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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1982-02-24, Page 1SENTINEL Skis ic, copy 35c Published.* Lueinsew, Ontario, Feinting 24, 1902 "Fire destroys: Ashfield house A fire Saturday night completely gutted a house on the farm owned by Henry Drennan on the 12th concession of Ashfield Town- ship. own ship. Lucknow Fire Department answered : the call about 9.20 p.m. but when they arrived at the scene, they found the, fire had been burning forsome time and only the walls, of the stone house remained standing. Cause of the fire is suspected as being a wood burning stove. Estimate of damage is not known as yet. Wins Kings' tournament Ralph .Nivins is the lucky 'winner of a 1982 Chevette, the grand prize in the Kingsbridge Community School Association's Kings and Queens Tournament held at the Lucknow District Community'. Centre on Saturday n{,ight. Ralph's mother, ' Mrs. Alex Nivins drove the car home as herson did not attend the tournament. Over 75 prizes were won in the elimination' draw and Ray Hogan won a hair permanent. , A complete list of., the prize winners will appear in next week's Sentinel. • Face charges Five area youths have .been arrested and released on condition they appear in . provincial .court • to facecharges of break; enter and theft on March 15, following the theft of a small amount of money at Buffy's Burger Bar, February 16. Three Kinloss youths; two aged 22 and oiie aged 20, a young man from Walkerton, aged 22, and another from Wingham, aged 19, will appear to answer the charges. The Kincardine detachment of the Ontario Provincial . Police made the arrests on February 18. Table report Consider 1,cmg Range Planning Report .. The long-range planning committee of the Wingham• and District Hospital .board .• of governors table, .!their report at the February 17 meeting of the board. The report ,will -be discussed at the March meeting. Committee chairman Jack ,Kopas 'said the members of the board should take time to read the report and consider it carefully because of it's implications for the future direction of the. hospital. The long-range planning commit- tee was established to look at the operation of the hospital and to, consider the directions it should take inthe future. Public Can Sit On Board .Committees Board chairman Jack Kopas asked mem- bers of the hospital' board to consider people in the municipalities which they represent, who might be of assistance to the board by sitting on any of the board's committees. Kopassaid while these people would not receive remuneration for their committee work nor do they have a vote, but they could be of valuable assistance in an advisory • capacity. He mentioned that in the past the publisher of the Wingham newspaper has sat in this capacity as a;.member of the public relations committee, offering suggestions as a 'member of the media which . proved valuable assistance to this committee. Breastfeeding Clinic The Wingham and District Hospital and the Huron County. Health Unit Are sponsor- ing the first breastfeeding clinie for expectant and postnatal patents at the hospital's clinic 'building on March 3. The clinic will include a discussion of the normal course 'of lactation, common ' problems encountered during breast feeding and a library of books available for borrowing. The clinics are planned for every' second Wednesday afternoon. • The stone .wails are an that rem'lp of a farInhouae .on the farm of Henry .Drennan, concession • 12 Ashfield Township watch wu destroyed by fire Saturday evening. No one was home at the.time of the ere which had been burning for some time before !icemen were called to .the acme. Luelmow DLjt riot Fire Department answered the call about 9.20 p.m. but the building was completely gutted whe they arrived. Cause of the drat is thought to be a wood bunting stove. [Sentinel Std Photo)-. ospital staff will receive backpay Wingham and. District Hospital board of governors passed, a motion authorizing Athe. payment of all backpay to hospital staff regarding the agreed upon settlements when ' they met in February- The board had decided last September they could not fund the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) and Ontario Nurses' Association (ONA) settlements until the hospital's supplementary budget was approved by the Ministry of Health. • The problemof paying the staff increases arose because there wasn't the .cashflow to pay the increases until the hospital received additional . money from • the Ministry of All hospital staff received an interim raise in April of 1981,.because protracted negotia- tions with the unions had meant staff 'at the. hospital had not received. a -pay raise in 18 months. ' Employees at the Winghamhospital are not,represented by a union, but the hospital has traditionally followed union settlements in settling wages and salaries. The CUPE agreement was reached in September and the ONA award was made in November, but the increases have not been paid while the hospital awaited the ministry decision. Trustee Bill Newton who reported to the board on behalf of the finance and audit committee, said the committee felt the hospital could no longer expect the staff to wait for .their increase. He said the hospital expects word from the ministry very shortly regarding funding. and 'tabled the motion that the increases' be paid. A letter thanking the hospital staff for their patience in this, matter will accompany the payment. Most should receive their backpay at the end of this pay period by the first week in,March. • Executive director Norman Hayes, said he and hospital treasurer, Gordon Baxter had made presentation to the area administrative team which then presents the hospital's supplementary budget to the province's appeal ' cemmittee. Hayes • expects` this presentation will be made this week and the hospital should know within 10 days how much money they will receive to cover their operating deficit. The hospital has been waiting sice June of last year for the ministry to apprve their VCA increases -levy12 By. Stephanie Levesque Maitland Valley Conservation Authority's general levy increases 12.4 per cent this year over 1981, representing 15.9 per cent of its total budget. • A 1982 budget of $978,500 was approved at the authority's annual meeting here on February t7The general levy is $270,335, up _ from abdut ,$225,000. in . 1981. The remainder is made up in grants from the Ministry of Natural Resources. The single most costly project is phase four and five of the Listowel channel im- provement program to cost $266,000 in 1982. This figure includes costs for the realign- ment, deepening, widening, sloping and gabion and rip -rap protection of 840 feet of river bank from Spinrite Yarns and Dyers Limited to the conduit outlet. Also $11,006 has been earmarked for a channel design before construction starts. As the benefitting 'municipality, the Town of Listowel will pay 15 per cent of the costs, estimated at $39,900 for the channel im- provements and $1,650 for the design. Other major capital projects include a flood forecasting system' in two phases.. Phase A, to cost $34,700, is the continuation of installing gauging stations. In 1981 such stations were installed' at Harriston, List- owel, Bluevale and Lucknow. The stations will provide data to the authority on °stream tluw, precipitation and at some locations windspeed and temperatilre. The system is expected to impro a MVCA's ability to 1981 budget. The original budget submis- sion for $.8 million was made in May and , the hospital submitted' a supplenientary budget for $4.1 million, which recognized. the effect of increased costs for medical and surgical supplies, drugs and other supplies and expenses.." A second supplementary budget. for $4.25 million was submitted in September which. included the CUPE settlement. In the, meantime, 'the hospital had received funding.of. $3.9 million which falls short of the amount indicated in the first supplementary budget which requested $4.1 million: ' • Treasurer Gordon Baxter told the board of governors he expects the ' hospital will receive,a further °$146,500 but this will leave a budget shortfall of $128,000. Baxter said he hopes the appeal committee will fund half of that amount ($128,000) which would leave the hospital with tle responsibility of picking up the retraining deficit. ' Baxter said the hospital would reduce their hort term investments in order to meet the pay increases while waiting , for the ministry's decision on funding: • er cent monitor river flows and predict flood flows, earlier and with greater accuracy. Phase B of the flood forecasting system has been budgetted at $30,000. This is a two year effort to purchase Computer equipment for administration offices to compile flood processing data. • Also' under capital projects,' $19,000 has been allocated for , propery management. This is the continuation of wildlife planting at' Wawanosh Valley' conservation Area, erosion control at. WVCA and foot bridge abutments at Harriston Conservation Area and tree planting at Falls Reserve Conser- vation Area. Under surveys and studies,' two phases of ,watershed planning have been budgettediat $33.,000.