| Night of horror 'our Anzac Day'
IT is a blight on Macarthur's history but hundreds of people are expected to gather to commemorate the Appin Massacre on Sunday, April 15.
A memorial ceremony will be held at Cataract Dam from 1pm to 3.30pm to remember the Dharawal people who were killed on April 17, 1816.
On that fateful night a squad of soldiers under the command of Captain Wallis arrived at Broughton's Farm, near Appin. By moonlight they rushed the Dharawal people. Many were shot but many fled in terror and fell to their death over the clifftops.
Fourteen bodies were recovered the following day. Only two women and three children survived.
It is not known how many others plunged to their death.
Sister Kerry from the Winga Myamly Reconciliation Group said she believed remembering the Appin Massacre was as important as Anzac Day.
It's always a beautiful day for seeing patients
Dr. Kermit K. Kistler started practicing medicine the year Truman defeated Dewey, baseball great Babe Ruth died and ''Candid Camera'' made its TV debut.
That was 1948, and the Lehigh Valley native, fresh out of an internship at a Marine Corps hospital in Staten Island, had started an eye, ear, nose and throat practice in the nation's capital, examining some of the president's bodyguards, before returning to his hometown to a private practice.
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TURN' AT THEIR SHANZU CAMPSITE
The activities at this camp included Fun Games, Solar Cooking, Eye Camp, Service with smile, Shanzu Ex girls meeting, Young Leaders meeting. The District Commissioner Mr. Raphel visited the Camp on Saturday from 11.00 a.m. to 3.00 p.m. He toured the campsite and saw the Workshop, talked to Disabled Girls. The Discussion on security of campsite also came. The Road reserve between the Probation and the campsite has become public Road. The D.C was given the plans of Shanzu Area and a letter so the Road is closed to the public for safety. Highlight of this camp was the 'Good Turn'. The Manager of the Barclays Bank Nkrumah Road came with his staff to do the 'Good Turn'. They brought stationary for the Girl Guides and Shanzu Centre.
Dr. William Rudy Returns to Kent to Join Northeast Ohio Eye Surgeons
From Kent Roosevelt High School all the way to Seattle, Washington and back again, Dr. William Rudys work as an optometrist has taken him across the country. As the next step in his career, he has returned to Kent to join the staff at Northeast Ohio Eye Surgeons.
[ClickPress, Fri Apr 06 2007] From Kent Roosevelt High School all the way to Seattle, Washington and back again, Dr. William Rudys work as an optometrist has taken him across the country. As the next step in his career, he has returned to Kent to join the staff at Northeast Ohio Eye Surgeons.
Dr. Rudys extensive background in refractive surgery, glaucoma treatment, laser vision correction and multi-focal intraocular lens implantation procedures has already proven helpful to several patients at Northeast Ohio Eye Surgeons.
Hospital rebuild given go-ahead
Health bosses have given the go-ahead to the £13m rebuild of Cromer Hospital in a scheme that will see the closure of beds on the site.The board of the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital, which runs the Cromer unit, agreed to press ahead with a plan that will see the 12-bed Barclay Ward close and the Davison Day Procedure Unit and Endoscopy Unit moved within the site.The redevelopment will be funded by the legacies of Sagel Bernstein and Phyllis Cox and see Cromer become a site for day case operations, such as hernia and cataract surgery, diagnostics, outpatient facilities, kidney dialysis and other routine treatments and clinics.The board heard on Friday that the largest public consultation ever undertaken by the N&N gave a clear message to go ahead with the scheme.A total of 70,000 consultation documents were sent out, and of those who responded, 87pc supported siting the new hospital in its current location and 78pc backed a day case model of care.Although 65pc were opposed to the ward closure, the board heard the concern was not over the loss of acute beds but of rehabilitation, palliative care and community bed, which is how the Barclay Ward beds have been used in recent years.The board is to pass that issue to Norfolk Primary Care Trust (PCT), which is consulting on intermediate care, including plans to cut some community beds and close hospitals.Divisional general manager Melissa Blakeley said: “We still believe there is potential for the PCT to work jointly with us over Cromer if they choose to do so.“This has got to be a facility, particularly with it being a legacy, that will serve Cromer not just for the next five years but way beyond."Issues such as car parking and the retention of architectural features, such as a Dutch gable end, were raised during the consultation, with the board agreeing to consider views during the design process.Ms Blakeley said: “We will still be able to maintain a significant amount of parking on the site and we have entered in negotiations with the football club to improve their car park, to allow hospital staff to use during construction while all hospital on-site parking will be reserved for patients."N&N chief executive Paul Forden said it was difficult to assess the impact of the PCT's £47m deficit on the project but that it was unlikely to jeopardise the plan.
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