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The Lucknow Sentinel, 1983-03-30, Page 1Single copy 35c !,nacknovs Lucknow firemen answered a call to C. A. Becker Farm Equipment on Monday morning about 11.15 when fire started at the hydro panel inside the wall. No one was Injured In the Incident which is estimated to have caused about 51,000 damage. [Sentinel Staff Photo] Hospital plans new wing By Henry Hess The board of governors at the Wingham and District Hospital has agreed to pay for professional advice as it begins planning for the most ambitious fund raising program in the hospital's history. The hospital hopes to raise in the neighbourhood of half a million dollars from individuals and businesses in this area, to help fund the construction of a new outpatient and \mergency services wing. Given probation David Farrish of Ashfield Township appeared in Goderich Provincial Court March 11 for sentencing, after pleading guilty February 25 to two counts of break, enter and theft, one count of possession of firearms and one count of mischief. He was sentenced to two years probation. The charges were laid following the discovery of stolen household goods and firearms in an abandoned house in Ashfield Township. Farrish had been remanded in custody until sentencing March 11. Easter seal campaign Lucknow and District Lions Club will conduct the annual Easter Seal Campaign for handicaped children from March 1 to April 3. Donations may be left at the Bank of Montreal, Royal Bank or with Orville Elliott of Lucknow. At a meeting last week, board members voted to hire a fund raising expert to reassure them that their goal is in the realm of possibility. A substantial majority of the board voted in favor of a recommendation from the management committee that the hospital spend up to $8,000 on a study of its ability to raise funds from the community. The recommendation sparked consider- able discussion, but the only member to actually argue against it was Hans Kuyven- hoven, vice chairman of the board and chairman{f the management committee, who pointed out that the Goderich hospital had raised more than $500,000 all on its own, without paying fees to any outside experts, and Wingham could draw upon that exper- ience. He said that Bob Dempsey, a member of the Goderich hospital board who master- minded the campaign there, is willing to share his expertise and suggested the board should at least talk to him before deciding to hire someone. He said he has no doubt about the ability of this community to raise the necessary funds for the hospital, and objected to the idea of someone from the outside telling him whether or how to run the campaign. However other board members pointed out the consultation was not being hired to run the campaign, but only to advise on its feasibility and help to set a reasonable goal. "Some people are disturbed by the expen- diture, but actually it is an excellent investment for the hospital," Dr. Don Jolly commented. He said that, rather than get involved with something which could be a millstone Turn to page 2® Published in Lucknow, Ontario, Wednesday, March 30, 1983 16 Pages Public outcry forces new decision on Ripley school Public outcry from residents in Kincardine and Bruce and Kincardine Townships has forced a committee of Bruce County's board of education to make a new decision regarding the status of Kincardine -Ripley District Secondary School next year. Mike Snobelen, chairman of the commit- tee chosen February 22 to study the future of Ripley District School, said in a press release last week that the committee has re-examin- ed its earlier recommendation. That recommendation would have seen 125 grade nine and ten Kincardine students being moved to the Ripley campus next year. Students attending in Ripley from the Kincardine area would have been chosen at random. The committee has now decided "in implementing the junior high school concept (grades 9 - 10) in Ripley, to recommend that grade nine and ten students in the Kincardine and Ripley attendance areas be given the choice of attending either school; that no students who wish to attend in Kincardine will be required to attend in Ripley and that random selection will not be used to determine attendance," Snobelen said in the written statement. The committee made the revised recom- mendation March 14 at a special meeting. The recommendation was to be considered at the board of education meeting March 29 in Chesley. The new recommendation may mean an additional 40 students to KDSS Kincardine Disctrict Secondary School in September, Snobelen said and would probably result in another portable classroom being used at the school. The trustee for Ripley and Huron Township feels the original recommenda- tions was a wise choice. "I still feel the committee's recommenda- tion was the best for education," he maintained. Senior students from Ripley will still come to the Kincardine campus but Snobelen wasn't certain as to how many Kincardine children would go to Ripley. Delegation Going To Cheeky A delegation of Kincardine, Tiverton and Kincardine Townships parents planned to attend Tuesday's meeting, it was decided at a public meeting March 15 at Kincardine District Secondary School. An estimated crowd of 700 almost unanimously agreed to send a seven member committee of parents to Chesley to ask that: there be no busing of Kincardine students to Ripley and Kincardine children may attend Kincardine District Secondary School if they wish; that the board provide facilities for a complete calendar of courses in Kincardine (including adequate computer facilities); and that the board put pressure on the Ministry of Education for an addition to Kincardine District Secondary School. The idea of Kincardine losing computers to the Ripley campus was a major bone of contention at the public meeting. Board of education Barry Schmidt said March 17 there is no plan to move Kincardine computers to Ripley and that "it was suggested that come budget time, comput- ers would have to be purchased for Ripley". A board committee studying computers in the education system is expected to bring forth recommendations next month and Kincardine will get its "fair share", depending on that committee's suggestions., Schmidt indicated. "1 think it's safe to say that any equip- ment that goes to Ripley won't be at the expense of Kincardine." Two Trustees Attended Organizers of the public meeting invited the board and trustees to attend the March 15 meeting. Trustee Frank Eagleson of Southampton stood up after some people in Turn to page 2• Blyth Summer Festival announces 1983 season The 1983 Blyth Summer Festival will feature several new plays, the return of an old favourite, and more performances than any of the past nine seasons, Janet Amos, artistic director has announced. The Festival will open June 24 with Nobody's Child, detailing the struggle of two "home children", destitute children from England, sent to work on Canadian farms early in the century. Nobody's Child will mark the professional debut of Janice Wise- man, a Guelph -ares writer. Janet Amos has written, and will perform in the second play of the season, My Wild Irish Rose, a lively journey through Ireland by a young woman and her elderly aunt in search of the family's roots. Along the way the couple get in all kinds of adventures from getting lost on unmarked country roads to stumbling into military control zones. it opens June 28. The third presentation of the season, opening July 19, will feature two different one-man, one -act plays. Called Maritime Faces, first is writer performer Robbie O'Neill's Tighten the Traces, Haul in the Reins introducing the remarkable Leo Kennedy of Canso Nova Scotia who refused to let a childhood affliction of polio prevent him from living an independent life, peddling his wares through the Cape Breton area. The play was first presented at Nova Scotia's Mulgrave Road Theatre. Part 2 of Maritime Faces will be Naked One The North Shore, Ted Johns' tale of his experiences, as a young teacher in a remote fishing village on the Quebec -Labrador border. The star of such Blyth hits as He Won't Come In From The Barn will both write and perform the show. Renowned Quebec Writer Gratien Gelinas provides The innocent and The Just and the fourth production opening August 2. When a respectable small town family finds their son implicated in a murder to which their simple minded servant Bousille is a key witness, they do everything in their power to change Bousille's testimony. The hit of the 1981 festival, The Tomorrow Box by Chalmers Award winning playwright Anne Chislett will return to close out the season from August 23 to September 14, before going on tour throughout southwest- ern Ontario. The story of Maureen Cooper, the dutiful housewife who always went along with what her husband said until he planned a birthday surprise that involved selling the family farm and moving to Florida, touched a chord with women and men alike when it first appeared on the Blyth stage. it has been returned because of the many who were unable to buy tickets in the initial sold out run. Voucher packages with four vouchers for $20 are now on sale through the Festival box office. These may be exchanged for actual tickets beginning April 18. Single tickets at $7 for adults and S3 for children go on sale May 24.