8A - Southpoint Sun
Letter to the Editor
Wednesday, December 8, 2021
Letters to the Editor
In praise of the vaccination clinic Resident wants to know: Dear Editor, As a couple from the Thanks to those who One cannot help but be over-80 crowd, we are serve aging and often Where is our break at the pumps? impressed with the hard profoundly grateful for more our essential, if not viDear Editor: Price fixing has always been an unfavourable term, but it came to the forefront at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic when the price of scarce goods began to skyrocket. Many people heard of the $35 chickens being sold in Toronto or the huge markup for any bacteria/germ fighting solution or filter face masks. One resource that I have been carefully watching in Leamington is the everfluctuating price of gasoline. With the price of oil recently dropping from the mid 80s to the mid 60s a barrel due to the Omicron variant worries, consumers could have expected a hefty price break at the pumps. Double digit price reductions have happened across Ontario.
People living in Toronto are now paying anywhere between 1.24 to 1.28 per litre. Windsor gas stations are selling from 1.28 to 1.30 per litre, while Chatham fuel pricing is in the 1.32 range. The majority of gas stations in Leamington as I write this today (Dec. 6) are charging 1.39 per litre. You know the feeling you get when you’re at the grocery store purchasing hotdogs at 10 to a package and then buns at 8 to a package? That is the same feeling I get when filling my auto at our local pumps. Where is the double digit savings at the gas pumps for the residents of Leamington? — Bruce Medcalf Leamington
Leamington’s first climate cafe discusses climate issues LEAMINGTON — Leamington’s first ever climate cafe was held Tuesday, November 30 at the Imperial Diner. Over coffee and tea, 15 attendees discussed their love of the local environment, how the earth’s ecosystems support them, and the emotional impact of climate change. Participants discussed their love of Point Pelee, Two Creeks, Seacliff beach and the local bush and wetlands while considering how warming water and atmosphere, as well as more frequent and heavier rainstorms, will
affect these places. Discussion then turned to climate action. Participants talked about climate action on the individual, social, professional and political level. Individual actions like taking fuel efficiency into consideration when buying your next vehicle, flying less and heating less in the winter in order to use less natural gas — a fossil fuel — were discussed. Social actions suggested were striking up conversations about climate change with family and
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friends. Professional actions included considering mitigation, adaptation, and climate risk in long term business planning. Some political actions that were suggested were calling your MP and MPP when environmental legislation is being voted on, protesting, and making sure to vote on election day for a candidate with urgency and ambition to their climate plans. Organizer Erin Lamotte says they are having another such meeting planned for February 22.
work and dedication of those public health providers who, despite apparent exhaustion, registered us and administered COVID vaccination doses at Leamington’s Town Hall Council Chamber on Wednesday, November 24. An absolutely essential task undertaken expeditiously and professionally, and with added smiles and compassion as I whimpered! A well-organized process wherein delays were minimal and smiles of assurance were welcome.
those who delivered our “third” dose of vaccine. Like those working so hard at pop-up vaccination clinics, we also would welcome relief from COVID and its constraints. But based upon global experience with the Spanish flu – a similar pandemic virus – from 1917 until 1921, it seems so probable that we all will continue to remain inconvenienced by those who for whatever perverse and misinformed reasons have chosen to avoid vaccinations.
tal, health needs. Thanks to those wonderful people delivering the jabs so critical to our survival. And if you would like to tangibly thank our medical folks, consider a donation this season to our Erie Shores HealthCare hospital and hospice. It is for you, after all, that our medical professionals work themselves to exhaustion. Thanks, team, from an old guy with a wicked purple cane! – Lloyd Brown-John, Kingsville
Vaccination clinic needs improvement
Dear Editor: My wife and I attended the Leamington COVID-19 vaccination clinic December 1 to get our booster shot – she is 70 and I am 80. I have had serious back surgery and walking any distance is a serious issue. The clinic was held in Council Chambers at Leamington Town Hall. That room is too small to accommodate the number of staff required and the number of people attending. Upon arrival we had to stand outside in freezing temperature for over 20 minutes and the line was longer when
we got inside. There is no protection from the weather or seats to sit on. The entrance and exit from the clinic was through two doors that were meant to be emergency exits not general entrances. They are not handicap accessible – I had to get my walker up and over the entrance door sill and the same on the exit door. There was no accommodation for wheelchair bound individuals if you had to get out of the chair to get inside. The staff tried to do their best, but at one point the room was just
overwhelmed and they stopped people from coming into the building for almost 20 minutes so they could have a deserved break and the room could empty out. That meant an even longer wait for those standing outside in the cold. Surely Leamington has a facility (like the Sherk Centre) that would have been more suited. – Jim Hatch, Leamington Editor’s note: By presstime, the municipality had made changes within the building to alleviate people waiting outside.
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