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34 - PORT PERRY STAR - Wednesday, September 4, 1991 "Scugog's Community Newspaper of Choice" International veterinary students study in Port Perry By Gillian Barfoot Port Perry Veterinary Ser- vices and the Brooklin Veteri- nary Hospital are a popular training ground for interna- tional veterinary students this summer. Suzanne Browne, Geraint Jones and Regina Schaerer are three veterinarian students who are spending part of their summer learning from estab- lished veterinarians. Suzanne is the only Canadi- an. She lives in Brooklin, and has one more year of veteri- nary medicine to go at the On- tario Veterinary College at the University of Guelph. She is nearing the end of her 16-week program, called an ex- ternship, which is a require- ment prior to the final year of veterinary medicine. Dr. Harry Morrison has been supervising her, and she says she has learned a lot from all six veterinarians who are re- sponsible for the two facilities. The students watch what the veterinarians do, and help out, she explains. "The students ob- serve, the vets teach." She has been spending most of her time with large animals, but says she will likely start her career by taking care of both large and small animals, "and then see what happens." Geraint is from Wales, and has one more year to go in vete- rinary college in Liverpool, England. He says he decided to visit Canada to practise his vet- erinary skills. He arrived about three weeks ago, and has been stay- ing in Port Perry with an aunt. He will be studying under Dr. Bob McCrae's tutelage for another week, then taking 10 days off to meet some friends and go hiking, perhaps in Al- gonquin Park. While here, he has had a chance to explore the area and visit some local farms. He saw the Blue Jays, and visited the Royal Ontario Museum. He says he especially enjoyed visit- ing Windfields Farm. & He expected the dairy farms to be bigger. "The family uni has maintained their farms here in Canada," he says, add- ing that it's the same way in Wales. But he says the Welsh farm- ers are also in trouble finan- cially. "In Wales there's too much rain, and here there's drought," he says. Geraint is from a small farm- ing community, and has more experience with large animals. His father is also a vet, so he says he knows what to expect. "You have to be a jack-of-all- trades," he says. "I'll probably do a bit of everything once 1 qualify." Regina is from Bern, Swit- zerland, where she has two more years to go toward her veterinary medicine degree. She says she worked on a farm when she was younger. "It's a dream to be a vet," she says. She describes her university in Bern as having a family at- mosphere. Each of its 40 facul- ties is housed in a different area of the city. Before arriving in Port Perry Just over a week ago, she spent five weeks in San Francisco in a language school. She is on a three-week ex- change program organized through the International Vet- erinary Students Association, and has been staying and working with Dr. Keith Elliott. He has shown her around the surrounding countryside where she has had the chance to visit some different farms. "I've enjoyed it," she says. The three students have sim- ilar programs, although the en- trance requirements are differ- ent. "Everyone can go," says Re- gina, "but the first two years are so difficult that at the end there is only 30 students left ( 4 4 Scugog | WINDY RIDGE ind APPLE ORCHARD 985-0111 of 7A Hwy. open Mon. to Fri. 12:00 - 6:00 e Sat. & Sun. 10:00 -6:00 | S 00 1/2 bushel Pick Your Own - or - Already Picked EARLY APPLES ARE READY Pp S 00 1/4 bushel a DATE: Sat. Sept. 7 RAINDATE: Sun. Sept. 8 TIME: 1:00 pm PLACE: Port Perry High School Track ")- Competition. Enter your homemade kite and win a prize in one of the following categories; Funniest; Most Unique; Largest; Longest Run or Best Big Brother or Big Sister Kite. Refreshments, displays and a whole lot of fun! So... don't miss itll For more information contact: 985-3733 or 985-7771 KITE COMPETITION [7 dm of North Durham Help colour the sky with friendship at our Kite out of 100." She explains that there are onlv two veterinary schools in Switzerland, and there is a lot of competition. Geraint describes the situa- tion in England, where he says it's more difficult to get accept- ed into veterinary school than to study human medicine. Grades have to be higher for vet school, because there's only five schools in Great Britain, which take only 50 to 70 stu- dents, he explains, compared to 20 or 30 schools which teach human medicine and take 150 students each. When he graduates, he will be a member of the Royal Col- lege of Veterinary Surgeons, and can work anywhere in