> Big Brothers Big Sisters bowling fundraiser ready to roll /Pg 8 > WLMH Foundation kicks off 50/50 #2 Pg 3 > Srs golf tour registration opens Pg 7 > WL skating pageant highlights season Pg 10 Thursday, April 14, 2022 Vol. 10 Issue 47
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Niagara Peninsula Hawkwatch got off to a great start recording the highest number bird total - 4,860 - since 2012 made up of 12 species. James Cowan of Canadian Raptor Conservancy engages in a stare down.
BT, GSS art fills GPAG
Throughout April and May, a visit to Grimsby Public Art Gallery will highlight the creative efforts of Blessed Trinity and Grimsby Secondary art students in their own exhibition. The exhibit will also be available online; visit The GPAG – YouTube channel. BT students have filled the walls and built some exciting sculptures.
Boot Drive this Saturday
Grimsby Firefighters will be out this Saturday, April 16, for their annual Boot Drive this year raising funds for local mental health programs run through GBF. Firefighters will be out at many locations around Grimsby after 9 a.m.
Fairgrounds hosts auction
West Niagara Agricultural Society will host its Spring Fling on Saturday, April 23. Two penny sales one especially for kids - kicks things off at 3 p.m. with a cake auction, featuring auctioneer Nello Romagnoli, goes at 7:30 p.m. Proceeds go to building a
WLMH OBS sees further delay to restart By Mike Williscraft NewsNow At a time when imminent word of a groundbreaking for West Lincoln Memorial Hospital’s rebuild, not all the news at the venerable facility is good. Last Friday, Hamilton Health Sciences informed staff via an
internal memo that a further delay in resuming obstetrical (OBS) services has been implemented. OBS was temporarily shut down and redirected to St. Catharines last December as “a last resort, and is not ideal from a service continuity perspective. How-
ever, it was necessary at the time to preserve enough bed capacity to keep the Emergency Department open during consecutive COVID outbreaks at the site,” cited an HHS release. WLMH has had extensive staffing issues with nurses and, more recently obstetricians,
with complements getting worse as efforts on the rebuild front have progressed. “Due to circumstances that have recently developed, obstetrician coverage at WLMH will not be sufficient to resume obstetrical services on April 19, as initially planned,” Friday’s
memo to stated. “Medical and administrative leadership at the site and HHS - in consultation with medical staff - have considered options and are in agreement that it would not be safe to proceed without additional physician coverage.” See OBS, Page 6