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From Environment Canada
In brief
Lions Park
getting
facelift
Lions Park will be
receiving a. $30.000
facelift for the 75th
anniversary of the
Seaforth Lions Club this
year, says club
chairperson Bob
Beuttenmiller.
The playground
equipment built 15 years
ago by Lions Club
members will be
replaced and, brought, up
to today's CSA
standards: 10 new
benches will be installed
around Lions Pool, 12
new picnic tables are
being . built by Lions
Club members and new
garbage receptables will
be placed around the
park.
"We thought we'd do
this for the community
instead of a party." he
says. •
Beuttenmiller says
standards for playground
equipment have changed
a lot sincemembers built
the present structure,
adding that the height of
it is one of the biggest
concerns.
"It's quite a drop from
the top of the slide. The
playground equipment
needs quite a few
renovations to bring it up
to standards. We've gone
all these years without
problems but you never
know." he says.
• The new playground
equipment,- which will be
installed at the beginning
of July. is aimed at
children aged toddler to
12 and includes climbing
equipment,' several slides
and three springy toys
children sit and bounce
on.
The playground will be
closed down for about a
week while the old
equipment is removed
and the new equipment
installed. However, the
present swings and
teeter-totter will remain.
The 10 new benches
will be cemented into the
ground around the pool
for people wanting to
watch swimming lessons.
Beuttenmiller says the
Lions Club hopes the
new benches will prevent
the need for people to
move picnic tables over
beside the fence
surrounding the pool.
By Susan Hunderimark
Surprising
donations made
for Girls Band
Wonderful." she says..,
However Agricultural
Society president Jim Floyd
says support of the band is
not.yet "official and
woldn't reveal if.or how
the society plans to suppnrt
the band.
•
Seaforth Mayor Dave
Scott says town council will
be, discussing a possible
donation towards the band
during its budget session
next week.. -
He also said that a recent
decision by Seaforth groups
to make the band the focus,
of a downtown nitiral was a:
direct result of the recent
funding difficulties the band
has been experiencing.
"1 think everycme realize,S
how important the band is to
the town.',he says.
Ross Ribey. director of.,
Whitney-Ribey Funeral
,H the. says he will make a.,
donation tbut doesn`t-want-
to reveal' how much r
towards .a .mural of the
marching band because. "it's.
outs." -
"A mural of the hand in
parade fashion would be
unique and hopefully make a
stronger tie . between'
Seaforth and the band. I'd
hate to see the band slip
away to Goderich." he says. -
"In this .day, of
amalgamation • and
restructuring, we need to. do
everything in our power to
keep our identity. Seaforth
should he as proud as proud
of the band,: i
wonderful and 1 hope that
the town and. townspeople
will get behind it." says
Ribey. _ _
Avon Maitland District
School Board director Lome
Rachlis say. the board '. om't
make a decision about
funding the band until the
budget session on June 22.
"I'm under the assumption
that the band will receive
some funding." he say s.
By Susan Htntdertmark
Expositor Staff
Donations continue to
come - "out of the
woodwork" • while . the
Seaforth District• 'High'
. School All -Girls Marching
Band waits to hear if it will
receive f,unding from the
Avon Maitland District
;School Board for the coming
. school year.
"We're really pleased that
public support is coming
in," says band e!tectitive
. member Shirley Brugger.
"We never even approached
local businesses and they're
• responding."
Bob- Fisher. owner of
'Pizza Train in Seaforth. has
pledged a, donation of $100;
. every year for the next five
years towards the band.
"The band. is. a great
diptomttt,for this area and 1
wanted to support it.
Supporting the community
'is just what you do in a
small town.' he says.
John Mimic. iic. 'of .1 and J
Pharmacy in Clinton- has
given the band a $,500
donation:
"it's so beautiful that
small towns have a band
that's trained those •girls to.
stand up straight and march
so nicely. if 1 can help. Fm
more than delighted to, do.
so." he says.
