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Otters stay alive with 5-2 win over Storm — sports, B5 April 23, 2014 . Serving Guelph and Wellington County . 95 cents + tax ($1.00) . guelphmercury.com Canada A6 Classified B9 Comics B3 Cryptoquote B9 Editorials A8 Horoscopes B2 Life B1 Lottery results A2 Obituaries B12 Scoreboard B4 Sports B5 Sudoku B9 A LOOK AT TOMORROW’S WEATHER FULL FORECAST, PAGE A2 H: 12 L: 5 Wednesday R0012603659 With the proven Collisionfree! ™ Approach taught byYoung Drivers of Canada, I know my daughter will learn life-saving defensive driving techniques, emergency maneuvers, head-on collision and rear crash avoidance, and more. Of course I’ll still worry…just a lot less. “I can’t Believe she’s old enough to drive!” ISO 9001:2000 Registered MTO APPROVED BDE COURSE PROVIDER 121 Wyndham St. N. 519-836-4070 • www.youngdrivers.com NEXT CLASS: April 26 th - May 4 th , Sat. & Sun., 2 weekends, 9:15am -3:30pm GUELPH — The shortage of public wash- rooms in the downtown core has contributed greatly to an ongoing public fouling prob- lem, says Ian Findlay. The Ward 2 councillor, speaking at the Downtown Night Life Task Force’s end-of- the-season meeting on Tuesday, said he plans on bringing this issue to council on Monday evening and asking city staff to in- vestigate the creation of an accessible, gen- der neutral public washroom for the down- town. And having users pay a small fee could help cover the cost of maintenance. Findlay said the idea of a downtown pub- lic washroom was motivated by the city’s 2010 pissoir project, where six urination ar- eas were set up downtown. Downtown may get public washroom Following city’s success with test project in 2010, council will be asked to consider permanent facility Chris Seto, Mercury staff ‰ SEE CHARGE ON PAGE A5 Under construction ROB O’FLANAGAN, MERCURY STAFF Construction is progressing on the 40 Wellington St. retail complex at the corner of Wellington and Gordon streets. The Belmont Equity Partners project will include a natural food store, a Starbucks coffee shop, a restaurant and several other retailers. The illustration at left, above, is part of a sign advertising available space in the project. GUELPH — Dorothy Parr was pleased to see a dwarf iris poking through the ground at the base of a memorial tree planted in Riverside Park in memory of her grand- daughter. And her husband Char- lie pointed out a withered balloon at the top of the tree — the remains of a celebration in January to com- memorate Heather’s birthday. But both Dorothy and Charlie feel a deep-seated wound when they look at the plaque at the base of the tree. The concrete block is there but the plaque with Heath- er’s name and dates is missing, pried off, it appears, some time in the past week. “You wonder why people would do that,” Dorothy said. “I can’t see taking it off with your hands,” Charlie added. “They’d need a tool to pry them off.” Heather Marie Parr died in July 2012 in an accident while driving an all-terrain vehicle. She was 20 years old, and her parents, siblings and extended family and friends were devastated. Theft of plaque from memorial tree upsets Guelph family Others also missing from Riverside Park Joanne Shuttleworth, Mercury staff JOANNE SHUTTLEWORTH, MERCURY STAFF Dorothy and Charlie Parr were upset to discover the plaque at their granddaughter’s memorial tree had been pried from the base and stolen. At least three other plaques were also stolen from trees at Riverside Park. ‰ SEE PLAQUE ON PAGE A4 GUELPH — The future of treat- ing learning disabilities could involve a much more collabora- tive approach than what pa- tients are currently used to, says Deb McKelvey Briggs. The speech-language pathol- ogist is part of a team of health- care professionals who operate under one roof at 1030 Gordon St. At the beginning of this year, developmental optometrist Pat- rick Quaid opened up the Guelph Vision Therapy Centre on the same floor of the Gordon Street building, right down the hall from McKelvey Briggs and her team at Let’s Talk Guelph. The two health-care profession- als have created a one-stop shop for treatment of a wide variety of disabilities. “We’re two separate busi- nesses, but we collaborate as a team under one umbrella de- pending on what the