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Canadian Conservation Institute in Ottawa. In her reply to Hind, Lyndsie Selwyn, a Senior Conservation Scientist with the CCI said “conservators rarely try to restore a corroded outdoor bronze by making it look new again. Instead, they conserve the corroded bronze, keeping as much of its evidence of age and history as possible.” Chatham councillor Michael Bondy said last week the municipality was awarded a grant for work on the 93-year-old monument after a misspelling of the word “remembrance” came to the attention of the federal Veterans Affairs department last November. “I just got a call out of the blue and we were encouraged to apply for a grant,” he said. “I turned it over to administration and we’re getting some money.” Bondy said the exact amount of the matching grant is confidential since the work will be publicly tendered.
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Confusion over whether the British “Tommy” atop the Chatham Cenotaph should be cleaned has a Chatham historian and cenotaph expert concerned the municipality may be ignoring the advice of experts. Jerry Hind said a proposal sent to the municipal heritage advisory committee suggested the statue be hand cleaned and buffed to “remove most weathering and greening.” Hind, who has studied the Cenotaph’s history for a decade and who has authored a threepart series on it, said he was shocked. “The statue is bronze – it’s supposed to be green,” Hind said. “The weathered patina is what provides a historChatham Voice photo ical look to the statue. A local historian is questioning whether cleaning the “Tommy” Look at the Parliament statue at the top of the Chatham Cenotaph will do more harm Building in Ottawa. Is than good. The municipality has received a federal grant for anyone cleaning the maintenance of the 93-year-old structure; however, Jerry green off of it?” Hind believes experts should assess the project before any He was so concerned Continued on page 4 work is done. that he contacted the Run Date: May 5, 2016 Chatham Voice (10.333" x 2.143") Full Colour EOR#7522
A thug may have temporarily taken Cryston Bulckaert’s smile, but she’s determined that he won’t stop her from putting her life back together. Cryston was viciously beaten and robbed last October after her attacker broke into her Wallaceburg home and left her for dead on her kitchen floor while he ransacked the residence. She was so badly injured she was taken to the emergency department at Sydenham District Hospital, where she was stabilized and airlifted to London where she spent days recovering from a broken shoulder and finger, severe head trauma and a mouthful of smashed teeth. “This is what I looked like before,” she said, showing a photo of her and her sister, a beaming smile lighting up the picture. “I was always proud of my smile and he took that from me.” The 32-year-old had just moved into a rented home when she awoke to find a man standing over
her. “It was a Sunday night (October 18),” she said. I was working 16-hour days at two jobs the week before that and I hurried up and went home. I knew I had to get up and work 16 hours the next day. I got in my pjs talked to my sister, did some journaling and went to bed. I woke up to some guy standing there. I’m single so I thought I was dreaming. I went to get up and he bashed me in the head.” That was only the beginning of the attack. “I got up off the couch and ran to the kitchen door. I remember getting the deadbolt unlocked but I couldn’t get the screen door unstuck and he grabbed me and pulled me back in the house. He continued to beat me in the middle of the kitchen. I just kept thinking, ‘I’ve just got my life stable and now I’m going to die’. There was blood everywhere. I passed out and I know he had to carry my son’s bike over my body to get it out of the house as I lay on the floor.” Continued on page 3
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Top CKHA docs support Chatham only ER plan By Bruce Corcoran bruce@chathamvoice.com
Chatham-Kent’s boss physicians showed a united front April 26 in wishing to see emergency room services land only in Chatham. The members of the Medical Advisory Committee – comprised of various Chatham-Kent Health Alliance department heads – held a press conference to share their support for dropping the ER in Wallaceburg. Dr. Ranjith Chandrasena, chief of medical staff and psychiatry at CKHA, said the MAC members reviewed the alliance’s proposal to consolidate emergency services in
Chatham, and unanimously endorsed it. Dr. Elizabeth Haddad, chief of surgery went one step further. “It is our mandate to provide the best quality of care for Chatham-Kent, not Chatham, not Wallaceburg, not Walpole Island, not Blenheim ...,” she said. As for the concept of turning Sydenham District Hospital into a 7-11 clinic, the doctors declined to comment. “That’s way above my pay grade,” Dr. Indraneel Ghosh, chief of emergency medicine, said. Chandrasena stated that the discussion surrounded “clinical facts.” “This is not about gov-
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Members of the CKHA’s Medical Advisory Committee – Dr. Indraneel Ghosh, Dr. Ranjith Chandrasena, Dr. Elizabeth Hadda and Dr. Dinesh Nethirasigamani – address the media April 26, supporting a Chatham-only ER plan.
