Archive for March, 2009
Posted on Tuesday, March 31st, 2009
It didn’t take long. Last Friday, the Southeast Local Health Integration Network rejected Quinte Healthcare’s cost savings plan. The LHIN said the plan failed to meet the criteria given QHC, as it would have continued to operate with a deficit.
Now, the Minister of Health and Long Term Care, David Caplan, has told Quinte Healthcare management that he intends to have the provincial cabinet name a supervisor to oversee the operation of the hospital. The government believes the financial situation could get worse, jeapordizing medical care.
Posted on Tuesday, March 31st, 2009
Three men were taken to hospital and a Picton man faces impaired charges after a spectacular crash north of Cherry Valley. Prince Edward O-P-P say a westbound vehicle went off Miller Road last evening, near Mowbray Road, went into a ditch, rolled several times and became airborne, ejecting one of the passengers. Two passengers, 18 and 24, were transferred to Kingston General Hospital with serious injuries, and 18-year-old Michael Minaker was charged with two counts of impaired driving causing bodily harm. He will appear for a court date on April 22nd in Picton.
Posted on Tuesday, March 31st, 2009
A large sum of money has been stolen during a breakin at a home in Brighton. Northumberland O-P-P say a suspect got in through an unlocked front door at the house on Prince Edward Street yesterday afternoon, while the resident was in another part of the residence. The envelope containing the cash quickly disappeared, and the culprit was gone. No description is available, and anyone with information about the incident is asked to call Crimestoppers or the O-P-P.
Posted on Tuesday, March 31st, 2009
A four-plex in Marmora will be demolished following a fire Sunday night. Chief Building Official in Marmora and Lake Township Reg McCurdy says part of the building had to be demolished in order for firecrews to get at the blaze. He says the brick two storey building on McGill Street had severe damage to the back and upper floors. The cause is still under investigation and damage is estimated at 250-thousand dollars. Three tenants were living at the complex and another had partially moved in to the fourth unit.
Posted on Tuesday, March 31st, 2009
The decision to start school for Catholic students in Campbellford and Grafton almost a week before Labour day may get a second look.
The Peterborough Catholic School Board voted last Tuesday to begin classes at all of its schools on September first, rather than on the eighth, one day about labour day.
However, the Kawartha-Pine Ridge Board, which shares busing with the catholic board, decided later in the week it won’t send its students back to class until the eighth.
The Peterborough Catholic board is holding a special meeting tomorrow to once again discuss the issue of starting school a week early.
Posted on Tuesday, March 31st, 2009
Randy Hillier is joining caucus colleague Frank Klees on the ballot for the leadership of the Ontario Progressive Conservatives. The M-P-P for Lanark-Frontenac-Lennox and Addington says tough times call for a smart leader who rises to challenges, `rather than making excuses and pointing fingers.’ Hillier was first elected to the legislature in October 2007, and is the party’s critic for rural affairs. Tim Hudak and Christine Elliott are also expected to be on the ballot to replace John Tory as party leader at a June 27th convention in Markham.
Posted on Tuesday, March 31st, 2009
The acting Chairperson of the Quinte Health Care board says the financial recovery plan will continue. Ray Goulet says the only information Q-H-C has received about the Southeast LHIN’s rejection of the 9.4-million-dollar cost cutting initiative, which also includes a budget deficit of four-million dollars, is a media release issued by the LHIN last friday. He says Quinte Health Care has not been instructed to stop implementing the plan, and Q-H-C President Bruce Laughton says he can’t imagine either the LHIN or the Health Ministry doing that.
Posted on Tuesday, March 31st, 2009
A number of issues before Belleville’s Planning Committee when it meets next week, including requests for rezoning that reflect future development. There’s an application for rezoning two vacant lots adjacent to the site of the new regional courthouse at Coleman and Bridge Streets. The province is building the facility on land it bought from developer Brian Magee. The owner of a site at the corner of Station Street and Albion wants zoning to allow a medical clinic as a possible use. And up North Front Street, Quinte Retirement Residence is asking for a zoning amendment to allow a site on Donald Street to be used initially for parking, then later for an eight-storey special care residence, housing 225-people.
Posted on Tuesday, March 31st, 2009
The Quinte region will make a major bid later this spring to attract industry to the area. Quinte Economic Development Commission spokesman Chris King says the commission will be at a trade fair for large packaging, food processing, and logistics industries the first week in May. He says this area has available food plants and other industrial lands that they want to promote. King says many companies are continuing to make enquiries about possible re-location in the Quinte area.
Posted on Monday, March 30th, 2009
Belleville’s new police chief sees community policing and partnerships with other organizations as important factors in the city’s police service.
Mr. Justice Stephen Hunter presided at the swearing-in ceremony for Chief Cory McMullan at the Victoria Street courthouse yesterday. McMullan says she’ll be launching an organizational review immediately, and involving downtown stakeholders. Police Services Board Chair Bob Dolan thanked Deputy Chief Brian Harder, and Inspectors Mike Graham and Paul Vandergraff for the work they did in the months while the city was without a police chief
Posted on Monday, March 30th, 2009
About 100-people, including officers from as far away as Niagara Falls, packed the main courtroom at 15 Victoria street yesterday as Mr. Justice Stephen Hunter presided at the swearing-in ceremony for Belleville’s new police chief.
