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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1984-02-29, Page 1• sin e copy:; 4 Published in Lucknow, Ontario, Wednesday, Febrrtary 29, 1984 branch opens banking unit The Lucknow branch of the Bank of Montreal has moved its.commercial banking unit to offices next door to the bank building on Lucknow's main street, at: the location formerly 'occupied by' lawyer Robert Camp- bell, • - The -'domestic banking' unit of the 'branch' will continue to operate out of ^the batik. building Staff in the domestic unit will include' Dorothy,Brintnell, domestic.banking manager; "^ Lyle Bennewies,,, Diane. Morrison, Slain MacA4am,` Lois Alton and Shelley Campbell,,= .customer servic representatives and Jessie Chester, branch. supporta clerk• The" staff in the -remotecommercial banking unit will include cNab, commercial accounts manager; John Scott,, and ' Brian ,' Boyd, independent business managers; Debbie Moran, Susan Schler and -. Mary. Nelsen, credit service representatives and Deb. Cumming, receptionist. The move follows a Canada wide realign- ment of services that the bank says heralds a new era for Canadian banking .The bank has established that there are two distinct segments to -banking in Canada, the commercial sector and thepersonal banking sector, By separating these two functions the , Bank of Montreal reasons they will be able to bring more expertise, ,speciai"tzation. and professionalism to the banking service they provide to their. customers. Business customers will continue to use the domestic banking unit for their day-to- day banking transactions such as cash deposits and withdrawals: The business : -customer will use . the commercial" banking unit for access to credit needs, new cash management and other. services, commercial credit, the annual account review and non-credit services. isappointed in: cable service Seaforth Town Councillors voiced their disappointment in the quality of cable' tele- vision. provided ' _by the: Mitchell=Seaforth Cable . TV : at -heir February 14 meeting. According " to a report in- the Seaforth. Huron x -siter;'a petition wag circuiiated in Y . w septM ;:theme`11f lt►eeks deputy -reeve Bill Bennett said he believes. rhe.' petitions ° v s,t sentfi 3. C.,,,W.ard. op... Gowanstown, operators of:. the Mitchell-•, Seaforth Cable .system. Councillor Wayne Ellis recommended that if cable television problems are not corrected in 90. days, - by the, Mitchell-Seaforth cable company, the: inatteiwiltbe brought to the attention of the Canadian Radio Television Commission (CRTC). Council approved this action., J. 'C,- Ward appeared _ before Lucknow Village Council recently .to ask their support in his application to the CRTC to bring cable television to Luckn'oww. Lucknow Council supported his application. The report in the Huron Expositor goes on to. scy. there was a problem with the cable • service in Seaford' " several years ago and Ward came to a council meeting- to explain the situation. Councillor Wayne Ellis commented the problem was not corrected ani" ,: counc'1,• .s uld, do .:sain . I451"'111C" `3.• 4 'd M Ellis observed:that drea64 le'operation., is - 'open` -to public scrutiny' and Ward is not delivering a' service -as he has promised under CRTC., regulations. `"....We want • the system . to be improved and the CRTC should know about it. With - the cable rates we're, paying, we should be getting something better." Kincardine Cable TV and a joint applica- tion from Saugeen Telecable Ltd. and Fergus -Elora TV Ltd. are also interested in providing cable TV service to Lucknow. A decision from the CRTC is expected in April and May as to who will be licenced to bring table TV to Lucknow. The system would take six to eight months to .build. School absentee -rates soar Brookside Public School is recording some of the highest absentee rates in its history due to a virus s tiich has spread through the school. Fifty-seven children of a student population of 344 were absent on Monday with as many as 10 children absent from one class. According to principal Don Tremeer the usual high for number of children absent is 20. More than 50 children were reported absent again on Tuesday. At Lucknow Central Public School' thirty - Appoint fire chief William A. (Bud) Hamilton has been appointed chief of the Lucknow. District Fire Department to succeed George Whitby who retired effective December 31, 1903. Hamil- ton's appointment was made by the Fire Marshall of Ontario and has been approved . by the Lucknow. District Fire Board, which represents the four municipalities served by the departrnent, the village of Lucknow and the townships of West Wawanosh, Kiii1oss and Ashfield. Name ' Deputy -Chief Ken Johnstone has been named deputy fire chief to replace Hamilton and Peter Steer, Jim Hallam and Gary Austin have been named captains. Evans Helm has been appointed secretary -treasurer to replace Stuart Collyer who also retired at the end;,of the last year. seven children were absent Monday and forty-four were absent on Tuesday out of a -student population of 196. Kinloss Central Public School