ernance; this is not about budget,” he said. The MAC members believe consolidation of critically ill patients through a model change is essential for provision for better, high-quality health care. “We have a chance to make a change. More people’s lives will be saved,” Ghosh said. He stressed the need to best treat emergency room patients in the direst need. He said emergency medicine is co-ordinated care and patients receive treatment based on the Canadian Triage Acuity Scale (CTAS), a
scale of one to five, with one being the most in need and five being least urgent. Level one patients are those where there is threat to life or limb. Level two are those with potential threat to life and limb, and three is urgent, four non-urgent, and five non-emergency. Ghosh said the critically ill require a very high degree of training, skills and expertise from medical staff. While the department heads are unanimous in their support of the proposal, they admitted not all CKHA doctors are on
board. “To all the physicians who may disagree with us, and there is a minority, if I was to ask them where they wanted a family member to go (for emergency care), I wonder what they’d say,” Chandrasena said. “It’s about doing the right thing.” Ghosh said a number of new trainee doctors and even senior physicians will not work in the ER at SDH, “because they feel it is unsafe.” “We want somewhere that gives the best care to every patient every time, no matter where they come from.”
Sheldon Parsons, chair of the SDH board, attended the press conference. He left, with more questions than answers. “They care about CTAS 1 and 2,” he said, referring to emergency department patients in dire need of receiving immediate care. “But the proposal goes way beyond CTAS 1 and 2.” Dr. Quoc Tran, chief of internal medicine, said delays in receiving proper care can be debilitating. “If I had a heart attack, I’d rather go to Chatham due to the times (to receive care) and to prevent damage,” he said.
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After a series of what she called bad decisions when she was younger, Cryston had recently been granted visitation rights to see her son and daughter who live with their father, had overcome substance abuse issues and was looking forward to better times. “I’ve taken full responsibility for my life and my choices,” she said. “Life was getting better. I was working a lot but I have no problem with that. I know it will lead to better things.” When she awoke on the floor sometime later, she couldn’t find her phone. The thief had stolen two phones as well as her bicycle and a video game system. “I was bleeding really bad,” she said. “I couldn’t find my phone. I went to the neighbours’ but no one answered. It seemed like I was pounding on the door for 10 minutes. I thought it was a dream, I kept thinking, why is no one hearing me screaming?” From there she stumbled to a nearby friend’s home only to again get no answer. Finally at a third home someone came to the door. “I asked them to call 911 but I didn’t believe that they called. The woman came out and got me and swore that she did call. When the police got there I just walked out of her house. The police said I looked like a zombie.” After a few days in the hospital,
Cryston left and moved in with her sister who doesn’t live in Chatham-Kent. She eventually moved back to Wallaceburg to be near her children. “I think if you’re going to heal properly, you need to be around family. My sister has three little kids but she always had time to make me feel better. She even pureed my food.” Two weeks later Cryston returned to work despite the lingering effects of 22 staples in her scalp and a bar in her mouth to stabilize her jaw. “I needed to work but I probably wasn’t ready then,” she said. “I’ve had a lot of therapy. I’ve had to learn how to cope with flashbacks, They’re really sudden but they don’t last. At first, they physically hurt. It felt like my head was being bashed in again.” She said she believes she knows who her attacker was and thinks there may have even been two of them but doesn’t know them personally. “I’ve heard some things from people but it’s nothing that could link anyone to a charge. I think they were junkies just looking to rob someone to get money for drugs.” As for Cryston, she says she would like to see whoever beat and robbed her to be caught “so it doesn’t happen to anyone else.” “I feel pretty emotional about my teeth but I don’t want revenge,”
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she said. “I couldn’t stand the guilty conscience. God will take care of them.” As she awaits surgery on her jaw and the estimated $17,000 in dental repairs, she remains determined to move forward, but not necessarily in Wallaceburg. “I always felt safe here,” she said. “I wasn’t afraid to walk to Timmie’s at five in the morning. Not any more. If I can get full custody of my kids, I would leave town right now.” “My daughter asks me “how come every time things go good for us, something really bad happens,” she said. “I tell her everything will be ok.” To help defray dental expenses, a gofund me page has been set up in Cryston’s name. For more information or to donate, go to: gofundme.com/ 2jbfurws
