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Home My WebLink AboutTimes Advocate, 1997-03-26, Page 2Page 2 Tinies-Advocate, March 26, 1997 [MTHE NEWS Regional wrap up Huron municipalities study service sharing CLINTON. - Seven Central Huron municipalities are- wvork- ing %vitt it consullins 11rm to • study services. tiisule:s and op- cralion. :reports the Ncws- - I:ecord. it is hoped the study wiill result in cost .savings lin' taxpayers. . The Randolph Group. the con- sultants hired to assist with the study. are currently working on, fact finding with the seven par- 1ieipatint_ municipalities includ- ing the towns'of Clinton;tGode- rich and Seaford) :.nd the townships Of Colborne. Gode- rich. Hulleit and McKillop. • The consultants have a nlnnlh to compile their nlfornlation and will then provide intik idual ntu- :nucipaliucs with a report, and «'erview. Public meetings will i (•held on each municipality to discuss the plan following its lekase in late June or early July. LCBO plans torevoke licensed dressing rooms IIRI•SSI-I.S - Licensed dress - 111,. rooms. :ugh as „thbsc , Brussels and \1 inkton - arenas. ori\ soon he a thing of ihc.p ist. reports the North Huron Gluten. The Liquor Control Board of Ontario is planning to revoke the , right to, allow arena employees :o a limited amitunt of alco- hol p-1 •:..ult`playcls after hockey games:- -This lith s: -This controlled sale -of alcohol was considered Lythe recreation •board to he good- risk manage-- ntent because players used to bring their own beer Now the. province has decided-the:dress- ing rl►onl is tuft the place for al- cohol. 'Few turn out for public restructuring meeting MITCHELL - Only two peo- ple. excluding media!and politi- cians. attended a public meeting on county restructuring held in Mitchell last Monday, reports 'the Advocate. Rather than reviewing the lour restructuring options the county has planned. MayorHugh McCaughey opened the floor for questions. Mitchell. has formally en- dorsed option one. which would . amalgamate the Town of Mitch- ell with the townships of Fullar- ton. Hibbert and Logan. The county was scheduled to vote on the options on Thursday. PUC outlines restructuring plans ST. MARYS A single county utility is expected to provide customers with ad 8.2 per cent rate reduction, reports the Jour- nal -Argus. The new utility would have generale S61 million in revenue from its 31,000 customers but it would still need to borrow more than S24 million to purchase as- sets such as vehicles, buildings, equipment, lines and poles from Ontario Hydro. The debt would be financed over 20 years. Boyle won't run for a second term As the sole woman on counci " By Heather Mir T -A Reporter 1:\I I"I:It Ulel itilllll'll voted in law or oI slatting tnect- ings .11 7 p.111 miller than 7:3(1 pant.. Councillor Wendy Bow le's deeisi, In of whether or 1101 to run 1111 a second tern' wwats.11lallc lilt her. - ••If I'n►',aling 10 miss 25 per cent (11 the ineetings...1 won't he elfectiwe." said .Boyle, who work. Jntt. as a lel!: islerC11 nurse '11 London. . Thr new :.taus untie will. culnc into effect ww lien council in- tro loges Its. Committee of the Whole suurour"as part of continlllll_ Illltrll:ll restructuring_. lion le argued at last w'eek's meeting 1ha1 the change m Icicle. -considering all . meetings are • on Von Ln nights. would - eliminate, shill • winker. ti onl holding aj 'scat on conned.;- : \'Lien Nivor Ben Hoogenbomt learned .01! Bog le's derision not to run and the reason-Ix- hind.il. he said he ::was certain conned .would reconsider. - - - -"11".that's. the Case. 1't! he Very disappointed if we weren't -prepared to change the times•: and dates.- Ile said. adding he thought the heavy workload may shit) e contributed to her decision. "I would be.shocked if that %vuulwl he the only reason."". - Candidates for the November IO election may begin -reg- istering 011 April I and Boyle encourages women. especial- ly chose With grown or Older children, to consider laking a step inlo.ihe Iwlilical arena. She warns that council mem- her- absence leavesmuch of the population unrepresented • hers have tone on•call 24 hours a day and rarely have time for other coninlitnlent.. . ••. Although sbr w a. discouraged ahou1 being .hut Inst of ibe process. 