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Lacina’s literary legacy to sponsor other people from home,” Joanne said. “Grandmother was Frank Lacina wasn’t an always talking about the educated man when he people who lived upimmigrated to Canada stairs with them until but his love of learning they could move out on and reading continues to their own.”

Part of Frank’s idea to inspire people more than help newcomers adjust a century after his birth.

Lacina, born in the was to buy books and lend them to Moravia immigrants. region of “Our grandfather was His ledgers C z e c h o - sponsored to come of the 1920s slovakia in 1930s 1892, im- here, and in turn, once and show the m i g r a t e d he got established, he of to Canada began to sponsor other names people, the in 1923 and people from home. title of the shortly af- Grandmother was books lent ter foundand when ed one of always talking about they were the few the people who lived p r i v a t e upstairs with them until returned, all lending li- they could move out on in flawless penmanbraries of their own.” ship. its time.

- Joanne Bartosek His records His grandshow the daughters Joanne Bartosek and most oft-loaned books Nancy Gagnon have do- were Czech translations nated the more than 1,000 of Zane Grey westerns volumes in their grandfa- that were hugely popular ther’s native language to in the first half of the 20th the Czech Hall in Dres- century.

Frank purchased the den.

“Our grandfather was books from Czechoslovasponsored to come here kia or from a Czech printand in turn, once he got er in Chicago.

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Littlewood, one of four internal candidates for the job, said he is still driven to excel after 31 years with the service.

“I think I can make a difference. I still have a fire in my belly,” he said.

Conn said the fact that the CKPS had so many strong candidates bodes well for the future of the service and the community.

“We have some very dedicated individuals here,” he said. “The strength of the service is our people and this is a demonstration of that.”

Littlewood began his career as a member of the Chatham city police in 1984 and moved through the ranks as a sergeant, staff sergeant, platoon commander and inspector.

Littlewood is a firm believer in training and has played a key role in bringing an FBI leadership program to St. Clair College this fall.

“It’s important that we continue to invest in our people,” he said. “I’ve been fortunate to have the support of many senior officers throughout my

career and it’s helped me grow and become a better officer.”

He said police are being challenged as never before on dealing with issues such as mental illness in the community.

“We’re kind of a one stop shop,” he said. “We need more training than ever before because our role is changing.”

Mayor Randy Hope, a police board member, said the service’s “bench strength” is evident in Littlewood’s hiring.

Conn said promoting from within is good for morale and rewards dedication and loyalty.

Littlewood will be formally sworn in as deputy chief sometime in late August or September.

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Immigrant’s private library tops 1,000 tomes said.

It’s surprising Frank made it to Canada at all, considering that he was captured while serving in the First World War and ended up in a Russian prison camp.

“Those were harsh conditions but once they found out what a great cook he was, he had no problems,” Nancy said.

When his bride Frances emigrated the couple found themselves with four children in short order.

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“He lived an interesting life,” Joanne said. “He didn’t have much education as far as we know but he spoke Czech, Polish, German, English and all the Slovak dialects.”

Chatham-Kent Chief Librarian Tania Sharpe said there were some sporadic examples of private lending libraries but it was fairly rare.

“To have someone in our community doing that in their native language is quite significant,” she

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The Czech Hall in Dresden is home to a Czechoslovakian library of more than 1,000 titles thanks to the generosity of a local family. Nancy Gagnon, left, and her sister Joanne Bartosek donated the library of their grandfather Frank Lacina who immigrated to Canada in the 1920s.

Here, the women examine Frank’s ledgers that showed information about which books were lent. Looking over the information is Czech Hall president Al Kominek.

to take maybe a hundred of the books but when I learned the rest were going in the garbage I heard grandpa’s voice saying ‘no’ so I had to take them,” Joanne explained.

Since then, the books have been at her home while she figured out what to do with them.

Luck once again played a role when Nancy began taking art classes and struck up a friendship

with Marian Kominek, the wife of Dresden Czech Hall president Al Kominek.

“When I told Al about the books, his eyes lit up,” Marian said. “It was a natural fit to have them come here.”

Al said the collection is the next step toward a revival of Czech culture in the area.

“There are so many second and third generation

Czech families in the area and we want the hall to be a place where we can celebrate our culture,” he said.

