The Times Advocate, 2008-10-01, Page 66
Times–Advocate
Wednesday, October 1, 2008
Opinion Forum News
EPSTerry Fox Run a success
On behalf of the staff and students at Exeter Public School, we wish to
inform and thank the parents and students for their wonderful sup-
port in raising the most money ever for Terry Fox Run in support
of cancer research.
Through the baskets raffle at Meet the Teacher evening and
`bring a toonie for Terry' on Fri., Sept. 26, which was the
National School Terry Fox Run, the students, staff and communi-
ty raised $1,769.82!
A huge thanks to all!
Pleasant memories
The article about Wuerth's Shoes brought back pleasant memories of Mr. Wuerth.
Thirty-five years ago I wanted to buy roller skates but I had limited funds
as a 13 year old in Exeter. I offered to bring in my $20 Baby Bonus
every month until I had paid for the skates. Not only did Mr. Wuerth
agree, but he let me have the skates right away so I could use them
all summer at Grand Bend. His kindness was a formative experience
for me, and I have always tried to be generous to others.
The fact that the business is still going strong 70 years later is a tes-
tament to the Wuerth family's way of doing business.
SANDRA MCLEOD-BARBEAU
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BARB DIETRICH AND ANN DEVRIES
Teaching Staff at Exeter Public School
October is 'in motion' month
HURON — Taking a walk,
raking leaves or joining a fit-
ness class — Huron County
residents are being encouraged
to find ways they enjoy being
"in motion" during the month
of October.
Community partners from
recreation, health, education
and workplaces are organizing
events across the county to
help residents to make physical
activity a part of their daily
lives.
Organizers have declared
October "in motion" month in
Huron and Perth counties. The
goal is to encourage children
and adults to be active for 30
minutes at least five days a
week to improve their health.
Co -chairperson of the in
motion group, Marilyn King,
says there's lots of ways to be
active.
"Many local recreation cen-
tres are offering free or low
cost activities for people of all
ages to get involved.
We really encourage people
to include physical activity in
their day — whether it's
adding 10 minutes to your reg-
ular walk or starting a routine
of walking at work. It's impor-
tant to discover your own rea-
sons you want to improve your
health through physical activity
— it might be because you
want to sleep better or gener-
ally feel better about yourself."
A list of events can be found
at www.hpinmotion.ca
King says people can play "in
motion" bingo and enter a
draw for prizes. Names will be
drawn randomly. Bingo cards
will be in local newspapers and
at recreation centres, YMCA's
and the health unit.
The co-ordinating group pur-
chased the rights to the in
motion strategy, which was
developed in Saskatoon, Sask.,
in 1999.
Since then, in motion has
been successfully increasing
Farmers told to be critical
at appreciation night
By Pat Bolen
TIMES ADVOCATE STAFF
EXETER — The annual Borland
Farm Service customer apprecia-
tion night was held Sept. 18 with
a bus tour, speakers and a barbe-
cue.
One of the speakers was Mervyn
Erb of Erb
Crop
Management
Systems Inc.
in Brucefield,
with a
review of
the wheat
crop this
year and
fall plant-
ing tips.
Erb said
since 2000 there have
been phenomenal yields in
Ontario and "If you didn't have
your highest yields this year,
you're missing something ...this
year had it all."
Erb said last fall saw the best
conditions ever for planting
wheat. "The crop set up perfect-
ly."
He added that with all the
money they spend on seed, farm-
ers have to be critical of their
methods when they plant and
they should have someone else
drive so they can
observe the seed
going in.
"You'll see
things you've
never seen
while planti-
ng," said
Erb.
Another fac-
tor to watch
for, Erb said, is
the amount of trash
that has been left on
the field from combines.
"If your hammers aren't sharp,
you'll plant in trash and it dic-
tates the outcomes."
the physical activity levels of
Saskatchewan residents, and
has received international
recognition. Several other
Ontario communities and
regions are also "in motion".
King says in Huron County
only about half of residents
aged 12 and over are active
enough for health. More than
half of adults are overweight or
obese and heart disease is the
number one cause of death. As
well, over one quarter of chil-
dren are overweight or obese.
King says encouraging people
to be "in motion" can help
address some of these con-
cerns.
