Richard E. Bridges (Port Hope,,Ontario), 1 month ago

Subject: Lake Ontario, Port Hope.

P.O. Box 561,
Port Hope, ON, LA3Z3.

Northumberland Today.



Dear Editor:

Re: Port Hope Harbour, July 09, 2010.

Discussions regarding Port Hope’s harbour have been ongoing for many years. As everyone remembers way back in the early seventies the present turning basin was to be filled in with local soil from various contaminated sites and the Yacht Club moved to the East.

None of what was said to happen, ever happened and it was always someone else’s fault, and fourty years latter the problems are still ongoing, except today we have two new problems to cope with, the lowering levels of lake water and more silting due to milder winters. If the present trends continue the present harbour will not exist in the near future, all due to lower water in the lake, extra silting due to less winter and isostatic rebound from the last glaciation, The Wisconsin, due to compression. In plane terms the lake may be drying up, so why do we want to keep dredging when the water levels are falling?

What needs to be done is to build a new harbour for pleasure craft and to build it farther out into the lake.
Most important, if this were to be done, Port Hope could attract many visitors and could have a great club house while everyone else in the area would have to be dredging perhaps twice a year, give it some thought.

Richard E. Bridges.

Edward Sawdon (St. John's,NL), 1 month ago

Pharmacare Update– Finland
Finland is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of Northern Europe. The Republic of Finland is surrounded by Sweden (West); Norway (North), Russia (East), and Estonia lies South (Southern region of the Gulf of Finland).

Like neighboring Sweden, Finnish residents have access to their National Public Drug Plan. The National Medicines Agency of the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health (In Finnish, it is called Sosiaali-Ja Terveysministerio) is responsible for providing pharmaceutical coverage for all 5.4 million Finnish Health Consumers. This nationwide program provides coverage to Persons with Disabilities; Mental Health Consumers; Seniors, Veterans, Children, low and moderate Income Fami-lies and individuals as well as all workers, regardless of status. The Ministry of Social Affairs and Health, and indeed, all Finnish Government Departments and Agencies provide trilingual information for all Finnish residents; Finnish, Swed-ish and English.

This essential Pharmacare service follows 5 Principles:
- to promote safe medical treatment
- to safeguard comprehensive pharmaceutical service nationwide
- to promote cost effectiveness in the use and prescription of pharmaceuticals
- to develop the reimbursement system appropriate to treatment
- to keep pharmaceutical costs to patients and society reasonable

Drug Coverage or Reimbursement levels varies from individual to individual and family to family as coverage is determined on one's socio-economic status or in-come levels. According to the Helsinki-based National Medicines Agency, "the basic reimbursement is 42%" of the Drug Costs, however, certain people can re-ceive either 72% reimbursement or full 100% coverage for their prescription drug expenses. In order to receive reimbursement, Finns have to purchase their medications from any one of Finland's 800 pharmacies and branch pharmacies.

Like Australia, New Zealand, Great Britain and other nations, Finland has shown that Health Consumers can benefit from a National Pharmacare Program.


Edward Sawdon
St. John's, NL

David Randall (Cobourg,Ontario), 3 months ago

recent article about the hold curling rink indicated that Dunn Cleaners occupied the premises at one time. Actually, the cleaners was in a building that was to the west and was torn down years ago.

Edward Sawdon (St. John's,NL), 3 months ago

When it comes to PHARMACARE, HEALTH CARE REFORM, IMPROVED MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES & POVERTY REDUCTION, I like to quote Edward Kennedy: "The Work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives and the dream shall never die."


Edward Sawdon
5A Patrick Street
St. John's. NL
A1E 2S5
Tel: 726 6806

Grant Wilson (Cobourg,Ontario), 4 months ago

Hello:
Your recent articles about health care have been very interesting. You may wish to enhance and elaborate on your stories by reading some of Dr. Mercola's work. Here is a link to risks of Gradisil, given by our Public Health Unit(s) in our Schools to girls. http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2010/04/17/time-for-the-truth-about-gardasil.aspx

Pete Briand (Cobourg,Ontario), 5 months ago

Health care.
In Cobourg, Northumberland Hills Hospital cuts beds and jobs.
But our government can find twenty three million to build arenas.

Is there not some thing wrong with us?

Three million into fixing rink you have.
Twenty million into OMG health care???????????