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10 Acton Freo Press Wednesday Aug 20 1380 and district When the good doctors have time they in their hobbles For David Grant it fish He fishes so avidly the receptionist has call numbers for his favourite haunts Leverne Harris loves motorcycles and weld The mechanical bent comes to him naturally as his parents own Hams Farm Machinery in He turns his hobbles to good account by making the steel cages required for the ice New veterinary surgeons at the Clink Harris and David Grint checkout Barney lhe cat mho had a sex change operation Two recent graduates from the Ontario Veterinary College one of them a well known resident have assumed the veterinary practice of Cliff Young of Brook and are now operating the Ani mal Clinic with Youngs assistance Harris son of Mr and Mrs Art Harm of Harris Street and David Grant originally from Wales now of Nassagaweya as qualified veterinary surgeons in After taking over the Animal Clinic which Young operated from his home the vets decided to move the operation to the empty municipal building across the road in Brookvllle With three vets on tall the clinic is growing by leaps and bounds Sandy Tanner is employed as David wu Ann a registered health technician assists s wife Heather is secretary treasurer the Harris Kevin and Kelly hop in and out helping 1 s a friendly family place The mixed practice consists of a greater pro portion of large animals to small animals as he farming status of the community dictates How ever both Grant and Dr Hams are hoping the small patients With hours radio and telephone com mum a Lion many of the dogs and cots can be doctored on the road or at their own homes This is handy for people who have dogs Inclined decorate car seats with contents of their The clinic now sports complete ray equip ment complete equipment a lit table for small animals a complete laboratory bacteriology incubator full hematology lab and kenneling facilities In the short time the doctors have been in practice the two new vets have had a wide var icty of Strang experiences including attending the birth of a two headed six legged calf One of the regular patients is a young Irish Wolfhound they performed shoulder surgery on when was a mere 150 pound pup The dog now weighs pounds and requires enough for a pony In his young life this dog has been stolen escaped returned to his owners ran off for 10 days just after having the shoulder surgery and has had extensive surgery to straighten his front leg Very interesting Harris A rewarding case concerned a black Labrador dog who have been shot and needed a bullet removed from the proximity of Its heart A vlsitingclectncian breathed forthodogwhile Harris spread the chest by hand and Grant plucked the bullet from its nest right alongside the heart wall on lop of the aorta The dog recovered and was running around the next day A job performed fairly frequently on male am mals particularly cats is a sort of sex change operation necessitated by urethral blockage Many animals are prone to urinary whereby minerals not metabolized form stones that block the urethra Males with a smaller opening suffer greatly from this fiction Prior to the development of new surgery tech the urethra was surgically cleaned as of ten as necessary and the bladder was often opened for scraping In most cases the cleaning had to be done frequently and animals were often when veterinary bills became Now that the sex change has been perfected Dr Harris says he will clean an animal urethra once and the second time it needed he will recommend major surgery The male cats genitals are amputated a larger opening is made in the urethra to allow passage of calcium stones painlessly Because male and female cats have similar conformation this is possible The cat also has a bladder sphincter valve at the upper urethra opening close to the bladder doesn affect its ability to control flow Other male animals such as dogs and cattle steers have a large urethra opening made through the scrotum but control Is usually destroyed Residents of Brucedale Stratum Corners are putting up with extensive construction as Township widens and reconstructs the Fifth Line north of Highway for a mile and a half Bell Telephone have also lowered their cables while the road has been dug up Road Superintendent Bob Hamilton said the work which has been underway for two weeks should be completed by late August or early September He says the sandy base is causing no complications for building crews The road will remain in gravel for the remainder of this and will be paved 1961 Rockwood Volunteers Firefighters were called out Thursday last to put out a car fire on County Road at the north west end of Eramosa Town ship near The abandoned car ablaze in a ditch was be stolen but Provincial Police in hadn a report on it at press time With summer drawing to a close and young back to school soon the conservation will shortly belong to residents again It marvellous to think that so many people have access to such beautiful areas as our con park but It heartbreaking to sec the by a few appreciate Last week I counted three overturned picnic tables two boots garbage beer bottles and assorted unmentionables tossed in pond by the potholes There s not a major walkway or road in that park that isn t hazardous by broken glass The cave road is carpet led with beer glass and has been all summer despite restrictions on beverages in the park Park