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East Beach subdivision in jeopardy despite Council approval By Bill Chaplin, Municipal Correspondent
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A planned shoreline subdivision that has received draft approval is unlikely to continue to enjoy its approved status due to heightened awareness of the precarious nature of its location. Back in July of 2003 Leamington Council granted draft approval to a 17 lot plan for developing residential property along Leamington’s East Beach. Back then, Provincial Policies were looser, E.R.C.A. was more inclined to tolerate long-term risk, and development anywhere was seen as a good thing. Since that time two extensions of draft approval have been granted to the owner, but development has not proceeded. Now, another request for a further three-year extension has been presented to Leamington Council. But now, Leamington no longer has the authority to grant such a request. That is now the prerogative of County Council, and they request Leamington’s support for the application before granting or denying the extension. Leamington’s planning department has recommended that Council object to the extension for a number of reasons. The property is accessed by either Mersea Road 1 or Mersea Road B. Road 1 is closed to vehicular traffic due to erosion, and Road B no longer meets minimum standards to be passable in the case of a onein-a-hundred-year (Continued on Page 3)
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Lindsay Peters (left) and William Beleutz show the OPP citations and Royal Canadian Humane Association certificates that accompanied their bronze medals of honour for bravery, awarded to them in Norfolk and Toronto, respectively.
Leamington men honoured for bravery By Bryan Jessop
It has been nearly three years after the fact, but two Leamington men have received wellearned accolades for tremendous acts of bravery. Lindsay Peters and Bill Beleutz each received citations from the Ontario Provincial Police and more recently, the Royal Canadian Humane Association’s Bronze Medal of Honour for Bravery. The OPP citations were granted to the two local men on Sept. 9 2010 in Norfolk, followed by the RCHA bravery awards ceremony on June 5 of this year in Toronto, where medals were presented by the honourable Lieutenant Governor of Ontario David Onley. Late in the morning on Sept. 27 of 2009, Peters was driving on Gracey Side Road in his 1998 Lincoln Towncar with Beleutz in the front passenger seat, about 300 metres behind a south-
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bound four-door GMC Sierra. Nearing the Morris Road intersection, the two local men noticed an Oldsmobile Alero heading west. “I thought ‘there’s no way he’ll be able to make that stop sign’ and then ‘boom’,” said Beleutz. The Alero and Sierra collided, each at a speed of about 80 km/hr, before both vehicles slid and crashed into a nearby ditch. The scene was just southeast of Highway 401. “We both think the same...,” Peters began saying. “We’ve got to do something quick,” Beleutz finished. The two men noted that the Alero had caught fire even before skidding into the ditch. They reached the Sierra pick-up truck first, and noticing that the damage wasn’t as severe, proceeded to the Alero, where they discovered the driver — the vehicle’s only occupant — slumped over onto the steering wheel in an unconscious
state. Beleutz and Peters climbed down into the ditch and tried to remove the male driver, but were unable to open the car’s severely damaged doors. Peters ran back to his car and removed a tire iron from the trunk. He then rushed b a c k to the Alero, which w a s quickly b e ing enveloped by flames, and smashed out its rear window. From there, Beleutz reached forward and placed his jacket over the man’s face to prevent him from inhaling smoke and to shield him from shattered glass from the driver’s door window that Peters was able to smash with the tire iron.
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Afterwards, the two men were able to unbuckle the driver’s seat belt and pull him through the shattered window and up the ditch bank.
“We had to pull him out by the ass of his pants,” Beleutz said. “We knew there wasn’t any time to waste.” “It all happened so fast,” Peters noted. “I didn’t expect to see anyone alive in that car.” Roughly four minutes (Continued on Page 2)