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LUCKNOW
SENTINEL•
Fire leaves Kinlougi
family homeless
A Kinlough family is homeless following a
fire, which'' destroyed their home during a
raging snowstorm Friday night.
Lucknow firemen answered the call to the
Delbert Hedley residence in Kinlough about
12.30 a.m. Lucknow fire chief, George
Whitby said they found five cars abandoned
in the snow on Bruce County Road 1 on their
way to the fire, but the fire truck was able to
make . it through the drifted and blowing
snow. When firemen arrived however, the
house was completely engulfed.
One, of the Hedley children, Paddy was
watching television when the fire broke out.
He wakened his brother, Gary, sisters,
Debbie and Karen and their mother and', all
escaped uninjured. Mr. Hedley was at wdrk
at the. time of the fire.
The fire started in the upper story of the
house and broke through the roof completely
destroying the building. Fire chief Whitby
said the cause of the fire is . unknown and
there is no estimate of damage as yet.
Any donations of furniture, appliances,
bedding, household effects, or clothing for
theHedley family may be left with Doug
Haldenby, 528-3215; Ross Irwin,. 528-3132 or
Lloyd Johnston, 395-5390.
Co-op seesdeficit
again this year
The Lucknow District Co-operative Inc.
Pidanalhed
Ultimo
Dataels, Wabesday, January 27,, 1962
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The snow covered foundation and burning rabble is all that
of a Klnlough home which burned early Saturday morning -leaving a
family of nix homeless. The family of Delbert Hedleywai awakened
by son, Paddy who was watching the late movie on television. Paddy
noticed it strange object fly past the window and when he went to
investigate he found the upper story of the hoose on fire. Paddy
wakened his brother, two sisters and their mother and all escaped
uninjjured. Iii. Hedley was at work when the fire' broke out. Anyone
wishing to donate furniture,' household articles or dotting can call
one of the followbig numbers, 528.321S, 528-3132, or 395-5390.
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board of directors, reported' a loss of S66,222
when they met -with co-operative members at o
the annual meeting Friday night:Jurymakes bus safetyrecommendations
said. his
report to. members that gross sales , had
increased by 51,183, 766 'to a new total of l
53,981,268, but even with • this increase,
lower gross margins and higher operating
costs, especially interest rates,. left the
co-operative with, a loss.
This is °the third straight year that the
Lucknow Co-operative has reported a loss at
the end of its fiscal year.
The statement of income shows the
co-operative paid 5133,597 in interest ex=
pense for 1981 compared to 591,301 in 1980.
Gross margin was down from 13.2 in. 1980 to
10.7 in 1981.
Three directors were . retiring: Douglas
Cameron who was not eligible for re=election
to the board of directors and William
MacPherson and Charles Wilkins .who' were
both eligible for re-election. MacPherson
and Wilkins were re-elected and Jim Gibson
was elected to serve a three year term.
William F. Andrew, Tony Miltenburg,
Robert Irwin,,Leo 'Murray, William J. Scott
and Mike O'Neill are the remaining directors
on the board.
Chant will 4Jeak
to federation
Dr. Donald 'Chant, chairman and presid-
ent of the Waste Management Corporation,
will speak at the Huron County Federation of
Agriculture's membership meeting to be
held February 4 at 8.30 p.m. at Brookside
Public School. , ,
Dr. Chant will present some of the criteria.
involved in selecting a site, for a toxic waste
management treatment' plant and what will
be involved with .it.
According to the Ministry of Environ-
ment's Commissioned study, the MacLaren
Report, a site in northern Ashfield Township
is a suitable location for the processing of
toxic industrial wastes from the Sarnia and
Windsor area and the Hamilton -Toronto
industrial horseshoe. .
After the first choice location of South.
Cayuga was determined not to be suitable
because a potential drainage problems.
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Five ,recommendations concerning school
bus safety were made -by the jury at an
inquest held into the death of five-year-old
Paul Riegling. Coroner J. C. N1. Kim presid-
. ed at • the inquest. which was held ' in the
Lucknow Town Hall on Friday, January 22. •
The jury recommended that flashing lights
" be installed on all fotif sides of school buses;
that pre-schoolers receive bus safety instruc
' tion'when registering for school; bus drivers
signal passengers when it is safe to cross the
road to the bus; that bus drivers keep
flashing lights on at all times while i.n front
of a child's residence and for courtesy to the
public, the bus ma) % stop between pickup
points, without the lights flashing, to permit
traffic to pass. •
Members of the jury included Shirley Bolt,
Mary. Cranston and Randy Guay of Lucknow,
Marlene Collins and Barry' Cliff of Ripley..