Chief Cory McMullan says it’s her life’s goal and she “can’t wait to get started” as Belleville’s top cop. Forty-six-year-old McMullan says top of her priority list is an organizational review, touching on workload and policies. She says community stakeholders and residents will have an opportunity for input, then a business plan will be developed. And McMullan says that, starting today, she wants to get to know each and every officer on the force.
Posted on Monday, March 30th, 2009
The Quinte region will make a major bid later this spring to attract industry to the area.
Quinte Economic Development Commission spokesman Chris King says the commission will be at a Toronto trade fair for large packaging, food processing, and logistics industries the first week in May. He says this area has food plants available, and other industrial lands, that they want to promote. King says many companies are continuing to make enquiries about possible re-location in the Quinte area.
Posted on Monday, March 30th, 2009
A number of issues before Belleville’s Planning Committee when it meets next week, including requests for rezoning that reflect future development.
There’s an application for rezoning two vacant lots adjacent to the site of the new regional courthouse at Coleman and Bridge Streets. The province is building the facility on land it bought from developer Brian Magee. The owner of a site at the corner of Station Street and Albion wants zoning to allow a medical clinic as a possible use. And up North Front Street, Quinte Retirement Residence is asking for a zoning amendment to allow a site on Donald Street to be used initially for parking, then later for an eight-storey special care residence, housing 225-people.
Posted on Monday, March 30th, 2009
A bail hearing is scheduled today for a Tyendinaga Township man, arrested after a violent domestic incident in Madoc.
Central Hastings O-P-P say a woman was assaulted and beaten with household items at an apartment on Saturday night, resulting in cuts, facial injuries and bruising, and police believe she may have also been bitten.
Officers had to subdue a suspect with pepper spray.
The 25-year-old man was charged with assault, resisting arrest, assault with a weapon, assault causing bodily harm and choking.
The female victim was given medical attention, but it isn’t known if she had to go to hospital.
Posted on Monday, March 30th, 2009
The acting Chairperson of the Quinte Health Care board says the financial recovery plan will continue..
Ray Goulet says the only information Q-H-C has received about the Southeast LHIN’s rejection of the 9.4-million-dollar cost cutting initiative, which also includes a budget deficit of four-million dollars, is a media release issued by the LHIN last friday.
He says Quinte Health Care has not been instructed to stop implementing the plan, and Q-H-C President Bruce Laughton says he can’t imagine either the LHIN or the Health Ministry doing that.
Posted on Monday, March 30th, 2009
Kawartha Pine Ridge Elementary School teachers won’t be taking a strike vote this week afterall.
They were scheduled to vote on Thursday, but the board has agreed to resume contract talks with the Elementary Teachers Federation of Ontario local, starting on Wednesday.
Talks broke down last month over what ET-FO called a refusal by the board to clarify “vague” language in a provincial contract framework.
There is an April 24th deadline to reach a local contract settlement.
Posted on Sunday, March 29th, 2009
A young Belleville man faces criminal charges after being caught living in a public restroom.
City police say the 19-year-old was discovered in Victoria Park around seven last night (SAT) following a noise complaint .
Police say they learned the man had been living in the park’s restroom for about three weeks.
Police say there was evidence of a “campfire” in the washroom.
The man was charged with break and enter, mischief and arson and given a May court date.
For a behind-the-scenes look at this story, visit the reporter’s blog at http://jenniferlester.ca.
Posted on Sunday, March 29th, 2009
A man is being held for bail following two troublesome incidents in Belleville.
City police were called to a Murney Street location for the second time around 3:15 this morning (SUN)… to find a 25-year-old man holding a crow bar.
Investigating officers found the earlier disturbance had been allegedly caused by the same man, who had previously thrown a rock threw a car window and picked up a wooden two-by-four in the alleged incident.
The suspect was also found to be in violation of prior conditions of release, including staying away from alcohol and from a certain person.
Police charged the man. No one was injured.
Posted on Friday, March 27th, 2009
The Local Health Integration Network has rejected the latest Quinte Health Care plan to handle its budget deficit.
Quinte Health Care’s latest plan includes a deficit of four million dollars. QHC recently dropped a number of proposed cuts at Trenton and Picton hospitals. LHIN chair Georgina Thompson says an independent reviewer indicated Q-H-C could deliver high quality health care within existing funding. Thompson says her board is not satisfied the latest plan will meet the province’s requirements. She will be discussing the plan with the minister of health.
Posted on Friday, March 27th, 2009
Slippery road conditions have derailed a motorist southwest of Stirling.
The O-P-P say River Valley Road was icy, a result of yesterday’s rain and last night’s freezing temperature, when a vehicle rolled at 5-30 this morning near Frankford-Stirling Road.
One person suffered minior injuries.
No other serious accidents have been reported in the Quinte region so far this morning.
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