hill correspondent. Be-sides having an “insider” look at the political work-ing of Parliament Hill, Al-

lan also has been a part of a humanitarian project in partnership with Carleton. In 2006, he began the

“Rwanda Initiative” with Carleton and its partner school in Rwanda. The Rwanda Initiative sent more than 175 Canadian volunteers to Rwanda as teachers, trainers and media interns, while also bringing Rwandan jour-nalists to Canada to study. What led you to become a candidate in Huron-Bruce?It has always been clear to me that it would be logical to run in Huron-Bruce, given that I grew up in the riding and have my extended family here. This is the community that I want to represent in Ottawa. I have said over and over that I think our MP should be the voice of Huron-Bruce in Ot-tawa, not Ottawa’s voice in Huron-Bruce. Huron-Bruce is a true textbook example of a rural riding, as we don’t have major urban centres, no public transit, no railway stations

and so on. Frankly, I feel that the current system of government is biased to-wards the urban centres in Canada, not the rural communities. While you could say there is a politi-cal logic to catering to ur-ban ridings, I feel that ru-ral communities often get short shrift. That makes it very important to have an MP from Huron-Bruce who stands up for those who live in rural commu-nities, the people who live on country roads, on farms or in small towns. Why do you think Hu-ron-Bruce needs a Lib-eral Party representa-tive in Ottawa?I feel that Huron-Bruce needs a grassroots ap-proach to politics and that is what drew me to Justin Trudeau. He has made very clear to us as can-didates that he believes firmly in democratic re-form, in MPs being the voice of their community. That’s not just slogans but a feasible plan that connects constituents to the issues that matter in

Ottawa. I’m happy to see that Justin Trudeau’s ap-proach is to let Members of Parliament speak up for themselves and for their constituents. It is clear that Mr. Harper doesn’t al-low his MPs to do this. As I’ve said, I am deter-mined to be the voice of Huron-Bruce in Ottawa, not Ottawa’s voice in Huron-Bruce. We need a fresh start!What issues in Huron-Bruce do you feel de-serve attention in Ot-tawa, and how would you make sure they re-ceived that attention?Everywhere I go in Huron-Bruce I hear from people who are unhappy with Stephen Harper’s style of governing, unhappy with the cynicism and the secrecy. For me it’s not necessarily even a parti-san issue. I think people just want a change. And some of those people are former Progressive Conservatives who sup-ported Mr. Harper but now find themselves politically homeless.

As an MP, I would make it my mission in caucus, in the Commons and every chance I got to speak up for those who live in rural communities. From wind to solar to nuclear, this riding has a broad range of ener-gy infrastructure. How would like to see the riding’s energy sector develop or change?Here in Huron-Bruce, we have the world’s largest nuclear facility. I think we need to appreciate the im-portance of nuclear power in this riding and what it means for our economy. Nuclear power is a safe and clean form of energy, something that has been proven over the years. I don’t think the Conserva-tive government has done enough to support nucle-ar power, or to promote the export of Canada’s unique CANDU technol-ogy. How would you like to use the natural and ag-ricultural strengths of Huron-Bruce to

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While visiting the area this week, Griffin Short, 14, made the most of the last few days of his summer by taking some time to do a little fishing at the Morrison Dam Conservation area Tuesday. (Rankin Photo)

The Huron County Ontar-io Provincial Police (OPP) is investigating a fire that was purposely started to a portable toilet located next to the north side of the Municipal Building at 108 King Street in Hen-sall.Investigation revealed that sometime between 10:00 and 11:00 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 22, un-known person(s) set fire

to a Johnson’s Sanita-tion portable toilet that was situated next to the Municipal Building. The Hensall Fire Department attended the scene and extinguished the fire.The fire destroyed the portable toilet and caused the Municipal building to be charred and two windows panes to be cracked as a result of the heat. Total dam-

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relationships with our Provincial partners.”Mayor Cole, Coun. Oke, Coun. Vaughan and CAO Steven McAu-ley all took part in four planned delegations on behalf of the municipal-ity, meeting with Lou Rinaldi, parliamentary assistant to the Minister of Municipal Affairs; Ya-sir Naqvi, the Minister of Community Safety and Correctional Services; Peter Milczn, parlia-mentary assistant to the Minister of Economic Development, Employ-ment and Infrastructure; and Jeff Leal, the Minis-ter of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs.Commenting on her meeting with Rinaldi, Cole said the delega-tion discussed afford-able housing needs in South Huron, including senior’s housing. They also informed Rinaldi about the supportive community projects in the area including the recent Habitat for Hu-manity house build, the ReStore, monthly com-munity meals, and the region’s many hard-working service groups and volunteers. Rinaldi heard that the voter’s list for the 2014 elec-tion had many errors and omissions. He told the delegation the min-ister was committed to improve the problem. He also told them that

in the next election mu-nicipalities will have a choice regarding the im-plementation of ranked ballots.Speaking to Community Safety and Correctional Services Minister Naqvi, South Huron discussed

“gaps within our commu-nity” when it comes to access to mental health, youth programs for youth, and affordable recreation, Cole said. The delegation heard that Minister Naqvi will be holding public en-gagement sessions re-lated to police services, and is expecting chang-es to the police services act by next spring.In a delegation before Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs Minister Leal, “We encouraged the minister to continue to support and expand Local Land Use Plan-ning to continue to en-sure our rural areas remains vibrant and healthy,” Cole said. “Ag-riculture is one of the most important econom-ic activities and driving forces in South Huron.” The delegation reported that the community has seen a 12 percent de-cline in the number of its farmers.However, they were able to report a positive agricultural develop-ment to Minister Leal as well, regarding the entrepreneurial work of Kirkton’s 4-H Club. “We

have young people in our community that are working with two coun-ties and our municipal-ity to build an expan-sion onto their shed for showmanship for their 4-H projects,” Cole said. “It shows the provincial government that we’re working with our young people and our agricul-tural sector to make it better.”Finally, meeting parlia-mentary assistant Milc-zn, they informed him of a need for $3.6 million in infrastructure spending in 2016 to fulfill an as-set management plan. They requested a new funding formula that is sustainable, predictable and timely. “We have invested heavily in in-frastructure,” Cole said.

“That makes us ‘shovel-ready,’ with many pos-sibilities for growth with local developers ex-panding as well as new developers looking at South Huron, however this debt limits us from spending on recreation.”Councillors Tom Tomes and Wayne DeLuca also attended the confer-ence, hearing speeches by Premier Kathleen Wynner, PC Leader Patrick Brown and NDP Leader Andrea Horwath.The 2016 AMO Confer-ence is set for Aug. 14-17 at Caesars in Wind-sor.

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Nominations are now being accepted for the first-ever South Huron Business and Commu-nity Excellence Awards Gala being held at the Ironwood Golf Club on Thursday, October 22, 2015, an event co-hosted by the Exeter Business Improvement Associa-tion (BIA) and the South Huron Chamber of Com-merce.Awards will be present-ed in six categories, in-cluding: Business of the Year (under 15 employ-ees), Business of the Year (over 15 employ-ees), Entrepreneur of the Year, Lifetime Business Achievement, Customer Experience and Citizen of the Year.

