HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Citizen, 2004-09-02, Page 11Alzheimer's
disease:
Signs to look
out for
(NC)—Do any of the following
behaviours seem familiar?
• Forgetting things more and
more
• Asking the same question over
and over
• Having increasing trouble with
language
• Difficulty performing familiar
tasks
• Disorientation of time and place
• Poor or decreased judgment
• Problems with abstract thinking
• Misplacing things
• Mood or behaviour change
• Changes in personality
• Loss of initiative
If you or someone close to you is
experiencing some of the signs
and symptoms above, it could be
Alzheimer's disease. You should
speak to your physician soon.
Further information can be
obtained by calling 1-888-370-
6444 to speak to a registered
nurse.
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FROM AUBURN
WINGHAM & DISTRICT HOSPITAL HIGHLIGHTS
MULTI-DISCIPLINARY PALLIATIVE CARE
EDUCATION - LEVEL 1
Beginning September 8th - October 6th, 2004 from 9:00 am. - 4:00 p.m. in the Wingham &
District Hospital gym. Cost: $20.00. For registration and information contact: Kathy Procter,
Wingham & Area Palliative Care Services, 357-2720.
GRIEF RECOVERY
Dealing with a loss - whether it is from death, divorce, childhood issues, health... "Grief Recovery"
12 weeks that will change your life!
Date: Wednesdays - Sept. 15th - Nov. 17th at 7:00 p.m. Place: Bell's Pizza (Upper Room)
Advanced Registration is required - $25.00 for Resource Materials. Wingham & Area Palliative
Care. Facilitators: Kathy Procter & Yvonne Kitchen. Call 357-2720
DIABETES EDUCATION PROGRAM DAY
The next class will be held on September 24, 2004 from 8:45 am. to 3:00 p.m. A doctor's referral
is required. For more information or to register, contact Dietitian at 357-3210, Ext 275-of Linda
Kieffer, RN CDE at Ext 362.
Phone: 357-3210 Fax: 357-2931 E-Mail: winghosp@wcl.on.ca
CLINTON PUBLIC HOSPITAL
MATERNAL/CHILD PROGRAM
MATERNAL/CHILD
PROGRAM
"A new way of providing service at
Clinton Public Hospital"
"BABY AlVD I"
PROGRAM DAYS - WEDNESDAYS 10-11:30 a.m.
WHERE - CLINTON PUBLIC HOSPITAL
CONFERENCE ROOM (Second Floor)
WHEN ATTENDING FOR THE FIRST TIME PLEASE
REGISTER IN ADMITTING
NO FEE
PROGRAM TOPICS:
Wednesday, Sept. 1 - "Baby Sense" Speaker Dawn Edgar
(Communication Disorders Assistant)
Wednesday, Sept. 8 - Feeding Your Baby
Wednesday, Sept. 15 - "CANCELLED"
Wednesday, Sept. 22 - Post Partum Depression & Anxiety
Video - "Fragile Beginnings"
Wednesday, Sept. 29 • Share Your Birth Experience
For more info call Veronica Farquhar - 482-3440 Ext. 304
THE CITIZEN, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 2004. PAGE 11.
At Knox United Church, Sunday
Rev. Pat Cook's message was, The
Gift of Hospitality. The spiritual
reading was Jeremiah 2: 4-13 and
Luke 14: 1, 7-14.
Summer is coming to a close and
the children will be going back to
school on Sept. 7. Please be careful
and stop for the flashing lights of the
school buses. Keep our children safe.
Happy birthday to Judy Stoner,
Lynda Chamney, Helen Johnston,
Bailey Hamp, Codi Drake, Matt
Hesser, Trisha Wickhorst, Cathy
Beyersbergen, Daniel Beyersbergen,
Barret Glousher, Bob Gordon, Jack
Cameron, Aliya Mailloux, Kim
Smith, Joel Coulthard, and Mary
Arthur.
Happy anniversary to Larry and
Gail Fraser, Bill and Jean Bennett,
Ruth and Bob Gordon, Peter and
Nancy DeHaan, Jim and Doris Taylor
and Jim and Rebecca Siertsema.
By Stew Slater
Special to The Citizen
The Huron-Perth Catholic District
School Board was the only board in
Ontario to have its overall special
education funding levels decreased
as a result of the education
ministry's most recent assessment of
how much money is needed.
The Avon Maitland District
School Board, meanwhile, will
receive an intrease of approximately
$1.06 million for the 2004-05 school
calendar, thanks to what's referred to
as "Cycle 5" of the Intensive
Support Amount (ISA) review.