Once the collection is documented and catalogued, Kominek said volumes may be available for lending.

Last year the Piacek family donated a large selection of Czech records to the hall, some of them going back to the days of 78 rpm.

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After initially living in Charing Cross, the couple moved to Blenheim but Frank had purchased a lot and was planning to move again when Frances put her foot down.

“He had picked out a home but when she saw the lot, the deep ditch out front and the fact that to her it was “in the middle of nowhere”, he changed his mind,” Joanne said.

The family purchased 17 acres of property northeast of St. Clair and Gregory where Frank farmed for many years and the family operated a service station before selling the property. He died in 1989 at age 97.

“This area is very similar in farming to where he came from in Moravia,” Joanne said.

Frank’s library was eventually moved to the Blenheim Czech club where it remained before relocating to St. Anthony’s Church.

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This bookshelf holds some of the Czech books donated by the family of Frank Lacina, who collected more than 1,000 volumes in his native language and loaned them to newcomers to Canada. Here, Marian Kominek, Nancy Gagnon and Joanne Bartosek (Lacina’s granddaughters) and Al Kominek, president of the Czech Hall in Dresden, look at the books that will be housed at the hall.

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Making a difference one girl at a time Program offers guidance and knowledge through fun and activity

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Twenty-five Chatham-Kent girls spent last week taking on a wide variety of serious issues but were having so much fun they may not have even realized it.

The girls were part of the Delta Pals program operated at the Chatham-Kent Children’s Safety Village in conjunction with the Delta Zeta sorority chapter at the University of Windsor.

The Pals in the program name stands for Philanthropy, Anti-bullying, Self respect and Leadership.

It’s the second year for the partnership between the sorority and Safety Village and the relationship is working tremendously well, according to Safety Village Executive Director Barb Lovell.

“The women of Delta Zeta are amazing to work with and we have such fun throughout the week,” she said.

Devon Paolini, a Delta Zeta member who is enrolled in women’s studies at Windsor said she has been very impressed with the girls attending the camp. “What I’m seeing is that we need to give our girls a lot more than we’re giving them,” she said. “They have so much to say and they need an outlet to allow them to say it.”

Each day of the five-day camp is themed to provide information about being a healthy, confident

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Darlene Smith, president of the Chatham-Kent Women’s Centre, was one of the many guests during the Delta Pals program held July 20-24 at the Chatham-Kent Children’s Safety Village. The program focused on sending messages of positivity and confidence to 25 girls aged six to 12.

person who cares not only about herself but the community and world around her, Lovell said.

“In some ways it’s almost a deprogramming because children today are bombarded with popular culture messages which reinforce negative ideas about everything from body image to relationships to roles in society,” she said. “We show the girls that there are alternatives to what they see on television and the internet.”

The lessons learned are interwoven with crafts and games. “For super heroes day, we had women in our community who hold positions of influence. The girls made super hero capes

for themselves. When we speak about body image, the girls made positive message stickers which we hope will be placed in change rooms.”

Thanks to funding from the Medavie Health Foundation, girls who participated were given t-shirts that they wear during the camp.

“Wearing the same clothing helps everyone bond and it eliminates any stigma regarding who’s wearing the latest trend and who isn’t,” she said.

By building a positive self-image and awareness the girls be-

come more confident and inspired to help in their community.

“Delta Zeta believes very much in giving what you can to make your community a better place whether that gift be time, money or talent,” Lovell said. “They are such an inspiration to the girls at our camp.”

Although the week at the camp ended, the experience didn’t. “Each of the girls who attended was twinned with a Delta Zeta member so they can keep touch throughout the year via Facebook, email or however works,” Lovell said. “It’s something the girls will carry through-

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Selectively green When it comes to protecting our environment in Chatham-Kent, it appears we have a double standard.

If we can make money from an initiative, we’re all for it; if we have to confront some uncomfortable facts, we’ll take a pass.

Chatham-Kent is home to hundreds of wind turbines. A Google Earth photo at night would have us lit up with flashing red lights like some northern Nevada city, without the casinos.

In a strong bit of negotiation, the community has managed to extract millions from the wind farms, to help with a variety of projects. Other areas have received less.