family needs,” McKelvey Briggs said. “Team is always better than one. Always.” McKelvey Briggs’ team at Let’s Talk Guelph consists of four speech pathologists, her- self and Carol Peachey-Hill, an occupational therapist. Her practice focuses on providing a multidisciplinary approach to treating children with a variety of needs, particularly speaking and reading difficulties. Quaid’s team includes two vision therapists, himself and, by the time summer rolls around, three kinesiologists. His optometry work focuses on issues with binocular vision, or problems with the eyes moving together. Also with offices in this same stretch of hallway is psycholo- gist Charles Pierce and repre- sentatives from Shift Concus- sion Management, offering physiotherapy and chiroprac- tic services. Local health professionals create one-stop shop for treating learning disabilities Chris Seto, Mercury staff ‰ SEE HEALTH ON PAGE A4
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A LOOK ATTOMORROW’S
WEATHERFULL FORECAST, PAGE A2 H: 12 L: 5
Wednesday
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With the provenCollisionfree! ™Approach taught byYoung
Drivers of Canada, I knowmy daughter will learn life-saving defensive
driving techniques, emergency maneuvers, head-on collision and rear
crash avoidance, andmore. Of course I’ll still worry…just a lot less.
“I can’t Believe she’sold enough to drive!”
ISO 9001:2000RegisteredMTO APPROVED BDE COURSE PROVIDER
121 Wyndham St. N.519-836-4070 • www.youngdrivers.com
NEXT CLASS:April 26th - May 4th, Sat. & Sun., 2 weekends, 9:15am -3:30pm
GUELPH — The shortage of public wash-rooms in the downtown core has contributedgreatly to an ongoing public fouling prob-
lem, says Ian Findlay. The Ward 2 councillor, speaking at the
Downtown Night Life Task Force’s end-of-the-season meeting on Tuesday, said heplans on bringing this issue to council on
Monday evening and asking city staff to in-vestigate the creation of an accessible, gen-der neutral public washroom for the down-town. And having users pay a small fee couldhelp cover the cost of maintenance.
Findlay said the idea of a downtown pub-lic washroom was motivated by the city’s2010 pissoir project, where six urination ar-eas were set up downtown.
Downtown may get public washroomFollowing city’s success with test project in 2010, council will be asked to consider permanent facilityChris Seto, Mercury staff
‰ SEE CHARGE ON PAGE A5
Under construction
ROB O’FLANAGAN, MERCURY STAFF
Construction is progressing on the 40 Wellington St. retail complex at the corner of Wellington and Gordon streets. The Belmont Equity Partners project will include a natural food store, aStarbucks coffee shop, a restaurant and several other retailers. The illustration at left, above, is part of a sign advertising available space in the project.
GUELPH — Dorothy Parr waspleased to see a dwarf iris pokingthrough the ground at the base of amemorial tree planted in RiversidePark in memory of her grand-daughter. And her husband Char-lie pointed out a withered balloonat the top of the tree — the remainsof a celebration in January to com-memorate Heather’s birthday.
But both Dorothy and Charliefeel a deep-seated wound whenthey look at the plaque at the baseof the tree. The concrete block isthere but the plaque with Heath-er’s name and dates is missing,pried off, it appears, some time inthe past week.
“You wonder why people would
do that,” Dorothy said. “I can’t see taking it off with
your hands,” Charlie added.“They’d need a tool to pry themoff.”
Heather Marie Parr died in July
2012 in an accident while drivingan all-terrain vehicle. She was 20years old, and her parents, siblingsand extended family and friendswere devastated.
Theft of plaque from memorialtree upsets Guelph familyOthers alsomissing fromRiverside ParkJoanne Shuttleworth, Mercury staff
JOANNE SHUTTLEWORTH, MERCURY STAFF
Dorothy and Charlie Parr were upset to discover the plaque at theirgranddaughter’s memorial tree had been pried from the base and stolen. At least three other plaques were also stolen from trees at Riverside Park.
‰ SEE PLAQUE ON PAGE A4
GUELPH — The future of treat-ing learning disabilities couldinvolve a much more collabora-tive approach than what pa-tients are currently used to,says Deb McKelvey Briggs.