“We invite businesses and the general public to submit nominations,” says Steve Boles, Presi-dent of the South Huron Chamber of Commerce.

“We’re hoping to receive a minimum of 3-4 nomina-tions per award category.”Boles notes that self-nominations will also be accepted. To be eligible, nominees must be locat-ed within the Municipal-ity of South Huron or be members of the South Huron Chamber of Com-merce. Nominations will be accepted until Friday, September 18. Nomi-nees will be notified im-mediately after receiving a nomination.

Judges will be provided with packages on each nominee by the end of September to review be-fore meeting as a group to finalize the winners. Judges include: Bruce Shaw (community repre-sentative), Carol Leem-ing (Huron Manufacturing Association), Maureen Cole (Mayor of South Hu-ron), Rick Hundey (Huron Business Development Corporation) and Tom Prout (community repre-sentative).The gala event will fea-ture a guest speaker, Dave Schram, who placed fourth on the first season of Amazing Race Canada. “We are over-whelmed by the positive response we’ve received for this event in both sponsorship and ticket sales,” says Fred God-bolt, Chair of the Exeter BIA. “The support from the local business com-munity for this event is fantastic.”This event has already had so much interest that there are only 25 tickets still available, with addi-tional tickets set aside for nominees. If those tickets do not sell, names on the waiting list will be con-tacted. Tickets are $50 each for members of the BIA or Chamber of Com-merce and $65 to the general public. Tickets can be reserved by con-tacting the BIA/Chamber office at the information provided below.

This event is made pos-sible through generous sponsors. Thank you to gold sponsor, Realty Executives International Platinum Ltd; silver spon-sors including 90.5 MyFM Radio, the County of Hu-ron, Huron Produce Ltd., Libro Credit Union and South Huron Office Solu-tions; and bronze spon-sors including Exeter Times-Advocate, LUVU Naturally, RSD Authen-tics and Village Vines.Organizers are still look-ing for table sponsors, for a fee of $150 each. Table sponsorship includes logo recognition on a ta-ble and recognition in the event program. Please contact the BIA or Cham-ber if you’re interested in sponsoring.If you would like a copy of the nomi-nation form or more infor-mation about this event, please visit www.shcc.on.ca or contact the BIA/Chamber at 226-423-3028, office@shcc.on.ca or pop into the South Hu-ron Welcome Centre lo-cated at 483 Main Street South.The South Huron Cham-ber of Commerce and the Exeter BIA are business organizations serving South Huron and Exeter. In recent years, the or-ganizations have started working more closely together and hope to continue building orga-nizational capacity and partnerships with other organizations.

On Aug. 20 in Grand Bend, Ellison Travel & Tours held an anniversary and fundraising reception at Oakwood Resort in Grand Bend. $17,000 was raised through admission and a silent auction, and will go towards the London Chil-dren’s Hospital and the Plan Canada “Because I’m a Girl” initiative. The business also plans to do-nate towards groups such

as Habitat for Humanity and the Canadian group

“Me to We,” one dollar for every person that partici-pates in their travel groups.The event had a heavy focus on “35,” as founder and president Doug El-lison started his company 35 years ago with an Ex-eter office in 1980. It has since expanded to God-erich and North Vancou-

ver. Tickets for the event were $35, 35 items were donated for the silent auction, and 35 trips and travel-themed prizes were raffled off throughout the night. Over the years, El-lison Travel has also held 19 annual golf tourna-ments for causes includ-ing the London Regional Cancer Centre and the Huntington’s Society of Canada.

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The Ex Files- The South Huron Fire Department is one of 15 in Ontario that will be getting dozens of combi-nation smoke/CO alarms thanks to Project Zero. The campaign will allow the department to dis-tribute 33 alarms free of charge to high risk in-dividuals in their community. This could include seniors, developmentally challenged and those with a less fortunate social economic status.

- With fall around the corner, the Municipality of South Huron has started the icing process at both arenas in the community. The ice rink is ready to go at the South Huron Rec Centre in Exeter and staff have been busy preparing the surface at the Stephen Township Arena this week.

- Opening in theatres this weekend are the Owen Wilson/Pierce Brosnan thriller “No Escape,” and the aspirational music film “We Are Your Friends,” starring Zac Efron and Emily Ratajkowski. Both are currently trending below 45 percent on the movie ratings site RottenTomatoes.com.

- Tops at the box office last weekend were 1) “Straight Outta Compton,” which surpassed $111 million in its second week, 2) “Mission: Impos-sible – Rogue Nation,” which has passed $155 million in its fourth week, and 3) “Sinister 2,” which made about $10.5 million in its opening weekend.

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Our Business of the Week is your local rural supply depot, Miller’s Country Store, which re-cently celebrated its fifth anniversary. Located at 137 Thames Road East in Exeter for the past two years, owner Laura Mill-er said they made the move to provide them with “more opportunities to carry a wider selec-tion of products.”

“TSC approached us about carrying their feeds, so we moved here to expand our in-ventory selection,” she said. “So, we can typi-cally get most of their products if we don’t al-ready have them. We should be able to offer their flier price if we have the item in stock.”Apart from items fea-tured in TSC Store fliers, Miller’s Country Store also offers livestock feed

from the Hensall Co-op, bird house and bird feed-er supplies, giftware and numerous goods from area veterinary suppli-ers. “Our line of Purina pet food is also very popular,” she added.

“We like to think that we offer small town cus-tomer service,” she said.

“We like to greet anybody that comes in and be as helpful as we can.”Miller’s Country Store is open Monday through Friday from 9:00 am to 6:00 pm, Saturdays 9:00 am to 5:00 pm, and be-ginning after Labour Day, Sundays from noon until 4:00 pm.Call the store at 519-235-0500, contact them by fax at 519-235-6200, or email at Laura@Mill-ersCountryStore.ca. You can also find them on Facebook.

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Movies – When “Star Wars: The Force Awak-ens” comes to theatres on Dec. 18, for the first four weeks of its run, it will be the only film showing on large format Imax screens across North Ameri-ca. The last time Imax struck a deal to show just a single movie for a month was four years ago for the three Hobbit films. In other news, best buds Amy Schumer and Jennifer Lawrence announced this week that they are working together on a comedy film, likely to begin production some-time after Lawrence’s

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Cars – There’s a new 36-second clip online showing a robotic car charger arm for Tesla Motors’ electric ve-hicles that is capable of plugging itself into a parked car. It’s not yet known when the tech-nology will be ready or how much it will cost, however experts think it’s a step in the direc-tion of the self-driving technology Tesla CEO Elon Musk promised last fall. He said soon they will offer cars that can be summoned to pick up the owner, and then park them-selves. As electric car manufacturers focus on shortening charge times associated with their vehicles, it’s also expected chargers will increase in size and weight, thus an autono-mous, robotic charger would save the owner’s back. Whatever Musk has up his sleeve, it will be exciting to see what they bring to the North American Auto Show in Detroit (Jan. 11-24, 2016) – which is now just five months away.