-Alilovic adds that it
"made him so mad when he
- heard that various_Goderi4h.
groups had suggested the
band might want to consider
a name change if it received
donations from Goderich
groups.
Brugger says the Seaforth -_
Agricultural Society has
offered to support the band
and will put the proceeds
from its recent yard., sale.
towards the band. .
"They said they didn't
•make enough at the yard
sale and were going to top it
up for u.. w hich Was just
Susan Hundertmar)c photo
Ian Johnston of Egmondville spent three weeks as a page in the Ontario legislature
Page sets record in legislature
By Susan Hundertmark
Expositor Stott
lan Johnston's team of 20
• pages earned a $10 bonus
this spring for delivering the
- provincial budget package
•to- house. members in the.
Ontario legiklature taster
: than any pages eser had
.before.
"Wedid it in 28.5
• seconds." says the Grade -8
,student -al Huron Centennial
Public Se -hoot. "They timed
how long -it -took -us -to -get it
into their t MIPP.' 1 hands in
'the house 'walking quiet.(,.
No running is allowed.•'
tan. from Egmondsille;
'.was one of the last group of
pages to serve the provincial
legislature in Toronto this
spring before the recent.
election: kis four-week
term was cut down to three
weeks by .the election call
last month.
returned home. with a
picture of himself with,
Premier Mike Harris and
was itiupressed by the Tory
leader's politeness
whenever tan delivered
•eater to him in :the
legisla•t'ure. ian :says he:
wouldn't have,voted for
Harris if' he could have
voted during the Month's
election.
• "Harri i v • w 11
And. even though he'• spoken and• very out -going. 1
See PAGE, Page S
Rural medical experience eye-opener for students
By Stott Hilgendorff.'
•
Expositor Editor
Munsif Bhimani hated his family' doctor. . .
Now he wants to become one.
And a four-day. whirlwind exposure to
-rural-rnedicine-'is helping .him and. fellos .
student, Joe Chan see this is the type•of
setting in which they would like to set up.
practice. •
"It's opened my eyes to family medicine,"
said Bhimani.
Growing up in Toronto. he said. " 1 really.
didn't find my family doctor to be doing a•
good job.".
He said the doctor would spend only a few
moments with a patient and would refer them
to specialists or prescribe medication instead
of trying to figure out in more detail what was
wrong.
Seeing how doctors work in the Seaforth
Community Hospital and the Seaforth
Medical Clinic. Bhimani said he has seen
doctors taking care of patients the way they
should -be providing more encouragement for,
him to come back to a rural area when he is
finished medical school.
Getting doctors to set up practice in
underserviced areas is the goal of the program
that brought Bhimani and Chan to Seaforth
last Monday. The program was implemented
last year through the University of Western
Ontario and requires first-year medical.
students to spend about a week in rural
hospitals working with staff in areas•from the
emergence room to the carious clinics offered
by the hospital. ••
Thirty-two hospitals took part in the
.program. coordinated by the Southwestern
Ontario Rural Medicine Unit in Goderich.
.l'd. do it_ again in second year if I had a
chance." said Chan. ___
While the program hopes to interest
medical students in rural medicine, both Chan
and Bhimani already had an interest in. rural
medicine.
Bhimani knows. what it's like to live in an
area where there are few doctors.
Before coming to Canada. Bhimani lived in
Kenya where his father was the only surgeon.
"He used to fly all over Kenya ,doing
surgery," Bhimani said, adding. for a while,
he was the only surgeon in the country.. . •
Chan had been taking elective courses
related to rural medicine and said this
experience has been a catalyst for him,
inspiring him to work further in that
direction.
He said a doctor needs much more
knowledge and skills in a rural setting than
city doctors who aren't called on to treat as
wide a variety of situations as doctors in
smaller areas.
It's a much more.challenging job." he
said, adding, "I think medicine is more
affective when you have a good relationship
with your; patient."
See RURAL, Pogo 7
Medical students Joe Chan and Mansif Bhimani speak to
students in the Human Biology class at the high school.
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