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50 Albert St., Clinton
Main
Street
North
residents
endure
boil water
advisory
By Jason Middleton
Expositor Staff
After a six-day boil
water advisory, close to
45 homes in Seaforth's
north end can now drink
their water without
worry. '
The residents of north
Main Street had to boil
their water before using it
to drink and cook after a
water main break on
Monday caused two
valves to be replaced
Tuesday and Wednesday.
"It's precautionary, it's
not anything to do with
problems or anything,"
Forrest said.
The advisory was lifted
on Monday after the
Huron County Health'
Unit's medical officer of
health Dr. Beth Henning
said that the two water
tests were satisfactory
and the residents could
again drink the water.
Underthe boil water
advisory residents were
being asked to boil water
for at least one minute
before using it to drink,
gargle, brush teeth or
rinse dentures, wash food
and make .food. Using the
water to wash, bath,.
shower, do laundry and
doing dishes was allowed
under the advisory.
Because of a water
main break and related
problems on Main Street
north last Monday, the
water had tobe shut
down while repairs were
being made Forrest said.
Crews from Huron East
then had to change two
valves one on Tuesday
and another on
Wednesday.
The work required
negative pressure to be
used in the pipes which
with new standards set by
the Ontario government
means the municipality
of Huron East had to
issue the precautionary
advisory.
"So, because we had to
use negative pressure (to
fix the valves) the
regulations state we have
to issue a precautionary
boil water ban," said
Forrest.
John Paula 'magnetic Pope': Father Lance
Seaforth's priest mourns the loss of the Pope who shared his Polish homeland
By Susan Hundertmark
Expositor Editor
As a Catholic priest and a
fellow Pole, Father Lance
Magdziak met Pope John
Paul II four times and
describes him as "magnetic."
"When you meet the Pope,
he's magnetic. You cannot
describe it. You feel at ease
but you don't know how to
act. You're overwhelmed.
He's very tranquil and gentle
and he looks at you like a
father looking at a newborn
baby with that sweet smile
on his ' face. It's
unbelievable," says Father
Lance.
"I'm going to miss him,"
he says Monday after the
Pope's death on Saturday.
As parish priest for the
Roman Catholic churches in
Seaforth, Clinton and St.
Columban, Father Lance is
preparing special masses in
the Pope's memory at regular
services this weekend.
"Now is the time to
discover the beauty of the
whole legacy and testament
he's leaving. It will be a
message to continue to be
faithful to his teaching and
his example. I believe the
Pope will be declared a saint
- it's just a matter of time,"
he says.
Born and raised in Poland,
Father Lance first met Pope
John Paul when he was still a
teenager and John Paul was
still Cardinal of Krakow and
was visiting Father Lance's
hometown church in
Przemysl.
"He walked into the church
where eight of us ,were
practising our music. He had
come to look at our cathedral
and we stood by and chatted
with him. He was• just the
Susan Hundertmark photo
Remembering the Pope
Father Lance Magdziak holds one of the many pictures of his four visits with Pope John Paul 11 that adorn the walls of
the St. James Catholic Church rectory in Seaforth.
bishop to us then - we had no
idea he would become the
Pope," he remembers.
Father Lance says when
John Paul was elected as the
Pope in 1978, all of Poland
celebrated.
"We would go out onto the
streets and sing all night.
There was unbelievable joy,"
he says.
Huron County's
$100,000 club
The names of public employees paid $100,000 or more
in 2004 were recently released by the provincial
government under the Public Sector Salary Disclosure
Act.
Within the Huron Perth Healthcare Alliance, CEO
Andrew Williams made $233,980.99, VP/CFO Ken
Haworth made $129,688.96, VP Marie Ormerod made
$110,010.10, Site Administrator Bonnie Royal made
$117,825.83 and VP Lynn Strugnell made $116,151.06.
In Huron County, chief administrative officer Larry
Adams made $113,986.60, Treasurer/Deputy CAO
David Carey made $106,797.60, Medical Officer of
Health Dr. Beth Henning made $102,011 and Huron
County Health Unit Director Penny Nelligan made
$116,335.59.
At the Avon Maitland District School Board,
Education Director Geoff Williams made $139,522.08,
Superintendent Janet Baird -Jackson made $120,575.36,
Central Huron Secondary School principal Herb Klassen
made $108,565.44, Superintendent Marie Parsons made
$120,575.36, Superintendent Jim Sheppard made
$119,802.07, Superintendent Pat Stanley made
$103,634.06 and Superintendent Barry Wagner made
$117,910.96.