The speech-language pathol-ogist is part of a team of health-care professionals who operateunder one roof at 1030 GordonSt.
At the beginning of this year,developmental optometrist Pat-rick Quaid opened up theGuelph Vision Therapy Centreon the same floor of the GordonStreet building, right down thehall from McKelvey Briggs andher team at Let’s Talk Guelph.The two health-care profession-als have created a one-stop shopfor treatment of a wide varietyof disabilities.
“We’re two separate busi-nesses, but we collaborate as ateam under one umbrella de-pending on what the family
needs,” McKelvey Briggs said.“Team is always better thanone. Always.”
McKelvey Briggs’ team atLet’s Talk Guelph consists offour speech pathologists, her-self and Carol Peachey-Hill, anoccupational therapist. Herpractice focuses on providing amultidisciplinary approach totreating children with a varietyof needs, particularly speakingand reading difficulties.
Quaid’s team includes twovision therapists, himself and,by the time summer rollsaround, three kinesiologists.His optometry work focuses onissues with binocular vision, orproblems with the eyes movingtogether.
Also with offices in this samestretch of hallway is psycholo-gist Charles Pierce and repre-sentatives from Shift Concus-sion Management, offeringphysiotherapy and chiroprac-tic services.
Local health professionalscreate one-stop shop fortreating learning disabilities Chris Seto, Mercury staff
‰ SEE HEALTH ON PAGE A4
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A group of her friends, many who at-tended GCVI with Heather, collectedenough money for a commemorative treeand plaque to be placed in Riverside Parkthrough a program offered by the city.
The tree was planted in the fall of 2012and they held a small service where peoplecould place notes in the ground around thetree.
The Parrs said it’s very comforting towalk in the park and visit the tree.
“It’s a nice program and the city does itquite well,” Charlie said.
“And you hope the tree and plaque willbe there for years. That’s the whole point ofit.”
So they were shocked Monday whenthey realized the plaque was missing,along with at least three others from near-by memorial trees. One of the trees hadcuts and gouges along its trunk as well.
Charlie said the family bought a com-memorative brick that’s installed at theenabling garden across the Speed River.
“That one is still there,” he said.Randy Drew, supervisor of forestry,
said in his long career with the city, this is
the second time he’s heard of commem-orative plaques being stolen or vandal-ized.
He said the plaques are attached to thecement bases with contact cement andbolts, so it would take a concerted effort toremove them.
“You can’t just kick them off,” he said.He said staff will go through the inven-
tory and identify which plaques are miss-ing and then notify family members.
He said the cost of replacing the plaquesis up to the families.
Drew said once the Speed River slowsdown, staff will check the river for themissing plaques as well.
“We found one in the grass already,” hesaid. “If it’s vandals, they might toss themin the river.”
Information about commemorativetree and bench program can be found atthe guelph.ca. Trees and plaques cost$951.65 and include the plaque, deliveryand installation.
A memorial bench costs $1,511.31 andalso includes a plaque.
‘Hope the tree and plaquewill be there for years’‰ PLAQUE FROM PAGE A1
These health professionals havecome together to collaborate underone roof, learning aspects of eachother’s professions and providingpatients with a well-rounded carethat may be harder to find in clinicsthat offer only one service.
Quaid said the team of profes-sionals periodically meets in aboardroom. They bring their mostpuzzling cases to the table, and thenlisten to each other’s opinions. Be-cause they’re each from differentstreams of health care and have dif-ferent skill sets, they can offer dif-ferent perspectives on the issuesbrought forward.
“There’s this free exchange of in-formation,” he said, adding themeeting is used as an opportunity toask each other questions and re-ceive training in each other’s fields.This training allows them to spotdifferent issues when performingscreening tests on new patients.
“We all can’t be experts in every-thing. I will check my area, and Ihave to know enough about your ar-ea to know when you need to see thispatient and when you don’t.”
Peachey-Hill said she is learningsomething new every day, workingin such close quarters with theseother professionals.