13tt le s,i%s i1 was- often not done intentionally... She was not appointed to committees ticcausc n ww.1. felt she would he too busy with a full -lime careci ,Ind ;1 woum child. cxpc'cl to he al parr of every aspect til count 11."" .hr sai(L.aidding n►aulinformal meetings took plat.• florin_' the day when -she would he unacail:ihlc. • • 111 a►IIIC c.i.es she was UlteCrlain• whv'11):! potential c1111: trihutiuns were .oriItn keU. She had holed Ill he iilculwrd as a iouncillcn_ and a health care prole..iional in the campaign to save South Huron [hospital and, was- . disappointed she wasn't included in Exeter Vilia's request Tor additional bids. - • , Ilhuu;_iIl•Boyle has laced many fruslraliOns being the only women on coined. she is wor- ried her absence will leave a void. Both from an age. C1ll[ Ioytilenl and: gender lioint-of- view..she feels she had !Mich til oiler local politics - • Since she arrived in Exeter. in 19}3}i.- .hi Wanted to join council. When she discovered during the last elections (here wo(11(1 he no woolen 011 council if Loss w Fuller lost her hid mayor, she made her &Osion to run. She organi/ed a very low-cost .campaign and was well known in- the community liar operating .a hed and, hreakfa;t.• - She is proud of the-contrihutions council has Inade.to the "If I'm going to miss 25 per . cent of the meetings...! won't be effective." • community during bei 1.1lu. noting it has managed 10 h11111 4)1 1 .-er the inill iate lug the pais) several ycai-s anti filmes to maintain:1 1'.ell e t(111(1. -•- • "1Vc'w' come tip with .1 plat to make s'nr Exeter's going to grow We've col a n:tl to hug okhion the blow." she said of :nuiegl,drd turiher giant reduction.. . l3oyIr Ina\ tenon Io politics when her children sue olden She' i'cels.a woman who Is.,lhle 10 devote Imre linkQmit l gain the respect •oteounc1I. . You Ila'. e Io he i.x l l i noel w a.:ei t .r " she ad' i sed. Uuroths Chapman. ''o-_.rnrd on Eerier ('ounrll our nine yeti.. saidsllr 1(011h01 IICr rule in Iocal politics "ah- solute!), rewarding': Sit.•.explained the job has m;ury' challenges including putting personal 'feelings aside in ot'- .iler to represent w hat Inc• :gene al public wants. Her ex- perience xperience ,Il so cave .h '1 a. full appreciation ol. what it lakes lu,tow n - - 13u1rtin Ca pin,111adntilicd'al times she fell gender may_Ii.i c played a.rolc in htiw ctin►mnlee representatives were cho- sen. For. example. woolen were often involved in or- Pill/111-g event. w 11le oleic' �xerc appointed ft) the \4arks Coni lillee. (!wet the tcar.:..he wi!nesse(' a dramatic change in the ntiniher 01 woolen involved in -politics and sound she was treated as an equal member of council.- . • —As ouncil.- -As long as you' had- something to say that was crud- ihle...A It►I uI lice -work• is -common sense and under-' standing the situation:' . To- any.women- interested in running forcounicit. man tells tells theol "Go for. it' ' HIV workshop offers new: drag information -By Brenda Burke - T -A Reporter CLINTON -• The Iatesi in • HIV drug knowledge was, presented on March I5 at the Ii►urth annual ABC's . u( HiV, which was hosted by the Huron "County HIV -AIDS "-Network. - , Brenda -Done. :who has a hack • - ground in nursing. spoke of 1996 as "a, banner year for HiV care.." not- ing what she described as the super- iority of combination therapy. - Using a variety of -drugs and starting .:them earlier has ledto progress in dealing with HIV.