TV – “Fear the Walking Dead,” AMC’s spinoff to its flagship long-running zombie apoca-lypse series “The Walk-ing Dead,” premiered on Sunday. Set in Los Angeles, the series looks to focus on the blended family of an English teacher and high school counsellor and their children from previous marriages as they cope with the breakdown of society and a growing undead menace. As this series is set years earlier than the original series, the city’s power structures are all still in place – for now – and these characters are all rela-tive newbies when it comes to zombie-killing (“You’ve gotta shoot ‘em in the head!”). The Kardashians-meets-Downton Abbey com-edy “Another Period,” which airs in Canada on MUCH, was recently renewed for a second season. Starring come-dians Natasha Leggero and Riki Lindhome, the show follows the poorly-behaving upper crust of Newport, Rhode Island during the “Gilded Age” era following the Civil War. Also renewed for second seasons were

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"Our Government has worked hard to deliver results for all Canadians. We have positioned Canada as a global powerhouse, balanced the budget, expanded

international trade and delivered tax relief. It has been an honour to serve the riding of Huron-Bruce in Ottawa since 2008 and I look forward to working

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Checking in with Ben Lobb: Conservative candidate (and MP since 2008) for Huron-Bruce

By Dan RankinMember of Parliament for Huron-Bruce since 2008, Ben Lobb was born in Central Huron, in Clinton, and though school and work have taken him out of the municipality tempo-rarily, he still lives there today. He first earned the Conservative nomination here in the riding in 2005, but was defeated narrow-ly by under 1,000 votes. Learning from his “first test,” he threw in his hat again in 2008, this time winning the Huron-Bruce seat. He was re-elected in 2011 and items in his portfolio have included serving on the Agriculture committee, the Veterans Affairs committee, and as chair of the Health

committee.Why do you think Hu-ron-Bruce needs a Con-servative Party repre-sentative in Ottawa?It goes back to the repre-sentative we had before for 15 years, Paul Steckle. He was a good represen-tative, no doubt about that, and he tried to do his best for the people. But, the problem was his party did not represent the best interests of the people in rural Canada and in my estimation, rural Ontario. I felt we needed a political party that was interested in rural issues, and would allow their MP to deliver rural issues to the party and actually be able to implement them. If you go

back 10 years ago, I can give you a couple of great examples. The first would be the gun registry. The Liberals brought in the gun registry and we were the ones that got rid of the registry for long guns. That’s a great example of a party that under-stood the rural issue and, through time, was able to scrap the long gun reg-istry. Another one would be on agriculture and ag policy. If you go back to those times and even be-fore, the Liberals’ ag min-ister [Regina-Wascana MP Ralph Goodale]. was a lawyer from downtown Regina. So, probably not too in touch with the is-sues facing rural Cana-dians and Canadians in-volved in the business of agriculture. Since we’ve formed government, our current minister Gerry Ritz is a longtime farmer and understands the is-sues not only of growing a crop or raising livestock, but also the issues around trade and tariffs and grow-ing the economy. If you go back 10 years ago, my slogan was Reconnecting Huron-Bruce to Ottawa. I wanted to be a productive, co-operative member of the Conservative caucus and get results done for rural Canadians. I think in the last seven years since I was elected, we’ve been able to do that.What issues in Huron-Bruce do you feel de-serve attention in Ot-tawa, and how would you make sure they re-ceived that attention?

In this area, the big is-sues are provincial in na-ture. The big issues are health care and the de-livery of health care, edu-cation and the closing of schools – many of them are already closed – and the rapidly rising cost of energy making it terribly expensive for people on fixed incomes, seniors, families and business owners. So, you have all these ongoing issues that have been issues for years, that haven’t been fixed in Toronto with Kath-leen Wynne and Dalton McGuinty. That’s actually what we’re hearing on the doorsteps. Even though it’s a federal election, the complaint is still Kathleen Wynne. Federally, the is-sues we’ll work on that are actually under our purview will be less taxes, a bal-anced budget, jobs and the economy. Everything revolves around jobs and a healthy economy. We’re blessed in this area that we do have a great econ-omy and a good mix. Our unemployment numbers are far better than the re-gional numbers, which is really a testament to the small business owners we have in our communi-ty. Obviously, agriculture is very, very strong. It’s the big component in Hu-ron, as well as light manu-facturing, tourism, some culture and now even a bit of IT or high-tech busi-nesses. In Bruce County they have all the same, except they also have Bruce Power, which is the region’s largest employer of over 3,000 people. So,

when you look at what the job of the MP for Huron-Bruce is, it’s to make sure that the regulatory burden is at a minimum, that it’s quick and efficient, and that there’s not a lot of red tape involved for busi-ness. Keep taxes low, and create a climate where you can actually grow your business. Get out of people’s way. Those should be the primary responsibilities in Huron-Bruce.One of the main issues that has surfaced this summer and has been bubbling for a while is the tremendous number of positions that go un-filled here in Huron-Bruce. Maybe people might be surprised by that, but we haven’t been able to match the requirements of the employers and the skills of the employees. If you go back two budgets ago to the Canadian Job Grant, that, to me, is a great opportunity to con-nect those that are look-ing to upgrade and em-ployers that are looking for a good worker who just need a bit of a skills tuneup to do the job that is required.We have to maintain a good fiscal policy, keep a balanced budget, provide tax cuts to Canadians, provide an efficient pub-lic service and be able to make sure that we’re growing our trade, trying to do free trade agree-ments where possible. We’ve been hugely suc-cessful with that. Obvi-ously, going forward, the

Trans-Pacific Partnership is a huge trade oppor-tunity for us to conclude. That’s 40 percent of the world’s GDP. We want to do deals like that. We want to make sure that we have competitive corpo-rate tax rates, small busi-ness tax rates, and also affordable personal tax rates so people can keep what they earn. In the last budget we increased the universal child care ben-efit, we did income split-ting for families, and also introduced the doubling of the Children’s Fitness Tax Credit which is $1,000 per child. These are all ways to allow families to keep more of what they earn. For seniors and other families we’ve been able to increase the Tax Free Savings Account to $10,000 a year, maintain income splitting for se-niors, and all while main-taining transfers to the provinces for health care and social programs to re-cord levels. The province of Ontario will almost re-ceive $20 billion from the federal government in the form of transfer payments this year alone.From wind to solar to nuclear, this riding has a broad range of ener-gy infrastructure. How would like to see the riding’s energy sector develop or change?We’re treading fairly heav-ily into the provincial area, but I can say that that’s probably the area where people are the

