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Hullett man
charged
during
Seaforth
RIDE.
campaign
A 53 -year-old Hullett
man has been charged
with driving with more
than 80 mg. of alcohol
in his blood after he
was stopped during a
RIDE campaign in
Seaforth on Feb. 26 at
2 a.m.
The man was
displaying symptoms
of having consumed
alcohol when he was
stopped and failed a
roadside breath test.
Two breath samples
administered at the
Huron detachment
showed the man to be
registered at twice the
legal limit.
He received a 90 -day
driver's licence
suspension and is
scheduled to attend
Goderich provincial
court on April 3.
Researcher tries to
uncover Truscott Info..
OA London man is trying to
find fresh leads in Seaforth as
the Truscott case moves
towards a June hearingpg.6
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Susan Hundertmark photo
Team work is required as Karissa Eckert, Kylie Hendriks, Alex Melady, Zach Vulders and Martin DeCorte participate in a toboggan
race held during St. James School's winter carnival last Thursday. For more pics, see page 19.
Close to 250 pack.AgripIex.to hear
uni • ns' concerns about LHINs
Susan Hundertmark
alMEMEMED
Close to 250 people packing
the hall at the Seaforth
Agriplex last Tuesday were
urged to call their MPP to
protest the quick passage of
legislation implementing
Local Health Integration
Networks (LHINs).
Despite the fact that Bill 36
was being introduced for
third reading to the
provincial legislature that
night, meeting organizers
asked anyone concerned
about local access and control
over healthcare services to
make their voices heard.
"You people have fought a
long time to keep your
hospital (operating as) a
hospital and (with this Bill)
the people of Seaforth could
end up with a 24-hour walk-
in clinic," said Deb Hirdes,
president of CUPE Local
4727,
"There are some opposition
MPPs preparing some very
long speeches so I think we
may have some time - but
very little of it. Now is the
time to contact your MPP,"
said Doug Allan, of the
Ontario Health Coalition.
Hirdes told the crowd she
had grave concerns with the
lack of accountability of the
proposed LHINs, the threats
to local access to healthcare
services and the competitive
bidding and privatization to
healthcare she sees as
resulting from the new
system.
"The government has laid
low and has not come clean
about what its intentions are
with this legislation," said
Allan.
Allan said LHINs, whose
CEOs will make as much as
$350,000 a year and whose
appointed members will be
paid from . $200 to $350 per
meeting by the province, will
give "tremendous . power to
the ministry and its agents"
when they divide Ontario
into 14 geographical areas to
distribute healthcare
funding.
"LHINs will be making the
decisions for us because they
know better than we do what
we need," said Hirdes.
See UNIONS, Page 3
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