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Beaver THE OAKVILLE Voted Ontario's Top Newspaper Four Years in a Row - 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 MISSISSAUGA PAINTS 3087 Winston Churchill Blvd at Dundas (905) 569-9200 Intimate with Dan Hill Artscene FRIDAY, APRIL 2, 2010 PRINTER EMPTY? REFILL AND SAVE UP TO 60% Upper Oakville Shopping Centre 905-842-5600 www.thinkrefill.ca refill A member of Metroland Media Group Ltd. Vol. 48 No. 35 "USING COMMUNICATION TO BUILD BETTER COMMUNITIES" 32 Pages $1.00 (plus GST) HHS hospitals cutting beds and staff By Tim Foran METROLAND WEST MEDIA GROUP Halton Healthcare Services (HHS) is cutting 23 beds from its three hospitals including almost a quarter of the complex continuing care beds in its system, a decision that will also result in the elimination or redeployment of staff. "Ultimately the bed The corporation reductions will assist in is cutting five of its the hospital corporation's 25 complex continuing care (CCC) efforts to get a balanced beds at Milton budget." District Hospital and two full-time Alan Halls, COO of and two part-time Milton District Hospital registered practical nurses in that department, said Allan Halls, the COO of Milton District Hospital. CUPE has been notified of the bed reduction and the hospital will sit down with the union to identify opportunities to redeploy or reassign the nurses to other vacancies within the corporation, he added. Halls said HHS will also eliminate five CCC beds at both the Georgetown Hospital and the OakvilleTrafalgar Memorial Hospital, which had 20 and 21 CCC beds respectively in 2008/09, according to the corporation's website. HHS will also cut eight acute care beds at OakvilleTrafalgar, said Halls. The hospital had 262 acute care beds in 2008/09, according to HHS's website. "Ultimately, the bed reductions will assist in the hospital corporation's efforts to get to a balanced budget," Halls explained. Across the three sites at HHS, the See Hospitals page 3 Bittersweet reunion for Japanese internment camp survivors By David Lea OAKVILLE BEAVER STAFF DAVID LEA / OAKVILLE BEAVER HAUNTING MEMORIES: Oakville resident Johanna Marsman with a sketch of the enclosed area she and her mother called home for three years as prisoners in a Japanese internment camp during the Second World War. United by a tragic past they have been coming together for decades to remember and to heal. On April 10, members of the August 15, 1945 Foundation (Southern Ontario Branch) will meet at Brampton's Holland Christian Homes, located at 7900 MacLaughlin Rd., South, for what some feel will be the group's final gathering. The August 15, 1945 Foundation is made up of DutchCanadians who survived three brutal years in internment camps, which they were placed in when the Japanese invaded the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia) during the Second World War. The internments shattered families, killed thousands and brought thousands more to the very brink of starvation and death. Oakville resident Johanna Marsman, 80, is one of these survivors. For her, the August 15, 1945 Foundation's gatherings are important because they remind her See Life page 11 · HOME · AUTO · LIFE · BUSINESS · AV I AT I O N THE MAGNES GROUP INC. 1540 Cornwall Rd., Suite #100, Oakville, ON L6J 7W5 Tel: 905-845-9793 Fax: 905-845-9149 www.magnesgroup.com END INSURANCE CONFUSION. For informed decisions that you can feel good about, contact us!