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REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL
FOR. EXTERNAL AUDIT SERVICES
uth Huron Hospital Association / South Huron Hospital Foundation /
Grand Rend & Area Community Health Center
Date of Issuance: November 16, 2011
south Huron Hospital Association, South Huron Hospital Foundation
rand Bend & Area Community Health Center are requesting Proposals
i crnjl Audit Services For the fecal years 2011-2014 (April 1st to March
e contact Darlene Borland, Chief Financial Officer•
chc.borlc►►ndgs Qn or 519.-235-5152) with any questions or to
c an RFP package, which can also be downloaded off of the websites:
shh &oils& www.shbf.oua or www.gbach :,
d Proposals are due by 4:00 pm [December 21st, 2011 delivered to
h Huron Hospital Association, 24 Huron Street West. Exeter, ON
152 Attn.: Darlene Borland, Chief Financial Office -r. Proposals
ed atter that time will be returned unopened.
S H RA SHHF and GBACHC reserve the right to accept or reject
r. part of any Proposal, and to accept the Proposal that is in the best
est ..of the SHHA, SHHF and: / or GBACHC and not necessarily the
st bid
Proposal is subjectto requests for access under the Freedom of
r atic�n & Protection of Privacy Act, which applies to the hospital
live January 1, 2012.
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K nights of Columbus
Dominique Milburn Clench Signal -Star
Grand donation
With "hundreds" of man-hours already in the pot, the Goderich Knights of Columbus have upped
their donation to the Goderich Disaster Relief Fund with a $25,000 cheque. November 15, fund co-
chair Ken Dunn and volunteer Ken Hunter accepted the donation from Grand Knight Steve Winter,
treasurer Gene Donohue, Nevada Chair George DeJong, Warden Pat O'Donnell, Knight Pat Osborne
and Menesetung Bridge Association rep Rod Lafontain.
Reflections on a walk faraway
CONTINUED FROM > PAGE 7
On my climb across Grisedale
Pass between Helvellyn and Ble-
aberry Crag there is a stretch of
trail named Striding Edge. Com -
bining motion with location, you
don't have to go there to get the
visual.
I stayed overnight at places like
the Yew Crag Guesthouse, Wain -
stones Hotel, Scar Side Farm, .Old
Water Views, The Jolly Farmers
and Keld Lodge. At Keld, a ham-
let of a dozen gorgeous stone
houses and cottages compete
with an automated, unoccupied
museum of the town, the public
toilets are called Public Conven-
ience. (Unlike say Canada where
public toilets - in the far corner,
locked up or mostly non-existent
- are a matter of public
inconvenience.)
It was a Friday, my last day of
the walk when I fciund myself
passing through the town of
Grosmont in the North York
Moors. It was the beginning of
"War Weekend." An annual
event in many towns and cities
across Britain, the folks come out
in droves to celebrate beating the
crap out of the Germans. The
crumpled fuselage of a Messer
schmitt was as the English say, a
bit of a giveaway. Old men, hel-
meted andwearing thick wool
uniforms, women in forties cos-
tomes, reconstructed air raid
shelters playing Glenn Miller's "It
don't mean a thing, if you ain't
got that swing" - as the steam
engine pulled into the station,
the scene was electric and nos-
talgic all at once. The train's
name was the "Sir Nigel Gresley."
Wot?
One .war poster read: 'Stay
calm and carry on.' Another pic-
turing a vivacious blonde in a
pub warned about espionage:
"Keep it mum. She's not so
dumb."
As t passed through Grosmont
I fell in step with a young Aus-
trian girl who was also waitdng
coast to coast.
"Please, I said, "do not speak
one word of German. In case
you haven't noticed these people.
really carry a grudge:'
At $10 a mug and $30 a T-shirt
for Coast Tb Coasters completing
the walk, Robin Hood's Bay is a
`clip -joint; A beautiful cliff -side
village with spectacular views
and fascinating cobbled stone
alleys kinda' clip joit.
Through strip of and
P
from the Irish Sea to the North
Sea I met nothing but cheery,
helpful, happy people. •Neither
rain nor hail, dampness nor
darkness seemed to bruise their
spirits. I heard children laughing
as they ran to the house in hail, I
saw other older forks wielding
umbrellas like they were badges
of honor.
It's true what they say of the
Brits: "The happiest people don't
have the best of everything, they
just make the best of everythinf
they have."
I flew from F.ngland to Porte-
gal and. after a week of recovery I
was returning in the rental car
when I noticed a lot of Faro Air-
port was missing. Police and
firemen swarmed the place, l
thought it was a bombing. Many
of the cars in the rental lots had
their windows and windshields
blown out. A tornado took out
the airport at five that morning.
Now a beautiful day, the Brits
who been waiting for hours were
outside with their shirts off kick-
ing a soccer ball around. The taxi
they'd sem into town pulled up
and from the trunk came their
survival supplies a "boot" full of
cans of cold Sagres beer. I
remembered why Churchill
ordered the pubs stay open dur-
ing the war - never let them see.
you sweat.