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Home My WebLink AboutTimes-Advocate, 1979-11-07, Page 21• 'MAIN ST. EXETER Serving South Huron, North Middlesex Times- Advocate, November 7, 1979 County protected dvocate ,,34 North Lambton Since 1873 • The price of constructing a loader conveyor for books will be an additional $3,500 over and above the tender price quoted for renovations. Although the construction costs are higher than originally proposed, the architect's fee will remain the same, at $5,670. The firm Snider, Reichard and March of Waterloo are supervising $97,393 by Frank Van Bussel Reeve Ervin Sillery of and Sons, RR 3, Lucan. When Tuckersmith township, past the church was purchased by chairman of council's council last spring, they property committee, told were told a number of council the committee pretty renovations . would,be well had to accept the lowest c arY fa'413r in'g the ienddr since everything was building up to the required in order. standards for a public Another council member facility. asked why no local con- The building was pur- tractors had bid on the chased for $70,000 and it was renovation contract. hoped that with' the renovations, the. total cost to the county would be $100,000. That figure has now risen to $169,000, if a number of items are deleted from the renovation. By ALICE GIBB Construction will be starting soon on the new headquarters of the Huron County library after county council accepted tenders for renovations of the former Bethel Pentecostal Church, Goderich. Council purchased the church building last spring as the future Huron County Library headquarters. A tender of $87,810 was accepted from Bratt Con- struction Co. Ltd. of Hyde Park. The next lowest tender for the renovations was submitted at a cost of By ALICE GIBB County council has passed a new bylaw to update their method of establishing hospital grants - a bylaw they hope will protect them in the future. Council will now pay a grant up to a maximum of 37.5 per cent of the paid provincial subsidy for any provincially approved building project at any public hospital in the county, provided no grant paid to one institution shall exceed 25 per cent of the total ap- proved project cost. In effect the new bylaw says if the province won't put theft funds in a hospital building project, then the county won't either. This protects the county from having to fund hospital renovation projects ap- proved by the province, but not funded by the province. Plan old Church as new library Update hospital grants bylaw Clerk-treasurer Bill Hanly said a bid bond was required with the contract, and local contractors 'indicated they had enough work ahead where bid bonds• weren't necessary. There are now 28 branches in the Huron County Library system, now in its 12th year of operation. Circulation in 1978 was 367,093 well up from 1977. One of the main problems with the present library headquarters has been the lack of storage space for books circulating in the county system. renovations to the building. Among the items which were deleted were con- struction of an asphalt driveway, the front entry and metal soffits, eaves and downspouts. The library headquarters will remain in their present Lighthouse street location until renovations at the former Church are com- pleted. The present lease expires at the end of December, but the landlords have agreed to extend it. The library is presently paying $1,000. a month rent at the Lighthouse Street location. 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 taxpayers, we have as much Also, with the new bylaw, right to have a hospital the county no longer needs funded by the county the approval of the four other whether the provincial county hospitals when government funds it or not." funding a building program Mr. Simmons said the' at the other public hospital in Exeter hospital was for- the county. tunate they had their own Bill Hanly, Huron County finances to fund a recent clerk-treasurer, said the building program at the executive committee's hospital. When the province concern with the former turned down their request bylaw was that the province for financial assistance, they might feel "If I don't have to went ahead with renovations pay for something, then I using a grant from the may be pretty free with my county and their own funds. approval." The current , The province did con- bylaw safeguards the county tribute two-thirds of the cost from this possibility. of building programs at Reeve Eldrid Simmons 'of- Goderich, 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 vase. 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 delapidated condition." Simmons added, "I'm afraid we're looking at a back door entrance to closing a lot of these little hospitals." Eileen Palmer 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 hiring of another public health nurse to work in the north bf the county. Dr. Brian Lynch, the Medical Officer of Health, reported the public health nurse in the Wingham area was carrying a caseload of 6,588 and ..,spends 10.days of each month . on home care alone. The board of health report .said "The distance from Wingham to the farthest end of Ashfield is 30 miles, so part of the district has vir- tually no nursing service because the Wingham area nurse has little time to visit the Ashfield and West Wawanosh 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 support the objections of the health unit's program. ' Eileen Palmer, chairman of the health board, said there was some concern that staff tnembers were smoking in public schools while carrying out their duties. She said the com- mittee hopes the staff will follow their recom- mendation. SUNSHINE KIDS ENJOY HALLOWEEN — Members of the Sunshine Kids Nursery School enjoyed a Halloween party, Wednesday morning. Back, left, Matthew Godbolt, Rochelle Geoffrey, Tara Edwards, Alyssa Mitchell, Mark Glavin, Jenny Mclean, Jennifer Glavin, Rosemary Glavin, Karen Robinson, 4,111, Simon Dinney and Heather Gray. Front, Melanie Phillips, Suzanne Steciuk, Greg Crandlemire, Amy Johns, Brenyn Baynham, DanielSpearsJeff Bowen, Eugene Boersma, Elaine Heywood, Fiona Kirkby and Benji photo TOWN HALL PENDULUM WEIGHT GUESSING WINNER Sietet's 'Sew est CA‘tOttlitt"S 110411 SIORI 451 .MAIS SI, :, VAti g TELSP14014E, .235011 ,US'[ SORIVA Of Ott4t40 ftlitt4111) E Janet Covroco and Sandy ittote ore pleased to -an - nounce the opening (A Oleit 'OW childrens wear store kkornorrovi)"Thursday.*e're pleased to keolure Gond- alor, made, quality chiticirens clothing irorn rnpnokac. tutors such as: tarn O'Shanter, l(ficic,et, Kid c and Don't miss our ening speclals and also to he s to many others• drop in end see op us during .rnicinight madness. Shop early for Christmas and Save • JEWELLER Shown determining the official weight of the Old Town Hall clock pendulum are Jay Campbell and Jim Darling. Mrs. Van Duyn, 127 Mill Si. Exeter will receive a quartz dock from Campbell's for her win- ning guess of 43 Ibs, 7 ozs, The actual weight of the pendulum was 44 lbs. gee Our many MIDNIGHT MADNESS SPECIALS Fri* 6 MI6