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Get cenotaph inspected: Hind needs to be done,” he said. “Part of the original plan included the idea of cleaning the bronze statue on top of the Cenotaph, but thanks to Jerry Hind, we won’t be proceeding with that,” Bondy told the Voice Friday. “Jerry was absolutely right,” Bondy said. “I really appreciate him
bringing that to the attention of myself and administration. We won’t be doing any work of that sort.” A subsequent e-mail from Jeff Bray, Chatham-Kent Parks Manager to Hind contradicted Bondy. Bray wrote, in part, “the statue will be cleaned in accordance with the Canadian Conservation Institute’s guidelines.” said he doesn’t Dave Van Kesteren Hind think the municipality Member of Parliament has exercised enough dilChatham-Kent Essex igence. “There is a world of difference between saying
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you’re going to adhere to some standards and actually having a registered conservator look at the statue. This is no place for amateurs.” “I was told by the CCI there is one conservator in this part of the province and that person is in Toronto,” he said. “The statue alone cost in the neighbourhood of $5,000 in 1923 so its value now would be approaching six figures. In a practical sense, it’s priceless.” Hind said he became interested in the Cenotaph in 2007 when he was considering the idea that the
municipality could add the names of the “First World War” guys who had been missed. He later became curator of the Gathering our Heroes project commemorating Chatham and Kent County veterans. “The statue was made in three pieces by a Toronto company called Pickle and Sons,” he said. “The arms and rifle are separate. I don’t see the need to remove almost a century of protection and there is no way we should even consider it without an expert.” As for correcting the
spelling of the word remembrance on the section of the cenotaph honouring Korean War veterans, Hind said he isn’t in favour of the move since the word shouldn’t even be on that section of the monument. “It’s a mistake that the word is there,” he said “Military protocol states that the word should be used once, at the front of a cenotaph and not duplicated anywhere else so as not to elevate the sacrifice of one group of veterans over another. We’re just replacing one mistake with another.”
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Co-chairs speak from experience By Mary Beth Corcoran mary@chathamvoice.com
There isn’t any one better to explain to people how important the services of the United Way member agencies are than two people who experienced firsthand how those services helped change their lives. Patricia Wright and Steve Pratt were introduced as the 2016 volunteer campaign chairs for
the United Way of Chatham-Kent at the annual general meeting Thursday in Chatham. Wright, a resident of Chatham-Kent for the past 10 years, was struck by a vehicle in 2010, suffering a traumatic brain injury which led to post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and epilepsy. In a screening of a new video message of her story at the meeting, Wright tells her tale of despair in hav-
ing to give up her career and struggling with her new daily living reality. She was introduced to the help offered by Family Services Kent, and from there, was hooked up with New Beginnings, a brain injury support and service group where she learned to “adjust and adapt to new abilities. I don’t like the word disability.” “Without United Way funded services, I would
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still be stuck in a wheelchair, withdrawn from society and non-communicative. I wouldn’t be here today,” Wright told the audience. With help from the Epilepsy Support Centre, Wright was given a service dog, Georgia, who will bark and attract attention in case of a seizure, and gives Wright peace of mind when leaving her home. “Without Georgia, I wouldn’t have my freedom. I can go out in public and know that if I have seizure, Georgia won’t stop barking until she gets someone’s attention,” she explained. “Without you guys; without the United Way, I wouldn’t be here today.” Wright recently brought home a gold medal from the Karate Canada championship in Vancouver as member of Team Ontario. Pratt, born and raised in Wallaceburg, had a difficult journey after moving to Toronto, dealing with mental health issues, addiction and depression. However, he said with the help of his sister and the treatment and support from United Way member agencies, he is healthy and now the Community Development Co-ordinator of AIDS Support Chatham-Kent. He has returned to school to com-
