YOUR HEALTH...
YOUR COMMUNITY!
YOUR COMMUNITY!
by Cal Taillefer, Chair, Health Centre Capital
Campaign
Here we are, well into Summer and we are still on
the Fundraising Trail. About $65,000 more should just about do it for our
Medical Centre goal. Things have been trickling in, but folks, we sure would
like to gush across that finish line. So please, get your donations in and
encourage your family and friends to do the same! Just to remind you, all
amounts over $20 are tax receiptable and $100 and over is recognized on the
Donor Wall.
The Home and Garden Tour was a wonderful success, raising over $1500.00. Thanks to all the sponsors and home/garden owners. Congratulations to Sally Rand, winner of the $100.00 gift certificate from Jack Lake Landscape and Linda Elle, winner of the $25.00 gift certificate from Apsley Garden and Cottage Shoppe.
Our upcoming fundraisers consist of the 5K Run and Walk on August 12 Sponsored by Running Room Ltd and DDC Sports Design. Info at www.runningroom.com or donna@anstruthermarina.com or call Donna Friedrich at 705-656-4783.
We thank all of the organizers. Please come out and join us.
Speaking of art, the large piece by Debi Fitgerald (pictured above), part of the Brendan Court Memorial, has been hung in the Medical Centre waiting room. It is absolutely stunning!
Another touch of creativity came from the Verduyn/Noon wedding when all of the empty beer bottles were donated to our cause.
In case you've been wondering why money was spent on a new Township Office and not the Medical Centre:
This infrastructure grant was very limited in its direction and could not be applied to our project. In fact, as recent as last week, we checked with our MP and there are still no funds that could be directed our way. So, when it is all over, this Community can be proud that they did it, even though government monies would have been appreciated. Thanks for your support and financial thoughts.
Our fundraising campaign is coming to a close and now its time to celebrate!
Food ... drinks ... music ... tours of the health centre ... what more could you ask of a party?
by Katie Jackson
Join us August 27th, 2:00-5:00 pm at the Health Centre to celebrate our successful campaign at the White Coat Garden Party wear a white coat or shirt and enter to win a fabulous door prize! Mingle with old friends, meet new friends and sample delicious food from the Country Snack Bar, CreekView Bed and Breakfast, Divine Discoveries, the Herons End Market, the Hideaway Grill, In the Mood, Rousing Fare, the Shish-ka-bob Hut and St. Georges Womens Guild. Sip on beer and wine made right here in the Kawarthas. Bid on one of a kind pieces from local artists and collectors dolls at the Silent Art Auction.
Tickets are $15.00 and include 3 food station tickets (children under 12 $5.00), they are available at the North Kawartha Library and Royal LePage in Apsley. To view the items that will be on auction visit our website www.northkawarthahealthcentre.ca.
The Home and Garden Tour was a wonderful success, raising over $1500.00. Thanks to all the sponsors and home/garden owners. Congratulations to Sally Rand, winner of the $100.00 gift certificate from Jack Lake Landscape and Linda Elle, winner of the $25.00 gift certificate from Apsley Garden and Cottage Shoppe.
Our upcoming fundraisers consist of the 5K Run and Walk on August 12 Sponsored by Running Room Ltd and DDC Sports Design. Info at www.runningroom.com or donna@anstruthermarina.com or call Donna Friedrich at 705-656-4783.
We thank all of the organizers. Please come out and join us.
Speaking of art, the large piece by Debi Fitgerald (pictured above), part of the Brendan Court Memorial, has been hung in the Medical Centre waiting room. It is absolutely stunning!
Another touch of creativity came from the Verduyn/Noon wedding when all of the empty beer bottles were donated to our cause.
In case you've been wondering why money was spent on a new Township Office and not the Medical Centre:
This infrastructure grant was very limited in its direction and could not be applied to our project. In fact, as recent as last week, we checked with our MP and there are still no funds that could be directed our way. So, when it is all over, this Community can be proud that they did it, even though government monies would have been appreciated. Thanks for your support and financial thoughts.
