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Dr. Dan
Rooyakkers
receives
award
for rural
medical
service
Mainly because he's
practised medicine in a
rural area for more than 10
years, Dr. Dan Rooyakkers
recently received an award
from the Society of Rural
Physicians of Canada.
"They're doing anything
they can to get doctors to
rural areas and recognize
them for staying," said
Rooyakkers last week of his
"award for meritorious long
medical serviceto the
community."
Rooyakkers has worked
in Seaforth since February
of 1996 and practised in
Northern Ontario for two
and a half years before that.
"I like being in rural
areas. There's a variety and
you get to practice in the
different settings of clinic,
hospital and emergency," he
said.
A press release from the
Society of Rural Physicians
said the awards were started
to recognize doctors who
stay in rural areas.
"Many rural communities
don't have enough doctors.
Only a few have had
longstanding contributions
from physicians who have
made a real commitment to
their community," said Dr.
Trina Larsen Soles, SRPC
president in the press
release.
Rooyakkers attended the
12th Rural and Remote
Medicine convention in
Quebec City in April,
which deals with issues
faced by rural doctors such
as trauma-related
procedures in farm and car
accidents, cardiology and
recruitment and retention
challenges.
"We don't see more car
accidents in a rural
community but the accident
victims will come to the
community hospital before
they're medivacked out to a
trauma centre," he said.
"Where they have huge
trauma teams in the city,
here we have to call
everyone in to work to be
the trauma team."
Rooyakkers said the
conference also allows rural
doctors to look for positive
ways to attract more doctors
and gives them the chance
to lobby provincial Health
Ministers in whatever
province the conference is
being held.
"We've been able to
educate the different Health
Ministers over the past 10
years. The issiles are very
similar across the country,"
he said.
Rooyakkers' award was
one of 30 given out by the
Society of Rural Physicians
this year.
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County council
protests
anti -rural article
in National Post
By Jennifer Hubbard
Goderich Signal -Star Staff
The ongoing fire between
Ontario's rural
and urban
communities
became a
roaring blaze
during last
week's county
council meeting
as Huron's
municipal
representatives
took offence to
a recent
National Post
editorial.
The editorial
written by
Lawrence
Solomon,
highlighted an
Ontario
government
pane l ' s
recommendation that
"unsustainable rural areas in
Canada's heartland be taken
off life support and allowed
to die a natural death."
Solomon, executive
director of the Urban
Renaissance Institute,
encouraged Dalton
McGuinty's Liberals to
follow the panel's
recommendations and
eliminate
rural
subsidies. The
editorial
appeared in
the April 21
edition of the
National Post,
"The panel
concluded
that much of
rural Canada
r s
economically
unsustainable,
that it is futile
to try to
artificially
sustain rural
industry, that
population
decline is
inevitable and
that the government should •
abandon regional
development programs,"
Solomon wrote. "Instead, the
panel concluded, the
government should retrain
Quoted
'Unsustainable
rural areas in
Canada's
heartland
(should) be
taken off life
support and
allowed to die
a natural
death,' --
Lawrence Solomon
See PROVINCIAL, Page
Huron East council
argues over capital
projects at arena
By Susan Hundertmerk
Expositor Editor
Frustrated with council's lack of support for capital
projects at the Seaforth arena, Tuckersmith Coun. Larry
McGrath tried to make a motion to dissolve the municipality
of Huron East last Tuesday.
"I'm serious," he said to council, adding that he was fed up
with councillors wanting the whole municipality to pay for
projects in their own wards but not for projects outside of
their wards.
While Seaforth Coun. Lou Maloney said he would second
the motion, it was not allowed since another motion was
already on the floor.
The Seaforth arena needs close to $1()0,(XX) in renovations
this year, including a new furnace for the upstairs hall at
$12,000, new boards and doors on the arena ice surface at
$46,500, new flooring in the dressing room and lobby at
See ARENA, Pogo 3
Seaforth Cooperative
Children's Centre past
president Lauren
Rooyakkers, flanked by
Huron County Children's
Services Manager Evy
McDonagh and lions Club
president Cathy Elliott (left)
and Seaforth Community
Development Trust chair
Joe Steffler, Huron East
Mayor Joe Seili and current
SCCC president Mike De
Corte (right), cuts the
ribbon for the new daycare
centre on Market Street
during its official opening
on Thursday. At right,
eager ribbon holders Troy
Leeming and Trevor De
Corte have fun before the
ceremony begins.
SCCC celebrates
opening of new centre
By Swan Hunderttmtik
Expositor Editor — After two years of hard work to build a
new daycare centre for Seaforth, the board
of thc Seaforth Cooperative Children's
Centre is hoping the new facility will attract
needed new enrolment.
"Today is a big step to getting more
parents involved - we invited any potential
new families in thc arca to thc open house,"
said newly -elected SCCC president Mike
DeCorte at last Thursday's grand opening.
Of the close to 200 people who were
invited to attend the grand opening, some
were new to the centre and checking out the
new facilities.
We don't come here yct but 1 am
considering it," said Kippen-area mom Anne
Marie McGregor. "It's clean and bright and
cheery and it's in a great location."
Evy McDonagh, children services
manager for Huron County said the new
daycare is an "absolutely wonderful facility"
and predicted an enrolment increase in
September.
"It was time the Seaforth daycare had a
new building and it's comparable to any
other daycare in the county - it's right in
there with the best of them," she said.
While SCCC's enrolment is at about 60
per cent of capacity right now, McDonagh
said optimum enrolment is around 75 to 80
per cent.
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.Wes Vick is ambassador for Wheels
in Motion fundraiser in Stratford- Sunday
By Susan HundNtllftark
Expositor Editor
After spending three times
a week during the last six
weeks participating in a
research project on spinal
cord injuries at McMaster
University in Hamilton, an
eight -kilometre trek around
Stratford's Avon River this
Sunday (June 13) as the
Wheels in Motion (WIM)
ambassador will be a walk in
the park for Seaforth's Wes
Vick.
"I don't think it will he too
(much of a problem," he says.
Vick, who was paralyzed
from the waist down after a
dirt bike accident almost a
year ago, was asked to
become the Stratford
ambassador for the Rick
Hansen WIM event by one of
the event's organizers, who
was Vick's trainer when he
played for the Stratford
Cullitons Junior B hockey
lea M.
As ambassador for the
Wes Vick
Stratford event, Vick got to
meet Rick Hansen, a
paraplegic who wheeled
around the world from 1985-
87 and through WIM is
working to raise funds across
Canada for thc 10 million
Canadians with spinal cord
injuries.
"He's a pretty neat guy -
he's well spoken and he
listens. He got together with
all of us in Toronto and told
us what he's trying to
accomplish," says Vick of his
April meeting with Hansen.
Waiting in a line-up of
ambassadors from across
Canada to meet Hansen, Vick
tried to think of something
more interesting to say than,
"Pleased to meet you" and
came up with, "I was really
impressed by your book and
hopefully someday you'll
like mine."
He says Hansen took a
double take at Vick's words
and then spent the next 15
minutes talking to him about
his life.
"You've got to use your
sense of humour," he says.
"It let me have a really good
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