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More questions Last week’s media conference to place a medical stamp of approval on Colin Patey’s plan to close the Sydenham District Hospital emergency department raised as many questions as it answered. Doctors showed up and took their turn supporting their bosses’ plan on a “clinical facts” only basis. The event then took a turn for the strange. Dr. Indraneel Ghosh, chief of emergency medicine, said a number of new trainee doctors and even senior physicians will not work in the ER at SDH, “because they feel it is unsafe.” This is the same Dr. Ghosh whose department has no problems sending patients to SDH when the Chatham campus is unable to cope with its workload. If he’s serious, his comments should require a Ministry of Labour investigation, as in any case of unsafe conditions for workers or patients. If he isn’t, he engaged in a most extreme and inappropriate form of hyperbole. Dr. Ghosh’s statement is a slap in the face of every medical professional working at the Sydenham ER. It makes a mockery of the former Alliance’s stated values of respect, teamwork and trust. If the SDH emergency room is unsafe, where does the responsibility lie? Has there been an ongoing stripping of resources or lack of investment to make it so? Has administration failed to provide proper training for staff? Dr. Ghosh was handpicked by administration to lead the ER into the next era. He has the necessary medical credentials. He’s also a part-time employee; still listed as working in the ER at Mackenzie Health in Richmond Hill. There is concern his appointment reflects a possibility no local doctors shared the vision of a part-time walk in clinic to replace the Wallaceburg campus. We have no way of knowing the truth from an independent source. It’s past time the Erie St. Clair Local Health Integration Network or the provincial health ministry step in. Governance of the former CKHA is in shambles, and its plans seem at odds with thousands of residents and ER practices elsewhere in Ontario. It has claimed the LHIN and Ministry of Health have seen its closure plans, while Minister of Health Eric Hoskins said neither the LHIN nor the ministry have received it. Hoskins personally said there are “no plans whatsoever” to close the SDH emergency department. This type of confusion denigrates the work of frontline employees at the Wallaceburg and Chatham campuses. The community deserves answers it can trust from an independent source.
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Serious health-care disconnect Sir: I was somewhat surprised at the letter to the editor of the Chatham Voice on April 26th from Jane Havens, acting chair of the Public General Hospital Board. Her personal opinion is just that, her personal opinion and in Canada she has every right to express it, as do all others. And if she perceives others opinions or comments to be “verbal junk or spout drivel” that’s her right too, and her right to say it. What is sad for me is her comment, “we chose a skills-based board over community members who think they know everything about health care the first day they join the board, and who use it as a platform to advance their own personal agendas.” Apparently the skillsbased interview process her board participates in is designed to weed out anyone who does not have a high level of
understanding and comprehension of the needs within the health-care community and in turn are above having any personal agenda whatsoever. In contrast, the Sydenham District Board allows the taxpaying public to be a part of the community’s healthcare vision by gathering publically and sharing their thoughts. Then, by way of our Canadian Constitution’s democratic process of voting, elect representatives to go forth and share our vision with others. In this process, she labels these individuals as community members who think they know everything about health care the first day they join the board, and who use it as a platform to advance their own personal agendas. I guess some people like to be selected while others prefer to be elected
to their hospital board. Apparently the selected ones never have a personal agenda and are well versed in Chatham-Kent’s healthcare needs, whereas the elected ones all have a personal agenda. Further, elected members according to Jane don’t know anything about health care, at least when it comes to what’s best for Chatham-Kent. For the next municipal elections let’s try selecting our councillors using the same process that the PGH Board uses, which is apparently far better than any election process, producing for us the highest calibre selected councillor and to boot, guarantees no selected councillor will have a personal agenda. It’s OK with us that you have vacated the high ground to slug it out in the trenches with people you view in your opin-
ion as the ill-informed and non-expert from Chatham-Kent. For you to have not seen this coming in my opinion shows how little you really know about all the communities which make up the Municipality of Chatham-Kent when it comes to how they see local health care being delivered in their community. Or maybe our opinion just doesn’t matter to you. As for your statement, “if only the community of Chatham-Kent had the depth of understanding about health care that this duo has, we would not be having this diatribe in a public forum,” I would suggest it is for that very reason we have to have this discussion in a public forum, and not in a closed boardroom of the Chatham-Kent Health Alliance. Doug Babbitt Wallaceburg
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Strong, informative issue of Chatham Voice Sir: Jim Blake is to be commended for the stories in the April 28 Voice. The unadulterated truth expertly exposes CKHA’s treatment of Sydenham District Hospital (SDH)! Something that can’t be said of page 7, “Voice editorial just verbal junk, reader says,” letter by Jane Havens, acting chair of the Public General Hospital board. On page 18, the CryptoQuote is just perfect!
