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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1976-01-22, Page 3answering minor accident calls caused by snow accumulation and bad driving conditions. Constable Dave Dale said there were eight minor accidents last week with damages totalling $700. ' Sunday night in the second accident that day at the corner of Duke and Main Streets cars driven by Ross McNichol of Hensel] and James Segeren of R.R.2, Seaforth collided. Damages were $2250 . and both cars had to be towed away, Const. Dale said, Thepoliceman said Mr. Segeren was pulling out onto Main Street and Mr. McNichol was ' driving north when the accident happened. It was hard to see around the Duke Street cerner because of high snow bankS71he said. endetheeroeds-evere icy. No charges will be laid. The constable said local police 'investigated five or six 'accidents on Sunday and two by 10 o'clock yesterday morning,' as drivers fought the snow. Warden names new committees Warden Jack McCutcheon announced' the makeup of county committees for the year at County Council last week. Th'e first named chairman." Road - J, Kerr, R. McNichol, R.W.J.Lyons, C.K.Campbell, J. Tinney. Huronview H. McMichael, J.A, Mair, , T.W.Consitt,C.E, Boyle, W.GeZinn. Health .-' E.W.Oddleifson, J.L.McCutcheole W.J.Dale, D.A.McNeil, J. M orriseey, Prov. Rep. Library - T.D.MacMillan, N. Durst, H. Lobb, E. Talbot, D.H.McKenzie, Mrs. N. dnay,. Belgrave. • ' Property - J. Baker, G.G.Ginn, J Jewitt , S.P.Hallahan, R.J.Lawrie, E. 'Sillery. Planning - C. Desjardine, H. Mulvey, G.H.Stirling, B. Clifford, R. Gibson, J. Miller. Developuient - F. Cook, D.S.Eadie, C.W,Bray, E. Thompson ; W,W.McBride. Executive . - A. Campbell, W . El ston , W.I. -Morley, F. E. Haberer, S. Profit, A. McKinley: Social Services - R. M. Williamson, J.r. Hunking, J.F.MacDonal H.E,Wild, J.F.Flannery. Land 'Division - C. Laithwaite, R.Westcott, E. Hayter, H. Robinson, G. Reed. 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This special offer expires on January 31 BALLAMACAULAig. LTD. SEAFORTH CLINTON HENSALL ,527-910 482-3405 262-241$ Men not hurt in crash SIGN UP RIGHT HERE — Snowmobilers lined up to register for the snowmobile pokez rally at the Optimist Winter Carnival on Sunday. Optimist Alf Ross and other volunteers signed up more than 100 drivers in tl?e new Optimist club house at the recreation grounc4. (Staff Photo) omething to Sa by Susan White Do governments really know best? si closing of Huron County Council has - health care in Ontario," he said, endorsed a resolution calling for "The closure of the Psychiatric the resignation of Ontario Health;;... Hospital will create a Vacuum." Minister Frank Miller and his OP Dr., Mills told the councillors advisory staff if •they do not that 'it would be difficult to get reconsider their decision to close patientg admitted for psychiatric the Goderich Psychiatric care from a distance considering Hospital. • that GPH reaches every corner of Council endorsed. the resolution the County. ;He added that .fieffn the medical staff of general hospitals in Huron Alexandra. Marine and General County would likely come under Hospital, Goderich that 'said .the close scrutiny by the government ministerial decision to close GPH and it was his understanding that was Without consultation of. local 97 beds in county hospitals would h ealth professionals and. -be cut. Work began in December on a new $300,000 wing for Alexandra Marine and General le .ospital in Goderich and Dr. Mills expressed concern for the life of the new wing and explained that people would have to 'dear with many Possibilities and changes- -in health care. "Unless we take a strong stand now we will suffer and the system will deteriorate;" he said, "Our health is most important and we need the facility and we need mental health care." . Dr. M ills said only the provincial government • is ccincerned about the,, health care costs: He explained the government wants a '$50 million final paragraph of the „ reduction in health care costs this resolution was a bit drastic 'and year and $150 million next year. should be deleted or altered. ,He claimed that such severe Health Committee chairman,Ed. restraint measures, could be • Oddleifs'on of Bayfield, argued eliminated if there was a $2 user that the goveinment used shock charge' on OHIP which would • 'tactics against the people and it raise $100 'million a year. was only fair that they use shock • Council also agreed to support tactics against the government.. the efforts of Goderich town "The, closure was withottt council in seeking an injunction to precedent and there ,is no other 'stop the the GPH. hospital supplying services like' GPH," Oddleifson said., "It was