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cooking with memories
BY DEBBY WAGLER
BROCCOLI CASSEROLE
WITH RICE
WHEN WE LIVED IN SARNIA WE HAD GOOD FRIENDS WHO
LOVED TO ENTERTAIN. THE WIFE WAS A STAY AT HOME MOM
AND SHE LOVED TO EXPERIMENT IN THE KITCHEN. THE
FOLLOWING RECIPE CAME FROM NANCY AFTER SHE SHARED
HER GREAT FOOD AND WE HAD HAD ANOTHER TIME OF
ENJOYING GOOD TIMES WITH THEIR FAMILY!
10 oz frozen chopped broccoli
1/3 cup long grain cooking rice
6-8 oz mozzarella cheese or your own favorite type
I can celery soup
1/4 cup water
Cook rice in I cup water for 10-15 minutes. In casserole mix
thawed broccoli, grated cheese, soup and the rice and water.
Bake at 325 for 40 minutes or till bubbly. If you like you can
top with a crispy coating of buttered crumbs or canned,
crushed fried onions.
This is an easy to assemble, tasty casserole! Enjoy!
Panther
Profile
September is now finally
over — one month down, sev-
eral more to go.
Our last full week of school
in September was fairly
eventful right up to Friday.
First of all there are all the
sports that are always going
on. As well, auditions for this
year's musical "Zombie
Prom" ran after school from
Tuesday until Thursday.
Those who auditioned didn't
have to wait long and were
able to check the cast list on
Monday. Friday was our first
hat day of the year, which
may not sound that exciting to
you, but I
personally
very much
enjoy a good
hat -wearing.
I would defi-
nitely say that
Tim Thornton
had the best
hat that day,
a very wicked
black and
white
checkerboard
fedora remi-
niscent of the two-tone era of
Ska.
As well the Terry Fox School
Run Day took place on Friday
where students walked or ran
the Morrison trail and raised
money to help fight cancer.
Speaking of which, next
Wednesday (Oct. 8) is Pink
Day and students can wear
pink to show their support for
breast cancer research.
In music, the White Jazz
band had their first gig of the
school year on Sunday playing
at the Trivitt Fish Fry, which I
thought went very well.
So ends our first month of
school and I am looking for-
ward to October, my favourite
month of the year.
JACE
DOUGALL
PANTHER
PROFILE
Huron County does provide a top notch ambulance service
SOUTH HURON — For anyone who has called an ambulance, it sometimes seems
like a long time before the ambulance shows up. The larger the crisis, the longer
the time seems to be.
The magical number in Huron County that the ambulance is supposed to take is
17 minutes and 22 seconds in the 90th percentile response time.
Where did this number come from? Apparently the last year the province
ran the ambulance service in Huron County, this was the figure that they
used. There has been discussion that 17:22 minutes was the time they
hoped to achieve and another discussion is that it was the actual time they
had achieved. I don't believe anyone knows for sure.
Since Huron County took over the ambulance service, this has only been
achieved in 11 months over the years 2001 to 2007. On a yearly average, it
has never been achieved over the seven years. Before you get too upset on
our failure, I should tell you that our average over the last seven years is 17
minutes and 42 seconds.
Each year we come up with new ideas to get our response time down, only
to run into unforeseen problems.
Bad weather conditions play havoc with timing and rise in call volumes is
counter productive to timing
Ambulances are spread throughout the county to give a fairly even coverage. If an
ambulance is in service, ambulance locations might have to be moved to continue to
be spread fairly evenly over the county area.
Now getting back to the 90th percentile, you are allowed to use 90 per cent of
your best times for an average. In 2008, we were over on our times during the win-
ter months and since April we have been quite a bit lower than our set time, leaving
us with a average time for this year so far of 17 minutes and 14 seconds.
It doesn't matter how you cut it, when you call for an ambulance every
effort is made to get the machine to your location as soon as possible.
The province is coming out with new standards in "Regulation 267/08."
The new response time for patients that are severely ill, requiring resusci-
tation will be eight minutes and the new time for cardiac arrest will be six
minutes. We are not sure of all the rules of the new legislation, but panic
was the first response of hearing of the new time allotments.
Staff will be in contact with provincial people to iron out misunderstand-
ings and hopefully logic will prevail.
Huron County does provide a top notch ambulance service to our resi-
dents. Staff and council are also continually working at monitoring and
improving the service at all times.
Ken 01
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