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By Bruce Corcoran bruce@chathamvoice.com

Most Chatham-Kent folks can only sit and watch in wonder via TV and online news reports about the devastation caused by the wildfire raging around Fort McMurray, Alta.

But not Sam Sluys. He lived it, and escaped it, driving through flames “licking up over the highway.”

And he can’t wait to go back.

Sluys, 24, who grew up in Blenheim and Chatham, attending Chatham Christian School, moved to Fort McMurray in 2011, ostensibly for a summer job. But he never left, until Mother Nature pushed him down the highway May 3.

“It was pretty amazing.

I’ve definitely never seen anything like it in my life,” he said of the intense rage of the wildfire.

The forest fire broke out near Fort McMurray in northern Alberta sometime Sunday. Sluys said by Monday, the fire grew and was encroaching on some of the city’s districts.

He said a couple of smaller sections of Fort McMur-

ray received voluntary evacuation notifications – TaigaNova and Abasand Heights.

“As soon as I heard of a voluntary evacuation, that’s when Megan and I topped up our vehicles,” he said of he and his girlfriend, Megan Eliuk. “That was an absolute lifesaver.”

Monday, the fire got bigger, covering about 18 square kilometres, and closer.

“On Monday, there was a small grassfire down my street. Local folks put it out with garden hoses and a fire extinguisher,” Sluys said.

A day later, all hell broke loose, as the fire had crossed the Athabasca River and now approached Fort McMurray from the south and the west.

“Tuesday morning we woke up to hear the fire had jumped the river. At 10 a.m., the winds shifted and it really started to pick up in size and speed on its way towards the city,” he said of the blaze.

“We went on a walk to see where it had crossed the river. That hillside we walked on that morning has all been wiped out.”

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Flames ‘licking up over the highway’

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By early afternoon, Sluys and Eliuk knew it was time to go and they packed some bags.

While Eliuk left to help a family member, Sluys continued getting ready – until he received a text from his girlfriend.

“She saw on Facebook a photo of the fire coming down to Highway 63, and she texted me, telling me to go.”

Their home is on Thickwood Boulevard, near Hwy. 63.

Leaving town was a very harrowing experience, Sluys said.

“Traffic really got congested where the fire was Sam Sluys encroaching.

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ably the most intense. I was on the phone with Megan.

There were trees burning 50 feet away and the grass was on fire right up to the Megan Eliuk road. Visibility was very low. You could only see a few cars in front of you.

“The fire was coming and licking up over the highway. It was, ‘just don’t stop,’ and ‘hope for the best’ there. That drive up Beacon Hill was the spookiest. It is something I’ll never forget.”

But the two escaped the inferno, as did everyone else in Fort McMurray.

While they got out, the “emotional rollercoaster” wasn’t over. The two had to negotiate horrendous traffic down Hwy. 63, the only road into and out of Fort McMurray, until a junction with Hwy. 881 to the south.

They opted to take Hwy. 881, as the traffic seemed less congested.

Thanks to their full fuel tanks, they left behind huge lineups of people

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The view May 1 from the backyard of Chatham-Kent native Sam Sluys home in Fort McMurray, Alta. He and tens of thousands of others would evacuate a day later.

trying to get fuel in small communities along the route.

“We just needed to put some kilometres between us and the rest of the evacuees. It was mayhem. People were driving very erratically. They were on their phones; there was a lot of panic,” Sluys said.

Now that he and thousands of others are safe and clear of their city, they have time to focus on the sheer quantity of unknowns.

When will the fire subside? Is there a home to which they can return? How much rebuilding will be needed?

“As of right now, from what I’ve been hearing, my house is still standing. But with the winds and the weather, who knows,” Sluys said before rain and cooler weather arrived on Sunday.

“I don’t know if I’m going to have a home to go back to. Ev-

eryone’s job is up in the air. No one knows what do to.”

He said Monday that he believes their home is still standing.

Meanwhile, support from around the country is heading their way. Sluys said the people of Fort McMurray appreciate the aid.

“So many people are offering up free things. It’s pretty amazing how much Alberta and all of Canada has come together,” he said of the support, much of which is coming in through the Red Cross.

For now, Sluys and others are living out of a backpack. He and Eliuk are staying with her family in Nanton, south of Calgary.

But he is anxious to return to Fort McMurray.

“As long as there’s a place to live and food to eat, I’ll be back up there as soon as possible.”

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Cenotaph work back before committee

By Jim Blake jim@chathamvoice.com

The question of the scope and method of restoration and maintenance to the Chatham Cenotaph will be going back before the Municipal Heritage Committee.

Committee chair John Taylor said additional information on the subject has come to light since the group last met.

“I’ve asked Jerry Hind to make a presentation about the Cenotaph and I want the committee to examine the information from the Canadian Conservation Institute in Ottawa,” he said. “It may change our decision or it may not but it’s im-

portant to have as much information as possible.”

