The Lucknow Sentinel, 2013-12-18, Page 1414 Lucknow Sentinel • Wednesday, December 18, 2013
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The Lucknow Community Christian
Reformed Church performed'Hark,
the Herald Angels Sing,' `Let
Heaven and Nature Sing,' and 'The
People Who Walked in Darkness'.
TROY PATTERSON KINCARDINE NEWS
The annual Lucknow
Carolfest saw a full house at
the United Church on Dec. 4,
2013. The event saw seven
local choirs and bands,
including Lucknow's Classic
Band, United, Presbyterian
and Christian Reformed
choirs, as well as South
Kinloss Presbyterian Church,
Trinity United Church and
St. Joseph's Kingsbridge
Community choirs. Ken
deBoer said the event been
"how we start Christmas
here as a community"
since about 1969.
The Mass Choir saw all local choirs
join in the singing of `Silent Night'.
Ken Irwin performed a trumpet
solo to the delight of the audience.
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Miracle of Christmas, and
may your home be blessed
by His many good graces
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Hope for
Kincardine
Hospital
rebuild fading
Tracey Richardson
QMI Agency
Hope is fading fast that the Kincar-
dine hospital multi -million -dollar
rebuild project will get the green light
to proceed from the Ministry of
Health.
The project, which has simmered
for about seven years and had earlier
been approved by the province, only
to have it suddenly cancelled in the
spring of 2012, had been building up
steam again after the South Bruce
Grey Health Centre was encouraged
to resubmit a scaled down version of
the plan.
The project began grinding its way
through the system again in 2013, but
remained stuck in stage one of a five -
stage capital process.
The SBGHC board now expects to
hear in January whether it will pro-
ceed further up the chain, but presi-
dent and CEO Paul Rosebush is not
optimistic.
Rosebush feels that based on the
province's economic statement given
in early November, it's not looking
good for Kincardine.
Ontario's revenues are $5 billion
lower than forecast in the 2010
budget, and a balance won't happen
until 2017-18, the government says.
"What alarmed us from the hospital
end is that it also spoke about infra-
structure generally," said Rosebush.
"And it said if you're not on the prior-
ity list, your project will likely not go
forward. So we're unsure right now
whether we're on the ministry's prior-
ity list."
The board quickly contacted the
capital planning branch and was told
some clarification can be expected in
January.
But Rosebush is promising some
sort of a rebuild no matter what.
"I will go out on a limb and say
something will happen, because it
needs to happen, and it's our job as
an organization to make sure some-
thing happens," he said.
Parts of the hospital are more than
100 years old, he said. "It's not a nice
want -to-do thing, it needs to be
done."
Without government money, Rose-
bush said the project can still go
ahead in some form, but will need to
be funded by the community.
"I think we can get it self funded
and still come up with something that
will be a benefit to the community
and improve the type of health care
people will receive."