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Home My WebLink AboutThe Citizen, 2002-05-15, Page 24Everyone has Marigolds, Petunias and Impatiens. We do too but we also have - The Waves, Proven Winners and Many of the Other Cultured Varieties that Everyone is Talking About. Including Bacopa in 6 Varieties and New for this Year Double Waves. All grown in our own greenhouses in one acre of beautiful surroundings. We're been Ileautify ingfluron County one plant at a time since 1981! • Water Plants • Perennials • Geraniums • Potted Planters • • Thousands of Hanging Baskets • Nursery Stock • Ted's Tasty Tomatoes We will pot up your containers for you! ,11 Gardener's .Paradise R.R. #1 Bayfield, ON NOM 1 LO 519.482-3020 Hours...Mon.-Fri. 8-8, Sat. & Sun. 9-6 PAGE 24. THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, MAY 15, 2002. Families, staff, volunteers seek increased long-term care funding Over 1.000 long term care family members, staff, volunteers and sup- porters have told Helen Johns, IVIPP for Huron Bruce, that government funding that provides four minutes to get a resident up in the morning and one bath a week does not meet the needs of residents in Ontario's long term care homes. Those expressing their concern were some of the over 50,000 who signed cards calling on the provin- cial government to provide increased operating funding in this fiscal year to begin to raise levels of service and reduce the increasing risk to the over 63,000 residents and similar number of staff in the over 525 long term care homes through- out the province. At_ 9 a.m. Friday eight facilities representatives from Huron and Bruce Counties met with Johns to deliver these cards and to express their need for her assistance to pro- vide the residents in their facilities and across the province with the appropriate level of funding in order to care for their residents. Facilities represented were: Maitland Manor, Goderich: Pinecrest, Lucknow; Queensw ay Nursing Home, Hensall; Seaforth Manor, Southampton Care Centre, Southampton; Braemar Retirement Centre, Wingham; Exeter Villa:. Fordwich Village Nursing Home. The Ontario Long Term Care Association (OLTCA) has identified Campers visiting the Falls Reserve Conservation Area will be asked to observe an alcohol ban during the upcoming Victoria Day weekend. The ban will be in effect from Friday, May 17 to Monday, May 20. During this time visitors to the park will be asked to turn over any alcohol they have in their pos- session, to be returned when they leave the park. 'The ban really helps to promote a family-oriented atmosphere at the park," reports Geoff King, parks supervisor. For a number of years, officers from the Ontario Provincial Police have been on hand to help park security staff enforce the ban. The ban has been in place since 1990. Falls Reserve opened for the camping season April 19. The sea- son continues until Oct. 27. Throughout the summer the park will host numerous special events The Heart and Stroke Foundation of Ontario has launched its biggest fundraising event of the year, The Heart & Stroke Lottery. The Heart & Stroke Spring Lottery is back with three grand prizes of $1 million, 41 fabulous vehicles and over 11,000 other cash prizes. This spring, the Foundation expects to raise over $7 million for life-saving heart and stroke research. These much needed dol- lars will go towards funding over 250 research teams in communities across Ontario. Research continues to be the most valuable asset in the battle against heart disease and stroke. Through the Heart & Stroke lottery, the peo- ple of Ontario are helping support medical research that is truly saving people's lives: To date, the Heart & Stroke Lottery program has raised over $61 million — every cent of which has that an additional $220 million or $8.26 per resident per day, 'is required in this fiscal year as part of a three-year $750 million increase in operating funding. The message reply cards were delivered to MPPs in their con- stituency offices as part of a co-ordi nated effort by OLTCA to empha- size to elected officials the unac- ceptable implications of the growing gap between the levels of care resi- dents require and the levels of care government funds. "The funding that we get from government does not allow us to provide the staff or the programs that meet the needs of a resident who is now older, frailer and often - has multiple health complications when they come to our home," said Archie MacGowan administrator at Braemar Retirement Centre. "Our staff, volunteers and our residents' family members have been strug- gling to make up the difference since the mid-1990s. Now they need government to step-up to their responsibility to provide the funding that will help us ensure that there is someone to answer a call bell 'in a reasonable period of time,or that we can provide access to the physicai therapy that a resident requires to maintain their strength." A 2001 government-funded level of service study showed that Ontario's funding allowed for 2.04 hours of nursing care per resident and family activities. The first major event is the children's fishing derby on Saturday, July 6. Falls Reserve has a fishing pond stocked with both bass and trout. The pond has been carefully designed with a brood area that assists with the breeding and growth of the bass population. Falls Reserve Conservation Area is located along the Maitland River at Benmiller, just east of Goderich. The park has over 180 campsites, including several seasonal sites, a day-use picnic area and group camping facilities. The park also offers scenic walking trails, excel- lent fishing, safe drinking water, and interpretive programs. The Victoria Day long weekend is always a busy one at Falls Reserve. For information on campsite avail- ability, or the alcohol ban, contact the Conservation Area at 519-524- 6429 or 1-877-FALLSCA been carefully invested into life- saving heart and stroke research. And this support couldn't be more timely. Because of new technologies, what used to take years in the labo- ratory may now just take days. That means there could potentially be more discoveries in the next 10 years than in the past century. For example, in London, the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Ontario is currently funding a pow- erful team of researchers who are working to refine tools assisted by robotics in bypass surgery. Dr. Terry Peters and Dr. Douglas Boyd are investigating the development of tools that will produce detailed 3-D images of a patient's heart and chest cavity. This groundbreaking work will help pave the way for new minimal- ly invasive approaches to heart sur- gery. Thus, the trauma of open-heart surgery can be reduced. per days compared to the 4.20 pro- vided in the southern state of Mississippi. OntariO ranked the low- est of the 11 Canadian, U.S. and international jurisdictions studied: "It is a disservice to the people who helped build this province that (the) government has had this evi- dence for over a year and has still not' acted on it," said MacGowan. "In the meantime staff and family members are left knowing that even though they are doing the best they can, without more help from gov- ernment, residents are left wanting." A $750 million increase in operat- ing funding over the next three years would bring Ontario's long term care services to approximately 3.06 hours of nursing care per resident perday, where Saskatchewan was in 1999 according to the level of serv- ice study. The previously mentioned long- term care facilities are located in Huron and Bruce Counties and pro- vide long term care and accommo- dation to 508 residents and emplos close to 500 staff. OLTCA represents the private, charitable, not-for-profit and munic- ipal operators of over 340 of Ontario's approximately 525 long term care homes. Members provide long term -care and accommodation services to some 35,000 residents and employ an equal number of staff in communities throughout Ontario. Heart & Stroke launches lottery Alcohol ban at Falls Reserve High stepper Some fancy footwork by Chad Wolfe was just part of the entertainment for country music fans as the Don Messer Tribute brought its new show Memories of Western Swingin' and Country Singin' to Blyth's Memorial Hall on May 7. (Vicky Bremner photo)