HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1976-01-08, Page 34
c new' means
.positor 'tarter all;
eontemplati n is one --of our
funetions). that we haven't- gotten
muarwork dOne.
--This week's column • was
scheduled to ..contain all the
thoughtful analysis of 1975 and
bright ideas for 1976 that • you
should have read .in last week \
paper, our first of the new year.
, We've been :working so far
ahead here in order to'get it,l1 our
each month. • holiday 'issues out as scheduled
He points out that the, hoSpital that We').c come to the absurdity
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Sick joke of the week.
Just when the „big price
'increases in teleplwite and hydro
.rates is about to'Send Many of us
around the trend, the government
cloks, the' psychiatric hospit•
wher0'e might have been at) e to •
get treatment.
The lust day of work for the.
'year. Pretty heady Words and
we've been so 'busy • content-
platjng what the erycf of the old
year and start of
here at, the E.
There's something for
1 , at :the •
Vanastra Recreation, Centre
SCHEDULE OF COMING EVENTS
Monday Evening Jan..32 8:00• p.m. .
JACKPOT $250.
in 55 Calls
consolation prize $40.
Special $10. door prize awarded each week on
previous week'; admission ticket. Must be
present to win: .1f -not claimed, prize will in-
crease by $10. for following week. 15 regular
games 3 share-the-wealth. 6 cards for Si. Ad-
mittance to 16 yr. and over
SWIMATHON RECEIPTS
9159.00
Prize winners were: Group A - Karen Smith;
Group B - bavid Smith;. Group - Sheila Arn-
ton; Group D - John Laws9n7 Most Pledges -
Keith Hohner; Most money raised ' • Wilt
Schneider. Special thanks to'the Royal Canadiaffl
LErgion -Clinton for their $35. donation •
• LEADERS COURSE
You're
Invited
The • the meeting resumed at 1:35 .Sea kali' Women's
ccill hold their January
meeting fit the home of Mrs.
Lorne Dale on Toestlayir„.13th
8:15
M ry. Jessie McGregor arid
• Mrs-Lorne Dalu ate in enarge.of
R.A.Whitnian
.• will be' guest speaker. Roll call. '
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'The' annual , meeting cif the-
Seal() rth Hortii.>ultural Society
• will he held in Masonic Hall tin
Aketinesday. January 14 with a
Pot Luck Supper, at,, 6:30 it.nt.
' Every week .more and more
people diskover what mighty jobs
are 'accomplished by low, cost
Huron Expositor want Ads. Dial
527-0240.
was approved.
Mr. M clntosh reported that
during 1975 90 permits valued at
$732,779 'were issued in the
township.
Council wrchased parts and
supplies for, the Brucefield Water
system fruin Fred McGregor
Limited at 'a 'cost of 1„100. The
firm is no longer in business.'
, 'Passed for payment were
accounts totalling $26,315.92,
including general accounts
amounting to $4,353.50; roads,.
$6,787.55; Vanastra- Day,. Cate,
$1,659.65, and-Vanastra Recrea-
tion, •$13,515:22. ;
Appointed tol the Vanastra
Recreation Committee 'were:
Reeve Elgin Thompson, Deputy
Reeve Ervin Sillery, Dick Lehnen,
Wilfred Schneider, Batry Davis,
Bruce Collins, Eldon King and
Robin Gates subject' to..
confirmation by the members.
Appointed to the.
Day, • Care Centre Board:
Councillors Cleave Coombs and
Bert Branderhorst, Carol
Monroe, Margaret Rogerson,
Arthur ForleC, Bafbara• Hodgins
and Doris Cantclon, subject to
c'onfirmati'on by members.
Council 'expressed annoyance
that a newspaper correspondent,
Karen Lehnen in her Vanastra
news, had reported bast week the
population at Vanastra - as
approximately -1,000 when the
Assessment Office on October 27
reported 763 persons at Vanastra.