and Luck - now" Christian School remain relatively unaffected by the virus as does St. Joseph's Community School, Kingsbridge where absentee rates are about 10 out of a student population of 79. Symptoms of the virus include high temperature, " cough and sore throat. Discuss formation of survivalist chapter Nineteen of the 40 farmers who attended a meeting at Brookside School February 20 voted in favour ' of establishing a local chapter of the Ontario Farm Survival Association; the remainder abstained. Ashfield farmer Jim Boak, who organized the meeting,, says the association hopes to establish many locals across the province to assist farmers in financial difficulty. Denfield farmer Tom Shoeboftom, vice- president of the Canadian Farm Survival Association, spoke to the meeting. He outlined 4he history of the organization and the role they have played. The structures for a local chapter of the association will be established by the Canadian Farm.: Survival Association and election of officers to form the chapter will be held at a later date. 20 pages BW 'Hunter of Lucknow received the prestigious . Canadian Amstar. Hockey Association awards,for outstanding contribution laminar hockey."Heys shown being congrittulated by Ted O'Hara of Winghaan, chairman of the Western OntarioAddetic Association. The -award was pe a�cse,e•foCf ein-letr".'. St'e.nr. r.,d6 r 20 tebuu:yynrx.;rv.arat. W•a,. hJer�: r', e prneiestonot1 intK'g iC4inno,udian. t matea r `*.te-4110KtJoas. 60will rep to srvidtli1uso"" for Minor Hockey Asneswfor 'Oda , confrliiutlon to: minor hockey five years" ago.. [Photo by Sharon Dietz] Big city hospitaisprovide:stiff competition for Wingham By Henry Hess • Big city hospitals are providing stiff competition for the Wingham and District Hospital when it comes to attracting patients, members of the hospital board were told last week. And unless the hospital can find ways to. encourage people to come here for their health care, it will have trouble reversing a recent trend - of declining activity levels. In a report to the board, Administrator Norman Hayes said he had obtained Health Ministry statistics indicatingithat while this hospital is competing very successfully with other hospitals in the area, it is losing patients to London. "In reviewing the statistics, we find that our biggest competitors are not the hospitals in the area -- we get a fairly large proportion vis -s -vis the surrounding hospitals our biggest competitor is the London` hospitals," he said. He reported that it came as a surprise to one member of the medical staff to find half the work from his community was going to London, adding it would certainly make quite a difference to the hospital's activity statistics if it could get even half of the patients currently going to the city. The problem is made even more serious by the fact that the Health Ministry uses these ' statistics to determine a hospital's referral population, which is the basis for settingits size and funding, .-he noted. If,,for example, 400 people from Wingham are hospitalized in a given year and 100 ,of them go to London, then the ministry takes the population of the Wingham area and the Wingham hospital gets 75 per cent as its referral population while the London hospit- als get the other 25 per cent. Getting more patients Coming to Wing - ham would not likely mean the hospital will need more beds, he said, but it would boost the outpatient activity. The administrator's report, made in (response to 'persistent questions from Finance Chairman Robert Pike about the long term effects of declining activity, sparked a discussion about just why so many patients are referred to other hospitals. The medical staff members of the board had been called out to an emergency when the report was given, but returned to take part in the discussion. Dr. Walter Wong, medical staff president, said referrals could be cut down if local doctors were more willing to take advantage of their colleagues' expertise. He suggested that in the. future the hospital could define various . departments of medicine, with a doctor appointed as head of each depart- ment. The board could then make a policy that a patient could not be sent to an outside specialist until the head of the appropriate department had been consulted., Such policies are already common place in larger hospitals, he said, while doctors here can refer a patient to an outside special'is°t without ever considering whether another local doctor is qualified to handle the case. Emphasizing that these opinions are his -own and not necessarily those of the medical staff, he estimated that 50 per cent of patients currently being sent elsewhere could be treated here. It is fine to talk about bringing in specialists, ,he added, but the board must realize that it will not be easy to attract fully certified experts and, unless both doctors and the board take steps to recognize and use the special training and interests of the existing medical, staff, "(Patient) numbers will keep on falling" Dr. Brian Hanlon, hospital chief of staff, agreed that some doctors are reluctant to --- Turn to page 26