The Huron Expositor, 1975-02-13, Page 1A quiet crowd of oven , 100
people, met Ontario's Health
Minister Frank Miller when he
was in Clinton Friday night as
part of a Huron County tour to get
what he called "a personal view
of health facilities".
The' Minister met with the
public in Exeter and Goderich
earlier in the day and said
audiences there had more
questions tha the Clinton group.
Mr . Miller did not visit Seaforth.
• In a question and answer
session the Minister dealt mainly
with the Mustard Report and was
asked about its repercussions on
health care in Huron. Mr. Miller
Said his Ministry has not decided
yet what' Mustard Report
recommendations will 'be
adopted. If it's gotten a
constructive response, it '1ias
served its purpose, he said. The
MEET THE MINISTER — Huron County Home Care
Direator Betty Cardno, left, who is also Seaforth'S
Mayor, David Cornish, vice chairman of the Seafrirth
Community Hospital Board, and Hospital
Administrator Gordon McKenzie talk with Ontario's
Health Minister, Frank Miller, second fron left,
Friday night in Clinton. The Minister was in several
Huron towns Friday touring health facilities and
discussing the Muttard Report.
(Clinton News Record Photo)
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romises no hospital dos
CURLERS GO TO ONTARIO FINALS A Seaforth Curling Club rink made up of
Grace Campbell, John and Gwen Patterson and Bill Campbell won the Rosebowl
curling competition in Waterloo over the weekend. This gives the Campbell-
Patterson rink the right to play in the all Ontario finals in Owen Sound this
weekend. (Staff Photo)
•
Tuckersmith council says
Differences between other townships who used suggestion for settlement until a
_ Tuckersmith and Seaforth which Seaforth facilities and yet copy of the adjusters report which —have been -seratirering-for--sorne----1T-nekereinith---was_the . onle..„_the town had previously asked
time in several areas were not township to attach strings to its for, is received, A pFeVi-dh-s-
eased Monday night when assistance. ' request for the report had been
Seaforth Council . considered a The Seaforth Recreation refused.
;1 Tuckersmith letter concerning Committee and arena committee Rev. Fe ther H.J.Laragh was
assistance to the ,Seaforth arena will meet shortly to discuss steps appointed as Seaforth's
to reflect usage by Tuckersmith to be taken in the event representative on the Seaforth
citizens.
Seaforth Council had asked the ,
township for a grant of $2330
towards arena upkeep. Similar
grants had been requested from
other area townships who made
uselif the arena and in each case
ap, the assistance ,had been agreed
on last year. Tuckersmith
however had deferred its
decision.
in its ' letter . to Seaforth,
Tuckersmith Council said it would
be willing to make a grant of
$2330 providing Seaforth would
make a grant of the same amount
to Tuckersmith , to assist in the
covered pool project that
4 Tuckersmith is sponsoring ' at
Vanastra.
Tuckersmith said a survey had
revealed that large numbers of
Seaforth residents would use the
Vanastra facilities when , they
were completed. (--
Council asked Clerk Ernie
Williams to request details of the
survey to whcih Tuckersmith had
referred. ,
0 Seaforth -Council discussion
' revealed concern as to
Tuckersmith involvement in and
responsibility for the Vanastra
project. It was pointed out that
Tuckersmith residents in
Egmondville and Harpurhey far
exceeded in numbers those in
The farm of James Arfn"strong
of Wingham has been selected by
the Ontario ' Plowmens
Association for the site of the
1978 International Plowing Match
and Farm Machinery
" demonstration to be held in
Huron County. This was
announced Wednesday by
Howard Deters of Dashwood,
chairrnan of the Huron County
Local Committee, International
. Plowing Match.
The executive of the, Onfario
Plowmens Aseocia tion made the
selection of the Wingham site
Tuckersmith does not co-operate.
Attend Good Roads
Council, authorized Councillor
John Sinnamon and town foreman
Harvey Dolmage to attend the
Ontario Good Roads convention to
be held in the Royal York Hotel
later this month.
Councillor Sinnamon, a
member of the public works
committee and Mr. Dolmage will
attend the convention for one day.
A by-law. was passed
authorizing the Ministry of
Transportation and
Communications to adjust and set
timings on the new stop lights to
be installed at the intersection of
Main and Goderich Streets. The
ministry stated that any changes
would be discussed ,with council
before they were made. t
The Ministry of . the
Environment told council that a
claim by . former mayor,
F.C.J.Silts for damages when the
pumping station at" the corner of
Coleman and Goderich
malfunctioned would not be paid
by their insurance company. If
payment was made it would have
to be taken from a fund the town
holds in trust.
Council disputed the decision
and asked Clerk E. M. Williams.
to write the Ministry stating that
Seaforth will not accept any
after touring the 4 sites suggested
by the local Hurqn County Site
Committe. Other sites visited by
the group were in Usborne,St
ephen and McK illop townships.
