Vol. 10 No. 48
YOUR COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER COVERING NORTH DURHAM
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 2013
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Local healthcare professionals help out in Tibet BLAKE WOLFE The Standard
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UXBRIDGE: Past and present members of the Uxbridge SS boys hockey team will be embarking on a goodwill mission later this year, when they trek to a remote Northern Ontario First Nations community. A ten-person team, including eight former Tigers hockey players will be making the trip between Dec. 28 and Jan. 4 to host daily hockey clinics for coaches and players to allow attendees the opportunity to improve and gain new skills. As well, the Tigers will be taking a shipment of hockey equipment to aid in stocking the community’s newly built arena, and allow more children the chance to enjoy our national winter sport. “At the conclusion of our week there, we hope to have a tournament as well as a skills competition to allow those attending our clinics to show off their new skills to their friends and family,� explained Tigers Head Coach Don Simmonds. Jeff Wilson, who is serving as team captain this season, is the lone current Tigers player to be taking part in the excursion, said he is proud of the opportunity to be able to use hockey to instill hope, determination and fun to a community that is often challenged by poverty, addiction and suicide.
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MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL: The 2013 Port Perry Santa Claus Parade came to Scugog last Saturday night (Nov. 23), the first of several parades in North Durham. See Page 11 for more photos from the parade. BENJAMIN PRIEBE The Standard
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NORTH DURHAM: For Dr. Robert Clendenning of Sunderland, the month of August was spent not poolside combating the humidity of a southern Ontario summer, but 12,500 feet above sea level half a world away. The local physician was part of a team of healthcare professionals which, earlier this summer, ventured to Tibet to provide basic medical care to residents living in the mountainous Yushu and Nangchen regions of the Asian country. Joined by Yvette Dalrymple, a pediatric nurse practitioner and program coordinator for Port Perry’s North Durham Family Health Team, the local delegates teamed up with Dr. Raviv Globerson, a dentist from Israel; Deannie Janowitz, an acupuncturist from San Francisco; and Pema Drokar, a Tibet-born, Canadian trained RPN who lives in Toronto. Dr. Clendenning, who moved to Sunderland from Sudbury in 2011, works full-time out of a smaller Brockbased branch of Medical Associates of Port Perry. This fourth yearly mission was organized by the Raktrul Foundation, which was founded by Bardor Tulku Rinpoche, a Tibetan Lama who grew up in that area of Tibet. According to Dr. Clendenning, the team saw more than 1,000 residents during its two week stay in this eastern part of Tibet, most of whom had never received any care and would be hard-pressed to access a hospital or clinic. While basic medications taken for granted by Westerners, such as ASA and ibuprofen, were available in this part of Tibet, Dr. Clendenning noted that these products were prohibitively expensive and only available in small packaging. The team brought around 400 pounds of donated and purchased medications, including contributions from pharmaceutical manufacturer Pfizer, Health Partners International and locally, from Port Perry pharmacist Doug Brown of Shoppers Drug Mart, who provided the team with several medications at cost or less. “It was my first time in Tibet proper,� said Dr. Clendenning, who had previously treated patients near the country’s border with China. “It’s quite amazing the amount of development money put into the country by the Chinese government, with an eye toward resource extraction.� T U R N TO PAG E 2
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