The Times Advocate, 2008-03-19, Page 44
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Wednesday, March 19, 2008
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EDITORIAL
Local success
story
Congratulations have to go out to South
Huron Hospital and the entire com-
munity for making the hospital's $1.6
million fundraising campaign a resounding
success.
As hospital CEO Deb Hunt and fundraising
co-ordinator Sandra Faber told the Times -
Advocate last week, the campaign, slated to
wind down at the end of March, has met
and exceeded its goal to help pay for exten-
sive renovations and the Picture Archiving
Communications System (PACS). With the
first major renovation at the hospital in
over 30 years, now not only will the front
portion look much nicer and more modern,
the hospital is more importantly being kept
up to date in terms of care, equipment and
technology, something the community and
the hospital should be proud of.
Raising $1.6 million is no small feat, par-
ticularly in a small community. Faber and
Hunt were both quick last week to give
credit to the fundraising campaign team
that worked on the fundraiser and helped
make reaching the goal possible.
Much credit, of course, needs to go to
those individuals, families and businesses
who selflessly donated towards the cam-
paign, demonstrating how important high-
quality, local health care is to them. The T-
A has been running cheque donation pic-
tures every week since the campaign began
and readers were able to follow along as
the fundraising thermometer grew closer to
the goal each week.
Renovations at the hospital are continuing
on schedule and should be done in June,
after which an open house will be held to
show off to the public the new digs, which
include a newly -renovated emergency
department, a new lobby, a new diagnostic
imaging department, barrier -free wash-
rooms and a new gift shop with windows.
Hats off to all those who made the cam-
paign a success.
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I'm doing my part
It's a big job but somebody is going to
have to be responsible for keeping Big
Electricity in business when the lights go
out next week from 8 to 9 p.m., March 29.
So in order to do my part to help celebrate
Earth Hour, as most of the rest of the
world goes dark, that glow you see on
the horizon will be my house, because
I'll be firing up every light in the
house, along with a few extras I've
installed.
In honour of Earth Hour, it's going to
be an hour of taking advantage of all
the planet has to offer and giving
absolutely nothing back.
In order to make sure the dials keep BAC
spinning at the hydro company, I've VIEW
ordered up enough of the extra high-
energy/no-power saving bulbs from China
that the little tykes will have to work a
double shift to keep up.
To dispose of some of the outdated envi-
ronmental screechings that are available
at any yard sale in the $1 box of books,
we'll be lighting up the 1955 era burn bar-
rel with a unique `open' style specially
designed to release pollutants into the air
at an accelerated rate.
Some of the materials going up in flames
will include 1968's chillingly inaccurate
"The Population Bomb" and the handy
1972 mining reference "The Limits of
Growth" study by the Club of
Rome which predicted that if con-
sumption continued to exponen-
tially expand, the world would run
out of gold by 1981, mercury by
1985, zinc by 1990, petroleum by
1992, and copper, lead and natur-
al gas by 1993.
And last into the bin will be the
June 24, 1974 "Man, too, may be
somewhat responsible for the cool-
ing trend," Time Magazine article
titled "Another Ice Age?"
There will be a lot of hot air produced
during Earth Hour, but fortunately, or
unfortunately from your point of view,
most of it won't be coming from my burn
barrel.
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