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Dog fee cut for
first offence
A Seaforth bylaw was
amended recently that lowers the
fee of an impounded dog for a
first-time offence.
The fine for a first offence for
the impoundment of a registered
dog will be $25. The fee after a
first impoundment rises to $50.
Seaforth supports
water tower site
A Seaforth Council passed a
motion to adopt the minutes of
the December 16 Arena Board
meeting and approved, in prin-
ciple, the PUC's proposal to
locate a new water storage facil-
ity on the arena property. There
was no discussion on the matter
before the motion was passed.
Gas odour
found in sewer
A gasoline odour in the storm
sewers was very strong on Dec.
8 at 6 p.m., according to the Jan.
4 Seaforth Road
Superintendent's Report. Several
sewers had to be flushed to
resolve the problem.
The smell was encountered in
the storm drain starting at John
and Louisa Streets, all the way
to the Legion corner.The source
of the gasoline was of located,
and this can be a very dangerous
problem, as well as an environ-
mental problem, reported Super-
intendent Forrest.
Town backs
lottery license
Seaforth's 1995 Homecoming
Committee was given approval
by Town Councillo sell tickets
for a "Travel the World" lottery.
The tickets are to go on sale
'from August, 1994 to August,
1995.
The lottery features monthly
draws for trips. Four hundred
tickets will be available fbr sale
at $100 each. Money from the
ticket sales will go to Home-
coming expenses and any surplus
amounts will be given to the
town.
1993 tax arrears
Total tax arrears for the Town
of Seaforth at Dee. 31, 1993 was
$184,436.14 which is a 1 per
cent increase over, a 199 tax
arrears receivable. el per
cent of the increase over the
1992 receivable can be attributed
to one property.
The 1993 receivable represents
7.4 per cent of the total 1993 tax
revenue.
Insurance review
at town council
A deputation of Dave Reed,
Vice -President of Frank Cowan
Insurance of Princeton, Ontario
and Ken Cardno of Seaforth
Insurance Broker Ltd. of
Seaforth were present at the
Seaforth Town Council's Jan-
uary meeting to review the com-
prehensive insurance program
for the town.
Matters of the deductible rising
from $1,000 to $2,500 and the
amount of environmental liability
were referred to the Finance and
General Government Committee
for review,
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Seaforth hospital not
threatened with closure
BY. TIM CUMMING
Expositor Editor
Seaforth Community Hospital
faces no immediate pressure
from its doctors over emergency
on-call compensation, according
to hospital administration.
"The people of Seaforth are
fortunate that six doctors keep
our emergency open 24 hours a
day, seven day a a week," said
Bill Thibert, Chief Executive
Officer of the hosal.
Doctors at Aledra Marine
and General hospital in
Goderich threatened to withdraw
emergency on-call services by
Jan. 31 unless the doctors were
compensated or outside doctors
brought in for on-call work.
Doctors in rural areas must
combine larger caseloads with
the burden of on-call coverage.
In a large city the emergency
work might be covered by
another doctor. Because there is
a small volume of patients dur-
ing emergency hours rural doc-
tors receive much less compen-
sation for the emergency work
they do at the hospital.
Both Seafbrth doctors and thQ
Seaforth hospital administration
would like to see a provincial
solution to the problem of pay
"They're just as
concerned as other
physicians..."
for emergency work in rural
hospitals, said Thibert.
"They're just as concerned as
other physicians about the diffi-
culties but they haven't put any
pressure on the hospital," he
said.
Ifs not feasible for small, rural
hospitals to pay physicians extra
compensation, he said.
"Hospitals have never been
funded to pay doctors,"
explained Thibert. "The Ministry
has to get involved for a central
solution." •
The Huron -Perth Hospital
Liaison Committee, consisting of
administrators and heads of
Huron -Perth hospital boards, has
issued a communique on what it
perceives to be provincial inac-
tion on the issue. The motion
asks for personai4i tervention on
the part of the `'Minister of
Health before January 31st.
"We are dismayed at the lack
of pts that has been made
byybat Ministry in resolving
this problem, states a letter
from the committee.
Board cuts six jobs
to trim spending
BY DON JACKSON
The Huron County Board of
Education (HCBE) has announced
the elimination of six positions in
an effort to deal with the Social
Contract and the downloading of
Lobbying for
DHC office
underway
Now that the 20 members of
the Huron -Perth District Health
Council have been finalized, and
awaiting the approval of the
Ministry of Health, the "lobby-
ing will commence" to house
the DHC headquarters.
Paul Carroll, Huron Steering
Committee chairman, said he's
sure every municipality from
Goderich's Lake Huron
shoreline to the east side of
Perth will actively seek out the
headquarters.
"I'm not sure it makes a damn
bit of difference," he said during
their final joint meeting, noting
that the new DHC members
themselves will decide on the
location.