attendants must get so disheartened by the mess However September Is almost upon us and the conservation area will belong to nature lovers for eight months Council blunts rural housing A deaf ear was turned said Per by Eramosa Township I do not see that Council to a proposed as the proper place to subdivision near develop more residences Eramosa Council decided Deputy reeve Dave Monday not to entertain Mason agreed A letter the developers agent stating so Is to be moiled because council is not to the McDuffe agent encouraging develop- black Shoemaker ment In areas outside and Eden Mills The Arnold McDuffe Robinson and Donaldson In Guelph We ve put expensive sewers water into f u sewers una waicr northeast half of Lot 12 on Concession asked in a letter for consideration for residential op- Township Reeve Bill on part of their reminded council properly there is a proposal I think Its a mistake where for development of to lead people down the the Petty property in trail Councillor John Everton RECOVERY HOUSE INC NOTICE OF ANNUAL MEETING Monday October 6 1980 800 PM In the Clinical Classroom the Milton District Hospital Road Milton Ontario for the purpose of election to the Board of Directors and such other business as may come before the Board SEPARATE SCHOOL BOARD ADVANCE REGISTRATION Kindergarten to Grade 8 will take at each school on TUESDAY AUGUST 26th the hours of 9 00 em and 12 noon Baptismal Certificates are required for all registrants Schools will open Wednesday September 3rd Bus routes are posted at main entrance of all schools RJ O Brian CO Byrnes Chairman Director of Education Brucedale bids for slower road traffic Jimunlty signed petition lo Era limit where lhe highway want to slow down the All households in the Council which asks intersects through Highway village enforcement or he speed county and township Eden Mills ITT cops tourney crown by Mrs It was beautiful day for the ball tournament and there was a good attendance Games got underway on Friday evening with games being played squeezed In victory with a over and beat out Hydra Air At Saturdays games were for Men over Forum Sport over Car lisle 3 over Optical ITT over over Brook for Men over Forum Sports ITT over Aberfoyle for Men over 108 In the linn game ITT were the ball tournament winners with runners up for Men with score Chosen as best all round player waa Dave Heath and best pitcher Scott Reynolds Lucky winner of the Gas Barbecue was Don Mcpherson of and the draw was won by Finder of Mr and Mrs Eric Guelph and Beryl sister and brother in law Mr and Mrs Bill from Sydney Australia were guests of Mr and Mrs Garnet MacDougall The s have been on a trip to England and Scot land and will soon be leaving to visit their son and his family at Sidney on Vancouver Island friends at a com roast and Mel and birthday party for Mr and Mrs Fred four of their friends who were Sunday all eel eh rated birthdays guests of Jean brother on August They were and family Mr and Mrs Jean Jean Bob Thomson of Union Ted MeNam ville Province grants ram a Township received a grant from the provincial mln of housing to cover the cost of a houslnp study The township has a ready engaged the Tor onto consulting firm of Gibson to perform the study A public meeting Is scheduled for August in Rockwood town hall for senior citizens to learn details of the study The meeting starts at The main purpose of the study is to determine the potential require ments for Senior citizen accommodation If such a need is demonstrated the municipality can take more concrete steps to wards furnishing the housing with the help the province roads There Is a flashing light at the Intersection which according to resident Chris Matthews means the speed limit should be reduced to about miles per hour from the highway miles per hour council will send the petition and its support to the Ontario Ministry of Transport and tion The petition reads in part to have the reduced speed pasted at all Brucedale signs on High way and the Line Concession Number and to have the police enforce the laws of the blinking light Residents are con for the safety of their children at the intersection and also be cause of what the petitioners describe as the number of serious accidents in the area There is also concern for the number family pets which have been killed in the area August 11 saw one accident the most recent at the inter section which sent six people to hospital Even people coming up from don stop They just look and go through Matthews told council Monday night fwo yein ago a petition was mounted by residents were asking for a reduced speed on the highway However that petition failed because the ministry said for such a reduction there had to be houses on both of the I way In a related decision the township learned hat the ministry turned down a request for a left turn lane on Highway at he Intersection STOCK UP NOW BEAT THE SUGGESTED INCREASE 0HmM5r HO CARRY Check This Example 370 LBS of MEAT BEEF PORK POULTRY All For Only SAME AS CASH now ron cutting appointment THIS WEEK ONLY 5 DISCOUNT TO REPEAT CUSTOMERS Coupon not J court SIDES 99 HINDS 49 I lb NOTE in CALL NOW FOR APPOINTMENT CANADAS FINEST GRADE BEEF PRIMAL ORDERS BURLINGTON HAMILTON WAX In 8276980 STORE HOURS I A M Each tree draws life from the common soiland a million branches reach upward to share the sly I I IWIVOL and In the same way twentythree people one ration and- withtheir roots deep in the land share ideals of and future I