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Part-time firefighter and paramedic Brian Piggot had already "broken" one victim's leg and administered some nasty-looking bruises to another's stomach before turning his make-up kit on Sheila Sheila Connaghan, a, dietary aide at the Newcastle Health Care Centre. They were preparing for their parts in last Wednesday's mock emergency emergency at the nursing home. Business Graduate to Teach Skills to Russia]! Companies Ü Newcastle Health Care Centre staff conducted a steady search for Town of Newcastle firefighters and medical personnel assist "in- missing residents while those already rescued were given immediate jured" and "shocked" residents at the temporary Triage Centre set up assistance. Participating in Disaster Day will help nursing home on the second floor of the nursing home. workers respond in the event of a real emergency. Snow Storm Greets Rotary Exchange Student by Lorraine Manfredo Many winter enthusiasts have been thrilled by the amount of snow that's fallen so far this winter. But, just imagine wading through some of those thigh-high drifts in the boots of someone who's never seen or felt snow before. Emily Howard, a 17-ycar-old Rotary Rotary Club Exchange student from Australia, had only heard about the wonders of the Great White North before coming to Bowmanvillc five weeks ago. And the astonishment she felt on getting her first glimpse of the fluffy white stuff hasn't worn off yet. "The first thing I did was go over and poke it," she told her Rotary hosts last week at the club's Thursday Thursday luncheon. Since her arrival, Emily has survived survived a bout with the flu, developed a liking for skiing, and overcome her fear of driving on the right (or is that wrong?) side of the road. She comes from Gawlcr, in South Australia. Back home, she notes, an extremely nasty cold snap could mean temperatures dipping as low as 4 degrees above zero. Currently, her friends down under under arc sweltering through a heat wave witli temperatures above 40 degrees fora week. School children in Gawlcr arc dismissed an hour early, she said, if the temperature gets over 38 degrees. degrees. She was interested to learn that here in Ontario, school bus service service is cancelled during very heavy snowfalls, "It's kind of the opposite end of the scale," she said. Emily said the holiest day back home she remembers was 48 degrees degrees in the shade. "When it's that hot, you just can't move," she said, "when you stand up you get dizzy. "Ours is a dry lient. I'm told that you have a humid heat here. I haven't experienced that yet." ' Emily should get her chance this summer. She will stay In the llowmtmville area for a full year, spending about three months each at the homes of four different sponsor families. Gawler is principally a residential residential community near Adelaide. The town is slightly bigger than Bowmanvillc, Bowmanvillc, with a population of about 15,000. Wineries, farming and fishing arc major industries in her home state. She showed slides to the Rotari- ans of some of the unique wildlife and vegetation in her homeland. Emily is the youngest of dircc children. She has a long list of interests interests and hobbies, including water- skiing, singing, dancing, acting and modelling. She also enjoys talking. She smiled when Rotarian A1 Strike asked permission to read an excerpt from a letter her mother had written to Rotary hosts. He read: "You'll soon find that the more excited she gets, the faster she talks. I hope you can slow her down enough and get to understand some of our Australia slang." Emily happily obliged curious Rotarians witli a quick translation of some of the lyrics in the traditional Australian folk song, Waltzing Matilda. Matilda. "A swagman camped in the billa- bong," is a bushman camped by a watcrholc, she explained. An old "billy" boiling is simply a kettle on the fire. And a "jumbuck" is a sheep. Emily was dianked by Rotarian Joe Gcrrits. He and his wife, Mary- lou, will be her hosts later this year. Rotarian Joe Gcrrits praised Emily Emily for her bravery in coming to a strange new land and for sacrificing her summer to experience our winter. winter. These arc just a few of the University of Western Ontario business students who went to the former Soviet Union on a previous trip operated operated by the LEADER program. The students visit Eastern Europe to teach managers basic business skills and decision-making. One of the more than 50 students participating in this year's program is Dan McMullen, a Bowmanvillc native and MBA student at Western. Rotary Exchange stuçlcnt Emily Howard, of South Australia, tosses a pair of coins In the air to demonstrate demonstrate (lie popular Australian game of Two Up at last week's club luncheon meeting. The hand-held betting game Is Illegal In Australia. Looking on In the photo are Rotarians Al Strike (left) and Joe Gcr- A Bowmanvillc man is among 60 Canadians who will be teaching business skills to. prospective entrepreneurs entrepreneurs in the former Soviet Union. Union. Dan McMullen, a graduate student student at the University of Western Ontario, will be among die group from the university travelling to Russia under the LEADER program. program. LEADER (which stands for Leading Education and Development Development in Eastern Europe) is a slu- dent-run initiative which has already introduced practical and business skills to over 750 Eastern European business people. It introduced its first classes in the Soviet Union in 1991. Mr. McMullen, who received his undergraduate degree at GMI and is currently completing his MBA at Western, explains that the group will be in seven eastern European cities for a total