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1. Kawartha Lakes Food Source Battle of Bands Deadline Looms!See these ads and more in the Omemee Free Classifieds
2. Get Your Tickets! Omemee Curling Club Awards Banquet and Dance!
3. Millbrook South Cavan School Fun Fair!
4. Downeyville Music Evenings 2012!
5. Millbrook Bear Essentials : Bird Measuring Cups 4. Mum!
6. Omemee Lioness Yard, Plant, Bake Sale!
7. Millbrook Vendor Opportunity!
8. Millbrook: Love Beauty Makeovers? Check Out These Nails!
9.Fraserville:Baxter Creek Ladies Night Open House!
10.Board of Health Meeting Scheduled Tomorrow!
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A full-time Medical Officer of Health is a source of expertise across the range of public health issues including: communicable disease, environmental health, health promotion, family health, chronic diseases, injury prevention and substance misuse, infectious diseases prevention and control, maternal and child health, and emergency preparedness and response.
In this position the Medical Officer of Health is responsible to: advise the Board of Health and decision‐makers about health concerns in the population, make recommendations for policy and strategies to address priority health issues, and contribute to health planning for the County. This position serves as The area's medical authority in public health, providing evidence‐informed advice to public health staff, health care professionals, particularly physicians, municipal councils, school boards, the media, the community and community groups through ensuring current relevant evidence is applied in the development and implementation of public health policies and programs.
Medical Officer of Health Qualifications
A candidate for this position will possess a medical degree acceptable in Canada, and a licence to practice medicine in Ontario. Candidates must be registered with the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario and possess one of the following additional certifications:
(a) A fellowship in community medicine (Public Health and Preventive Medicine from The Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada);
(b) A certificate, diploma or Master’s degree from a university in Canada that is granted after not less than one academic year of full-time post-graduate studies or its equivalent in public health, comprising Epidemiology, Quantitative methods, Management and Administration, and Disease prevention and health promotion; or
(c) Graduation from a university outside Canada that is considered by the Minister to be equivalent to the qualifications above.
Experience in the practice of medicine including at least three years in an administrative/managerial capacity in a public health agency or department would be an asset. The ideal candidate should have the ability to apply the following concepts to public health practice: the health status of populations, inequities in health, the social determinants of health and illness, as well as the factors that influence the use of health services.
The incumbent will be encouraged to continually seek and acquire professional development in order to maintain ongoing improvement in skill areas consistent with enhancing organizational operations and outcomes.
Medical Officer of Health Salary Range
The salary range for Medical Officer of Health position is as described in accordance with the 2008 Physician Services Agreement between the Ontario Medical Association and the Ministry of Health & Long-Term Care.
Participation in the OMERS pension plan is mandatory. The County of Lambton offers a comprehensive benefit package, including long-term disability and an extended health plan.
Omemee Pigeon eFlyer,will not be a year old until February, 5th, yet it has impacted many lives in our local community,distributing news through a wide variety of Social Media channels,and through active personal engagement with readers both local,and around the world.
We chatted with people from Holland on Twitter about visiting Youngtown Museum, Freedom Valley Horse Rescue gained donors, businesses were placed on Google maps, local farms were found through Twitter,Facebook, G+ Paper,li,StumbleUpon, Tumblr,and Circle of Moms, People learned about services they didn’t know locally existed. We established a back office for contributing writers,and a Free classifieds section to help people find local services and products,and to meet the needs of others that do not fall within our editorial policies. We were recognized by Google MapMaker North America for our contributions in mapping Canada.Most importantly,made wonderful friends from around the world, and gained a loyal readership,-a number of whom have started writing articles for Omemee Pigeon eFlyer.
Omemee Pigeon eFlyer has gone from an initial readership of 3 –me,myself and I; to over 700 unique visitors last month alone,over half of whom were return visitors,and a third of these visitors read Omemee Pigeon eFlyer over 25 times last month.-Most of our visitors arrive here via Google organic search,with an increasing number from Feedburner email subscriptions 91 and Facebook. Our top repeat visitors are from our local area with Peterborough and Lindsay ISPs reading about 4 pages per visit. One person from Middlebury read 16 pages on their last visit. Most local visitors spend about 10 to 13 minutes on our site Last month, a Calgary reader enjoyed our site so much, they spent over half–an–hour reading articles.
