Briefs: Cornwall Lions Club hearing clinic

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A Hearing Screening and Hearing Loss Clinic sponsored by the Cornwall Lions Club was recently held which provided valuable feedback to nearly a dozen participants.

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The clinic, held at SDG’s Children’s Aid Society building in Cornwall, was led by Fallon Longtin of Canadian Hearing Services and a total of 11 people were assessed and given feedback on their hearing. Assessment is considered an important step in identifying hearing loss; it’s natural to lose some hearing during the aging process, but because it can often be so gradual, people often don’t realize the extent of the problem they may be facing.

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The club has been in operation for over 75 years and each year sponsors and organizes numerous community events and activities, from the sports awards dinner in mid-May to the first annual duck race which raised $5,000 last fall . the Benson Center sports and recreation center.

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CAMsafe

Cornwall Police Service has upgraded the platform that residents and businesses can use to voluntarily register their security cameras and/or doorbells.

Police announced the change to CAMSafe on Wednesday. Allows property owners to create an account and include that they agree to allow the third-party platform to inform the police that their property has security cameras and/or doorbells and would be willing to share images upon request to assist in a police investigation . .

All that is revealed to police when they search for this footage is the location of any recorded cameras – officers would still need to request the footage from the property owner.

Cornwall Police launched this register last year and those properties who registered on the previous platform do not need to re-register.

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Medical recruitment

Cornwall Mayor Justin Towndale is launching a medical recruitment task force.

Towndale, which announced its creation in a statement issued Tuesday, acknowledged in the statement that it is among the Cornish residents currently without a primary care physician and relying on either the town’s only clinic or virtual care (often for a fee), or on the Emergency Department. The task force’s goal is to create a supportive environment through initiatives and partnerships that will help attract and retain health professionals to the city.

Cornwall currently has several medical recruitment programs that offer bursaries to medical students who commit to residency in Cornwall and funding to help a doctor set up a practice in the city. These are complemented by partnerships and programs between local hospitals and medical schools that encourage medical students to complete internships and residencies in the region.

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The Great River Ontario Health Team, which manages health care in Cornwall, SDG, Akwesasne and part of rural southeast Ottawa, has also made recruiting health professionals a top priority. He presented several proposals to Ontario’s legislative commission, which is holding pre-budget consultations near Cornwall earlier this year.

The new general manager

The Raisin Region Conservation Authority has hired a familiar face to be its next general manager effective June 3.

The RRCA Board of Directors announced that Alison McDonald was hired for the role on May 9. She will succeed Richard Pilon, who will retire from the conservation authority on June 28.

McDonald was raised on a farm near St. Andrews West and currently lives in North Stormont, where she is a councilor and chairs the agriculture committee. She earned a master’s degree in environmental science from Trent University in Peterborough, Ontario, before working as a planner and eventually manager of planning at the United Counties of SDG. She has been the General Manager of Approvals at the South Nation Conservation Authority since 2018.

Her volunteer work currently includes being a board member of Maxville Manor.

In the hiring announcement, RRCA management thanked Pilon for his 37-year career with local conservation authorities.

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