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Town lobbies for medical services By Ron Giofu
Funding for after-hours and weekend medical clinics is being sought by Amherstburg but it is one of many such requests the province is hearing. The Town of Amherstburg teamed with the County of Essex to pitch “More Hours, More Patients, More Care” to the provincial government during the recent Association of Municipalities of Ontario (AMO) conference in Ottawa. Among the local delegation were Mayor Michael Prue, Deputy Mayor Chris Gibb, Councillor Linden Crain, town CAO Valerie Critchley and Deputy CAO/ director of development service Melissa Osborne from the town and Warden Hilda MacDonald and county CAO Sandra Zwiers from the county. According to the town and the county, they “are seeking provincial support to address the lack of weekend and after-hours health care options in a rapidly growing town with an expanding population of seniors that is isolated geographically from hospitals in the urban centres of Windsor and Leamington. “Amherstburg is an outlier in the County of Essex in that it has no urgent-care clinics or walk-in clinics catering to non-rostered patients. The Amherstburg Family Health Team offers a walk-in clinic one day per week and one day on the weekend, but only to rostered patients. The Town’s Nurse Practitioner-led clinic, which similarly treats only rostered patients, offers no care past 6 p.m. or on weekends,” the presentation adds. The submission adds: “Funding for additional physicians for the Amherstburg Family Health Team or funding for additional nurse practitioners to the town’s NPLC would enable either facility to dramatically expand the number of patients they serve while also expanding their hours into the evenings and weekends. It would effectively address the issue of care for non-rostered patients by expanding the number of attached patients.”
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Lee Johnson (left) and Taylor Hallott were just two of the performers at “Amherst Palooza” last Saturday.
Open Air wraps up with Amherst Palooza By Fred Groves All summer long, music has been a big part of Amherstburg’s Open Air Weekends. On Saturday, entertainment took centre stage at the clock tower as 14 different acts delighted those who came out to listen. The specific event, which helped bring Open Air to a conclusion for another year, was called Amherst Palooza. “Lollapalooza is a festival in California. Last year was our first year and it was hosted by Burger 67. This year the town got on board,” said Bethnay D’Alimonte from Musicland who helped sponsor this year’s Amherst Palooza. Beginning at noon and running into the evening, over two dozen musical guests were front-and-centre. It started off with Dave Wilson and was followed by a
duo which calls themselves Petals of Gold. “We’ve been doing this now for two years,” said Tilbury’s Hannah Rivard. “We are both music teachers.” Rivard shared the stage with partner Justin Dow from Windsor who joined in the vocals and played guitar. Asked what type of music Petals of Gold likes to play, Rivard said, “we like to have something that pleases everyone. Leaving the clock tower stage, they immediately went to the Navy Yard Park where several improv stages were set up. That is where Taylor Hallott who performed at 5:30 p.m., spent a good part of her day playing guitar and singing and wearing her fashionable sunglasses. Performers came in all ages and included 11-year-old Jackson Crawley.
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