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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 6, 2018
Vol. 6 Edition 48
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CP Holiday Train lights up Chatham
By Bruce Corcoran bruce@chathamvoice.com
A Dresden area farmer and his son encountered a strange visitor from space recently; a wizard, actually. Steve Richardson and his son, Landen, 8, discovered a downed weather balloon in one of their fields, but soon learned it was much more than that. Attached to the balloon was a capsule of sorts, a Styrofoam cooler that contained The Wealthy Wizard, as well as a GoPro camera, a GPS locator ... and a phone number. “We didn’t see it coming down. We were combining in the field and we had seen it from a distance,” Steve recalled in an interview with The Chatham Voice. “My son was with me. I told him to go and get it. A Styrofoam cooler was attached to it. It was pretty neat.” Steve said coming across a weather balloon in a field is nothing new to him. “We get a lot of weather balloons. I figured that was what it was. At first, I just wanted to get it out of the field so we could keep working.” Continued on page 3
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The CP Holiday Train makes a stop in Chatham on Friday to a mass of people waiting behind the John D. Bradley Convention Centre for a view of the lit up train and Santa Claus. Collecting canned goods for local food banks, this year’s entertainment headliner was the Sam Roberts Band who performed some of their hits and classic Christmas carols.
Sick raccoon causes upset in Chatham
By Mary Beth Corcoran mary@chathamvoice.com
One Chatham man, at his wit’s end trying to get help to remove a sick raccoon from his property on Colborne Street, said
something needs to be done to take care of the problem. Marc Dumay went outside on his front deck last week with his dog, and a raccoon was sitting on the deck; it showed no
fear of either of them. Back inside, Dumay said he checked periodically and noticed the raccoon had climbed a large tree in his front yard and was wandering around the branches and appeared
disoriented. Fearing for his dog and neighbourhood children, Dumay said he called animal control and was told they were contracted to pick up stray dogs, but would only pick up wild-
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