According to today’s headlines in Lindsay This Week,they believe the top newsmaker of the year in City of Kawartha Lakes was Mayor Ric Magee. However,our readers say otherwise. Here are the Top 10 stories from 2011 according to reader popularity –sorry Mayor Magee,you didn’t make the list.
Best Friend: Remembering Matt Courneya Omemee Murder Victim - This tragedy will stay with many of us for years to come. We were honoured to give voice to the victim’s friends, while other media focussed on the perpetrators. An excellent article that must have been extremely difficult for the author to write. We were honoured to feature this piece.
Win Your Christmas Tree! We were very pleased to assist several farms and small businesses in establishing a web presence this year. Potash Creek Farms reported their best year ever. One visitor to their farm told us they found out about Potash Creek Farms through a link we placed on G+ Watch for an iPhone MovieMaker tutorial to come from a visitor
Hydro One Power Outage Affecting Over 1500 Omemee Area Homes We broke the news on this story,that was overlooked by Hydro One as being a major power outage for our area,because the outages in the rural area between Peterborough and Lindsay were not added together. Luck would have it.we were by the phone and received the call regarding our farm property. This coming year,we are looking forward to establishing more regular features in Omemee Pigeon eFlyer,and starting to upload our videos of events in the area as well. We will soon be offering sessions via Skype on a regular basis to assist other individuals across Canada and around the World in setting up their own Social Media supported Free community eZines under the banner ‘Our News’ as an extension to our invitation only private press club. If you would like to set up a community eZine,and get an invitation to the ‘Our News’ press club, email http://scr.im/omemee with the subject line ‘Our News’ You will receive an invitation along with a short questionnaire about your vision for your community news eZine. We look forward to hearing from you.
When we first received this email,we weren’t sure if this was a hoax, or a phishing scam,so kept it under wraps. It is official! In our attempts to make it easier for people to find venues,and businesses in our rural area, Omemee Pigeon eFlyer has become one of the top contributors to Google Canadian maps. We’d like to share the letter we received with our readers:
Hi Google Map Maker!
We’re with the Google Map Maker community team and wanted to introduce ourselves to you. You’re one of the top mappers in Canada since last month’s Google Map Maker launch for Canadian editing, and we’re dedicated to supporting avid mapping users like you.
We’d be delighted to send you a gift from Google Map Maker based on the great mapping you’re doing!
Also, we’d love to find out more about your interest in mapping. Could you take just a moment to fill out this very brief form, sharing with us what excites you about mapping?
Finally, we warmly welcome you to join the North American Map Maker forum to interact with other mappers working on the North American region. We also recommend you visit the Map Maker Community, learn more about the application and introduce yourself to other members.
Welcome and happy mapping!
Warm regards,
Adam, Catherine and Andrew
Do you need help fixing your location on Google maps? Email Omemee Pigeon eFlyer! We can help!
Businesses and Groups in Kawartha Lakes need to send in their Special Events Funding Proposals by October 31st. Need Help? Applying for Special Events funding need not be an onerous task. Chances are,if you have run a special event in the past,it may simply be a matter of plugging information into the form, and adding a few tweaks. Earlier this year,I posted an offer of assistance to write proposals for groups and businesses who might find themselves too busy to go through the funding proposal, now time is of the essence! Email me now,so we can get these funding applications in as soon as possible.
When speaking with a number of individuals about applying for special events funding,we found there were two predominant responses: people were either:
During a phone interview with Margaret P. Cunningham,Tourism Development Officer,Economic Development ~ City of Kawartha Lakes, Ms. Cunningham advised focussing on the checklist of items,rather than the guidelines. Ms. Cunningham also offered to meet with interested parties on Tuesday morning,or Thursday afternoon or evening, of this coming week to do a quick run through of what is required in the application,and to answer questions.Please email http://scr.im/omemee with your 1st, 2nd & 3rd choices of day and time before Monday at 10 am, to take advantage of this free offer. Confirmation of the date,place,and time will be sent before end of business Monday.
In addition,to Ms. Cunningham's generous offer of assistance, Bill Walker, PUREkawartha, is offering a five hour workshop in mid December,where participants will plan and write two separate sponsorship proposals :one not-for-profit fundraiser. and one an annual community event. The cost for the five hour workshop would be $20 per person. Interested parties should contact Bill as soon as possible,at purekawartha (at )gmail DOT com so he can confirm a central Lindsay location and date on Friday, November 4th.