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Waterloo resident Judy Greenwoodâ€"Speers, a nurse who ran for regional council last November on a ticket of providing a more unified regional voice on health care, told the forum that the local politicians have to stand up and be counted. The only local politicians in attendance were Regional Chairman Ken Seiling, Kitchener Mayor Carl Zehr and Kitchener MPP Wayne Wettâ€" laufer. ‘Greenwoodâ€"Speers said she expects to be tripping over politicians at the next health forum on community health needs at the Waterloo Recreation Complex Jan. 29, 7:30 p.m. Grimson, who will also be in attendance, said the importance of meeting is to get local stories about the gaps in heart and cancer care on the record. "Ken Seiling represents 400,000 people," she said in an interview after the forum. "If it means stepping on some toes, it has to be done. It has to be a regional issue. Waterloo region has to insure the provision of service." The decentralizing of beds from London means that there will be a trans ferring of specialized services to the area. Mental health care services will be closer to the people who need them. In an interview with the Chronicle after the forum, Gavin Grimson, execâ€" utive director of the Waterloo Region District Health Council, said, "It demands that we start looking at what goes along with the beds." Expansion in the number of beds in Waterloo Region also calls for an expansion in the range of supportive services in the area. These support serâ€" vices range from case management to housing and vocational services. The forum heard from a number of panelists, including patient and parent groups, that the support services in the region have been lacking. The region is unprepared to deal with an influx of new cases in the community unless the money follows the patient into community care. Anne Tschirhart, representing the "survivor‘s" view of the mental health system, said the importance of proper community care is that it keeps the patient from reâ€"entering the system. _ "One of the major needs is to access psychiatric services in the community when it is needed," she said. "An indication of a positive outcome is the conâ€" trol over the services they receive and the control they have over their lives." Some of the benchmarks discussed by the panel, bolstered by statistics the Chronicle received from the Health council, indicated: * there are 15 psychiatrists in Waterloo Region; * more than eight per cent of the region‘s residents use merttal health serâ€" vices, 8,700 have a serious mental health issue; * there is one psychiatrist for every 27,783 people in the region; the Health Ministry benchmark is one for every 7,500 people; * supportive housing is inadequate, 250 more spaces are needed; * there is a lack of child and adolescent services; * support coordinators have to be increased to 48 from 18; * Cambridge and outlying areas are in even worse shape. The other major theme of the night was generating enough political will to support the findings of the forums. The first in a series of health care forums tackling health care gaps in Waterloo Region, last Thursday, heard that the money has to follow the patients in the system. Bob Cunningham, administrator of the merging psychiatric hospitals in London, told a group of 200 people at the Kitchener Public Library that there are 55 more psychiatric beds coming to the region dedicated to the acute care and chronic care of mental illness. "It will require a transfer of spending on mental health inspection services along with staff and services," said Cunningham. "We‘ll have to do what is needed to support the seriously mentally ill." But he also touched on a theme that ran throughout the entire night â€" those services are lacking the proper community supports to ease a patient‘s transition back into society. o LAZâ€"BOY A Fantastic Selection Of Genuine LAâ€"Zâ€"BOY @ @7{%} ;,f"f] | ’*TFR? 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The city took over ownership of the facility from the Seaâ€" gram Museum Foundation this past Dec. 1 and is leasing the building to Waterloo Maple The city‘s director of recreation and leisure services, Bob McFarland, said in a recent interview residents might be able to see some of the roughly 5,000 pieces of the city‘s porâ€" tion of the former museum collection in the former museum by June 1, when Waterloo Maple Inc. is expected to move into the facility. "Oh yes, that‘s definitely our intention," McFarland said, when asked if some of the city‘s collection might be on disâ€" play for the public to see by June 1. "We‘ve had some preâ€" liminary discussions (with Waterloo Maple)." Seagram artifacts should be on display by spring And sometime this spring we would hope to have a disâ€" Tim Gardner Chronicle Staff VICTORIA STAR MOTORS 1450 Victoria St. N., Kitchener 579â€"4460 Waterloo council unanimously approved an agreement Jan. 19 recently worked out by city staff and Waterloo Maple officials that will allow the city to show some of its collecâ€" tion in the former museum. Under the agreement, the city will be able to show some of its collection (awarded to it by the Seagram Museum Foundation last June) in the lobby area of the old barrel warehouse section of the former museum and in display areas in the old