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Grant Chisholm of Lucknow proudly displays a quilt given to him, at the District A9 Lions
convention in Owen! Sound April 10. Thirteen lioness Clubs from the area contributed to
the quilt and also gave Mr. Chisholm a colour t.v. for his nine years of working with the
Lioness Clubs. (Photo by Alan Rivett)
Presented with quilt....
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.running smoothly; he says:
The following year, in 1975, Mr.
Chisholm became the lions district gover-
nor. At this time he was head over 63 lions
clubs from as far north as Ferndale -lions
Head to Drumbo in the south ' to Orange-
ille in the east. He says this number has
een cut in half since then because .of the
amount. of travelling connected with it. He
was responsible forvisiting and speaking
to each of the clubs, as well as organizing a
budget for the clubs. •
Training Centre
One of the projects ,,that was initiated
during that year was the beginning of blind
school wrestling in 'Brantford. Since. that
time, the lions have been active ' in
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supporting projects for the blind with the
recent opening of a blind training centre in
Oakville where they are with a leader dog. .
The lions contributed $700,000 across
Canada towards- the training centre, he
said.
In addition, Mr. Chisholm himself,
through the oil company he works for,
raised $10,000 for the blind training school
in Oakville.
Internationally, the Lions have identified
a number of projects Which deserve
support this year. The International pres-
ident, as his "pet" projects, has been
concerned with drug anddiabetes aware=
ness. locally, the Lions sponsored a drug
awareness seminar last year at the
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Mission statement...
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"In order to meet the changing .health
care needs of the community the Board of
Governors shall be responsible fir the
establishment and ongoing review of short
and long range plans for the hospital.
"The Board of Governors shall review
the mission statement everythree years."
This statement, . which must still be
ratified at theannual meeting of the
hospital association in June, replaces a
much vaguer preamble to the hospital
bylaws which identified the objectives of
the hospital in terms such as:. .
To give care and treatment to the sick,"
and "to provide as •wide a range of
services as are applicable to an institution
of our size." '
The new mission statement, which wab
brought to, the board by the joint
conference committee (a committee made
up of several board members, doctors and
the hospital administrator) was approved
unanimously.
The board, however, delayed taking
action on a second recommendation,' to
establish .a quality appraisal committee to
' monitor how well the hospital is 'meeting its
objectives, after several board members
raised questions about whether the com-
mittee as proposed would be adequate to
carry out its functions:
Board chairman Mary Vair said the' job,
Of the committee would be, among other.
things: to ensure the mission .statement is
upheld, that care provided is of thehighest
. calibre,that resources are used appropri-
ately and that staff morale is boosted.
Administrator Norman Hayes also told
the board that every accredited :hospital
now has such a committee.
Robert Middleton, however; expressed
concern that the 'committee, which would
be composed of doctors, heads of depart-
ments and other hospital staff, would have
no way of reporting directly to the board so
that its recommendations could 'be "derail-
ed" without the board ever hearing about
them. .
"I'll try not to do that (derail them),"
Mr. Hayes told him, but he confirmed -that
the committee would report primarily to
department heads and not to, the board.
Nancy MacDonald-Exel and Hans Kuy-
venhoven then asked whether such a
committee, which would consist basically
of hospital staff reviewing each other,
would have the expertise to carry out the
kind of appraisal being asked of it.
Describing the committee as "basically
an internal audit department", Mrs. Mac-
Donald-Exel asked, "Do you have qualified
people on staff to do an internal audit?"
Mr. Hayes didn't object t� her descrip-
tion but said staff are qualified to judge
some things. Dr. Walter Wong, however,
said it is wrong to consider this an audit
committee; its task is merely appraisal, to
look around and "report what it sees".
At. the same time, he complimented Mrs.
MacDonald-Exel on raising these ques-
tions andr urged her to ask for more time to
study the proposal if she 'wished.
'It was also emphasized that the com-
mittee would have no "teeth" but would
simply make reports and recommendations
to the appropriate departments.
Following an extended discussion, Mrs.
Vair agreed to hold the matter over until
the May board meeting to give members
more time to study it.
Six percent increase expected
The Huron County Board of Education ex-
pects to bring its 1985 budget in ata six per
cent increase or 1eSs.
Although no specific information has been
released, the board's eftecutive" cominittee
says preliminary expenditure estimates
show that six per cent is a "reasonable cur-
rent projection". The board's 1984 budget
was $37 million.
The executive committee has considered
a tentative list of capital projects amounting
to slightly more than $550,000 in total.
No date has been set for the board's
special budget session because up to last
week the board• had not received informa-
tion from the. ministry of education in-
dicating how much money the Huron school
system will receive from the province.
Last year, this information' was received
by the second week of January.
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