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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1983-10-26, Page 14• Single espy 35e Published hi Lueknow, Ontario, Wednesday, October 26, 1963 24 Pages Hockey school Lucknow minor hockey teams have started, practices at the Lucknow Arena, Teams will continue practicing this week in preparation for the hockey school which will be held during the first two weeks of November. Following the hockey school, teams will begin their regular season games. Skating club elects executive The Lucknow figure Skating Club held its annual meeting October 18 when most positions on the executive were taken by parents of skaters registered in the club this year. A committee is contacting parents to fill the positions of vice-president, ways and means chairman and secretary. This year's president is Eleanor Campbell and Elaine Steer remains as treasurer. Diane Park and Heather Dauphin are carnival chairmen and Bonnie Kay is test chairman. Skating lessons will begin November 12 after the completion of this year's hockey school. Lessons will be under the direction of professional Olive Lapp of Hluevale. Appears in court Wayne MacDonald of R. 2, Lucknow appeared in Ooderich Provincial Court October 20 to face a charge of using a licence plate not authorized, He was fined $53. MacDonald was charged following a police chase through Ooderich Township Septem- ber 25, Foot care clinic A foot care clinic will be held in Lackner* every fourth Thursday of the month beginning October 27, Appointments are necessary, Call the Bruce Public Health Unit office 528-34346, Seniors, handicapped and diabetics are welcome. Next clinic November 24. You can win You can win too and Don Boss of Lucknow can prove it, floss recently was the lucky winner of 5100 in the Pot of Gold lottery when he scratched three sevens. in the same week he won 51,000 in the Provincial lottery, Tickets were purchased at Don Thompson's Lottery Shoppe, tucknow, Standard time returns Sunday Don't forget to turn your clocks back one hour this Saturday night as we resume Standard 7ituve after Sill months of Daylight Saving Time which began in April. e a e • a a , ri sr i1 a y: 4 04 • i1r 1 O4 01 r at I' /A %// v„ Stridents at 1,nn ekaw Central Public School, Milos* Central Public Sehnal and Brookside Public School released balloons carrying messages to mark t u.op Week. Lucknow Cosoperative manager Dave Dawson organized the event as part of the Ladino* Coop's observation of Coop Week, *bleb promotes Zt the uniqueness of co-operatives, llie children are hoping the people who find their balloons nal send a note to the name and address inside the balloon telling where they found the balloon, (Sentinel Staff Photo' Hospital wing could herald expanded health care gy Henry Hess A new emergency and outpatient wing at the Wingham and District Hospital could be the catalyst needed to expand the health care services available in this community, some members of the hospital board were told last week, During an informal session following the board meeting, Hospital Administrator Norman Hayes and some members of the medical staff explained that the new wing has the potential to be more than just a replacement for cramped quarters in the existing building. It also promises to be a strong drawing card in the hospital's attempt to attract more visiting specialists, perhaps eventually making unncessary many of the trips patients now must take to larger centres such as London. As well, by moving emergency and outpatient services into a new building, it will allow a desperately needed expansion of the radiology department within the existing building, enabling it to upgrade its service. The informal discussion period, lasting for almost two hours, followed a board meeting during which questions were raised once again about the future of the 91,4 million expansion project, toward which the board hopes to raise 5300,000 from the community, Though planning for the project is on schedule and a majority of board members continue to support it, two of the board's most influential members, Vice ~Chairman Hans Kuyvenhoven and Finance Chairman Hobert Pike, again raised questions about the strength of public support, Both agreed there is no doubt about the need for upgrading the emergency and outpatient facilities, but reported they have been getting questions and negative com- ments from people in the community about the need and the scale of construction, Members of the medical staff sitting on the board, however, who until now had been fairly quiet on the issue, gave their strongest public show of support to date for the new wing. Chief of Staff Dr. Brian Hanlon and Dr. Walter Wong, president of the medical staff, both declared it is impossible to scale down the project any further if i1 is to fulfill its function. "You've already taken the top off," Dr. Hanlon noted, referring to the deletion of a second storey in order to bring down the price of the project and gain Ministry of Health approval. He also pointed out the plan is not to create a new department, "It's replacing a piece of this hospital which is totally inadequate in terms of care," and he questioned giving too much weight to some types of public objections, "The man on the street won't have any ides whether the project is too big or not," The third doctor on the board, Dr, Mel COMM, added, "There's no way the present facilities can be made adequate," Dr. Walter Wong, who tater said that doctors have been keeping out of public debates on the project since they do not want it to be seen as "a luxury hotel for doctors", told the board it will have to make up its mind, "If you're going to build it, then get on with it, If you're not going to build it, then keep quiet," By continuing to debate the matter, the board is giving the community the impressionit cannot retake up its mind, he said, He also cautioned against the suggestion the board should commission another public opinion survey before making the final decision to ,proceed, noting that if yon ask someone's advice you have to be prepared to take it, whether you agree with it or not. A straw vole taken at the end of the board Tucci to page 5• declining activity at hospital is not a trend By HenryHess Despite louver than expected activity levels at the Wingham and District Hospital last year, it is not correct to suggest there is a trend of declining activity, members of the hospital board were told last week. Taking issue with a goes/ion raised during a previous meeting from which he had been absent. Hospital .Administrator %Iman Hayes declared that fo suggest the hospital is doing less 6rosiness than before "is just not true"! Presenting the hoard with a statistical corrvprarison of patient visits to the hospital over the past sill years. he rooted that although inpatient nutrvbers have declined. the total of impatient phis &inpatient usage has grown steadily before dropping off last year. "The only trend is to more outpatient visits,' he said. He blamed the drop about 2,400 in outpatient visits lash year to the unusually rrvild winter, but said there is no reason to expect that will continue. Although activity was down during the early part of this year, it has been returning to normal and may even be above hadget by the end of the year. he said. ,.Yore can't Say we're doing less business lieve. That's not necessarily so. We did less i'usiness ,last year, hut not this year." He also told board members they should not be trervo us about ending the year with a large surplus, since under the new BOND (business -oriented new development) pro- gram the Health Ministry is treating hospitals like businesses. Businesses normally keep their surpluses for capital expansion. he rioted. and the ministry expects hospitals fo do the same. "In the future we may need that surplus to fund building programs," Prior to the introduction of the neer program- last year. hospitals were required to return any surplus to the ministry, a policy that was criticized as discouraging efficien- cy.