The major question that awaits us will be what happens when the lucrative subsidies, which cost Ontarians billions, dry up? Will we, as have other areas, be left with hundreds of skeletons when the turbines have been surpassed by other technology?

Will the owners be targeted by the property standards police? We’ll know in less than a generation.

While we congratulate ourselves on the turbine funds, we remain blissfully, some would say wilfully, ignorant about the damage being done to our water supply.

The ignorance came into play on our last council term when the mayor cast the deciding vote against a six month moratorium in tree cutting to see if we needed to join the majority of southern Ontario communities who have a bylaw.

His action led to the destruction of thousands of trees, many in south and east Kent, while property owners anxious for a few more dollars bulldozed woodlots.

As he was told at the time, those trees help hold back and slow the release of chemicals into Lake Erie and after rainstorms, and improve our water quality.

It’s one of the reasons behind the increase in contamination that leads to algae bloom. That wasn’t as important as votes in an election year.

Our solution is to invest millions to deal with a problem that wouldn’t be as large if we’d acted earlier.

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Opinion

Littlewood right man for job Sir: I’ve had a number of people recently contact me regarding why a local police officer (inspector) was promoted to deputy chief after allegedly being charged and convicted of smuggling booze across the border.

There was no booze smuggling and no convictions.

Jeff Littlewood and Brian Biskey (staff sergeants at the time) failed to fully disclose the quantity of alcohol at the primary booth but did make full disclosure and declaration at the secondary inspection booth, and paid the required duty and taxes on about 40 bottles of alcohol and two cases of beer. Mr. Littlewood, at the time (2010), received

time off without pay, faced a disciplinary board, was demoted for a short time from acting inspector to staff sergeant and was removed from competing for the inspector and deputy chief position.

Both officers plead guilty to discreditable conduct under the Police Services Act and pursuant to the Code of Professional Conduct regulation.

At the time of the occurrence, I reviewed several Ontario municipal police services case policies and case procedures for similar and identical occurrences. In comparison Chatham-Kent Police Services and its board, acted responsibly and seemed

to levy a responsible and appropriate penalty against these senior officers.

My issues lay with any public sector employee, making $100,000 plus annually, supporting out-of-country entities, rather than supporting the Canadian hand that feeds them.

If we have to have a deputy chief, given Mr. Littlewood’s published exemplary history of professional, responsible and honest service, supported by his impressive level of industry education and, what I understand, admirable application of same, would have been my choice as well for deputy chief.

My initiatives against our municipal police service’s financial oversight to be transparent having all expenses finally shared with council and the public demonstrates I am not favouring just to protect the CKPS. I do not take sides and I do not know Mr. Littlewood personally.

I don’t take my applauding the police services board and police administration lightly, given my previous critical performance against them, however, in this case, the police board and police administration performed an exceptional job and promoted the best person.

John Cryderman Chatham

Pugh bang on with arena concept Sir: I just had to say a big thank you to Mike Pugh, for his “Voice” on an arena in Chatham. His are the most sensible ideas I have seen put forward on this subject in the past 20 years.

They actually parallel the

talks I have heard for years, at Memorial hockey games, and our local coffee shops. It seems, as Mike mentions, that council would be OK with a 70-year-old plan, while most of C-K would like a

major leap forward in an arena build.

Of course there is a cost to be born by taxpayers, but it is a cost we should bear, as we do for our college, hospital, all infrastructure. It would help

in the long run, to attract businesses and their employment opportunities that this generation needs.

Mike, think about running for council, please.

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Property standards battle continues

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Susan and Steven Granger say they aren’t about to go away quietly now that the municipality has accepted the bid of a Windsor firm to remove a number of vehicles, farm machinery and implements from their Langstaff Line property.

The contract for removal was awarded to Gagnon Demolition of Essex County for $5,800 after a number of firms bid on the work last month. The vehicles have yet to be removed but the work is expected to be carried out by the end of the month.

“They (Chatham-Kent) don’t even understand their own bylaws,” Susan said. “There is an exemption for farm equipment and they’ve tried to tell me that because we don’t farm at least 50 acres we don’t qualify but that’s not what the bylaw says.

They have no credibility with me on any of this.”

The Grangers have been resisting cleaning up the property for some 20 months since a complaint was received about the 1.75 acre site in the former Chatham Township.

