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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1994-05-04, Page 1Huron • 3[11p 0 IS I it 0 65 cents plus 5 Dents G.S.T. (70 cents) MILTON J. DIETZ LIMITED SEAFORTH 522-0608 • Pesticides & Custom Spraying • Spraying Equipment & Parts • Nutrite Premium Fertilizer • Ventilation & Livestock Equipment l�l LiPURINA FEEDS m• & PET FOODS HURON NXPOSIT -a CENTENA1REC JR. DEVELOPMENT HOCKEY CLUE WEDNESDAY MA SPORTS Atrioof outgoing veterans led the awards for Seaforth Junior Development hockey team. see page seven 3 Sales - Service - Selection HART FORD MERCUR ED CARS r , * ittrr40$11 'The Friendly Dealer With The Big Heart' NEW OPTIMIST AMBASSADOR - The Optimist Ambassador at Seaforth District TIM CUMMING High School was chosen at a dance held Thursday Night. Shown with past Optimist Ambassador Cora Allan (centre) are contestants Carla Dalton, Andrea Gingerich, runner-up; Mandy Hadenko, Optimist Ambassador for 1994 and Julie Medd. The new Ambassador will represent the Optimist Club at the Fall Fair and other events. The winners are chosen through a combination of interviews speaking and studentvo ti Ing. COMMUNITY The Bill Armstrong Award for leadership was awarded to Hank Nyman at an awards ceremony in Holmesville `• on Saturday. see page 14. Prov'. ce cuts thousands frohospital budget BY TIM CUMMING Expositor Editor The Seaforth Community Hospital has read the fine print of provincial funding plans and it's not good, according to Bill Thibert, Chief Executive Officer of the hospital. The province announced it wanted to "flatline" spending but in actual fact the Seaforth hospital will lose 1.5 per cent of its funding. The hospital will lose $70,000 from last year's budget. The hospital will lose, for this fiscal year, a grant of .5 per cent (of hospital budgets) which was given last year to all hospitals. It will also lose a one per cent grant which has been given annually to small hospitals (for about the past decade). Operating plans for the hospitals are due on May 4 (today). * * * The Seaforth Community Hospital will consider the request to locate the proposed water tower at the site. The Board of Governors, at the April 26 meeting, voted to table the request until it resolved plans to establish a permanent helicopter landing pad. Later, the board agreed McKillop possible site for landfill BY DAVID SCOTT Expositor Staff It seems like history is repeat- ing itself. On Thursday, April 28 seven residents of McKillop township in Concession 4 were informed that a site on or near their property was to be con- sidered as one of 11 potential sites for a new landfill for the County of Huron. (The McKillop site is the only one close to this area. The other ten are spread out through three other town- ships: Ashfield, Colborne and West Wawanosh). This latest candidate landfill site would be located on parts of Lots 21, 22, 23 and 24 of Concession 4, McKillop Township -on the farmland of Tony and Gerry Vanden Henget. The proposed area is approximately 103 acres. A meeting has been scheduled for Monday, May 16 at the Seaforth arena at 8 p.m. for property owners and tenants within and adjacent to the candi- date landfill site to discuss the situation with Huron County planners. "I didn't know a thing (about "1 didn't know a thing till Thursday at 11 a.m." the proposed site) till Thursday at 11 a.m. I don't know much about it...We'll see what they come up with," said Tony Vanden Hengel. Dan DeWit, who lives directly across the road from the pro- posed site is "definitely not in favour" of the location. "I'm concerned about pollution - water, air, noise. Also traffic increase and property depreci- ation," said DeWit. He thinks the increase of traffic to the landfill will create some problems for Seaforth. Also the bridge on Concession 4 "won't be able to take heavy traffic." DcWit finds it "kind of scary" that when the county failed to find any suitable sites in Huron after their initial search, which began in 1988, they revised their set of landfill signg criteria and came up with 11 new sites. It's more like they "relaxed" their criteria, said DeWit. Eleven years ago, in 1983, the Town of Seaforth and townships of Tuckersmith and McKillop con- sidered a landfill site for the three municipalities' needs at almost the same location. That time it was part of Lot 24, Concession 4, basically beside the current proposed site. The 1983 site north of Seaforth near Grieve's Bridge was the loca- tion chosen by engineering firm B.M. Ross & Associates over a possible 29 which were investigated at the time. The site at Concession 4, Lot 24 As in 1983, neighbouring land- was eventually shelved when drill - owners in 1994 were taken by ing tests revealed gravel lenses surprise by the announcement of the down to the bedrock which made site. Owners and tenants at each of the location not viable. the seven McKillop properties Around the same time, Master affected were sent letters from the Plan legislation came in from the County