“In the private sector, I think thatthis is a very unique situation tohave such strong collaboration be-tween the OT, and the speech pathol-ogist and behavioural optometristand vision therapist,” she said.
She said it is so much easier andfaster to refer patients to anotherhealth-care provider in the buildingbecause she can just walk down thehall and talk to them.
Traditionally, optometrists,speech-language pathologists andother professionals work out oftheir own isolated clinics, whichQuaid referred to as “silos.”
“We’re basically trying to break
down the silos,” he said, adding be-ing under one roof encourages thehealth professionals to work togeth-er and bounce ideas off one another.
Working together means“there’s more aspects of the condi-tion being looked at and we’re morelikely to find the proper way of treat-ing that patient,” he said. “We havea good ability to target areas thatwould otherwise be missed if youjust saw that practitioner in isola-tion.”
The cost of seeing each profes-sional is the same as it would be ifthey weren’t all together in onebuilding.
Quaid said he was recentlynamed a consultant optometrist to asports medicine clinic at the Uni-versity of Toronto and he hopes totake the model of a collaborativeteam of health professionals to theuniversity campus.
Collaboration can help findpatient proper treatment
CHRIS SETO, MERCURY STAFF
Optometrist Patrick Quaid and speech-language pathologist Deb McKelvey Briggs are part of a team of health-careprofessionals who operate under one roof at 1030 Gordon St. to help people with learning disabilities.
‰ HEALTH FROM PAGE A1
GUELPHDentist offers free care May 31for Dentistry from the HeartWestwood Dental Group willprovide free dental care toneedy citizens during its firstDentistry from the Heart eventon Saturday, May 31.
The clinic at 530 Willow Rd.,Ste. 2, will begin registration at7:30 a.m. and patients will beseen from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. on afirst-come first-served basis.
This is the first time Dr. JohnPate and his team are partici-pating. Patients will get a freeextraction, filling or cleaning.
GUELPH Police investigate after twobusinesses burgled Guelph police were called to aWellington Street East busi-ness to investigate a break andenter at 4:30 a.m. Tuesday. Thefront glass door had beensmashed and a quantity of cashwas stolen.
About 40 minutes later, policewere called to a business onWoodlawn Road West to investi-gate a break and enter. Thefront glass door was smashedand a quantity of pants andcoats was reported stolen.
Anyone with information isasked to call 519-824-1212.
GUELPH Changes made to lineup for2014 Hillside FestivalHillside Festival veteran MattAndersen will be returning tothe event this summer.
Andersen, a New Brunswickblues singer and musician, willperform as Matt Andersen &The Mellotones.
An updated lineup for the July25-27 event was issued Tuesday.
The Mounties, a B.C.-Ontariohybrid group, featuring two-time Juno Award winnerHawksley Workman, Hot HotHeat frontman Steve Bays, andRyan Dahle of the bands Lim-
blifter and Age of Electric, willplay Sunday closing concert.
Go to hillsidefestival.ca.
GUELPH Fusion Homes wins award for fourth year in a rowFusion Homes won an award inthe large volume category at theTarion Warranty Corporation’s2014 Tarion Awards of Excel-lence. This is Fusion’s fourthwin in this category.
The award, based on customersatisfaction survey results, wasannounced at an Apr. 17 gala.
The London-based TricarGroup won in the highrisecategory for its 18-storey condotower at the corner of Wynd-ham and Woolwich streets.
GUELPH Police search for suspectsafter robbery in parkPolice are looking for two meninvolved in a west-end robbery.
A man was attacked by twounknown men in Dunhill Parkaround 3:30 p.m. He was hitwith a stick, knocked uncon-scious and robbed.
The men were white, between17 and 25, and wearing darkhoodies. One is around five-foot-six; the other about six feet.
Anyone with informationshould call police at 519-824-1212.
GUELPH Motorcyclist with child onback charged with speedingA 34-year-old Guelph motorcy-clist been handed a $359 fineand four demerit points afterbeing clocked going 99 km/h ina 50 km/h zone on Watson Park-way North.
The driver had his six-year-olddaughter on the back.
Police had been using radar tomonitor speeds after residents’complaints about frequentspeeding along the route.
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