They argue that municipal property standards bylaws don’t apply to private property and cite a 2012 Ontario Court of Appeal ruling backing their belief that the municipality cannot enter private property or remove items it finds there.

In that case, in the municipality of Georgian Bluffs (near Owen Sound) the property owner was awarded more than $70,000 in costs after a site was entered and cleaned at the municipality’s request.

Chatham-Kent chief legal officer John Norton said the Langstaff Road property cleanup has been undertaken on both the derelict vehicles and property standards bylaws.

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The municipality has selected a company to dispose of all vehicles and farm machinery that are strewn about a Langstaff Line property. Owners Susan and Steven Granger say they’re still fighting for their landowner rights.

for the remainder of the material,” he said.

Norton said despite the Granger’s concerns they have had every opportunity to remedy the situation. “We received a complaint and we had to investigate,” he said. “A clean up order was issued and the Grangers appealed that to the property standards committee with two council members and the appeal was denied,” he said.

“I don’t want the public thinking this is some staff action alone,” he said. “The Grangers had their day in court so to speak and the elected officials decided the property violated property standards. It is then staff’s duty to carry out the order and that’s all we’re doing. You have to remember that the complainant is also someone who pays taxes and expects us to uphold our bylaws.”

Susan Granger said she plans to contact ru-

ral councillors and make them aware that if Chatham-Kent continues down its current course the implications will be serious.

“We intend to see that the firm working for Chatham-Kent is charged with theft,” she said.

“The cars and equipment on our land are worth far more than they know. Just because they don’t like it, doesn’t mean it isn’t valuable.”

She said her son intended to build structures on the property to house the vehicles he plans on restoring or selling but was unemployed for four years and couldn’t afford to.

“My son collects Chrysler, Dodge and Plymouth products and has some which are worth a good amount of money. We offered to put up a fence but even that won’t satisfy Chatham-Kent.”

She said the complaint-driven process is driven by neighbour spite and if allowed to continue, there could be dozens of similar complaints.

“Virtually any road you drive down in the country you can

find a rusted tractor or an old truck or two. Do they (Chatham-Kent officials) really believe they’re ready to clean up every place because if they aren’t then they’re just picking on us and we’ll stand up for our rights.”

The Ontario Landowners Association (OLA) has provided information to the Grangers and a number of OLA members went to their property when bidders arrived to clean it up.

Jeff Bogaerts of the OLA said his group will be contacting provincial and federal members of government on the Grangers’ behalf.

“If the private personal property is removed from the private lands of the Grangers the fight will continue,” he wrote to the Voice.

Susan said her and her son are contemplating legal action but lack the resources of the municipal government for a lengthy court fight.

“They’re going to use our own tax money to beat us down,” she said. “They have the power and they just keep grinding away.”

It’s not easy being green ... or is it? for Lake Huron water, the Public Utilities Commission sees a second supply as not worthy of strong consideration.

Mayor and council have been virtually silent on the fact millions of gallons of untreated sewage flow into the Thames River and through our community every time a major storm happens upstream in London.

More “nutrients” flow into Lake St. Clair and then into Lake Erie, I have a home comfort solution creating more food for an algae bloom. for every home and budget.

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LaStertoma supports CHKA’s TNT program

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Members from the LaSertoma Women’s Club of Chatham recently presented a cheque for $1,000 to the Foundation of Chatham-Kent Health Alliance (CKHA) and the staff from CKHA’s TNT (Today Not Tomorrow) First Episode Psychosis Program.

The funds from this donation will be directed to the TNT program to assist clients with transportation, grocery vouchers and opportunities to participate in physical fitness activities in Chatham-Kent.

Richie joins CCAC

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Richie spent more than a decade working in news media across Windsor-Essex and Chatham-Kent for Blackburn Radio and CBC Radio-Windsor, amongst others.

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With this demand for services, it’s important that the community is educated and engaged with the CCAC.” Staff fundraise for diagnostics

The recent 17th annual Chatham-Kent Health Alliance staff golf tournament raised $1,100 for the Foundation of CKHA. The money will go towards the CKHA Diagnostic Imaging Equipment Renewal Campaign.

