After all the money was dispensed by the International Ploughing Match committee to area health services, Southampton and Wiarton hospitals were absent from the list.
There was a good reason.
Chair of the Saugeen Memorial Hospital Foundation Brian Wakelin says they, along with Wiarton and Owen Sound decided to make a pitch as one for a new nuclear camera.
The IPM delivered with a 200 thousand dollars to Grey Bruce Health Services in Owen Sound.
Bayshore Broadcasting has learned that since the grants were handed out, it was decided that 50 thousand dollars of that amount go to the Southampton Foundation and another 50 thousand will go to Wiarton to spend as they see fit.
Wakelin says his board will be meeting soon to decide what to do with the money.
He says the foundation does have a new project called “clinical documentation” and the money could go there.
Wakelin says he’s going to ask the board to put part of the money there and return part of the money to Owen Sound for the purchase of a nuclear camera.
Such a device costs over 800 thousand dollars.