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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1979-03-14, Page 1Lucknow's oldest resident is 103 She's "pure gold Annie MacKenzie, Lucknow's oldest resident, celebrated her 103rd birthday •on Monday. Her room at Pinecrest is" • filled with flowers and birthday mes- sages taped to ribbons hang on the walls about her .bed. She is . a very popular lady. • Her orchid corsage, was sent from "her favourite florist". Many of: her ' friends who live in Toronto havesent flowers on her birthday. The florist who sends their flowers now sends his own birthday flower for the lady with the special. birthday. The flowergirl at her wedding, Gladys Thomson, • Vancouver • sent a ` pot of spring tulips. More tulips came from her close friends, Helen Ross, Toronto who celebrated her, 100th birthday in December.: —Mrs. MacKenzie and her sister, Ethel. drove to Milverton for. Helen's wedding -mina horse and buggy. On theback of the buggy was the trunk carrying the dresses with leg-'o.mutton. sleeves they would wear to the wedding. The two sisters stayed a'week. At the time it was quite an occasion for two young ladies to take a trip of this. kind on their . own. A great grand -niece, Ann Thorsteins- son, Vancouver, who is 16, took the time to make an original birthday card for Mrs. MacKenzie. The card is decorated with a pencil drawing by Ann. It's a tribute to. Mrs. MacKenzie that,a teen- ager would take the effort to create an original card for her birthday. One of the cards from an old friend carries the greeting, "You are pure gold". Despite her age she has many, friends who ask about her and continue to share her happiness on her birthday. Mrs: MacKenzie was .born on March 12, 1876,. the fifth child of a family of nine. Her parents are the late Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Paterson who lived on the. second concession of Huron Town- ship. After attending Clover Valley School,. Mrs. MacKenzie entered the School of Nursing at Mountainside Hospital in Montclari, New Jersey and graduated in 1908. .. Her school.' of nursing recently requested that the families of graduates return their grad.uatepins as they are. rare. Mrs. MacKenzie decided to return. her pin before her death and a , nurse who is working as a private duty nurse at the Mountainside Hospital wrote to Mrs. MacKenzie and asked if she might wear her pin. Mrs. MacKenzie's pin is being worn again by a nurse who is working instead of laying in a drawer as a memento. In. 1910 Mrs. MacKenzie'. married the late William MacKenzie of Lucknow. She lived in the village until her husband's death in 1941. Their family included Katharine, twin sons, Thomas and Alexander, another set of twins, William and Frank and another son, John. Katharine is living in Thornhill. Frank lives in Kinloss. Township and John lives in Toronto. Three of her children are deceased. Mex died in Vancouver in 1961; William of St.. Clair Shores died in 1963 and Tom died in Walkerton in 1976. A: stroke has left Mrs: MacKenzie unable to. speak .but she is alert and enjoysimmenselythe visits of family •and'. friends, Sil A Year In Advance 821.50 To Tr.S.A.'and Foreign. : WEDNESDAY, MARC!! 14, 1979. Single Copy 25c •24 PAGES Wingham and District Hospital is in the process of preparing a presentat'on to the. Ministry of Health.to show , the' need for transferring some active treatment beds... which are supposed to be closed' to chronic care.,, The hospital is •attempting to show the number: of people who are long term patients' and will round out their presentation with information at a meeting of the executive directorsofHuron`. and Perth Hospitals: Huron=Bruce -MPP' Murray Gaunt asked Health . Minister Dennis' Timbrell' in. the ... -=legislature Thursday, March 8 about the effects of the province's bed -population••. formula on hospital budgets. Huron and Bruce have a special problem• adhereing to the. ministry, guideline because • these counties havea: higher than average proportion. of their population older than65. The health ministry announced in January that hospitals ;must abide, by a ratio of 3.5. beds per 1,000 population by 11981' and. tied • the hospital budgets to this standard. Gaunt,,pointed out the government promised in the speech from the throne on March 6 to increasesignificantly the number, of chronic care beds where needed. Executive. director Norman ..Hayes of Wingham and District Hospital told a public meeting in Wingham,Febtary 21 one of the alternatives to cope with the ministry guideline would be to .persuade the ministry to' transfer active treatment beds being used for longterm patients to chronic care.. Hayes said at that time:. 34 beds were . being used toriong term patients but only 18 of those beds were `classified" hronic 'care Sv De. rb Member :clubs of the Maitland Valley Connell, a: divleonof ' the . Young Calvinist Cadet Corps held** annual Cadet Snow, Derby on the farm ,of Len Bakelgar, Cuirass' On February 17. Cadets took . part in a day of achvides Including _a' toboggan ,race, .a water. ""' boiling contest; obstacle scourse and,.:. First -Md exercises. The Lncknow club 'which hosted the Derby won the obstacle course. Members of the core are shgwn--shmditting it rescue. Story and pictures' are on page 4. , beds. Mr. Hayes said 'Murray Gaunt'is well. aware of what Wingham fiCes with the 'bed- . cuts. Gaunt -has advised Wingham and other local hospitralsto put together a presentation. ,for the ministry showingthe need to, transfer active atreatment beds to chronic care. Hayes. said Wingham=hospital:is working, with Gaunt to lave Health Minister ,Dennis Timbr1T come to Wingham to answer the questions,'an'd demands of the, community regarding . the. bed closures. Hayes said Gaunt has informed hint Timbrell would not be available. to . come to Wingham before June 18.. Hayes said three months may demon= strate,what is happening, because' the impact – of.. the bed closures' won't be known until after April 1 when . the hospital, _, starts • operating on th'e.new budget .Fourteen beds will close on•April 1 at the Wingham hospital and the government has cut $160,000 from the budget for this. year.. Hayes commented however, he is afraid to see a meeting with Timbrell too far into the year unless 'we 'realty begin'. to feel th pinch" after the new budget comes :in,. 1