Thursday, April 24, 2008

The idea is officially dead

The thought of using Rideau Regional Center as a facility for the aged is .... not gonna happen.

"The place is not vacant yet and it wasn't designed to be a health institution," Georgina Thompson, chairwoman of the board for the South East Local Health Integration Network (LHIN).

She cited cost and time as obstacles to using the facility.

"The cost to retrofit [the facility] to bring it up to where it needs to be brought up to would be involved and it would take a long time," she said.

On with the carnage ... I hear there are only 111 souls left out there.

RELATED: Leeds Grenville MPP Bob Runiciman talks about the issue and his efforts to make it happen on CFRA this morning. Evidently Smitherman is to be in the area tomorrow .... Runicman plans on pitching this again.

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