Local historian Jerry Hind said he’s concerned the statue atop the 93-year-old monument may be damaged if the work isn’t done properly.

Jeff Bray, manager of parks and open spaces for the municipality, said he has consulted experts in the field.

“I consulted with a conservator I worked closely with when I managed the Halifax Public Gardens restoration in the wake of Hurricane Juan’s devastation.

Victorian era statuary and cast fountains were included in the scope of work. The conservator agreed that our statue cleaning methodology was within

conservancy best practices,” he said. “It is the same approach she has used on the 40+ bronze statues she has restored in her career. She also noted that statues should be regularly cleaned in this manner as components of the accumulated grim contains corrosive materials that can harm the bronze.”

Bray said the federal government is aware of plans for the work.

“Veterans Affairs was very clear. Any inappropriate proposed restoration approaches would not be accepted. The municipality’s grant submission project scope was vetted by the

restoration experts at Veterans’ Affairs and subsequently approved,” he said.

“Accordingly, the extent of the proposed statue cleaning methodology adheres to Veterans’ Affairs and Canadian Conservation Institute guidelines, i.e., ‘wash the bronze with water and a conservation-approved detergent, with gentle hand

scrubbing to remove loose material’. The verdigris will not be removed.”

The committee meeting will take place May 18.

The project qualified for a federal grant after a decades-old spelling error was discovered.

The amount of the grant is not being disclosed since the project will be tendered.

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Nearly 500 runners of all ages laced up Saturday morning to be part of the five kilometre Run for Mental Health at Kingston Park.

The fourth annual event, hosted by the Mental Health Network of Chatham-Kent raised nearly $40,000, funds that race director Jennifer

Jackson said will go directly to programs to support individuals and families of those living with mental help symptoms.

“One in four people will live with symptoms at some point in their lives,” she said. “Our goal is to ensure that all people have a comfort level to speak about their experiences.”

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Mayor cleared in OPP investigation

By Jim Blake jim@chathamvoice.com

The Ontario Provincial Police have found no basis for criminal breach of trust allegations against Mayor Randy Hope and members of his administration.

Mayor Randy Hope said the announcement, made this morning by the Chatham-Kent Police Ser-

vice on behalf of the OPP, is a relief. “ I don’t want to m a k e to big a Randy Hope deal of this but it has been a load on my mind for a long time,” he

said. “I’ve always said I did nothing wrong. I’m glad it’s over; I’m just sad that it took too long.”

The OPP anti-rackets squad began its investigation in August of 2013 at the request of the Chatham-Kent Police Service.

The CKPS had received a complaint concerning Hope and other municipal officials’ actions regarding the Capitol

Theatre and another property.

Since the mayor is a member of the CKPS board, then-chief Dennis Poole turned the matter over to provincial police.

A media release was sent out by the CKPS this morning.

“These allegations were thoroughly investigated by the Anti-Rackets Branch, Criminal Inves-

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OPP,” it noted.

John Norton, Chief Legal Officer for the municipality, said the C-K’s senior management team fully cooperated with the OPP investigation.

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has been active in trying to attract Chinese investment.

“They (the Chinese firm) were looking at the U.S. but they like us because of the geographical location and our favourable exchange rate,” he said.

Decision makers from the firm will return in June to examine locations and discuss details.

“There are two phases to the investment,” Burton said. “The first involves 20 to 30 employees and the second could result in a manufacturing plant.”

He said the recent trip to China by himself and Mayor Randy Hope has also resulted in a venture capitol firm showing interest in Chatham-Kent’s food hub and greenhouse industry.

Chinese investors visit Chatham-Kent

A referral from the provincial government could result in a Chinese firm agreeing to set up a tire recycling plant in Chatham-Kent.

Economic Development Director Michael Burton said the municipality hosted officials from the unnamed company and things appear favourable.

“We met these businessmen at the Canadian Embassy in Beijing a week ago and they liked what they heard,” he said.

“They arrived here to get a look at our community.”

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Remembering Molly

By Bruce Corcoran bruce@chathamvoice.com

Erieau said goodbye to a local legend May 5, as Molly Vidler was laid to rest.

The “Molly” in Molly and OJ’s passed away May 1 at the age of 86.

Kristy Shillington knew Molly,

the “Queen of Erieau,” for more than three decades, as she began working at the restaurant in 1983.

“Molly just lit up a room when she came in. She was a true gem,” she said. “She knew how to make people laugh.”

Molly’s route to Erieau began in Belfast, Ireland, her birthplace.

Molly McCoy married OJ Vidler there in 1948, after meeting OJ while he was stationed there with the Royal Canadian Navy during the Second World War. Following their marriage, she immigrated to Canada, arriving in Montreal and settling in Erieau, OJ’s home town.

They eventually opened a grocery store, and in 1966, moved it to the current site of the iconic restaurant, adding a coffee shop.

