LMT October 8th 2018

16 Last Mountain Times • Monday, October 8, 2018 • lmtimes.ca
Home Plan of the Week
Slender Lindley an eye-catching cottage
By Associated Designs
The Lindley is a ranch-style
cottage with eye-catching Craftsman
accents. Its slender profile allows
it to fit neatly on a narrow
Owners’ Suite
11'8" x 15'
Bedroom
10'2" x 9'4"
Bedroom
11'4" x 9'4"
Garage
21'4" x 20'8"
© 2018 Associated Designs, Inc.
Kitchen
Dining
13'8" x 9'4"
Living
17' x 15'
Entry
width lot. The open, single level
floor plan makes it well-suited for
wheelchair accessibility.
Raised trim ornaments the
clean-lined wooden posts that support
and highlight the front porch.
Board and batt siding fills the ends
of the low-sloped gables, and decorative
corbels underscore the gable-end
projections.
As you enter, the three
Covered
Porch
interconnected family
gathering spaces spread
out before you, creating a
surprising sense
of spaciousness.
A coat closet is
Covered
Patio
6' x 12'
to the right while
the opposite door
offers a direct
link to the garage.
The living
room flows into
a dining area that is open
to the kitchen. Each of
these three areas has a
side window, with the
sliding glass doors in the
dining room being the
largest. These offer access
to a covered patio.
Twin sets of slender
wooden posts support the
patio roof.
A long eating bar rims
one edge of the peninsular
kitchen counter. This
feature is also ideal for
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the supervision of homework, and
for keeping family members and
guests out from underfoot while
they chat with the kitchen crew.
Kitchen counter space wraps
around four sides, providing expansive
work surfaces for families that
enjoy cooking together. A small
pantry adds to the already generous
cupboard space, and a door at the
rear opens onto a stoop. The family
dog will love this feature.
Three bedrooms, two bathrooms
and a utility alcove fill the
left side. The Lindley’s owners’
suite has a large walk-in closet and
private bathroom with oversized
shower.
Associated Designs is the original
source for the Lindley 30-546.
For more information or to view
other designs, visit www.Associated
Designs.com or call 800-634-0123.
Lindley
PLAN 30-546
Living Area 1317 sq.ft.
Garage 460 sq.ft.
Dimensions 38' x 64'
1000 SERIES
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Thanksgiving
For many of us, thanksgiving involves getting
together with folks that you enjoy and eating a lot of
food! In Canada it is timely as we have usually just
finished or in the process of finishing the harvest of
our gardens.
If we look at the roots of Thanksgiving there are
two different paths. In 1578, Sir Martin Frobisher
and his crew had their first Thanksgiving meal on
what would become Canadian soil. They had voyaged
to Baffin Island and held a ceremony to thank
God for their safe arrival. They enjoyed a lovely
meal of salt beef served with rock-hard crackers and
mushy peas. Forty-three years later, the Pilgrims at
Plymouth held their better-publicized Thanksgiving
which has some rather more negative memories
from the aboriginal perspective.
In Canada, we do have much reason to give
thanks for as we do enjoy a land blessed with many
natural wonders, clean air and fertile soil. Thanksgiving
was declared a national holiday in 1879 and
we have enjoyed an extra day to share that 142 million
kilograms of turkey that is consumed. One last
interesting trivia surrounding the venerable turkey
is fossils indicate that wild turkeys have roamed
North America for more than 10 million years.
Now getting down to what we grow and harvest
from the garden. Mashed potatoes served with large
amounts of gravy are often an important part of
the meal. Choosing potatoes with a higher starch
content like russets or Yukon gold will give you the
fluffiest, smoothest and most flavourful mash. Be
careful to treat those swollen starch granules in
your potatoes gently as well as too much vigour will
HORTICULTURE
PAT HANBIDGE
SASKATOON, SK
give you a gluey, less appetizing
addition to your meal.
Winter squash are always a
favourite and colourful vegetable
and can be served in many
ways. Simply wash the outer
rind and chop the squash into
appropriate sizes for baking.
Add butter, salt and pepper to
taste and cover to ensure the
moisture stays in this yummy vegetable. Bake at
350°F.