There is nothing so powerful as truth - and often nothing so strong – Daniel Webster. Some of Ms. Havens “truth” follows: It’s okay for Chatham people to meet in Chatham, but it’s inappropriate for Wallaceburg people to meet in Wallaceburg, especially 450 of them. She obviously doesn’t know about the 1,000plus attendees at the
LHIN meeting in the Wallaceburg High School auditorium, sometimes referred to as Clickergate. Thanks for pointing out that Wallaceburg accounts for only five per cent of the services and program activity of the CKHA. This is about to change, thanks to the SDH Board and members of the community. As per the Alliance agreement, the percent-
age of interest is PGH 50 per cent, SJH 33.3 per cent, and SDH 16.7 per cent. Therefore, CKHA you owe us big time – an additional 11.7% of the Ministry of Health revenue allocation this year, and then retroactively for years! CKHA is the only Alliance dealing treacherously with its smaller partner. The Middlesex Alliance, the Huron-
CKHA’s numbers inaccurate: Wesley Sir: While it is certainly time for all three CKHA Boards to get back to work – on solutions and moving forward with a shared vision – I feel I have to correct the facts stated in the recent letter from the Public General Hospital and St. Joseph’s Board chairs. Back in May of 2015, when I was chair of the Sydenham District Hospital board, the same argument was put forward that SDH only represents 5% of the services provided by CKHA. I challenged this number and here is what I found out: • I was told that data on services is very hard to get and the health-care industry is well behind in being able to show this type of precision. To provide any level of detail on users of SDH would be cost and
time prohibitive. • To arrive at the “weighted” 5%, what they did do was for every service that is not performed at SDH, even services we never ever had, they credited Chatham with 100% and SDH with 0%. This included services never available at SDH. SDH serves a catchment area that includes Walpole Island and St. Clair Township. I asked and was told user data specific to these communities was not available. What they didn’t say was that SDH from 2010 to present continues to provide between 28 to 32% of all emergency services in C-K. The CKHA has the second-highest administration costs in all of Ontario for hospitals their size, and some of the longest ER wait times.
I suggest the boards train their cost-cutting sights elsewhere and get back to work. I was told back in May of 2015 when I challenged the 5% that they could not provide me with any substantive detail unless a large expenditure and lots of hours were dedicated to getting the answer. The real question is, did the two Boards expend the dollars to do so or are they merely reiterating the failed arguments from May 2015? I have all of the e-mails and documents.
Perth Alliance with four partners, and Bluewater Health Alliance with Petrolia are working fine. So, take the high ground, CKHA, as per your letter. I, on the other hand, will take the low ground as a non-expert, uneducated, uninformed, armchair critic with a paid-up SDH membership while proudly supporting the SDH Board, and the
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Animal shelter fundraising drive ramping up By Jim Blake jim@chathamvoice.com
The drive for a new Chatham-Kent animal shelter is about to ramp up a notch, according to co-chairman Art Stirling. “We’ve spent the last few months organizing our various committees from governance, fundraising, communications and volunteers,” he said. “We are now in the position to begin reaching out to the citizens of Chatham-Kent.” Even though the group hasn’t been actively seeking funds, it has already raised about $150,000 of its $2 million goal. The latest contribution came in the form of a $10,000 cheque from Dr. Kerry Mall and Krista Mall of D.M.S. Veterinary Centre. “We just want to give back to the community,” Krista said. “We know there is a major need. We hear it from our clients that they’re upset at what we have now.” Stirling said the current facility, built in 1974, has been an embarrassment to the community for years. Plans call for the new shelter to be built on municipal property to the northeast of the current building at the corner of Park Avenue and Hyslop Street. The shelter is operated by the Ontario SPCA, however, that group is not involved in fundraising for the new facility. “Donors need to be aware that money given to the Ontario SPCA will not be used for the new facility,” he said. “The SPCA is supportive of building
a new shelter but they won’t help raise money for it.” Stirling said there have been “years of pent up clamour about the shelter, the growing deterioration of the facility and the overcrowding. If you are someone concerned about the issue, now is the time to act.” He said his group is still looking for volunteers, donors and anyone willing to help. “We believe the best chance for the shelter to be built is through the effort of the entire animal loving community,” he said. “We have a role for everyone.” He said the group is at least a year away from breaking ground on the new facility that was approved by Chatham-Kent Council following a presentation by Stirling and cochair Marjorie Crew last year. The committee’s goal is to have the facility built and paid for within two to three years and then turn it over to the municipality which would then bear maintenance costs. Plans call for a 6,000 plus square foot facility with dog
kennels, cat rooms, a veterinary treatment room and other up to date features now lacking. It will double the size of the current building through which some 2,000 animals pass through each year. Prior to its report to council, the group undertook consultations with municipal staff, OSPCA authorities, members of other area groups working in animal care, the local veterinary community, marketing experts, qualified construction project managers, and others. The group toured other animal shelters across the province. They eventually identified a shelter in Bracebridge as a model for Chatham. Krista Mall said she believes the community will come through. “We’ve grown from one location to three in only six years and now we’re opening on Sunday due to demand from our clients,” she said. “This is a very animal friendly community.”
