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creepy crawly critters
WALK THIS WAY Nearly 100 brave kids and parents were wowed by Ethan Waterhouse from Hamilton Reptile’s travelling reptile show at the Elmira library on Wednesday afternoon, part of its weeklong March Break activities. The show included exotic creatures such as an alligator, an albino Burmese python and this rose-haired tarantula named Rosie.
Ambulance services seeing backlog in the region Elizabeth Bate
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ohn Prno wants Woolwich, Wellesley and Wilmot residents to know ambulances will be coming for them when they are called. The director of the Region
of Waterloo’s EMS services said the recent ambulance shortage has had little affect on the townships. “It’s affecting (the townships) less than any one else because we have the two rural emergency response
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units,” Prno explained. The rural emergency response units are single paramedic response units stationed in the townships from 6 a.m. until midnight each day. They cannot be called back into the city. This pro-
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vides outlying areas faster service for care, but as they don’t transport patients to hospital, township residents may still be required to wait for an ambulance. Prno said the region has been seeing an increase in
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