Questionable past
A Cape Breton veterinarian being investigated after being accused of euthanizing a dog by mistake in August, has had complaints lodged against him dating back 28 years now, reports the Cape Breton Post's Sharon Montgomery-Dupe.
Dr. Sietse Van Zwol, owner of Highland Animal Hospital in Port Hawkesbury, was suspended in 2016 for two months, reprimanded and directed to take a record-keeping course following a complaint about his assessment, diagnosis and treatment of a dog, as well as his communication with the client.
In a Cape Breton Post story Aug. 9, Arlene Fougere - the owner of husky Cooper - said Dr. Sietse Van Zwol came out to a vet appointment without a chart, carrying a rubber band. Fougere assumed they were taking blood for testing. Without a word spoken, Cooper was given a needle. All of a sudden her dog began jerking his head and had blood on his lip. A gurgling noise was the last sound she’d ever hear him make. Fougere’s dog had been euthanized.
Together to the end
"For the 78th year now, the autumn leaves fall gently on her grave. She has rested in St. John’s Mount Pleasant Cemetery far longer than she ever walked this earth. Here Agnes Wilkie lies, half a country away from home. She is one of 137 victims of the largest marine disaster in Canadian history," writes Reg Sherren for SaltWire.
Back in 1942, the steam ship Caribou was the passenger ferry linking the island of Newfoundland with Canada.
Although it was primarily a civilian ferry service, many people were upset that it was also being used to transport military personnel. It was feared the Nazi U-boats would therefore view it as a legitimate target.
Early in the morning of Oct. 14, 1942, those fears about the SS Caribou would become a deadly reality.
A ship she be
A three-year-old Norwegian grandson has a magnificent 25-foot Viking ship waiting in West Pubnico, N.S., for his arrival.
"Whether the vessel is a boat or ship is a debatable subject, but the builder David Surette, and those who admire the work call her a ship, so ship she be," writes SaltWire's Carla Allen.
Surette’s daughter (Janet Lynn Surette) lives in Norway with her Norwegian husband (Hans Magnus Mikalsen Nedreberg) and son (Amund David Surette Nedreberg). Surette has visited them in Stryn, Norway, as often as he can.
On one of those visits he saw the 100-foot Myklebust being reconstructed for the Sagastad Knowledge Centre.
