HomeMy WebLinkAboutTimes-Advocate, 1981-01-14, Page 1Report disappointing, still hope for nursing home
Both Mayor Bruce Shaw
and Deputy reeve Al Epp are
disappointed in the recently
released Peat, Marwick
report on long term care
planning for senior citizens.
Shaw and Epp, along with
Morley Hall are on a nursing
home planning committee
for Exeter. The committee
was waiting for the results of
the health study before
pursuing the senior citizen
care project.
The study, which was
commissioned by the Huron -
Perth Administrators'
Working Group, was com-
pleted by Peat, Marwick
management consultants.
They looked Into hospital and
nursing home care for senior
citizens in both counties.
Epp described the study as
"quite vague". "It doesn't
really give us that much to
go on," he added. Shaw
agreed that the study was
"fuzzy". He said he would
have liked to see more detail
and more positive recom-
mendations.
Both Shaw and Epp were
optimistic about getting a
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CONKLIN CONTEST WINNER — Roy Stover of Exeter was the winner of o Chrysler K car
in the recent Conklin Home Centres contest. Above, Conklin president Brian Davies turns the
keys over to Roy and Ruth Stover. At the right is Exeter branch manager Wayne Pearce. The
contest was open to customers of the 16 Conklin Home Centres in Ontario. T -A photo
Want grants, tile loans denied non-residents
senior citizen facility in
Exeter. According to Epp,
Exeter could have a nursing
home in the foreseeable
future, which he said would
be within the next five years.
Shaw said that he would like
to see a facility built which
would be part rest home with
chronic care beds, and the
other part used as a housing
units for senior citizens, with
a central cafeteria, so that
the seniors could have their
privacy.
Epp siad that the study
could be used to support the
need for a senior citizen
facility, despite . its
vagueness. He said that
there were five points made
in the study which demon-
strate Exeter's need. He
listed the five points:
-- the inequitable distribution
of health services for senior
citizens in the county.
-- the definite need for more
nursing home beds in the
county. The study said 22 to
27 beds are needed.
-- future long term care
facilities should not be built
in rural areas, but in major
communities where the
majority of the aged
population lives.
-- Exeter is listed as a.major
community in Huron County,
and does not have a nursing
home.
-- families like to look after
their senior citizens, and be
able to visit them easily.
Epp said that the com-
munity has shown support of
building a nursing home, and
that council is fortunate to
have agreement in principle
from neighbouring town-
ships to support a facility.
Shaw stressed that he will
do everything he can to get
started on the building of a
senior citizen facility this
year.
He added that Exeter was
fortunate in that the hospital
has already moved towards
the concept of a community
health centre for seniors.
Shaw said that the com-
mittee will be meeting early
in February to commence
work towards the facility.
"We've done the exploration
and the studies, now we're
ready to go ahead." he said.
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Learn about pits and quarries regulation
F of A continue for.el n ownership fight
Thursday was regulations Craig Laing told
governing the operation of federation members pit
pits and quarries in the operators pay the eight cents
county. Carig Laing, pits and per metric tonne deposit on
quarries inspector for the March 31 of the following
Ministry of Natural year, which means they
Resources, Wingham office, must keep a record of the
outlined the implications of tonnage of gravel removed
the Pits and Quarries from their pit during the
Control Act for farmers with year.
gravel pits on their
property.
Under the act, which now
covers all townships within
the area, operators must pay
eight cents per metric tonne
security fee on extracted
gravel, effective January 1,
1981. The fee is paid to the
Treasurer of Ontario to
guarantee pits and quarries
will be rehabilitated in the
future. The deposit is
returned to operators when
rehabilitation is in progress
or is complete on a site.
Also, effective July 1, 1981,
pits and quarries operators
must obtain a license from
the ministry for their pits,
outlining plans for the site, was killed in the collision
including rehabilitation, or j which flattened the vehicle.
else operations at the pits Prendergast sustained
must cease. multiple injuries.
Huron County Federation Federation of Agriculture
of Agriculture members are (OFA) was asked to request
continuing their campaign the government make
against the absentee funding available only to
ownership of Ontario farm Ontario residents.
land. Tony McQuail, who
At their January meeting, seconded the motion put
held at Clinton Public School
on Thursday, members
approved a motion asking
the provincial government to
make funds for programs
such as tile loans and capital
grants available only to
resident Ontario farm
owners.
The resolution stated
"whereas limited money is
available for such programs
as tile loans, capital grant
programs, etc. and whereas
Canadian taxpayers should
not be supporting absentee
investors', the Ontario
Wins battle
loses war
An ,Exeter man won the
battle but lost the war when
he appeared in Exeter court,
Tuesday. on a charge of hav-
ing liquor unlawfully.
Ralph Ivan Bremner,
Norwood Village, was charg-
ed with having liquor while
under the legal age. The
arresting officer said the ac-
cused told him he was 18.
However. Bremner said
that someone else in the
vehicle said he was 18 and
pointed out that he is in fact
19.
