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HomeMy WebLinkAboutHuron Expositor, 1999-11-17, Page 1__. November 17,1999 si incudes GST,__ -_-- Local weather Wednesday—Mainly cloudy with ;dotter 1urties High 5. Thursday --Sunny with cloudy 2eriods i 9 Low -1 Friday --Chance of showers -7177 ;finny andworm. High 14 Low 3 Saturday—Mainly cloudy. Chance of showers 1-fgh 9 Lbw 3. Normciturps: t-igtt 7 sgw0 From Environment Canada In brief Tree donation sees Seaforth Public School become greener Seaforth Public School" received. a donatioti.of 17 -maple trees from Richard Nesbitt. of , RR 4 Seaforth over the weekend. "The trees are worth about .$250 to S300 each. It's'a significant contribution.- says school council treasurer Karen Taylor. Taylor says .thee council recently removed, a number of trees from the school grounds which were dying and will place the new trees in the_ same arels. where the dying trees were cut down. They ` will also be placed around the climber in the junior area in the playground. Principal Lorne Rideout says the school_ has'beeri wanting to expand the amount of . shade on the grounds. but with tight school" budgets must -depend on donations to be able to afford new trees. "It's great that we're getting tree trees. There's lots of'room for improvement- on our grounds." he says. Taylor also says that the school council is starting to explore the possibility of creating a naturalized area at Seaforth Public School. "Some parents .seem to be interested and we're just starting to get the ball rolling." she says. • Rideout si ys Taylor has been pursuing the possibility of a grant from Shell Canada for a naturalized area. "It would be great: It would be like an outdoor classroom." he says.' Remembrance Day Pay 5 Take Our Kids to Work day P•96 e inside look at. Huron Bus ness Development Corporation. Pelle 7 Penner generates world-wide- attention Weeks after world's first closed -chested robotic heart bypass, media calls still, coming By Scott Hilgendorff :,GGSdQr -ditor Harpurhey resident John Penner is rel-et..in? a little more than 15 minutes at fame after. receix in, .the World' . first closed -chest robotic heart bypass earlier•this fall. • --We've certainly had a for of media attention '.We. -e had call' from :all u'. er the •:'•orld.'" he said. On Friday. almost two months after the surgery.. he was called from .a medical publication in New York and is waiting to possibly hear from rhe Oprah. Winfrey Show to Chicago. • On Sept. 24. Penner went through a ;ii -hour heart bypass operation at London Health Scien..es Centre's Urn: er,uy Carrious with a surgeon using a '•trice acti'afed•:arnera to help preLi,el; operate' robotic surgical instrument.,- • The Oprah Winfrey ;how has. been talking with the surgeon. Douglas Boyd: and Penner a -as told these might he ..ont.tcting him .as well a& utthe precedent -;ening surgery It sew Penner home in• tour days with no, need for pain medication and. feeling Netter than e%er since a heart attack almost two ago • Since the surgery Penner's story ha. !one around :he •.tiorld and friend, fnotrr S..uti.i and .\iberta calling, him after watching a on local new; network:,: • A producer. from Germany ' was in California and read about his •,tory .and contacted him for.a German production.' i Scott.-1ilgendorff photo Elaine 'and Jahn Penner • . Going into, the.urgery: Penner had no ided what it would letd.tu` afiervard: : r ' While h'e .was reeoverinit in the inuensiJe. care anis. his wife. Elaine. was told by Dr. Boyd that they had made medical hamar.- Bet re that. tie knew he would he undergoing an unusual type• of surgery but didn't consider the wortd- wide impact a would have • He said It. a as ;ust scar-• TO know he was having a•hypass done and ne.v°er thought much more of the type of surgery he would he receiving. • "I . had -a lot of faith in the medical community." he said. adding There was always ,i risk. including the fact that.it .anything did gowrdng with the robotics. the doctors would ha\ e had to make the larger incisions and open his .:hest to operate by nand in the traditional !ashton. But the procedure ' ant ,monthr Scott •-idgendorff photo Remembering ,rodents gathered with members of the community at the Legion Cenotaph Thursday morning tor Remembrance Day services. Shotgun stolen from garage A shotgun was stolen from the