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Teksavvy Solutions Inc. came through in a big way for the Downtown Chatham Rotary Club July 22 with a $35,000 donation toward the Aug. 8 Beach Boys concert in Tecumseh Park. Proceeds from the event will be used for the Chatham-Kent Hospice. Here Marvin Handsor, product marketing manager; Catherine Playford, chief financial officer; and Marc Gaudrault, chief executive officer, present the cheque to Don Leonard, past president; and Fannie Vavoulis, current present, of the club.

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Addressing a ‘mobility’ gap in SW Ont.

By Jim Blake jim@chathamvoice.com

For the price of one kilometre of subway, senior levels of government could develop and enhance an integrated rail and bus transportation system to cure the growing “mobility gap� in Southwestern Ontario.

Terence Johnson, a representative of the Southwestern Ontario Transportation Alliance, said a $400-million, five-year plan for a Network Southwest solution is needed to reverse a 30 year trend in transportation decline.

During the last 30 years, the number of southwestern Ontario communities served by transit has dropped from more than 200 to just over 50. The new Network Southwest proposed by the Alliance will boost that number to more than 100 by 2020.

He said what’s needed is a model which incorporates intercity bus, Via Rail and public transit. “Not everyone can drive, not everyone who can wants to,� he said.

The marked decrease in

intercity bus cuts to VIA and the fact that transportation services don’t link is creating a serious mobility gap that has accelerated in recent years.

He said the loss is proportionally greater for residents of smaller communities who are growing increasingly isolated.

He also said a fragmented approach from senior levels of government, a lack of national passenger rail service strategy and an inordinate amount of provincial funding used within large metropolitan areas must be addressed.

Johnson said the United States has learned that national and state funding is needed and the system must be developed so that there is a model of good transit for the “first mile and last mile� of a system.

The Alliance’s action plan calls for improvements of rail at the network’s core, feeder buses to serve off line communities and the development of train stations as “mobility hubs� where users can link to trains and buses.

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The all Canadian Dodge Rodeo Tour along with Chatham-Kent Crime Stoppers held the Ultimate Rodeo on July 17 in Paincourt. The event consisted of junior and adult bull riding, ladies’ pole bending, barrel racing – shown here – and bareback riding. The rodeo is a fundraiser for the Crime Stoppers. Approximately 1,000 attended this year’s event.

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Dinner from 5:30pm-7:30pm. Choice of liver & onions, roast beef or fish & chips for $8.00. One meat draw. Open darts at 7:30pm.

• Charity BBQ at Food 4 Less, 470 St. Clair St. from 10:00am-2:00pm. in support of The Salvation Army and Outreach for Hunger food banks. Donations of canned or dry good accepted. Cost is $3 for ball park frank, bag of popcorn and pop.

Saturday, August 1, 2015 • Meat draw and dance at The Chatham Legion, William & Colborne St., Chatham.

Meat draw from 4:00pm-6:00pm. Dance from 4:30pm-9:30pm featuring Odyssey. Everyone welcome.

Sunday, August 2, 2015 • Dresden Christian Ministerial Association presents Sunday Evening in the Park, 7:00pm with Lindly Creek at Jackson Park, Dresden.

Tuesday, August 4, 2015 • G-Force Kids event, August 4th-7th. Ages 6-12. 9am-12noon. Chatham Evangel Community Church. FREE! • Bingo at The Chatham Legion, William & Colborne St., Chatham. 7:00pm. Everyone welcome.

Wednesday, August 5, 2015 • Fun darts at The Chatham Legion, William & Colborne St., Chatham, starting at 7:30pm for open darts. Everyone Welcome!

Thursday, August 6, 2015 • Join us at the Chatham Branch of the CKPL from 6:30pm-7:30pm to meet local author Cassandra Nywening. For more info please contact your local branch.

Friday, August 7, 2015 • Kingsville Folk Music Festival, August 7-9 at Lakeside Park in Kingsville, ON. www. kingvillefolkfest.org.

• Meal and fun darts at The Chatham Legion, William & Colborne St., Chatham.

Dinner at 5:30pm-7:00pm. Choice of chicken parmesan, roast beef or fish & chips for $8.00. One meat draw. Open darts at 7:30pm.

Saturday, August 8, 2015 • Meat draw and dance at The Chatham Legion, William & Colborne St., Chatham.

