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Wednesday July 8, 2009
1.25 gst included
Seaforth arena
receives
$696,778
grant for
renovations
Susan Uu idertmark
A$696,778 grant - $348,389
from both the provincial and
the federal -- governments
will. allow Seaforth's arena to
build two more change rooms,
expand and improve the ac-
cessibility of its lobby- and re-
paint the roof.
"It's a fantastic grant to be
able. to upgrade the arena,"
said McKillop Coun. Andrew
Flowers, who chairs the Sea -
forth and District Community
Centres board.
"The arena is the hub of the
community and to have the
opportunity to do this is just
great. We've been wanting to
do some of this for a -decade
but we couldn't afford it. The
drawings have beep sitting on
a shelf," said Flowers.
The grant will also include
funding to update compres-
sors and refrigeration equip-
ment, improve accessibility
with at least one automatic
door opener and install. , en-
ergy efficient lighting over the
ice surface.
The grant application was
submitted to the Recreational
See GRANT, Page 2
Avalanche draft pick,..Ryan
O'Reilly, of Varna, was picked 33rd
overall iri the NHL draft...pg. 7
Susan Hundertmark photo,
Getting a little help finding his feet on the arena floor during Canada Day roller skating
in Seaforth is Court Emm-Jones, of Stratford. He and his family were among close to 25
people who enjoyed roller skating at the Seaforth arena last Wednesday.
Study using
technology
to improve
health, fitness
worthwhile to
participants
Susan Hundertmark
When Janet Boot, of RR 4 Clinton,
decided to join a joint study by Gate-
way Rural Health Research Instit t.p
and .the Lawson Research Institute,
she thought she was in pretty good
shape.
While she met the criteria of hav-
ing two of four risk factors including
high blood pressure, high cholester-
ol, high blood glucose levels or being
overweight, Boot says she was par-
ticipating more to support the com-
munity than because of any serious
health concerns.
But, within days of beginning the
study, she found out that her blood
glucose levels were very high - so
high that she and the doctors moni-
toring her data agreed that a visit to
the emergency department was in
order.
And, there she found out that she
had Type 2 diabetes.
"I had no idea. Looking back, -I real-
ize now I had some of the symptoms
but I blamed other pressures in my
life. But, the study helped me get a
good handle on it. It helped me gain
control of my own health," she says.
The DaTA (Diabetes and Technol-
ogy for Increased Activity) study
looked at 25 people in the Huron
County area who were at risk of de-
veloping diabetes and cardiovascular
disease.
The goal was to use technology -
a Blackberry, blood pressure .and
glucometer devices with' Bluetooth
technology and a pedometer = to see
if awareness of a person's health sta-
tistics and an increase in daily phys-
ical activity could reduce the risk of
developing disease.
It was also a pilot of a larger study
scheduled to begin in the fall that
will study close to 100 people who
See PEDOMETER, Page 6