She reported 23 businesses at
Vanastra whereas Council. •has
about eight listed.
ore
donate
More donations have come in to
Sea fortarena fund
committee.. • Among - ',donations
received- .last week by the
committee's treasurer. Ernie
Williams, were. Rildehrand Paint
and Paper $25.: McConnell,
SAL4art and Devereau x. $200 and •
John H, Mell»•ain, $100.
DonationS" can be sent to Mr.
Williams at Box 3487Seaforth.
After wia went to press last
week I got mpre information
which shows that the Goderich
PsyChiatric Hospital is" very'
important to the well being • of
those of us who,live.in this rural
area.
Dr. Jan Dukszta, the NDP's
health critic at Queen's Park has
statistics that back up- the fact
that the Hospital is fully used and
will cause hardship if it is closed.
90.Q/0 of the 200 beds at the
hospital are in constant use. Dr.
Dukszta says this is a tribute to
the wide variety of out patient
services that the hospital
operates.
500 out-patients are registered
there making a total -of 700 people,
who use the hospital at any one
time. Most of these 700 will have
faMilies who of course are
affected by the care or lack of care
they get.' It's not exaggeration to
say that at least 2000 people ,
patients and their families, will be'
hurt directly if the hospital closes.
We don't argue at all the
spending, including spending on
health services has to be checked.
According to a recant story in the
Canadian Journal of Public
Health, Canadians get very good
health care when ranked against
the rest of the world. ,
Looking at' statistics which
show, rates of mortality and -life
expectancy,' Canada gets about as
good health care as England and
Wales but spends nearly twice as
much per head or about 40%
more of our, Gross National
Product.., •'
Obviously we . can't let this
situation go.'on. We might find
our health care picture as bad as
,that in the U.S.A. where:they'
spend by far the most money per
head of 'eight Western countries
and ,get the worst results.-
Obviously. we've got, to' cut
somewhere, but is dePriving a'
good part of rural Western
Ontario of psychiatric services the
place to' cut? . . •
We ,haven't even started to talk
about employees at GPH-. The
eenomie blow to them and their'
families will he almost as hurtful.
There are. about .300.of them ad
we heard lasit, week that most got
notices. on Monday. They Were,
simply told that they' wouldn't be
needed' Ater March and' there
was. no Mention of placements
elsbwherc; Thek • were no
prorniSe< Of employment at the
resoitree centre fot the mentally
retarded --.-the suggested new
itse for the' GPH.
• Huron Middlesex MPP' Jack.
Riddell says: that GPH has one-of
the highest admission rates in the
province kir a hospital of its size
and capacity. There are 50. to 60
dischargi's and admissions there
of %%riting the Mutat) 8
'Something to Say' on New Yegrs
Esc. Next week we're back to
normal but doubt that anyone cc ill
he much interested in end of the
year analysis then.
The dailies and is and radio'
hare been pt rhping out 'careful
'stories on what's happened and
N1 hat's to conic for sonic days now
, and we think such coverage is
valuable and interesting
But tie don't kno,a host people
ho contemplate and then N%ritt.;
these stories (Ind time to get them
done. Here, espc'cially on No%
Years Es e. it's impossible to .get
past the contemplation stage.
Next.' 'year -111'--start• thinking-
about what 1976 has meant in
lids and riting about it in
No \ ember; Look for some
caret thought out, weighty
-opinions:: next NON. Years Eve.
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Somethin,41. to Say
(By Wifma Oke)
Concerned about the cost of
maintaining roads, and replacing
bridges Tuckersmith Township
Council diseused the merits of
closing some township sideroads
in the future.
Councillor Rotten Bell said that
with gravel becoming scarce he
thinks the time will come when
roads have to be closed because
there will not be gravel available
to keep them in condition.
Councillor Bert Branderhorst
said that with the cars today the
numerous sideroads built for the
hor,,c and buggy days are not all..
necessary. He suggested that the
closed, roads should be returned
to farmland as each One and
one-quarter miles _or rotPrwould
make an acre ofolfartriland. •
Reeve- Elgin Thompson 'and'
Deputy ReeVe Ervin S
agreed that some roads coe'ld he
closed in thli•. -township "-and
portions of some roads could
become private laneways to
0 farms.
