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Park vandalism hits public purse hard
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there is something they can do to pro-actively dissuade future vandals from causing damage to park assets. As well, they hope to be able to keep track on vandalism costs from year to year. “Just so the public is aware of what the cost is to the community,” Manhire said. Within the last year alone the doors on the former canteen beside the baseball diamonds have been broken at least twice
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Persistent vandalism at Lower Reach Park has prompted town staff to take a hard look at what prevention measures they can implement to stop the costs due to vandalism from mounting. “We’re going to look at it corporately,” said Art Manhire, director of community services. Staff will be reviewing the current vandalism policy held by the town to see if
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The inaugural Youth-a-Palooza event in Smiths Falls, held under the water tower on June 25, was a roaring success. The fundraiser for the Smiths Falls and District Youth Centre, a joint initiative between Zendragon and the youth centre, was put on by volunteers. Above, Shyann Clifford has a blast playing with hula-hoops during the youth-apalooza event.
The Perth and Smiths Falls District Hospital has a surplus this year – but it is shrinking. And decisions being made elsewhere could cloud the hospital’s future financial success. Donna Howard, representing the hospital’s finance committee, told the hospital’s annual general meeting at the Smiths Falls site’s cafeteria on Tuesday, June 28, it “almost achieved” its goal, getting within reach of its surplus target, and still hitting a respectable $1,561,964 surplus. However, that surplus “is unfortunately narrowing, and is threatened.” For the past three years, for each year that the hospital has posted a surplus, it has received hundreds of thousands of dollars as a bonus of sorts from the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care. These were “greater than expected revenues from the ministry over the last three years,” said Howard, with about $651,000
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coming from Queen’s Park this year, and “that helped to minimize the debt.” However, she does not expect this money to continue in the future, and some of the surplus money is being diverted to address the hospital’s working capital deficit. Some of the offset was because of buying into a green energy program which she said would pay dividends through lower energy costs, but, in the interim, “our wishes are getting more challenging to achieve…stay tuned,” said Howard. Richard Schooley, the hospital board’s chairman, overseeing his last meeting as chair, agreed that increasing costs are “eating away,” at the surplus, but he noted that the hospital’s debt has shrunk from about $15 million four years ago to about $10 million now. Further to this, Schooley reminded the audience that the hospital’s LHIN (Local Health Integration Network) was predicting a
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