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C ominunity
knows how
to work
together
e
Stepping away from the controversy.that
surrounds the reasons for their efforts, local
fund raising endeavours should be
heartening to the community.
Harold Coleman, a senior citizen with a big
heart, organized a fund raising dance.
Community leaders are gathering
donations for a silent, fund raising auction.
And Dick Burgess- is turning over a rare
book collection to help generate funds in a
creative manner.
For a donation, people can have their
names in a bookplate inside this collection of
books by Sir Walter Scott. Burgess is
appealing to the community's Scottish
heritage and will donate the books to the
high school or library, should the high school
be closed.
That's what all these efforts are for...to help
support the legal fund being used in a
struggle to keep the high school open.
But they make a clear sign of just what this
community is capable of accomplishing.
Individuals in this town have a proven track
record of coming together for a common
cause.
Not everyone involved in this current fund
raising effort is directly affected by the
possible closure of this school but it is seen
as important to the overall community issue
and it has brought many different people
together.
Some community leaders who naturally
work together and some who are new to
community efforts have been linked in this
new cause. -.
And when the dust settles from the
upcoming legal battle, no matter what the
outcome, people should take heart in
knowing with or without a high school, there
is a strong community bond that will still be
in place for the next community crisis.
And if, when the dust settles, the high
school is left, the current efforts could be
turned into a great head start for the fitness
complex that was proposed last year, before
the threat of school closure brought that to a
halt.
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Opinion
Letters
Nurses' Association concerned
about new Long Term Care Act
To the Editor:
Re: New Long Term Care
Act
1 learned recently from
The Ontario Health
Coalition that the provincial
government is in the process
of drafting a new Long
Term Care Act: that in
addition to Bill 173, the new
Long Term Care Act will
also replace the Nursing
Homes Act, and the Homes
for the Aged and Rest
Homes Act. Most
importantly, there is to be
no open and full public
consultation on the
legislation, which is
targeted for spring 2000.
I want to express in the
strongest terms possible, my
disagreement with this
closed process and am
urging that the community
be aware of this pending
legislation that will affect
many of our family
members who are in long
term care facilities and for
those family members who
may need long term care
facilities in the future. Most
importantly, without public
consultation. we will
certainly see big problems
for those relying on long
term care. similar to the
chaos produced by the deep
cuts to the hospital sector.
The enormous importance
of this legislation and its
consequences for all aspects
of long term care: including
home and community care
and facility -based care.
merit the broadest and most
open public.consultation
. possible. Ontarians must be
given an opportunity to put
forward their concerns with
respect to long term care
legislation. service
maximums, eligibility
criteria, funding and other
vitally important issues.
I fear the real intent of
this conservative
government is to enshrine
the underfunding.
understaffing, severe
rationing of services and
transfer of many costs to
individuals which are the
current hallmarks of the
Tory system. Currently.
Long Term Care is
drastically underfunded.
Too many people cannot get
by on the too few hours of
care available; others cannot
get any care at all.
Many people are told they
have a "choice" of
purchasing care if they need
it.
Chronic patients are all
too often placed on long
waiting Lists.
Continuity of care is
becoming an impossible
dream as workers are paid
too low wages and are
increasingly viewed as
casual labour. Standards -
have been slashed in
nursing homes.
Everywhere across the
province, those who need
help are getting less.
On its re-election, this
government promised a
More open and consultative
process. i am demanding
that the provincial
government live up to both
the spirit and intent of these
earlier statements.
Ruthanne Lobb, RN
Ontario Nurses'
Association
Local 021
On behalf of Registered
Nurses at Huronview
Home for the Aged,
Clinton Huronlea,
Brussels
More than
$i,000 raised
for school
legal fund
To the Editor:
On Saturday. during Knechtel's 'Roll
into Spring S350.000 Giveaway' in
Seaforth. a fund-raiser for the legal fund
to Save Our Schools was held. Steve
and Barb Delchiaro. and the staff at
Knechtel's. through the dream vacation
lottery and the hot dogs and pop raised
more than S1.100 that will be added to
our fund. This fund-raising event shows
that the people of this area are working
together to keep our children and
schools in our community and to keep
the community strong. Game on.
Maureen Agar
on behalf of the Seaforth Student
Success Foundation
Conservative search committee formed
The Federal Riding of Huron -
Bruce. Progressive Conservative
Association. has established a
Candidate Search Committee. The
Committee is aggressively seeking
potential candidates to represent
Huron -Bruce in the next Federal
election. The Association looks
forward to ah exciting race
through which the party members
will select a candidate.
Several members from the riding
will be travelling to take part in
the upcoming National Policy
Conference to be held in Quebec
City from May 11 to May 14.
If you are interested in receiving
more information about the
process. or are interested in being
a candidate. please contact Denise
Wilkins -Treble. chair • of the
Huron -Bruce Candidate Search
Committee. at 519-357-2175: or
Maurice Donnelly. Vice Chair at
519-366-2382. Any Search
Committee member may also be
contacted.
Other members of the Committee
include: Bob Bregman. Mary
Donnelly. Murray Cardiff. Robert
Fleming and Kriss Snell.
Hullett farm sold for $3,000 to D. Hogart
April 16, 1875
Andrew Govenlock of
Winthrop has a large
number of steam mill
timbers at the Victoria
Mill. 6 miles north of
Seaforth.
The farm owned by the
late James Snell, Hullett,
has been sold to D. Hogart
for S3.000.
A staff of engineers
employed in locating the
line of the London. Huron
and Bruce Railway passed
through Brucefield.
The Council of Seaforth
have had erected an
excellent crossing in front
of the Commercial Hotel.
This is an improvement
which has long been
needed.
