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Nev.,' occupational
diet apist at
Seaford' hospital.
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Feature
Local horseshoer
inducted into
hall of fame.
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July 23, 1997 --$1.00 includes GST
Forest owner
tax incentive
Starting with the next tax
year, landowners with more
than 10 acres of forested land
(10 hectares) are eligible for
a managed forest tax incen-
tive program states last
week's press release from the
A'usab1e-Bayfield
Conservation Authority.
Those who qualify "will
have their property reac-
cessed and they would pay
25 per cern of the rate."
Application must be made
before the end of this August,
and further details are avail-
able by contacting your con-
servation authority.
Water rises in lake
Water has risen in most of
the Great ,Lakes to near
record levels.
Lake Huron was 58. um
above average at the end of
June says Environment
Canada. It and Lake Superior
"arc expected to.continue ris-
ing through this month while
Lake St. Clair are expected to
peak, and Lake Ontario is
declining now from high lev-
els."
The federal agency says if
wet weather persists Lakes
Huron, Superior and Eric
could come within 10 to 15
cm of record highs set 11
years ago, in 1986.
Hi-Lites on sign? READY TO HEAD HOME - Darin Dick of Seaforth inches off of third base, while a some what less inteBYnse ShawCAMPBELL
na Duff
GREG
interested in acquiring space
The Harmony Hi-Lites are protects the bag, in local T -ball action at the high school's south diamond Wednesda PHOTOxon .
y More T -ball pix on Page 9.
on the Seaforth signs at the Municipal .Restructuring
i ee
Committee
geriatric team
Huron health
professionals
band together
to gather
information
BY CARLA-ANN OUD
SSP News Staff
Some local health profes-
sionals have banded together
to detect problems which
untreated, send the "fragile
elderly" to institutions too
early.
"The underlying premise
[of geriatric assessment) is
that there is a lot we can't fix,
but there is a lot we can," said
Joan Spittal, a social worker
from Goderich's Alexandra
Marine and General Hospital.
If discovered in time, some
problems can be reversed or
prevented, she said. For exam-
ple, an elderly person whose
behavior has radically
changed may be acting out,
not from a mental deficiency,
but because of a reaction to
medication.
Spittal and nine others from
different health-care fields
have been learning how to
assess the health of the elderly
to become the local resource
team for the Southwestern
Ontario Regional Geriatric
Program (SWORGP) within
the Goderich-Clinton-Seaforth
corridor.
Two team members gather
information about an elderly
patient from simple clinical
o servatio
views. ter the testing, the
tests,
entrances of town.
b ns and inter -
The design of the logo of p 1 Af
the popular area women's _ _ 1 nsults with the rest of
for
usal BY TRISH WILKINSON
aid SSP News Staff
the
choir was shown
Seaforth's council's per
on July 8.
Works superintendent s
room can be made on
town's entrance signs n
that the "Optimist Club is
longer in operation."
�us n for amalgamation in pair co so
oN The Municipal
no Restructuring Committee
(MRC) has voted to push for-
ward with its amalgamation
S proposal despite the decision
by Hay Township Council to
cr defer the motion to proceed.
ir The motion to prepare a
he restructuring proposal for the
d Villages of Bayfield, Hensall
al and Zurich and the Townships
of Stanley. Hay and
Tuckersmith was passed at
Wednesday night's MRC
meeting after.it received the
f green light from thc five other
} municipalities.
Hay Township Councillor
h Don Firth stated that his t
s council had discussed thc
motion to proceed with r
Bridge repair
Hullett hired John Reym
Construction to rt;pa
Hogsback Bridge in t
township for an estimate
$94,807.50 after a speci
meeting of council July 12.
Japanese corps to
play at Brussels
A drum and bugle corps o
young people from Japan wil
perform and stay in Brussel
when it celebrates its 125t
anniversary at the end of thi
month.
The corps from Yokahoma
is made up of 45 members,
14 to 19 -years -old, who will
stay and rehearse at the com-
munity centre in the nearby
village for about five days
before continuing on their
North American tour.
Their concert at the
Brussels arena is scheduled
for that Monday night, July
28, at 7:30.
preparing an amalgamatio
proposal, but was unable t
come to a decision and r
vote was taken.
"(Council) would not Tike t
proceed at this time," Firt
said. "There (are) too many
questions that arc unan
swered."
However, Firth noted that
his council will still remain
apart of the group while they
wait for answers to their con-
cerns.
"fin going to vote against
Proceeding, but we will still
be in it," Firth stated.
One of Hay Council's con-
certs, which was discussed
by the committee following
the vote to proceed, was the
need for the road departments
o be looked at again.
