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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1979-10-31, Page 4*I THE BRUSSELS POST, OCTOBER 31, 19 Friendship club plans Xmas clinne Brussels Friendship Club met in the Legion hall Wednesday, October 24 with a good attendance, Fred Thue11 presided, opening the meeting with singing "0 Canada." Verna Thomas at the piano. Minutes of the previous meeting were read. A committee of three, Verna Thomas, Elsie Evans and Berva Dennis were named to look after lunch and program committee. The treasurer gave the bank balance and it is hoped to raise some money in the near future. It was decided to hold the Christmas meeting December 4 starting off with a dinner at 12:30 served by the Legion Ladies' Auxiliary. Each member is to pay $4 for the meal. The club would like all members to become a Star member by paying $1 a year as many benefits are derived by being an All Star Club. A brief report of the zone meeting held in Clinton was given by Frank Hooper & Gertie Bolger. These meetings are well worth attending as a good deal of information can be picked up. The meeting closed after which a few games of euchre were played. Winners were as follows: high lady - Ethel Long; low lady - Verna Thomas; high gent. - Mrs. Turnbull playing as a man; low gent - Mel Jacklin. County sets grant policy for hospitals County council has passed a new bylaw to update its method of establishing hosp- ital grants - a bylaw it hopes will protect it in the future. Council will now pay a La -ant up to a maximum of 37.5 per cent of the paid provincial subsidy for any provincially approved build- ing proiect at any public hospital in the county, pro- vided no grant paid to one institution exceeds 25 per cent of the. total approved project cost. In effect, the new bylaw says if the province won't put their funds in a hospital building project, then the county won't either. This protects the county from having to fund hospital reno- vation projects approved, but not funded l by the province. Also, with the new bylaw, the county no longer needs the approval of the four other county hospitals when fund- ing a building program at the other public hospitals in the county. Bill Hanly, Huron County clerk-treasurer. said the executive committee's con- cern with the former bylaw was that the province might feel "if I don't have to pay for something, then I may be pretty free with my ap- proval." The current bylaw safeguards the county from this possibility. Reeve Eldrid Simmons of Exeter expressed concern over the new bylaw, saying he's afraid smaller hospitals already aren't getting the same share of funding that goes to larger hospitals. He said "When we're collecting money from tax- payers, we have as much right to have a hospital funded by the county wheth- er the provincial government funds it or not." Mr. Simmons said the Exeter hospital was .fortunate they had their own finances to fund a recent buildite program at the hospital. When the province turned dlOwn their request for finan- cial assistance, the Exeter hospital went ahead with renovations using a grant from the county and their urn funds. The province did contrib- ute two-thirds of the cost of vtgraths. Goetz. ich, Clinton and Wingham hospitals, with the county funding 25 per cent of the remaining costs and the local municipality seven per cent of the cost in each case. Mr. Simmons said he's concerned when the county hospitals run out of money in the future, and the ministry of health doesn't fund them, or the county, then the hospitals will get in "a dilapidated condition." Mr. Simmons added. "I'm afraid we're looking at a back door entrance to closing a lot of these little hospitals." Eileen Palmer of Goderich said she sees the present situation in hospital funding more as a move to bring district health councils into the area. The reeve, a strong advocate of health councils, said because of the provincial hospital funding situation, she sees more need to have district health councils. since they'd have more clout in dealing with the province. In other council business, members approved the hir- ing of another public health nurse to work in the north of the county, Dr. Brian Lynch. the Medical Officer of Health reported the public health nurse in the 'Wingham area was carrying a caseload of n.588 and spends 10 days of each month on home care alone. The board of health report said "The distance frorr Wingham to the farthest end of Ashfield is 30 miles. so that part of the district has virtually no nursing service because the Win gbam area nurse has little time to visit Ashfield and West Wawa- nosh Township." The nurse's salary will be from $14-$17,000 annually, depending on experience, With the province funding 50 per cent of the cost.. 'The board of health also recommended that their staff -.should avoid smoking in Situations where it wouldn't ,..qipport the objectives of the health unit's programs. Eileen Palmer. chairman the health hoard. said thetd was annie concern that staff members were smoking in public schoo:s while carts!. ing out their duties. She said 'e corn:-.7.itte ho _s the staff all BUSINESS DIREcToRY •New Homes • Renovations • Additions • BRIAN Box 298 General SANDERSON CONSTRUCTION SANDERSON Brussels Contractor • • • Agricultural Commercial 887-9200 Framing David Langstaff Ltd. Optician ra p USE 87 Main St., South, SEAFORTH • .. 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