Here’s this week’s top stories from lanarkleedstoday.ca based on your views.
1) Kyle Blundell, also known as the Towne Barber of Carleton Place was assaulted by an individual on July 24th near his barber shop on Bridge Street.
2) Monday morning at the Perth courthouse, Justice Brian Abrams heard sentencing recommendations from both the crown and defence attorneys in the matter of the murder of Perth teen, Reese Stanzel.
3) The Perth and Smiths Falls District Hospital is warning patients about critical capacity pressures at both of its hospital sites. Perth emergency physician Dr. Allan Drummond says the pressure is not caused by one issue alone.
Critical capacity warning reveals growing pressure inside Perth and Smiths Falls hospitals
4) Rideau Lakes Mayor Arie Hoogenboomtold lanarkleedstoday.ca that he’s weighing his options to run for any ward seat, as there’s sitting councillors he would like to not see at the table in October.
5) A national survey suggesting one in 10 emergency physicians has left the specialty is no surprise to a longtime Perth doctor. Dr. Allan Drummond, an emergency physician at the Perth and Smiths Falls District Hospital, says the pressures driving doctors away have been building for more than 25 years.
