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Two years on: The battle continues Ida Deslandes continues the quiet fight after losing nose, eye to cancer By Mike Williscraft NewsNow It has been nearly two years to the day since Ida Deslandes of Beamsville went under the knife to have a cancerous growth and her right eye removed. That was what she expected. When she awoke, she was told the surgery went well, but the bad news was the basil cell carcinoma had spread necessitating the removal of her nose as well. It was March 20, 2014. She had no idea what she
Up Front HHS charts WLMH future
Tonight, March 3, at Grimsby Activity Centre, Hamilton Health Sciences officials will unveil their vision of futures services at West Lincoln Memorial Hospital should be. The session runs from 6:30-8 p.m. The announcement is part of the Our Healthy Futures program which has sought public input regarding needs and wants since summer of 2015.
was in for and certainly did not have any way to prepare for her fight. The road has been extremely difficult, but there is not an ounce of quit in this woman. “There has been a lot of frustration. Things have not gone as we had hoped and there have been setbacks,” said Ida, while seated at the kitchen table of her Cosby Road home. Easily the most asked about story subject since Katherine Grant’s award-winning July 2014 story about her, Ida keeps
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Grimsby native releases movie Adam Tomlinson’s ‘The Man In The Shadows” opens March 25 By Mike Williscraft NewsNow Like all brilliant students who have a poly sci/archaeology degree, and a law degree as a kicker, Adam Tomlinson’s career path seemed a natural. “Law school was supposed to be a practical back-up in
case I couldn’t be Indiana Jones,” said Tomlinson, also a graduate of Grimsby Secondary School and St. Joseph Catholic Elementary School. “But I hated law school, so I took a comedy script writing course at Humber College and started
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Ida Deslandes and husband Randy Guarascia are highly anticipating a procedure tomorrow (Friday) which will start to reshape her face.