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EDITORIAL
A change in attitude can
lead to positive results
Welcome to a brand new year. And, indeed, we need a new year,
the old one simply didn't work.
Never ehas there been such celebration to usher in a shiny, new
calendar of 365 days.
Thankfully, we can put 2008 to rest. And the start of a new year is
always full of promise, excitement and'ihe hope that conditions will
be more favourable, It brings with it the hope that our lives will
somehow improve and that leaders will step forward to guide us out
• of the dysfunctional global financial and political mess we've
endured.
If anything, 2008 was the year of absolute greed. It was a year of
political opportunism and game -playing partisanship. Now the
world must rebuild.
At the start of a new year, it is common for people to resolve to
do better. People look for improvements to enhance their physical
and spiritual lives and vow to improve their personal and profes-
sional situations.
It's a time when we can collectively re-evaluate our priorities and
start all over, even if the resolutions or improvements go no further
than the recesses of our minds.
However, it is important that people collectively resolve to
improve the conditions they live in. We need to improve our world,
our conditions and especially our outlook.
Personally, our own world becomes what we think about. People
can make and break all the embarrassingly personal 'resolutions they
want but the most important resolution anyone can make is to exude
a new and different attitude. A positive attitude.
Never before in our world and in Goderich has' there been an
apparent and demonstrated need for a different attitude. We need to
be positive, constructive, conciliatory, inclusive, tolerant, indulgent
and respectful.
We need to listen and we need to work together. People need to
focus their minds on things that really matter and disregard history
or past failures. People have to look for solutions that work and be
open to compromise and new and bold ideas and thought process-
es.
The challenges facing the world, the country, the province and the
town are unprecedented. We not only live in interesting times, we
live in a time that is challenging our collective resources and our
ability to react and adapt.
These challenges, at every level and especially at the municipal
level, require a new determination and bold response, not acrimoni-
ous finger -pointing and accusations of "what could have been" or
"what should have been".
We must now focus on "what can and will be." For we have a
brand new year and the future is ours. We have •the ability to
approach it with a positive attitude and make great things happen.
So why waste the opportunity.
All the best in the New Year. D.S.
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Hospital offers speedy service
To the Editor:
Re: Alexaudra, Marine and General
Hospital
On a recent visit to Goderich to stay with
my parents for Christmas, I had the need to
visit your hospital emergency department on
the morning of the 24th.
I would like to comment on the speed, care
and efficiency that I received.
I was processed, tested, diagnosed and with
a prescription in hand left in under an hour.
I can only imagine had I been in Toronto
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