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CALL FOR NOMINATIONS
Hospital boards are composed of a group of talented, engaged
members of our communities who have an interest in rural healthcare
and expertise in one or more of quality, communications, marketing,
finance, governance, law, health policy, strategic planning or
recruitment. If you would like to be part of a volunteer Board that will
help forge the future of acute rural health care in our communities
please forward an expression of interest including background
information regarding your skills and experience to C.E.O./Board
Secretary, Karl Ellis, up to May 13, 2015. The nominating committee
will consider all submissions along with the intentions of current
directors who are eligible for re-election. Elections will be held at the
Annual Meeting on June 10, 2015.
Corporation of the Wingham & District Hospital
The Wingham & District Hospital is calling for nominations of
individuals who are interested in serving as a Director on the Board.
Directors are elected for a two year term. Elected Directors must have
a strong interest in health care services in Wingham and area and
meet eligibility criteria as defined in the corporation’s bylaws.
Corporation of the Listowel Memorial Hospital
The Listowel Memorial Hospital is calling for nominations of individuals
who are interested in serving as a Director on the Board. Directors are
elected for a two year term. Elected Directors must have a strong
interest in health care services in Listowel and area and meet eligibility
criteria as defined in the corporation’s bylaws.
For additional information, please contact Jennifer Johnston, Executive
Assistant, at 519-291-3120, ext.6241 or jennifer.johnston@lwha.ca
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Smith, Stewart bring ambition plans from conference
Campaign 14/19 Project Director
Peter Smith and Administrator
Karen Stewart are now back from
the Local Prosperity Conference
2015 and have brought with them
some great ideas about how to move
the initiative forward.
Stewart told The Citizen that the
event, which was held in Annapolis
Royal, Nova Scotia, brought some
fantastic ideas and themes forward.
She said it really all came down to
trends, specifically about
partnerships.
She said she was very impressed
by the speakers.
“Michael Shuman was the keynote
speaker,” she said. Shuman is an
entrepreneur, author, economist and
an expert on community
improvement and local investment.
“He was very provocative and really
inspired a reaction. He focused on
three things: maximizing local
ownership, replacing imports and
making sure that changes were good
for the workforce, environment and
suppliers.”
Stewart said that local ownership
was definitely something she was
interested in and said that Shuman
turned much of what was considered
fact in economic development on its
ear.
“He said that through investments,
over time, big companies will only
see a 2.7 per cent return on
investment,” she said. “Local
companies, however, with 10 to 20
employees are more profitable.
Because they’re smaller, they can
see gains of up to 60 per cent by
investing in themselves. It shows
that it’s best to invest local. Those
companies are also more likely to
want to stay.”
Stewart said one of the best
suggestions from Shuman’s
presentation was to have economic
development focus on those smaller
companies because larger
companies can be very fickle and
only worry about the bottom line.
She added that, with local
businesses, workmanship and
integrity aren’t lost the way they can
be when manufacturing is
outsourced.
Smith was also very impressed
with the major speakers at the event,
saying he felt many great ideas were
shared.
“Susan Witt was another keynote
speaker,” he said in an e-mail to The
Citizen. “She’s currently the
executive director of the
Schumacher Centre for New
Economics in Massachusetts, USA.
She talked about a program called
Community Supported Industries.”
Smith said that, like Shuman, Witt
believed in buying and supporting
local as the way to further rural
communities.
“It’s a compelling argument,” he
said. “Who cares more about where
you live than you and your
neighbour? She also talked about
standing on the shoulders of giants –
co-operative movements that have
revitalized communities [and]
brought them together in powerful
ways.”
Witt also spoke about learning
from the past, saying “every
movement needs a history to have a
future.”
The speaker for the Friday evening
meal was Steve Joudry whom Smith
called “a remarkable fellow.”
“He is Mi’kmaq and has worked in
a variety of roles in the federal
government. He was a soldier in the
Baltics and worked for the United
Nations.”
Smith said that Joudry has
negotiated some “tricky passages” in
CHIP decision process questioned
A discussion regarding a set of
goggles that emulate the chemical
effects of marijuana on the human
mind led to Morris-Turnberry
Council being concerned about the
decision-making process for the
Coalition for Huron Injury
Prevention (CHIP).
Councillor Sharen Zinn is Morris-
Turnberry Council’s representative
on the committee and she reported
the group was looking at purchasing
“marijuana goggles”, which allow
students to understand how
marijuana affects vision.
Councillor Dorothy Kelly
commented she felt the goggles were
unnecessary and, once informed that
one pair costs $5,000, also said she
felt they were overpriced.
Deputy-Mayor Jason Heffer asked
Zinn if the project was going ahead
despite the cost.