warehouse‘s second floor and committee meeting room. play mounted in the Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery," he said. Council also unanimously approved Jan. 19 that the balâ€" ance of the artifacts would be displayed at the Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery and in rotating displays at various city facilities and/or private businesses. Executive assistant to Waterloo‘s chief administrative offiâ€" cer, Paul Eichinger, said in a recent interview that when the public will be allowed to view the collection in the former museum must be agreed to by the city and Waterloo Maple Staruing at (97,900° *plus freight, PD I. & taxes 1998 C230 CLASSIC ting a *37,550* m | Tree vandalism ' in park costs He also said it would take seven to eight years before any of the replacement trees would reach the height of the original trees. Brian Detzler said last Thursday someâ€" one cut down 11 young trees in Roselea Park last Wednesday night, near thte interâ€" section of Mayfield Avenue and Rose Lea Crescent, and just left the trees lying where they fell. The trees were all between 12â€"15 feet in height and included three dawn redwoods, two aspens and six white pines. _ Whoever cut down the trees used a handsaw and also cut down all the trees approximately three feet from the ground. â€""It‘s really an unfortunate act of destrucâ€" tion," Detzler said. "We‘re looking at about a $5,000 act of vandalism here." When asked if anything like this had ever happened before, Detzler said no. "Certainly we‘ve had single trees cut down in the past, particularly around Christmas, but I‘ve never seen where we‘ve had 11 trees in one area just maliâ€" ciously cut like this." Detzler said he had contacted police about the incident and hoped that by doing so it might increase the number of patrols in the area. However he said city staff likely wouldn‘t be able to plant replacement trees in the park until this fall DEPENDABLE SERVICE SINCE 1959 46 King St. N., Waterloo 886â€"2040 CLOSED SUNDAY AND MONDAY TUESDAY â€" THURSDAY 9â€"5:30 Waterloo‘s team leader for parks services says he‘s saddened by a particularly senseâ€" less act of vandalism that occurred at a Waterloo park this past week. (Continued on page 7) â€"â€" * __â€"â€"â€" OBR â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"=â€"â€"s=â€"] m n a CLASSIC a |%® Starting at *37,550* ~<e t Aagie‘® . | T *plus freight, PD 1. & taxes § * lhans,. § VICTORIA STAR MOTORS o 1450 Victonia St. N., Kitchener £ e 579â€"4460 8 Z rums tackle health pomip»=~~<\ig Tree vandalism : J > e .‘ . P _ 9 ":'jf w & » F F Â¥, f : )<> Bob Vrbanac _‘ 5 e . 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Under the agreement, the city , | Waterloo resident Judy Greenwoodâ€"Speers, a nurse who ran for regional The city‘s director of recreation and leisure services, Bob _ will be able to show some of its collection (awarded to it by ‘E | council last November on a ticket of providing a more unified regional voice _ McFarland, said in a recent interview residents might be the Seagram Museum Foundation last June) in the lobby ! on health care, told the forum that the local politicians have to stand up and _ able to see some of the roughly 5,000 pieces of the city‘s porâ€" _ area of the old barrel warehouse section of the former | be counted. The only local politicians in attendance were Regional Chairman _ tion of the former museum collection in the former museum _ museum and in display areas in the old warehouse‘s second i Ken Seiling, Kitchener Mayor Carl Zehr and Kitchener MPP Wayne Wettâ€" _ by June 1, when Waterloo Maple Inc. is expected to move _ floor and committee meeting room } laufer into the facility. Council also unanimously approved Jan. 19 that the balâ€" "Ken Seiling represents 400,000 people," she said in an interview after the The city took over ownership of the facility from the Seaâ€" _ ance of the artifacts would be displayed at the Canadian forum. "If it means stepping on some toes, it has to be done. It has to be a _ gram Museum Foundation this past Dec. 1 and is leasing the _ Clay and Glass Gallery and in rotating displays at various regional issue. Waterloo region has to insure the provision of service." building to Waterloo Maple city facilities and/or private businesses. Greenwoodâ€"Speers said she expects to be tripping over politicians at the "Oh yes, that‘s definitely our intention," McFarland said, Executive assistant to Waterloo‘s chief administrative offiâ€" j next health forum on community health needs at the Waterloo Recreation _ when asked if some of the city‘s collection might be on disâ€" _ cer, Paul Fichinger, said in a recent interview that when the Complex Jan. 29, 7:30 p.m play for the public to see by June 1. "We‘ve had some preâ€" _ public will be allowed to view the collection in the former Grimson, who will also be in attendance, said the importance of meeting _ liminary discussions (with Waterloo Maple)." museum must be agreed to by the city and Waterloo Maple is to get local stories about the gaps in heart and cancer care on the record "And sometime this spring we would hope to have a disâ€" (Continued on page 7) > r 3 » LAZâ€"BOY A Fantastic Selection Of Genuine LAZâ€"BOY @ @){W 5 y Styles Now At The Best Savings Of The Season! 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