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Rocky ramp provokes a love/ hate reaction with residents Desmond Devoy
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200 years later, the lumberjack spirit lives on
Lanark County Warden Gail Code (far left) and Tay Valley Reeve Keith Kerr (far right) tried their hands at crosscut sawing at the Tay Bells Winter Celebration in Maberly on Feb. 6. Fred Dobbie, centre left, took down the times of each competitor, while Gord Patterson, centre right, timed them.
Hospital will not ‘shy away’ from charging abusive patients Desmond Devoy
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A floating nurse has been added to the night roster at both campuses of the Perth and Smiths Falls District Hospital (PSFDH), to make sure that nurses are not left understaffed in cri-
sis situations. “We don’t ever want short staffing,” said Bev McFarlane, the PSFDH president and chief executive officer, during a telephone interview on Monday, Feb. 1. Being short-staffed would mean that it would be “more difficult keeping an eye” on a busy situation.
An extra registered practical nurse (RPN) has been added for a 12-hour shift at both the Smiths Falls and Perth hospitals, on the night shift. Looking at the staffing ratios, the decision was made “because we probably had a See HOSPITAL page P6
You can’t say Haggart Island-area residents don’t give a dam about the rocky ramps. Because when it comes to the rocky ramps at the Rainbow Bridge, residents either love it or hate it. One couple, Jeff and Mary Jane Lee, had so many concerns about the rocky ramp installed at the mouth of the Little Tay that they made a delegation to Perth town council’s committee of the whole meeting on Tuesday, Feb. 2 – and they did not mince words, with Jeff saying he was “heartbroken, (that) would describe the way we are feeling with what we have now.” (Harvey Street resident Hugh Weld, however, likes the rocky ramp, and wrote a letter to town council, dated Feb. 2, to that effect. More on him in a minute.) While teenagers loitering on Mill Street is nothing new, Lee contends that they have moved down the street to the more secluded rocky ramp area and “we’ve seen a lot of kids and gangs of teenagers down there,” he said, “partying.” The addition of the new rocks has made it easier for people to access his property. “We have had people in our back yard, on the shoreline,” Jeff Lee said.
“We have had things stolen from our back yard… it (the rocky ramp) allows people access to our backyards.” While they had been told that town staff and construction workers may need to access their property during the project, he was “surprised and really upset,” when he discovered “two guys in (our) back yard with a chain saw,” one afternoon. “I was not forewarned that they would be there.” Further to this, the Rideau Valley Conservation Authority (RVCA) had encouraged the Lees, and other owners of property along the banks of the Tay, to allow as much indigenous growth along the banks of the water’s edge as possible. All those years of careful growth have now been eliminated, thanks to the construction work, Lee said. While town hall has not been entirely silent on the subject, “the communication around it has been difficult and with a lot of room for improvement,” said Lee, who joked that he feels as if he has become “the troll under the bridge,” asking passers-by what they think of the rocky ramp below. The most common phrase he hears in response is: “When will it be done?” They had been promised that the rocky ramp would look like rapids. “That’s not what we see,” he said of See RAMP page P4
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