Other vegetables you may also have at your disposal
at this time of year includes corn (on the cob
or not), lovely carrots, beets, and if you are lucky
kohlrabi. We are lucky to have such a wide array of
available veggies to grace our thanksgiving tables.
Thanksgiving would not be complete without
pumpkin pie. Making a pumpkin pie from a real
pumpkin will forever spoil you for making it by
opening a can. A pumpkin that is 6 to 8 inches in
diameter will give you enough pumpkin for a 10
inch deep dish pie. Cut the pumpkin in half, scoop
out the seeds and then either bake, steam or microwave
the pumpkin until it is soft. Discard excess
moisture and puree the pumpkin until smooth. Now
it is time to mix the pie ingredients together. These
ingredients will usually include some type of sweetener,
some spices like cloves, ginger, cinnamon and
maybe allspice, eggs, and evaporated milk. Bake the
pie until a knife inserted into the center comes out
clean and enjoy with whipped cream.
The only thing left is to harvest some materials
from your garden to make an appropriate table centre
for Thanksgiving. Personally, I prefer, branches
of autumn coloured leaves, pine cones, small
squash from the garden, the odd tomato or two and
anything else at your disposal. May we wish you all
a wonderful Thanksgiving and may your bountiful
harvest from your gardens grace your tables and be
enjoyed by both friends and family.
-Patricia Hanbidge is a horticulturist with
the Saskatoon School of Horticulture
and can be reached at 306‐931‐GROW(4769);
by email at growyourfuture@gmail.com
or check out their website at www.saskhort.com
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department visits to family practices. Unfortunately, it didn’t quite work as planned.
Our recent study found that emergency department use didn’t decrease for patients who joined the new
practice models. Between 2003 and 2014, there was actually an increase in the rate of emergency department
visits in Ontario, particularly during the day. At the same time, the overall rate of visits to family
doctors went down but family doctors seemed to be providing more after-hours care. Why didn’t asking
family doctors to provide after-hours care reduce emergency department visits?
There are a few potential explanations:
First, it may be that an increase in family doctor availability after hours was offset by a decrease in
availability during the day. Ontario has a fixed supply of family doctors, many already juggling a demanding
workload. Perhaps one way of coping with new requirements was to decrease daytime hours. Second,
providing more services may just increase people’s demand for services. When the U.K. introduced urgent
care clinics, people started going there but they also kept going to the emergency department at the same
rate they did before. Or maybe you do see your family doctor and they’re worried about pneumonia so they
send you to the emergency department because that’s the only way they can get an X-ray after hours. Many
of our emergency departments are overcrowded - partly because of a shortage of hospital beds but also
because of the sheer numbers of people seeking care. Can better access to primary care help us reduce the
demand on emergency departments?
Our findings suggest it’s complicated.
Just asking family practices to provide more care on the evenings and weekends is likely not enough.
Family practices need to have the right resources to provide care after hours, including access to labs and
X-rays. Ideally, after-hours coverage is shared by a large group of doctors and other team members who
have access to shared electronic patient records.
We also need to improve timely access to primary care during the day. Few Canadians are able to get a
timely appointment with their family doctor or nurse practitioner when sick. In a recent survey, 25 per
cent said they went to the emergency department because their family doctor wasn’t available.
We can learn from reforms in other countries. For the last 15 years, family doctors in the Netherlands
have been organized in large co-operatives, each serving 100,000 to 500,000 patients and featuring a
single regional telephone number. In the evenings and on weekends, trained nurses triage calls and, if
needed, physicians assess patients on the phone, in clinic or at home. Perhaps it’s not surprising that the
Netherlands has one of the lowest emergency department visit rates.
More after-hours care may not necessarily reduce emergency department visits but it’s still an important
service for patients.
We need to better understand patient values and rethink how we’ve designed our system for those with
acute health complaints in the evenings or on weekends. Let’s learn from other countries and evaluate
related reforms in Canada.
-Tara Kiran is a family physician at the St. Michael’s Hospital Academic Family Health Team, adjunct
scientist at ICES, and the Fidani Chair in Innovation and Improvement at the University of Toronto. She is a
contributor with EvidenceNetwork.ca, which is based at the University of Winnipeg. www.troymedia.com
Disclaimer: opinions expressed are those of the writer