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World News Briefs

1955 – Emmett Till is mur-dered in Mississippi – As these four stories will illustrate, Aug. 28 has been an important date in the African American struggle for civil rights for over 50 years. In 1941, an African American woman named Ma-mie Till, who had moved to Chi-cago from Mississippi seeking employment and fair treatment, gave birth to her son Emmett. Growing up attending inte-grated schools, Emmett was a popular kid who liked baseball. In 1955, after a visit from one of Mamie’s southern relatives, Emmett, then 14, begged her to let him visit Mississippi. She warned him that black people had to act differently around white people in the South, but eventually relented, and he ar-rived in Money, Mississippi on Aug. 21, 1955. Visiting a gen-eral store with his cousins on Aug. 25, Till spoke to the mar-ried owner of the store, a white woman named Carolyn Bryant. Later court testimony indicated Till may have taken her hand and asked her for a date, before leaving without incident. Unable to stand such an insult, on this date in 1955, Bryant’s 24-year-old husband Roy and another man drove in the middle of the night to Emmett’s uncle house, where the boy was staying. They forced Emmett from the home at gunpoint, beat him, shot him, and threw him into

the Tallahatchie River. His body was found three days later and returned to Chicago, where his mother insisted on a public fu-neral and open casket, to show the world what had happened to her son. Put to trial in Missis-sippi, Emmett’s murderers were acquitted within a week. In 1956, they admitted in an inter-view to killing him, as they could not be tried a second time. The impact of Emmett Till’s mur-der was far-reaching, with civil rights pioneers such as Medgar Evers and Rosa Parks being inspired by the case. In 1962, Bob Dylan wrote a ballad about Emmett’s death, with the lines:

“If all us folks that think alike, if we gave all we could give / We could make this great land of ours a greater place to live.”1957 – To prevent a vote on the Civil Rights Act of 1957, Senator Strom Thurmond begins the longest filibuster ever conducted a senator – In the mid-1950s, only about 20 percent of African Ameri-cans were registered to vote. Most would-be voters were disenfranchised by discrimina-tory registration rules and laws such as comprehension tests and poll taxes. States could set these laws as they wished, however many groups began to call on the federal government to conduct more oversight of federal elections. In 1957, the

Senate was prepared to vote on a bill to prohibit coercing or interfering with someone’s right to vote in a federal election, and to set up a commission to gather evidence on voting rights violations. On this date in 1957, South Carolina Sena-tor Strom Thurmond, an ardent segregationist, sustained the longest one-person filibuster in history, reciting completely un-related documents and histori-cal speeches for 24 hours and 18 minutes, in an unsuccessful attempt to keep the bill from becoming law. The bill passed the Senate 72 to 18, and was signed by President Eisen-hower on Sept. 9, 1957. Around this time a 28-year-old Martin Luther King, Jr. began writing letters to Eisenhower, calling on him to do more. Subsequent Civil Rights Acts, in 1960 and 1964, and the Voting Rights Act of 1965, went a long way to en-franchise African Americans at the voting booth. By 1967, over half of the black population was

registered to vote. Between 1965 and 1985, African Ameri-cans elected as state legisla-tors in the 11 former Confeder-ate states increased from 3 to 176.1963 – Reverend Martin Lu-ther King, Jr. gives his “I Have a Dream” speech in Washington, D.C. – By the ear-ly 1960’s, progress was being made, but discrimination was still prevalent across America. For instance, interracial mar-riage was still prohibited in 21 states. So, on this date in 1963, over 2,000 buses, 21 chartered trains, 10 chartered airliners and thousands of cars con-verged on the American capital. People came from cities rang-ing from Birmingham, Milwau-kee, St. Louis, and New York City – with 450 busloads from Harlem alone. Many feared the march would break out in vio-lence, and troops were readied to quell rioting, but none ever took place. Over 250,000 peo-ple (at least 75 percent of whom were black) had come to take part in a March on Washington, which culminated in remarks from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial by civil rights leader Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. It was there he delivered his his-toric “I Have a Dream” speech, which called for an end to rac-ism. Repeating the famous line eight times, he described his

vision of freedom and equal-ity rising up out of slavery and hatred (“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the colour of their skin but by the content of their character…”). A day ear-lier, the event’s top-of-the-line sound system had been sabo-taged, but organizers had peti-tioned Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy to fix it, and the system was rebuilt overnight by Army engineers, allowing those gathered to hear the speeches. Less than five years later, King was assassinated in Memphis, but his speech is credited with spurring the U.S. government to take action against racism and segregation, and creating a sea change within the Demo-cratic Party.1968 – The Democratic Na-tional Convention in Chicago is marred by rioting – In Au-gust of 1968, after President Lyndon Johnson had an-nounced he would not be run-ning for re-election, the Demo-cratic Party met in Chicago to determine who they would nominate for the general elec-tion that November. It was a tur-bulent time in America; in just over four months, both Martin Luther King, Jr. and presidential hopeful Robert F. Kennedy had been assassinated. Covering the convention in Chicago from

a massive rally in Grant Park, famed ‘Gonzo’ journalist Hunter S. Thompson described the scene this way: “Behind the line of Bayonets, Michigan Avenue was a crowded no-man’s land full of cops, TV cameras and barbed-wire covered jeeps... and on the other side of that moat was the Conrad Hilton, its entrance surrounded by a wall of blue police helmets and big sheets of plywood covering the windows of the street-level Haymarket Bar – where, sever-al hours earlier, the plate glass had been shattered by human bodies pushed completely into the bar by the crazed police-charge.” Following a week of this kind of rioting, eight people were arrested for inciting the violence, including seven lead-ers of the movement to end the Vietnam War and Bobby Seale, a co-founder of the Black Pan-ther Party. Their judge refused to postpone the case while Seale’s lawyer underwent sur-gery, or to let the college-edu-cated Seale represent himself. As Seale began hurling insults at the judge, he was ordered to be gagged and bound in the courtroom, and later sentenced to an unprecedented four years in prison for contempt of court. The winner of the 1968 conven-tion, Hubert Humphrey, went on to lose in a landslide to Richard Nixon.

This Day in History – August 28th

Guatemala – A growing corrup-tion scandal among Guatema-la’s top leaders drew closer to ending the regime of President Otto Pérez Molina this week as the country’s Supreme Court decided to lift the president’s immunity from prosecution. The Court made the decision Tues-day, before passing it along to Congress for approval. This would clear the way for Mo-lina’s impeachment. Meanwhile, the country’s former vice presi-dent, Roxana Baldetti has been ordered to remain in prison as her corruption trial takes place. A general strike was called in the country yesterday. Critics accuse the leaders of robbing the country’s treasury of over $100 million and silencing op-ponents through mass murders. Many of Molina’s cabinet mem-bers have resigned, with Guate-malan industrial leaders calling for him to do the same. There is talk among demonstrators of re-writing the country’s elector-al law and its constitution.

Hungary – Trying to reach asylum in a refugee crisis unseen since the Second World War, thousands of people fleeing wars in Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan have begun mak-ing their way through central and eastern Europe. Most are attempt-ing to reach Germany, Sweden or the United Kingdom. Along the way however, they have had to pass through nations like Greece, Mace-donia and Hungary that are all un-prepared for such an influx of refu-gees. In Hungary, they have nearly completed a 108-mile long barbed wire fence on their southern border in an attempt to force the refugees to take alternative routes. The crisis is also ratcheting up anti-migrant tension, and hatred among radical right wing groups. Through July 2015, the number of refugees coming to Europe by crossing the Mediterranean or traversing the Balkan states so far this year is about 325,000. That’s already about 60,000 more than the total for all of 2014. Germany alone ex-pects 800,000 asylum-seekers this year, a fourfold increase over 2014.

