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Mac's Milk
dealer ordered
to return to
Pakistan on.
Oct. 30
Dan Schwab
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The Mac's Milk contract
dealer who's been fighting de-
portation since May received
a letter from Canadian Bor-
der Services last week order-
ing him to report to Toronto's
Pearson Airport on Oct. 30
and board a flight back to his
native Pakistan.
Tariq Muhammad, who's op-
erated the Mac's store on God-
erich Street for the past three
and a half years, says he was
surprised that his efforts to
remain in Canada, which in-
clude creating a petition that
attracted more than 1,000
signatures, are not enough to
allow him to remain in this
country.
"I wasn't expecting this,"
Muhammad says, adding that
he expects to work at Mac's
Milk up until the last week of
October.
Mac's Milk will be looking
for a new contract dealer, pref-
erably someone in the local
area, to take over the store,
• Muhammad says.
There is no commitment or
promise from Mac's Milk that
the five employees • currently
employed there will be able
to keep their jobs when that
happens, Muhammad adds.
Muhammad says he's un -
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planting trees In the schoolyard at Seaforth Public School after the school re-
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Seaforth LAC
• asking for
reopening of 24-n
hour emergency
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After close to eight months with an emer-
geuuy department closed overnight, mem-
bers of the Seaforth Community Hospital
Local Advisory Committee are starting to
ask when 24-hour service will resume.
Bill Scott, one of Seaforth's Huron -Perth
Healthcare Alliance board members, asked
at last week's LAC meeting if there is any
way to reorganize staffing to allow Sea-
forth's ER to reopen full-time.
"We've got a full-time nurse in ER now
and we're still looking for part-time nurses.
Is there no, way to organize the sites to get
the coverage we need?" he said.
Scott said he's heard that Clinton Public
Hospital is raising money for an ultrasound
machine for its ER, a situation he said was
• creating an "uneven playing field with Clin-
ton."
"The implication is they're developing their
'ER and we're not. That's the perception of
the community. And, one way of correcting
that perception is to reopen our emergency
department full-time," he said.
Site administrator Mary Cardinal said
that while a full-time emergency nurse was
recently hired at Seaforth's hospital, three
regular part-time nurses "or a combination
thereof' are still needed.
"It's difficult to recruit to rural sites but
the intent is to reopen," she said.
Scott asked if Seaforth hospital is sending
staff to Clinton to help keep its emergency
department open.
Cardinal said no but added that there is
one nurse with a "composite position be-
tween here and Clinton.
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