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Exeter, Ontario, Canada
Wednesday, November 17, 1999
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Armstrong offers to spearhead clinic efforts
By Scott Nixon
TIMES -ADVOCATE STAFF
EXETER In Exeter's
continuing quest to open
a medical clinic, Pete
Armstrong has thrown
his hat in the ring again
or at least he's trying to.
Help us
help the
needy
EXETER — Not get-
ting into the Christmas
spirit? The Times -
Advocate are going to
help you get on the
bandwagon while help-
ing out needy families.
The T -A will insert
donation bags for the
Exeter Christmas
Bureau in next week's
paper.
Those receiving the
bags are asked to fill
them with non-perish-
able food items, new
children's clothing and
toys.
The bags can be
dropped off at Darling's
Food Meat Market,
Seip's valu-mart,
Holtzmann's IGA
Fra e'
yns General al Store
and various other
Exeter area
businesses.
The Exeter
Christmas
Bureau headquarters
will open at Exeter
United Church, 42
James St., on Dec. 6 and
donations ns can be
dropped off there till
Dec. 10. The office will
be open from 10 a.m.-3
p.m.
Those who want the
Bureau's help are asked
to call the Huron County
Chidren's Aid Society at
1-800-265-5198 for a
confidential appoint-
ment.
Donation bags will
also be collected by
Exeter Scouts during
the Exeter Santa Claus
parade on Nov. 27.
Armstrong has offered
to the South Huron
Hospital Board to help
get the project off the
ground and make sure
Exeter gets its medical
clinic and attracts more
doctors to the area.
As some T -A readers
may remember,
Armstrong, a member of
Exeter council, proposed
the former National Trust
building on Main Street
as a possible location for
a clinic last spring. While
that building was deemed
to be too small, the board
is now looking at the
Professional Building
across from South Huron
Hospital as a possible
site.
South Huron site
administrator Janice
Cosgrove told the T -A on
Monday the hospital
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board reviewed
Armstrong's proposal to
head the medical clinic
effort and will be
responding to him.
Cosgrove said the board
is pleased there is corh-
munity support for a
medical clinic and said
the more people willing
to help out the better.
As for a possible loca-
tion, the Professional
Building hasn't been
decided on as the'
absolute location for the
clinic.
"We're purely in the
investigation stages," say-
ing financial partners are
being looked for.
"We're looking for a
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broad spectrum of inter-
ested parties," she said,
explaining that project
management, design
ideas and financing are
things still being looked
at.
Armstrong. said he
wants the clinic to be a
community effort and
says if the board wants to
spearhead the project
themselves without his
help, he's OK with that,
but "It's time to get start-
ed."
"I think everybody's
being politically correct in
thinking they don't want
to step on toes."
Armstrong said it's
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Council calls for businesses to "drive" winter carnival
By Kate Monk
TIMES -ADVOCATE STAFF
GRAND BEND -- The businesses
that benefit from the Grand Bend
Winter Carnival should be throw-
ing more financial support behind
the annual event.
That was the advice Grand Bend
council gave David Gray and Dave
Sheppard who appeared before
council Monday night on behalf of
the carnival committee to ask for
$2,500.
Coun. Shirley Andraza said
restaurants aren't listed in the
financial reports as donors to the
carnival. Sheppard replied that the
business names are listed when
they contribute to an event that
raises funds for the carnival.
"1 think the business people in
Grand Bend should be driving
this," Coun. Phil Maguire said. "I
think they should be coming up
with a lot more than $50."
Council was also concerned with
the lack of details in the financial
report Sheppard and Gray pre-
sented.
"For us to give money without
any sort of budget, that's really
pushing the envelope," Mayor
Cam Ivey said.
Council wants to see a detailed
1999 financial statement and a
2000 budget for the event.
Sheppard advised the 2000 bud-
get wasn't complete enough to
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