USA – A TV reporter and cam-eraman in Virginia were shot to death at 6:45 am on live televi-sion Wednesday morning by their former colleague, a journalist who recorded himself carrying out the shooting before posting the video to social media. Vester Flanagan II, who was fired from the Roanoke TV station in 2013, posted his video on Facebook and Twitter, also faxing a confes-sion to ABC News, before fleeing in a rented vehicle. He fatally shot himself before being captured by police later Wednesday. Reporter Alison Parker, 24, and camera-man Adam Ward, 27, died on the scene after their attacker fired about 15 shots from a handgun. The woman they were interview-ing underwent surgery for her wounds Wednesday and was in stable condition. In a related story, retail giant Wal-Mart announced it will no longer sell assault rifles in its stores. The sporting rifles for-merly sold at American Wal-Marts were similar to the US military’s AR-15 assault rifle.

USA – A panel of NASA scientists said Wednesday that worldwide sea levels rose an average of nearly 8 cm (3 inches) since 1992. The source of the increase is warming waters and melting ice, they said. They also said the rate of increase is faster than 50 years ago. Two years ago a United Na-tions panel of scientists predicted sea levels would rise between 30 and 90 cm (1 to 3 feet) by the end of the century. A University of Colorado scientist said their new research shows actual sea level increases will be at the high end of that range. The changes have not been uniform across the globe, and are affected ocean currents and water temperature, they said. As such, the figures showed some regions see levels increase as much as 25 cm (9 inches) while others saw levels fall. “People need to understand that the planet is not only chang-ing, it’s changed,” NASA scientist Tom Wagner told reporters. More than 150 million people live within one metre of sea level.

Canada – The Canadian Dollar currently sits at a value of about 0.756 cents versus the American Dollar. The past couple weeks of the shrinking dollar and the low cost of oil have forced even Alberta’s most optimistic econo-mists to admit that the province is in a recession. An oversupply has been the driver behind oil recently dipping below under $40 US a barrel, meaning simi-larly low values for Canada’s commodity-linked Loonie. Ca-nadian oil and gas stocks were hitting 10- or 15-year lows this week. However, economists are not expecting this recession to be as severe as in 2009. Still, it will make things difficult for Alberta’s new provincial NDP government who will be tabling a budget in the fall and winter. These issues have also become federal election issues, with many Canadians saying they would support deifict spending to stimulate the economy, and the Liberals accusing the NDP of planning an “austerity budget.”

France – Last Friday, a 25-year-old Moroccan gunman report-edly identified as Ayoub El Khazzani, was seen exiting the bathroom of a train bound from Amsterdam to Paris, shirtless, wielding an assault rifle and car-rying a can of gasoline. He also had in his possession a pistol and box-cutter. A French man near the bathroom attempted to stop El Khazzani, who fired off several rounds before the man escaped into the next car. Entering another car, two American serviceman jumped on the attacker, whose weapon jammed. Two others, an Ameri-can and a British man, brought El Khazzani to the ground and tied him up. El Khazzani has been charged with attempted murder, attempted mass mur-der and membership in a terror-ist organization. He maintains he is not a terrorist, and had actually found the weapons in a park. He said he intended to use them to rob passengers and then flee the train.

By Dan Rankin

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World Sports Roundup

Men’s FIBA – At an Olympic qualifier “tune-up” tournament in Puerto Rico this week Canada’s men looked more than ready to represent the nation in the basketball tournament at the Rio Summer Games next year. At the Tuto Marchand Conti-nental Championship Cup, where in four attempts since 2007 Canada has never placed better than third, and at which they hadn’t won a game since 2009, Canada ran the floor with its competition. The team, which included young NBA talent such as Dwight Powell, Cory Jo-seph, Anthony Bennett and Andrew Wiggins, and was coached by for-mer Raptors bench boss Jay Triano, went a perfect 4-0, topping Argen-tina (85-50), Brazil (80-64), Domini-can Republic (86-74), and Puerto Rico (78-72). One of the pleasant surprises at the tournament for Canada was undrafted former Car-leton University star Phil Scrubb, who established himself as a solid off-the-bench point guard, averag-ing 11.3 points per game and 2.7 assists. During his days competing in Canadian Interuniversity Sport, Scrubb, now 22, was voted most outstanding player three times.

By Dan Rankin

CFL – You would have thought things couldn’t possibly get worse for the 2015 Saskatchewan Roughriders (0-8). You would have been wrong. At practice Wednesday, receiver Chris Getzlaf injured his leg while running a route and will miss a second straight game when his team heads to Ottawa Sunday. Get-zlaf had racked up over 300 yards and four touchdowns this season. That’s good news for Ottawa (4-4), who have dropped their last two games and fallen to third in the East. Silenced in the second quarter while the Boatmen put up 10 points last Sunday, Ottawa were 30-24 losers at Rogers Centre. Hamilton and To-ronto are now duking it out on top of the conference, with matching 6-2 records and each boasting multi-week winning streaks. Hamilton hosted the last-place Alouettes last night looking for their sixth straight win, while the Argos are in Edmon-ton tonight looking for their fourth win in a row. Out west, the defend-ing Grey Cup-champ Stampeders (6-2) have righted the ship and are on a three-game streak of their own. They’re in Winnipeg tomorrow, kick-ing off at 6:00 pm.

MLS – In nine MLS seasons, Toronto FC has yet to make a postseason appearance. But this year, more teams than ever are qualifying for the playoffs (six from each conference) so, I’m saying there’s a chance. Even though they’ve won only three times in their last 10 games, with 34 points and 10 games left to play, the Reds (10-10-4) are currently tied for fourth place in the East with New Eng-land. In their most recent match against Orlando City Aug. 22, TFC put on a dominant display, winning 5-0. Sebastian Giovin-co scored his team-leading 17th goal as part of a five goal sec-ond half. Toronto has bested the expansion team by a combined 11-1 in their past three meetings. Tomorrow afternoon TFC plays a winnable home game against Montreal, who are in a three-way tie for sixth place, before a tough road game in Seattle Sept. 5. The last time the two teams met was Mar. 15, 2014 when Toronto downed the even-tual Western Conference final-ists 2-1 in Seattle.

MLB NL – While the Blue Jays look like contenders for the first time in a long time in the American League, the same can be said for two long-suffering squads in the National League: the Mets (70-56) and Cubs (73-52). The Mets, who have built a 6.5 game lead over second-place Washington, are blessed by a sched-ule that will see them play 23 more games against their NL-East “rivals” the Braves (54-73), Marlins (51-76) and Phillies (50-77) – three teams that Thursday were a combined 71 games below .500. Still, there’s no doubt New York has been hot; last night they had a chance to sweep a four game series in Philadelphia, which would have been their fifth series sweep in eight tries since July 31. Meanwhile, on the North Side of Chicago, the Cubs are fixing to make the World Series prediction from

“Back to The Future Part II” come true. Though they find themselves seven-and-a-half games back in the NL Central race behind Pittsburgh and St. Louis, they have a solid buf-fer in the Wild Card race, 6.5 games ahead of the Giants. Those two teams played a crucial rubber match yesterday afternoon.

