HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Citizen, 2008-06-26, Page 3THE CITIZEN, THURSDAY, JUNE 26, 2008. PAGE 3.
Happy birthday to Keith
Richmond who celebrated this past
week.
Happy birthday to Larry Blake
who celebrates July 2.
Congratulations to Ernie and
Emily Phillips who celebrated their
40th wedding anniversary on
Sunday, June 22.
Happy birthday to Les Phillips of
Goderich who celebrates his
birthday this week.
Congratulations to Mark and Erin
Nesbit who celebrate their
anniversary on June 24.
Congratulations to Donna
Glousher and Scott Young who were
married this past Saturday.
Happy Canada Day to all our
readers on July 1.
Congratulations to all the Grade 8
Graduates of Blyth Public School.
Graduation ceremonies were held at
the Blyth and District
Community Centre on Monday, June
23.
BLYTH UNITED CHURCH
Greeting at Blyth United Church
on Sunday, June 22 were Joann
MacDonald and Randy Fraser.
Ushering were David Onn, Rob
Mason and Terry Richmond.
Lynda McGregor was guest
organist.
Guest speaker, Jan Logtenberg,welcomed everyone to church.The call to worship was repeatedresponsively followed by the prayer of approach and the firsthymn, Come, O Spirit, DwellAmong Us, and the prayer ofconfession was repeated in unison.
The choir sang an anthem A Song
of Praise to Our Maker. For thechildren’s story, Jan told somestories of Jesus talking to hisdisciples.Everyone sang The Lord’s Prayer.The scripture readings were fromGenesis 21: 8-21 and Matthew 10:24-39.Jan’s message to the adults wasreflections. Jan related stories of war
and how people sometimes hurt
people. Violence is everywhere, notjust in countries far away but in cities and towns and even inchurch families. With God’s help people can strive to overcome violence and arguments.After the service everyone wasinvited to have coffee and cookiesbefore the start of the congregational
meeting chaired by Steven Sparling.
FHT hires executive director
Rob Hutchison, chair of the
newly-incorporated North Huron
Family Health Team has announced
that Donna Vines has been hired as
the Family Health Team’s first full-
time executive director. This new
executive position was advertised in
the spring of this year and Vines was
the top-ranked candidate following a
province-wide search.
“The recruitment of a full-time
executive director is the next
important step in the evolution of our
Family Health Team” stated
Hutchison. “With approved
operating funds from the Ministry of
Health, we’re now ready to move
into the important staff recruitment
phase and build up this new team of
health care professionals.”
Prior to accepting this new job,
Vines has been the manager of
patient care services at the Listowel
and Wingham Hospitals Alliance. In
this role Vines led the
implementation of the breast health
centre located at the Listowel site,
co-ordinated the standardization of
practices in the surgical program at
both sites, and led the recent
successful accreditation process for
the Alliance.
Having grown up in Huron County
and having spent her career working
in rural hospitals, Vines is well
positioned to assume this
challenging new role.
“I am really looking forward to
this new challenge and am excited
about the possibilities in terms of
initiating new programs and
services,” said Vines. “I am a strong
supporter of the government’s
Family Health Team model and I
know the new health professionals
that have been approved for this area
will allow us to fill some important
gaps in service.”
In her new role, Vines will be
responsible for recruiting new health
care professionals to North Huron
based on the operating budget that
has been approved by the Ministry of
Health. Beginning this fall, the
Family Health Team will be
recruiting for the following new
allied health professionals:
registered nurses, nurse
practitioners, social worker, dietician
and pharmacist.
The executive director of the
Family Health Team will be
reporting to a non-profit board of
directors which in addition to
Hutchison includes: Dr. Mark
Moores, Dr. Shaun Marshall,
Margrét Comack, Steve Jackson,
Linda Deans, Mary Atkinson and
Cathy Kelly.
The Family Health Team model is
a new approach to primary health
care that brings together different
health care providers to co-ordinate
the highest possible quality of care
for patients.
Designed to give doctors support
from other allied health
professionals, most Family Health
Teams consist of doctors, nurses,
nurse practitioners and other health
care professionals who work
collaboratively, each utilizing their
experience and skills so that patients
can receive high quality care as close
to home as possible.
Since 2005, the Liberal
government has approved 150
Family Health Teams located across
the province in both urban and rural
settings. An additional 50 Family
Health Teams were approved in the
government’s spring budget for
implementation over the next few
years.
Besides Wingham, the following
communities in Grey, Bruce, Huron,
Perth have approved Family Health
Teams: Brockton, Clinton,
Goderich, Listowel, Lion’s Head,
Owen Sound, Sauble Beach,
Seaforth, St. Marys and Stratford.
A new kind of rhythm
Some Grade 7/8 students at Blyth Public School gave a special presentation, drumming on
buckets during the school’s recent Festival of the Arts performance. (Vicky Bremner photo)
The Citizen
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on Tuesday, July 1
for Canada Day
The deadline for the
July 3 paper
will be
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