That restaurant sprang up on the site in the 1970s, attracting thousands to Erieau every year.

Through the years, Molly and OJ remained very active in interacting with the customers, Shillington said.

“Molly and OJ used to sit at the tables. She’d be in Friday and Saturday nights sitting with the clientele and sharing stories,” she said.

Shillington described Molly as “the truest of Irish,” and a big fan of celebrating her heritage, especially every March 17.

“St. Paddy’s Day was her favourite day of the year,” she said.

As for life around the restaurant without Molly, she said it won’t be easy.

“It’s going to be rough not having her around.

But she would say, ‘We must go on,’” Shillington said.

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All smiles

It was a good week to be Randy Hope.

The often-embattled but always-elected mayor was finally cleared when the Ontario Provincial Police found no basis for criminal breach of trust allegations against Hope and senior staff members.

The decision cleared a cloud that had been over his head for the better part of three years.

Reaction in the community ranged from “there never should have been an investigation” to “someone’s paid someone off.”

Both extremes are nonsensical.

It’s not like mayors haven’t fun afoul of the law before, with Joe Fontana and the late Rob Ford notable examples.

Once the issues were raised, the only solution was to complete an investigation.

As regular readers know, we’re not into blind faith of institutions or their leaders, but to suggest the OPP were derelict in their duties is irresponsible.

As if that wasn’t enough to make the mayor smile, later in the week representatives from a Chinese firm visited Chatham-Kent to consider whether to set up a tire recycling facility here.

The community has become understandably leery of investment that just doesn’t seem to pan out, but it’s doubtful these businessmen travelled from Beijing to Chatham just for some greenhouse tomatoes.

Unlike the trips to China, optimism doesn’t cost anything.

It’s a celebration There aren’t many things as energizing as the enthusiasm of youth, so it was virtually impossible not to feel the energy as you walked into the former YMCA gymnasium on King St. Monday.

The event was the formal launch of the ACCESS Open Minds hub, a project designed to bring all of the youth mental health programs in the community together under one roof.

Anyone expecting a stuffy, academic driven event would be surprised and delighted to find that it’s a program designed very much by and for the 11 to 25 age group it serves.

It corrects a long-standing problem of fragmented services in which it was easy for young people to get lost, give up or fall between the cracks.

Mental illness is difficult to deal with at any age but for those in an age group who constantly face the twin demons of fitting in while establishing their own identities, it is considerably more difficult.

Throw in the short life experience of the age group and the potential for untreated illness to grow only becomes more likely.

It was no small feat for Chatham-Kent to land this project. It’s only one of 12 in Canada and speaks volumes about the efforts of Paula Reaume-Zimmer and her team. Listening to the community you serve not only makes sense, it saves lives.

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Opinion

Wallaceburg deserves its ER Sir: Efforts to turn Wallaceburg’s Sydenham District Hospital into a “fast-patient and do-youwant-fries-with-that” drive-thru persists.

Health and health care in Canada, the difference clearly defined, are both based on legislation and policy. Canada’s constitution, the supreme law of the land, guarantees to protect the rights of all, aboriginal, non-aboriginal, to the legal definition of health care for everyone, rather than controlled by a select few.

Canada’s $185-billion health-care system – $135 billion of that being taxpayer funded – guarantees taxpayers have an authority, an ownership and are major stakeholders to a level of health care they want.

Government is retained by taxpayers to manage, not control, at taxpayer expense. Taxpayers pay for a level of service and health care.

Private–public partnerships are consistently encouraged by government.

In the matter of mandatory and expected health care, taxpayers have a binding contract with the federal and provincial governments, whereby such a contract could be

considered agreements enforceable at law.

Federal and provincial authority involves health-care overlap, making both government levels fully responsible and obedient to the constitution relevant to the legislative definition of health care.

Provinces do not have exclusive jurisdiction to totally manage the delivery of or the totality of what would constitute health care. Health care is governed by power of our constitution, acting exclusively for the majority of the taxpayers and not what a handful may like to see.

The preamble for health care mirrors that of our Supreme Court of Canada mandate, that is, to act in the best interest of the majority, not any one group, organization, coffee club or moped gang.

Additionally, taxpayers have a charter right to demand the health care they want and expect by its definition.

Further, under our constitution, for any and all amendments, Ottawa has complete jurisdiction to transfer required funding to provinces as would be required, based on con-

stitutional realities for the responsible and provincially mandated delivery of health care for all or specific jurisdictions.

The framework of governance for our 150 Ontario hospitals is intended to rest with provincial authority, without federal veto, digesting the process from Ottawa to the province, through the Ministry of Health, entrusted to be strictly, efficiently, responsibly, absent of unnecessary patient risk, entrusted to LHINS, working within a contracted framework with the respective hospital.

Such would guarantee a level of emergency and general health care, that, pursuant to the Canada Health Care Act, under “care policy” would provide the former without creating delays, financial and other.