Bremner was then told
that the law permits another
charge may be laid and he
was then charged with hav-
ing care and control of a
motor vehicle in which li-
quer was available and the
underage charge was
dropped.
He was subsequently fined
$53 and was given 15 days in
• which to pay.
In the only other case
heard by Justice of the
Peace Douglas Wedlake,
Tuesday, Micheal L. Par-
sons. Exeter, pleaded guilty
to a charge of driving while
under suspension.
At the request of the
Crown. the sentence was
delayed for two weeks to ob-
tain any driving record per-
taining to the accused.
forward by Merle Gunby,
said since the province isn't
getting anywhere very
quickly on limiting absentee
ownership, the motion's
intent was to make sure the
limited funding available for
Ontario farmers wasn't used
up on absentee owners.
In response to a query
asking if absentee owners
have already received funds
for tiling, Merle Gunby said
no examples of this were
known to committee
members, but it was a
possibility they were trying
to head off before it hap-
pened.
The theme of the
federation meeting on
family pack
BRINGING IN THE BOTTLES — Harlen Tinney, Alan Blommaert, Robbie
during Saturday's bottle drive sponsored by the Exeter Scouting organization.
McLelland
and Jamie McBride help unload a truck
T -A photo
Hope to get three councils to
discuss recreation again
Exeter Mayor Bruce Shaw
indicated this week there
would be one more attempt
to reach some formal
agreement between Exeter,
Usborne and Stephen over
the operation of the South
Huron rec centre and local
recreational activities and
facilities.
At the present time, the
three municipalities have a
loose working arrangement
whereby all three make
appointments to the rec
centre board of
management, but there is no
financial agreement bet-
ween them.
Both Usborne and Stephen
READY TO DESCEND — Kim Crawford, Brenda Balsdon and Scott Crawford prepare to
slide down the steep snow hill behind the Exeter United Church, Sunday afternoon
Took only 50 minutes
Her 'three' came quickly
When bad luck strikes it
sometimes comes in a series
of three mishaps.
That's what happened to a
St. Marys area woman Tues-
day morning when she was
involved in three highway
accidents in 50 minutes on
Middlesex County road 23,
south of Highway 7.
The series of events began
at 5:30 a.m. when a vehicle
driven by Shirley Jean
Fugaro. RR 1, St. Marys and
a tractor trailer operated by
Wayne Sprung of Owen
Sound collided.
Five minutes later while
the two drivers were walk-
ing south to call police they
were struck by an unknown
southbound vehicle. They
suffered minor injuries only.
have made voluntary con- ficial was unable to attend
tributions to the rec centre's due to the stormy weather.
operating budget since it was
built, but the contributions
are not based on any
particular agreement.
Mayor Shaw noted that
Usborne increased its
contribution last year to
16,000. It had previously been
paying $4,000: He added that
while Stephen's contribution
has been unchanged, that
township's position regar-
ding recreation has changed It is expected that Sinclair
since the rec centre was built will attend the meeting with
in that it has taken over the the councils to cite some of
operation of the arena at the problems he sees with
Huron Park. the present setup. It's a
Shaw said that it is position in which he's found
planned to hold a joint himself before
meeting of the three councils
some time in February to
discuss the situation.
The move to take another
look at the structure,
organization and respon-
siblility of the rec centre and
recreational activities and The Institute of Canadian
facilities has been prompted Bankers reports that an Ex -
by the resignation of ad- eter banker has successfully
ministratnr Ian Smith, who camplcted its Fellows'
left on the weekend to take a Program at the University
similar position in Longlac. of Toronto
Shaw, along with some
members of Exeter council,
suggested last week it was
an opportune time to look at
the position and to hold
discussions on just what is
needed before a replacement
is hired.
AL about 6:20 the Fugaro The Mayor indicated that
vehicle while unattended the new board of
was struck by a vehicle management met informally
driven by Fred Stoffle, RR 2, last week and agreed to hold
Ailsa,Craig. off hiring a replacement for
Constable J.A. Wilson of Smith until the discussion
the Lucan OPP detachment among the three area
investigated the three ac- municipalities takes place.
cidents. He listed damages The board had invited Al
at $700 in the first crash and Sinclair to that meeting last
81.500 in the one involving week, but the ministry of
the hit and run vehicle. culture and recreation of -
Shaw said that it was also
an opportune time to review
the rec centre operation and
recreation among the
councils in that most of the
representatives on this
year's board are
/newcomers.
Only returning members
are Jerry MacLean and Ann
Prout.
Banker is
a `fellow'
The new Fellow is Arthur
R McKenzie of The Bank of
Nova Scotia
The institute of Canadian
Bankers was founded in 1967.
the objective of its Fellows'
I'rogranr is to provide a
solid foundation in general
business education at the un-
iversity level and a
managerial overview of the
business of banking. More
than 3600 bankers have com-
pleted the program since it
was started 13 years ago.
Of the 11,629 students
enrolled at 51 universities
last year. 6907 were from
Ontario.