The O. P. A . executive
indicated that the Armstrcng
farm in Morris Township,
immediately east of the' town of
Wingham on Highway #86 was
most adaptable to the
requirements for staging the
large International Plowing
Match, Plans are for the Tented
City to be located on., the
Armstrong farm with plowing and
demonstrations on the Armstrong
Commimity Hospital Board. "
Council asked that .Seaforth
representatives to various boards
be asked to report to council four
times a year so council has
knowledge of what is happening
on these boards.
The Ministry of Transportation
and Communications informed
council that the maximum road
subsidy available this year was
$52,800.
A grant was received from the
Township of Hibbert for the arena,
of $450. and a letter of thanks is to
be sent the township 'council.
Membership fees of $81.76
were authorized , paid to the
Association Of Municipalities of
Ontario for 1975.
Council was asked to proclaim
the week , of June 24 to July I
inclusive as Canada Week and a
list of suggested events which
might be held in this regard was
read. Council felt this should be
turned over to the Centennial
committee as this ties in' with
celebrations already being
planned.
Premier writes
Premier Wm. Davis, in a letter
to council thanked Seaforth for
the brief that was presented in
London recently and asked for
suggestions on how these area
cabinet meetings might better
adjacent neighbouring farms.
The Ontario Plowmens
Association Convention 'will be
held at the Royal York Hotel,
Toronto on February .17th and
18th. The local committee would
welcome anyone interested to join
the Huron delegation during the
Host County Presentations on
Tuesday morning, February 18th.
A bus will leave from Habkirk
Coach Lines, Seaforth for the
convention early Tuesday
morning. Furthec information
about travel arrangements may
be obtained from Bill teeming,
Seaforth, 527-0818.
The Education Act, 1974,
intended by the Ontario Ministry
of Education to be a
comprehensive collection of all
education legislation in the
province, and a compilation of
new laws and assorted previous
education acts was introduced by
a. Ministry spokesman to
members of the Huron Perth
Roman Catholic Separate School
Board at their meeting Monday
night in Seaforth,
Art Dayman, Superintendent of
Supervisory Services with the
Ministry in Waterloo outlined
some of the Act's new
provisions. The Act says that all
meetings of Boards of Education,
including, committee and
committee of the whole meetings
are open to the public, unless tee
board determines otherwise by
resolution.
The Huron Perth Board's
Policy and By-Laws Committee
will look into the open meeting
meet the local needs.
It was suggested that the
schedule could be adhered to
more- timely-•titan •was-the- easedn..
London.
A $200 grant was approved
for the Seaforth Chamber of
Commerce as was the purchase of '
one-half page advertiseMent in
the S.D.H.S. Year Book.
Surveys of Chalk Street and the
Industrial Park conducted by
B.M.Ross and Associates. were
looked at .by council and are to be
forwarded to Seaforth Planning
Board for approval.
Reeve John Flannery reporting
for the public works committee
told council that snow removal
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Huron-Perth
pupils to
meet C011y
Children from Kindergarten to
Grade 3 in all Huron Perth
Schools will be introduced to
Celly, a ' cartoon cha?acter
developed by the Canadian
Cancer Society to promote health
awareness, the HuronPerth
Separate School Board decided, at
their meeting . in Seaforth
Monday night.
Trustees watched a
presentation on Celly by Isabel
Rubin and Marybelle Ford of the
Cancer Society's Ontario-
Education division and were
apparently so impressed by the
program's anti-smoking message
that no one in the room lit up a
cigarette until about an hour after
the ladies finished their talk.
Celly tells' children what a
healthy body is and how to take
care of it and reaches them at a
young age before smoking and
other bad health habits are
formed, the Cancer •Society
workers said. The program has
been effective in. many Ontario
schools since it was launched this
fall. "We've had ,a little trouble
getting > the• program into the
tobacco areas, but we're still
trying," Mrs. Rubin said.
Director of Education„ John
Vintar, called the Cefly program
imaginative and said that it could
be used to develop a variety of
skills including language,
puppetry and composition.
The Board voted unanimously
to ask the Cancer Society to bring
the program to all its schools.
provisions and draft a position'
report for the next board meeting.
nit Dayman said the provision for
open meetings came about mainly
because of Ontario . wide
objections by the press that too
many items were dis'c'ussed in
camera by school boards and then
perhaps referred to only by
agenda .numbers at public
meetings,,
A board may declare a meeting
'in camera' at the beginning of
aparticular meeting or may
declare all committee of the whole
meetings in camera "But that is
not the intent of the law," the
spokesman said. If meetings are
not declared or defined 'in
camera', they are open, Mr
Dayman said.
Board chairman David Teahen
commented that the Huron-Perth
Board usually holds an in camera
session at the end of each
meeting. and reports any
decisions from the closed portion
to the press.
The new Education Act also
includes provisions for raising the
pay of school board members
according to a scale based on/
changing their present allowance,
which is $100 per month.
The new Act. provides that any
trustee win; is absent from three
,consecutive meetings' without the
authority of the Board, vacates
his seat. Mr. Dayman said that
this provision is designed mainly
to deal with absentee board
members in the northern part of
the Province.
