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A 19-year-old Thamesville man faces multiple driving charges after allegedly fleeing from Chatham-Kent police early Monday morning.
An officer spotted a man driving a car with licence plates that weren’t registered to the vehicle just before 1 a.m. on Dufferin Avenue in Wallaceburg, police said.
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The man reportedly failed to stop for the officer and fled at a high rate of speed. The officer did not pursue because of public safety reasons.
About one hour later, the officer found the driver in the car in a parking lot on McNaughton Avenue.
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It was pitch black. Dead of night. I had just crossed a bridge I never knew existed. Terrified in terra incognita. Getting ready to jump into a great, wide open.
You never know what will happen, what you’ll learn.
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I don’t remember when I crossed that bridge. But it was either the summer of 1974 or 1975, just after I had bought my lime-green CCM Turismo 10-speed bicycle.
Every now and then throughout that summer – and always in the early morning so I could avoid the sweltering southwest headwind – I would jump on my Turismo and pedal, southward, fast as I could, the 30 miles between my house in Sarnia and my grandmother’s house on the south side of Gillard Street in Wallaceburg. I would stay at my grandmother’s for one night and then, the following afternoon – so I could catch the push of what h
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Stand on the corner of Wallace and Huron streets in Wallaceburg most any sunny summer day. You will hear tires crunching broken asphalt as vehicles pull into and out of the Wallaceburg public boat ramp. Listen carefully and you will hear the high-speed clicking of winches as people coax their boats off trailers, the spinning of wheels as cars or trucks extract the trailer off the slippery, river-muddy surface of the boat ramp (maybe even a bit of cursing as people rock stuck boats off trailers or try to get stubborn motors to start), then the slamming of car doors and people walking to their boats.
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