MLB AL – After a thrilling 6-5 ninth inning comeback win over the Texas Rangers Tuesday night, Toronto’s 12-4 shellack-ing of a listless Texas pitching staff Wednesday was relatively ho-hum in comparison. But you won’t hear too many Jays fans complaining. Edwin Encarnacion hit his eighth career grand slam (and second against Texas this season), extending his hitting streak to 21 games, and Kevin Pillar and Justin Smoak each added homers in the dominant win. David Price, who turned 30 Wednesday, threw six strong in-nings, allowing just two runs as Toronto won their fifth straight. Texas doled out 11 walks in the series-clinching game. In the American League, only the Roy-als (77-49) have a better record than the Jays (71-56). Toronto lost their final game in Arlington yesterday afternoon. They won a second-straight series against an AL Wild Card contender. Tonight they begin a nine-game home stand that will see them host the Tigers (60-66), Indians (60-66) and Orioles (63-63).

PGA – Getting underway in Edison, New Jersey yester-day at the Plainfield Coun-try Club was the 2015 edi-tion of The Barclays, which runs through Sunday and includes competitors such as Phil Mickelson, Bubba Watson, recent 2015 PGA Championship winner Jason Day and Canadian David Hearn. They’re after a purse of $8,250,000. For Day, the PGA Championship, which ended Aug. 16, was his first major win. His -20 final score set the record for the lowest ever score in relation to par at a major. In second place, Jor-dan Spieth was able to sur-pass Rory McIlroy as number one in the Official World Golf Ranking. On Aug. 23 in the LPGA, New Zealand’s Lydia Ko won her third Canadian Pacific Women’s Open title and second at the Vancou-ver Golf Club. Ko, 18, beat American Stacy Lewis in a playoff. Drawing big crowds, Canada’s Brittany Hender-son placed 23rd at 4-under.

Checking in with Ben Lobbmost pissed off in Hu-ron and Bruce Counties. We’ve door-knocked probably close to 5,000 doors now, and people are really pissed off with the way the provincial Liberals have misman-aged our electricity. Our competitive advantage in Ontario used to be our low-cost electricity. Now we’re double pretty much any other area as far as I know in electri-cal prices. We should be lower, if not the lowest. We have been historical-ly. High electricity costs make it more expensive for businesses; they look elsewhere when it gets tough to do their busi-ness. There are oppor-tunities, potentially, fed-erally to work with prov-inces on electrical grids, pan-Canadian electrical grids, but again, our past two premiers Dalton McGuinty and Kathleen Wynne have bungled this file probably worse than anybody. It has

cost Ontarians. That’s for another election, the provincial election, but obviously nuclear is a huge component of our electrical makeup in On-tario, and the makeup of our jobs here in Huron-Bruce. Our government has been a strong sup-porter of Bruce Power and the nuclear sector, so obviously we’re go-ing to continue to do so. But, the challenge is out there to the province to do the right thing and be looking at alternative sources of energy that are low cost, competi-tive and affordable for all Ontarians. At this point in time, Hydroelectricity and nuclear are the best two options for our prov-ince. They’re our two lowest cost options, and they’re both non-emit-ters. They’re both good for our environment and good for our pocket-booksHow would you like to use the natural and agricultural strengths

of Huron-Bruce to improve the region’s economy?If you look at this rid-ing, it’s one of the best areas in the world to grow crops. That’s one of our competitive ad-vantages. If you drive up and down the high-ways, you’ll see all the different businesses that service the agricultural community. Right here in Exeter, you’ve got farm machinery dealer-ships, electrical contrac-tors, well and plumbing businesses that service the livestock sector, con-struction firms that build driving sheds and barns, etc. We have that built in. In addition, just down the road you have got the Hensall Co-Op, Thomp-son’s and Parrish and Heimbecker, that sell around the world. So, the infrastructure is already here to do business. Some of these business-es have doubled the number of workers just since I’ve been elected

alone. We’re also fortu-nate that we have the largest deep water port on this side of Lake Hu-ron, so, that gives us a competitive advantage for moving salt and grain. So, when we look at how we’re trying to best grow our agriculture and sell our goods around the world, it’s trade deals.It has to be trade deals because some of the tariffs on some of the products we sell here are exorbitant – 400 per-cent in some cases. So, when you’re competing against the United States and European Union countries and you look at us, our tariffs are high-er. Pork and beef are be-tween 20 and 70 percent. We need to work those down. Our deal with Ko-rea came into effect Jan. 1. Some of those tariffs went to zero immediately while some are working down the next five to 10 years. That’s what’s go-ing to keep us competi-tive. That’s what’s going

to get product out of this country at a good price. That should be the pri-mary focus of the fed-eral government at this time on the ag and trade file, and it is. We’ve con-cluded more trade deals than any other govern-ment has in the past. It’s around 40 trade deals at this point with individual countries. It’s important we work on deals like the TPP to make sure that our goods go into those countries tariff-free. We’re already trad-ing with those countries, it’s just to make sure that we have the best pos-sible tariff rates when we’re doing it That’s what we need to do.There are some political parties out there who think that it’s either/or; you protect supply man-agement or you con-clude a trade deal. Our government has proven that you can do both. You can protect the supply managed sectors while still not giving up any-

thing while you’re doing your trade deals. Can-ada-Korea was a great example of that, where we were able to achieve our objectives, but not give up anything on the trade side. Ten years ago when I first ran for poli-tics, there were low com-modity prices. Corn was just over $2 per bushel. Farmer after farmer told me they didn’t want to ‘farm the mail box,’ they wanted to ‘farm the mar-ket.’ They said, ‘we want to make our living off the markets and our hard work and knowledge, not off government sub-sidies.’ Ten years later, that’s what we’re doing. You can just see with the price of land, how it’s in-creased, with the equip-ment and the technology, and how agriculture has transformed itself in 10 years. We have world class farmers operat-ing their businesses on some of the best land in the world.

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Grade: 9Favourite subject: DramaFavourite past-time: MusicFavourite teacher: Mr. Moir

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This Week In Agriculture

July 2015 field crops report shows first decrease in soybean production since 2007

Hog Numbers Up, Cattle Numbers Down

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Conducted between July 22 and Aug. 3 and released on Aug. 21, the July Farm Survey of crop production covered about 13,000 Canadian farms, asking them to report their estimated area, yield and produc-tion of grains, oilseeds and special crops.The survey collected data from five prov-inces, including Al-berta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario and Quebec. Among the survey’s findings were, for the first time since 2007, national soybean production is expected to decrease in 2015. Anticipated production was reported at 5.9 million tonnes, down 3.2 percent from 2014.

