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The Lucknow Sentinel, 1982-11-10, Page 1f• Lucknow Single Copy 35e mboree '83 Published ENTINEL Ldcknow, Ontario, Wednesday, November 10, 19$2 16 Pages Receive Madill awards Lucknow area students received awards at the annual F. E. Madill Secondary School Commencement Exercises held in the school auditorium; November 5; Among the recipients were Diane Gibson, grade 12 proficiency in office practice; Betty Stanley, Doris MacKenzie Scholarship; Tony Van Dyke, John Stewart ' MacNaughton Memorial Award and the Western Foundry Award; Marilynne Maclntyre, Mr. and Mrs. William F. MacDonald Award; Robert Henderson, Music Award and Lorne Perry Memorial Award and Janet Laidlaw, Music Award. Valedictorian Michael Frey received sev- eral proficiency awards including Proficien `y in, Chemistry, Proficiency in Mathematics, Proficiency in .Physics, Grade 13 General. Proficiency, Carter Scholarship, W. S. Hall N'emorial Scholarship in Science and the �.lexander McKenzie Endowment Fund Award. Lucknow area students receiving Senior Letters included Marilynne Maclntyre, Lon McKim,' Elizabeth Wilkins and Michael Freya. „ Ontario .Scholarships wereawarded to Karen Bradshaw. Sandra Casagrande, Scott Cornwall, Kim Craig. Paul Cronin, Michael Frey, .Marilynde Maclntyre, • Viola Nabrotz ky. Paul Steinsland, Aileen Underwood and Karen :Wood. Wins lottery Harold Nicholson of Lucknow won the Jamboree lottery draw held October 27. The winning ticket was drawn by Tracey Buck- ingham and the winning nnntber was #641. Quill award Lucknow Kinette Barbara Helm placed second in the annual Quill Award competi- tion, sponsored by the national organization of. Kinettes in Canada. Barbara submitted an essay about ' her work as a volunteer arid what it means to be a volunteer in the community. Kinettes from across Canada submitted their essays to be judged for the prestigious Quill Award. Barbara received her award • at the Kin District Convention held the weekend of October 29 31 in Cambridge. • Ladies night Old Light Lodge #184 held their annual Ladies' night. in the Lucknow Legion hall on Friday. November 6, with a good crowd in attendance. Mrs. Leonard Clark provided a musical prelude at the piano. and a delicious beef dinner was served by the Anglican. Church Ladies. The Presbyterian. Men's Quartet favoured with their singing: assisted by Mrs. Bert Moffat, followed by soloist, Mrs. Joyce Miller of Wingham, with Mrs. Galbraith accompanying her on the piano. Several' duet selections were rendered by , Herb Clark on the violin 'and his son, Douglas, at the piano. Alex Robertson and Kenneth Leitch of Wingham did their interpretation of a Hawaiian dance, much to the delight of the audience. The guest speaker for the evening was Most Worshipful Brother Norval R. Richards of Guelph, the Immediate Pasta Master of Grand Lodge of Canada in the Province of Ontario, and native of Lucknow area. His address was much appreciated by all. The singing of the National Anthem brought a very successful evening to a close. • Lucknow area graduates received awards at the annual F. E. Madill Secondary. School graduation exercises held November 5. From the \ left are Betty Stanley, who received the Doris MacKenzie Scholarship Fund • Marilynn Maclntyre, Mr. and Mrs. William F. MacDonald Award and Senior` Letter;, Lori McKim, Senibr Letter; Elizabeth Wilkins, Senior Letter and Michael Frey, Proficiency Awards in Chemistry, Mathematics, Physics and General Proficiency Award, the • W. S. Hall Memorial Scholarship in Science, the Alexander. McKenzie Endowment Fund Award, Carter Scholarship and Senior' Letter. Back left is Tony Van Dyke who received the John Stewart MacNaughton Memorial Award and the Western'Fonndry Award and, right, Robert Henderson who received the Music Award . and the Lorrie Perry Memorial Award. Absent was Janet Laidlaw who received the Music Award. , [Sentinel Staff Photo] Aitchison, Gibson and McQual win Jim Aitchison is reeve of West Wawanosh. Township following Monday's Municipal election. He defeated incumbent J. D. Durnin who had. completed 21/2 years as reeve. Aitchison has served eight years on council and this is the first time he has. sought the . reeveship. Aitchison defeated Durnin 316 to 254. Gordon H. Brindley was acclaimed to deputy -reeve. In a race for council, Bruce Ravnard• topped the polls with 348. Kathryn Todd polled 316 and Joseph Hickey received 284. Defeated were Bob Hallam with 271 and Karl Seeger with 246. In Ashfield Township. incumbent coun- cillor Allan Gibson is deputy -reeve. He defeated Cletus Dalton 471 - 312. Councillors I are Grant Farrish 561, Grant Curran 545 and William F. Andrew, 493. Defeated was Elmer Draper with 345. Reeve John Austin was acclaimed. Gibson has 10 years previous experience • on council and incumbent councillors are Farrish and Curran with 