& — Friday, September 12, 1997 — North Shore News

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__ VIEWPOINT

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Health Region board is made

up of well-known former local

politicians, experts in the health field,

and a new Canadian. But none is elect- ed. And that is a hage problem.

The NDP’s “closer to home” health regionalization plan was supposed to deliver decision-making power to local ‘people. Now that deep sift have devel-

oped between the unelected board and its hand-picked administrator, Inge Schamborzki,.on one hand: and Lions Gate.Hospital doctors and. employees on the other, let’s recap the influence you've had in board decisions. «° Have you personally supported the “appointment of any of the 15 board :”\amembers? Neither have we. Do you es 16 even three of the 15 are? We nly becat se we Have a list. Do } importance each of the

board members, or any of them, attaches to acute care? Community health? Neither do we.

So, are the voices of the average Joe being heard on the board? No.

The NDP, which appointed the board members, is at the heart of the problem. B.C.’s ruling party nixed elections for board members.

Now the top health dogs in the region are all barking up different trees. But with the responsibility vacu- um on the board, the urgency to reach a compromise is lacking.

The $166-million-a-year health region board should have fewer mem- bers. They should be elected and paid. And they should shoulder the respon- sibility for their. decisions.

Then decisions might reflect the will of the residents, not that of Victoria- appointed volunteers.

. TEACHERS used to ask their pupils after vacation: What did you do last summer?

I wish someone would ask me: What

did you do in the summer,

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Daddy?

Since it is unlikely any- one will, 1am going to tell you, whether asked or not. 4 I took my three 12),

ren — the Biggest the Middlest (cight) an the Littlest (seven) — to my homeland, southern Ontario, for eight or nine

ys. My wife was on holiday too — from us. Here I note that rhere i is a well-worn, if not threadbare, if not worn-out writing

. formula that casts children as causing

problems if not mayhem while the parents trusgle along in their wake — affection- ately ravely, with a forced smile, but sometimes wistfully yearning for the vaca- tion (or the life) they aren’t having, and can’t have. Today I’m not going to touch that writers’ gimmick with a 10-foot meta hor. I delighted i in travelling with m dren. They're fun, interested, and interest-

_ ing. I’ve spent cnough nights alone in

stock-issue hotel rooms for a lifetime. i some advice. Bring moncy. Lots it.

Ontario’s economy has tuned around. Re visitors can testify as to the tum. Prices have lifted off for accommodation in big-volume places like ale ren ago ~ begging for business a couple of with big discounts and specials. (

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or praise, the Casino there, a monstrous success.) :

Speaking of monsters, com the various House of Horrors any name on cheerful tesque Clifton

ed with

, which charge a Jot '

for a tittle, the famous es of the Mist ride is a and a bargain at $27 (all prices are for the four of us). So is Jim Pattison-owned Ripley’s Believe It Or Not, $21. We've stayed at the Holiday Inn-by-the-Falls (which, for tangled rea- sons, is not part of the Holiday Inn chain). Last. year the high-scason price for a double in’ the AAA- book was $90-$160; this year, $$ $95-$185. big difference is in the off-seascn |

joy (a modest lunch ‘an r reat accommodation bai

Holiday Inn Express. at the ¢

Hamilton, at the Qu Elizabe

low: r Rone $52-$80 to $55-$125. In July.

we paid $113.50, snuggled into two unqueenly beds. It’s a so-so place, except outdoor and indoor pools, loved or the children, and an excellent location within walking distance of the falls. (Also fine thin-crust pizza at the adjoining Mr. Coco's.)

Even the Denny’s across the road . doesn’t offer those widely advertised bar- gain breakfasts: Bill for the four was an outrageous $55.68.

But outrage has become napa Especially when your ones uate from the Kids’ Meal to adult ones. Bring along a couple of old friends and dinner at the Old Spaghetti Factory on Toronto’s Esplanade reaches $107 includin Sp. At East Side Mario’s, a good-fun I restaurant chain that we love (especially

Greyhound (which flew into fist tle Mount § Hani

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