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In brief
New doctor
coming •
to Seaforth
Medical
Clinic
One new doctor has
been recruited to work at
the Seaforth Medical
Clinic but he will only be
working two days a week.
"I can safely say there's
one doctor coming but we
have two other candidates
that are very •strong," says
Huron Perth Healthcare
Alliance recruiter Gwen
Devereaux.
Dr. William Milne, who
has 30 years' experience
as a family physician in
Owen Sound and is
currently doing locums
(filling in for other
doctors) in British
Columbia, will begin at
the Seaforth clinic during
the first week of
November, says
Devereaux.
Mary Fisher, manager
of the Seaforth Medical
Clinic, says Dr. Milne will
be working two days a
week, seeing orphan
patients from Dr. Keri
Rodney, who retired this
summer and Dr. Vince
Tong, who left Seaforth in
the spring after working
here for two years for a
practice on the West
Coast.
While she wasn't
certain of the number of
orphan patients in
Seaforth right now, Fisher
said the two walk-in
clinics held each week arc
still "really packed."
"This is really good
news," she said, of the
news that Dr. Milne will
be working at the Seaforth
clinic.
However, she added
that the two walk-in
clinics will probably
continue for now since Dr.
Milne is working part-
time.
"Some of Seaforth's
orphans have been able to
find new family doctors
out of town but there are
still a lot who haven't,"
she said.
The walk-in clinics are
held Tuesday and
Thursday evenings from
6-8 p.m.
By Susan Hundertmark
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Scott Driscoll
speaker at
CHSS
graduation...
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SPS seniors
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Northside's i4oth
anniversary evokes
Westcott's memories
By Susan Hundertmark
Expositor Editor
Everything Clare Westcott
needed to know about life he
learned at
Northside
United
Church's
Sunday
school.
"We all
have a moral
compass and
many of us
found it first
in that very
room," he
told a packed
sanctuary
during
Northside's
1 4 0 t h
anniversary
celebrations
on Saturday
night.
Westcott, one of Seaforth's
famous sons who left
Seaforth in 1954 and was
Ontario Premier Bill Davis's
executive assistant in the
1970s. said having dinner in
the Sunday school room
brought back a lot of emotion
for him.
"Remembering the long
benches with backs of
wooden rungs, the smell of
wood burning in the furnace
and (Sunday school leader)
Mr. (Fred)
Savauge's big
voice leading
us all in the
singing of
hymns, it was
friendly
territory," he
said, thinking
back on his
childhood in
Seaforth.
Westcott
showed the
audience his
name on the
cradle roll
certificate
from
November,
1924 when he
was five months old and told
stories about the men and
women who belonged to
Northside United Church
who influenced the first 30
years of his life.
"It was the wisdom that
comes in later years that
made me appreciate how
much my life was influenced
Clare
Westcott
by those around me here in
Sunday school and church."
"Any measure of success I
had was because of what I
took from here in my heart
and mind and soul. It was
better than a pocketful of
diamonds," he said.
Dr. F.J. Burrows, who
delivered Westcott "in a vdry
small bedroom in a very
small frame house near the
high school exactly 80 years
and four months. ago
tomorrow," was recording
steward at Northside in 1914
and a board member in 1937.
Westcott remembered how
he used to pass an ice cream
booth on his way to Sunday
school and had to fight the
temptation of giving up his
nickel for the collection plate
for a cone.
"I think I did a couple of
times," he said.
He told how Mabel
Turnbull suggested he join
the choir "but after singing a
few bars for Jim Stewart, he
decided it was not such a
good idea."
"Through most of those
years the wonderful Ida
Close was in charge of my
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Suson Hundertmark photo
Down memory lane
Barry and Brent Vincent look over old photos of Sunday school
classes from the past at the 140th anniversary of Northside
United Church over the weekend.
Seaforth Public School to receive
provincial funding to improve literacy
By Susan Hundertmark
Expositor Editor
Seaforth Public School
will receive provincial
funding to to participate in a
three-year program to
improve literacy in the
primary grades.
And, while no. grant
amounts have been
announced yet, Clinton
Public School is in its third
year of a similar program in
which it received $100,000
each year.
Called the "Turnaround
Team Project," it is part of a
provincial initiative to
"ensure 75 per cent of kids
in the province will reach
the provincial standard by
2008," said Ministry of
Education officer teacher
Anne Dominick at Seaforth
Public School Thursday.
Clinton Public School
principal Cindy Hamacher
praised the program , saying
it's had "a tremendous
impact on the way teachers
are delivering literacy skills"
and made "real changes" in
the achievement of students.
She said " there was a 40
per cent increase in the
number of students to meet
the provincial standard in
Susan Hundertmark photo
Suzanne Rossini, education officer from the Ministry of Education and Kindergarten teacher
Teri Pearson discuss literacy resources available at Seaforth Public School during an
orientation session last week to prepare for provincial funding to improve literacy at SPS.
provincial testing between
2002 and 2003.
"Sustaining the results is
going to be the trick. We're
going to need to be
creative," she said, since the
funding is soon coming to an
end for CPS.
Dominick explained the
program at a staff orientation
session at Seaforth Public
School last week.
SPS met the provincial
criteria for the program
because at least two-thirds
of its students haven't met
the provincial standard for
several years in a row during
EQAO (Education Quality
Assessment Office) testing.
Across the province he
15 scho94s whic
participated -4'n the progra
starting in 2001 (including
Clinton Public School) have
seen a 22 per ccnt increase
in literacy.skills, with three
surpassing the provincial
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Crops
benefit
from
warm
autumn
By Jason Middleton
Expositor Staff
Despite a relatively cold
and rainy summer, Huron -
Perth farmers are reaping the
benefits of the summer-like
September and October
weather.
"We got summer in
September. Actually we got
summer in the first part of
October as well," said
Johnson. "It's just incredible
how the crops responded to
the summer-like conditions."
He explained that
September was 20 per cent
hotter than normal
temperatures for that month
which was good for plants
looking to further mature.
"It was virtually sunshine
everyday which meant that
the photosynthetic factory
that is the plant was going
full out for that entire
month," said Johnson.
"That's basically unheard of
under Ontario conditions."
According to Johnson, the
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