“Are the rest of the people on the
committee going down this road and
approving this purchase?” he asked.
Zinn said she wasn’t sure if there
was any kind of approval, just that
the coalition was going ahead with
the purchase. She also admitted to
not understanding how the
committee worked.
“Pretty much everything on the
committee is done by two people
and brought to us or we just do what
we did last year,” Zinn said. “We
don’t really decide things as much as
they are already decided when
presented to us.”
Mayor Paul Gowing asked if the
decisions were made by motion, to
which Zinn said she didn’t find that
to be the case. She did mention,
however, local police forces were in
favour of the purchase.
The response prompted Heffer to
state that it sounded like it was a top-
down decision-making process.
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THIS WEEK:
Walton proves excellent host for match
Fare on 4 works to perfection, delights community
An event for the ages
Fare on 4, a Campaign 14/19 initiative to feed 1,419 people
on Blyth’s main street was a resounding success on
Sunday evening as food was delivered hot and Mother
Nature co-operated with beautiful weather. The event, as
seen here from the top floor of The Blyth Inn, stretched
nearly to Radford’s Gas Bar in the south, left, and to the
Blyth post office in the north, right. It was made possible by the
hard work of approximately 100 volunteers and a number of staff
members from The Blyth Inn and Part II Bistro. The night’s hardest
working men, however, were chefs Peter Gusso and Jason
Rutledge who worked overtime to make the meal happen. (Denny
Scott photos)
Huron County Plowmen’sAssociation President BrianMcGavin says this year’s HuronCounty Ploughing Match was
everything he hoped it would be and
more, despite concerns aboutweather early last week.McGavin said he received a
number of positive comments about
the level of competition, the site and
the hospitality that Huron Countydisplayed and he’s so proud of hiscommunity and all of the peopleinvolved in making the match
happen.
The attendance numbers wereabout what McGavin expected, hesaid, as were the number ofcompetitive participants, but what
surprised him was from how far
some of the participants came.
“We had people come from
Peterborough, from Owen Soundand then from the south,” McGavinsaid. “It was great to see.”McGavin said that not only did he
receive a lot of positive comments
about this year’s match, but he alsoheard from a lot of people who arealready looking forward to the 2017International Plowing Match, which
will be held in Walton.
McGavin says he was told on
numerous occasions that if the
Huron County match at the home ofVal Shortreed and family and MattShortreed and family was anyindication, the 2017 match is going
to be one for the ages.
As for the Shortreeds, McGavinsays he had high expectations for thefamily as hosts, but exceeded them.“You couldn’t have asked for
better hosts,” McGavin said. “If you
The road is open, the tables arecleared and the dust has settled andthe reviews are coming in statingthat Campaign 14/19’s record-
setting Fare on 4 was a hit.
“We pulled it off,” said Campaign14/19 Administrator Karen Stewart.Stewart, who is being credited byeveryone involved as doing the
impossible by arranging the entire
meal, said that everything cametogether as well as organizers couldhave hoped, a sentiment that wasechoed by others.
“It was awesome, just
unbelievable really,” JasonRutledge, Chef of the Blyth Innsaid. “I”m still flabbergasted at whathappened and how smoothly it all
came together.”
“It was amazing,” Peter Gusso,Chef of Part II Bistro said. “There’san old saying about chefs that youeither have a good service or a bad
service and that was the best service
I’ve ever had.”Rutledge and Gusso were the headchefs for Fare on 4, which saw 1,419people seated along Blyth’s Queen
Street for a massive outdoor meal.
Featuring as much local meat andproduce as possible, the meal hasbeen counted as a success by
everyone who The Citizen has
spoken to and, according to
Rutledge, that’s because of all thevolunteers who helped out.“We just couldn’t have done it
without all the people who helped
out,” he said. “Norpac Beef brought
us meat smokers, the Lions let ususe their barbecue, the volunteersjust really saved us.”
Gusso agreed, saying the prep
work was all done perfectly, the
serving was amazing and everythingthat could have gone right did.“I’m still in awe,” he said. “I can’t
believe it went so well. Everything I
have heard about it is positive.”
Approximately 100 people helpedwith the meal between volunteersdoing prep work and actually
serving the meal, and that number
included Smith, Rutledge and their
respective staffs. “I’m just dumbfounded on howwell everything went,” Rutledge
said.
More than the volunteers,
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Love Letters
The Blyth Festival featured the play ‘Love Letters’ over the weekend, but did so with a twist:
instead of having one cast perform the show several times, each iteration of the play featured
a new cast, resulting in a new take on the show every performance. Shown are Jodi Kuran,
front, and Phil Main rehearsing their parts earlier in the week. (Denny Scott photo)
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