Legislated health care does not start at the respective hospital but starts when the emergency call is first received.

In the world of “triage,” this means getting to the patient in emergency, performing the required mobile care at point of patient contact and getting

the respective patient to the hospital emergency room without unnecessary delays. Emergencies from Port Lambton, Walpole, a plethora of points north of Wallaceburg, having to transport emergency patients into Chatham, adding up to an hour of time, pending on weather, would create the delays that our legislation qualifies not to support.

It appears to me legislation is on the side of the thousands of people I have experienced at numerous Save Our Sydenham meetings. Health care belongs to and is the property of the taxpayer, having the jurisdictional and authoritative power to direct without equivocality, a demand to retain a full capacity hospital in Wallaceburg.

Additionally, removing responsible legislated emergency care from SDH is akin to dismantling our Wallaceburg public and high schools, our arenas and parks and cultural centres all the while expecting the community to grow. It isn’t going to work and gives rise to review involuntary mismanagement.

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CKHA blasted by coalition

By Jim Blake jim@chathamvoice.com

The executive director of the Ontario Health Coalition said Monday she was astonished by “aggressive” efforts to end delivery of emergency health care service at the Sydenham District Hospital campus despite provincial assurances it would continue to fund them.

During a press conference, Natalie Mehra, executive director of the Ontario Health Coalition, said CKHA administration was in a “very good

position” following public statements in the provincial legislature last month.

“We were in a very good position,” she said. “Both the premier and health minister said unequivocally that they had no intention of closing down the emergency department. We couldn’t have been in a better position.”

“Then to come back with what appears to be appears to be a coordinated public campaign to close the emergency department at Sydenham District Hospital despite the word of the health minis-

ter and despite the word of the premier is astonishing to me,” she said. “I’ve never seen anything like it.”

“I don’t think there’s a hospital board in Ontario or a CEO or leadership that would persue such a public aggressive course to close down services in a community after the provincial government has spoken so definitely about keeping them open.”

She continued, “I’ve never seen hospital leadership say a hospital within their own Alliance is unsafe. It puts the public in a

terrible position and puts the medical staff in a terrible position.”

She questioned the Public General Hospital and St. Joseph’s Boards move to suspend governance as immoral and irresponsible.

She said the boards are in uncharted legal territory since “there is no such thing as suspending governance” under the Public Hospitals Act. Councillor Carmen McGregor said the public needs to know there is no question Sydenham Campus offers excellent care in a safe environment.

“These kinds of inflammatory statements in no way serve the interests of our residents, our community or the Alliance,” she said.

Retired nurse Shirley Roebuck, a member of local chapters of the Ontario Health Coalition and a key organizer in a trip to Queen’s Park where Premier Wynne and Health Minister Hoskins spoke, said Wallaceburg is not alone in its fight.

She was providing information on health care cutbacks at a nursing home on the weekend where people from Chatham,

Sarnia and as far away as North Bay were lending their support.

“This isn’t an issue where people from one area can be pitted against another,” she said. “Health care is a right for all Ontarians, not just a chosen few as decided by boards or health bureaucrats.”

Attempts to obtain comment from the spokesman for the PGH and St. Joseph’s boards by press time were unsuccessful.

The boards have retained legal counsel in regard to the suspension of governance, as has the SDH board.

Millions in health funding sought

A group of Chatham-Kent health care providers has submitted a request for up to $35 million in capitol funding for upgrading the emergency department in the Chatham campus of the Chatham-Kent Health Alliance, consolidation of mental health & addictions services and of the creation of a health care “hub” in Wallaceburg.

Boards of the Public General and St. Joseph’s hospitals, the Chatham-Kent Community Health Centres and Canadian Mental Health Association have asked the Erie St. Clair LHIN to provide funding for the plan.

Under the proposal, the “hub” would feature a nurse practitioner staffed urgent care facility on a 16-hour basis, mirroring a plan the two Chatham boards say was already submitted to the LHIN earlier this year.

The plan calls for a single facility housing the CKCHC programs, CMHA LK, CKHA Diagnostic Services, the Chatham-Kent Family Health Team Wallaceburg site, the EMS station and an integrated Community Paramedicine Program.

With some exceptions, notably in the level of urgent care services, the plan bears similarities to that announced by the Sydenham District Hospital board last month.

The SDH board had approached the Chatham-Kent Community Health Centres to discuss the SDH proposal, however, Health Centres board president Shirley Davies declined.

The site will allow the partners to optimize shared services such as registration, support services and other supports and

ancillaries.

It is expected to cost $9 to $10 million, about the same level as the SDH plan.

The bulk of the overall request is to upgrade the Chatham ER department at a cost of $10 to $14 million to implement a Rapid Assessment Zone (RAZ) program in Chatham. Changes to the facility are also required to better enable patient flow and access to services.

