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Lugtiow SKATING CLUB
ACHIEVEMENT
NIGHT
WILL BE HELD
IN THE LUCKNOW ARENA
Saturday March 13th at 8 p.m.
ADMISSION $1.00 ' 12 AND UNDER FREE.
GUEST SKATERS
OLIVE LAPP - Skating Instructor for tho Lucknow Club.
CAROL WHEELER (AGE 14) — BLAINE MOORE (AGE 15)
MARK MOORE (AGE 7)
All from the Wingham Skating Club
Carol and Blaine were Gold Medalists at. Sarnia.W.OS.W.I.C.
and North Bay Free Skating Competition in 1975 and Silver Med-
, alists at Niagara/Falls and Toronto Invitational Free Skating
- Competition in 1975: In February 1976 they were Silver Medalists
at 1976 Western Ontario Sectional Competition in Cambridge and
Ontario Silver Medalists at' On4rio Winter Games at Sault Ste.
Marie.
ALL ARE INVITED TO ATTEND
TO VIEW THE ACCOMPLISHMENTS OF THE SKATERS:
NO SOLUTION
It has always been a debatable
question which costs the most
taking everybody's ' advice or
taking no one's.
South Kinloss
Mr. and Mrs. Bob Campbell of
Wingham were dinner 'guests with
Mr. and' Mrs. Donald Maclntyre on
Sunday. John and Ann provided
the special music in, church on
Sunday by playing a piano W and
Organ duet.
• Grace MacDougall and Audrey
from Orangeville visited on the
week end with Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd
MacDougall. I •
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THE LUCKNOW SENTINEL, LUCKNOW, ONTARIO , WEDNESDAY, MARCH 3, 1976
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PAGE TWO
Never have we seen nor heard
the residents in this area' so
incensed as they have becorne over
the issue of closing district
hospitals.
The provincial Ministry of
Health, under its minister Frank
Miller, has been using the method•
of .closing hospitals .in its efforts to
reduce the ever mounting cost
of health •.services. The cost of
Providing health services and
facilities to the people of Ontario
has mushroomed , over the past.
years, largely due to the bureau ,
cratie administration of this same
ministry, its attempts to buy. the
voters'of Ontario with low cost and
in many cases free health care and
the general belief that the people of
Ontario can, not look after them-
selves healthwise, that government
must be their "big daddy" and be
sure that they are properly looked
after.
The end-all result, as is the case
with most government run service-
, es, is mounting costs, inefficient
administration and general abuses
of the system, far beyond anything
that would, happen • if health care
were still in the . ,hands of the
private sector of Ontario.
There alvvays comes a day when
• ,someone finally says stop to this
soaring cost 'monster and Frank
Miller has the unhappy duty "of
this. No one would deny that his
thoughts are 'correct when he
indicates that health costs have to
be curbed, but his methods of
reaching this ' point are to be
questioned. very strongly by the
public at large,
For those 'of us who deal with
government each and every day in
.• many ways, we cannot help but be.
bitter,' knowing. the •waste and
waste and waste in Most depart-
ments, overstaffed, underworked,i
budgets that would "choke a:".,cow"
aid often an indifference to the
public who arc paying their wages.
This past week end We were in
Ottawa at the Ontario Weekly
Newspapers Association Conven-
' tion and talked to 'a number of
federal civil servants who told us of
• the Many fixed budgets for
departments of sovernment which
were spent " on unneeded and
outdated 'equipment for the basic
reason that "it must be spent or 'we,
,won't get it .again next year". The
same waste holds true whether it
be in Ottawa or Toronto.
The question that amazes os is
why this cannot be seen by our/
M.P.s or M.P.P.s. 'We are inclined
to believe that it is easier for them
to look the other way rather than to
tackle the monstrous civil service
system, its unions and 'political
hacks.:
So while it may on the surface
not seem so, Mr, Miller has taken
• .
the easy way. He has hit the
ordinary individual, the "little
guy" in the small community who
may not' be quite so hard to handle,
but initial public reaction may
upset this theory.