Soybean production had posted consecutive record highs since 2009.Here in Ontario, soy-bean production is an-ticipated to decrease 10 percent to 3.4 mil-lion tonnes in 2015, down from the 2014 re-cord high of 3.8 million tonnes. Both harvested area and average yield are expected to decline by about five percent to 2.9 million acres and 42.9 bushels per acre, respectively. Con-versely, in Manitoba, soybean production in 2015 is anticipated to reach a record high of 1.2 million tonnes, up 12.3 percent from 2014. Contributing to the gain are a combination of increases in harvested

area (up about five per-cent to 1.3 million acres) and yield (up seven per-cent to 34.6 bushels per acre).At the national level, corn for grain production is expected to increase 7.2% to 12.3 million tonnes in 2015 (up 7.2 percent over 2014, but below the 2013 record of 14.2 million tonnes). This is 13.3% below the record of 14.2 million tonnes set in 2013.Ontario farmers will ac-count for about 8.2 mil-lion tonnes of the 2015 production totals.Wheat and canola pro-duction for 2015 are both expected to contin-ue to fall relative to 2013 record levels, while bar-

ley and oats production reports show an expect-ed increase over 2014.At the national level, total wheat production is expected to reach 24.6 million tonnes in 2015, down almost 16 percent from 2014 and well below the 37.5 mil-lion tonne harvest of 2013. This anticipated decrease in wheat pro-duction is the result of a lower average yield of 38.1 bushels per acre in 2015, down over 17 percent from 46 bush-els per acre in 2014.Final production es-timates for 2015 will be released on Dec. 4. Find more information at StatsCan.gc.ca.

Another Statistics Can-ada report released on Aug. 20 showed that the hog inventory is increasing in Canada, and so is hog slaugh-ter. While the number of hog farms in Canada has gone down slightly, hog populations have

gone up about one per-cent from last year.Canada exported al-most three million head in the first half of the year, which is more than 17 percent higher than 2014. Hog slaugh-ter also increased in Canada during the

same time frame, up three percent from last year. The U.S. has also seen a strong demand for hogs, with an in-crease in slaughter this year as well.Meanwhile, the Cana-dian cattle inventory continues to shrink. On

July 1, Canadian farm-ers had 13 million head on their farms, which is down about 2 per-cent from last year, and down 23 percent from a decade ago.Dairy cow and heifer numbers are also down from last year.

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50th annual Zurich Bean Festival 2015

Bean festival goers enjoy a delicious lunch while trying to stay out of the heat at the 50th annual gathering. (All photos were submitted)

The Frog Jumping Contest was a huge success this year, building on the work of Craig Redick. Frog pins were given to all contestants when they identified their type of frog, while certificates and money were prizes for all the winners.

Country singer Tanya Harris performed on the main stage Saturday afternoon.

Packed house at the Zurich Bean Festival proved it to be another successful year.

Pictured is the cruise night lineup. T-shirts were made this year by the Wrechbenders featuring a graphic of Percy Bedard’s car in memory of him.

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improve the region’s economy?Growing up in the riding I think we take the land for granted and prob-ably don’t pay enough attention to the fact that our land feeds people in urban centres. I think we need to pay close atten-tion to the changes that are taking place in agri-culture, to protect what we have, through strong support to supply man-agement for example, and to look for every opportunity to improve income stability for our farmers. I think we also have to do everything we can to try and make it a viable option for our young people to settle down and make their lives in Huron-Bruce, if that is what they want to do in life. If elected, I would do everything I can to en-sure that young people

in the riding have viable options for development within Huron-Bruce, whether it is through ag-riculture or other sectors. Huron-Bruce also has a rich arts and culture community, with such gems as the famous Blyth Festival. I think it is time for us to realize that the arts aren’t just for entertainment, but also offer an economic opportunity in our com-munity. People have numerous ways to reach Allan. In-dividuals can visit allan-thompson.ca, call 1-844-396-7880, or chat on social media with him on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

Product Review Meet Allan ThompsonContinued from page 5The Fitbit Charge HR: A Healthy Obsession

By Stewart GrantAs my wife’s birthday approached in late July, she hinted that what she’d really like this year was something called a Fitbit, specifically the model called the “Fitbit Charge HR”. It’s essen-tially a wristwatch that measures and tracks a myriad of personal activ-ity data. Though until that point I’d never heard of a Fitbit, within a week of seeing her use it, I had or-dered one for myself. I’m now starting to see more and more people wearing them around town.Knowledge is a power-ful thing, and wearing the Fitbit equips people with a ton of interesting personal data that can be viewed either on the device, or more effec-tively when synced with a smart phone (Note: the Fitbit app does not pro-vide support for Black-berry).

Not only does the Fit-bit Charge HR accu-rately track your steps travelled during the day, but also your distance covered, floors climbed, heart rate fluctuations, calories burned, and even your sleep pat-terns. When paired with the Fitbit phone app, the user can input food and water consumption and the Fitbit will calculate a real-time “calories in vs. calories out” com-parison. Since the Fitbit knows your weight-loss goals, it can constantly re-calculate how many additional calories you should consume based on your amount of calo-ries burned.There is no doubt that the Fitbit will get you burn-ing more calories. The default goal on the step-counter is 10,000 steps per day, which for me is roughly the equivalent of travelling 8 or 9 kilome-tres. The most powerful

motivation though comes from friends who also have the Fitbit, since the app enables you to enter Challenges with people you know to see who can rack up the most steps during the day or over a series of days. Get in-volved in one of these Challenges and you’ll be amazed at how many steps you can get in dur-

ing a day.Time will tell whether the Fitbit will continue to mo-tivate those in our house-hold, but thus far it has been a lot of fun and it has been very interest-ing to see the feedback. Most certainly, it has helped us keep more ac-tive and that can only be a good thing.

One of the most revealing pieces of information is the Fitbit sleep monitor, which measures the duration and quality of rest. It also measures the number of times awake and amount of time restless during the night.

Above is a fairly typical day which comprised 11,500 steps. It is interesting to track the range in heart rate based on daily activities and exercise.

The Fitbit app home screen highlights daily personal activity data

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Tree Tips: Gardening and Planting around WalnutsPlanting around Walnut trees, especially Black Walnuts can be very chal-lenging. This is due to the fact that Walnuts, and other trees in the Walnut family, produce a chemi-cal called Jug lone. This tends to stunt and whith-er most other plants and trees in the area. Even if you remove the Walnut tree, the chemical will continue to contaminate the ground for up to ten years. This week, I have compiled a list of trees and plants that will grow around and under Walnut

trees.Trees that can be plant-ed with Walnuts: some maples (not silver), cata-pla, oak, hickory, beech, cedar, sycamore, black locust, black cherry, river birch, ohio buckeye, red-buck, honey locust, flow-ering dogwood, & dog-woodShrubs that can be plant-ed with Walnuts: barberry, forsythia, rose of sharon, juniper, elderberry.Vegetables that can be planted with Walnuts: onions, beets, squash,

melons, carrots, parsnips, beans, corn, potatoes, tomatoes, peppers, ca-bages, rhubarb, aspara-gus, eggplant This is a short list, and should not be considered complete. If you have a question, you can email me at jtsquote@gmail.com, and I will respond either by email or in a fu-ture article. If you would like me to come and as-sess one of your trees, you can call me at 519-272-5742.