The final $5 million of the request is for centralization of mental health services at 240 Grand Ave. W. The Canadian Mental Health Association and CKHA have been moving toward integration with a com-

mon management team, electronic health record platform, care management philosophy and service programming.

According to a media release from Davies, Spencer Dickson, chair of the Lambton-Kent branch of the Canadian Mental Health Association, and Jane Havens Board Chair Public General Hospital, the strategy “creates key enablers to better support high-quality, accessible care for the broad Chatham-Kent community both now and in the fu-

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News

New era in mental health services

Part of that effort was the creation of a Youth Advisory Council (YAC) last year to co-design both the Young people in Chaphysical and virtual spactham-Kent who want to es of ACCESS. use mental health services Chaz Langford, one will soon have the opporof the volunteers who tunity to do so in a sethelped shape the effort ting that was designed for said, “I really want to see them and by them. the ball keep rolling to The ACCESS Open bring awareness to mental Minds Centre in the forillness and eliminate the mer YMCA building on stigma. I hope spaces like King Street held a cerethis will continue to popmony Monday afternoon. up across North America, The building is expected because it’s a serious issue to be fully operational by facing society right now.”

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Paula Reaume-Zimmer, The idea behind the faIntegrated Vice President, Mental Health & Addictions Services, CKHA, CMHA Lambton-Kent and Bluewater Health praised the commitment which has marked the project.”

“There is synergy, refreshed partnerships and a strong community commitment to our CK youth and their families. It’s a privilege to be part of something that we consider will be a true game changer,” she said.

Funding supplied through the Chatham Rotary Club for a number of Jim Blake/The Chatham Voice Several hundred people were on hand Monday to help celebrate the launch of ACCESS years was noted as a key Open Minds, a hub for co-ordinating all mental health services for youth under one roof. Here, part in the formative stagYouth Advisory Committee member Chaz Langford; Paula Reaume-Zimmer, Integrated Vice es of mental health serPresident, Mental Health & Addictions Services, CKHA; and CKHA chief of staff Dr. RanjithT:10”vices integration locally.

Lead investigator Dr. Chandrasena show off one of the ACCESS T-shirts at the event.

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cility is to provide a broad based, easy to use facility that cuts across a myriad of programs.

It is one of 12 across Canada and the only one in Ontario to feature a model that connects youth and adolescents aged 11 to 25 with mental health services all under one roof.

ACCESS has been launched under Canada’s Strategy for Patient-Oriented Research (SPOR). It is funded through a partnership between the Canadian Institute of Health Research (CIHR) and the

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The choice of Chatham-Kent was due in part to strong local mental health integration efforts by the Chatham Kent Health Alliance and Canadian Mental Health Association Lambton Kent.

“Chatham-Kent’s deep commitment to youth mental health services is providing a role model for communities across Canada,” said Ian Boeckh, President of the Graham Boeckh Foundation.

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News Take a spin for Fort McMurray

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More than 300 drivers turned out on short notice Saturday for a special Lally Ford’s Drive for UR Community test drive at Ursuline College Chatham. The event was part of a national effort by Ford Canada that matched local funds raised and sent the money to the Red Cross for relief efforts in Fort McMurray.

The event raised $6,000 for the UCC Me to We program and another $6,000 for Alberta.

When dignitaries gathered Monday afternoon to mark the beginning of a new era in youth mental health services, many of them were unaware that it began because of the generosity of a woman who sold doughnuts for a living.

Margaret Murphy operated Sunshine Bakery at the William Pitt Hotel and for much of his childhood, Tom Campbell would stop in and buy a doughnut on his way to or from school during the early 1940’s.

Margaret took a liking to the young man who grew up to become a prominent Chatham lawyer and eventually one of her financial advisors.

“She was an amazing woman,” Campbell, now 85 and retired, said of Mrs. Murphy.

“She was very practical and down to earth. She invested very wisely.”

“She had inexpensive tastes,” he said. “But she was always dressed immaculately.

And she had great doughnuts for a nickel. They were huge, and eventually they jacked them up to a dime but they were still a great deal.”

Mrs. Murphy died in the early 1980s’, predeceased by her husband. The couple had no children and much of the estate was earmarked to

be used to help the youth of Chatham.

A sizeable amount went towards local groups including the YMCA, while more than a million found its way to the Downtown Rotary Club.

Tom Storey, club president in 1990, was shocked when approached by Campbell to tell him of the money and the executors’ dilemma as to what to do with it.

“Tom, as one of the executors, approached us and asked what we would do with the money,” he said.

“They had waited five years after Mrs. Murphy’s death and were looking for ideas.

I believe they spoke with a number of other organizations as well.”

The money continued to grow and in 2003 the club was contacted and informed it would be receiving more than $1 million dollars.

“Diane McGuigan was the president and we formed a committee to figure out what to do,” he said. “This was way beyond the kind of money we were used to dealing with at the club level. It was a different kettle of fish.”

