Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 Page 5 Page 6 Page 7 Page 8 Page 9 Page 10 Page 11 Page 12 Page 13 Page 14 Page 15 Page 16 Page 17 Page 18 Page 19 Page 20 Page 21 Page 22 Page 23 Page 24 Page 25 Page 26 Page 27 Page 28 Page 29 Page 30 Page 31 Page 32 Page 33 Page 34 Page 35 Page 36 Page 37 Page 38 Page 39 Page 40 Page 41 Page 42 Page 43 Page 44 Page 45 Page 46 Page 47 Page 48 Page 49 Page 50 Page 51 Page 52 Page 53 Page 54 Page 55 Page 56 Page 57 Page 58 Page 59 Page 6056 FOCUS - NOVEMBER 2016 Letters to the editor continued from page 2 Mailbox Community Care Durham still smiling Dear Editor The results are in! This year, the participating Durham Region Tim Hortons restaurants raised $134,079 during the Smile Cookie campaign for Community Care Durham and our clients. On behalf of Community Care Durham, I would like to extend our sincere and heartfelt thanks to everyone who contributed to this success. The overwhelming generosity from across the Region will go towards assisting more than 12,000 individuals. Our services include support for activities of daily living, health, nutrition, transportation, and personal safety and caregiver respite. We also provide mental health group support services and assisted living throughout Durham. The services Community Care Durham provides help people avoid hospital admissions and emergency department visits. We can also help people when they are discharged from hospital, assisting in their successful transition home. Your generosity during the Smile Cookie campaign will make a difference in many peoples lives. Thank you to the participating Durham Region Tim Hortons for their support, and thank you to everyone who contributed to making this year’s Smile Cookie campaign such a great success! Brent Farr Executive Director, Community Care Durham Community gift giving Dear Editor Once again Joan Elliott and myself, who are Independent Sales Consultants with Mary Kay Cosmetics, are participating in the “Community Gift Giving” program in partnership with Port Perry Place LTC Home. The program works like this: We have adopted the Community Nursing Home and along with your support, will provide each resident with a Christmas gift. Each gift will be a memorable gift that will be wrapped in a beautiful Christmas bag with a card attached from you. The cost of each gift is $20.00. Please join us in this wonderful program to aid in ensuring that each resident at Port Perry Place LTC Home, will have a gift to open this festive season. Cheques can be made out to “Community Gift Giving Program” or us. We will issue a receipt that can be used for advertising and promotion. All gifts will be delivered prior to Christmas to the residents. Thank you for helping to make this a bright, merry Christmas for the residents, some of who do not have any loving families. Joan Elliott, 905-728-4220 Jillian Howsam, 905-985-2253 139 Roseborough Drive, Port Perry L9L 2E3 Bee die-off clarified Dear Editor Thanks for the interesting article on John Todd and his beekeeping in the Ocotber 2016 issue of Focus. I would like to point out an error in the article, however. Laura Francis states that “...the day I visited, the news was inundated with a report of a bee die-off that had occurred in the US after crops had been sprayed for the Zika virus.” Yes, there had been a large die-off of bees, but the spraying had been done in cities to kill mosquitos that may potentially have been carriers of Zika. Cities were sprayed, not crops. Thank you, Ivan and Brenda DeJong, Nestleton Editors note: Laura referenced this article that states that more than two million bees were affected. http://www.nytimes. com/2016/09/02/us/south-carolina-pesticide-kills-bees.html Generosity truly appreciated Dear Editor The Scugog Lake Stewards were honoured by the Baagwating Community Association who presented to us one of their final gifts to this community on September 15. The Baagwating Community Association has for two decades, been extraordinarily generous to Scugog and beyond. Their Board has been keenly aware of the importance of community services (welfare, health, arts, learning, environment) and has enabled many programs to grow to meet community needs. The Scugog Lake Stewards are especially appreciative of the strong and sensitive leadership provided by Chairman (and former Chief) Gary Edgar. While the Baagwating Community Association has been discontinued along with the signing of a new agreement between the Mississaugas of Scugog Island First Nation (MSIFN) and the Ontario Lottery and Gaming (OLG), we are heartened and moved by the MSIFN’s decision, made by Chief and Council, to continue the practice of charitable giving. We thank you for your generosity and for caring so deeply about the health of our lake. Barbara Karthein, Bill Eull Scugog Lake Stewards Inc. www.scugoglakestewards.com Please send us your letters. We ask that you keep them to a maximum of 250 words, although shorter is often better. Be aware that we cannot publish negative letters about individuals or businesses. Submit to: focus@focusonscugog.com