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Volume 3, Issue 35
Wednesday, September 26, 2012
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LDMH, built in 1948, is beginning to look like a new facility with the addition of white cladding. (SUN Photo)
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Exterior facelift at LDMH to be completed this year By Sheila McBrayne Leamington District Memorial Hospital is one of the few hospitals in Ontario that can boast a balanced budget this year. “We’re expecting to still be balanced by the end of this year and are working hard to remain balanced next year... It’s really a matter of how the new funding will affect us, and we don’t know the details of that yet,” said Acting Chief Executive Officer Terry Shields. With its operating budget in check for the moment, the hospital is currently spending its Hospital Infrastructure Renewal Program (HIRP) funding. In 2010 LDMH received approximately $200,000 in HIRP funding. The money was used to start the exterior white cladding on the hospital. Funding from the 2011 HIRP allowed them to continue with another section of the cladding project. Shields admits he was surprised this year when he was told LDMH was receiving $660,000 in HIRP funding for the fiscal year 2012-13. “What else can you say, but thank you and start spending,” he said. Part of the funding is earmarked to finish the exterior cladding of the facility. “ It’s going to look like a brand new hospital from the outside and then we’ll start making it look a lot better on the inside,” said Shields. The cladding will be 90 per cent finished this year, and the 10 per cent that’s not done will not be highly visible. “We wanted to finish it all, but we ended up spending more on the registration area than we anticipated,” said Shields. Inside the hospital, engineers did a final walk-through for the design of the new Women’s Centre. “This allows our five approved vendors to put together bid packages by mid October,” said Shields. “All the construction is internal so that (Continued on Page 3)
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Message to school board: “Don’t close Ruthven Public School” Approximately 100 parents, students and supporters of Ruthven Public School took to the streets of Ruthven on Friday, September 21 at 6 p.m. to let the community know that the Greater Essex County District School Board has not made a decision yet in regards to the Kingsville Family of Schools, which includes Kingsville P.S., Jack Miner P.S., Ruthven P.S. and Kingsville District High School. On September 28 the Director of Education’s recommendations are to be posted on the Board’s website (www. publicboard.ca) as part of the agenda package for the October 2 meeting of the Education Committee. At the Oct. 2 meeting the recommendations will be presented to the Trustees. On November 20 a final determination is expected by the Trustees during the regular School Board meeting. Closing Ruthven P.S. was one option put forward by the Program and Accommodation Review Committee last June.
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Daniela Aguilar, a Grade 6 student at Ruthven Public School participated in the march. (SUN Photos)
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