Meat draws from 4:00pm-6:00pm. Dance from 4:30pm-9:30pm featuring L.U.E.Y. Everyone Welcome.

Sunday, August 9, 2015 • Annual Broasted Chicken Dinner at the Spirit and Life Centre (180 Wellington St. W., Chatham). Meal from 4:00pm-6:30pm.

Tickets are $16.50 for ages 10 and over.

Tickets available at the church office or by calling Geraldine at 519-360-1656 or Beth at 519-352-5093. Proceeds will go towards renovating the Spirit and Life Centre.

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Chatham-Kent Metal Detecting Club Meetings - Last Thursday of the Month, 7:00pm at Evangel Community Church, 76 Sandy St., enter at the back door. Guests Welcome.

Toastmasters is a place where you develop and grow - both personally and professionally. Meetings are a learn-by-doing workshop in which participants hone their speaking and leadership skills in a no-pressure atmosphere. Guests are always welcome. Join the Chatham-Kent Toastmasters at Green Field Ethanol, 275 Bloomfield Road on Mondays from 6:30 – 8:00pm.

Royal Canadian Air Cadets 294 (Kinsmen) Squadron is looking for new members. If you are between 12 and 18 years of age and have an interest in aviation, camping or just meeting new friends visit us any Monday at 6:30pm at the Chatham Armoury 280 Bloomfield Rd in Chatham.

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What do chalk, mud, pool noodles, snakes and ladders, sandpaper and Minecraft all have in common? They are all part of CKPL’s Totally Terrific Tuesdays! Join us each Tuesday at 6:00 pm all summer long in the Chatham Branch, Children’s Room for fun!

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One hip of a workout I do believe I have graduated.

I am talking, of course, about my hip rehabilitation. It has been 11 weeks since I got my right hip replaced. Last week, I said goodbye to the folks at Chatham Physiotherapy. I still have exercises to do and muscles to strengthen, but they were happy with my progress.

What better way to celebrate than slide over to Detroit for an afternoon ball game? Four of us went over to take in the game and shoot the breeze.

Prior to the game, we wound up at Cheli’s Chili Bar across the street from Comerica Park. We wanted to sit outside on such a beautiful day, but a private party occupied the parking lot, so our only other option was the rooftop.

My legs got quite the workout going up four flights of stairs. But I need to do such things, and it was worth it. Tired legs, heaving chest, and a great view.

We wound up walking around Detroit and Windsor a fair bit that day, even misplacing two of our friends at one point. Let’s just say the Tunnel Bus is both a blessing and a curse.

By the time we were back in Chatham, my legs were exhausted, but it was a great day overall.

Naturally, I felt my muscles talking to me for a few days afterwards.

Hot tub time and arthritis meds can work wonders.

So too can friends. I set it up to return the lift chair Friday that I borrowed for after my surgery. Buddies Chad and Jeff did the heavy lifting, as I just didn’t want to chance doing anything to my hip.

We had the chair returned in no time and settled in the backyard to chat. I mentioned I had a wasp nest under our swing set, and they quickly got up to investigate. They decided that, rather than me getting a spray bomb to nuke the rather large nest, they would knock it down.

Jeff grabbed a stick – a rather short stick at that – and off they went.

He only managed to take out some of the nest’s exterior and anger the wasps.

And he complained about the stick. I offered a broom or even a rake, but he wasn’t interested. Back

Bruce Corcoran at it he went, and back towards me they both came running. More damage to the nest, and a trophy for Jeff.

One of the wasps caught him on the wrist.

That put Chad in charge. He accepted a spade and took down the nest.

I went out the next morning to see if the wasps had all left, but they were trying to save their larvae on the ground and repair a chunk of the nest. In the end, I did need that spray bomb.

But had we just gone that route, we’d have missed out on a lot of laughs.

Speaking of laughs, I had the chance to sample someone else’s barbecuing on the weekend, and wasn’t disappointed. Derek’s ribs were delicious. And his sauce was entertaining.

He had put whole Scotch bonnet peppers in the sauce to give it some heat. When he pulled the peppers out, he offered me one to eat. I thought they were habaneros, and I declined. Scotch bonnets are much hotter – more than 10 times hotter than jalapeno peppers.

