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HomeMy WebLinkAboutHuron Expositor, 2005-06-01, Page 3\k r Area patients invited to join FHG By Susan Hundertmark Expositor Editor Patients of the Seaforth Community Medical Centre are being invited to join a family health group that includes Seaforth's four family doctors. While the family health group model, being promoted by the province, is essentially the same system as the one that has always operated at Seaforth's medical clinic, doctors are being paid a little more by forming a group. "It's getting people rostered and that's something we've been after for the past year. This is physician and government generated because the government would like us to have a group," says Dr. Dan Rooyakkers, one of the four in the group. The family health group (FHG) is not the same thing as the family health team (FHT), which was approved for Seaforth in April, along with 51 other teams throughout Ontario. The FHT will serve orphan patients throughout Huron County, beginning in Seaforth, and will start rostering patients who do not have family doctors sometime in late summer or early fall. Rooyakkers says the group model prevents patients from having multiple doctors within the same clinic, creates greater efficiency and helps to promote the use of the clinic over the use of hospital emergency rooms. An information kit mailed out last week invites the patients of Drs. Dan Rooyakkers, Carolin Shepherd, Heather Percival and Helen Frye to sign up for the group. While patients who are part of the group will retain their family doctor, they will see the other doctors in the group if their family doctor is on vacation or unavailable. As well, they will be able to use an after-hours telephone health advisory service where a registered nurse gives advice, refers patients to medical or emergency services and then provides information about the health concern to the on- call doctors. "In the past, people have been using our emergency nurses for that. In this way, someone will be assigned to take those calls," says Rooyakkers. With a FHG, Rooyakkers says doctors at the clinic will be trying to reserve more time for urgent needs such as sick children so the emergency department is reserved for true emergencies. "This is a way of educating the public to say your family doctor is your primary source of health care so please use the clinic more. Too many people still run to emergency without a thought - they want their health care like fast food," he says. Rooyakkers adds that patients spend 10 times more on health care at emergency than they do at the clinic. Patients do not have to join the FHG to continue getting care at the clinic. 6 Local bowling alley to reopen soon By Jason Middleton Expositor Staff Local residents looking to participate in bowling, either in a league or for fun, have been spared as the Seaforth Bowling Alley's new owner Pete Klaver said that he will be re -opening the lanes soon. Klaver took the lanes over earlier this year from previous owner Gary Huston, who said that over the past year interest in the bowling alley had diminished. "If it proves itself over the winter that it is a viable business, it'll stay as a bowling alley," Klaver said, adding the lanes will be open for people looking to celebrate children's birthdays or for players interested in playing in leagues. George Love, an organizer of the Monday night bowling league, said that he was not sure what the fate of the Seaforth bowling alley was going to be. Because ofmuchof the confusion that surrounded the fate of the Market Street 1 4 L. bowling alley, Love said that he was starting to make plans to have his bowling league in Clinton. Now that 'the bowling alley will be open, Love said that he's not sure what is going to happen with his league. Love explained that he's glad to hear that the alley he has been bowling at for 35 years will still have at least another season for area bowlers. When the bowling alley reopens, Klaver said that he is going to have a sign out front of the the Market Street building advertising its hours. In the meantime, Klaver said that the building is going to be cleaned up, have some cosmetic things done and have some of the equipment worked on. "I'm going to give it a chance," Klaver said, adding that people need to be interested in the bowling alley to keep it alive. "If it proves to carry itself, I'll just leave it as a bowling alley," he said. Seaforth Bakery set to move By Jason Middleton Expositor Staff The Seaforth Bakery will be moving its buns across the street when the business changes ownership this month. Starting June 1, Christine Behnke, of Seaforth, takes over the Seaforth Bakery from its owner Lou Maloney. According to Behnke, there will be a lot of changes including a move across the street to the former Dollar Haven storefront beside Tucker's Meat Shop for the beginning of July. "Now it's going to be bigger and better," Maloney, who is considering staying on as a silent partner, said. Behnke, who has 20 years' experience in the food industry and is a registered chef, said that she has always been fond of the Seaforth Bakery. "It's a very unique little place and that's what's attracted me to it," she said. When she takes over, Behnke said that she would like to offer more products including more meals, store - made pies and soup made from scratch. Maloney said that at the bakery's present location at 30 Main St. S., the kitchen space was limited and that's what prompted the move across the street. "We never could cook in this kitchen because it's too small," Maloney said. Behnke said that she wants to keep the bakery's uniqueness and she will be keeping its name the same. Along with making more items on premises, Behnke said that she would like to start selling fish and chips on Fridays from the bakery. Behnke said that she would like to make eating at .the bakery like going home for a barbecue or a Sunday supper. THE HURON EXPOSITOR, June 1. 2005-3 SUBSCRIBE TODAY ! Call the Seaforth Huron Expositor at 527-0240 1))('iijt111ail1 \1()()Ill Pal t11( 1'.t1111 &L I ri Decorating or Renovating? 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