At the Huron Perth Catholic District School Board,
Education Director Larry Langan made $134,078.10,
Superintendent Martha Dutrizac made $116,283.96 and
Superintendent Gerald Thuss made $115,099.48.
Goderich Crown Attorney Robert Morris made
$172,917.15.
Huron -Perth Children's Aid Executive Director Tom
Knight made $107,669.50.
Alexandra Marine and General Hospital President and
CEO William Thibert made $133361.72.
Organizations with no salaries over $100,000 to
disclose included Clinton Public Hospital, Seaforth
Community Hospital, Stratford General Hospital, Huron
County Public Library, Canadian MH Association -
Huron -Perth Branch, Community Living - Central
Huron, Community Living - South Huron. Family
Services - Perth - Huron County, Huron County
Community Child Abuse Coordinating Committee,
Huron Perth Centres for Children and Youth, Victim
Services - Huron County, Victorian Order of Nurses -
Perth -Huron. Women Today - Huron County.
John Paul made his first
visit to Poland in 1979 when
the country was still
Communist and Father Lance
says his message at the time
was to "get the spirit moving
and begin a peaceful
revolution."
Father Lance says he
believes a Pope from Eastern
Europe made a huge
difference in the fall of
communism and the toppling
of the Berlin Wall.
"He was a leader of the
church during a time of great
challenges. While politics
wasn't his priority, he went
everywhere with the good
news for everyone to believe,
to be strong and to be not
afraid," says Father Lance.
Before Father Lance
immigrated to Canada in
1981, he saw the Pope in
Rome that year as part of a
crowd of 50,000 people in St.
Peter's Square.
"It's such an experience to
be in a huge crowd with
everyone yelling and
See SEAFORTH'S, Page 2
SCH trust and town trust'
creating apartments
for visiting locum doctors
By Susan Hundertmark
Expositor Editor
The Seaforth Community Development
Trust and the Seaforth Community Hospital
Trust are working together to build two
apartments for visiting doctors working at
the Seaforth Medical Centre on locum.
Hospital trust chair Ron Lavoie told
members of the Seaforth
hospital's Local Advisory
Committee last Tuesday that
the two apartments were
being built on the second
floor of the Seaforth post
office as part of an initiative
to make doctors on locum feel
as comfortable as possible.
"For three or four years,
doctors like to move around
and eventually want to settle
down. You hope you're in the
running for that," Lavoie told
the Seaforth LAC.
The two apartments will
contain a sleeping area, a
kitchenette, a washer and
dryer, a desk with internet
access and "all the amenities"
that will help locum doctors feel at home.
Lavoie said most locum doctors stay
town for about a month at a time and want a
home -like atmosphere while they're here.
"We want them to feel welcome and
comfortable so they'll consider us on a
longer term," he said. "This will allow us to
position ourselves better."
Seaforth qualifies for locums under a
provincial locum physician program because
the area is considered underserviced as long
as it has fewer than seven family doctors.
Currently, Seaforth has four full-time
doctors and Lavoie said the hospital trust is
doing everything it can to find three more
full-time doctors.
Under the locum physician program, the
province funds five weeks of locums,
including salaries, accommodation and
transportation costs.
Locums currently work at the Seaforth
Medical Centre on a month-to-month
agreement.
Lavoie said the hospital
trust is working on an
orientation package for
locum doctors that include an
introduction to the medical
facilities in town and an
introduction to the staff.
"When they enter our doors
they know who to look for
and where to go (because of
the orientation package),"
said Lavoie.
He added the medical
centre is doing all the
scheduling and billing for
locums.
"We're trying to be
proactive," he said.
Alf Ross, a member of both
the hospital trust and the community
development trust, told the Seaforth LAC
that doctor recruitment is probably the
number one issue for Seaforth and its
hospital.
"Seaforth doctors put people in our
hospital so recruitment is huge. It should be
a slogan," he said.
Doug Elliott, secretary of the community
development trust, said the community
development trust has agreed to the project
in principle but has not worked out any of
the financial details yet.
Quilted
'We want
them to feel
welcome and
comfortable
so they'll
consider us
on a longer
term,'--
SCH trust chair
Ron Lavoie .
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