The committee studied the needs of the community and found a huge need for mental health care for young people.

“We found there were 36 different agencies involved in one way or another. We held

a meeting and had a tremendous turnout. It was clear there was no single group coordinating things.”

In October of 2004, the committee presented the idea of a pilot project on mental health.

“It was unanimously supported,” Storey said. “It wasn’t the usual service club bricks and mortar project. We took a leap of faith.”

The club worked with Dr. Ranjith Chandrasena and others to develop the TNT (Today Not Tomorrow) program which aims to provide help to youth at the first indication of any psychotic behaviour.

With eventual support from the Erie St. Clair Local Health Integration Network (LHIN) and ongoing support from the club, idea blossomed into the Open Access centre slated to begin operation this September.

“It’s been a real trend setter in Ontario and Canada,” Storey said. “I’m grateful to the members of our club who looked around and saw what was needed and I’m grateful that this project has found its way to what it is and will become.”

As for Mrs. Murphy, Tom Campbell believes she would consider the money well spent.

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Business

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core of our membership and employ nearly three million Ontarians, which is why we’ve decided to undertake the Small Business Too Big To Ignore campaign,” said Allan O’Dette, President and CEO of the OCC. “The insights gained from the local chamber consultations will inform an upcoming OCC report to be released during Small Business week in October 2016. We’re really looking forward to the feedback.”

voids in their workforce we need to foster greater connections between skilled workers and employers.”

Along with fellow chambers of commerce and boards of trade throughout the province, the Chatham-Kent Chamber will hold consultations over the next six months with small business owners to identify the barriers that they face.

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The effort will highlight tham-Kent and Ontario at contributions of small large as we work together businesses to communi- to enhance the environties and investigate the ment for doing business.”

Bishop said more than top barriers to small busi90 per cent of the chamness growth.

Kicking off the initiative ber’s 375 members qualify as small is the OCC report “Building a 21st centu- businesses, since they Top 3 Ob- ry workforce has been employ less stacles to a cornerstone of our than 100 Small Busipeople. ness Suc- advocacy efforts for In addition cess, aimed quite some time.” to the rising at starting - Gail Bishop cost of doa conversation about the underlying ing business, the report challenges that are weigh- also lists infrastructure ing on small businesses gaps and a lack of access to skilled workers as the and stifling job creation.

In the report, the OCC top three obstacles weighcites the rising cost of do- ing on small business.

According to a recent ing business as a major impediment to small busi- OCC survey, 39 percent of ness growth. In fact, OCC employers have had diffisurvey results show that culty filling a job opening one in 20 businesses in the over the past year and a province expect to close half - an increase of 11 pertheir doors in the next five centage points since 2014.

“Building a 21st centuyears due to rising electricity prices. In addition, ry workforce has been 38 percent will see their a cornerstone of our adbottom line shrink, with vocacy efforts for quite the cost of electricity de- some time,” Bishop said. laying or canceling invest- “We’ve seen tremendous ment in the years to come. progress on this file over

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Life

A growing idea at the C-K library eties of fruits, vegetables and herbs are available to be ‘loaned.’

“We’re in the early stages of the program but we’ve already had strong interest from groups such as the Chatham Horticultural Society which has provided us with seeds,” she said.

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Chelsie Abraham, manager of public services at the Chatham-Kent Public Library, shows off packets of seeds available for lending. More than 50 varieties of fruits, vegetables, herbs and fruits are available to be “loaned.”

Local residents will be able to grow more than just their brains at the Chatham-Kent Public Library thanks to a seed-lending project just getting started.

Chelsie Abraham, manager of public services at the library, said seeds from more than 50 vari-

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The seed-lending program has proven popular at other libraries across Canada and the United States and was actually suggested by a local member.

It’s part of the library’s month-long gardening initiatives that include classes in various subjects from container gardening to rain gardening.

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“Queen Elizabeth II Public School is going to donate 30 different seed varieties,” she said.

Abraham said those using the program will have the opportunity to grow affordable, healthy food.

“All it takes is some seed, some space and the effort,” she said.

Although seeds gained from this year’s plants don’t have to be returned, the library is hoping many participants will do just that.

“If we can get a really healthy exchange of seeds going it will make the project that much better and perhaps it can be expanded to branches throughout the municipality,” she said.

Using the program is as

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Life

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Samantha Meredith wants people to know history isn’t something that just happens somewhere else – Chatham is alive with it.

Meredith was the co-ordinator of the 17th annual John Brown Festival held Saturday at the WISH Centre.

The event, sponsored by the Chatham-Kent Black Historical Society, commemorates the life of John Brown, an American abolitionist who organized a meeting at the First Baptist church in 1859 prior to his attack on a U.S. arsenal in Harper’s Ferry West Virginia.

“We’re standing literally steps away from a meeting held in a Chatham church by a man whose actions helped spark the Ameri-

can Civil War,” she said.