During the past 23 days,
A.Armitage of Seaforth has
shipped from the station
here 167 loads of grain and
salt.
The fall wheat in the
section of Seaforth is
looking unusually good.
Most of the fields are well
covered and look green and
healthy. Mr. Elgie of
Tuckersmith informs us
that he has 35 acres of fall
wheat, and judging from
present appearance will
yield,35 bushels to the
acre.
We very much regret
being called in to record
the sudden and unexpected
death of Thos. McMichael
of Hullett. He was born in
Dumfries -Shire, Scotland
in 1821. He occupied the
position of Reeve of
Hullett for 12 years.
April 14, 1900
L. Kennedy of Clinton
has leased the Queen's
Hotel in Bayfield and will
conduct it as a summer
hotel.
What might have been a
fatal accident happened in
the woods_ of 1, Rapson,
Hullett when neighbors
were helping at a work bee,
a large limb fell from a tree
hitting Robert Draper on
the head, inflicting an ugly
scalp wound.
Mrs. Corvie of Bayfield
Years agone...
had snos drops in bloom
in her garden on the first of
April.
One important event for
the ladies at the beginning
of each season is the
millinery openings. The
stores were all dressed up
in their finery.
The village hunters of
Egmondville are spending
the evenings hunting
muskrats.
D.J.Aitcheson. of
Roxboro. McKillop. now
of Devils Lake. No. Dak.
intends residing here in the
future. It is about 30 years
since he left Huion.
Mrs. James Sparling Sr.
who resides with Mrs.
J.S.Welsh, of Seaforth , has
just completed a quilt with
1,375 pieces and she is
now in her 82nd year.
Miss May Stobie of town
left for West Branch.
Michigan, where she will
engage in the millinery
business.
John Cluff had the
misfortune to have the end
of his fingers taken off in
his father's planning mill
here.
Messrs. Arnold Case, and
James Bonthron left to visit
friends in New York.
Wm. Powell. a graduate
of the Expositor. has been
elected vice-president of
the Toronto Typographical
Union.
Messrs. Alex Smillie and
Wm. Chapman. of
Tuckersmith, have sold
their well known Shorthorn
bull "New Year's Gift"
which they purchased from
Thos. Russell of Osborne
to N.P.Clark of St. Cloud,
Minnesota for $400.
A daily mail now goes
from Kippen to Drysdale
which will be a great boon
to the business men of that
little town.
Miss Retia Upshall of
Kippen has gone to
Seaforth where she has
taken a position at the
tailoring.
The ice on Lake Huron at
St. Joseph is slow in
breaking up. The lake is
still covered with ice as far
as the eye can see.
April 17, 1925
An unusually early
spring found the farmers in
the middle of seeding for -
the date of the annual
Spring Fair. There was a
large crowd in town all
afternoon.
Quite a windstorm
passed over McKillop
Township on Monday
evening doing some slight
damage. .
Kisnter Bros. John.
Robert. W. and Kenneth
returned from the new
Ontario lumber woods.
They are contemplating
sailing the Great Lakes
during the summer months.
John Moffatt of the
London Road near Kippen
is now busy getting settled
in his new home in
Clinton.
Wm. Cooper of Kippen,
had the misfortune to cut
his foot quite badly while
splitting wood. Several
stitches were required to
close the wound.
The egg pool at Hensall
has started taking eggs at
Mr. Rennie's store.
A distressingly fatal
accident occurred at the
farm of J.F. McMann,
Huron Road, when Clavor
Eckert, youngest son of
Mr. and Mrs. C. Eckart,
lost his life. He had been
fooling with a rifle, when a
bullet lodged in the barrel.
He poured the powder from
a shot gun shell into the
breech. It discharged and
the gun exploded. the lock
was blown into his eye,
entering the brain.
lames Sleeth of Sarnia,
sang a fine solo at First
Church, Seaforth.
Mr. and Mrs.
1.M.Govenlock who have
resided in Winthrop,
moved this week to
Seaforth, where they will
make their home in the
future.
Mr.• and Mrs. Robert T.
McIntosh of Forest are
returning to Seaforth.
Scott Ferguson has
installed one of- his latest
radio outfits for Dr.
H.H.Ross.
The young People's
Literary Society met in
S.S.No.5. with Cora
Sherwood presiding.
Among those who were on
the program were, Hazel
Jefferson. Hugh Chesney.
J.Doig, Cecil Pullman.
Alice Archibald. Jack
Archibald. - A . debate,
"Resolved that reading is
more beneficial than
travel." the negative by
W.Jefferson. Annie Strong.
and Mary Wallace. and the
affirmative by •Edwin
Chesney, W. Archibald.
and Dorothy Reinke.
April 14th, 1950
Neighbors and friends of
Mr. and Mrs. James Ritchie
and Miss Marilyn gathered
at the home of Mrs.
Theresa Maloney and made
them the recipients of.a
pair of boudoir lamps and a
string of pearls. Mrs. Enos
Boshart read the address
and Mrs. . Maloney
presented the gift.
Robert King is
recovering following an
accident which a caliber
bullet passed through his
chest. He is in St. Joseph's
Hospital, London.
At a fire drill at S.S.No.
6, McKillop, the 27 pupils
in the school cleared the
room in 40 seconds., under
the direction, of Foster T.
Fowler. In charge of the
drill were Louis Bolton and
Frank Johnson.
Edwin P. Chesney and
W.M.Sproat of
Tuckersmith saw 15 white
swans on the pond of Hugh
McMillan's field recently.
They spent two days in the
pond before flying away.
Mr. and Mrs. Warnock
have moved from the
Royal Apartments to the
apartment owned by Isaac
Hudson.