Joel Hackett is a Certified Arborist spending most of the year running Joel’s Tree Service. He also teaches Arborculture dur-ing the winter at Lambton College.

Joel Hackett does not as-sume any liability for any information in this article.

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Huron county OPP investigating fatal motorcycle crash

Firefighters searching for volunteer help

On Sunday, Aug. 23, shortly after 4:30 p.m., Huron County Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) officers were dispatched to the intersection of Mill Road (County Rd. 3), and Goshen Line, where a citizen had discovered a motorcycle and its rider in a corn field.Huron EMS personnel and OPP officers, upon arrival at the scene de-termined that the motor-

cyclist had been in the cornfield for an extend-ed period of time. The motorcyclist was pro-nounced deceased at the scene.Preliminary investiga-tion has determined that the motorcycle had been travelling north bound on Goshen Line approach-ing the intersection of Mill Road. The motor-cycle proceeded north bound from Goshen

Line, crossing Mill Road, and colliding with the “T-intersection” sign. The motorcycle and its rider came to rest in a corn field north of the intersec-tion. The male operator of the Yamaha motorcycle, 21-year-old Zackary James Maclean from Goderich, was identified as the deceased motor-cyclist.

The West Region OPP Technical Traffic Investi-gation Unit attended the scene and is continuing their investigation. Road closed signs were erected diverting traf-fic around the intersec-tion of Goshen Line and Mill Road, to allow for a safe investigation of the crash. The intersection was re-opened to traffic on Sunday August 23rd at 10:45 p.m.

Commitment to the com-munity runs deep within the ranks of the South Huron Fire Department.The municipality and its most precious commodity

– its residents – are well served by the large vol-unteer team of firefighters. The South Huron Fire De-partment is looking for a few good men and wom-

en to join the ranks in Hu-ron Park and Dashwood. The department operates with 75 volunteers among three stations. The ser-vice requires such num-bers given the municipal-ity’s size and distances covered. Given the man-power and local involve-ment, the response times for the three stations is

quite good.The call volume is very dynamic and includes motor vehicle collisions, carbon monoxide related calls and of course, fires.To fill the need, the depart-ment is holding a recruit-ment for the Huron Park and Dashwood Stations.As a volunteer fire fighter serving the Municipal-ity of South Huron, can-didates will be required to respond to many types of emergency situations. Other responsibilities and duties include, yet not lim-ited to, the routine main-tenance of firefighting ap-paratus and equipment, maintaining fire depart-ment facilities, attending regular scheduled train-ing sessions, and partici-pating in local public edu-cation events. Those ap-plying must be capable of functioning collectively as part of a team and under adverse conditions.Applicants must meet the

following minimum crite-ria upon submitting their application:Must be over the age of 18; must currently be free and clear of a Criminal Record; must have a valid Ontario Driver’s License (and insurance) and must undergo a police Vulnera-ble Sector Check (PVSC) through the OPP.Preferred Candidates will currently possess a Valid Class “D” Licence with “Z” Endorsement and have current First Aid/CPR/Defibrillation from a rec-ognized institution or pro-vider.For more information and application, please visit the municipal website at http://municipal.south-huron.ca/employment-opportunities or contact Fire Chief Andrew Baird at 519-235-1981. Applica-tions will be accepted in person at the Exeter Fire Station or the Municipal Office until Friday, Octo-ber 2 at 4:30 p.m.

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Rinn, William (Billy). At LHSC-University Hospital, Lon-don on Monday, August 24, 2015, of Lucan and formerly of Ilderton in his 49th year. Dear father of Melissa Rinn and Cody McCallum of Lucan. Loving “grandpy” of Jayden, Olivia, and Paislee. Dear brother of Avril Rinn of London. Close friend of Neil Studley and Sue Balmain. Predeceased by his parents Mary Ellen and Orval Rinn. Friends gath-ered at the Haskett Funeral Home, 223 Main Street, Lucan on Thursday evening 7-9 PM, where the funeral service will be held on Friday, August 28th at 11 AM. Cremation with interment St. George’s Anglican Cemetery, Middlesex Centre. In lieu of flowers donations to Addiction Services of Thames Valley, or the Lions Foundation of Canada Dog Guides would be appreciated by the family. Condolences

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Reymer

Reymer: Annie Johanna (Hebing). At her residence in Woodham, with family by her side, on Thursday, August 20, 2015 Annie Johanna Reymer (Hebing) formally of Wehl, Netherlands, in her 73rd year. Beloved wife of Gerry Reymer. Mother of Andre and Christine of Aylmer, Maarten of Exeter, and Eric and Colleen of RR 1 Centralia. Dear grandmother of Nathan & Dylan; Chelsie, Amanda & Sami-Anne; Cole, Aleaha, Reese, & Riley. Dear sis-ter and sister-in-law of Willemien Thus-Hebing, Riet Boerkamp-Hebing and Koos Boerkamp, Clazien Hebing-Mocking, Truus Smeenk-Hebing, Greet Wissink-Hebing and Harrie Wissink, Carolien Willemsen-Hebing and Theo Willemsen, Wim Scholten, Gerard Hebing and Paulien Hebing-Stokman, Bennie Hebing – Jolanda Hebing-Eijt, Agnes Teunissen-Hebing and Willem Ro-elofs all of the Netherlands; John and Corina Reymer of Lucan, Eef and Dorothy Reymer of Lucan, Tonnie Simons, Willhelmien van de Pavert, Annie and Wiek Bulsink, Diny Lebbink, Harrie Reymer, and Ria and Gerard Banning all of the Netherlands. Loved aunt of many nieces and nephews. Predeceased by Jan, Thus, Jan Hebing and Jet Hebing-Hoogveld, Tonnie Smeenk, Gerda Scholten-Hebing, Toosje Hebing, Andre Hebing, and Gerard Teunissen; Fons Simons, Ben van de Pavert, and Theo Reymer. Friends may call at the Haskett Funeral Home, 370 William Street, Exeter (1 street west of Main), on Monday 2-4 and 7-9 PM, where the funeral service will be held on Tuesday, August 25th at 1:30 PM. Cremation to follow. Donations to the Make-A-Wish Foundation would be appreciated by the family.

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BoaAt Alexandra Hospital, Ingersoll, Barbara Boa passed away on Friday August 21, 2015 in her 64th year. Beloved wife of Ivan Boa. Loving mother of Steven and Scott. Dear sister-in-law of Eleanor and Gary Beaver and Margaret and Ken Clarke. A graveside service will be held on Tuesday, August 25, 2015 at 2 p.m. in Staffa Cemetery. Memorial contributions may be made to the Canadian Diabetes Association . J. M. McBeath Funeral Home, Zurich entrusted with arrangements. Condolences forwarded through www.jmmcbeathfuneralhome.com.

A tree will be planted as a living memorial to Barbara Boa

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