Prairie spirit and wiener-roast help local repairs
A digest of small town acts shows neighbours pitching in. At Atwater Saskatchewan residents filled seven miles of potholes in one 11 hour day, a crew included five people in their fifties and an elderly pair, with a wiener roast to celebrate. Funds raised in Tisdale and Lampman support families. a Lampman auction raised forty three thousand dollars to burn a swimming pool mortgage.
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Esterhazy Miner-Journal
Atwater
Toronto
Carman Valley
Sarah Goethals
Mathew Kushniruk
Tisdale Recorder
Mathew
Carlyle Observer
Lampman
Nursing shortage and rural hospital cuts spark concern
The piece argues nurses have declined by five years with rising age and fewer under 35s, notes migration to the U S and overseas, and cites fewer graduates and overwork due to health care cuts. It questions rural hospital underutilization and claims rural doctors include foreign-trained physicians, defending their qualifications.
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U.S
Sisters of Mercy
Manitoba
Rural doctors valued for empathy over city practice
Maria argues rural physicians offer superior patient care and accuse urban the emphasis on lucrative salaries. She laments rural hospitals facing decline and calls for converting rural facilities into Personal Care Homes, criticizing decisions she attributes to authorities.
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