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A2 THE OAKVILLE BEAVER Wednesday December 13, 2000 '· Y EA R-EN D W R A P -U P " 7 A Photo by Riziero Vertolli G I F T F R O M C A S : Sears Oakville Place is selling K ringle Bears to custom ers with 50 cents of each one sold going to the H alton C hildren's Aid Society Foundation. As of last week, the local store has sold 17,000 of the 21,000 they w ant to sell before C hristm as. Santa Claus him self paid a visit to Oakville T rafalgar M em orial Hospital to hand out a few Bears. One of the recipients was little A ndrew Johnston, joined by m om K athie and dad Peter. Looking on is Randy Pum a, H alton CAS Foundation executive director and B rad Lytle, m anager of the Oakville Place Sears store. S to rm c re a te d m in o r p ro b le m s While Monday night's heavy snowfall tested people's patience, shoveling stamina and driving abilities, Oakville came through the storm relatively unscathed. Driving conditions worsened rapidly after the snow started falling and around 2 p.m. two vehicles collided on Fourth Line between Bridge and Speers Roads. This resulted in seven people being taken by five ambulances to hospital, none with life-threaten ing injuries. One person had to be extricated from a vehicle by the Oakville Fire Department. Fourth Line was re-opened around 4 p.m. Halton Regional Police attended a variety of fender-benders throughout the day, but nothing major. According to Deputy Fire Chief John deHooge, crews answered a "mixed bag" of 23 calls from noon Monday to 8 a m Tuesday, from motor vehi cle collisions and medical emergencies to false alarms. On Tuesday morning, firefighters came to aid of an ambulance stuck in snow. "It was not one of our more eventful snow days but it was busy enough," said deHooge. Considering the sheer volume of snow, drivers on the QEW escaped the day with relatively few accidents. According to the OPP's Burlington Detachment six people received minor injuries in five personal injury collisions while there were six property damage accidents. Fortunately, most motorists had to contend with only delays during their drive home. Both the Halton District School Board and the Halton Catholic District School Board suspended classes on Tuesday. Sheridan College's Oakville Campus was open, while the school's Brampton Campus opened at noon Tuesday. A ll v e h ic le s M a r k e t V a lu e P r ic e d in W in d o w s . M a r k e t V a lu e P r ic e in c lu d e s fr e ig h t , a ir. ta x . p r o t e c t o r p lu s a n t i - t h e f t . N O c h a r g e P D I, N O a d m in , fe e s . HURRY IN NOW!! L IM IT E D T IM E Funds used for dialysis, cardiac care (Continued from page A1) HHS president and CEO John Oliver explained that the money will go toward a host of invaluable specialized services, from dialysis and cardiac care to hip and knee replacements. "This new funding means more patients can receive these services and be treated closer to home," says Witmer. According to Oliver, the major beneficiary of the latest funding will be OTHM's dialysis program which is in the midst of a major renovation. The approximately $1.5 million will go toward increasing the number of dialysis stations from 12 to 24, result ing in decreased waiting times. About $200,000 will go toward major orthopedic procedures, such as hip and knee implants. Another $150,000 has been earmarked by HHS to bring its neo-natal program up to level 2, meaning improved training of staff in order to handle more acute infants. This latest allotment of money rounds out a busy year in which the province provided HHS with fund ing for "everything we asked for," said Oliver. This includes $2 million for 31 acute care in-patient beds and 10 "flex" beds to be used when emergency room capacity is reached. Flex beds help OTMH care for patients more appropriately by finding them space rather than ware housing them in ER. The beds will also allow renovations to 1 East to continue and will permit the 34 long-term care beds to remain on the fifth floor for another year while plans proceed on the former Oakville Trafalgar High School site next door to OTMH which is slated for a long-term care facility. (In May, the province greenlighted HHS' plan to turn the property into a 128-bed long-term care facility.) The ER also received $1.6 million to increase the number of treatment stretchers from 24 to 31. Approximately $800,000 went toward improving one operating room, while ICU capacity was increased to the tune of $300,000. 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