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Woodstock Ingersoll Echo VOLUME 2 • ISSUE 5
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AUGUST 2, 2024
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Ingersoll music festival taking shape LEE GRIFFI Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
The Town of Ingersoll is buzzing with anticipation as the Good for the Soll Music Festival approaches. The free event, booked for Aug. 24 at Memorial Park, is the brainchild of Ingersoll native Jay Panaseiko who owns Studio73 Digital Media. His interest in the music industry came naturally. “My dad promoted Kiss, Rush, the Rolling Stones, the Eagles and Foreigner, so I grew up in that world. I don’t think he ever wanted me in it and kinda pushed me away. I ended up taking a job at Cami right out of high school for eight years, took a buyout and went to Europe for a year. I wound up teaching English in Taiwan for 20 years.” Panaseiko said it felt like something was missing in his life so he came home and opened his company when he had the idea of starting a music festival. “It would be my Woodstock. Not Woodstock ’99 but the original one,” he joked. “I was working on it but I didn’t know where to go. I started working for different bands and it just morphed. I took on some work for a merchandise company and designed for The Trews, April Wine, Lee Aaron, these types of people, and Helix and I are partners in a lot of stuff.” Helix is the headliner for the festival that also features Canadian rocker Sarah Smith and Ingersoll’s own Oneway Streets. “Lead singer Brian Vollmer and I are good friends and we filmed a documentary during COVID called The Golden Age of the Canadian Bar Circuit. When I told the band I wanted to do this they said they would help me out and I came up with Good for the Soll.” CONTINUED TO PAGE 3
PIZZA PARTY
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Attendees filled downtown Ingersoll during the third annual Pizza Fest that took place in July. Story on page 12.
Affected patient not pleased with Woodstock Hospital privacy breach
LEE GRIFFI
Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
The Woodstock Hospital has released some details about a privacy breach that occurred between January and May of this year. The organization put out a statement on social media late last week and has sent letters to 56 patients who had their privacy breached. “At Woodstock Hospital, we are committed to safeguarding our patients' personal health information and take any breach of privacy very seriously.” It went on to say through its regular auditing processes it identified an employee viewing patients' health information without a valid work-related reason. “Through our investigation, we confirmed that this
was, indeed the case, and this employee no longer works at our organization. As per Ontario’s Personal Health Information Protection Act, we reported it to Ontario's Information and Privacy Commissioner and notified the patients impacted by this incident.” It added several measures are in place to protect patient health information. “These include monthly audits, with both targeted and random checks, to ensure compliance with privacy standards. Access to patient information is also carefully monitored and controlled based on the specific needs of each staff member’s role. We sincerely apologize to the patients affected by this breach.” Woodstock resident Ryan Purdy is one of the 56 people affected by the privacy breach. CONTINUED TO PAGE 2
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