HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Citizen, 2007-05-03, Page 6PAGE 6. THE CITIZEN, THURSDAY, MAY 3, 2007.THE EDITOR,As provincial president of theOntario Command of the RoyalCanadian Legion, I have a hard time
understanding why the provincial
government stubbornly refuses to
consider expanding the jurisdiction
of the Ontario Ombudsman to
include long-term care.
You would be hard-pressed to find
a more vulnerable group of people
than those who reside in long-term
care facilities and yet they and their
caregivers remain deprived of a fair
and independent review by an
Ombudsman after internal avenuesto resolve their concerns have beenexhausted. The intransigence of theOntario government stands in sharp
contrast to the actions of the federal
and Alberta governments, the former
announcing an Ombudsman for
Veterans only days ago and the later
expanding the mandate of its
Ombudsman to include patient
concerns in 2006.
What will it take to convince this
government that Bill 150 in its
present form is flawed and that the
‘Advisor’ position contained within
the proposed legislation in noequates to an Ombudsman? Withraw food costs of $5.46 per day perresident, inadequate staffing to
ensure residents who cannot feed
themselves are fed and the reported
overuse of anti-psychotic drugs, the
Legion thinks that residents in long-
term care, their families and those of
us who will someday need long-term
care ought to be very concerned.
Gord Moore
Provincial President
The Royal Canadian Legion,
Ontario Command.
Congrats
Former Huron County warden Rob Morley, left, receives
congratulations following his victory as the Huron-Bruce
PC candidate for the provincial election (Lucknow Sentinel photo)
A Brussels girl performed very
well at the recent Mid-Western
Ontario Rotary Music Festival in
Walkerton.
Elli Schimanski, daughter of
Frank and Jennie, finished with three
first-place standings.
Competing in the trained vocal
class, girls 14 and under, Schimanski
performed a Broadway musical
selection, a sacred hymn and a folk
song.
Her highest mark of 85 per cent
was achieved with Andrew Lloyd
Webber’s Love Changes Everything.
Her sacred solo, Hope Is A Star, got
a mark of 84 per cent, while her
rendition of Peter Jenkins’The Owl,
received 83 per cent.
Her mother said the adjudicator,
Gwen Little, was very
complimentary of Elli’s voice and
spent a “great deal of time with her
going over some technical things” to
improve her performance.
Letter to the editorRCL questions government
Winner determined in half hour
Newson to present findings
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municipal infrastructure.
"We don't need any more broken
promises from the McGuinty
government," she said. "We need a
strong MPP willing to stand up and
fight for rural Ontario."
After 795 Conservative supporters
voted, and thanks to a new electronic
voting system in the riding, the
winner was named within half an
hour. Morley received more than 50
per cent of the votes. Both
Freiburger and Peckitt congratulated
Morley on his victory and all
thanked their families, teams and
supporters.
"I am ready for you to call on me
whenever you need a hand," said
Peckitt to Morley, following the
vote.
Peckitt said that although she was
a little disappointed with not
winning the candidacy, she enjoyed
the experience and was pleased to
see the turnout at the meeting.
"I am ready to help change this
riding to Tory blue," said Freiburger.
"The amount of people here today
proves that this Huron-Bruce is
ready for change."
Morley said his next step is to
gather the thoughts of the people in
Huron-Bruce, from all parts in the
north and south, and get their
support.
"I need your help, to know what
the issues are and I need your
input so I know how to move it
forward," said Morley, adding that
he will be a strong voice for Huron
Bruce.
"The voters will tell us how much
they want change in the October
election."
At the end of his final statements,
Morley told his supporters to
take their yellow scarves and tie
them on a tree to show their support
for the Canadian troops in
Afghanistan.
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time to do this and it also requires a
specific type of knowledge to do it
properly, which means we’d have to
have someone trained to do it,” he
says. “There are cost implications
for sure.”
Newson is taking it one step at a
time though. She says a lot of good
ideas came out of the conference
and she recommends every
municipality send someone each
year, especially with the emphasis
on energy conservation in the
coming years.
“My step right now is to present
my findings from this conference at
the next North Huron committee of
the whole meeting in May and from
talking to my senior management
within the Twp., the audit’s going to
be our first step.”
Newson said there were several
companies that presented at the
conference that made a lot of sense
to her. One of them was Bullfrog, a
company that takes membership to
match energy consumption and feed
it back into the grid, but with only
green energy.
She said this is important because
many people don’t realize how
much power is being used by
buildings, homes and businesses and
that too many people are
preoccupied with cars. Newson
insists that vehicle emissions are a
huge factor, but that buildings
should be looked at more
closely.
Blaney supports the initiative
behind green energy, but is
conflicted, knowing that his
municipality doesn’t have the
money to back things like studies
and more staff.
“Will the province help? I think
that’s a question you should ask the
province,” he said.
“There are certain guidelines for
various things out there, but in
general, from what I’ve been able to
tell, any municipality who’s done
this, has hired a private firm.”
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