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At a time when many service clubs are struggling with membership, Kiwanis International has embraced society’s changes and is well poised for the future. Sue Petrisin, Kiwanis International President, attended the Can-Am Goodwill banquet in Chatham last week, where 120 Kiwanians from Ontario, Michigan and Ohio met. It was the first time the Chatham club hosted the event. Petrisin told the Voice
flexibility is the key to growth and long-term health of service organizations. “Service clubs are just as relevant today as they were when Kiwanis began 100 years ago,” she said. “What we need to realize is that our clubs need to move with society. The more we adapt to what society is doing, the better we are.” The traditional idea of people coming to a lunch meeting on a Tuesday doesn’t work for everyone due to commitments to work, family or for financial reasons, she said.
“About five years ago our organization said instead of being strict and saying you have to do this or that, we would let the clubs decide what’s important to them,” she said. Petrisin, a Kiwanian with more than 27 years of perfect attendance, said she realizes that may not be possible for everyone. “We have a 3-2-1 club that devotes three hours to service, two hours of social an one hour of meeting,” she said. “We have a club in Ohio who has a member from Tai-
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The Chatham Kiwanis club hosted the annual Canada-USA Goodwill Banquet last week as more than 120 Kiwanians from Ontario, Michigan and Ohio attended. Here (left to right)) local Lt. Governor Cathy Telfer, Sue Petrisin, Kiwanis International President and Dick Roe, President of the Chatham Kiwanis Club, chat before the event, held at the Links of Kent.
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Theatre, Lorelei and Dorothy confront one hilarious disaster after another as The year is 1924 and they set sail for adventure flappers Lorelei and Dor- with one goal in mind othy are eagerly looking meeting men! Based on the 1925 comic forward to their trip to Europe, accompanied by novel Gentlemen Prefer Blondes: Lorelei’s faThe Intither, Jeremi- “The somewhat empmate Diary ah Lee. ty-headed Lorelei and Of A ProBut, just fessional by as the ship her stoic and far more Anita Loos, is about to practical best friend the play is sail, Jeremi- Dorothy are amazing ah discovers characters for a pair of not the same version as he’s being the musisued and it actors to play.” cal which looks like - Director Karen Robinet starred Marthe trip is ilyn Monroe in the 1950s off. and was also based on the Or is it? In Theatre Kent’s pro- novel. Rather, Theatre Kent’s duction of the screwball comedy Gentlemen Prefer production is a non-musiBlondes, which runs May cal which includes a sur12 to 14 at the Kiwanis prise dance number. By Jim Blake jim@chathamvoice.com
Director Karen Robinet said the family-friendly play is riddled with laughs and is a throwback to a time when women were just coming into their own thanks to the burgeoning suffragette movement. “The somewhat empty-headed Lorelei and her stoic and far more practical best friend Dorothy are amazing characters for a pair of actors to play and we’re incredibly fortunate to have two great young women in the roles,” said Robinet. The part of Lorelei is being played by Tori Franks, while Stacie (Suitor) Dengal is playing Dorothy. Both are second-generation Theatre Kent members with a strong background in theatre. It wouldn’t be a 1920s
screwball comedy without a wealthy romantic interest, and Alejandro Pacheco plays the role of Henry Spoffard III, who is accompanied on the trip by his mother (Jan Walker-Holt) and her rigid companion Miss Chapman (Crystal Horst). Tickets for the show, which starts at 7:30 p.m. on May 12, May 13 and May 14 are $19 for adults, $17 for seniors and $14 for students plus box office fees. They are available through the Cultural Centre box office at 519-3548338 or online at www. cktickets.com. They will also be available the evenings of the performance, beginning at 7 p.m. More information can be found on Theatre Kent’s website at www.theatrekent.com.
