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PHOTO BY DAVID SCOTT
NEW LIFT SYSTEM - Nevada ticket sales at Janet's Country Donuts raised $5,000 to pur-
chase a new patient lift system which. is already in use by staff at the Seaforth Community
Hospital. Two electric beds for the hospital were also purchased from $6,000 donated
from Janet's as well. From left: Hospital CEO Bill Thibert, Val Poisson and Janet Haak.
PHOTO BY DAVID SCOTT
FAMILY FAIR - The Women's Resource Centre on Main St, Seaforth hosted a Family
Fair on Thursday from 2 to 7 p.m. to highlight various community services and groups,
including the ,Huron County Health Unit, Rural Response for Healthy Children,' Seaforth
Co-operative Children's Centre, Huron Community Midwifery Services, Labour Support
Providers, Child Find, Seaforth Playgroup and the Seaforth and District'Youth Group.
Displays were set up and refreshments were served.
Future of adult
day centre is
focus of survey
on October 29
BY DAVID EMSLIE
SSP News Staff
The future of adult day cen-
tres in Huron County will be
the focus of a survey to he
published on Oct. 29. _ and
organizers arc hoping for a
huge return of surveys from
county residents.
Rosemary Armstrong.
director of the Huron Adult
Day Centre. explained that
day centres are expected to
attract more clients in the
future. as they will hCG under
the umbrella of Community
Care Access Centres.
Referrals from those centres
will add to the numbers at day
centres. as will thc aging pop-
ulation who arc remaining at
home. and who will be avail-
able to use the centres.
Day centres. which offer
furl. friendship and socializa-
tion for those who might not
otherwise have thc•opportuni-
ty to get out of the home. are
therefore planning for the
future by conducting the sur-
vey across the county.
Armstrong noted they are try-
ing to get some idea of the
direction they should he
going. and asking. "Are we
going in the right direction''"
The idea for a needs survey,
she said. originally arose .
when the Wingham Day
Ccntrc received a grant to do
a survey for northern Huron
and •southern Bruce Counties.
As Huron's centres were
looking at thc possible amal-
gamation of day centres. "we
decided to all go together and
do the needs survey."
Armstrong stated.
Originally considering a
household mailing. organiz-
ers felt they might get a fetter
response through a different
method of circulating the sur-
vey. and thus they decided to
publish the survey in the (kt.
29 issue of Focus magazine.
No preconceived, solution'
CONTINUED from page 4
the DHC's Health and Hospital Restructuring Steering
Committee (that's a mouthful) report. Kincardine's recut,
Norm Annetts stated "If anyone tries to hack out of the deal. I
think we'll he in for a pig legal battle...1 don't know if we
could get out without being sued by the other three hospitals."
Dr. R.D. Mowhary. a radiologist from Point Clark. wrote the
DHC and the Kincardine Net's to say that the DHC's report
was "incredulous." "This report has dashed my hopes for fair
representation for rural hospitals of the Grey -Bruce region and
confirmed my early suspicions that input from rural providers
and consumers would not be taken seriously." •
Hopefully. the process wilFhe fair and like DHC Executive
Director Fraser Bell stated. "there is no preconceived solu-
tion" meaning that in a room somewhere. a decision has not
already been made to close "X" hospital or get rid,of "Y"
department in a medical centre. Hospital staff and health care
workers and administration in Huron and Perth all have a
chance for input. as well as the public. But to what degree
public input has in the decision making process is not known.
Hopefully all perspectives that are offered will he considered
equally. That would he the democratic way. - DWS
will
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Water tower on
hold for now
Mayor Irwin Johnston told
Seaforth Council's Oct. 8
meeting that "there is no
funding for water tower con-
struction at this time, and we
may have to fund it our-
selves."
He said the town still has a
reserve fund for the project
and is "still looking -for help
from the province," who
helped pay for an earlier
study on the proposed pro-
ject.
The mayor is the town's
representative on the Seaforth
Public Utility Commission.
ABCA hopes
to sell land to
raise money
A small parcel of land in
•' Duplin is'among various
scattered lots the Ausahle-
Bayfield Conservation
Authority (ABCA) hopes to
sell in order to raise funds
"for the protection of envi-
ronmer tally important land,"
according to an Oct. 15 press
release
'Some of the land that the
ABCA'currently owns is not
needed for environmental
protection; the land came
'with larger parcels of land
when it was purchased." it
continues. "A property
review done by the ABCA
recommended that some land
he sold."
The authority has offered
the Duplin lot to Hibbert
Township. Five residential
lots in Parkhill are also for
sale, as is land in
McNaughton Park (excluding
the house) which has been
offered to Exeter.
ABCA' owns about 10,000
acres of land. It has pur-
chased land for flood and
erosion control, significant
natural' features and recre-
ation.
The area conservation
authority "is looking for help
to keep their lands open for
public use," according to its
press release.
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