Little change
in area youth
Michael Prendergast, 16,
of Grand Bend, remains in
critical condition in Univer-
sity Hospital, London, from
injuries received in an acci-
dent between Dashwood and
Exeter on January 3. .
The SHDHS student was a
passenger in a car driven by
Scott Hasselback, which
skidded on ice on Highway 83
and slid sideways into a
tandem milk truck.
Hasselback. of Exeter,
Stephen committee
set for new centre
At the latest meeting of
Stephen township council,
committees were approved
for the proposed new
Medical Centre in the police
village of Dashwood.
The Medical Centre will
be constructed on property
on the west side of Huron
county road 2, one block
south of Highway 83 in Dash-
wood.
Bob Koffman is the overall
chairman with Pat Sullivan,
Harry Hayter and Martha
Weigand in charge of fund
raising. Jim Becker and Ken
Rader will head the building
committee with Mervyn
Tiernan and Anthony
Tiernan looking after doctor
relations.
Ninia Kraft is the
treasurer and Nola Love will
be handling the secretarial
duties and Nancy Rader and
Ruth Anne Merner are
handling publicity.
A request from Dashwood
trustees for a subsidy to
resurface Helen street on the
Hay township side of the
police village was referred to
that municipality.
The Ontario Municipal
Board has dealt with all
appeals and approved the
bylaw for the Green Forest
subdivision on Gill road,
adjacent to the village of
Grand Bend.
Council will now call a
meeting with developer
Phillip Walden and Huron
county planner George
Penfold to review the
situation.
Tile drain loan ap-
plications were approved in
the amount of 127.700.
The township will be
requesting a meeting with
McGillivray township to
review fire protection rates.
The resignation of Bill
Schade from the Dashwood
athletic field committee was
accepted and he was
replaced by Glenn Thurman.
Deputy -reeve Alan Walper
and councillors Ken McCann
and Tom Tomes will be
attending a seminar for new
councillors in Stratford
March 6-7.
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Councillor Tomes and
clerk Wilmar Wein will be
attending the Rural Ontario
Municipal convention in
Toronto February 8 to 11 and
those attending the Ontario
Good Roads convention
February 22-25 are Doug
Russell. Ken McCann.
Wilmar Wein, Eric Fink-
beiner and Donald Clarke.
The pits inspector said the
eight cent security deposit
"reflects more accurately
the cost of rehabilitation and
will provide incentive for
rehabilitation when the pit is
still in operation."
Operators will be paid a
rate of interest on the deposit
equal to the Province of
Ontario accounts interest
rates, which Mr. Laing
called "a little sugar with the
bad medicine I guess."
Originally operators were to
receive only six percent
interest on the security
deposit.
The inspector also outlined
regulations in Bill 127, the
Aggregates Act, which the
government has been trying
to pass for some time to
replace the Pits and
Quarries Control Act. Under
the new act, which has had a
second reading, in addition
to the eight cents security
fee, operators will also have
to pay a royalty fund of six
cents per tonne, which will
be divided between the
municipality, the countyand
the province. The royalty fee
won't be returned to
operators. Mr. Laing said
this money will be used by
government to repair roads
and implement dust controls
to repair damage by heavy
truck traffic around pits. In
response to a question from
the audience, Mr. Laing said
he didn"t expect the
Aggregates Act would be
passed until a majority
government was in office.
The inspector was asked
how a stockpile of crushed
gravel would be affected by
the security fee regulations.
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PROGRAM HAWKERS — Kelly Whiteford and Sandy Pratt
were two the program sellers at the weekend Exeter Hawks
junior hockey tournament. T•A photo
Negotiations will
resume this month
Contract negotiations but that negotiating session
between the Huron County tailed to produce any hint of
Board of Education and its settlement
secondary- school teachers Negptiations will resume
will not likely resume until by the end of January and
the end of .January. land, said they will take
Place an 1.ondon
tine will organize
11eer1ng'. before the end of
the month in London." he
saki Right now the
reit tiers and board are
meeting in their own groups
ra. rear tint) their positions or
whatever '
The personnel committee
of the hoard will hold special
meetings during the third
week 01 January.
The two sides were unable
to reach an agreement in in-
itial bargaining sessions and
i'rofessor Jeffrey Gandz of
the University of Western
Ontario was appointed to
assist by the Education
Relations Commission.
Gandz mediated talks
between the board and
leachers for three days in
I)eceniber at Benntiller Inn
CREDITON CLUB EXECUTIVE – The new executive of the Crediton men's club was installed Saturday night. Back left,
committee heads, Lorry Scott, lunch; Charles Browning Sr., membership; Bryon Clarke refreshments Dick lord, entertain.
ment, Lloyd Roeszler, membership and Wilmar Wein, planning and program advisor. front vice presidents Fred Bowes and
Glenn Hodgins, president Ken Glavin; past president Gerold Dearing and treasurer Bob ReN 'laid' Huss.-io was secretory
Gerold O'Leary. T•A photo
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