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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, •
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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