of Huron on April 28 province of Ontario setting new describing their Waste Management guidelines for landfills requinng the Master Plan and site selection. three municipalities to further con - In 1983, a letter to the editor sider the entire area within their appeared the week after the boundaries for potential sites. announcement of the proposed site McKillop eventually pulled out of in the Huron Expositor with 32 the agreement because of high costs names of nearby residents who and the delay. opposed the site for reasons of The proposed Koostra site chosen safety. in 1986 in Tuckersmith, which In October of 1983, an over 200- would have served as a landfill for page environmental assessment Tuckersmith and Seaforth, was report published by B.M. Ross & eventually scrapped because of high Associates was done on the site. costs as well. • The report contained a summary of public concerns over the possible landfill which included: water con- tamination, disease, air pollution, visual clutter, noise, additional traffic, separation distance between the site and area residences and depreciation of land values. Engineers also looked at separ- ation and incineration as possible alternatives in 1983 but concluded they would cost 202 per cent more to develop. Teatero chairs Ontario association An active volunteer from Egmondville is only the second person from this arca in 60 years to serve as chairperson of the Hospital Auxiliary Association of Ontario. Frances R. Teatero thanked the Seaforth Auxiliary for its support in her acceptance speech at the Spring Conference in Fergus on Monday. April 25. "It's an honour," she told The Huron Expositor. "Part of my duties will be to visit each hospital in the arca." She will make her first official visit to Alexandra Marine and General Hospital in Goderich. She called the Hospital Auxiliary Asso- ciation "a well-oiled organization with good people from many walks of life." The new chairperson urgcd people to take an active role in health care issues. "There's a lot of concern with the health care system and where it's going and the role of government," said Teatero. "We all have to take responsibility for our health care...if you don't like what you see get involved and do something." The Scaforth Community Hospital Auxiliary attended the Spring con - • HEALTH CARE -ltbn government r coordinates long-term care 1-14 will it help or hurt? see page two J Briefly Seaforth police have unclaimed property items Seaforth Police are concerned about the amount of found prop- erty being turned in to their office that hasn't been claimed. If you have an item of value that's missing contact the Seaforth Police Services. A police auction will be held this month on unclaimed items. Seaforth Police report many dogs are still running loose in town. "Keep dogs tied up," said Chief Hal Claus. Hospital gets less pay equity funds The Seaforth Community Hospital may receive less com- pensation for pay equity changes than first hoped. The hospital requested com- pensation of $47,000 but now expects to receive $13,200. The hospital must absorb the balance of the costs. The government did not follow through with some original promises on the issue, said Bill Thibert, Chief Executive Officer of the hospital. Ontario gives thousands to Jersey producers A group of Huron County Jersey Producers has been granted $10,275 under jobsOntario Community Action to research the feasibility of marketing milk products made exclusively from Jersey milk and forming a Jersey milk co-op, Huron MPP Paul Klopp announced. Board will consider fire dept. request Seaforth's hospital may con- sider a request from the Clinton fire board to provide 24-hour fire -call phone service as part of its overnight switchboard duties. The revenue from providing the service might help support the hospital's 24-hour switch- board service, suggested Bill Thibert, Chief Executive Officer, at the April 26 Hospital Board meeting. "There's not too many hospi- tals in Huron County that have the switchboard open 24 hours," said Marlen Vincent, chair of the Board of Governors. Currently the switchboard answers fire calls for the Seaforth Fire Department. Varna man named to new tribunal Gordon Hill, a field crops pro- ducer from Varna, has been appointed to the new seven - member Farm Organizations Accreditation Tribunal. The Tribunal plays an essential role in the implementation of the stable funding legislation, said Elmer Buchanan, Agricultural Min- ister INDEX Sports...page 7. Obituaries...back page. Entertainment ...pages 14, 15. "Your community newspaper since 1860 -serving Seaforth, Dublin, Hensall, Walton, Brussels and surrounding communities." Frances Teatero, second area person to chair the HAAO. ference where Teatero became chairperson -elect. The conference, hosted by Groves Memorial Hospi- tal of Fergus, had 108 delegates attend the one -day seminar. Thee attending from Seaforth were Margaret Marion Mennell, Marjorie Rock, Janet Cluff, Dorothy Hays, Susan Dick, Maxine