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Support tile hospital
Wingham and District Hospital is conducting a door to door
canvass to raise funds for the new addition which will 'house
the emergency and Outpatient departments and permit an
expanded radiology department. The total cost of this
construction will be $2 million over the next two years. The
community campaign goal is $400,000.
The debate as to whether the new addition is required and
whether it is necessary on this scale is arbitrary. The'fact
remains that outpatient services will be the style of treatment
indicative of the future and if we are to have a viable hospital
in our community, we must•have the facility to provide these
services. If we do not, , people will be referred to city hospitals
and Winghann hospital will cease to exist because it no longer
serves a purpose. This has been the criteria in the past and
• the reason the hospital has continued to be a vital component
of our health care service in this area.
The radiology, emergency and outpatient departments
have suffered from a critical lack of space, which has
hampered the people who.. work in these departments making
it impossible for them to provide services necessary to keep
pace with new technology. '
The question remains: Do we want a hospital in our•
community which can service our health care •needs
adequately or do we want to travel to city hospitals for our
health care needs? The unqualified answer to the question is
Yes, we want a viable hospital in our community.
Whenthe canvasser comes knocking on your door this week
for your donation, be as generous as you can. The hospital
deserves our support as we all work together for an improved
facility and improved health care. •
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• The- paramount concern of Canadians when they voted the
Conservatives to a huge majority was the need for change.
The election of the Tory majority was a cleansing necessary
after the long years of Liberal rule. But the first signals from
the new government and the new prime minister Brian
Mulroney are disturbing.
The Tory government has increased the federal sales tax on
manufactured goods this past week, despite their cries of rage
when it was proposed in the last Liberal budget. How quickly
one whohas been in opposition f4t. so many years can make
• the transformation to defend an hierease which will have such
a negative effect on our economy.
The decision is indicative of the Conservative intention to
,make the deficit the priority rather than unemployment-
. The prime minister and his finance minister both indicated
last week that the welcome maf is out for foreign investment.
The door is open to foreign investors especially the
Americans. Such a move is sure to intiate a whoie new debate
on foreign ownership in this country.
The Mulrony government should be outlining an economic
strategy which includes initiatives to put people back to work
and the reorganization of our industry to prepare for the
technological changes to come. • Mulroney had a major
• political opportunity this week to show Canadians that they
were right to trust him and his party's candidates that if
• elected, there would be change. In his first major political
initiatives, the Mulroney government has indicated the
deficit, not jobs, is the priority of his government and he will
see growth of our economy, even if it means a new
• commitmentto a branch plant economy with all of the
inherent problems that creates for our country.
At the match
(Photos by Ron Wassirik)
• The sudden and tragic death of her father,
temporarily devastated the life of Lucy
Lockhart. With no other relatives in the
• world, and left alone in a strange' land,
amongst strange people, she was almost at
her wit's end. For a whole day she lay upon
her .bed at the Jamieson's place, sobbing
bitterly, and nobody seemed able to comfort
her. Finally, Doctor Cameron administered a
tranquilizing medicine -and she fell at last
into a merciful sleep.
The Reverend Duncan MacLeod was
greatly concerned for her welfare. She
needed a strength which his deeply compas-
sionate mature was not capable of giving; a
harder and more realistic approach to her
problems, which could summon her courage
to face the future.
In times of bereavement, mere words of
sympathy often tend to increase rather than
decrease the distress and sorrow of those left
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behind: Life must go on, and the counsel
• needed on these occasions, is one which can
• rejuvenate hope and confidence.
With these thoughts in mind, MacLeod
asked Neil MacCrimmon if he would try and
lift the young girl out of her despondency,
and the leader of Redtrees visited Lucy as
soon as she was fit to receive him.
"Ye must pull yerself together, lass,"
• MacCrimmorr told-hersternlye1list—duty
is tae see ye father put tae rest in dignity and
wi' the blessing of God." He 'took both of her
hands and looking intently •into her eyes
• said: " `Tis time tae put awa' ye tears, and
tae thank the Lord ye are wi' people who are
• willing tae stand by ye, until ye know what
ye are going tae do wi' ye life"
For the first time since her father's death,
Lucy began to compose herself. There was a
mystical' power emanating from this rough
' Highlander. He was like a rock; soMewhat
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hard and cold', but strong and resolute.
"You are most kind, sir, and of course I
wilIdo what you. say," she said, looking at
ThThvithrd rimmed eyes. "Could you have
my father interred as if he was one of your
own people?" • •
MacCritntnon smiled for the first time.
"Do not worry, lass. I will see to it that he is
• put tae rest wino less honour than if he was
one of my air' folk."
It, 'was a cold, day when they buried.
Roderick Lockhart. An east wind stripped
• the last brown leaves from the maples and
pulled at 'the vestments of MacLeod as he
stood by the graveside.
"I shall lift up mine eyes 'unto thel hills,
from whence cometh my help," the minister
said, in a lend clear voice. •
To Lucy Lockhart, the words were very
appropriate indeed. At • that moment, she
needed all the help she could receive from
those people who had settled in the Caledon
Hills.
. They stood in silence, the first few flakes
-of snow bringing winter to Redtrees, as
MacCrimmon played the ancient lament -
"Flowers of the Forest:'. True to his word.
he 'put tducy's. father to. rest •with no less
honour than he would for one of „his own
people. •
The sudden passing of Roderick Lcickhart
caused great concern to the men who had
laboured so long on, the sawmill project.
What would happen novv to all their efforts -
had they wasted their time? Any doubts
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