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Frontenac County paramedics l-r, Paul Kalnins, Derek MacGillivray, Tamara DeVries with “Sim Man” at the North Frontenac Essential Services Fair in Cloyne
esidents in the north had a chance to learn more about the essential services offered by various service groups in the area at a special fair held at the Barrie hall in Cloyne on July 12 . Represented at the fair were paramedics from Frontenac County, who were showing off Simulation Man - also known as “Sim Man”. Sim Man is part of their mobile Simulation Lab and is used to help train and educate paramedics. Sim Man is able to breath and talk, shows various pulses and respiratory sounds, can be hooked up to a monitor and shocked back to life. “Basically any scenario that you can think of, he can simulate,“ said Rena Cooke, a part time primary care paramedic with Frontenac County. “We use Sim Man for out of the ordinary scenarios like very traumatic car accidents, severe burns and patients with no vital signs. Fortunately we don't run into those situations very often but we still train using Sim Man so that we know how to respond in that kind of situation.” Cooke and the other paramedics demonstrated to attendees how Sim Man is used and also answered other questions from the public. One couple wondered, if they were traveling away from home and used their cell phone to call 911 how they could be located. “I told them that the call would go to the nearest communications centre and that if they
could provide a building name or street location, they could be found.” Also present at the fair were members of the Frontenac and Lanark OPP detachments, who gave tours of their Mobile Support Unit, which is used for calls for missing persons, drug eradication and hostage taking. It is also used as a main command post in rural areas when cutting edge technology is needed. T he unit is equipped with computers, cameras, lighting, and touch screen TVs that allow for quick briefings on situations that unfold in rural areas. The truck is 30 feet long, diesel powered with generators and it is sometimes used during OPP RIDE programs. Members of the North Frontenac and Kaladar/Barrie Fire and Rescue service were also on hand. They invited guests to learn how to properly put out a fire with an extinguisher using the PASS method, which stands for Pin, Aim, Squeeze and Sweep. They also demonstrated other equipment, including a rescue van equipped with a jaws of life, a front line pumper truck, and fire prevention goodies for the kids. Inside the Barrie hall members of the OPP presented their Safeguard Ontario program, which teaches residents how to better design their homes, cottages, and businesses to prevent break and enters. The
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he Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) is the federal agency that has conducted an expensive (and unsuccessful) battle against the Emerald Ash Borer (EAB) for over 10 years. The borer was discovered in the Windsor/Detroit area in 2002. In 2004, in an attempt to contain the existing pest population, the CFIA removed approximately 150,000 ash trees, creating an ash-free zone in southwestern Ontario between Essex County and the municipality of Chatham-Kent, where the borer had not yet been detected. It was hoped that this would act as a barrier to the continued spread of the borer, but it was detected beyond this zone in January 2005. Since then, the CFIA has adopted a less aggressive strategy, which aims at restricting the sale of ash firewood and logs from infected areas to non-infected areas. After the borer was found near Mountain Grove last year, Frontenac County was added to that list of restricted areas, joining the golden horseshoe around Toronto, as well as the Ottawa region and Leeds-Grenville. Now, recognizing that the infestation has likely expanded through Eastern and Central Ontario even if it has not been confirmed in all regions, the CFIA is proposing that the restricted area be expanded as far north as Sudbury, Cochrane, Temiskaming in Ontario, Rouyn-Noranda and the northern reaches of the Pontiac in Quebec, and well past Montreal to the east.
With no restrictions on the transport of ash products within such a vast region, which includes the bulk of the urban markets in both Ontario and Quebec, the restricted zones will cease to have an impact. In a report to Frontenac County Council, Joe Gallivan, the manager for sustainability planning, said the “CFIA has determined that because of the wide spread of the EAB they were unable to control it further through regulation and are withdrawing from Southern Ontario. Without any preservation plans in place, it is predicted that the Ash will be wiped out in southern Ontario from EAB destruction in the next 15 to 20 years.” In response, the Ontario Urban Forestry Council is proposing that the federal and provincial governments be approached to provide financial/managerial support for a strategy that is being put in place in urban centres. There is an effective treatment for trees before it is infected or while it is still in the early stages of infestation. An insecticide called TreeAzin, injected near the base of a tree, has been shown to be effective. For urban foresters, TreeAzin, can also be a costeffective option. The price of a treatment is dropping to the $200 range, and homeowners and/or municipalities are facing costs in the $600 to remove an infected tree. There is no solution for stands of ash in rural areas, but Gallivan is urging Frontenac
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n an effort to educate city folk and nonfarmers about where their food comes from, the Rotary Club of Kingston held their second annual Rural Awareness Day event on July 14. The event was organized by the Rotary Club’s Rural committee and was headed up by Frontenac 4H Club leader and Rotarian Darlene Clement with the assistance of Neal Dick, Jim Perry, Denny Buchanan and Keith McLean. The tour’s first stop was at Sun Harvest Greenhouses, where visitors toured their hydroponic tomato growing operation. The second stop was the Cumpson family’s Sonset Farm in Inverary where guests were treated to a tractor wagon tour of the 750-acre organic farm, a walking tour of their organic dairy barn, and up close and personal visits with a number diary and beef cattle. Guests also had a chance to see pigs and chickens and to pet one very tame orphaned sheep. They toured Sonset’s farm gate store located right beside the main farm house, where the Cumpsons sell a wide assortment of homegrown meat, eggs, spelt flour and seasonal veggies. The store also contains a plethora of educational materials about the importance of local food and local organic farming. Also on site at the event was Maple, a larger than life artificial dairy cow, on which guests had a chance to test their milking abilities. Ongoing games took place throughout the day and included tug-o’-war games and sack races, all played on the green grassy fields surrounding the picturesque property. Local bee keeper Bill Lake Jr. was on hand with a
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