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County to move toward model anti-smoking bylaw By Keith Roulston Citizen publisher It will take some time to create, but Huron County is moving toward a model bylaw to be adopted by local municipalities to regulate smoking in public places like restaurants and bars. Setting up a stakeholder group including representatives from restaurants, bars, workplaces, local municipalities, the community and the Huron County Health Unit is one By Keith Roulston Citizen publisher A new program to upgrade the lit- eracy skills of welfare recipients will begin March 1 in Huron County. di* Michelle Gaynor, the county's Ontario Works supervisor, told coun- ty councillors Nov. 29, that all new applicants and all current Ontario By Keith Roulston Citizen publisher The architect's design for three ambulance stations was approved with little debate at the Nov. 29 meeting of Huron County council. The stations, all to be of identical design, will have a residential look to fit in with their surroundings, said Gail Lamb, the architect for the proj- ect. The walls will be stone and the roof sloping. In an attempt to connect to the community, "We hope to have glass on the ambulance bays and we hope to light up the ambulances inside," she said. A former Blyth woman who was the subject of a dramatic rescue was on hand at Huron. County council Nov. 29 to thank her rescuers, Angela Berard (formerly Angela Nethery) of Clinton, was swimming at the Vanastra pool on Aug. 1 when-a rare heart condition caused her to go into cardiac arrest. Three lifeguards on duty started CPR treatments and continued them until paramedics arrived. The paramedics had to repeat defibrillation several , times before a heart beat was re-established. The lifeguards and paramedics were presented with awards at county council and heard again Berard's thanks. Noting that only 15 per cent of peo- ple who suffer cardiac arrest survive, Berard told the heroes she thinks of their life-saving actions each and every day. "You gave me the-oppor- tunity to continue to be a wife and a mother," she said tearfully. *** A manual designed by the Huron County Department of Planning and Development won the Outstanding Planning Award in the communica- tions/public education category at the Ontario Professional Planners Institute meeting held in Kitchener in October. The 500-page manual Rural Planning and Nutrient Management: Issues and Approaches is designed to help planners, elected officials, farm- ers and the publi to develop a better understanding of rural planning issues, particularly those involving agriculture. Wayne Caldwell of the department was instrumental in the creation of the manual. *** County employees may have the of the anti-smoking recommenda- tions in a report presented to the Nov. 29 meeting of Huron County coun- cil. The steps include preventing peo- ple from starting smoking by better education of re:ail staff to keep them from selling to minors, helping peo- ple stop smoking through education programs and protection of people from the dangers of second-hand smoke in public places. Pam Scharfe, senior public health inspector for Huron County said 235 Works participants with less than Grade 12 or equivalent or proof of a learning disorder will be required to take a literacy screening process. Anyone who refuses will be ineligi- ble for support. Those who fail the screening test will receive training to bring their skills up to employable standards, not necessarily the Grade 12 level, The design was created after talk- ing with paramedics and touring the existing facilities, said Lamb. The tour uncovered valuable information such as the fact the paramedics use a folding toboggan for winter rescues in isolated areas. That toboggan requires special storage, she said. The 3,500-square-foot stations, to be located at Goderich, Exeter and between Clinton and Seaforth, will have three ambulance bays plus crew quarters that include an office, training room, staff lounge, lockers and male and female washrooms. Lamb was authorized to prepare detailed drawings of the buildings in preparation for calling tenders. opportunity to take part in a county- sponsored fitness program at local fit- ness facilities. The idea arose from a Wellness At Work employee survey conducted by the county health unit. Lynn Murray, county clerk-admin- istrator, told council that the county has 600-700 employees, depending on the season and they will be asked to see if they'd be interested in join- ing a fitness facility. If only 10 per cent joined, it would mean an addi- tional 60 people at county facilities, she said. The memberships would be funded through a payroll deduction. deaths a year in the county can be attributed to smoking. Environmental smoke (second- hand smoke) contains more than 4,000 chemicals, 43 of which cause cancer, she said. The 53 billion ciga- rettes smoked each year deliver almost 5,000 tonnes of pollutants into the atmosphere. It's estimated that 3,000 non-smokers die of heart disease caused by exposure to envi- ronmental smoke each year and another 300 die of lung cancer. The stakeholder group will try to Gaynor said. "We want to find the shortest path to employment," she said. Those needing training %ill be helped with transportation or child cart. The Avon Maitland District Board of Education will provide the train- ing under the Skills to Go program, funded by the province. Services range from one-on-one tutoring to classroom instruction and small group meetings with both fixed and flexible hours to meet the needs of the client. Of 376 people on the Ontario Works program in July, 57 per cent had not completed Grade 12. Twenty-five had no high school edu- cation at all. The goal is to have 50 people successfully complete the program by December 2002, she said. prevent the kind of reaction that hap- pened when Toronto tried to enforce a smoking ban in bars and restau- rants and owners stormed city hall. Experience in Kitchener-Waterloo which created a complete smoking ban showed most restaurants found their business came back following the ban, but bars had more of a prob- lem, said Scharfe. When one councillor complained about restaurants that have a smok- ing section right beside a non-smok- ing section with the smoke drifting over to the non-smokers, Scharfe admitted there's a problem in mixing smokers and non-smokers. "Tobacco (smoke) doesn't know the law," she said. - In the prevention area, Scharfe said that in July, 118 tobacco retail- ers in Huron County were tested for their willingness to sell cigarettes to people under 19. Fifteen (13 per cent) sold ciga- rettes to the young people recruited to test them. That's actually a good ratio compared to the provincial average, she said. Charges were not laid, she said because the goal was to educate peo- ple. The retailers were given a writ- ten warning, she said. The next level is that another series of tests will be carried out. Those who fail a second time will be charged, Ambulance station design gets county council approval County council briefs Literacy program begins in March