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Managers at
detention
centres charged
Seven managers at Elgin
Middlesex Detention Centre
and two baliffs, members of
the Ontario Public Service
Employees Union, have been
charged by Lopolice as
a result of th ix -month
investigation itito the riot and
its aftermath at the Blucwatcr
a,'`;Youth orrectional Centre
near Coderich late last
February.
Youths transferred from
Goderich to London alleged
mistreatment. In all, London
police laid 31 charges Dec. 9.
The baliffs transported the
youths. One faces a charge of
assault cau-sing bodily harm
and the other is charged with
common assault.
The seven managers all
face a variety of assault
charges.
They deny it and have
called for a public enquiry.
Free 'Bill of
Rights' Cards
Pre-printed folding aware-
ness appointment cards with
with a "Bill of Rights" mes-
sage about healthy relation-
ships are a free offer from
Huron County's committee
against woman abuse, Stop
Woman Abuse ,Now
(SWAN).
"The appointment cards
would be ideal for service
businesses such as doctors,
lawyers, therapists of all
kinds, beauty salons and any
personal service providers
who pre -book appointments
with clients," a press release
from SWAN says.
Further details arc available
by calling the organisation at
524-5333.
New warden
Don Hocking of Fullarton.
is .Perth County's new
Warden for 1997. The new
Wardcn of Bruce County is
Mildmay Reeve Keith
Campbell.
Pig, goat
projects
successful
The Twcyambc Goat
Project and United Women's
Group Pig Project arc suc-
cesses, a recent meeting of
The Federated Women's
Institutes of Ontario was told.
International convener
announced 47,000 knitted
squares have been sent from
Ontario Women's Institute
members to a couple of orga-
nizations in Zambia, one of
these to provide gainful
employment for disabled
Zambian women.
The squares arc made into
blankets, vests and stuffed
toys.
One project enabled women
in Tweyambe to purchase a
herd of 102 goats to produce
milk for nutrition and sell.
The pig project makes money
for AIDS orphans and lets
them contribute to the com-
munity.
MERRY
December 25, 1996 — $1.00 includes GST
CHRITMAG
PHOTO BY DAVID SCOTT
IN THE SPIRIT OF THE SEASON - Grade 3 students at St. James School in Seaforth performed a Nativity dramatization at the recent Christmas concert
which also featured music and skits by other classes. More photos of the St. James concert and the Huron Centennial concert appear inside.
HC asking for 60 -day extension
The Huron -Perth DHC will
ask the Ministry of Health for
a 60 -day extension to finish
its hospital study and select a
preferred option for the two
counties.
The task force "will thor-
oughly consider all commu-
nity input received from
recent open houses and
review all the information
prepared over the past five
months before selecting a
preferred restructuring option
on January 21, 1997," stated
a press release from the
Huron Perth DHC dated
December 19.
The task force has stated it
would "receive and consider
as advice" a hospital restruc-
turing option developed by
the district's eight hospitals.
"If such an option is to come
forward, it must be approved
by the boards of the eight
hospitals. The option must be
consistent with the task
force's planning criteria and
provide detail regarding loca-
tions of services," states the
press release.
"The option will have to
demonstrate how an 18 per
cent financial reduction (con-
sistent with the provincial
average funding reduction for
hospitals over three years)
can be realistically
achieved," says the DHC.
"Detailed, defensible cost-
ing must be provided. No
extensions will be granted on
this .option development as
the hospitals have been active
participants throughout the
study and have had access to
costing and other information
generated over the past five
months."
Costings look promising for Seaforth hospital
Costing has been conducted
on the three hospital restruc-
turing options and from
Scaforth's perspective, things
look promising.
Price Waterhouse
Management Consultants
conducted a "rigorous costing
analysis" of the options.
"The results of the costing
analysis indicate that based
on the 1995-96 budget for thc
district's eight hospitals of
$78.3 million, these options
constitute a range in potential
savings of between 10.2 and
17.8 per cent," states the
DHC press release.
"A 17.8 per cent savings
could be achieved if inpatient •
services were to be provided
in Listowel, Goderich,
Seaforth and Stratford and no
other institutional services
were provided within the dis-
trict. A 10.2 per cent savings
could be achieved if inpatient
services were provided in
Listowel, Goderich, Seaforth.
Stratford and Wingham, and
full ambulatory services (i.e.,
a primary hospital with no
beds) were located in
Clinton, Exeter and St.
Marys.
"Capital cost estimates
were also provided for each
of the restructuring options.
The Task Force was informed
of the additional costs that
will be required to develop
thc sites as outlined in thc
restructuring options (the true
additional capital cost of
restructuring). The additional
Third Seaforth player to go to World's
capital costs related to
restructuring range from 4.1
to 7.5 million dollars. It was
noted that thc difference
between the capital costs of
the three options is not large
enough to constitute a major
consideration in decision
making for a future hospital
system, concluded the press
release.
Boyd makes Canada's team
BY GREGOR CAMPBELL
Expositor Staff
It's getting to be a tradition
around Seaforth at this time
of year.
It's called flipping on the
television after all the turkey
and watching hockey players
from around here playing
with Team Canada for all the
marbles against the best
young players in the world.
Now Boyd Devereaux of
Seaforth is off to Europe with
Canada's national junior
team, this time to try and do
what no team has ever done
before, win the World
Championship for a fifth -
straight time.
The mighty Russian juniors
of the late 1980s won four in
a row, but never five. Canada
is the only other country to
have won four -straight, the
last four world titles, every
one since 1993, and six of the
last seven.
Devereaux, a fleet second -
year centre with the OHL's
Kitchener Rangers, made
head coach Mike Babcock's
(Spokane/WNL) last cuts and
left for Geneva, Switzerland
last Tuesday as part of the
22 -player Canadian roster, in
preparation for the high pro-
file international champi-
onship that begins Boxing
Day.
He is one of Canada's 13
forwards.
All of Team Canada's
games are being televised by
TSN.
Devereaux is l8 -years -old
and the third local player in
the past decade to have
emerged from the Seaforth
minor and junior systems and
go on to eventually make
Canada's national junior
hockey team.
Mike Watt of Egmondville
and the Michigan State
Spartans did it and won a
gold medal last year. He is
too old this time around. And
Dave McLlwain of town, an
NHL veteran now with the
IHL's Cleveland Lumber-
jacks, was with thc national
juniors in 1987. "the year
they turned thc lights out,"
whcn the already -eliminated
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