Great Britain. After 1992, when the European Economic Community comes into being, he is looking forward to being able to work in Europe. Suzanne explains that in Canada the veterinary schools make it difficult to get into the program because "they want everyone who starts to finish." Everyone is required to take the first year of a Bachelor of Science degree before they qualify to continue with a year of pre-medical studies, so the "first year is very stressful," she says. "But once you get into the program, nobody is trying to weed you out." The students all agree there is a demand for veterinarians, but say it's not a good way to make a lot of money. "There's a big illusion that vets make big bucks," explains Geraint, "but that's not the Veterinary medicine is not only for the dogs, Insist these visiting veterinary students. With Dr. Keith Elliott's dog Colt Is Geraint Jones (left) from Wales, Regina Schaerer (centre) from Switzerland and local resident Suzanne Browne from Brooklin. They've been learning from the vets at Port Perry Veterinary Services and the Brooklin Veterinary Hospital. case." He describes how his father had to invest a lot of money in equipment and medical sup- plies. "The important thing is you have to have compassion for the animals." Suzanne adds that veteri- narians make more money tak- ing care of household pets in suburban Toronto than in a ru- ral practice. "When you go further north, you spend more time driving than treating the animals," she says. The veterinarians at Port Perry Veterinary Services and the Brooklin Veterinary Hospi- tal have given the visiting stu- dents more than a lesson in an- imal care. "They each have different at- tudes and different approach- es," explains Geraint. "And they tell lots of funny stories." Hospital auxiliary to organize "kilometre of pennies" project It is difficult to visualize just how many a million is. How can we think of it? To collect a million pennies in a year we would have to collect nearly 20,000 pennies or $200 a week. AWESOME! But let's look at it another way. If a thousand people each gave a thousand pennies or $10 we would have a million pennies or $10,000.00 for the hospital. That doesn't sound so impossible. How many people do we have in Scugog Township? We thank the merchants for putting containers on their counters and we thank the generous people who put pennies and other coins into them. After two months this is how we are doing: Port Perry Hospital Tuck Shop - 3400; Big V - 2105; Pharmacy at Clinic - 1250; I.D.A. - 1150; Brocks - 695; Guardian Drugs - 365; Port Perry Star Office - 275; Individual boxes - 8903. TOTAL: 18143 pennies. Cartwright Nestleton Store - 1423; Caesarea Store - 1043; Beckers 1014; Blackstock Hardware - 779; Coun- try Store, Blackstock - 677; Post Office - 666; Individual boxes - 1920. TOTAL: 7522 pennies. The Island Island Store - 3521; Fish & Chip Shop - 529; Individual boxes - 1950. TOTAL: 6000 pennies. Seagrave Store - 711; U.C.W. - 750; In- dividual boxes - 1650. TOTALS: 3111 pennies. Prince Albert Store - 1365; Individual boxes - 1150. TOTAL: 2515 pennies. Greenbank Store - 1114 pennies; Chicken Coop - 321. TOTAL: 1435 pennies. Grand total - 38726 pennies - $387.26. A KILOMETER OF PENNIES To give our project a boost, on * All at Guaranteed Lowest Prices UNITED CARPET. Large<i Carpet Selection in Scugog Township and a member of the largest carpet FAMOUS Levolore- BLINDS VERTICALS * VENETIANS PLEATED SHADES buying group in Canada. HOMESTEAD by Ballard & Carnegie « HWY.7A EAST - PORT PERRY 985-2451 or 985-2157 Friday, September 13, 1991 (September 14 a rain day), faithful volunteers from the hospital auxiliary from 10 a.m. until 5 p.m. will be patrolling a kilometer of '"'sticky tape' on the streets of Port Perry, ready for you pennies and other coins. Do you remember the March of Dimes from years ago? The auxiliary uses all the money you help us make through our many activities to purchase new and replace worn out and ob- solete equipment in our hospital. The new addition to our hospital will need many new things. We ask for your help on our kilometer of pennies and in the containers in the stores. Gwenyth Thompson, Convenor 'Million Pennies Project' for Port Perry Memorial Hospital Auxiliary New Quilt Guild Want to know more about quilts and quilt making? Here is an op- portunity for anyone in Durham, Northumberland and area, male or female, that is interested in belonging to a quilt guild to join this new group. A formation meeting will be held in the Arts Resource Centre auditorium at 45 Queen St., (behind Oshawa City Hall) Oshawa on Tuesday, Sept. 10 at 7:30 p.m. Come to the meeting and find out more. mm A ------=------ TA a a em A----Y Raa Sun ons 2