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SECTION A PAGE 4 THE NORTH BAY NUGGET TUESDAY JUNE 2 2009 nationalnews BROCK UNIVERSITY: Document put on display NEW HOSPITAL Alternative level of care patients a concern Made-in-Sudbury solution needed MPP fjlCgfr-A tr 4 I i CAROL MULLIGAN Sun Media SUDBURY There is no way the Ontario government would build a new one-site hospital in Sudbury and then allow it to become a nursing home says Sudbury MPP Rick Bartolucd He Is confident Health and Long-term Care Minister David Caplan will act quickly to address Sudbury Regional Hospital's alternate level of care crisis and not allow that to happen Bartolucd said The Sudbury ALC Community Steering Group is recommending to the province that Sudbury Regional Hospital's Memorial site remain open temporarily to care for as many as 150 alternative level of care patients after the one-site hospital opens in 2010 The committee has warned that more than half the one-site hospital's 450 beds will be taken up by ALC patients unless other space is found for them ALC patients are largely frail elderly people who require acute hospital care but for whom there are no other services in the community Bartolucd said It was he who challenged the community to strike the steering group and come up with made-in-Sudbury solutions for the ALC problem The steering group has done that but those solutions come with some hefty pricetags Depending on who would run the Memorial site it could cost between $18 million and $49 million to care for ALC patients there every year until a new nursing home in Chelmsford is built and other programs begin redudng ALC numbers I'm going to advocate in very real ways for one of the three options or a combination of those options or another option that achieves what we want said Bartolucd A decision will have to be made soon said the MPP because the move to the one-site hospital will begin in January The steering co-chair Dc Peter Zalan has warned the one-site hospital be able to function properly if 280 of its 450 beds are filled with people who do not need to be there not going to happen said Bartolucd We wouldn't allow that to happen collectively as a community and I think the government is going to allow that he said not going to build a hospital for acute care then end up with ALC patients Bartolucd called the formation of the Sudbury ALC Community Steering Group last stand We have to come up with the right solution and we have to ensure that the game plan is a realistic one Honestly Keeping the Memorial site open for three years solve the problem said Bartolucd will be an ongoing concern' But we have to make that initial step to alleviate the pressures and then our hospital (will be) what everybody wants our hospital to be BOB TYMCZYSZYN Sun Media An 800-year-old vellum land transfer document one of the oldest ever found in Ontario was officially unveiled Monday at the special collections department of the Brock University library Shades of Indiana Jones WINDMILLS: Energy minister pushes renewable energy Resistance to green energy no option Ll'- 1 1 i This is like my Raiders Sharron He has leads in his quest to find out how it arrived on campus about 30 years ago A former history professor teaching at Brock in the mid-1970s is the one person who could provide insight he said He's been busy trying to track her down What an enigma though is the parchment's approximate age Archivists at Brock thought the document which details in Latin a land transfer between Robert dc Clopton and his son William dated back to the 15th century After it passed under the scrutinizing eyes of history professor Andrew McDonald English professor Angus Somerville and university chaplain Andre Basson three months ago now believed die undated document was penned sometime between 1216 and 1272 Its tight cursive illegible to most started to reveal its age So did some of the Latin legalese crammed onto the animal skin almost like a do-your-own-will kit McDonald said about the ease in decoding some save $1M a year agency leaving the city share at $326 million that could be paid from share of federal gasoline tax revenue City staff estimate the fodlity could produce savings for the London region each year of $1 million Politicians were so enthused they asked staff to forego a planned presentation and recommended the facility to the board of control which will consider it Wednesday of TIFFANY MAYER Sun Media ST CATHARINES David Sharron wasn't wearing a fedora weathered leather jacket or clutching a bullwhip But his discovery of a what is believed to be a nearly 800-year-old document tucked away for years in a drawer at Brock University had shades of the adventures of fictional archaeologist Indiana Jones is like my Raiders of the Lost Ark moment Sharron said Monday as media and Brock faculty gathered around the old vellum in a quiet lOth-floor room of the Schmon Tower You find something that doesn't quite fit but it's important at the same time It's also a mystery For the past two months Sharron head of Brock's special collections has been trying to find out how the parchment came into the university's possession He found it folded up with an accompanying seal and quill sharpener several months ago when he was making way for an influx of microfilms Sharron knew then it was old but put it aside until he had more time to really study it I ENVIRONMENT: City could the Lost Ark of the Medieval Latin jargon things are pretty formulaic Plugging names of witnesses on the vellum Into an online database also led die trio back to the 1200s and to Stratford-Upon-Avon in England Even its missing date was a giveaway Sharron said It wasn't uncommon for official documents to go undated back then The parchment is without a doubt the oldest in Brock's possession and most likely one of the oldest in Ontario McDonald said pretty rare in a North American context he said quite remarkable While McDonald and crew continue narrowing down its age Sharron Is researching ways to preserve the parchment The hope is it can be put on display for pilgrimages made by medieval and renaissance students to view it You can only go so far with digital Images and the Internet McDonald said To have students come and see it will enhance their learning be happy to move this right now This is such a win for tiie city Controller Gord Hume said What staff are calling a regional material recovery facility would be capable of processing 75000 tonnes of recyclables each year nearly double that of a smaller facility that would serve the city alone The new facility would reduce the per-tonne cost to London from $8 to $3 FOR LUKE HENDRY Sun Media GLEN MILLER Ontario could become a North American environmental leader but municipalities stand in the way of wind power That was the message Tuesday from Ontario Energy and Infrastructure Minister George Smitherman as he toured a hydroelectric plant here Smitherman also Ontario's deputy premier praised Irtnergex Renewable Energy Inc for its operation of the eight-megawatt plant We are very very proud that a lot of the investment that is occurring is taking place in the private Smitherman said have many more opportunities here to create energy from what Mother Nature gives us from the wind and the sun and the He promoted Ontario's new Green Energy and Green Economy Act saying it will make the province not only greener but more prosperous We think the Green Energy Act can create some 50000 jobs" But asked later about some hesitance to embrace wind power Smitherman said resistance an option passed a law and the law does not create an opportunity for municipalities to resist these projects just because they may have a-concern he said Green Energy Act creates strong motivation to enhance renewable energy projects in the province of Ontario" Some critics have cited concerns and studies about possible negative health effects resulting from wind forms Last December Prince Edward County councillors approved a motion asking public agencies to research further the effects of wind turbines and London OKs $23-M recycling facility JONATHAN SHER Sun Media LONDON City hall politicians Monday night unanimously and enthusiastically recommended the city build a $23-million facility that would process recyclables that now must be trucked to the Toronto area While the price tag is large most of it would be paid by upper levels of government and a privately funded Crown Knoivledge Is Power establish guidelines for the placement the bill makes some progress on that Smitherman said explaining that with regard to health concerns Ministry of Environment has responsibility for taking all of that information which is available into consideration' He said that will determine the distances required between homes and turbines and those distances are going to be greater than those elsewhere is an acknowledgment that we need to make sure the setbacks are appropriate and established based on good evidence said Smitherman He said the 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