`Ac- (lording to the International Aids Society - USA 1996 Consensus; there is now a greater under= standing of. how- . HIV replicates. throughout all stages of the disease. ,throughout there haslicen the' develop- -ment and approval of several new and effective drugs. "A lot of these d s arc very dif- ficult , w take." lained 'Done. adding •"We firinly believe we can bring • the virus down to un- detectablc levels. There's certainly , a lot more optimism in the research industry." . Current goals of- medical man- agement include delaying disease progression and prolonging the time it, takes for the • virfis to. rep- licate. -"We want to hit it hard and hit it early." said Donc. who stressed combination therapy. "We have: a much -better idea of how effective our drugs are....We can make -treat- ment decisions on a much more timely basis." Viral load testing. for example, is new. 13y measuring the number of No increase in mill rate Er Continued from.front page The province also removed cd- ucaticin costs from the residential tax hill hut- it is uncertain if com- mercial and industrial rates will in- crease or if.the cost will be spread across all assessment. • With a switch to town operation of the cemetery. a grant of $30,000 will no longer he allocated to the hoard. Council is hoping to sell enough services, such as flower bed maintenance, to break even. Bosanquet requests commission HIV particles in the. blood. it.pros vides information to help monitor the status of a patient's HIV -disease and predict its.future Course. Many doctors and researchers believe vi- ral load tests -can he used to de-. terminc when to begin 'antiviral therapy and decide whether or not such drugs arc effective. . Donc also elaborated on protease inhibitors such as -Ritonavir, • a strong drug :with severe side ef- fects, and Indinavir.- which she dc - scribed as "probably the hest in the hunch." • • "We arc really encouraging:lieo- plc to take. .(protease in- ' hihitors)....Thc beauty of it is. now we have more choices:" ' While only 4. per cent of such drugs actually make their way. into one's system, in some cases high. fat. foods and .grapefruit-juicc help their action.. Many types of HIV treatment methods arc now accepted in the medical - field. Palliative care and Pain" control teams are involved ear- ly on in' disease progression. 'As well. trnnsmissicin of HIV is in- creasingly- prevented through: ed ucation and donor screening im- provements. - - Mother to baby infecti6ns occur less often; in the past. half of babies horn to HIV-positive mothers con- tracted the virus whereas now only one third contract the disease due to drug use during pregnancy. Continued from front page - Grand Bend has also requested a commission to make recommenda- tions regarding the South Huron amalgamation study. A ministry representative has met with the in- volved municipalities and de- termined mediation would not be successful. The ministry has indicated it will review the situation and make its decision known in the coming weeks. "We're probably viewed as small potatoes," said Ivey, referring to larger restructuring initiatives such . bs Toronto's Mega -City. "That's opening up whole new 'areas for women living with HIV." .said Done. who also spoke of -gen- eral HIV. trends such as,incrcased :patient_ survival.. more -at-home treatment and :a. higher' number of physicians willing to care for, peo- ple with.HIV. , According" to Done, occupational exposure from a needle -stick injury is minimal. Factors influencing coptraction include whether or not the source is HIV-positive. what stage their dis- ease is at. the injury depth. the oc- currence of visible,. spontaneous bleeding and whether or not a hol- low bore needle was used. • Ncw this year in health care is the post exposure prophylaxis treat- ment. which is performed for high- est risk exposures. There's a big difference between the actual risk and a perceived risk. said Done. adding London hos- pitals developed a PEP policy "so somebody knows what to do" in such situations: Done said -.youth are increasingly infected with the HIV virus: People at high risk includethosefrom dys- `lunclional families as well .as in- dividuals who have suffered from sexual. alcohol or drug abuse. "We're also seeing . a lot more body -piercing. branding...that isn't done under ideal conditions:' she explained. adding HIV education ts now less focused on safe sex than on hale needle use. -. . 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