8 years and four years experience respectively. Turn to page 5• • oard supports trustee gag rule By Stephanie Levesque Only the chairman or ?their designate of the Huron County Board of Education may speak to the media on individual issues. At the board's November 1 meeting. trustee 'Joan Van Den Broeckattempted to dissolve the "Iong-standing convention of this board". Meeting a two-thirds .majority to bring the tabled motion to the board, only , eight of the 15 trustees present voted in favor of -the motion. Eleven votes were required. At the October board meeting. Mrs. Van Den Broeck asked the director of education John Cochrane to find and reference to a board policy whereby trustees could not speak to the media. On November 1. Mr. Cochrane said he couldn't find any reference but it has been practice for only the chairman or their designate to speak to the media. Mrs. Van Den Broeck had., attended a conference where the subject had been mentioned. She said the tradition keeps\ trustees out of mischief, but if they could speak to the media, trustees could speak their own mind on particular issues. Those trustees voting in favor of the motion included Marian Zinn, Mrs. Van Den Broeck. Bert Morin. John Jewitt: Harry Hayter. Dr. John Goddard, Frank Falconer and Jean Adams. Trustee Murray Mulvey was absent. Ministry refusesto fund hospital d By Henry Hess. The Wingham and District Hospital has received an increase of nearly $200,000 in its operating funds for the current\ year, which should enable it to avoid another deficit. However it appears the hospital will be stuck with the '$146.700 deficit from last year. which it will have to make up by dipping into its capital reserves. 9 . The additional money for Wingham came • as part of a general funding increase of $110 million for Ontario's 250 hospitals announc- ed recently by the Provincial Health Minist- ry At the same time. Heaith Minister. Larry Grossman warned hospital administrators he will not accept any further claims of under- funding. saying if they 'cannot live within their new budgets. the ministry will have to move in and help to run the hospital. They have been told they must manage tinder the new arrangements without incur- ring deficits or reducing services in any way that would jeopardize patient rare. What we got was a rollover on the deficit from last year," Norman Hayes, executive director of the Wingham hospital. explained. He said the ministry recognized the deficit. from last year and gave an increase for this year but did not supply the money to pay off the deficit. As a consequence. the hospital will be stuck with recouping the deficit. out of funds it had set aside for equipnnent replace- ment. , "I gather from talking to other adminis- trators that's what happened right across the board." he added,. noting that while $1.46.000 is quite a bit of money for the Wingham hospital. it is peanuts compared to the deficits run up by some of the 'larger hospitals. . in essetrce, he explained. the ministry adjusted the hospital's funding base upward by $146,700. 'equivalent to last year's deficit, aaaed an inflationary increase of 11.5 per cent plus $30.000 to fund the growth in outpatient services. \ This brings the funding base for the year up by something over 5199.000. raising the total ministry allocation for 1982-83 to about $4.8 million.. • This is a fairly decent increase in working capital and will make quite a difference in' the operating budget this year. Hayes said, • adding it gives the hospital excellent prospects of ending the year in the black. "If we can manage successfully this year, we may be able to put back some (of the money) that was lost," he added. He confirmed that the minister has said he will not fund any further hospital deficits. but noted that many of the details of provincial funding -during the coming years remain to be worked out. The ministry has said it will be funding under the "9 and 5" program, he said. "we' don't know yet if were going to get nine or five." He said ne expects that for the next two years,the ministry will fund according to the restraint legislation. "That's fine for salaries. but still one-quarter of every hospitai's budget is dependent on (price) increases in the private sector." He said he has no idea yet what the ministry will do with regard to cost increases for supplies and other items not regulated by the restraint legislation. whether they will adjust funding accordingly or not. "1 think we have to wait and see how the big boys are hurt first. The real impact is going to come on the larger institutions with major deficits." While it has not been specified, he said he assumes hospitals will continue to be able to get additional funding to pay for increases in the delivery df services. "Presumably if activity is increasing then you can get recognition of that _increase," said Hayes: