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Hospital ttits.t0!$. ketiOtt..
• by Jean. WilithY, ThIstee
for Lucknow Village and'
Kinloss Township
As the Wingham and District Hospital
representative for the Village, of Lucknow
and Kinloss Townihip, I attended, the
regular monthly board meetings; as a
trustee sat on the Pastoral committee;
attended the Peer Review, Regional No.
2 annual meeting and the. Small
Hospitals' Conference, plus numerous
other activities that as a board member
it is my obligation to attend.
Ontario has 223 public hospitals. Each
received 4.9% increase for inflation in
their operating budgets for 1989-90. Our
budget for the year is $8,102,623. At time
of writing our hospital has excess
revenue over expenses of $28,000. The
changes in the payment of • OHIP
premituns will cost $80,000 annually. Also
pay equity has beenmade mandatory
and this will cost $31,000 over a period of
four years.
Since -Perth and Huron are the only
counties which do not have a District
Health Council, concern has arisen that
we are missing out on some of the hand
outs from the Ministry. Meetings are be-
ing held to address this issue.
This year there hasn't been any
outstanding building projects. The
hospital received $124,000 for capital pro-
jects. This was a return grant from funds
paid to the Ministry in 1988 in lieu of
pension premiums. The money was ear-
marked for a computerization pyograin �f
the hospitals' central patient index and
radiology reports. The funds are expected
to cover the cost of consultants, computer
hardware and software.
Other projects such as the painting is
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conthihig. The wind* replacement is
complete. 'Me back parking lot was
retopped. It. doubtful the incinerator
will ever operate because it was design-
ed for this hospital alone and the ..
Ministry of Health is now looking at cen-
balked incinerators and we do not
qualify. This was erected at no cost to
us. •
On Canada Hospital Day, may I2 the
volunteers at the hospital were invited to - •
a luncheon. We wished toshow our ap-
Predation for the thousands: of hours of
Work that they have given (182 attended), •
This was paid Wont the. Public Relations
Committee Midget• • •
Educational tours have been conducted
throughout the year. One of the more in-
teresting was the laboratory, which Nan-
cy Brown is bt charge of and she is most
capable. • •
An accreditation surveywas carried •
out on August 28 and 29 and the report
states that the hospital continues to -give -
good care to the community It serves.
The entrpatient clinics and rehabilitation
programs are comniendable for . a
hospital and community of this size.
The treatment for health is focusing on
health prevention and many services are
available to help the public in their own ' 432 9236 •
home but the hospital remains very
busy.
There will be many changes in health - Do you remember styles of house gowns
care tinder the leadership of Elinor '
Caplan. • - . • friipi•the 20's?
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You can't call
this soup
I have Nat finished attempting to eat
the mot ftginfing: lunch immerse*. No,
it was not in we of our local eateries.
With the dawning of a new decade I
Mad* a promise to myself (not a resolu-
tion) to trim down and get a little fitter.
Trimmhig down meant brown bagging it,
as le preparing myself a healthy sand-
wich and a piece of fruit to be devoured
at lunch time. Getting a little fitter
meant walking .on each lunch hour and
making use of a stationary bike at home.
In one of my weaker moments, when
shopping on an empty. stomach, I spotted
one of those noodles le a bowl aottp end
figured it would be good for lunch one
day. Not having access to a stove at
work, the convenience of simply adding
boiling water to the container and waiting
three minutes was appeal*. I admit, I
should have my head read!
As the boiling water hit the contents, a
Million noodles, resembling little worm
• like creatures, started to swirl and puff
up. Little green, red, orange end brown
things floated to the 'top and the water
turned a dark brown. As I covered the
contents (114 according to instructions,
and waited dutifully for three minutes, I
read the listed ingredients. I should have
read the box in the grocery stare, it
would have saved me .99. .
That 65 g package of so-called soup.
contained 31 ingtetlients. I learned that
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the green things were celery, peas and
chives; the orange was carrots; red was
peppers and the brawn I'm not sure of.
The water turned colour thanks to the
pea. By the time I finished reading
the
carton, my growling stomach was douig
iflip floes. Various, other ingredients
meant nothing to me other than they
sounded life tiweatening. The brightly col-
oured cardboard container informed me
Unit nutritive composition was available
uon request.
When three minutes had elapsed, I un-
covered my "lunch" and stood stirring
and stirring. The peas resembled Mem
„leftovers I put back, in the fridge and
forget about - dark, hard and shrivelled
'up. The minuscule pieces of carrots were
• barely recognizable as such. The noodles
still looked like worms. There were
brown things I couldn't identify. The
amnia waning up from the container was
none too pleasant. I buried my lunch in
the garbage can and longingly thought of
my mom's homemade soup. I'm sure
when she reads this column, she will take
pity ,on me, make a pot of soup only -the
way moms can; store in individual con-
tainers,and present it to me on her next
visit!
