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HILGENDORFF PHOTOS
Heat wave hits
But Seaforth residents not bothered
BY SCOTT HILGENDORFF
Expositor Editor
It'snot the heat but thc
humidity.
Well, actually, it's the heat,
humidity and air pollution.
High temperatures, made
to feel even warmer by
humid weather, and air
pollution have resulted in air
quality advisories for
portions of last week but
Seaforth residents have been
coping well.
Joan Chesney, nurse
manager at Seaforth
Community Hospital said hot
weather can often lead to a
patient or two in the
emergency department with
cardiac or respiratory
problems.
But by Friday, after the
worst heat so far this year,
thc emergency room hadn't
seen any patients relating to
the blistering weather.
"This kind of weather,
people really should rest,"
she said.
Plenty of fluids and
avoiding strenuous activity
are her best advice for
beating the heat.
At Maplewood Manor, a
retirement home with a
population that is placed at
higher risk in hot weather,
they are coping fine.
"All we're doing here is
just keeping them quiet and
pushing the fluids as much as
we can," said Debbie Dillon,
a nurse at the facility. ,
The residents have been
tough about the heat and
Dillon said she hasn't heard
many complaints about the
weather.
"They grumble about thc
cold far more than the heat,"
she said.
They have fans running in
their rooms and the most
popular beverage to cool
down a hot afternoon has
been good old fashioned ice
water.
Shc said there arc some
residents who have more
difficulty breathing when the
weather is hot but there
hasn't been any residents in
serious trouble from thc heat.
Dillon said they have tried
to keep some of the activities
to a minimum and many
residents arc staying indoors.
But there are some whose
jobs. despite. the warnings
about the heat, take them
outside.
Works Superintendent
John Forrest said it hasn't
been a big problem for town
staff.
While the heat doesn't
make for the hest working
conditions. he said. "We just
put up with it."
The work schedule wasn't
greatly affected although on
Thursday. one of thc hottest
days last week, Forrest said
they were planning to cut
some wood with chainsaws.
That was a bit of a concern
because the saws are air-
cooled and if thc air's too
hot, the saws could have
overheated.
If that was the case, and
thcy really felt that it was too
hot to he outside, he said
there is plenty of
maintenance work that can
be done inside where the air
was much cooler.
If they need to stay out of
the heat, he said, "It's not
hard to find something."
Thefts from area homes
There were four incidents of theft in
Egmondvillc and Seaforth on Junc 22,
according to Ontario Provincial Police.
At about 5 p.m. that Monday the theft of
an orange, boy's BMX mountain bike
from a front lawn on Chalk Street in
Seaforth was reported, sometime between
8:30 a.m. and 3 p.m.
That evening, a resident from London
Road in Egmondvillc reported an AM/FM
stereo cassette, valued at $400, had been
stolen overnight from an unlocked jeep
Icft in the laneway.
Another London Road residence
reported the theft of a Canadian flag
attach'ed to short pole.
A break, enter and thcft was also
reported that Monday from a residence on
William street In Egmondville.
Police say the owner advised that
sometime over thc preceding weekend
someone had entered thc garage through a
window and taken one case of Coors Lite
beer inside a refrigerator.
Mini -bikes
stolen
Two Honda XR80 mini
hikes were taken from a
Bruceficld residents
between Junc 16 and June
N.
The hikes were kept in an
unlocked garage and are
valued. at $1,400.
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