Huron Expositor, 2006-05-31, Page 4Page 4 May 31, 2006 • The Huron Expositor
Editorial
Opinion
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Long weekend in Cooperstown
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With the location of a classroom for registered
practical nursing students on Seaforth's Main
Street, Georgian College now has a visible presence'
in town.
The four-year part-time course that is training 23
students from the Huron ..,.:Perth area ; to becom
RPNs began in September. v y.
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After a year of finding classroom space in loe
term care facilities and the board room of the
Community Care Access Centre in Seaforth, the.
course was ready for a more permanent home.
And, with the Seaforth Community Development
Trust footing the bill for rent, the course has found:
that home in a storefront downtown.
The 11PN course came out of research on nursingY'
¢.;one in 2000 by the Grey -Bruce -Huron -Perth
District Health Council.
With a major finding that most local nurses are in
their late 40s and early 50s and coming close to
retirement age, a nursing strategies task team was
formed to determine ways to recruit nurses for
Huron and Perth. 040/40 -
The
` 'The course was seen as a way to retain students
that would otherwise leave the area for training
and possibly never come back and to accommodate
people already established in the area looking for
training.
When the first batch of RPNs graduate from the
local program in three years, it's expected that jobs
will be available at home for them to fill.
With a classroom rented that is dedicated to a
course that happens Tuesday and Thursday
evenings, trust member Maureen Agar is wonder-
ing if the college might be persuaded to offer other
local courses during the off hours, perhaps in
skilled trades - another badly -needed specialty in
Huron -Perth.
With sufficient local interest in other courses and
the same dedication organizers of the nursing
course provided, Seaforth could become part of the
solution to retaining Huron County youth and
training Huron workers.
With help from Georgian College, out -migration
might cease to be such a predictable seasonal trend.
Susan Hundertmark
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While the summer
doesn't officially arrive for
a few. more weeks, and
most families are proba-
bly just starting to think
about summer vacations,
I'm getting packed and
ready for mine, which
arrives this week.
Tomorrow (June 1), I will
be leaving from Kitchener
and making the six -plus hours' drive to
Cooperstown, New York, for a two-day visit to
the town and the National Baseball Hall of
Fame and Museum.
And who , is the lucky person who gets to
come along for the fun? My girlfriend Lindsay
of course.
But before you start to think I'm just drag-
ging her along for a vacation she doesn't even
want to be part of, keep in mind she bought
me the tickets for my birthday, knowing full
well she would be my lucky partner on the
t r.
So I've gone through my checklist, making
sure I've packed everything. Clothes for three
days, bathing suit in case we feel like taking a
dip in the hotel pool, American money for the
souvenirs I'm sure to splurge on, and most
importantly, my camera, to capture those
moments when my girlfriend has that puz-
zled look on her face, wondering why I'm so
darn excited to be looking at these pieces of
baseball history.
For me, it will be my third trip to
Cooperstown. The first was back in 1992 and
the second, in 1996. Each time the hall was
just as exciting and overwhelming.
Anyone that knows the
game of baseball knows it's
a game of numbers. So,
here's a few numbers. ,
The hall itself holds over
30,000 objects, including
baseballs, bats, uniforms,
player equipment, ballpark
artifacts, awards, artwork,
textiles, tickets, collectibles
and assorted memorabilia.
In addition, there are approximately 2.6 mil-
lion items, including photographs, books,
magazines, news clippings, films, . and video
and audio tapes.
One full day will be needed to look through
it all and take in all of the wonderful antiqui-
ties the game has produced in its 200 or so
years since being introduced in. North
America.
The next day will be spent visiting
Cooperstown's beautiful Main Street, which
houses many baseball memorabilia shops.
We might even stop 'to have a special
Cooperstown bat engraved, or have our pic-
tures taken posing in official ball uniforms
(which I did back in 1992 when I was a slug-
ger for the Pittsburgh Pirates).
Then, on. Sunday, we'll pack up our bags,
with a few extra I'm sure, and drive the six
plus hours back to Kitchener before I make
the final hour drive back to home to Seaforth,
ready to get back to work on Monday.
It may not be the most relaxing vacation,
but I'm not complaining, and for you the read-
ers, you can be sure to hear all about my trip
in next week's paper.
Ron & Dave
What is that
music?
It s one of Dad's
Frank Sinatra
records
Oh yuk! That's
terribl
What is that
music?
How can he
listen to that
stuff?
1
It's one of Dad's
Frank Sinatra
records
by David Lacey
Hey, that's
great stuff!
They don't make
it like that
anymore, eh?
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