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plained. Lush said there would be some additional employees hired for the new location but staffing levels haven’t been confirmed. Of Giant Tiger’s wellknown reputation for giving back to the community, Lush said that is very much part of the company’s mandate. “For us, being in and part of the community and supporting those who live around in any way shape or form is part of our code of eth-
ics. It’s in our DNA.” “Our founder Gordon Reid believes that it is our responsibility to give back to the communities that support us,” he said. “It’s at the core of our culture. It’s the right thing to do.” Reid founded the privately owned company in Ottawa in 1961 and still plays an active role in its success. “Even in his 80’s he is still involved and is an inspiration to us.” Giant Tiger has more than 200 stores coast to coast and more than 7000 employees.
Lush said Giant Tiger will be selling many of the fixtures and refrigeration equipment at the Richmond St. building. “We really will be starting fresh,” he said. “It’s a great feeling.” Bradley said the search continues for a tenant for the footprint of the former Tiger store. “We have some irons in the fire but there’s nothing we can publicly speak about at this time,” he said. Thames Lea Plaza is home to more than 20 businesses.
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MacNeil transitions into business owner leaving Bowman’s. It’s a concept that spent years gestating. “I didn’t realize I’ve been doing market research for 12 years,” he said. “I’ve been here 12 years, dealt with hundreds of families, and I’ve heard over
By Bruce Corcoran bruce@chathamvoice.com
Earlier this year, James MacNeil’s life was in transition. Rather than rail against fate, the local funeral director parlayed that into Life Transitions. MacNeil had been, for years, the manager of Bowman Funeral Home in Chatham. But that business changed hands recently, leaving him out of work. Instead of seeking a career change, or moving to a new city, MacNeil simply shifted gears and went into the funeral business with his wife, Lee-Ann. “I feel like I’m really in the zone when I’m helping people in this way,” MacNeil said. But LifeTransitions is not a funeral home. Instead the MacNeils call it a burial and cremation service. The McNaughton Avenue business is a fresh take on dealing with death. MacNeil said he is now in the business of co-ordinating, rather than burying. “It’s a model that’s never happened around here,” he said, adding there are similar offerings in London and Windsor, and many more in Western Canada, for example. Traditional funeral homes – and there are many good ones in Chatham-Kent, MacNeil is quick to explain – have visitation rooms, reception areas, arrangement rooms, a preparation room in the basement, and a small chapel.
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James MacNeil and his wife Le-Ann recently opened Life Transitions, an alternative to traditional funeral homes, in Chatham.
LifeTransitions is more streamlined. “We’re the arrangement office. That’s us now. We have a large office where we meet people and all the co-ordination and selection processes take place,” he said. “We co-ordinate where they want their service.” MacNeil said there are no onsite facilities for public gatherings, and no associated funeral costs. Instead, LifeTransitions offers choices of local hall partners who could handle a memorial service or even a full-service funeral. Some have onsite catering. “With our office as it is, our overhead has been
restructured. A large part of your funeral bill is just gone. We pass the savings onto the family,” he said. “It’s not that it’s discounted; we’re just structured differently.” For anyone wanting a traditional funeral – something MacNeil said he still wants for himself when the day comes – there are options. “There are great choices in town for a traditional family service. But we won’t decline those either,” he said.
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• 1st Annual Tilbury Art Show and Sale presented by Tilbury Arts Council from 6:00pm9:00pm at the Knights of Columbus Hall, 20 Dupuis Ave., Tilbury. Featuring works by TIlbury and CK artists, cash bar, 50/50 draw, silent auction. • The Masons are providing a free Child Identification Program for children of all ages in the Municipality of Chatham-Kent. The kits includes photos, video, voice recordings, digital fingerprints, dental impressions, and or saliva swabs as well as traditional statistical information. Merlin Recreation Hall, 150 Aberdeen St., from 10:00am-4:00pm. Sunday, May 8, 2016 • Merlin Legion Breakfast from 10:00am1:00pm. Eggs, bacon, sausage, ham, potatoes, french toast, pancakes, dessert, juice, coffee and tea. All for $10.00. Kids eat 1/2 price! • Merlin Legion Jamboree from 3:00pm7:00pm with host band “The Marquis”. This is a family event so bring the children!