Marks, Pauline Bennett, Betty Hulley, Pat Bennett, Audrey McLean, Linda Huard, and Frances R. Teatero. Donald Taylor, Waste Reduction Co-ordinator for the County of Wellington, spoke on Hospital Waste Management. Susan Dunlop, Historian Wellington County Museum and Archives, spoke on Dr. Abraham Groves apd early nursing. Andrea Porter, President of Hos- pital Auxiliary Association of Ontario, spoke on volunteers and their future in the Health Care System. She noted that the volun- teers in Ontario raised 20 million dollars and gave 4 million hours in time for the province of Ontario in 1993. James Gibbons, Mayor of Fergus; Graham Clark, Chief Executive Officer of Groves Memorial Com- munity Hospital; and Don Darroch, Vice Chairman Board of Directors, also addressed the membership and the value which they placed on the auxilians, Christine Marshall spoke On the Multiple Organ Retrieval Exchange (M.O.R.E.) and answered many questions from the audience. The new executive for Region Two was then installed by Andrea Porter, President of Hospital Auxili- ary Association of Ontario (H.A.A.O.) Chairperson -elect Frances R. Teatero, of Seaforth Hospital Aux- iliary, is the second women from this area to attain this position in 60 years. The first from Scaforth was Mrs. Wilma Oke. The Region Two involves 4,053 active members of which 296 arc men and 367 are teens. There are 17 Hospitals in this region. As chairperson Frances will serve on the council of 24 members for the Province of Ontario. Mrs. Teatero has been a member of Scaforth Hospital Auxiliary for 20 years. The positions she has held are three years as Secretary, two terms as President, member of Hospitals Board of Governors. Junior Volunteer Liason Officer both in Seaforth and on the Provin- cial Board of Teens, and is the Palliative Care Liaison Officer for the Seaforth Hospital Auxiliary. She is a local life Member, Provincial Life Member of H.A.A.O. and was awarded the Citizenship Award - Humanitarian Service by the Town of Seaforth. The next Conference will he in the Fall and held in Goderich. to consider the request when a board member clarified that it would not mean a binding commit- ment. "We still have to have a public meeting, the public still has to comment," said Tom Phillips, PUC Manager, who sits on the hospital board. "All we want to know is would you consider it." There are three sites proposed for the water tower. One of the propo- sals is for the hospital and another is near the Seaforth District Com- munity Centres. The Seaforth Community Hospital has received a grant of $30,000 towards establishing the heliport. Hydro wires may have to be moved to allow the landing pad. Debate over a smoking policy for Seaforth Community Hospital has received response from both sides of the issue. There was no unani- mous opinion one way or the other. "The general consensus is for something a bit more restrictive than what we have," said Bill Thibert, Chief Executive Officer of the hospital. Thibert said he will see what other local hospitals are dofng. Drug raid Clinton, Goderich schools . Classes at Goderich District Collegiate Institute (GDCI) took an unexpected twist April 22 at about 10:30 a.m. That was when police hit the school, in what turned out to be a two-hour drug search, which turned up an as - yet undisclosed quantity of nar- cotics. Charges are pending, police said. "We didn't know anythhig about it," said GDCI Grade 10 student Andria Harvey. The first notification students had was an announcement that told every- body to stay in their classrooms. GDCI Grade 11 student Dwane Leddy, who was in math class, peered through a vent In the door to get a view of the pro- ceedings. Harvey was in her class until about 11:40, when she was released for a dental appoint- ment. She was escorted by a teacher, fust to her locker, then the door. Students returning to school were allowed back in, but were sent straight to the cafe- teria, where they stayed until the search was over. Central Huron Secondary School (CHSS), in Clinton, underwent a similar search later the same day. Police services involved were the Goderich OPP, Goderich Municipal Police, Clinton Municipal Police, and canine units from London OPP, Chatham OPP and Sarnia Police Service. "We're looking for users, not dealers," emphasized Goderich OPP Det. Const. John Phillips. Most dealers operate outside the school boundaries, he added, although sometimes one may make a quick run through the school parking lot. 'There aren't any (dnig deals) inside the school that we know of," Phillips said. Police searched 35 lockers at GDCI and 25 at CDSS. "I don't think it's right that they can just cut your locks," said Grade 12 student Rob Renon, who was not one of the students whose locker was searched. Searches like Friday's are usually instituted by a request from the schools, because of perceived drug problems, Phillips said. "We've been meeting with police on a regular basis for a long time now, GDCI principal Bruce Shaw said. see Acid, page six