a ' complete surprise and they didn't let a Godericle eve Stan Profit said into e, know." n that counciI shouldn't be worried about hurting Miller's feelings, "We are ,concerned about stepping on people's toes but 'it shouldn't be the case," he said, "The Government was not concerned about the feelings of the people in Huron County .". Huron County medical offiar of Health, Dr. Frank Mills vi ed the government's decision as a syniptotin of what is to come in health care. "We go from crisis to crisis in endangered total psychiatric health care . in the county. The resolution called the government action a threat to the people's rightsto adequate health care. • The Medical• staff of AM andG madoe, theca recommendations that called' for a reversal on the closure decision; a withdrawal of plans for closure of general hospital beds in Huron County and the the Minister and his staff commit themselves to decision by consultation with representatives at local levels.' Failing acticm5 on these recommendations, the Minister and his institutional advisors were requested to resign im ediately. S me councillors argued' that S. Hibbert Atheletic Assoc. plans annual Correspondent Mrs. J. Templeman The South" Hilbert Athletic Association met Tuesday evening at the home of Lloyd Cameron. It was decided to hold the annual Meeting in the township hall on Tuesday February 3 at 8:30. Mrs. Gordon Parsons and Mary flew to Florida on the weekend for a weeks holiday. , When Seaforth council discus- sed a resolution from the Town- ship of Stephen opposing the construction of a nuclear plant in the county until questions about it are answered, someone said, but don't you think the province has ' already „looked into all that? Recent evidence, suggests we ca ' think that way anymore. /'The sad thing about life .in Hufon County these days is that we can no longer trust that our senior governments have thor- oughly looked into the decisions that they attempt to push on us. The more 'we read abeut and hear about proposals from above, from the closing of Goderich Psychia- tric Hospital to the off again, on again nuclear generating plant on the shore of Lake ' Huron, the more we realize that our naive faith that government . knows what's best for us is badly out of date. A couple of the Stephen resolution question's are about possible leaks of radioactive material and about the effects of nuclear, plant pollution• on food crops. We've never seen these questions answered satisfactorily and we are certain that not enough research has been done ....Ian them for the government to tell us to forget our fears. The Stephen resolution' could have asked about nuclear waste too. A tremendous fiasco is shaping up in Port Hope where fill and building materials from 'the Eldorado nuclear site Were used in schools apd homes: 'Radiation levels in St. Mary's school there arese high that the local board has decided to aban- don it. It's not Safe. But how safe are the childred who attended the school and were exposed 'to harmful radiation. Cant'we trust that, governments who allow atomic wastes to be used in school yards and charge big; hydro users tower rates than careful consumers know what"s best for us ‘e No , I don't think' so. And decisions to close the Goderich Psychiatric Hospital when people in three counties strongly object' and alternate ways of saving money aren't considered, to march hydro towers through productive farmland and to even consider a nuclear generating plant that could harm otir agricul- ture and our communities have brought this government incom- petence close to home. To most of us, the realization that our governments haven't looked at the implications and effects, of their decisions as closely as we have comes as a shock. We wonder if there s any common sense .at higher Is. Arena donation's More donations have come in to the Seaforth arena renovation fund, according to chairman Cliee Buist. They include Betty Cr. rdno $50,. Dr. C. Lacko $20 and Lloyd Hoggarth $15. There ie about $5800 in the fund, according to -Mr. Buist. The goal is $100,000 to be raised locally. Donations can be sent to the fund's treasurer, Ernie Williams at Box 348, Seaforth. They are paying expensive con- sultants with our tax money...why can't they answer our questions, we wonder. We feel powerless when we're hit by big government decisions that don't make sense about things close to us. What can you do? How do you get heard by. or persuade faceless bureaucracies? It looks like we'll have to fight to get our point of view across and Personally we're concerned that we're not very experienced at it. Somebody in Goderich has an . antidote for our powerlessness and frustration. He's offering a night' chool course to