I’ve come across a number of folks recently asking me about what I’ve been barbequing. With all the great content in our paper the past few weeks, I’ve stepped aside in column writing to ensure we keep our readers informed on a number of key issues, and provide space for reader feedback with additional letters to the editor. I have not cooked anything exotic in recent weeks. But on the weekend, I helped serve up a whack of hotdogs and a heaping helping of burgers at the annual Relay for Life Stuff Sale for the Canadian Cancer Society. I’m not chairing this year’s Relay, which takes place June 11 at CKSS’s athletic field, but when organizers were looking for some grill support, I jumped at the chance. Louie Jeromel is in charge of food for the Relay event – has been for years – and he also manned the grill for the sale. He’s a man with a smart plan, as always. The sale took place Saturday morning in the parking lot in front of the old Target store at the corner of Keil Drive and Grand Avenue West. Great location. Participating Relay teams were invited to gather and set up tables for a large yard sale, and they drew crowds.
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Bruce Corcoran So too did the Drive 4 UR Community event run by the good folks at Victory Ford Lincoln. There were a half dozen vehicles on hand for test drives, and Ford donated to the Cancer Society a set sum of money for each test drive. And then there was Louie, working his magic on the grill. His efforts started before I got there with the meat. As soon as Louie had the barbecue set up, he put on two large pans of onions to simmer. Meanwhile, I popped into Schinkels’ Gourmet Meats just after 8 a.m. and picked up the load of ballpark franks and hamburgers owner John Schinkel had pledged for the day. By the time I arrived about 8:15 a.m., Louie’d already had hotdog inquiries! By 8:30 a.m., the first hotdogs were ready and we started to sell. And did we sell! It was the perfect situation – some sunshine, some wind to send the barbecue aromas across the parking lot, and solid foot traffic. By 10:30 a.m. we had almost sold all 75 hotdogs we had, and we’d cracked the second box of burgers. I returned to Schinkels’ for more hot dogs, which went on as soon as I returned. First, we ran out of onions. Then we had a hotdog bun shortage, forcing us to sell “hamdogs” until we got more buns. Selling hotdogs in hamburger buns soon left us with another dilemma: we ran out of hamburger buns and then sold the new “hamdogs” – burgers on hotdog buns. By just after noon, we sold out of the last of the burgers. After a morning of go, go, go, we just looked at each other. We had raised a fair bit of BBQ coin for the cause, and cleanup was a simple process. It was a fun, successful day.
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Let’s Celebrate the Achievements of the Links of Kent Golf Club & Event Centre! The Links of Kent Golf Club & Event Centre would like to thank the people of Chatham-Kent for voting us best golf course and best clubhouse in Chatham! Proprietors George and Maria Tsirimbis are very proud of this accomplishment and are joyful to see this kind of appreciation from the public. They would like to recognize their team of staff that has been committed to building a successful establishment, with special regards to Event Manager Yvonne Hickin, Head Chef Kyle Wagner, and Superintendant Bob Harwood. Our 18-hole golf course nestled on 150 acres of picturesque grounds, which also includes an executive 9-hole course, has been kept in impeccable condition due to the hard work of Bob Harwood. Year after year, we hear compliments of how great the course looks and we intend to keep it this way! We also have an experienced team of pro shop attendants who are excited for another season of golf and to lead our leagues’ golf tournaments. The Superintendent Bob Harwood, Event Manager Links of Kent offers a variety of tournament opportunities, as well as Yvonne Hickin, and Head Chef Kyle Wagner. several leagues, including Monday morning Gentlemen’s league, Tuesday morning Ladies’ league, Tuesday night Twilight league, Thursday night Ladies’ league, and Friday night Couples’ league. The Shore Bar and Grill, our clubhouse, has been home to golfers and several regular customers who continue to show their support to the club. With our new menu that will be presented this spring, we hope to attract more guests to experience our clubhouse. Our menu features breakfast, lunch and dinner specials, as well as a seniors’ menu served after 4pm. The clubhouse is open year round to the public, and we encourage you to come out and experience why we were voted best clubhouse! We are also very proud of our newly established Event Centre, which has been hosting events for the last two years such as weddings, special themed events, bridal and baby showers, celebrations of life, and Christmas, anniversary, and birthday parties. Our club houses two exquisite venues, which can provide you with both formal and casual services. The Event Centre has a stunning panoramic view of the golf course, as well as the picturesque gazebo and pond area. The River Deck Room is a lovely room with a rustic country theme, located on the patio of the clubhouse. We have a variety of packages to suit your unique event, and the details can be trusted to our hospitality experts! In recognition of our team’s hard work and as a thank you to the public and the members of our golf course, we would like to extend an invite to the public to help celebrate our success! -The Links of Kent Golf Club Staff
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