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Community Care services is looking for volunteers. Community Care services are designed to enhance independence and well being through the Caremobile, Diner’s Club, Drop-in and Outreach, Friendly Visiting, Home Help and Maintenance, Income Tax Clinic and Forms Assistance, Information and Referral, Intergenerational Programs, Frozen Meals, Medical Equipment Registry and Loan Cupboard, Personal Distress Alarms, Telephone Reassurance Checks, Transportation, Wellness Clinics and Workshops and Seminars. Most services are offered free of charge while a few have fees to cover costs. Those living in Burleigh Falls, Big Cedar, and Woodview are serviced by the Lakefield office at 652-8655, TTY 742-2075, or e-mail lakfield@commcareptbo.org If you live north of Northey’s Bay Road please contact the Apsley office at 656-4589, or e-mail us at apsley@commcareptbo.org. Coordinators, Lorri Rork and Peggy Downey, will book an appointment with you to discuss the services and complete a service application. Dr. Semotok is planning Retirement by Helen and Gord Osborne Shock waves reverberate about a community when word gets out that a doctor is leaving. Thus, in learning that our dentist was contemplating retirement in the near future, we felt that the community needed to be aware, to thank Dr. Semotok for his excellent service over 25 years and to assist in any way possible to find a new dentist. Dr. John Semotok has operated his business out of the North Kawartha Health Care Centre since 1980. In hiring Sue Davis as his dental assistant and Kim Comrie as his receptionist, he developed a team that worked well together and offered expertise and compassion in an atmosphere in which one felt comfortable and confident that they were being treated in a high quality, professional manner. To tell you the truth, we always enjoyed our time “in the chair” thanks to their amiable and often entertaining banter. How often can one say that about a visit to the dentist! Dr. Semotok took on an entrepreneurial role in 1990 when he purchased the former Apsley Hotel beside the IGA, renovated it into an apartment/office complex called Chyler Court. He sold this business in 1997. Many hours of his professional time have been spent in volunteer work as he organized teams of dentists to provide treatment in Jamaica and Honduras. More recently he has spent two weeks in northern Ontario working in a remote First Nation community. Currently, the office is open three days a week thanks to Dr, John Helgers who is a temporary replacement until a new dentist can be found to buy the business. The issue of not having a dentist was discussed at the recent Economic Development meeting. On behalf of this group, we thank you, Dr. Semotok, for your years of service to this community and we wish you well in your retirement.	Lifelong Learning Centre looking for Paid Help The North Kawartha Lifelong Learning Centre has an opening for a Volunteer Coordinator. A grant has been awarded through HRSDC for this 9 month contract position. If you are currently on or have been on unemployment insurance in the past three years you may be eligible for this job. Please forward your resume to Lannie Reynolds at the Learning Centre. Local Winder Fun! PolarFest 2006 is coming to Smith-Ennismore-Lakefield, February 3rd-5th. This event is home to the Taylor Cup Pond Hockey Championship on Lake Katchewanooka and the 25th Anniversary BEL Rotary Polar Plunge in Chemong Lake. Please see www.PolarFest.ca for details. Announcement: Crystal Lyn Jane Crosby As you can see by the picture here from 1983, destiny awaited Crystal. Happy Birthday Nurse Betty. Crystal is turning 25 on December 23rd of this year. Love your family and friends. <=== 1983 2005 ==> Crystal graduated June 18, 2005 with Honours on the Dean’s List with a degree in Bachelor of Science of Nursing from York University. Crystal has accepted a full time nursing position at St Michaels’s Hospital on the crisis team in the emergency ward. We are so proud of you! Love your Dad, Mom, Robert, Sharleen, Taelor, Caleb, Kevin, Chrissy, Peter, Bard and Ryan. Special angels Grandpa, Grandma, Terrill & Crosby looking down on your big day. Owenbrook Ladies Golf 2005 by Dorothy Jordison Another successful Golf Season has come to a close. Our season started the last Thursday in May with a pot luck at my cottage where new and old members got acquainted and plans were made for the coming season. We played every Thursday starting the first Thursday in June. Teams were made up by drawing names giving everyone a chance to play with different people. This year we have been able to have a shot gun start so we are all done around the same time. We then go to the clubhouse and enjoy coffee and muffins. Our final game was the Thursday before Thanksgiving. We would like to say thanks to Bruce McNickle and his great staff for a great season. The course has been in excellent shape. Our 2006 season will commence with our Get Acquainted Luncheon at my cottage at 259 Vic Tanner Road. Anyone wishing to join us next season can get in touch with me at 656-9558 or Elaine Reddick at 656-4219.

Community Care services is looking for volunteers.

Community Care services are designed to enhance independence and well being through the Caremobile, Diner’s Club, Drop-in and Outreach, Friendly Visiting, Home Help and Maintenance, Income Tax Clinic and Forms Assistance, Information and Referral, Intergenerational Programs, Frozen Meals, Medical Equipment Registry and Loan Cupboard, Personal Distress Alarms, Telephone Reassurance Checks, Transportation, Wellness Clinics and Workshops and Seminars.

Most services are offered free of charge while a few have fees to cover costs. Those living in Burleigh Falls, Big Cedar, and Woodview are serviced by the Lakefield office at 652-8655, TTY 742-2075, or e-mail lakfield@commcareptbo.org If you live north of Northey’s Bay Road please contact the Apsley office at 656-4589, or e-mail us at apsley@commcareptbo.org.

Coordinators, Lorri Rork and Peggy Downey, will book an appointment with you to discuss the services and complete a service application.

Dr. Semotok is planning Retirement

by Helen and Gord Osborne

Shock waves reverberate about a community when word gets out that a doctor is leaving.

Thus, in learning that our dentist was contemplating retirement in the near future, we felt that the community needed to be aware, to thank Dr. Semotok for his excellent service over 25 years and to assist in any way possible to find a new dentist.

Dr. John Semotok has operated his business out of the North Kawartha Health Care Centre since 1980. In hiring Sue Davis as his dental assistant and Kim Comrie as his receptionist, he developed a team that worked well together and offered expertise and compassion in an atmosphere in which one felt comfortable and confident that they were being treated in a high quality, professional manner. To tell you the truth, we always enjoyed our time “in the chair” thanks to their amiable and often entertaining banter. How often can one say that about a visit to the dentist!

Dr. Semotok took on an entrepreneurial role in 1990 when he purchased the former Apsley Hotel beside the IGA, renovated it into an apartment/office complex called Chyler Court. He sold this business in 1997.

Many hours of his professional time have been spent in volunteer work as he organized teams of dentists to provide treatment in Jamaica and Honduras. More recently he has spent two weeks in northern Ontario working in a remote First Nation community.

Currently, the office is open three days a week thanks to Dr, John Helgers who is a temporary replacement until a new dentist can be found to buy the business.

The issue of not having a dentist was discussed at the recent Economic Development meeting. On behalf of this group, we thank you, Dr. Semotok, for your years of service to this community and we wish you well in your retirement.