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AMBULATORY INJURED are the last of mock disaster victims to arrive at Wingham and District
exercise last week.
Hospital. A simulated explosion and fire at Western Foundry was the focal point for the disaster
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by Huron MPP Jack Riddell, Apiculture and Food Minister
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Three Ontario ministries have lion over five years for an impo
joined with the ministry of health to tant medical project under study
announce a series of initiatives the Ottawa Heart Institute.
aimed at preserving quality health The $22.3 million project fucose
care and promoting healthy on the development of an electro
lifestyles. •
hydraulic ventricular assistiv
Health Minister Elinor Caplan device (known as EVAD) for th
has announced a new province-- implantation into people who suf
wide program that will encourage fer from heart disease.
women between the ages of 50 and The device will help establis
64 to attend cancer screening clinics normal blood pressure levels and i
every two years. • considered the first stage in th
Breast cancer is the leading cause development of a totally artificia
of cancer -related deaths among heart that does not require th
women in this age group.
Administered by the Ontario
Cancer Treatment and Research
Foundation, the screening program
is part of the government's Throne
Speech commitment to an action
plan for specialty health care that
includes cardiovascular treatment,
dialysis, emergency and trauma
services, AIDS -victim support and
care for mothers and newborns.
The health ministry will provide
$5 million in start-up and operating
funds this year to establish eight
screening centres. By 1995, the min-.
istry anticipates the establishment
of 36 centres across Ontario. It is
expected that more than 300,000
women will use the program once
it is fully implemented.
As_you may well be aware, there - rdenc
are Many problems with the exist- at
ing Young Offenders Act. As it $car
stands now, murderers under the Karygiannjas,
age of 18 will serve a Youth detention changes to t
centre. Only three years for the Acta'. These changes are to i
most heinous crime known to man. the mandatory tranfer of th
In order to protect society from charged TA!
Violent criminals and the devasta- court, and the maximum
tion they propagate, we must raised ,,to five years lessa day
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This
demonsfrate an adespate deterrent is definitely 'a step tiV•the rig11111
to violent crime. Sentences Mint direction,
reflect the seriousness of the crime.
There will be a meeting of the 5
A prime example of justice gone attorneysgeneral in har1oftetowni,
awry is the case of Edmonton's PEI., on June 15, 1989. On the
Chantelle Hamljn, Chantelle was agenda will be proposedchanges.:to
two years old when she was brutal- the Young Offenders; AO- Beforel •
ly and savagely beaten to death in this meeting takes place, ,?wver,
October of 1988..Her 14 -year-old it is important thatthe puNic
babysitter was charged with nun- stam4§. its support frchange.
der • f ••:
. If ybu are tired of violent mud," - •
Chantelle will never rollerskate, nar s hiding behind the law, then--*
swim, or play baseball like other Write to: The Honorable Doug
children. She will never gossip with Lewis MP, Justice Minister of Cana"
the other girls about boys,nor go da, House of Commons, Ottawa:
out on her first date. She will never Ontario, KlA 0A6.
see another sunset Her right to life
was ruthlessly snatched away, for-
ever.
For this atrocity, the accused — if
Yours truly
• Kari. Klassen
Project Co-ordinator
Victims of Violence
Incentive fund encourages
proposals fromehospitals .
Announcement of a $10 million two years. Hospitals will be
incentives fund to encourage hospi- required to present an evaluation of
tats to produce innovative ways of the project at its conclusion so that
achieving more effective delivery of the entire hospital system may ben..
quality care has been made by efit.
Health Minister Elinor Caplan. All departments within a hospi-
The Hospitals Incentive Fund is al, including medical, nursing,
finance and administration, are eli-
• gible to make proposal:, to the fund.
More than one hospital can be
involved in a proposal as can a
local district health council, or any
third party, if it is done in conjunc-
tion with two or more hospitals.
Projects submitted for funding
will be assessed by a joint review
part ofthe transitional funding ini-
tiative which is being developed by
the Ontario Hospital Association,
the Ontario Council of• Teaching
Hospitals, and the ministry.
Hospitals will be eligible to
receive matching funds of up'to
$500,000 from the ministry to devel-
op new approaches for the more
"ective management of hospital
resources and the provision of tives from hospital management,
committee consisting of representa-
enhanced care to patients. health professionals, university and
Projects will be funded for up to government.
r- ventable, lifeityle-related diseases.
at High-quality recreational programs
have been shown to reduce these
s costs by one-half.
- These projects are helping our
e communities to build and maintain
e the recreational services that the
-• people of Ontario depend upon.
h MONEY FOR R.I.D.E
s Solicitor General Joan Smith has
e advised that a cheque of $1,500 will
1 be received by the Goderich Police
e Force in support of overtime hours
1 worked in connection with the
R.I.D.E. program (Reduce Impaired
Driving Everywhere).
oo up to medic
eourent,
e search for a method to aug-
ment or replace the pumping action
of the human heart has been going
on for decades," Mr. Kwinter said,
"But the process has been slowed
by problems related to infection
and other side effects. The EVAD
project brings together the neces-
sary talent to bring about this
much-needed medical innovation."
Tourism and Recreation Minister
Hugh O'Neil has announced addi-
tional grants that his ministry is
providing to municipalities aid
community groups under the new
recreation facilities and capital con-
servation programs.
A total
ND -HEART INSTITUTE of$7in lottery
Describing new medical technol- proceeds is being made available
ogy as one of the tools to help us for a further 152 recreation facility
projects, bringing the total nutnber
achieve a healthier Ontario, Monte of projects assisted this year to 424
Kwinter, minister of industry, trade
and technology, has announced that at a total cost of almost $28 million,
Mr. O'Neil pointed out that one
the Premier's Council Technology
Fund will ',be, contributil702-6 thiltIlibtialtt' 14' '440414'
quarter of lOntaxio's health care
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As part of an increasingly pro-
active campaign against drinking
and driving, the ministry of the
solicitor general has provided these
funds to a total of 101 municipali-
ties.
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WIN SCHOLARSHIPS
In September of 1928, The Wing -
ham Advance -Times was pleased to
add two more names to its long list
of brilliant students in the Wing -
ham High School. Making excep-
tional records in recent de artmen-
tal examinations were William J.
Henderson, son of W. J. Henderson
of the Bluevale road, and Gertrude
M. Hamilton, daughter of A. H.
Hamilton of Holytood. Mr. Hender-
son won several scholarships
offered by Queen's University and
Miss Hamilton won several West -
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SENIORS HOLD RALLY --Margaret Mundell of Wingham
thanks Bob Carbert, also of VVingharn and guest speaker at last Fri-
day's spring rally of the Lake Huron District of the United Senior
Citizens of Ontario. Almost 100 seniors gathemd 14$ -wek at ,Blue;
v le for the rally:
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