According to a memorandum sent
out by ministry officials on July 28,
"boards that have been spending
their entire special education
allocation on special education
programs and services (will) receive
their full allocation for 2004-05, as
per Cycle 5. Boards that have had
special education underspending in
2003-04 and prior years (will) see
their 2004-05 ISA allocation
reduced to reflect this
underspending."
Huron-Perth business
superintendent Gerry Thuss says it's
not that the Catholic board has been
underspending, but rather that it was
efficient in its assessment of special
needs students, and in its reporting
of those needs to the ministry. As a
result, it did not participate in Cycle
5 because all its special needs
students had already been identified.
Instead, the decrease in funding —
which dropped the board's total
funding by $30,000 — came as a
result of two special education
students leaving the board during
2003-04. Due to a policy called
"portability," those students took the
provincial funding with them when
they relocated to another board.
"Unfortunately, it's a reduction
rather than additional dollars,"
Thuss told trustees at the board's
first regular meeting of 2004-05,
held Monday, Aug. 30. But he added
it's "not a big issue" because it hints
at the board's efficiency of
reporting, rather than a failure to
access available funding.
Additional special education
funding may still be coming,
however. The ministry
memorandum also explains that
money saved by cutting back funds
to underspending boards will be
"channelled . . . into a new
effectiveness and equity fund to be
reinvested in special education over
the 2004-05 year.
School board officials and
representatives from trustee
associations have been invited to
work with the ministry on the
approach to access these funds so
that unmet needs can be addressed."
At the Aug. 30 meeting, Huron-
Perth trustees also learned about the
board's relatively insignificant but
still noteworthy shares in two other
recently-announced government
funding initiatives. Out of $20
million committed province-wide
for the "Community Use of
Schools," the Catholic board will
receive $43,405, which Thuss says
will be used to offset the cost of
making schools available for use by
community groups. And out of $65
million earmarked for the 2004-05
Learning Opportunities Grant,
Huron-Perth will receive $11,309.
The Avon Maitland board,
meanwhile, will receive $189,493
for Community Use of Schools, and
$90,402 from the Learning
Opportunities Grant.
Huron-Perth trustee Bernard
Murray expressed surprise that the
Toronto District School Board will
receive just over $27 million under
the Learning Opportunities Grant,
well above the second most
fortunate board — the nearby Peel
District School Board — which
receives $4.5 million, and far
exceeding the allocations awarded
to largely rural boards. He conceded,
however, that the grant is designed
to tackle problems — like poverty
and the struggles of recent
immigrants — which are quite likely
more prevalent in large, urban
centres.
Thuss is also positioning the
Huron-Perth board to take
advantage of yet another funding
initiative, expected to be announced
some time this fall. He says the
"Good Schools Open" grant, which
aims to help school boards conduct
necessary upgrades and
maintenance on existing schools,
will be taken under consideration as
the board proceeds with upcoming
renovations at St. Mary's elementary
school in Goderich and St. Joseph's
elementary school in Stratford.
The projected scope of work in
each case has been expanded, with
the expectation that further work
will be eligible under the new grant
and can be done as quickly as
possible after the grant is
announced.
4Hers
walk
on the
wild side
Walk on the Wild Side has
reached the end of the trail.
The sixth meeting of the 4-H
Wawanosh Wanderers, Walk on the
Wild Side, was held on the
Greenway Trail in Lucknow. This
excellent trail was recommended to
the group by vice-president Bradley
Ritchie.
At the picnic shelter the meeting
was opened with calls of the wild as
roll call.
Mary Ellen Foran then introduced
the topic of achievement. It was
decided that the group's final
activity together would be a clean-
up of the Port Albert shoreline. This
is part of The Great Canadian
Shoreline Cleanup, a national
conservation program designed to
clean up litter and garbage from
Canadian shorelines.
The group then proceeded to walk
on the Greenway Trail for about 45
minutes. Bradley Ritchie had maps
for everyone to follow.
If you wish to also walk the trial,
please see the Lucknow Tourist
Information Centre in the arena
complex.
When the Wanderers returned to
their starting place, a game of Find
the Tree was played. Members
chose partners, then one partner was
blindfolded and led to a tree. They
were allowed to feel and smell the
tree. They were then led away from
the tree, turned around three times
and the blindfold was removed.
They then had to find the tree that
they had been taken to.
Next the members participated in
a wilderness craft. They found
rocks, then painted them to look like
animals. These could be stacked and
glued together to form a totem pole,
or could just remain single as rock
pets.
Annual decoration
The 46th annual decoration day for Hope Chapel Cemetery
on Aug. 22 was unfortunately rained out, but that didn't stop
the service as church members gathered at the
Londesborough United Church to continue with the service.
This is only the seventh time in 46 years that the service
has been rained out. (Elyse DeBruyn photo)
HPCDSB spec. ed. funds drop