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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1975-10-30, Page 3• NEW BUSINESS MANAGER AT THE HOSPITAL — Longtime Seaforth Community Hospital business manager Cyril Kirk, left, retires in December and his successor is learning the ropes from him at the hospital. New business Tanager is lb Donald Kernignen, right of London, formerly of Victoria Hospital. ME Kil< says he and his wife will stay here after he retires. WI quilt wins area first prize average annual interest to maturity H .HURON XP SITO.R, gcTOBER.!oilowi • • Susan: White-t y rec reportis. The Seaforth Women's Institute entertained sister branches at their Public Relations meeting Monday evening, ()Aber 20th. Londesboro, Clintonk Walton, Brussels,Gould, Mitchell being present. Mrs. Andrew Crozier, ViCke President, opened the meeting. Miss Mamie Davidson will You're Invited The Canadian Cancer Society sponsors a panel discussion on breast cancer at Centennial Hall, London on Tuesday, November 4 at 8 P.M. Admission is free and topics of discussion will include "Is removal of the whole breast upecessary?" and ,"Should patients participate in the treatment decision?" The Van Egmond Foundation are planning a Ciderfest at the Van Egmond house in Egmondville, sometime next month. Watch the Expositor for more information about time and date. Alcoholics Anonymous will meet every Friday night, Egmon- dville United Church at 9 o'clock. Guest speaker and lunch served. For more information phone 527-1475 or 527-0691. ****** A reducing club for men has been organized and the first meeting will be held on Tuesday November 18 in the lower library. ***** The Happy Citizens of Seaforth will meet for euchre, in the Seaforth Legion rooms, Thursday November 6. Ladies please bring lunch. speak on Nutrition at Northside Church November 6th. The committee in charge of the Tweedsmuir competition quilt are to be commended on receiving 1st prize for the quilt at the area convention held recently at St. Th omas. The quilt will now be in competition in Toronto and at F.I.W.C. in Prince Edward Island in April 1976. Mrs. Wilfred Coleman and Mrs. Jas. Keys presented Mrs. Harold Hugill and Mrs. Lome Lawson with life membership certificate and "pins, Mrs. Hugill and Mrs. Lawson made suitable replies. Mrs. Jas. Keys introduced the guest speaker, Mrs. Neil McGavin, who commented and showed slides of the Seaforth and Clinton Centennial parades held this"summer. Mrs. Gordan Papple thanked Mrs. McGavin and presented her with a gift. Several musical numbers were provided by the "Century's Aires", Mr. and Mrs. Elgin Nott, Mr. Art Finlayson, Mr. Lorne Lawson and Mr. Bob McMillan. Misses Cathy and Brenda Col Susan and Cheryl McAllister entertained with several musical numbers. Miss Lana McIntosh stepped danced, Mrs. Audrey Cameron was pianist for the evening and Mrs, Bruce Coleman led in community singing. Mrs. Ken Campbell, Mrs. Gordan Papple were in charge of the -decorating and the arranging of groups for a social hour. Mrs. Loine Lawson closed the meeting and Mrs. Jas. Keys and the social committee convened the lunch. A-, quiet bomb shell was dropped on the people of Huron earlier this month when a repott on recreation was presented to county council. The report contained startling statistics • about who pays for what fatilities county citizens use. It attempts to find an answer to the problem that Seaforth and other small towns are having -- how much in the way of recreation facilities do we need and how are we going to pay for them? Seaforth, in 1974, spent less per capita on recreation than the county's other four towns and less than all but two of the villages. We spent $49.87 each. That's compared to a county high of $54.25 per person that the village of Zurich spends. Perhaps not so coincidentally, Zurich's neighbour, Stanley Township, pays only 21 cents per person for recreation, the all county low. • ' , The report is not the last word on recreation. It only counts spending by municipalities and doesn't consider the contributions that service clubs make in many towns. But still, it indicates trends. The main thrust of the report is that more co-operation is needed between town and township in providing recreation for everybody. The report, produced by reps from recreation committees within the county, also calls for county wide recreation planing and support. The authors want county council to get involved. We aren't sure that county wide recreation is the answer but we do know that increasing costs of recreations dwoblem for all of us. Seaforth 's old arena needs at least $200,000 work to make it meet health standards. Clinton's relatively new arena also needs extensive repairs. Clinton already spends the second highest amount on recreation, $40.55 per resident, and one can't, help but wonder how they can afford expensive arena repairs on top of that alr eady high bill. The report doesn't have statistics comparing ' town and rural use of recreation facilities but gives the Exeter experience as an example. In Ex6er most recreation programs have about a 50/50 enrolment from the town and surrounding townships. Surveys for Seaforth's arena too have shown that a good percentage of users come from the townships around Seaforth. Oddly enough, Tuckersmith, • 'which hasn't contributed to- Seaforth's arena, now spends more per capita on recre.ation $5.71 than the townships who have. Tuckersmith has gotten a lot of flick about not being -interested in recreation but is spending more than either McKillop ($1. per person) or, Mullett at $2.89 per resident. A look down the per, capita spending ' by county municipalities quickly shows you .that most of the townships are • paying in the $1 to $3 range while towns and villages spend from $15 to $54 per person. At least part of the huge difference in amounts can be attributed to the fact that townships don't need expensive facilities, because their people use arenas and pools in adjacent towns. Few would argue the facilities shouldn't be shared, but should also agree to share costs. Some towns are charging rural recreation users surtaxes in an -attempt to get help with financing their expensive programs. But surcharges don't encourage co-operation, they seem discriminatory. They single one group of neighbours out and call them the bad guys. They encourage a rural urban split that is against the best intersts of both groups. We can't blame townships who object to paying for a facility when they feel they have no say in its management or in recreation planning. But we think all rural m unicipalities have to recognize that their citizens have recreation needs and that they can't expect neighbouring towns to meet O 401*. ISQUARE a. 0 goderich .11%107/ When in GODERICH. SHOPPERviSsitSQUARE them. We're not saying that every township should then build and run its own arena, pool or whatever. The recreation study shows That facilities in the county aren't overtaxed now. No we just need more co- operation, • more trust and openness, when towns or townships ask each other for help, Perhaps, the co-ordination and cost sharing that's needed so that. we all get the best recreation we can afford, should be done on the county leveL Perhaps recrea on responsi- bility could be tur d over to the school boards w already have county-wi and area structures and facili ies that the kids, at least use for recreation. The county level seems remote. Because of distances involved and differing interests, sharing and planning by a couple of townshipS plus a town could be a good' place to start. We should be considering alternatives. The disparities the report points out are too large for it to' be buried in the Development Committee, never to be seen at county councikagain. Morris Reeve Bin Elston argued at county council that while some rural municipalities 4pn't spend a lot of !Abney oil recreation, their people donate time and effort to run programs in neighbouring villages. He pointed to Belmore and Belgrave where volunteers run the village arenas. It's all very well to have big artificial ice arenas, but can we afford them? he asked. Reeve Elston made a good point. There's no sense in going to a county recreation system which would' force people into P f fr jl*%t tY494' want snaking:,in thph04;, for things which are now„done for'.. free, - But recreation ProeryarnS in • other parts of the teanty are tong' past the point where ,q1py -can financed auced or PM' jtAat by volunteer effort. With bndgets . the $50,000 to SHAM Xanet' they're too big, And both town and rural people seem to like' them like that. 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