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Seaforth daycare gets
$33,600 in federal funding
By Susan Hundertmark
Expositor Editor
Seaforth Cooperative Children's Centre
(SCCC) will receive the lion's share of one-time
federal funding announced recently for five
Huron County daycares.
Seaforth will receive $33,600 of the $44,300
distributed to Huron County for repairs,
maintenance, agreed county council at its Feb. 5
meeting.
The money for SCCC will go towards
plumbing, a counter and sink, kitchen cabinets
and windows at the new facility on Chalk Street.
"This money allows us to complete the
building and not go into debt," said SCCC
president Lauren Rooyakkers.
Rooyakkers said that while the Seaforth
daycare had applied to the county for funding
last fall, the daycare board didn't learn about the
federal funding until January.
"Evy McDonaugh (the county's children's
services manager) called me at the beginning of
, January to say it looks like there's some money
coming down that has to be spent by the end of
March and did we want it. She knows about the
efforts that are going into this building and she
really wanted to support them," said
Rooyakkers.
Before the federal funding was received, the
local daycare had raised $115,000 from
donations from Huron East, the Seaforth
community development trust, local businesses
and the community.
"We're pretty happy we created a 5,000 -
square -foot building for under $200,000," she
said.
With the ceiling installed last week, the
flooring going in this week and the kitchen
being completed the week after, Rooyakkers
says the daycare board anticipates moving into
the new facility the first weekend in March.
McDonagh stressed the funding would "go
where it is most needed" within the county's
nine licensed, non-profit daycares and nursery
schools after county council's meeting.
Goderich Municipal Child Care Centre and
Tuckersmith Day Nursery will each be receiving
$2,700 to replace their windows.
The Wingham Children's Centre will also be
replacing their windows at a cost of $3,300.
Various equipment valued at $2,000 will be
purchased for the Clinton Cooperative Child
Care Centre.
Ontario Minister of Children's Services
Marie Bountrogianni announced the $9.7
million funding, which is the first phase of a
March 2003 agreement between federal,
provincial and territorial social services
ministers, on Jan. 7.
Funding is stumbling block
to using teleconferencing clinically
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aduring the outbreak.
"We knew very little about
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the teleconferencing allowed
us to see what this beast was
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Seeing the expressions and
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While the province
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patient face to face. So, while
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specialists and local patients
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surgery," he says.
Dr. Craig Albrecht has been
using the teleconferencing
technology to link up with a
regional geriatric program in
London.
And, while the technology
has allowed him to save travel
time and meet with his peers
electronically, it also allows a
number of health
professionals dealing with the
same patients to share
information about the patients
and plan coordinated
treatment.
Edwards says the potential
exists to set up a
teleconferencing treatment
room where patients,
facilitated by a nurse
practitioner, could meet a
specialist through the
technology and have a
"virtual" appointment.
"The clinical uses are still
in their infancy but they are
likely to extend and grow
sometime. But, with the
health system so strapped for
money, it's going to take
major changes in the funding
before it can move forward,"
he says.
"There's not a pressing
urge to go ahead but it would
be nice to be able to use the
technology we have," he
adds.
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