The Niagara Advance WAS5 3.40 vww.niagaraadvance.ca Thursday, J< Levee celebrates New Year Staff builds Fancy Farm Girl Ijgr^ NEWS ONLINE 125 Queen Street 905-468-4214 Direct 289-257-6744 stefan @ royallepage.ca NIAGARA ADVANCE ■ THURSDAY, JANUARY 5, 2017 Survey spotlights /,,'cs'1 (y-v uc Beat the temptation. •^smokers'HELPLiNE needs of Niagara dads TOLL-FREE OLDE Its questions include those that Postmedia Network department’s child health pro¬ only available on the website, but TOWNE According to Statistics Canada, cfahmilidlyre anc,t iavsit iwese.l lO anse raosuktsinheosw atnhde gra“mIt .w ill help them plan around acolsmo minu nhiatyrd pcaortpnye rfso. rm through there are about 4,000 births in dad shows love and appreciation supporting fathers and activities.” He said early next year, volun- Niagara every year. to the child. BUILDING And that means many new dads Fathers are also asked to rate completed as of Thursday, Dec. also be on hand for fathers to take their community as one that sup¬ 29. The survey was launched in the surveys. C-OHpMi pinotrots t chhei lsdurervne, ya-ntda kloeor’kss dcelomseol¬y JDuanye 2 a0n1d7 .c ontinues until Father’s NiDaagda rCae, nBtrraol cikn cUlundievse Srstriitvye, To that end, Niagara Region’s graphics. “Our goal is to try and gather Ontario Early Years Centres, The survey notes that by father, about 1,000 surveys, so we have Niagara Region children’s serv¬ NIAGARA-ON-THE-LAKE itnegr ah asunrdvleey o dne stihgen eidn tteor geestt sa baentd¬ fitr imenedan, ss taenpyf abtiholeorg, igcraal nddadfa, tbhoeyr¬, ao fr deaaldlys gino oNdia agnarda ,d”i vsaeirdse B sialemtcphlie, liicnegs, CKeinwtarne iso,f FNaimagilayr aC, oFuanmseill¬y JEFF MacINTOSH needs of local dads. adoptive dad, or caregiver. also a co-chair of Dad Central. 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Beyond that, this column might visits he made bee; leads the neurosurgical and all have set up regula¬ many poorly performing remember I’ve talked my mother’s progressive program at one of Canada's tory bodies with varying about when I was a kid heart failure. best hospitals and univer¬ reason. They may not have living at home, and our He delivered the three sity centers to this day. to assure the public that kept up-to-date and that marvelous family doctor. kids, was there in the ER However in those days they're regulating the stan¬ is a very good reason why He was one of those when we needed him, too South Western Ontario, dards of their profession the College of Physicians surgeon-docs who worke out my tonsils and took like many regions in (union] properly. Think and Surgeons assesses all in a MASH unit in the charge of our in-hospital North America, had its physicians beyond a cer¬ Second World War. 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