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Opinion
Proprietor and Publisher, Bowes Publishers Limited, 11 Main St., Seaforth, ON, NOK IWO
Keeping track of healthcare in Seaforth is some-
times like reading a Russian novel.
There are far too many characters and each char-
acter is often known \by several different names (or
in this case, weating several different hats). .
It's no wonder that as the Seaforth Community
Hospital faces its latest challenge with overnight
closures at the emergency department caused by
the Ca.nada-wide nursing shortage, the chorus of
confusion begins again questioning just who's in
and what exactly do they do.
A meeting has been planned for April 14 by the
Huron East Healthcare Partners committee and
the Seaforth Community Development Trust to -
once again - try- and clarify the situation.
A colour -code chart is being created to list each of
at least a dozen organizations - some of them -ap-
pointed and other elected - who make the decisions
surrounding local healthcare.
What used to require one hospital board has mor-
phed into an alliance of four hospitals, each receiv-
tng advice from a Local Advisory Committee.
Se.forth's hospital fundraising is led by a founda-
tion, while its property is administered by a b.ospi-
tal trust.
Shortages of physicians and other healthcare pro
fessionals have led to a raft of other committees,
some devoted to recruitment and retentiop and
others, like the Huron Community Family Health
Team, creating a brand new configuration of health-
care professionals designed to care for the most pa-
tients possible.
And, while it was once unheard of for municipal
governments to have anything at all to. do with
provincially -funded healthcare, the shortage , of
healthcare professionals along with the importance
of healthcare to the region's economic wellbeing has
brought Huron East and its committees into the
picture, as landlords, as financial contributors and
as ambassadors.
No waider ratepayers need a program to refer to
as they wade through the plot lines of the various
inevitable dramas that occur. •
But, while we might bemoan the fact that we'll
need the colour-coded chart made into a giant, fridge
magnet for easy reference, we should also appreci-
ate that a whole lot of local people have decided that
healthcore is important enough to get involved and
contribute where they can.
Working together, they can help solve some of the
considerable challenges facing today's healthcare
System.
Susan Hundertmark
Your Conatuaity Newspaper Ohne 1860
Publisher - Dave Sykes
Largest ever,
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ackpot can't buy
true love, b
Besides true love, what can't
money buy?
Intangibles aside, it seems
cash can get you almost any-
thing.
It's really no surprise then
that Canadians flocked to Con-
venience stores recently to buy
a 6/49lottery ticket for the sec-
ond largest jackpot of all time in this country:
$50.3 million. •
In Seaforth, GT Mini' Mart sold twice the
usual amount of tickets and Mac's Milk sold
about 1,000 tickets for the big draw:
People across Canada waited their turn in
line to buy a ticket, using their most keen ESP
to conjure up the right numbers in their brains
to match up with the winning sequence.
They waited nervously for the day of the
draw, while visions of retirement danced in
their heads. •.
I'd'take
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But *hen' the tirne came andthe. ,winning
numbers were .announced, all ,-those hopeful
lotto players accepted their fates as **-mil-
lionaires and went back to worlung day jobs
and paying bilis.••• •
But before the draw, oh how the 'Mind wan-
dered, swelling up' with _optimism: -.0,4- hopes
•.e.for winning big.
Millions of imaginations .404404, from the
reality of day jobs, 7debt and bills j.ntio?.it world
of financial freedom, a.. bigger house, fancier
car and maybe..4' boat- cottage 'or a few oth-
er big ticket luxury items thrown in for good
measure
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With, of course, 0000ghleft0yer40*.0*icle
Ron
The government is
speading billions of
411(11*S. How cIo they
pay for it all?
They just ps.ri‘
it off until
the economy
ts better.
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for the extended family.
A winning 6/49 lottery -ticket
is a recipe for comfort and self-
indulgence .that captivated the
imaginations of millions in Feb-
ruary.
But on average, how desirable
is this daydream -inducing lotto
fever that . swept our town and
the entire country? .-
According to the Lotto 6/49 -official website,
73 per cent of adults in Canada -46 million -.-
people — play the lotteries.
Well over half of our population gladly hands
over their working wages for a ticket in -hopes
of starting a new,, ultra -wealthy life.
What the 6/49 website doesn't say is that the
chances of picking all six number! correctly
are roughly one in 10 billion.
They also don't tell you the vast majority of
people buying lottery tickets are poor.
Despite the near -impossible mathematical
odds, the lottery still seduces us into believing
we might actually win the next time.
But what are.the'negatiye effects ofwinning
the lottery? - •
There's never any- forethought. about- how
a winner's personality.may be severely 'dam-
aged by an influx of cash.
If you won, Would you turn into -a materialis-
tic, ego -inflated, rich snob?
Would you be .driven crazy by distant rela-
tives you've never heard of phoning you up
aslang for a loan? -
Or would yOu fritter away your winnings
See HOW, Page 6
The national debt
is getting into the
trillions! Where's
it all coming from,
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wou n t worry
about it. They'll
take care of it when
the economy improves.
by bavid Lacey
ear the'
debt
is in the
quadrillions
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