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Haiti 50 to 60 years behirld the U.S. in medical care
Continued from page B-1
motorcycles.
Haiti lags 50 to 60 years
behind the U.S. in medical
care, he said, adding, "It's
just very sad. You see a lot
of abandoned children on
the streets."
Nearly a third of the volun-
teers on the ship were mem-
bers of the Church of Je-
of Latter-day
sus Christ
Saints, as
is Voynow.
The church
supplied 32
tons of aid
and goods,
he pointed
out. Dur-
ing its stay
at Haiti,
the ship
transported
1.4 million
meals, med-
ical sup-
"It's just very
sad. You
see a lot of
abandoned
children on the
streets."
plies, blankets, baby wipes,
hygiene kits and more to the
destitute nation.
The ship's next stop was
the Dominican Republic,
which occupies the eastern
side of the island, while
Haiti has the west side. The
people in the Dominican Re-
public were a little better off
than their island neighbors,
Voynow said. There were
some sky rises and hotels.
In Haiti, there was nothing
like that.
Secretary of State Hill-
cry Clinton came aboard
the Comfort, shaking hands
and telling the volunteers
and military personnel
what they were doing was
great. She was in Haiti for a
conference with the United
Nations assistant secretary-
general.
Vonow learned about the
Corn fort's
mission
through
his church.
The Navy
is short of
nurses be-
cause of
the war in
Iraq and
Afghani-
stan and
he said he
jumped at
the chance
to serve on the mission of
mercy in the Caribbean.
It was the first time the
LDS church got involved.
The Navy had asked church
officials about donating
supplies and during that
conversation, the officials
learned there was a short-
age of nurses on the ship.
Aside from physicians
and surgeons, there were
also optometrists on the
Comfort. They fitted hun-
- Photo courtesy of Rob Voynow
Medical personnel aboard the USNS Comfort attend to a Haitian boy as he awakens following sur-
gery.
dreds of people each day
with eyeglasses, grind-
ing the lenses at night so
the patients could pick up
their glasses the next day,
Voynow said.
He remembers a 9-year-
old with cataracts who was
able to recognize his mother
for the first time after his
surgery. A whole new world
opened up for the youngster,
who ran around seeing new
objects and wanting to know
what they were.
Voynow said he'd abso-
lutely go on another hospi-
tal ship mission. That may
come as early as next spring,
when the USNS Mercy is
slated to visit the Philip-
pines, Indonesia, Vietnam
and Cambodia. For now, he
has his memories of serving
on the 894-foot-long, 250-
bed hospital ship and help-
ing people who have little in
the way of healthcare.
- Photo courtesy of Rob Voynow
A long line of Haitians waits for hours to seek
medical treatment on a U.S. hospital ship this
spring.
'They've got a fine mix of cars'
Continued from page B-1
something like this and I
don't want to give it up yet,"
he said. "I've got it in my
will they (his two sons) have
to sell it and then they can
split the money."
Weaver looked around at
the crowds of people walk-
ing along Railroad Avenue.
"This is what it's all about
right here," he said. "People
come out with their ideas
and start taking to other
people and mingle."
He drives his car to Olym-
pia and has dinner there. "It
is a four-speed, so it is fun
to drive," he said. Later this
"The economy is uncertain
but my mom needs more and
more help right now!
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summer he'll take it to
the car races at the Elma
Fairgrounds and to the
McCleary Bear Festival.
Meanwhile, he's looking for
a 1940 to 1942 Ford pick-
up as his next restoration
project.
Gabe Stoner of Shelton
and his 2"-year-old son,
Miles, sat in the shade on
Fourth Street watching the
cars and people walking
around looking at them.
"They've all been really
good shows," Stoner said.
"Good turnouts. Every year
the cars are good."
He likes muscle cars
from the 1960s. "The lines,
the colors, just the way
they look. The way they
sit," he said.
Stoner also grew up in
Shelton and graduated
from SHS in 1996. "I have
an old car," he said. "A 1965
(Chevy) Impala, two-door."
He said he loves it and has
owned it for 11 years. "It's a
good driver car," he added.
"I'm not a car buff," ad-
mitted Jim Tostevin. "I
don't go to all the shows but
I keep track of them."
Tostevin lives in the
Mountain View area of
Shelton and grew up in
North Dakota, where
he graduated from high
school.
His first car was a 1956
Chevy four-door hardtop
painted brown and tan. "I'd
just like to see one again,"
he said. "There's some
nice ones you see driving
around."
He used to cruise town
in Mandan, North Dakota,
in a 1956 Dodge 500 owned
by a friend. "That was a
car," he added. Nowadays,
his taste for vehicles runs
more to Dodge vans.
"It's fine, what we've
seen of it," he said of the
car show. "They've got a
fine mix of cars."
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