Carroll was responding to a
comment made by Kathy Rae,
of Stratford, who wanted to
make an amendment to the joint
Geographic/Boundary
Committee's recommendation
that the DHC office be located
on the Highway 8 corridor in
the Seaforth-Mitchell area (with
preference identified as Perth
County).
Rae, a city alderman, wanted
to make it known in the final
report to the Ministry that there
was no active membership from
Stratford or St. Marys on the
committee, since she and Bernie
Schmidt, administrator of the
Stratford General Hospital,
couldn't attend the meetings due
to other commitments.
Her request for the amend-
ment was refused.
The City of Stratford, the
Town of Mitchell and the
Township of Hibbert have all
made their interest known to be
the site of the DHC headquar-
ters.
funding by the province.
The position of principal at the
Learning Resource Centre will no
longer exist. HCBE Director Paul
Carroll explained the principal's
duties. "The principal is the per-
son who manages the education
centre and supervises a staff of 20
or 25 people," he said, adding that
the staff are either on the road or
involved in special education most
of the time.
Another of the principal's
responsibilities is the periodic*
monitoring of home schooling
students. It is the responsibility of
the board to look at the programs
used by parents who choose to
school their children at home and
evaluate the programs. These
duties will be turned over to the
principal of the school in the area
that those students would go to if
they were enrolled.
see Cuts, page five
HIGHWAY #8, SEAFORTH
F•TiE PHOTO
FIVE -TIME CHAMPIONS - Seaforlh's Lloyd Eisler and Isabelle
Brasseur, shown here in Seaforth, became Canadian pairs figure
skating champions for the fifth time last week.
Home -town heroes are
champs for fifth time,
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nadvt, Lloyd Eisler sod ids fig- next month p Norway.
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Brasseer have won a Canadian Bim. 23, and Meier30,
senior paha tide. Theyak elS who teased UP in 1911700oh the
trued tttdtr gmb tisk art tie world championship last March
national competition at its Ptt4too and have both aiiver
Northlands Coliseum In and bie s from past
E neon on die weekend.. wolle ooloPetittoos. Tho Pair aro
There hive been two Wort rdxt bronze medal winners from
five.dr rte t� um f the 1992 Olympic Fumes fn
Theket at Paul wgisims orld championp� r
� ValBeak 1910.. returned to Seaforth for a visit in
19t� Por sit = ifrle Noveynber and skated to two
sixthsenior mew, told -out capacity crowds at the
woe ir; 1 with thein Safortth and District Community
neer Katherina Meow& Comes. Lloyd and lsebelle
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It's widt dela Mabor
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CIaua Parade
that the wire World Chew .....: 1993.
Obituaries
page 10
Sports
pages 6, 7
Entertainment
page 11
Weddings
page 11
65 cents
Pius 5 cent
CST (70 cents)
Health Council
names sent to
Health Ministry
BY ANDY BADER
for Signal Star newspapers
The Huron -Perth District Health
Council (DHC) is one step closer to
reality after 20 names were sub-
mitted to the Ministry of Health for
approval.
After ort year of extensive
behind -the -scenes work, and
approximately 90 interested people
wishing to sit on the new DHC, the
final list was whittled down and
approved by the joint Huron -Perth
Steering Committee last Wednesday
night at the Mitchell Town Hall.
Huron Steering Commiuee Chair-
man Paul Carroll said the release of
those 20 individuals chosen --and
accepted --by the provincial ministry
could happen as early as six weeks.
The joint committee decided not
to release the names of those sub-
mitted until officially approve
Carroll said 35 people from
Huron were accepted as viable
applicants for the new DHC. Perth
Steering Committee Chairman Jeff
Wilbee said 54 applications were
accepted and considered from their
county.
"This was probably the most
difficult challenge in. all the work
that was done," Carroll said.
"There will certainly be some
disappointed people, but it was an
arduous task," Wilbee added.
The DHC membership will have
40 per cent health providers (four
members), 40 per cent health con-
sumers (four) and 20 per cent
municipal government representa-
tion (two) from each county, or an
even 10-10 split of members from
Huron and Perth.
Once approved by the Ministry of
Health, the Huron -Perth DHC will
be the last region to have a formal
district health council in Ontario.
The Huron DHC Steering Com-
mittee was formed in December of
1992, when Carroll was appointed
chairman. Perth's formation fol-
lowed shortly thereafter, and the
two agreed to amalgamate in Octo-
ber. Their first joint meeting was
held in November.
Both Carroll and Wilbee gave
closing remarks of thanks before'
the joint committee and the two
steering committees were dissolved,
each praising the dedication and
hard work of all the committee
members.
1TM (1JMMIN(I NIOTO
SNOW AND ICE - Mark Vock and Jason Hulley (shown above) ice rink behind 48 William St. in Egmondvilie. In this photo the
are two of about eight or nine children who have helped create an scenic rink, covered by snow, is being cleared.
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