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Canada Day Fireworks in Leamington The July 1st holiday in 2014 will commemorate Canada’s 147th birthday! The Municipality of Leamington invites everyone to and come celebrate at the beautifully restored Seacliff Park. Canada Day Fireworks will light up the sky at 10:05 p.m. on Tuesday, July 1 at Seacliff Park. New this year is live music provided by Twisted Logic from 7:009:30 p.m. The fireworks will be launched from the beach area, therefore access to Seacliff Beach will be closed to the public starting at 5:00 p.m. Marine traffic will be restricted. Please listen to Channel 68 for panpan notifications. Parking is limited.
Road Closures & Traffic Restrictions Starting at 8:00 p.m. the following road closures are in effect: • West Park Dr. closed at Seacliff Dr. • Forest Ave. closed at Seacliff Dr. • Forest Ave. closed at Conover Ave. • Conover Ave. closed at Erie St. S. • Erie St. southbound closed on south side of Robson Rd.
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Local author and classic auto enthusiast Bill Sherk displays his latest offering, The Big Tomato – A Comedy Farce from 1957. The story, originally intended to be written as a screenplay, was inspired by Leamington’s landmark and tourist information booth of the same name, seen in the photo’s background. (SUN Photo)
Author releases tribute to Leamington
By Bryan Jessop A local writer with a passion for classic automobiles has for the first time decided to “Sherk” the facts and create a fictional story dedicated to his home town. Bill Sherk, known by classic car enthusiasts across Ontario as The Old Car Detective, released this month his 10th publication titled The Big Tomato – A Comedy Farce From 1957. The book differs from his first nine offerings as Sherk’s first work of fiction and the first to be based entirely on a specific location. The Big Tomato, as it’s full title suggests, is based in the Golden Age of 1957 — an era of drive in movie theatres and restaurants, cruising the streets in customized hot rods and street racing. In Sherk’s newest book, that town is Leamington — with real-life locations inspiring the story’s backdrop for a not-so-real chain of events. Inspiration for The Big Tomato started in 1987 as plans bantered back and fourth between Sherk and friend Fred Sweet while Sherk was a high school history teacher living in Toronto. The original idea was to create the story as a screenplay, but as ideas and portions of the story failed to connect as a complete script for film, the plan was discontinued. Sherk’s idea for a fictitious story about Leamington was originally triggered while walking along Talbot Street
West earlier that year and glancing across the road at the community’s most renowned landmark — the ‘Big Tomato’ tourist information booth. Nineteen-Eighty-Seven was also the year Sherk and Sweet saw the recently-released movie My American Cousin, which also inspired the idea of a movie. After the screenplay idea fizzled out, Sherk decided to pick up where he left off and write the story as a book. While characters in The Big Tomato are based entirely on his imagination, the scenes are based on actual past and present locations including Leamington’s iconic red water tower, the Mike/Gary Miller Service Station, the Gingerbread House restaurant, the El Rancho drive-in restaurant, the Leamington Drive In Theatre that was located north of town between the 4th and 5th Concessions, the Dairy Freeze in North Ridge and the Sherk family’s first Leamington home on Armstrong Drive. “I don’t know if I could have written the book without all these places in mind,” said Sherk, who also used a photograph of a police cruiser from the Canadian Transportation Museum in Essex to illustrate the cover page of Part One. “I can actually see everything in front of me like it’s on a big screen.” (Continued on Page 2)
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