It doesn't • seem to matter that
many of these community hoSpitals
_were put there by the residents.Of
the area themselves, through their
tax money, before medicare
wrestled the powers away. It
doesn't seem 'to matter the payroll
that the facility js .generating in the
Community, keeping the commun.,
ity' vibrant and' its residents off
welfare and unemployment insur-
ance. But' more: important, it
doesn't seem to matter that the
medical care for that community is
stepping many years ,backward by
the, closing of a facility. -
Uppermost in Mr. Miller's mind
is the financial saving, and he
admits to this. But will there be
such a Saving? • '
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No matter how many hospitals
Mr. Miller clOses, the need for
'medical care will still be there and
the treatment will occurs' at
adjacent hospitals where, in most
case, the per, bed costs are'
running higher than those being
closed. You can't legislate people
out of a sick bed. •
The economic drain on, the'
community Will cost OttaWa more'
money on the- unemployment
insurance lists and the .Ontario '
welfare system will likely gain a
feW ',new faces. 'This money . will
'come out of your .packet and mine
and/ taxes and assessments will go
up to. cover it. We. all 'know how the
circle turns. We have seen • it
happen, many times before. •
Mr. Miller will make few
manoeuvres on paper that show his
department as having accomplish-,,
ed a remarkable saving, but in all
likelihood the costs' Will creep into
'another crack in the wall and life
will go on much the same,
finanaally.
In 'a week when the Ontario
Ministry of Culture and Recreation
grants 2.3 million dollars to the city
of Kitchener to build a convention
and arts centre, proceeds from
Wintario lottery, does it, not seem
that somewhere along the way
someone has his priorities. just a
trifle mixed up. Wintario is
netting 2 million dollars' a draWand
increasing each time. On this •
basis, it would take 3 1/2 days to
save the Durham Hospital which
,Mr. Miller •claims will save the
Ministry about $500,000 a year
when' closed. Of course, Mr.
Miller's $500,000 saying is only on
paper, not a fact of life.
Federation Join
_Protest Against
Hospital Closing.
Clinton': At' .a special directors
meeting held, • in Clinton on
February. 25th the, Huron .CoUnty
Federation of Agriculture, voted to
mit all their resources behind 'the
move to resist closing of the Clinton
Hospital, The Federation Directors
feel that the presence of a hospital
in a.rural town contributes much to
its economic 'viability and to' the'
well-being 'of its citizens - both
urban and rural.
' The farm accident 'fate is one of
--the highest of any industry and the
proXimity of medical help can mean
the difference between the loss or
saving of an arm or leg, said
Adrian .Vos, Federation President.
With more than 2200 members in
Huron County, the Federation
represents ' a potential 10,000
hospital users.
The subject of hospital closings
will be' further discussed at the
March 4th meeting of the Federa-
tion to be held at Brookside School
in the 9th of Ashfield.. A speaker
on "Income Tax" will make the
meeting • of timely interest to all
members.
$845 RAISED
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weather_ con_ditions., these people
canvassed:'Kay' Crawford, Karen
Flanagan, Rita Gilmore, Olive
Warren, ,Barbara Ritchie„, Jessie
Johnston,' Susan McNaughton,
Barb. Helm, Gloria 'Murray, Anne
.gurney; Deanna Reavie, Elizabeth.
and Joanne Ritchie, Donalda Scott,
Catherine Andrew, Jessie Alton,
Kathleen FOrster, Anne Anderson,
Kay Collyer, Norma McDonagh,
Evelyn Cook, Jean Kaufman, Tillie
Wilson, - Ruth Mathers, Alene
Clark, Gertrude Leddy, Marilyn
Johnson, Kenneth Reid, Fern
MacDonald, Carol. Atkinson, Ed-
war cl . and Nancy Brown,[ Tena
araner, Mary Collinson,' Elaine
I win in Lucknow; Elsie Irvin and
Margaret Mole in. Dungannon;
Fred. Tiffin . and Mildred Purdon in
Whitechurch; Belle Hackett in
Ashfield and Kini Meyer in
Holyrood.
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.Wintario Aids
Bruce Library
A Wintario grant of $131,970 has
been conditionally committed to
the ,Bruce County Library Board.
The atnount, that must be matched
by, private funds, will' be,'applied
toward capital, expenses -of new
$450,000 wing now nearing com-
pletion at the county museum • at
Southampton.
The addition, being built •by
North Grey Construction Ltd. of
London, Ontario, will be completed
by early summer. It is located just
south of the main museum
building.