Clerk JameS 'McIntosh and
town 'ship road personnel will all
receive a ten per cent raise in
salary, . •
Mr. Sillery remarked that
Reeve 'Thompson was entering
his' 20th year on council: •
Council passed a bank
borrowing hy-law for up to
$250,000 to permit payment of
t. bills, until taxes and other
revenues arc received.
An application 'for a building
permit. From John Segeron, R. R.2,
Seaforth, for an implement shed
Tuckersmith m
close some
siderozads
91 % of Hullett
taxes collect
The 'first meeting of the year for regarding Hospital closing Jan. 6,
Hilucu:townshipcouna was. Road. .Committee to- reconsider
held on •Japitary date „had Speed Limit 'January 8, Election•
been changed 1)-Mn: January 12,- ()I' Warden, lanuary 13.Witigham
-as previously set, 1,,v eonynion. "'Secondary •School, to discuss
consent of all Cod neillors,. spefuling f-estraints, Ptovineial
R eeve John J ew itt gave notice and Municipal,. January 15.
• 4 of se), eral meetings with the The clerk treasurer reported
I'oflowing , dates ' Sanford Hall 1975 tax collections at 91.65%..
Building permits were, issued to
Paul Southgate- Pig- Barn, '/A,
Wammcs, House. subject to
Township by-laws. and, Huron
Cifitinty. Health Unit.
application for a Tile Drain
Loan on Lot 11, Con., 7. 'was
accepted. The meeting adjOurned
at 12:00 noon: dinner was:served
at the'Triple •K Restaurant, and
Institute . Council endorsecithe resolution
presented by 'Stephen Township
with regards to Power Stations
and Transmission Lines.: The...
Road Superintendent -will apply
for' the- balance of Road Subsidy
for 1975,
-.-AecOunis of Genal $3.835-25:
Green 'Fluinib' Hint, Motto, • All Drainage ..4„.2.27,95.''.aqd ' Roads •
the Hower, of all..tbe t „,.„„,',:row 's.,;').,4.3 for :[.Total of $11,457:63 -
are in the seed ' Were , passed -and, paid. .
The TWeedsmuir History and / - Scrap Wiok ° Win lie oil display.
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Lawson, Mts. 'Andrew Crozier,
Miss Belle Campbell, Mrs. Jessie
, McGregor.
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We Ivieed psychiatric services by Susan White
was accredited in July and says
"in the area, of rehabilitation it is
one of the best in Canada."
But back to the health services
that the community will lose.
About 100 families are getting
counselling from a child care, unit
at the hospital. -The alcoholism
and addiction unit .has been
treating a turnover of six patients
a week. If the closing goes ahead
All detoxification and treatment
services will stop April 1.
Psychiatric services . will no
longer be available locally for
criminal court cases. Psychiatrists
won't be able to act as consultants
for the school boards or for
geriatric .problens at nursing
homes in the three counties.
community clinics „xeter- tahnadt
Dr. Dukszta sa
Wingham and m ttal and family
counselling services will fold. •
"The- hoSpital is also -involved
in job placements . for the'
physically • and mentally
incapable, and has been working.
to develop ' specialized
assessments and . training
programs,: using the h.pspital's
therapy unit as a work training
facility," the health ,critic says.
"Np alternative .• has been
suggested by the Ministry,-"
Dr, Dukszta joins MPP Jack
Riddell in asking the health
minister to reconsider 'the
decisionto close GPH. Barring a
guarantee that basic and essential
psychiatric services for the people
of Huron Perth and Bruce will be
continued, he says "the facility
must continue to operate.' '
We tend to agree. •
Hospital workers are -asking
those who don't want the hospital
to.. close to wilte to Health
Minister Frank Miller at Queen's
Park. TAKE
ould You. Like To
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