garage of •a home •on Lloyd Eisler St: in Egrnondville on Nov. 13. The owner told Huron OPP that he had left the 1 2 -gauge Remington Model 870 pump shotgun un the •work bench atter deer hunting: Someone entered the garage through the window and took the gun -along with a brown ammunition. belt containing 20 shotgub shells. and involved, only pencil -sized nt isinns -WeH-.. ;u -.t 21.ul ' erathtn,tt worked )ui okay.' said. P. nner. knowine his sureery reduced the amount at pain and recovery time he would 'have experienced. through .i traditional operation. • Before the surgery. Penner enuldn't • ,:runs the -street without terrible chest pains but • now.. he said hes back to normal:and •goes skating .every Sunday.. It s, nice' to he hack in'shape • again:' he said. He was supposed to -go in for it six- . week check. up last week but the . "doctor was unable lo make t appointment. Since he is feeling :vell•-.ind hasn't experienced -any trituhles; they told hum not to vom' ahoitt the check-up. He satin the attention Hollowing:thf sterger\ has been' pretty _- overwhelining with lots of telephope all~ and new people waving at him . on the street In Seaforth.. While, the attention Penner.. has been receiving•might hegtn to fade. Tie said there', no chance tit that with the rohotic surgery and Dr. Boyd. • • - "-..We'11 here lots more." he said • about both .vith the potential for the technique to reduce the time people spend in •husptials and rhe pain they experience rectivering. from the surgery. • . he en quite an experience. You don't go through this every day."' he • ,cud. Christmas bags • m newspapers to help Bureau • Organizers n , .•rte -tat Chnstmas •innanun crag are hoping :oi build on last •eai , ,uccess'ol the program designed to help 'boost ,he' Huron County Chnstmas Bureau., insole local newspapers .across Huron . County next week will be .i donation bag that can•he-used..tor toys, othtnt; and • - rood donated. to the bureau which helps provide Chnstmas. gifts to more than` 1.000 county l:hildren whose tamilies ger - it need,of extra help. : - The hag is designed to remind people of the need far their support .and to encourage-themto tiring the donations to Chnstmas Bureau hrinches in umtnuntties .tcross the runty. c The donation hag erfort{s •.ui initiative developed by. a. partnership tit% area businesses and lndustnes. •.vhose names appear an the hag. and •is spearheaded by. The:Huron Etpositor and the Seaforth Lions Club and Agricultural. .Society. . The•two Seaforth cirganituuons•• worked witht„Hnron Expositor to develop•, plan tor the hags last year and ;again. will be.prosuding a'.spectal float for the Nov.•26 Lions Club Santa Claus Parade.- • : Parade goers are encouraged .to take their bags to the parade and leave thein un the float as it. follows the parade route to give the bureau a head start before its branch •collection depots open in December. • • Same as last year. the bags will he distributed through newspapers across the county in the Nov. 24 editions. Beginning Dec. 6 through Dec: 1.0. the• Chnstmas Bureau • branches will be open from 11) .t.m. to z p.m. to receive donation.. including .uly bags that were not taken to the parade.. Donations. with lir without. the hags. can be left at St. -Cuorge s %n Tican l-hurch. in Cru ed i9ZTh Exeter C ort' ed Church. Wingham Pentecostal Church. the Seafonh Agriplex u the fairgrounds, operated by St. James. Catholic .Church • and the Ontano Street United Church. in Clinton: They Can also be taken to area food banks. While all donations are appreciated, including financial _untributions. the Christmas Bureau finds a shortage in .lothing in teen sizes and .:hildren's sizes. from six to 12.. The bureau is operated by the Children's Aid Society Of Huron County and arra churches, and has been helping families for'more than 40 years. • Telephone lines for families who require assistance from the Chnstmas Bureau opened Nov. 13 and are operated from 8:30 aan. to 4:30 p.m. lite' bureau ,encourages anyone who needs assistance this Christmas to call them. The service is confidential and by calling. bureau volunteers will arrange an appointment for people to visit the branches to choose items for their children's Christmas packages. The Huron Expositor is encouraging the public to help those in need this Christmas. Your community newspaper since 1860 4