Firth stated that since the
oad superintendents were
n only ask d f
o before the original MRC
° report was made, there was
some concern that they may
o not have been given enough
h of a say in the process.
Other committee members
- agreed that it wouldn't take
much to meet with them
again, and it was decided that
the road superintendents
would be contacted and invit-
ed to attend the next meeting.
"I think it would take very
• little time on the part of the
MRC to listen to the concerns
that the road superintendents
might have,"Hayfield
Councillor Doug
rGrant said.
However, Hay Township
Clerk -Treasurer Janisse
Zimmerman noted that the
committee should specify to
the road superintendents that
any new ideas they have
c or one report
The Yokahoma young peo-
ple will have about 20
adults, including cooks,
teachers and instructors, trav-
elling,with them when they
arrive in Brussels July 26.
The corps will head for
Grand Haven, Mich., when it
leaves the area, with the
world championships at
Orlando, Fla., an eventual
defOinatifal.
Lott waste .could go
Exeter look'
south in future
Y KEVIN SHILLINGLAW
48P Summer Student
In the future, the waste of
Huron County may be served
by two landfill sites.
The eventual closing of all
small landfill sites and using
two large landfill sites for the
county was under discussion
during a meeting held July 10
'regarding the Huron County
Waste Management Master
To facilitate this, the county
as been divided into a north
rid south waste management
anes,, stated Gary Davidson,
of Planning and
should include more cost sav-
ings.
"You've got to give more
focus," Zimmerman said to
the committee. "The idea of
this whole project is to save
money."
Another concern of both
Hay and Zurich, who also
submitted a list of questions,
was the proposed location of
Varna for the new municipal
office.
Dwayne LaPorte, reeve of
Zurich, stated that ratepayers
shouldn't have to pay the
mileage to travel back and
forth to the area.
However, Bill Carnochan,
reeve of Tuckersmith, stated
that Varna was more central
than any of the other build-
ings.
"I don't think that we need
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viereplommoservomosto-
ng o increase landfill
ible and could change for any the Environment to amend the:
numberof reasons." existingCe
te
The Mid -Huron Landfill Approvl to allows for t
Site, which serves Clinton, continued use of the land!
Goderich, Lucknaw, site
Development for the county.
The northern zone, which
includes Ashfield, East and
West Wawanosh, Morris,
TLrnberry, Howick, Hullett.
Grey and McKillop
7bwnships, would have the
landfill site located in Morris,
The southern zone, which
includes Colborne, Goderich,
Stanley, Tuckersmith, Hay,
Usborne and Stephen
Townships, would have
Exeter as their landfill site.
Clinton is located on the divi-
sion line so it has been decid-
ed that the town will be part
of the southern zone.
"'This division is not Cora[,"
said Davidson. " It is still flex -
capacity
the team to recommend the
family physician check out
ce
rtarn areas.
It's the kind of sleuthing
which cannot often be done
within a rural, general prac-
tice.
Dr. Mark Woldnik, a family
physician from Seaforth said
most physicians lack the time
to figure out what might be
wrong with a "fragile elderly"
patient.
These people, who range
between 80 and 100 years of
age, are not just older than the
elderly, they have unique
medical conditions and con-
cerns brought on by their age,
he said.
For this age group, there are
concerns about dementia seen
in diseases like Alzheimer's
or Parkinson's.
They are not Tike the 60 -
year -old who can walk in and
easily tell you what's wrong,
he said.
Medically, what works for a
60 -year-old may not be appro-
priate for an 8S -year-old, he
said.
Special, time-consuming,
investigations are needed to
probe for the age-specific con -
erns of the psychological
tate and memory in the frail
lderly, be said.
,Often, be said, the clues to a
tient's problems are circu-
ting through other health
c+ttie.111C141.
$0 4‘011 explained, as an
derly person shuttles
tweet) home care, family
y+ law, hospitals and nurs-
bgmes, the medical infor-
t
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e
Bayfield, Seaforth, Colborne, Exeter'slandfill site is act ''"
Goderich Township, and ally a two area site, said Cra' pa
Tuckersmith, only has Metzger, a planner for the` la
_
351 .767
cubic metres capaci- county.
ty remaining. This gives the
site a retraining lift of about
13 years until it is completely
full. This would b: when the
Exeter site would take over
and begin receiving Mid -
Huron's waste, along with
that from the southern sites.
Exeter has submitted an
application to the Ministry of
"As of now, Exeter has
exhausted site A of the land-
fill," said Metzger. "Exeter is
in the process of getting per.
mission to begin using site $,.
to its full potential."
Right now, Exeter's
capacity of site B is
cubic metres. but it has
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he
tnatiin does not necessarily
iat amts [emod.
'the team can collect the
i n formation, package it and
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