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stouffville suntribune saturday march 10 2007 3 suntribune people wr parkview home administrator wally kribs chats with residents of the weldon road nursing home mr kribs is retiring after 13 years at the stouffville facility staff photojim mason retiring administrator big fan of stouffville by jim mason staff writer wally kribs strolls through the halls and stairwells of parkview home greeting staff and residents next month after 13 years it will be all over the administrator of the stouffville nursing home is retiring he told the parkview board last fall the news was made public this month mr kribs work with seniors gave him a chance to pay tribute to his own mother and father interacting with the residents has helped me to honour my parents in a way one usually finds difficult when at a much younger age he said i cant say enough about the wonderful and extremely competent parkview staff many of whom have been with the organization for 20 years or more i had some mighty big shoes to fill and my job would have been much more difficult with out these staff members who are truly dedicat ed to the care of our residents ditto from the parkview board wallys letter to the board was submitted with very mixed emotions and was accepted with equally mixed emotions board chairper son melody potter said wally brought a wealth of experience in the health care field a commitment to parkviews values a heart for the elderly and a way of competently juggling the many demands of leadership the opening of the new parkview on weldon road last year was a large but faces places welcome task once the new ministry of health design guidelines were published in 1998 we knew that in order for the home to continue to ful fill its mission and to continue providing up- todate quality care for its residents we had to consider building a new home mr kribs said the planning process was long and ardu ous but at the same time exciting and challeng ing residents their family members and parkview staff were provided opportunities for input into the design features he praised the vision of the planning committees i believe the new parkview is a beautiful building that will serve care needs well into the future just like the rupert avenue building did for many years he said mr kribs wife has been retired from nurs ing for two years they plan to spend more time with their three children and their grand children including time at their cottage a replacement could be named as early as this month parkview board vicechairperson joanna reesormcdowell said in praise of stouffviheites wally kribs has had a soft spot for stouffville from his days as a youth to his time administer ing parkview home the support stouffvilleites provide the nursing home stands out the amount of financial support for the new building raised by this relatively small com munity without too many major corporate donors is awesome he said support comes in many forms and includes the large number of community volunteers that regularly assist the home in the provision of residents comforts for parkview to be called stouffvilles own is truly an honour growing up in toronto he knew stouffville my dad often talked of a former relative rev ludwig kribs being the first minister in town and of his donating property for the stouf fville cemetery he said i had also heard tales of kribs brothers running the toll road from the town to yonge street it was an american fifthcousin who wrote and said he wanted to visit stouffville that led wally to the whitchurchstouffville library the cousins met with ruth burkholder of the histor ical society who filled them in on the local kribs it was at this time that i remembered a recent parkview ad for an administrator he said call it serendipity or whatever but i knew that after 18 years at sunnybrook hospital and three years in the longterm care sector i had to apply for the job gratefully i was hired whitchurchstouffville news digest visit yorkregioncom for more on these and other stories ballantrae resident picked by conservatives paul calandra won the threeway race to be the con servative candidate for oak ridgesmarkham on thursday 320 federal conservatives packed into the auditorium at brother andre catholic high school in markham and picked the insur ance broker as their candidate for the riding now held by lib eral mp lui temelkovski mr calandra 36 of bal lantrae defeated andrew keyes of markham and caroline alles- ley of oak ridges mr calandra told party members he believes in a clean smogfree environment for canadas children i believe in lower taxes creating more jobs and pro viding families with more money to invest in their future he said people in oak ridges deserve more effective repre sentation than theyve been getting since 2004 a university graduate mr calandra opened and ran two small businesses and managed a real estate portfolio in 1995 he served as chief of staff for a cabinet minister in the mike harris provincial gov 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