One good thing I learned from the pur-
chase of this convenience food was "the
manufacturing of this bowl has not brain-
ed the ozone layer, no chlorofluorocar-
.bons were used."
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70 years ago
January 15, 1920
Cannot Collect Pay for Night Sessions
- At its last session, the Bruce County
council passed a by-law fixing the pay of
its members at $5 a day, an act .with
which no one found 'fault. But there was
objection to another enactment providing
that, when sittings were prolonged after
10 o'clock at night such- extra sitting
should count as an extra day.
Mr. George McCallum a ratepayer of
Brant Township, brought action to have
that part of the by-law quashed and the
matter came up at Osgoode Hall, Toron-
to, before Mr. Justice Kelly. The County
solicitor admitted the illegality of the
enactment regarding night sessions, and
His Lordship made an order quashing
that part of the by-law, with costs of the
appellant.
It Was a Bad Shipment - About four
weeks ago we received a shipment pf
•coal oil which was a very low grade. It
was a week or ten days after receiving
it that we found out it vies a very poor
quality. We immediately got into com-
munication by telephone with the shipper,
The Imperial Oil _Co. Ltd. They had no
apologies to offer explaining that it was
oil they brought in from Pennsylvania
and it turned out to be below 'the stan-
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dard. -They immediately started a ship-,
merit on its • \ way of genuine Royalite,
which arrived last Saturday and we are
now in a positiop to serve you with a
first quality product. Lucknow Hardware
& Coal Co. •
- • 50 yetis ago
• January 18, 1948
Claims Full Time Man Would Cost
Village Little - In our report of last
weeks council meet*, we referred to the
estimate, by certain members of the
board that a full:time tovin:einployee, as
was proposed, would cost $300 a year
more than what- was paid for services
rendered drirhig the past year. ThLs it
was considered might -affect an increase
in the village tax rate. -
It has been pointed out to us, by
another Member of the board, that the
proposed salary for this full-time man,
would be divided portionatelY between the
Water System, -Hydro System and Village
with each department assessed a share of
the suggested salary of $700.,
The VMage share as proposed by our
informant, would be $200. Last year eon- •
stable fees and crab* grass alone Cost
$120, 'we are advised which under the
new plan, would mean an increase to the
taxpayer Of only $80, for which he would
receive the benefit of additional services
made available by a fell -time municipal
employee. ••
25 yeani ago
January 20, 1965
Flap Train to Stop, School Bus Stuck
on Ragway- Tracks - There were a few
anxiotts motnents on the 4th of Kinbss on
Monday afternoon when - %.r Lucknow
District High School bus, driven by Allan
Reed of Lucknow, became stuck on the
tracks near the farm of Jelle de Jong.
With heavY snowfalls and blizzard con-
ditions prevailing, high school students
were let out at noon and the busses made
the trip around returning the rural
students to their homes.
There is a sharp turn in thiroad on
the 4th where it passes over the railway
tracks, and with the driving conditions AS
they were the bus became mired on the
tracks.
A phone;call to Ripley was too late as
the train had left the station there. Allan
Reed ran up the tracks and 'Managed to
flag the train to a stop before it ap.
proached the 4th crossing. 'Using de
Jong's tractor, the bus was removed with
very little hold up to the train erew.
10 years ago
January 16, 1980
Teachers Settle - Huron County Board
of Education announced a ratification of
a one year deal with its elementary
teachers, Friday, giving the teachers an
average 7.3 per cent salary increase.
Elementary teachers in the county had •
been without a contract since September
1.
• Nominate Cardiff - Huron -Bruce Con-
servative.s chose Murray Cardiff, an
Ethel area farmer, to represent them in
the upcoming federal election. Cardiff
won an easy victory grabbing over half
• the • eligible votes. Barry- Johnston of
Kinloss was also seeking the nomination.
Energy Concern - Reeve Barry Johnston
told the delegates to the Progreadve Con-
eervative nominating convention in
Brussels that continuity of fuel supplies
will be the number one concern in the
coming decade Johnston told the conven-
tion he finds the .extraction of alcohol
front corn and sugae beets and methane ,
gas from manure to be the exciting part
of agriculture in the. future.
Weather Memoirs
January 17, 1974 Canada's greatest one -
day snowfall, 118.1 cm, was recorded at
Lakelse, B.C.
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