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Lucknow Sentinel, Wednesday, November 23, 1983—Page 5
The Lanesville Lards We -pitch baseball team has donated
$1,000 towards the new Lucknow baseball park. The cheque
was presented to Lucknow Kinsmen president Grant Helm,
left, by Lards captain, Gord Kemp. The baseball park Is the
mior project of the Luelmow Kinsmen Club.
[Sentinel Staff Photo]
Midgets defeat Riple
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*from page 4
home town boys. Finals score Lucknow 6, Ripley 4.
This game was a clean match with only three penalties, all
to Lucknow and the Ripley team used their advantage to score
two goals.
Defensively, Ritchie and Shepherd were strong members of
the blue line crew and Dean Lindsay made several key saves.
No home game next week; next home game is against
Tiverton on December 5.
Present Christmas in Song
For many people in our area, attending the traditional
concert of the Blyth Festival Singers marks the first event in
the celebration of the Christmas season. This year the choir
will present two performances in Memorial Hall on Sunday.
December 4th at 3 p.m. and 8 p.m.
Require speech-language pathologist
The Wingham and District Hospital
and the Huron County Board of
Education plan to join forces in an
attempt to hire a second speech-lang-
uage pathologist for Huron County.
Recently the hospital, which had the
only speech-language pathologist in
the county, had to withdraw the
services it had been providing to local
schools because the demand was too
great to handle, Hospital Administrat-
or Norman Hayes told the hospital
board last week.
Since then the hospital has lost its
own specialist and is having difficulty
finding a replacement.
Hayes said the board of education is
"desperately scratching" to get the
service renewed. "They don't have
the money in their budget, and we
don't have the money in our budget,"
he explained.
He said the two groups will survey
the number of school children requir-
ing the services of a specialist in
speech and language and then ap-
proach the Ministry of Health and
Ministry of Education for funding.
Although some schools have speech
therapists, a speech-language pathol-
ogist is trained to help with more
serious speech and language prob-
lems, he noted.
New Board Members
Two new members have taken their
places on the hospital board as a result
of 'vacancies created by retirements.
Donald Jolley was introduced to the
board last month as the replacement
for Rev. Ken lnnes, who was the
member from Brussels before moving
to Winnipeg recently.
At last week's meeting, Mex
Graham was welcomed to the board as
the new member from Howick, taking
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the place of E. William Newton who
was forced to retire for health reasons.
Receive Funds For Building Project
With its fund raising program not
yet officially underway, the hospital
already has received nearly 51,600 in
funeral donations earmarked for its
proposed building program.
Administrator Norman Hayes told
the hospital board the donations
started coming in soon after the board
started discussing plans for the new
addition, which would house the
outpatient and emergency depart-
ments and permit expansion of the
x-ray department.
The board hopes to raise more than
$356,044 from individuals and organ-
izations in the hospital community
toward the 51.4 million project.
Schedule Surgery
The hospital board has endorsed a
recommendation from its medical
advisory committee, allocating one full
day of operating room time per week
to each of the hospital's two surgeons,
Dr. Michael Watts from Goderich and
Dr. J. K. McGregor of Wingham.
In presenting the recommendation,
Dr. Walter Wong, president of the
medical staff, explained it is an
attempt to encourage more local
surgery by allowing the surgeons to
schedule their time more efficiently
and avoid clashes in scheduling
elective surgery,
This leaves other doctors and dental
surgeons three days each week to
schedule their surgery.
At the present time the operating
room is in use pretty well every day of
the week, Dr. Wong reported, but it
could be used more efficiently with
better scheduling. He noted that in
city hospitals it is common for surgical
firms to be alloted blocks of operating
room time.
Any emergency surgery would still
take precedence, he added.
He said Dr. McGregor currently
does more surgery at Walkerton than
here and, while it is not clear that
patients from here are going to
Walkerton for surgery, it is possible,
Having one day each week allocated to
him should make it possible for the
surgeon to schedule more elective
surgery here.
Dr. Wong also said there is no doubt
this area could use a board certified
surgeon who would be on 24 hour call.
This would permit more surgery to be
done locally, although some types of
cases would still have to be sent to
London because of the need for
specialised post operative care, he
explained.
Employee Counselling Program
The hospital board has agreed in
principle to mount an employee
counselling program as a joint effort
with other Huron County hospitals.
The program would provide counsel-
ling on alcohol, drug or family related
problems.
Since it could make use of counsel-
lors already. in the system, it would not
have to cost very much. Administrator
Norman Hayes told the board, 1t also
could ensure confidentiality by send-
ing employees from one hospital to
another area for treatment.
He explained the purpose would be
to offer help to an employee exper-
iencing problems at work as the result
of problems in his or her personal life,
rather than firing the employee. Such
programs have generally been accept-
ed very well by employee groups, he
added,
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