{"id":20429,"date":"2013-10-02T22:13:29","date_gmt":"2013-10-03T02:13:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=20429"},"modified":"2013-10-02T22:13:29","modified_gmt":"2013-10-03T02:13:29","slug":"oakville-residents-unhappy-about-st-hildas-being-turned-into-an-ems-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/oakville-residents-unhappy-about-st-hildas-being-turned-into-an-ems-station\/","title":{"rendered":"Oakville residents unhappy about St. Hilda\u2019s being turned into an EMS station"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.insidehalton.com\/news-story\/4115667-oakville-residents-ring-alarms-on-ems-plan\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Y8C4545.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Y8C4545.jpg\" width=\"255\" height=\"158\" \/><\/a>Right idea, wrong location.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s the sentiment expressed by more than 70 southwest Oakville residents Wednesday night at a public meeting regarding Halton Region\u2019s plan to build an ambulance station and safe haven at the site of the former St. Hilda\u2019s Anglican Church.<\/p>\n<p>The Region recently purchased the two-acre site at 1258 Rebecca St.<\/p>\n<p>While the meeting at T.A. Blakelock High School was set up as a drop-in information centre, after about 30 minutes, Regional representatives bowed to demand from residents and switched to a town hall format.<\/p>\n<p>In 2005, the Region\u2019s 10-Year Emergency Services Master Plan identified the need for a paramedic station to respond more quickly to emergency medical calls in southwest Oakville.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe agree with this, but there are more suitable locations within less than two minutes,\u201d said resident Cindy Wagg, pointing to Speers Road and non-residential areas.<\/p>\n<p>Resident Ella Kokotsis says thousands of children and teens in the Rebecca Street area travel to school by bus, bicycle or on foot. The area also has a daycare centre, retirement residence, churches and a library. Kokotsis and others are concerned about pedestrian safety.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It\u2019s nice to be missed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From here: Right idea, wrong location. That\u2019s the sentiment expressed by more than 70 southwest Oakville residents Wednesday night at a public meeting regarding Halton Region\u2019s plan to build an ambulance station and safe haven at the site of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/oakville-residents-unhappy-about-st-hildas-being-turned-into-an-ems-station\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[296],"tags":[2257],"class_list":["post-20429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-st-hildas","tag-st-hildas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20429\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}