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Car stolen
from
Seaforth
found burnt
in Hibbert
A car stolen from a
municipal parking lot
in Seaforth on April 22
at approximately 10
.p.m.. was found the
next day on a road. in
Hibbert ward of West
Perth.
The 1999 Pontiac
Grand Prix was
located by Perth OPP
on April 23 on Perth
Road 182 in Hibbert.
The vehicle was
entirely destroyed by
fire.
Another car fire in
Grey is being
investigated as
suspicious by the
Huron OPP.
Grey firefighters
were called to the fire
on April 22 at
approximately 7 p.m.
at a gravel pit on
Adams Line. They
found a 1992 Mercury
MGL fully engulfed in
flames.
Anyone with related
information is asked to
call the Huron OPP or
Crime Stoppers at 1-
800-222-8477.
Dalton shines In NAHL.
Local hockey player Matt
Dalton is a key player for
the Bozeman Ice Dogs on
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Harpist Jeannette Sears, of Clinton, performs
last Friday in Winthrop.
Jeff Heuchert photo
during Cavan's Cabaret at Cavan United Church
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Provincial
funding
wipes out
Alliance
deficit
Donal O'Connor
A deficit the Huron -Perth
Healthcare Alliance has been
working to erase for several years
was wiped out Monday with a'
provincial announcement Monday
increasing base funding by $5.1
million.
Perth -Middlesex MPP John
Wilkinson, who made the
announcement Monday at Stratford
General Hospital, called it "a
historic day" for the Alliance and
said it fulfills the government's
commitment to a new funding
process that will give the hospitals
stable multi-year funding and take
the anxiety out of budgeting.
Seaforth Community Hospital will
receive an additional $365,000,
Stratford General Hospital will get
$3.9 million, St. Marys Memorial
Hospital will receive just under
$390,000 and Clinton Public
Hospital will get $477,000, all in
additional base funding.
Wilkinson praised the Alliance
board and staff of the hospitals for
See HURON -PERTH, Page 2
Huron East council hoping to meet
with doctors over FHT concerns
Susan Hundertmark,
amilmmin
Huron East council is hoping to meet
with local doctors after learning they
have withdrawn their support for a
Family Health Team (FHT) for
Seaforth.
Describing the process as a roller
coaster ride, Deputy -Mayor Bernie
MacLellan told council on April 18 that
whether or not the FHT proceeds "lies
in the doctors' ballpark right now." patients throughout Huron, starting in
"The doctors were on board and then Seaforth and eventually creating
they weren't. There's no c l e a r c u t satellite offices throughout the county.
reasons of why. There may be internal After debating whether or not the
issues. I'm not aware of it being public topic fits into a category that would
information of what is causing the allow council to go into closed session,
disruption," he said. MacLellan finally asked to go behind
Last spring, Seaforth was one of the closed doors to share some of the
first 52 family health teams to be information he knows because "if I was
approved by the province. Seaforth's to speak it in open council, there would
proposal aimed to look after orphan
See HURON, Page 3