help people learn how to "fight city hall". The instructor, Tony McQuail of Luckpow has started the course "to ensure that decisions on local issues are kept local and not made in Toronto or Ottawa", according to the Goderich Signal Star. The course is called "Effective Com- munity Action" and it sounds like a good idea, ***** The whole question of a nuclear plant in Huron may be a dead issue. We hope so but aren't convinced. Huron MPP Jack Riddell thinks the possibility is remote and that should reassure many people. A former editor in Kincardine, Ted- Rowcliffe of , the Exeter Independent wrote his feelings about what the Douglas Point Generating station meant to Kincardine recently and his com- ments are worth thinking about if you are trying 'to make up, your mind pro or con a station in Huron, ,He says: Personally, I think Ontario Hydro killed the town of Kincard--, ins. A lot of others would argue with - me, particularly business people and elevelopere who have 'made a killing. The average work' joe has never had it so good up there really but somehow, despite all the high paying jobs and profits being made, life just doesn't seem as good as it was before the -whole deal started, Rents soared astronomically, as much as double, in some cases forcing persons ,retired on fixed incomes to move out of the town in which they had.spent their entire lives' One house . that rented for about' $150 a month 'jumped to, $275 in one month simply because it was' being rented to an engineer working at 'Douglas Poiret who didn't give a damn how much it cost because his company was paying the shot anyway. , There were a lot of benefits for, some people. BuSin ss for real estate agents boo c ed. Develo- pers made a big b ck cutting up swampy farmland' into subdivi- Invited The postponed annual meeting of the Seaforth Horticultural Society will be held in Masonic ILO on Wednesday, Janu,ary. 28th with a Ppt Luck tiupper at 6:30.. p.m. Bring your n dishes, The Hensel] Minor' Athletic Association will ieeet in the Hensall Arena on Tuesday, February 10 at 8 P;e4.- sions. Grocery stores gouged the consumer, charging up to ten percent ler more than competitors in nearby towns such as Hanover. And as l'said, the one segment of the population , which benefit- ted almost as much as the buseneseeten were the semi-' skilled workers who jumped from about $3 an hour to as much as $6 and $8• an hour at the plant.They were the lucky ones. Many others who weren't acceptable or couldn't make the,transition from the furniture factory to the nuclear facto re left out in the cold. But, as Mr. RoWc iffe ended his comments, it's a pretty complex cfuestion. So it is, and that's a good reason for us to think the whole thing over. It's our county 'and our style of living that will be affected if Hydro builds its plant. What do you think? ****** The girls in the band will have raised the money they -need to finance their trip to Florida to play in the Edison Festivial of Lights by the time they are ready to leave. SDHS principal Bruce Shaw sayi the band is "solvent" and ready to take off for a week in Fort Myers by bus on Saturday, Feb. 7. The last big fund raising event for the band is a dance at the Le;" t • this Saturday night. TPHEEleilTUERON DPCEPcOSITOR4 74 MOM STREET rtilregM Phone, 3484411 Moog Iliitgace OM Collect] - Home - Life - Auto Commercial - Farm Liability - Accident & Sickness INSURILINCi4 CO-OPERATORS INSVRANCE ASSOCIATION County council wants GPH open Mrs. Hive w said. Another car from Dougras Point came along end picked them `up and took them to the general store at Amberley. When a mail courier came into the store she offered to take Mr. Rivers and Jim, who had a broken wrist, into Wingham Hospital to see a doctor. Both men were checked over there and spent the night in the hospital, before coming' home in .clearer weather Saturay morning. • Mrs. Rivers said her husband lost his glasses in the accident and that 'plus Jim's broken wrist will keep them away from work for a few days. Seaforth police were' busy Three Seaforth men who work • at Douglas Point station were in a head-On collision on their way home in Friday 'afternoon's, storm. No one was seriously hurt. Elmer Rivers, his son Jim and Winston Powell left Douglas • Point when it closed at noon Friday, with.two other passengers in Mr. F'owejl's car. Mrs. Rivers said both cars were travelling slowly because of the storm and the.men were wearing seat belts. This was a "big help" in making the crash not too serious. After_ the accident the men didn't want to stay in the car because they feared another car might plow into them, and they started walking the mile and a • half to the village. Of Amberley, SERVICE AIRPORT TRANSPORTATION