Our fundraising campaign is coming to a close and now its time to celebrate!
Food ... drinks ... music ... tours of the health centre ... what more could you ask of a party?
by Katie Jackson
Join us August 27th, 2:00-5:00 pm at the Health Centre to celebrate our successful campaign at the White Coat Garden Party wear a white coat or shirt and enter to win a fabulous door prize! Mingle with old friends, meet new friends and sample delicious food from the Country Snack Bar, CreekView Bed and Breakfast, Divine Discoveries, the Herons End Market, the Hideaway Grill, In the Mood, Rousing Fare, the Shish-ka-bob Hut and St. Georges Womens Guild. Sip on beer and wine made right here in the Kawarthas. Bid on one of a kind pieces from local artists and collectors dolls at the Silent Art Auction.
Tickets are $15.00 and include 3 food station tickets (children under 12 $5.00), they are available at the North Kawartha Library and Royal LePage in Apsley. To view the items that will be on auction visit our website www.northkawarthahealthcentre.ca.
Dear Mr. Prime Minister:
Before the ink was dry on NAFTA, the Canadian softwood lumber industry was attacked by the Americans, led by the lumber barons in the USA and their representatives in Congress. After years of erecting barriers, ignoring dispute settlement formulae, and disobeying Supreme Court rulings, the Americans forced the Canadian industry to the financial wall. Canadian producers cannot sustain operations without access to the American market. Curiously the U.S. is a demand market, not one that needs discounts to assure the sale of our lumber.
At a certain point, $5 billion in unlawful tariffs was accumulated by the U.S. Treasury. The Softwood Lumber issue seemed beyond solution. As it turns out the solution does not require wisdom, it only takes money --- Big Money
During the embargo, many Canadian producers found themselves faced with ruin and were forced to sell their operations and assets; ie. cutting rights, and licenses and woodland expertise. Guess who bought them? American lumber barons. Other than a few foreign-owned producers, the Canadian smaller operations were virtually swallowed up. You can look it up.
Again, as a result of his first pilgrimage to the feet of G.W. Bush, our Prime Minister is given an offer he cannot refuse.
The Dispute can be ended and the trade resumed with limits on market share, and mighty Stephen Harper comes home with a Munich-like resolution to the one problem that has stumped Chretien and Martin before him. Not only that, $4 billion of the $5 billion in unlawful tariffs will be repaid to the victims of the illegal levy. What was the payback for this accommodation?
Those victim-companies who paid these tariffs are now mostly owned by American producers, who get most of the money and whose purchase of the failing Canadian industry is being paid for by the refunded tariff money --- paid by the Canadian companies and expensed against taxes. Hey! WE paid the penalties.
Nice work Stephen. You got the lumber market re-opened, subject to a 37% market limit and you financed the theft of our lumber industry with our own money; plus you left the Eastern Canadian lumber producers out of the equation.
In your thinking we just have to give a majority government to a man with such crafty intelligence and sharp trading abilities. Neville Chamberlain would be proud.
Mr. Harper, sir. As I recall, the Liberals smashed their version of the ship of state on the shoals of the Sponsorship Program which involved $100 million. Here, you frittered away $4 billion and left a "mere" $ billion in the American treasury that allows them to pay for one half a day in Iraq. What is our political penalty for that? Maybe you get a majority government?
Will anyone notice that the Americans get to keep $ one billion of unlawful tariffs, and that they remitted the $ 4 billion recovered that allows Americans to dominate our forestry industry in British Columbia? You can look it up.
If we are only a little bit intelligent we will see political greed for what it is and vote your “Republican” attitude right into oblivion.
You are already acting as like a ‘President’ and Commander-in-Chief, you have repatriated the political religion of Bush, Karl Rove and Rush Limbaugh into the East Block. You don't get it Mr. Prime Minister. We do not admire anyone whose best political friend is a liar and a bandit.
