HomeMy WebLinkAboutHuron Expositor, 2001-06-13, Page 1In brief
Medical
students
spend
time
in rural
areas
including
Seaforth
Two first-year
medical students were
in Seaforth last week as
Southwestern Ontario
Rural Medicine Unit
(SWORM) based in
Goderich continues to
attempt to attract new
doctors to rural
'Ontario.
Working with the
University of Western
Ontario, 104 first-year
medical students were
sent to hospitals across
Southwestern Ontario
where they were
exposed to rural life
and medicine.
Thirty-two hospitals
took part in the
program including
Seaforth Community
Hospital in hopes of
attracting more doctors
to rural areas.
SWORM reports
Southwestern Ontario
is currently in need of
300 doctors in an area
of which more than 40
per cent is considered'
rural with communities
of less than 10,000
people.
This is the fourth
year medical students
have come to Seaforth
working with the local
medical community
from spending time in
the emergency room
and clinic to riding
along with paramedics
and touring the area.
"This will result in
more students
graduating with the
knowledge, skills and
interest to pick rural
practice as a career
choice," said Dr. James
Rourke, director of
SWORM.
The program, called
rural and regional
undergraduate medical
education week, is an
extension of efforts
begun in 1997 to
include rural
experience as part of
the undergraduate
medical curriculum at
Western.
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Brett Jewitt photo
Sadie Smith, Delayna Smith and Tyler Cronin dance together during one of the musical performances in lions Park as the Seaforth
Cooperative Children's Centre held a festival in the park Saturday.
Barry
remains
in
custody
A 19 -year-old Seaforth
man has been remanded in
custody until his first
appearance before a judge
in Goderich court Aug. 13
after being charged with
one count of arson and
one count of possession of
an incendiary device.
Jeffery Barry was
charged June 4 after being
arrested by police in
Victoria Park where he
allegedly tried to set fire
to the pavilion.
He appeared before a
justice of the peace in
Goderich June 7 for a bail
hearing where he was
remanded in custody
during which time he will
also be admitted to a
psychiatric hospital in St.
Thomas for 30 days.
Meanwhile, police
continue to investigate a
series of 10 fires set to
buildings and in garbage
bins since April 15 in
Seaforth's downtown core.
Council scales back plans to lure
an economic development officer
By Scott Hilgendorff
Expositor Editor
A scaled-back plan for an economic
development officer was approved in a recorded
vote at Huron East council's June 5 meeting.
"Everyone has a feeling on this. Can't we put it
to a vote?" asked McKillop Coun. Sharon McClure
after the fourth lengthy discussion about hiring an
economic development officer since April.
Treasurer Brad Knight had brought proposals to
council to help cut the budget it is preparing by at
least $100,000 to help soften a large tax increase
about to be experienced in the rural wards of
Huron East.
One of those proposals included an option to cut
in half the $50,000 being included in the budget
for an economic development officer for the
approximately six months remaining in this budget
year.
The original proposal would potentially see
$100,000 in the budget for an economic
development officer with $50,000 for salary and
$50,000 for an operating budget.
McClure made a motion accepting one of
Knight's options that would see the amount cut to
$25,000 with 50 per cent of that amount being
area -rated to the Seaforth ward where there was a
perceived greater involvement with the officer and
the town's Business Improvement Area.
Students reuniting
with Johnston
as popular coach
enters retirement
By Susan Hundertmark
Expositor Staff
Close to 400 people so far
have said they'll be returning
to Seaforth this weekend for
a reunion to celebrate the
retirement of Seaforth
District High School teacher
Terry Johnston.
"We've had a really good
response and in the last week
the numbers have doubled so
I wouldn't be surprised if
even more people let us
know they're coming at the
last minute," he says.
After teaching phys. ed. in
Seaforth for 31 years,
including 30 years of
coaching track and field, 27
years of boys' basketball,
more than 20 years of golf
along with several years of
coaching volleyball and
girls' basketball, Jonhston is
retiring this month.
The 536 Golden Bear
athletes he's coached over
the years have been invited
to bring their families to a
family fun day and dance
Saturday with basketball
games, touch football games,
golf, tennis, soccer and a fun
run planned for the
afternoon.
The fun run is being
hosted by Faye Murray at 1
p.m., girls' basketball in the
gym will be hosted at 2 p.m.
by Mary Thompson and
Sarah Johnston and boys'
basketball will be hosted in
the gym at 3:30 p.m. by Paul
and Phil Menary.
Dinner will be catered at 6
p.m. by the Seaforth District
High School All -Girls
Marching Band and the
dance at 7 p.m. in the gym
will be hosted by Ron and
Laurie Scott. Golf will by
hosted Sunday morning by
Dennis Neilsen.
Another "event" Johnston
is hosting is reminiscing.
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McClure said Gwen Devereaux, chair of the
Business Retention and Expansion committee
which proposed the idea of an economic
development officer to council, had called her
before the meeting and McClure assumed she also
called other councillors individually to make "her
last pitch" for an officer.
McClure requested a recorded vote on the
motion.
Speaking against it, Seaforth Coun. Dick
Burgess said, "Allocating half the cost to Seaforth
Ward, I believe is inappropriate. I'm questioning
why we are targeting a $25,000 expense.
Obviously there is something more than the
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Scott Hilgendorff photo
An angry king...
Graeme Craig portrays King Saul in a Walton community production of The Rock Slinger and His
Greatest Hits, a musical version of the Biblical story about David and Goliath.
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