So Derek popped one into his mouth, chewed and swallowed. In no time he was running for a glass of water and then grabbed the milk jug and guzzled from it. Finally, after a dive in the pool and some bread, he felt much better.

I couldn’t stop laughing.

The hottest food I can recall eating were the stuffed jalapenos I did last year without soaking them to take out some of their sting. They were darned hot. I could only imagine what Derek suffered through.

I also picked up a couple of new dish ideas, one being prosciutto-wrapped asparagus with cheese, and another being prosciutto-wrapped ricotta cheese. I’ve already tried one at home. The other will follow soon enough.

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Home therapy via computer

By Jim Blake jim@chathamvoice.com

The phrase “the doctor will see you now” will take on a whole new meaning within the next month as mental health patients of the Chatham-Kent Health Alliance (CKHA) will have the opportunity for therapy sessions on their home computers.

The pioneering process is the next step in the Alliance’s use of the Ontario Telemedicine Network (OTN) technology for which Dr. Ranjith Chandrasena was presented with the inaugural champion of telemedicine award earlier this year.

Chandrasena, who is the CKHA’s medical staff chief and chief of psychiatry, and Paula Reaume-Zimmer, director of operations for the Canadian Mental Health Association, sat down with The Chatham Voice to discuss what both are calling a tremendous jump forward in health-care technology.

The Alliance has been using OTN (a not-for-profit organization funded by the Ontario government and Canada Health Infoway) since 2006.

“OTN is the world’s largest provider of its service and we are OTN’s biggest user,” Chandrasena said. “We’ve done some excellent work but there’s more we can do.”

Reaume-Zimmer said as technology improves, so does the use of OTN. “We had these large bulky screens which limited the ease of use. We now have smaller, more portable units and the development of guest link is a great innovation.”

Under the guest link program, patients are sent a one-time link that they use to access a connection with the therapist.

“We have 3,000 cancelled or no-show appointments

each year, about 20% of our total,” she said.

“We’ve identified transportation and child-care issues as major reasons behind this. With at-home sessions, many of those issues disappear.”

She also noted there still exists a stigma regarding mental illness that may cause those who need treatment anxiety about reaching out.

‘We’re a small community and I know there are people who don’t want to be seen accessing mental health care in any kind of a public way, such as waiting at a clinic,” she said. “This removes that barrier.”

Chandrasena said in many cases there are physical restrictions that make travelling for treatment difficult and stressful.

“We had an individual with a number of health issues who couldn’t travel Chatham,” he said. “We were able to set up a link with the facility where the person lived, and speak to him and his spouse through OTN.” He said use of technology not only saves money but can also result in a higher level of care.

“Obviously when you have patients who take part in therapy more regularly there is the potential for greater progress,” he said. “By using OTN and combining it with our in-house patient information, we can have more data at a glance to determine such things as possible drug interaction, patient history and other information.”

Chandrasena said he began using a primitive form of telemedicine nearly a decade ago for a chronic-care patient in Wallaceburg.

“Just the idea of transporting this patient, who had other health issues, to Chatham was time

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He said the network would have the same annual operating expense ($60 million) as VIA Rail today.

Mayor Randy Hope said the Western Wardens group of which he is a member supports the idea of a more comprehensive transportation

system to go along with its other initiatives of increased access to high speed internet.

“We can’t be technologically isolated or physically isolated, the two go hand in hand,” he said.

“We have much to offer the world. We can’t afford to be an afterthought or a backwater.”

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Dr. Ranjith Chandrasena, with the aid of a CKHA staff member, demonstrates how the guest link system will work. The system is expected to be implemented within the next month, saving thousands of dollars and improving care.

consuming, used a lot of resources and was stressful to someone we were trying to help,” he said.

“I discovered we had a cable which linked our site with the Wallaceburg campus. We were

using it for training purposes and I thought it was a no-brainer that we could use it for patients as well. Everything was going very well until about 18 months later when someone with a backhoe

cut the cable. It was then we really found out how much we missed it.”

He said there were isolated incidents of staff reluctance in some uses of OTN, but that disappeared once they saw the

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“It’s like anything else, people initially resist change, but it’s such an overwhelming improvement that most people recognized it rather quickly,” he said.

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