The section of the Act that
deals with Separate Schools has
the same power as a separate act,
'as guaranteed in the BNA Act,
Mr.Dayman said.
The new Act, which is
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Ministry of Health is currently
considering more than 500
submisSions on the report,
"Hospitals closing or not
closing will not be related to the
Mustard Report," he said. It will
more likely be a matter of
"changing what you do in a
hospital," the Minister 'said,
emphasizing that the Mustard
Report favou. s better
organization of existing facilities
rather than physical changes.
Similarity, Mr, Miller said the
author of the Mustard Report
does not. want to abolish present
hospital boards,
but to make Boards responsible
for other health services in a
community, in addition to
hospitals.
closing hospitals, or
integrating facilities so that one
hospital specializes say in
obstetrics and another in
geriatrics will not be imposed, he
said, until it is seen as an
acceptable way of lowering health
costs. \
The only_ solution to health care
costs, which could rise to $4,000
for a family of four in 1980,
accoyding to the Minister, will be
to keep people healthier or to
make them feel healthier. A high
proportion of, the people doctors
see, Mr. Miller said, think they
are ill.
The burgeoning costs of health
care in the province are "not the
fault of doctors of hospitals but
the pressures that you and I put
on health care", Mr. Miller said.
it seems that we manage to fill
whatever number of hospital
beds we provide, the Minister
said. In the past people in the
province have been under-
serviced with medical care, now
they are overserviced, he added.
There has to be more emphasis
on `-." health education,
Lucan.
The authority, in its inaugural
meeting of the year, approved the
bid of James F. McLaren Ltd. of
London to do flood plain and
fill-line mapping on the entire
watershed: The $70,000 job will
take three or four y ears and will
establish the flood lines that a
100-year storm would reach. A
100-year storm is described as the
intensity Of a Hurricane Hazel
centred over the area.
Approved for 1975 capital
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preventive medicine' and :en the
individual taking more ' *avert.'
tative care off, hunself, the
minister said; hat admitted that
the amount of his department's
budget devoted to these things
was "pitiful." "You do the things;
you have to do and don't ao iv*
you should do."
Increasing OW premiums
was not likely Mr. Miller said,
"Personally I could see
increasing premiums 10, 15 or
20% as an , acceptable means of
implying to patients that helath
care costs do go up to get back
to people the understanding that
these services aren't free.'''
There is a lot to be said for
deterrent fee for each doctor's
visit, Mr. Miller said, in response
to an audience qUestioh, "but are
citizens willing to pay it?" Less
than half those in the audience
indicated their agreement by
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survey
which showed that 25 children
would use a centre, full time. The
Day care Centre will be fog
ehitdren front. age--2*--SAnifzfhe--e.---4----
Cornmittee says that the names of
younger children who would use
the centre in a year or two can
also be listed on the survey.
Parents are asked to fill in their
child's name, age, the number of
full or half days per week they
would use the centre and their
own . name and _address. The
Committee is particularily
interested in contacting
the parents of any handicapped
children who would use the Day
Care Centre.
Survey forms, which appear on
Page 5 of this issue,' can be
handed in at the Town Clerk's
office, the Recreation office or to
any member of the Day Care
Committee, when they are
completed.
School board meefing must
be open new Education Act
Morris Township farm is
`78 Plowing Match site
Match-arena grant with one to pool 'e'fit'alIPPII The Maxii""
between 2;000 and 10,000; $400 The Seaforth Day-Care Centre
with enrollment of between Committee is attempting to
enrollment of over 40,000 pupils. provide the
Director of Education John Community and Soci 1 Services
Vintar said that the Huron-Perth with more information on
Board had not yet considered
Elgin Thompson, reeve of
Tuckersmith q'ownship, was
elected Frida0 to his third
consecutive term as chairman of
the Ausable-Bayfield Conser-
vation Authority.
Mr. Thompson defeated vice-
chairman Fred Heaman, the
provincial representative on the
authority in the balloting. Mr.
Heaman then declined to stand
for re-election as vice-chairman.
In a race for Mr. Heaman's
post, Roy. Westcott of Usborne
Township beat• Ivan Hearn of
monthly trustee allowance
provided by the act is $100 for
boards with enrollment of under
2,000; $200 with enrollment of
Reeve heads Ausauble again
CANDY 'STRIPeRS GET PINS — Pins were awarded to Seaforth Community
Hospital Candy Stripers who have put in over-100 hours of volunteer labour at the
Hospital by Board vice chairman D.C.Cornish Tuesday night.The candy stripers,
from the left are, Rick Stewart, Carol Staffen, Valerie Sinnamon, Sandra Hulley,
Carolyn Young, Ruth Anne Siemon and Debbie Rose. (Staff Photo)
ay Care committee starts
Seaforth's day care needs by-
circulating a survey to establish
_haw many_ children would use a
day care centre, in Seaforth.
The, survey will update one
done last y ear by the Committee