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Canoeing in December's Cold Beauty .DEHJ>;HDB?<;"J>KHI:7O":;9;C8;H''"(&&. Editorial/Briefs Fax: 673-4352. E-mail: [email protected] Classified Department Fax: 673-3904 Northern Life is a member of the Canadian Community Newspaper Association, GREATER SUDBURY’S COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER. Northern Life is the Ontario Community Newspaper Association, the Suburban Newspapers of published every Tuesday and Thursday by Laurentian Publishing America, the International Newspaper Marketing Association and the Sudbury MICHAEL R. ATKINS President • ABBAS HOMAYED Publisher • WENDY BIRD Managing Editor Limited, 158 Elgin Street, Sudbury, Ontario, P3E 3N5. and District Homebuilders Association. Canadian Publications Mail Sales Phone: (705) 673-5667 or Fax: 673-4652 Product Agreement No. 086185 (ISSN) 0700-527X Canoeing in December’s cold beauty don’t like the north wind in December. It blows so fiercely down our bay. The waves smash violently on the shore. The near-freezing water roils, black and ominous. It chills me to the bone. I Overnight, it blows itself out. I wake in the morning to stillness. The dawn sky is a delicate Viki Mather blue. A light mist rises form the lake. Ice begins to form. I haven’t been in the canoe for weeks, but now, as the opportunity to do so diminishes, I am drawn to the water with a passion. I have to go now! The water calls. The beauty of the cold scenery pulls me out of my comfortable cabin. I dress warmly. I have to carry the canoe along the shore, past where the ice has already claimed the lake. Carefully, I set the canoe on the deep snow near the water. Carefully, I step near the edge of the shore, watching for ice on the rock. I slide the canoe across the snow, slipping it into the water. Carefully, I step in. Needle ice floats on the calm water all around. Some VIKI MATHER of this new ice joins together with other feathery patterns of new ice. Jack Frost paints the surface of the lake with a patches of ice that formed in the bay while I was out. The paper-thin wafer. The canoe slides through with a soft shhh. The beauty of the cold scenery pulls canvas of the canoe slides noisily through some ice that’s Further out, there is no ice — yet. The cold water appears me out of my comfortable cabin. half a centimetre thick. black. It seems to have lost the sunny blue/green hues of I pull the canoe out of the water further along the shore summer. millions of icicles where the wind blew the waves to crash than where I had launched. Ice. Ice is growing. A rim of ice As I round the corner of the bay, heading south, a raven on the rocks, the shrubs, and the overhanging logs. The low- froze on my paddle in that space just above where the blade flies overhead. He calls with a raw beauty. Ravens have a rising, early morning sun glistens on these candles of ice. pushes through the water. Little droplets of ice stuck to the wide voice range, many ways of voicing their actions. This Further along the shore, there are tracks in the snow. canoe at the bow. one chortles a bit before landing in one of the taller trees Otters have been here. They have a climbing path, and a Wistfully, I bring the canoe in. For the last time. Until ahead. sliding path. The chill of the water doesn’t bother them, and April. The snowy shoreline shows little evidence of any the snow simply gives them another opportunity to play. creatures. The snow lies undisturbed on the bedrock, right Turning back toward home, there are more ice crystals Viki Mather’s column, In the Bush, appears monthly in down to the shoreline. The shoreline itself is decorated with growing on the lake surface. I paddle through some large Northern Life. B;JJ;HI Clean up corner stores Health of Sudburians at issue emergency and he was never admitted to their frustration with their compromised hospital. In the weeks preceding his death, ability to practise grows with frequent What is up with all of the drug (letter edited due to length) we had occasion to visit the palliative care cancellations and the uncertainty of the paraphernalia, weapons, knock-off The bed shortage at the Sudbury unit at the Laurentian site, as a potential future state of our soon-to-be completed clothing and department store items doing hospital has reached a critical situation. option of care for his final weeks of life. At hospital, which will have fewer beds than in our neighbourhood corner stores? The The health of Sudburians and residents the time of our visit, no bed was available at present. store owners can’t display cigarettes, but of a larger catchment region is being in the palliative care unit. Had he required The Ministry of Health and Long-Term bongs and crack pipes are ok? unnecessarily compromised as a direct admission that day, he would have had Care and our premier, Dalton McGuinty, Don’t we have enough on our plates result of lack of beds available at the to go to a ward bed and if none had been need to address the crisis currently without displaying garbage where we hospital. available, the gurney in the hallway. occurring in our community and react take our children for a treat or send our We have an aging population and a We chose to keep him at home, in an appropriate and compassionate teenagers for a loaf of bread? growing demand for long term care, a with support from friends, family, and manner to ensure that Sudburians can Has making a quick buck become situation which will only continue over community care. access the medical care they need and important enough to compromise the the next decades. While these patients The greatest irony in this is that my deserve in their own community, in a integrity of the entire neighbourhood? deserve the same access to quality health husband was one of the dedicated and timely fashion, and without this halo Give us a break, people. Sell your garbage and personal care, they need to be looked excellent physicians who worked hard of constant uncertainty as to whether a in age-appropriate specialty shops. Your after in an appropriate setting, not in an to earn Sudbury the reputation for high scheduled elective, yet necessary, surgery stores look a mess and offend people. The acute care bed or worse an emergency quality of care it has enjoyed in the past. will actually happen. law should step in and clean house. department hallway. Sudbury has established itself as a Sylvie Wallis Joanne Bonhomme My 45-year-old husband passed away top notch centre for various surgical Sudbury Sudbury from cancer in July 2008. During the specialties. We are risking losing some three years and eight months he battled of the fine physicians we have here as cancer, we fortunately only had one visit to More Letters on Page 9 Sign up for the Sudbury Today newsletter to keep up-to-date on local news, sports, entertainment, and much more. Newsletter delivered to your e-mail daily. Sign up for free at www.northernlife.ca..
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