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Exeter Times–Advocate
Wednesday, September 1, 2004
Regional
wrap up
Medical clinic
GODERICH — There
was good news and bad
news last week for the
Goderich medical clinic
fundraising group.
Fundraising co-ordi-
nator Ken Dunn
announced the commit-
tee has secured over
$800,000 in pledges
from service clubs,
businesses and individ-
uals. The committee is
getting ready to start its
public campaign, as
reported in the Aug. 25
Goderich Signal -Star.
The bad news for the
committee came when
a $510,000 grant
request through the
Ministry of Health only
yielded $46,000 to buy
new equipment for the
clinic.
The committee is set
to send additional infor-
mation to the Ministry
in hopes of getting addi-
tional funding.
Construction on the
new clinic has already
started.
Tighten belts
GODERICH — The
Ontario Finance
Minister wants
Ontarians to tighten
their belts.
According to the
Goderich Signal -Star,
Greg Sorbara delivered
the message at the
Benmiller Inn Aug. 18.
Sorbara said he and
Premier Dalton
McGuinty are working
towards wiping out the
$6 billion provincial
debt.
"Accountability is
really about making
sure that every single
tax dollar that we allo-
cate is well -used,"
Sorbara said.
Sorbara also spoke of
health care, and said
greater emphasis
should be placed on the
use of nurse practition-
ers.
Lions' 80th
SEAFORTH — The
Seaforth Lions Club
celebrated its 80th
anniversary last week-
end with a family day
at the Lions Park.
Seaforth Lions chair-
person Cathy Elliott
told the Huron
Expositor, "We decid-
ed this year we would
do something a little
different and try and
involve the communi-
ty.
"All of our work is
on behalf of the com-
munity and our suc-
cess is because of the
community," she said.
The Seaforth Lions
help with a number of
charities, including
the Easter Seals and
the Canadian National
Institute for the Blind.
Money raised by the
club can also be used
locally for people in
need.
Shoreline water pollution research
GRAND BEND — Faced
with visibly increasing
levels of pollution in
Lake Huron, a group of
shoreline residents have
initiated a program of
formal water testing to
provide evidence about
their concerns.
Pollution in Lake
Huron is said to come
from a variety of
sources, including field
run-off, sewage lagoon
effluent releases and
overflows, faulty septic
systems and even from
wildlife.
One effective program
was to test samples from
four ravines along the
Lake Huron shoreline in
Bluewater municipality,
and for each ravine, to
test the water in the lake
along the shoreline both
North and South of each
ravine.
The test results led to
the conclusion that
because the ravines had
Alzheimer
Society
looking for
Coffee
Break
hosts
HURON — Plans are
once again brewing at the
Alzheimer Society of
Huron County as it pre-
pares for the ninth annual
Coffee Break fundraiser.
The official date is Sept.
21, but any day in
September is fine to host
a Coffee Break event.
The Alzheimer Society
is starting its quest for
enthusiastic and creative
people to host Coffee
Breaks throughout Huron
County. Simply invite your
friends, neighbours, col-
leagues and clients to
"take a break" and make
a donation to the
Alzheimer Society of
Huron County.
If you were a home host
last year, or held a break
at your place of employ-
ment, we hope we can
count on your support
again this year. Last year
113 Coffee Breaks were
held in the county, raising
more than $15,000, a
great success.
Every new event means
new people are being
reached with the
Alzheimer message.
Ninety per cent of the
money raised during
Coffee Break stays in the
county to help the
Alzheimer Society provide
education and support for
people with Alzheimer
disease, their families and
caregivers. The remain-
ing 10 per cent is desig-
nated for research.
For more information
on how to host a Coffee
Break, call Theresa
Wilson at the Alzheimer
Society of Huron County
at 482-1482 or 1-800-
561-5012.
a consistently higher
level of E.coli than the
beaches, the ravines
were the source of the
pollution and not lake-
front residences.
Another testing pro-
gram is attempting to
confirm the results of
the first program and to
compare year-to-year
findings.
The results of the cur-
rent testing provide evi-
dence of increased pollu-
tion from the ravines
over last year's tests.
In two instances this
year, much higher levels
of pollution were record-
ed, in one case 227
times the recommended
safe limit and in anoth-
er, 298 times the recom-
mended limit.
These unusually high
levels of bacterial pollu-
tion have not been
explained, but they
prompted signs to be
posted at ravine mouths,
warning of the health
hazards of the ravine
water.
Another research pro-
ject under way is to try
to establish a "library"of
the DNA of a number of
E. coli strains found
along the ravine course
being studied.
This is in order to
determine where the E.
coli bacteria in Lake
Huron have come from.
The shoreline residents
who initiated these pro-
jects, and the
Municipality of
Bluewater which is fund-
ing the research, are
looking forward to better
understanding this pol-
lution issue.
For more information
on the water testing, see
www.bsra.ca, or contact
John Gillespie, BSRA
President, at 236-7285
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