Bruce County crown, attorney Ray Haul-
ahan,interrogated the witnesses who includ-
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ed Dr. Q. J. Durward .of London, a
neuro -surgeon, formerly at Victoria Hos-
pital; Dr. Ross Armstrong, ,London, a path-
ologist .at
ath-ologistat Victoria Hospital, London; Douglas
Cowan; Toronto; senior information officer
with the Ministry of Transportation. and
Communications; Constable. Allan Fitkin of •
the Kincardine detachment of the Ontario
Provincial Police; Beryl MacDonald, R. 3,
Goderich, school bus driver for the Huron
County Board of Education; Max Riegling,
R. 3. Lucknow; Charlene Elphick, R. 3,
Lucknow; Leroy Yoder, R. 1, Wroxeter and
Eric Gosse,, Goderich, community services
officer with the •Goderich detachment of the
OPP. '
The inquest established that. Paul Riegling
' died as the result of injuries received in an
accident, when' struck by a pickup truck as
he crossed highway 86 to board a school bus
on the morning of September 9, 1981..
The jury heard:.testimony that the school -
bus driven • by Beryl MacDonald of R. 3,
Goderich stopped in front of the Riegling.
residence driveway with flashing lights on,
to pick up Paul and his older brother, Dean.
Mrs. MacDonald noticed that Mr.. Riegling
land the boys were just getting into their car '
'at thea house to drive to the end of the
Janeway, so she pulled off of the highway
onto the shoulder of the road to wait for
them. She turned off, her lights and waved to
a driver in.a car behind the bus, permitting
this car to pass the bus.
,Mrs: MacDonald then noticed a pickup
truck proceeding towards the bus from the.
east. The Riegling car' was approaching the
end of -the laneway by this time and Mrs.
MacDonald said she re -activated her lights.
The Riegling car stopped at the end of the
driveway, Dean and Paul left the car and ran
across the highway to boardthe bus. The
pickup missed Dean but struck Paul. •
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Hospital deficit continues to grow
Treasurer Gordon Baxter •reported to the
Wingham• : and District Hospital boardof
governors at their January 20 meeting that
the hospital has accrued a deficit of 5119,827
to this point in this fiscal year. Baxter said
this is approximately within three per cent of
theeficit. projected in the supplementary
budget submitted to the Ministry of Health
in June. '
Baxter commented the deficit is increas-
ing between 512,000 and 515,000.: each
month.
The hospital has beep waiting since June
for word on funding from the ministry. The
hospital's executive director Norman Hayes
said he hopes to hear from the ministry
. before the finance committee's meeting in
February.
The hospital originally submitted a budget
for 53.8 million to the ministry. A supple-
mentary budget of $4. I million was submit-
ted recognizing -the effect of increased costs
for medical and surgical"supplies; drugs and
other supplies and expenses.
A second supplementary budget for 54.25
million via submitted to include the CUPI
settlement awarded to the hospital's regist-
ered nursing assistants. as well as the .wage.
and salary increases to registered nurses.
supervisors and pats medical and manage-
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ment personnel. '
Hayes said he has learned the Health
Ministry has received 5121 million from the
Ontario treasury which is ,slightly above the
5100 million anticipated. He said some
teaching and larger hospitals with huge
deficits have been funded.
"As always the little guys are the ones
who run along catching whatever chips fall
from the block of ice," observed (Hayes.
Following the board's December meeting
Hayes had said there was a chance
employees at the hospital could get the back
pay owing from their retroactive , raises in
December. Hc had understood the supple-
mentary budgets were to go to Queen's Park.
for consideration in December and the
money would begin to flow by the end of the'
month. As a result some of the larger
hospitals have received supplementary fund-
ing. .•
Hayes reported at that"time that he and
the hospital's treasurer had met recently
with the Health Ministry's area administra-
tion team to present Wingham's case again
and Hayes was •hopeful the hospital would
receive full supplementary funding.
Dr. J. C. McKim who represents the
medical staff on thea board of governors
asked if the• board was obligated to pay the
increases to the staff if the supplementary
funding was not forthcoming. •
Hayes explained that while the board is
not legally obligated, they are morally
obligated to meet the increases approved by
the hospital board. Hayes said 5300.000 was
included in the supplementary submission to
cover these wage and salary increases.
He commented that the board should r
realize that they are committed to. meeting F'
their obligations to the employees. in other
words. "said Hayes. "wen have to give them
'their monev".
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