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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 19, 2017
Vol. 5 Edition 42
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Fire destroys Thames Street building
Bruce Corcoran/The Chatham Voice
Firefighters battle a Thames Street blaze Saturday afternoon that sent toxic smoke spewing into the sky and forced the temporary evacuation of several homes. See story on page 3.
School bus scare on Riverview Line
By Mary Beth Corcoran mary@chathamvoice.com
Nothing can make a mom’s, or nana’s, heart stop faster than watching not one, but three cars
race by a stopped bus with the arm down and signals flashing. Chatham area mom Sydney Bibby and her mother, Connie Cominsky, were horrified this past
week when Bibby went to put her four-year-old son Forster on the bus to Pain Court in front of her mom’s Riverview Line home at 7:45 a.m. As she was making sure her son
was going up the steps of the bus, Bibby said three cars zoomed past, one right after the other. “One incident triggered so much panic,” Bibby said, during an interview
with The Voice at the office of MPP Rick Nicholls. “Karen (the bus driver) was shocked. She said, ‘Three cars just passed me with the lights flashing.’” Bibby immediately
called the police, but without the license plate numbers of the vehicles, they weren’t able to follow up. Continued on page 2
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