Monday, April 18, 2011

Personal records missing

Personal information for about 4,500 children who have been clients of speech therapy and hearing programs offered at the University of Western Ontario is missing, the university says.
The missing records include names, addresses, phone numbers, genders, birth dates, doctor information, school and child-care information and, in 142 cases, OHIP numbers of clients who took part in two programs between 1999 and 2010.
UWO announced it was missing a USB memory stick containing client records.
Mon Apr 18

London gets a spring clean up

A few snow flurries notwithstanding, London’s looking much cleaner and greener than it did just a few days ago.
Nearly 3,000 bags of litter were picked up during Saturday’s 16th annual London Clean & Green event that drew Londoners to roadsides and other public spaces across the city.
The city works with several groups to run the annual post-winter clean-up: Joe Kool’s, Amway, Try Recycling, London police, Pillar Nonprofit Network and the London-Middlesex Housing Corp.
Mon Apr 18

Passover ‘a festival of freedom’

The Jewish celebration of Passover — the “cradle of Judaism” — begins Tuesday and London families will be taking part in the eight-day festival. Passover, which commemorates the story of the Jewish exodus in which Jews were freed from slavery in Egypt
After weeks of preparing their homes and cleaning them to make sure there is no leavened bread anywhere, families will sit down together on Tuesday for Passover Seder, a ritual asking of questions and answers that begins the holiday.
Mon Apr 18

Student safety focus as provincial parents' group meets

Student safety was a focus for a provincial parents' group that held its annual meeting in London on the weekend.
The Ontario Federation of Home and School Associations -- akin to a PTA -- marked its 95th anniversary with a conference that examined the new-age pressures facing children, notably overall school safety in all grades.
"A lot of our members are here to be sure our children are in an environment that's safe," said group president Corinne Wolsey of Kincardine.
Mon Apr 18