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Huron Expositor, 2005-06-08, Page 66 - THE r 1URUN EXP0i FUR, JUNE 6 2005 trip Pa“c' •Vuty1 Letters & Graphics •Raised Letters •Alum ,num •Banners •Magnet,c •PI • • •COmlxper Aided 1U GOiMM STREET WEST __527-1$02 looking Glass 4 Main Si., Seaforth 527-1783 *Reflexology *Deep Muscle Therapy *Ear Candling *Reiki In Home Services Provided Gift Certificates Available Jennifer McClinchey 1 ECADENCE Interior Decorator Debby Somerville ' Prints and Artwork r Quilts and Bedroom Accessories .c Bathroom Fixtures and Accessories r Candles .r Gift Cards Wall Coverings ie Pittsburgh Paints and Paint Supplies Draperies and Blinds ✓ Furnishings 'r Lamps • Area Rugs Open Tues -Sun 10 am to 6 pm Located in the "little olde church" in Varna AN 75779 Parr Line, Varna 233-3232 News Smaller hospitals expected to get day surgery, clinics from SGH By Brian Shypula Stratford Beacon Herald Staff The Huron Perth Healthcare Alliance is looking at moving day surgery, some clinics and other routine health care to its smaller hospitals in Seaforth, Clinton and St. Marys. The move would free up operating room time at the strapped Stratford General Hospital for more complicated surgeries in which patients require a hospital stay to recover. It would also put the smaller hospitals to better use. Lynn Strugnell, vice-president of clinical services, said a working group is in the early stages of exploring the site- specific surgery. "We obviously can't do everything everywhere," she said. "What we're trying to do is look at efficiencies." Outgoing Stratford General Hospital chief of staff Dr. Fred Jewson, who is stepped down at the end of May, likes the idea. "The Stratford site is working past its capacity. There are wonderful clinicians there who could use more OR time, provide more services to more people, if we could utilize the facilities we have in the smaller sites. It's a matter of making a sound business plan," he said. "We do lots of surgery that comes in the morning and goes home in the afternoon, and we can do that anywhere," he said. Examples of the procedures that could be done in the smaller hospitals include endoscopies, hernias, knee scopes, breast biopsies, plastic surgery and cataracts. "We have to make sure that we select things to be done that we have critical mass, in other words you do enough patients that you're efficient at it," Dr. Jewson said. Ms. Strugnell said medical groups have been asked for input. Once the Alliance has more definite ideas of what it would like to do at each hospital, she said, it will outline the plans for public input. Community support for the plans will be "very important," she said. It's easy to see who's just switched to TD Canada Trust. •1 Make the move to comfortable banking. ror a limited time, transfer your main personal or small business chequing account, and get a free iPod shuffle. ID Switch your main chequing account to TD Canada Trust and get a free iPod shuffle.' 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Some condhorts moy apply. 2 'World's Fest Consumer Integrated Site' - October 1004, Global Finance Magorine. ifed is o trodemak of lbple Computer kw., registered p the U S aid other countries 'Trade mock d The (anode Trost Company. Dick Burgess to replace Bob Broadfoot on Alliance board By Susan Hundertmark Expositor Editor Retired teacher and former town councillor Dick Burgess, of Seaforth has been approved to replace Bob Broadfoot on the Huron Perth Healthcare Alliance board. A news release from the Alliance • board Monday made the announcement that Burgess, along with current trustee Bob Norris will be representing the Seaforth Community Hospital catchment area. Burgess has served as both volunteer and board member of the Huron -Perth branch of the Canadian Mental Health Association and of the Huron Hospice. He has also been a member of the Seaforth Community Hospital foundation for the past several years. "Since my retirement from teaching I • have been involved in a number of health care roles and I did that deliberately. I am very committed to this community and I want to give back in this way because health is a particular interest," he says. While Burgess says "it's premature" to talk about any specific issues or goals he has as an Alliance board member, he says he hopes to "make use of whatever skills and talents the governance board found in me as an effective member of the Alliance board." "I feel that Seaforth Community Hospital has a great deal to offer to the Alliance as a strong, vital and vibrant hospital," he says. The other elected directors on the 2005/06 Alliance board include Gerald Smith and Jane Rowat, representing the Clinton Public Hospital catchment area, Ron Bolton and Leslie Showers, representing the St. Marys Memorial Hospital catchment area and Tim Cronsberry, Bruce Schoenhals, Bob Guilliford, Paul Howley and David Rae, representing the Stratford General Hospital catchment area. While the terms of Paul Howley, David Rae, Bob Broadfoot and Janet Cameron were up for renewal, only Cameron and Broadfoot decided to step down. Those who applied to sit on the Local Advisory Committee for the Seaforth hospital are being interviewed this week and are expected to be announced at the Alliance's annual meeting in Mitchell on June 23. Police investigating nine vandalism reports in Seaforth and Vanastra lluron OPP Huron OPP are investigating nine reports of vandalism that occurred hetween May 29 and June 1 in the Vanastra and Seaforth areas. The first report involved a brick thrown through the window of a black Dodge Neon, which was parked on Toronto Boulevard in Vanastra on May 29. A dark vehicle was seen fleeing the area at the time. The next morning at 5:15 a.m., another resident from the same street a couple of houses away found the back window smashed out of his car. Within the next two hours more calls were received from people over vehicles damaged in parking lots on D& D Glass located on Third Street, the parking lot of an apartment building on Halifax Avenue and another residence on Toronto Boulevard. A gray 1993 Jeep Grand Cherokee had all the windows in the vehicle smashed by bricks, a red Ford Explorer had damages done to the driver's rear fender - again with a brick found at the scene - and a red 2000 Cavalier had its roof damaged by a brick. As well, a table was thrown through the rear window of a silver 1992 Volkswagen Jetta sometime overnight on East William Street in Seaforth. On June 1, officers were called to Hough Tire located on London Road between Vanastra and Clinton. A red 2004 Dodge Neon sitting in the parking lot, had a brick thrown at the front bumper and grill smashing out a section of the car. Shortly after midnight a lone male driving a red SUV drove across the front lawn of a residence on Toronto Boulevard between the house and a tree and drove into the side of a car at least four times before taking off. The vehicle was extensively damaged and pushed into the side of a house trailer. Huron OPP say all of these incidents are related. Anyone with information is asked to call the Huron OPP at 524-8314 or Crimestoppers at 1-800-222-8477(TIPS).