of three weeks. "We'll be teaching business management management courses," he explained. Topics on the curriculum include finance, finance, marketing, and general management. management. The students will include factory managers, ex-soldiers, undergraduate undergraduate students, academics, and some entrepreneurs. Dan McMullen said lie is working working with other students on the development development of the operations section of the course. They plan to use a case study method of instruction. And, although business conditions are vastly different between Canada and the former Soviet Union, Mr. McMullen believes that the skills he and his colleagues arc teaching will be transferable to Eastern European As part of the course, die slit- McMullen, of Downumv dents will be required to draw up their own plan for a business venture. venture. Classes will be conducted through a Russian interpreter, although although all of those going to the former former Soviet Union are also studying Russian in order to get a better understanding understanding of the country's culture. "We take lessons once a week," said Mr. McMullen. The University of Western Ontario Ontario students will leave for the former Soviet Union on May 5. The cities included in this year's trip are Moscow, Moscow, Vilnius, Minsk, Riga, Lutsk, Dnipropctrovsk, and Chcrnivtsi. The Canadians will be sponsored, sponsored, in part, by the federal government government and also through their "partners" "partners" in the former U.S.S.R. who include academic, industrial and government agencies. "It's been very well received by the Russian government and business," business," said Mr. McMullen. Dan McMullen was among about 160 University of Western Ontario students who applied to participate in the trip to Eastern Europe. Students Students in the MBA and undergraduate undergraduate business program at the University University of Western Ontario submitted their resumes and were chosen on the basis of an interview and other qualifications such as employment background, teaching experience and abilities to work effectively in a team environment, Mr. McMullen, u graduate of Bowmnnvllle High School, worked at General Motors in Osliawa after completing his studies at GMI and before attending the University of Western Ontario for his MBA degree. degree. He is the son of Roy and June /file. SECTION TWO Wednesday, March 3,1993 Featured in this Section... We Asked and You Said 2 Page from the Past 3 Community Correspondence 5 - 8 by Lorraine Manfredo Talk about a hecticday at work. Last Wednesday, staff at the Newcastle Health Care Centre had to deal with a partially collapsed roof, dozens of injured and panicked residents, and a power failure just after breakfast. Arid all this was occurring occurring while a severe winteriStorm threatened to delay outside emergency emergency assistance. When firefighters and police arrived, arrived, residents from the damaged west wing were safely evacuated. The injured received prompt treatment. treatment. Within an hour, the situation was declared well in hand.. Nursing home staff gathered at the main re ception desk, calmly discussed- the exaggerated series of events, and looked forward to some badly- needed coffee. All in' all, organizers agreed, it was a good mock disaster. The test plan in the disaster manual worked well and nobody got hurt. "Every three years, the Ministry of Health requires nursing homes to do an evacuation involving external resources," explained facility administrator administrator Erika Bazarin just before the alarm bells started ringing around 9:30 a.m. "It puts us through our paces," she said, "and helps ensure that existing existing emergency procedures are indeed indeed working." According to Wednesday's disaster disaster scenario, severe winter winds. had blown down two trees onto the roof, causing a partial collapse of room 218. Three seriously-hurt resi-, dents were trapped inside. Another resident in a wheelchair was stuck in the elevator' when the power failed. According to Ms Bazarin, no major major revisions are needed to improve the current plan. "If there are any changes, they would be minor," she said. The 88 actual residents of the facility facility did not participate in the mock exercise. They remained safely supervised supervised in the basement while the activity went on above them. Taking the residents' role in die staged emergency were 20 health care aide students from the Toronto School of Business, a handful of i whom had been theatrically made- up to appear as though they suffered broken limbs and gashes. These simulated injuries further tested the skill of the personnel at the temporary temporary triage centre. All during the. emergency, staff continued to round up frightened "residents." "When you have a fire or any other disaster, people hide under beds, they hide in closets, they crawl into and under things," said Bazarin. "Our residents are seniors. They don't move quickly and they frighten very easily." Taking the place of the residents provided the students with a good understanding of how the elderly and the infirm would react in such a crisis. And staff who participated in the exercise are better prepared for a real crisis. "Even our advising physician, Dr. Anfossi, said that every time you do these things you learn something something new." A formal debriefing for facility staff will take place on March 3rd. Full-time firefighters from Station Station One in Bowmanvillc and part- time crew from Station Two in Newcastle participated in the event as a training exercise as well. Having Having videotaped the event, the firefighters firefighters plan their own analysis of their role in the mock disaster.