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Healthkick Huron looks to promote, create
and retain healthcare careers in the county
By Susan Hundertmark
Expositor Editor
They've just had a phone
hooked up and are still
waiting for a computer to be
installed but Allison
Devereaux and Jessica
Burgess are wasting no time
promoting healthcare careers
in Huron County.
Renaming the six -pronged
Skills for Healthcare
Attraction and Retention
Pilot (SHARP) project, which
recently received $300,000 in
provincial funding as well as
a contribution of $150,000
from the Seaforth
Community Development
Trust, was one of their first
accomplishments.
"We called it Healthkick
Huron because we're kicking
off a new health care program
for the county and are hoping
it will become a model for
the area. Plus, I think people
are acronymed out. We were
getting tongue-tied telling
people what it meant," says
Jessica Burgess and Allison Devereaux consider logos for
which will promote healthcare careers in Huron County.
Devereaux of the SHARP
name.
The six -pronged, two -and -
a -half-year project works at
encouraging high school
students to consider a
healthcare career, provides
experience for youth at local
health facilities, provides
nursing training for the local
workforce, creates temporary
work placements for recent
health graduates, makes the
area attractive to international
Ecological Farmers Association
gathers at Papple's farm to
learn about innovative gadgets
By Susan Hundertmark
Expositor Editor
While close to 25 members
of the Ecological Farmers
Association of Ontario
gathered recently at Summer
and Tyler Papple's 51 -acre
Seaforth-area farm to learn
about their market gardening
operation, they were just as
interested in the machines
and tools Tyler has made to
make the field work easier.
"I think it was a good tour
to see some homemade
gadgetsjh_at are useful in
market gardning. Lots of us
don't realize what can be
done but if you like tinkering
around, this was a good place
to visit," said EFAO president
Ann Slater.
The Papples have been
growing fruits and vegetables
since the early 1990s and
currently have 25 acres in
vegetables and five in
orchards.
They grow asparagus,
strawberries, peas, beans,
beets, tomatoes, peppers and
slicing cucumbers. They also
grow sweet corn, pumpkins,
gourds, squash, apple, plums
and pears.
To make bean and beet
picking easier, Tyler created
a cart using bicycle wheels
and plywood. He sits on one
end of the cart and reaches
down through an opening in
the plywood to pick the crop,
using a knife that is attached
to the plywood to cut the
vegetables.
"You push it backwards
and it really saves your
back," he said, while
demonstrating how it works.
F o r
strawberry
harvest, he
built seven
electric
carts with
overhead
frames that
can be
covered
with canvas
so that
pickers can
pick
strawberries
in the shade
as they
move down
the rows
powered by
battery -run
electric
wheelchair
motors.
The front of the cart holds
12 boxes of berries at a time.
"It speeds up picking quite
a bit and it's nice and 4uiet
and reliable. We charge the
batteries every night," he
said.
A tobacco primer was
Susan Hundertmark photo
Tyler Papple discusses a potato harvester he created on
his market garden south of Seaforth during a recent
meeting of the Ecological Farmers Association.
modified by Tyler to pick
sweet corn. The primer,
which has a steering
mechanism out front keeps
the machine between the
rows, was
changed
from gas
to electric,
again
using
wheelchair
motors
a n d
batteries.
"It
would
have been
nice to
have it
solar -
powered
but that
would
have cost
too much,"
he said,
adding
that with
the machine, "I'll pick all
this corn myself. it takes a
half hour to an hour a day."
While the Papples are not
entirely organic because they
use chemical sprays like the
herbicide Roundup, Tyler
said they try to use as many
Olivet Papple, 5, takes a close
look at a tomato horn worm.
environmentally -friendly
practices as possible.
To scuffle the crops, he has
adapted a 1950s Allis
Chalmers G tractor which
has a full view of the crops
and the engine in the back.
He showed the large
compost piles they fill with
leftover vegetables and plants
from their downtown
Seaforth business along with
wood chips and other organic
material.
To avoid spraying for bugs
in the potatoes, Tyler said he
keeps a ,close eye and hills
the potatoes when the bugs
are in the larval stage, killing
and burying most in the
process.
"And, if you avoid planting
close to where you were last
year, you can get away
without spraying," he said.
"We try to avoid spraying
with a lot of things and try to
let the natural predators do
the job," he said.
He added, however, that
when they did not spray for
corn borer, they got
complaints ftom the
customers.
"People want a perfect
product," said Tyler.
Susan Hundertmark photo
the Healthkick program
medical grads and creates
community ambassador
teams to promote the area.
Working on three of the six
prongs of the project, the two
are focussing on community
ambassador teams, the rural
healthcare work placement
project and educating high
school students about
opportunities in local
healthcare jobs.
Devereaux says four people
have •been hired so far to
work under Linda Finkbeiner
of the South Huron Chamber
of Commerce creating
promotional packages for
healthcare professionals and
their spouses, which will be
distributed through the
community ambassador
program.
Close to $15,000 of the
provincial funding will be
spent to train 25 community
volunteers - five in each
urban community in Huron
County - to promote the
advantages of- living and
working in the county.
"We're hoping to start that
right away," she says of the
community ambassador
training. "We need people
with a passion for their
community;' says Devereaux.
Devereaux and Burgess are
also beginning to conduct
interviews of local healthcare
professionals as part of a
websit they plan to launch
encouraging students to
consider healthcare careers.
As well, a career night is
being planned for Huron
County's high schools and a
summer camp for Grade 10
and 11 students interested in
healthcare careers is also
being researched.
The rural healthcare work
placement segment of the
project will receive about
$90,000 of the total, hiring 30
local youth for summer jobs
at Huron healthcare facilities.
"Our goals is to find jobs
for people who care about
healthcare," says Devereaux.
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