“Chatham residents were witness to and part of the effort to ensure the end of slavery,” she said. “It doesn’t get much more important than that.”

This year’s meeting attracted nearly 100 persons, the most in many years.

It was dedicated to the memory of Mildred Jackson, a prominent contrib-

utor to the society.

Gwen Robinson said Mildred “brought honesty and integrity, spending her own money to travel to Harper’s Ferry (West Virginia), Washington, Philadelphia to tell Chatham’s story.”

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Thursday, May 12, 2016 • Spring Used Book Sale at the Chatham branch of the CKPL from 10:00am-8:00pm.

• Open euchre at The Chatham Legion, William & Colborne St., Chatham at 1:00pm.

• Humanitarian Emily Hime will be visiting the Tilbury branch of the CKPL at 6:00pm.

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• Quarter Auction at BR.243 Royal Canadian Legion, Ridgetown. Sponsored by the Legion Ladies Auxiliary. Tickets $5. Includes one paddle. Starts at 7:00pm.

Friday, May 13, 2016 • Meal and darts at The Chatham Legion, William & Colborne St., Chatham. Dinner from 5:30pm-7:00pm. Choice of chicken, roast beef or fish & chips for $9.00. One meat draw. Open darts at 7:30pm.

• Kent Branch OGS monthly meeting to be held from 7:00pm-8:30pm at the McKinlay Reception Centre, 463 St. Clair St., Chatham. Free and open to the public. This months topic: Newspapers - A family history goldmine.

Saturday, May 14, 2016 • 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 man Power.

• Walk for Alzheimer’s, formerly known as The Walk for Memories. 9:30am-12:00pm. www.walkforalzheimers.ca.

Sunday, May 15, 2016 • Bingo at BR. 243 Royal Canadian Legion, Ridgetown. Sponsored by the Legion Ladies Auxiliary from 2:00pm-4:00pm. Entry fee $10 and includes 4 cards. Jackpot $200.

• Voice of Triumph Inspirational Night Service at Voice of Triumph, 135 Queen St., Chatham at 7:00pm. Anointed guest preacher: Rev. Leslie Johnson from Windsor. Many singers.

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Monday, May 16, 2016 • Senior euchre is at The Chatham Legion, William & Colborne St., Chatham at 1:00pm.

• Blenheim-Harwich Horticultural Society meeting, 59 Ellen St., basement meeting room, Trinity Anglican Church at 7:30pm.

Guest speaker Diane Flook is giving a presentation on the recreational trails and pathways of Chatham-Kent.

Tuesday, May 17, 2016 • Open euchre and 2 person team euchre at The Chatham Legion, William & Colborne St., Chatham. Open euchre at 1:00pm. Evening (2 person team) registration is at 6:30pm and starts at 7:00pm.

• The Chatham OEYC presents: Rub-A-DubDub. Get a free book and learn songs to use during bath time. 1:00pm-3:00pm at 79 Eugenie St. Register at 519-358-1451 x0 • Blenheim OEYC presents: Toilet Learning. A public health nurse will answer any of your questions. 10:00am-11:00am at 182 King St.., Blenheim. Register at 519-358-1451 x0.

Wednesday, May 18, 2016 • Pepper and fun darts at The Chatham Legion, William & Colborne St., Chatham.

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• Patricia M. Productions Spring Fashion Tour at 6:00pm at the Chilled Cork and Lounge.

Call restaurant for reservations. Dinner and fashion show from many stores. Supporting Outreach for Hunger.

• Feed your Mind . . .a unique Literacy and Nutrition program designed to promote learning and healthy eating for children ages 3-6yrs and their parents. 11:00am-1:00pm. St. Michael’s Hall, Maple St., Ridgetown. Please register 519-3581451 x0. Space is limited!

Thursday, May 19, 2016 • Open euchre at 1:00pm at The Chatham Legion, William & Colborne St., Chatham.

• Walk a Mile in Her Shoes Boxed Lunch Day. Box lunch delivered to your place of work deliciously prepared by Maple City Bakery!

Deliveries between 11:00am and noon or you can pick up your orders at the Evangel Church, 76 Sandys St., Chatham. All proceeds will go the support the Chatham-Kent Womens Centre. $9.50 each. Orders should be submitted no later then May 16, 2016. Please email Tracy at tracylu@ckwc.org.

CK Metal Detecting Club Meetings - Last Thursday of the Month, 7:00pm in the Kinsman Room, Erikson Arena, 341 Delaware Ave., Chatham. Guests Welcome.

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RM exhibit a local gem I’m going to say something that the municipality can’t seem to say: Thank you, RM Classic Cars, thank you.

Thanks for being a great part of the fabric of Chatham-Kent. Yes, we are an agricultural-based community that once had a thriving manufacturing base related to the automotive industry. But we also have this gem of an operation, and homegrown at that, in RM. I attended my first Cars & Coffee event on the weekend to take some photos for The Voice. I planned on breezing through, snapping pics and heading out in about 15 minutes.

