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HomeMy WebLinkAboutHuron Expositor, 2007-01-31, Page 5Opinion The Huron Expositor • January 31, 2007 Page 5 Seaforth orphan patient feels like a second-rate citizen To the Editor, Second Rate Citizens - that is how I feel those of us who are orphan patients are treated. It is not our fault that doc- tors move on for some rea- son, whatever it may be, that they aren't satisfied with working here in rural Ontario, here in Seaforth, Ont. I had a work-related injury to my left hand last May, but because there showed no broken bones, nothing was done. I have been suffering from pain ever since which is getting worse. I had to go to the hospital emergency to get to see a doctor on call. He had a bone x-ray arranged and done on Jan. 16. I tried today to get an appointment with this doc- tor and was told he was only on call when I saw him. I was told he is too busy with his own patients and that I had to make an appointment for Tuesday night, but can only arrange it by calling in right at 8 a.m. Tuesday or try to get in Friday, the other day when orphan patients are seen by the regular doctors. If this isn't a two-tiered system what do you call it? So, we orphaned patients must rival each other to get a Tuesday night appoint- ment, or Friday appoint- ment or wait until the fol- lowing week, or the next. How fair is it for those of us who need medical care to have to wait under these conditions? Please give us some real answers. Bob Litt Seaforth, Ont. MIEMEINIM Parents have role to play preventing youth violence From Page 4 And for those parents who do have guns in the house, keep them locked up. The government is doing their part by prohibiting the sale of violent and explicit materials to minors. It's up to parents to make sure those same limits are upheld at home. Have an opinion? Write a letter to the editor! Burst tire results in large quantity of broken eggs in 1907 crash JANUARY 27, 1882 Charles Routledge of the 4th concession of Tuckersmith has sold a span of three-year-old colts to an American buyer for the sum of $375. They were of average size but good animals. Edward Ryan has sold his fifty acre farm on the 14th concession of McKillop to John McKennon, a near neighbour for the sum of $2,500. Mr. Ryan intends remov- ing to Dakota in the spring. Wm. Grieve of McKillop has purchased the property of the late George Sparling which is sit- uated on North Main street. The property consists of a house and one acre of land. The price paid was $800. JANUARY 29, 1907 Lloyd Dinnin of the Bank of Commerce staff in Seaforth is relieving at Milverton this week. On Wednesday in the early hours of the forenoon, as G.C. Petty and Lloyd Vennor of Hensall were going to Toronto on the highway at Cooksville with a truckload of eggs, one of the front tires burst capsizing the load into the ditch. Fortunately neither man was injured and the truck only slightly damaged, but a large quantity of eggs were bro- ken. FEBRUARY 1, 1932 Walter Murray, son of John Murray of the McKillop-Hullett boundary is home from Manitoba on a visit. Mr. Murray brought with him the head of a moose which he shot in the Riding Mountains. The head is a large one and the antlers are of immense size. The derrick and drilling appara- tus for the testing of the oil well in the big swamp east of Walton is now on the ground and opera- tions will commence at once and we sincerely hope they will not cease until they strike a gusher as it would prove a great bonanza to this vicinity. Mrs. James Cumming, of Egmondville, who is quite an ardent florist, has an azalea, which is out in full bloom. The Messrs. Cudmore of Kippen have shipped their hay pressing outfit to the neighbourhood of Chatham where hay is more plen- tiful. FEBRUARY 8, 1957 It was Jack McLlwain's night at Seaforth arena on Tuesday and to make the evening even more out- standing, the Juniors won a 4-1 victory over Kitchener Greenshirts. The win made cer- tain Seaforth's top place in the group. The largest crowd of the season - nearly 650 - saw Seaforth player Jack McLlwain presented with a watch and a purse containing $122 from dis- trict fans and a traveling bag from the Athletic Association. It was his final scheduled home game of the five years he has played on Seaforth Junior teams. Demand for books from Seaforth Carnegie Library contin- ued to rise during 1956, it was revealed Monday as the board considered the annual report of Librarian Greta Thompson. JANUARY 27, 1982 Seaforth council and its employ- ees received raises Thursday night when new remuneration schedules and wage rates for 1982 were approved by resolution at a special council meeting at town hall. The increases for town employees average 10.26 per cent, according to town clerk Jim Crocker. High winds, snow and frigid temperatures combined for the third weekend in a row to isolate this community, particularly on Sunday, and less so at other times during the weekend. Highway 8 from Stratford to Goderich was officially closed from shortly after 1 p.m. Sunday until about 11 p.m. Highway 4 from Exeter to Flesherton was also closed Sunday, as was Highway 21 from Port Elgin to south of Goderich. There are more than three times as many households in Seaforth with colour televisions as opposed to black and white. And more than one in four house- holds has an automatic dish- washer. These and other interest- ing statistics are according to Ontario Hydro's llth appliance ownership and energy application survey, conducted in Seaforth and other municipalities in the province.