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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1980-04-30, Page 1inel ':A large trailer load of hay was taken a 'Woadstock area farmer on. April When area. farmers made ;another ovation of haylo the tornado stricken farmers in that area. • The load of hay was donated by .Ashfield Townihip area farmers, Dun- .can.Farrish, Lome MacDonald, Russel Irvin and William Irvin... The Woodstoek farmers are most 'appreciative of the neighbourliness extended by local farmers. Area farmers and inemberspf the Ontario Federation of Agriculture who attended a meeting -With federal agriculture minister Eugene Whelag in, Ottawa last Thursday Were disappointed in Whelan's reaction t9 'their concerns about high interest rates and the effect they are having on farmers. Huron Federation of Agriculture presid- ent, Merle Gunby, Ashfield, said Whelan seems to think the marketing.boards are the answer to the farmers' problems. Gunby admits a well organized Marketing system will .help farmers over the lOng term, but in the short term something has to be done to • assist farmers who are squeezed by high. 'interest rates and lew prices for their beef and pork...:: ' • The farmers wanted to demonstrate - to *Thelart and members of parlianient that the farming industry is being crippled. by the excessively high' ipterest ' rates' and the situation is critical. Gunby said :Whelan did not seem to be Turn ..to page O. A large group of farmers attended the protest meeting on high interest rate's, held in Ottawa last Thursday. Four local Ashfield farmers, shown here selling .federation 'caps at the Chateau Lauder in Ottawa/are: Rick McQuillIn, Benny Miltenburg, Lawrence Hogan and. Doug Scott. [Photo by S. Guth)/ Lucknow doctors on hospital boar The:three medical staff representa- tives sitting. on the. Winghant and District. Hospital Board for this year • are all J.,ucknow 'doctors. — "'Medical staff representatiVes tO,the hospital board are the hospital's chief of staff and the, president -and secret- --ary-treasurer of,the Medical Staff:H. The hospital -chief ,of staff is Dr. R. B, Treleaven who has held, the position for the past two years. Neiylreledted to the pOsitions of president and secretary-treasurer ofthe medical staff are Dr. J. C. McKim and Dr: T. Jolly. Doctors MCKIM and. Jolly attended their first board Meeting as medical staff representatives April '25.. Oklahoma! Oklahoma, the Rogers and Ham- merstein musical, will he presented by the F. E. 'Madill Secondary School drama club. this Thursday, Friday:and Saturday, May '1 - 3 at 8 p.m; Past productions by, the school's••draina club have been excellent and well received. If you plan to attend get there early for a good seat. If you have not planned to go, change your plans. You won't regret it. • The Pita LUcknow Brownies, Odd- , eS, Pathfinders and Rangers Will ,be selling Girl Guide cookies, door to" door, this Saturday. For all the cookie; monsters in the family, this is a day I looked forward to each year. The Lucknow Rangers •are sponsoring a k movie, The Wizard of Oz, on • Satur - day, May 10, in the Lucknow United Church.- Show times' are 10- aan., 2 . p.nt. and 7 pan, This children's classic will be a favourite with all the children who have the Chance to see it. .• The Winghain andDiStrict Hospital board upheld a management• committee recom- MendatiOn giving Ashfie14 toWnShip repres- entation on -their board, when they -met for their April meeting on April 23: Frank MacKenzie, who sits on the board as representative fcir the village of .LucknoW and the. townships of West Wawanosh and Kinioss, was- appointed ' to sit for , the remainder of thiS term •as representative for. Ashfield township, A motion will, be tabled at the hospital's annual meeting in June to approve the .Ashfield representation on the board. The recommendation by the' management Pom. mittee follows a request from the Ashfield reeve, Warren Zinn, at last year's annual meeting, that Ashfield Township have representation on the board. , It was suggested that Ashfield, be asked to make a donation to the hospital when they enter the corporation: Board . member commented "I really °believe' dowries are outdated." Medical . staff secretary:-treasurer, Dr. Donald Jolly, who sits on the board as a ,representative ,of the Medical staff, pointed' out that Ashfield is entering a. Corporation and as such, the township should purchase shares to becoMe a member of the corpora- tion. A " realignment of the hospital board representation according to referral popula- tion haS been completed to, include AshOeld township on the board. This realignment' will l be presented to the annual meeting as a• notice of motion to be voted oh at the 1981 annual Meeting. This will sive a.year's time, to permit the people of Ashfleid to approve or defeat the Motion. ' . ACcording to the new aligntnent, a reptes. entative Will sit for Blyth, Malls and Brussels for two years representing 14 per cent of the referral pOpitiation 'one representative will sit. for EasC and West Wawanosh and Ashfield for one, year rePrem enting,l‘per cent of the referral population; one representative will sit for a one year term for Lucknow and Kinioss which have 13 per cent of the referral population; a representative will sit for two years for Teeswater and Culross which have 14, per cent Of the poPulation referred and one representatiVe will sit for a two year term -for Turnberry and Howick which have 16 per cent` of the referral' population. Wingham has traditionally had four rep- resentaOes on the hospital board because • The Wingham and District hospital will try to procure a second anaesthetist because the workload for only one anaesthetist at the hospital is too great. • Dr. J. C. McKim is a general practitioner and anaesthetist and has .worked alone as hospital anaesthetist since Dr. John Bradley left the hospital last year. „ The hospital medical staff advised the hospital board at their April -meeting that they advertise for a GP, anaesthetist since there would not be enough work for an anaesthetist whof specializes. Dr, McKim told the board a GP anaesthe- , tist will be difficult to find because the increase a doctor receives for adding the anaesthetist specialty M his general prac, tioner's qualifications' 'does not encourage general practioners to take the course to become an anaesthetist. He knows of one hospital which has been looking for a GP anaesthetist for over two years. The recommendation that the hospital hire another anaesthetist was made by the joint hospital assessment program Which was compiled by the 'Ontario Hospital Associa- tion (OHA) and the College of Physicians. The hospital board requested the program be done to ascertain whether the Wingham hospital is utilizing their beds in the best• originally the hospital was built by the citizens of the tOwn and was called Wingham General HosPitah Board member Bill Newton suggested a .tie vote could exist between the township representatives and the.town repregenta- lives if the town's appointed member to the Turn to page its the type of Use of the 'beds at the hospita and whether the hospital has enough bed: for its operation. The report however, did not consider bec utilization in its *recommendations. The request for the joint assessment b' the Olik and the College was made following the ministry of health's closure o beds at Wingham hospital last year. The report prepared by the joint assess ment committee was considered by th board at their 461 meeting When , the received the comments of the medical staff' regarding the recommendations,. The report is ait internal workini docOment however, and .-according hospital executive director, liorniall Hayes is not available, to the public. He said tip report's recommendations Will ,be mad, public as the hospital takes action on them A second recomtnendation itt the repot was that the hospital add certified genera surgeon to their staff. The medical staf • recommended the hospital procure a secant anaesthetist before advertising for a certi fled surgeon. Board meMber Jack Kopas told the boar he was concerned because, the number surgical procedures done at Winghain hot - pital has been declining, alarmingly ti.tAd Dr Turn 10.: ii*Re •Manner and to make recornmendations pn a GP anaesthetist .