I was there for over an hour, caught up in conversations, or outright gawking at the vehicles on display.

Even driving into the parking lot, you could feel the vibe. The low rumble of vintage car engines as people pulled their showcase vehicles up to display them certainly set the tone.

But then I walked into the Classic Car Exhibit – you know, the one the municipality shut down when it pulled its tourism funding earlier this year – and encountered South Kent Coun. Trevor Thompson and his family eyeing up the various vehicles.

There were clusters of folks gathered all over the place – inside and out – talking about the cars on display, the costs of restoration and generally enjoying the atmosphere.

It seemed like every second person had a camera strapped around their necks.

All the RM folks were quick to chat, proud of their work, and were very polite folks.

I walked up to see a couple of guys working on a beautiful red Ferrari outside the RM shop. It turns out it

Bruce Corcoran was a 1971 355 GTB4, a ridiculously gorgeous car.

They cranked it up, and heads turned. A V12 engine can do that.

After shutting it down, the driver got out, walked over to a red Alfa Romeo that was parked beside the Ferrari, closed the passenger door, looked over at me and said, “Bruce!”

It was Dr. Victor Varma, a radiologist at the hospital and the man who injected cortisone into my hip before I ultimately had it replaced.

I hadn’t recognized him behind his sunglasses, and mistakenly assumed he was an RM staffer.

Again, how cool is that? A radiologist who is such a gear head that he’s right at home at RM, not looking at all out of place beside his buddy, Don McLellan, who has worked for RM for 27 years.

Victor certainly knows his vehicles.

He filled me in on the 355’s history, speaking with such a passion I asked if it was his car. He laughed and said it was out of his price range. McLellan said it is worth about $700,000.

But the 1968 Alfa Romeo was Victor’s.

And those were just two of the cars people came across on Saturday at RM. Here we have a facility where the Batmobile is on display nearby Hermann Goering’s Mercedez Benz roadster (complete with bullet holes).

Continued on page 17

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Incredible variety of vintage vehicles at RM Continued from page 16

And these are not far away from the General Lee from the Dukes of Hazzard, while a Lamborghini Countach and dozens of other vintage, antique and downright unique vehicles sit nearby.

Even if you aren’t a gear head – and I’m not – you have to appreciate what we have here.

Some are display vehicles, while others are sweet rides that will soon be at auction at some faraway exotic location.

And they are all right here in Chatham-Kent. On display for

the public. Well, at least during Cars & Coffee events, because the municipality killed the exhibit when they pulled the funding.

The price tag for the exhibit

was just over $15,000 a year, after factoring the price of tickets sold to the exhibit.

Yes, a $15,000 expense to a very unique tourism draw.

Should I mention how much

the Bradley Centre costs us each year in expenses? How about the price of the business park on Highway 401 that seems to be missing a key ingredient: businesses?

With RM, when you have such a unique treasure in the heart of your municipality – and it’s in a rural setting no less – you don’t discourage people from seeing it, you promote it.

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Fun Stuff 37 Fool 39 Roams 41 Followed relentlessly 43 Menagerie 44 Chew, as rodents do 46 Used a paper towel 50 Cincinnati’s state 53 Pinch 55 Infamous Roman emperor 56 Aspiration 57 Genetic stuff 58 Kindly bloke 59 Disarray 60 Evergreen type 61 Decks in the ring

ACROSS 1 Towel designation 4 Wildebeest 7 Oscar winner Patricia 11 Concept 13 A billion years 14 Gumbo need 15 Ripped 16 Kreskin’s claim 17 Office part-timer

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8 -- out a living 9 Upper limb 10 Once around the track

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Special thanks to Fr. Paul Millward for the blessing and renewal of our marriage vows and to my brother Harvey German for the readings.

Last and best of all to our family, Darlene, Claudio, Derek, Tiffany, Duane, Jessica.

Brian, Rose, Julie and great grandson Cohen.

Thanks for another great chapter in our book of memories.

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Happy 60th Wedding Anniversary Leo and Pauline Segeren

May 12, 2016 with love and best wishes from your family

REHNER (Lowe), Mary Grace passed away on May 5, 2016 at the age of 80. Predeceased by her mother Eva Lowe (nee Slade). She and her much loved husband John, of 61 years of marriage, lived in Chatham with their two sons, John (Linda) and Jeffery (Jennifer).

Grandmother of Chris, Katie (Dave), Julia and Lillian. She leaves behind her sister Audrey and many nieces and nephews.

In keeping with Mary’s wishes cremation has taken place. Celebration of Life to take place on Sunday May 15, 2016 from 2-5pm at the “Pine Room”, Smitty’s Restaurant located at 307 Grand Avenue, West, Chatham.

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