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The Huron Expositor, 1996-11-20, Page 5Letter to the Editor `Don't close the hospital,' writes kids Dear Editor: The following short letters were written to Seaforth Community Hospital by the Health students of the Grade 5/6 G class at Seaforth Public School expressing their con- cerns re: their hospital. • I do not want Seaforth Community Hospital to close because my brother had meningitis and if the hospital was closed he would have died. He is only 8 years old. • 1 don't want you closed because my brother is aller- gic to milk, nuts. and seafood. He can't wait for a helicopter to come, from London or anywhere else. We have taken him to your hos- pital three times already. • I don't think thc hospital should close down because my grandparents just live in Winthrop. My grandpa used to smokc but now he doesn't because he had a heart attack and my grandma had to drive him to the Scaforth Hospital and then a helicopter had to come pick him up and take him to the London hospital. If the Seaforth Hospital had not been there 1, wouldn't have a grandpa today and my grandma would have been all alone. Please, don't close down your hospital. • I think the •Seaforth Community Hospital, should not close. My grandpa almost died but Seaforth Hospital was there. So now he.is alive. • I would not like you to close because my Mom. works at the hospital and if it closes 1 would have to move. All my friends are in Seaforth and I don't know what I would do. Also a lot of my friends in Seaforth are aller- gic to things. I hope that Seaforth Hospital will never close. • I would not like the Seaforth Community Hospital to close because my grandpa was in the war and his name is Frank. Every month he has to have surgery on his knee from all the pieces of metal from bombs and hand grenades. He is still in the hospital. I hope he gets out soon. • You have saved many lives. We cannot let people die because it takes so long to go to Stratford Hospital. Many parents will lose their jobs. Our community should not have to sacrifice their lives because they think they need to close hospitals down. Think about it! Little children should have many more. years to live. I hope. they can keep that advantage. So please think about how many lives you could kill. Please don't close our hospital down. • I don't want the hospital to.close because in the sum- mer my -sister was skipping with her beach towel. She fell and cut her tongue and her chin. She had to go to the .hospital and get stitches. If the hospital closes other peo- ple might die. • I don't want the hospitals to close because if you get hurt you won't have any- where close to go. You might have to go very far away like Stratford or somewhere else. Hospitals give us a longer chance to live and hospitals give you medicine, x-rays and other services. • My friends and I would like the Seaforth Hospital to stay open because we won't have someone to take care of us. When I was in grade four I had bacteria in my stomach and it really hurt. I would like to thank you again for taking care of me and reading my letter. • I don't think they should close the Scaforth , Community Hospital because. Thanks to church youth group Dear Editor: As many of your readers would he aware there is a lot going on in education right now. In fact there arc more I. changes unfolding in public education right now since we cstahlished the county boards in 1969. As a'matter of fact there may he more changes unfolding than we have ever witnessed in the entire histo- ry of public education - a small 140 year 61ip in the Highway transfer `equitable' says Huron I141'P Highways 83, 84 and 86 will he transferred to Huron County with a one-time grant of $4,465,950 before thc start of next April, Huron MPP Helen Johns, stated in corre- spondence to Seaforth Council made public at last Tuesday night's meeting. "The level and distribution of compensation is both awl- • table and reasonable given today's financial situation," it comments. Ehe MPP was responding to council's recent resolution refusing to accept responsi- bility for the downloading of those highways. Arca munic- ipal and county politiuians arc concerned about the poor condition of some of the highways to he transferred. "The ,ministry's primary interest is to provide a high- way system that meets provincial objectives of mov- ing large volumes of goods and people throughout Ontario. This includes getting materials to market and industry, facilitating interna- tional and interprovincial trade, and linking major transportation centres of thc province. Roads which no longer fulfill this purpose arc serving more of a local func- tion and have been identified as highway transfer candi- dates." Johns' letter says. The 1775 kilometres of provincial highway to be transferred to 50 municipali- ties will benefit them, in the following ways, according to the provincial government: • control of land use plan- ning and zoning along these corridors; • it will allow them to issue entrance and building permits adjacent to the road;' • local development can proceed under local control and thcy will he in a better position to set priorities along these roads; • it will decrease provincial intervention and added bureaucracy to the local deci- sion making process. entire history of civilized mankind. 'But this is not the purpose of my Ietter.,1 want to offer a,, public ,thank you to thc young persons in the youth group at the First Presbyterian Church, Seaforth; who operate under the, leader§hip, and direction of Dale McKichan. During .the last week when my work days have been about 29 hours each day, in. exchange for a donation to support their local and inter- national humanitarian aid projects, they took over the snow -clearing at my house on a daily basis. Itis this kind of communi- ty -Minded behaviour which if we practised it more, would Icad to a better Ontario and a. stringer Canada in' which' we live. Paul Carroll Seaforth when 1 broke my arm they fixed •it really well. Now I can use it for playing games and st'ilf•like that. We now have helm Niter landing pad and that's why I don't think they should close the hospi- tal. •. • I don't want the Scaforth Hospital to close'becausc my Dad has cancer. Last year he had to go to the hospital' again every time he got out and sometimes he had to go 10 the London Cancer Clinic. • I was horn at Seaforth Hospital and my sister 100. 1 think that it should not he closed. A lot of people that I know where hormthere too. • If I -had gone to a different hospital when my finger almost got chopped off, my mom would not have gone because there was a blizzard. • I think that. Seaforth Community Hospital shouldn't close. My parents work at the hospital. My dad is an ambulance attendant and he has to do CPR. The hospital is husy. We spent. money on a helicopter land- ing pad. It is nice too: We have CPR courses. Think'of all the little town and places around Scafdrth that would be disappointed toxo. Call with your news tips at 527-0240 THE HURON EXPOSITOR, Nov.mber 20, 1996-5 - sas Haefling. Bas Haefing, C.A., P. Ag. Associate: Barry Boyd Providing a full range of accounting. computer. tax. and financial consulting services to meet the needs of Business and Farmers Ph: 348.8412 - 11 Victoria St.. 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