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Exeter and aree') newest
automobile
le Officially
open-
ed oa afternoon.
With aY
from Ford Motor
Company and municipal officials,
Bob and Gayle Sargaent cut the rib-
bon to open Miles Ford.
To assist the couple who have been
involved in a family me
for e
past 20 years in Hamiltonwere Ken
Czettisch and Gail Cave from Ford
and Usborne reeve Gerry Prout and
CUT FORD CAKE — Bob and Gayle Sargeant get help from employees Dave Partridge, Ties Knip and
Dalton Skinner at Saturday's official opening of Miles Ford. T -A photo
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Exeter mayor Bruce Shaw.
!dila Ford is located on the former
Oetario Hydro property in Usborne
to*pshi.p, just south of Exeter on
Highway 4.
Reeve Prout told the opening
ceremony audience and Sargeant,
"It's great to know you have the con-
fidence to locate here."
Mayor Shaw added, "It's a real pigs
to our community. We don't Bite tone
vacant land and buildings.
Bob Sargaept said he and his fami-
ly are very happy to be in Exeter.
They now reside at 21 Sherwood.
He continued, "Exeter is a, great
place to raise a family and I'm ps-
ed Ford Motor Company gave me the
opportunity to establish here.
While the official opening was
Saturday, Miles Ford has been in
operation here since January 1 of this
year.
In addition Sargaent commended
hlssxeellent staff of employees which
include parts and service manager
Dave Partridge, technician Ties Knip
and salesman Dalton Skinner.
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fivolo%fordo Moron. Noah MI/dile.
WOCANOMNOMO
June 4, 1986
The staff presented the Sargaents
with a plaque in honour of the
opening.
The Sargaents have two children.
They are 12 year old Corey and Kristi
who is nine.
Exeter has been without a Ford
dealership for the past five years
since Larry Snider Motors and Bud -
field Motors.
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Prydes' v�ke••�bj�cflons to County
declsion on severance restriction
Hob and Norma Pryde attended the
fir'tt regular June meeting of Hay
townahipcomicil to voice their objec-
tion to a condition on their application
for /severance of their house and barn
that zones as agriculture 1 a one acre
wooded lot at the north end of their
farm that was severed before they
bought the property.
Pryde said he felt he was being
blackmailed. He said he had no alter-
native but to go along, but "it seems
a crime no one can build on that
property".
Reeve Lionel Wilder said the
township was all for the extra assess-
ment that a house on the one -acre lot
would bring, and bad approved the
severance application, provided it
conformed to OMAF. regulations.
However, the agriculture 1 zoning had
'been applied because of a barn across
the road within the 1,000 -foot distance.
from the lot frontage; any possible
future expansion of farming opera-
tions in the barn would be restricted
if a house existed too clan, Thepro-
ximity of the barn on the Pryde pro -
MILES FORD OPENS — Saturday was the official opening of the. new Miles Ford dealership in Exeter. perry to the boundaa of the one -acre
?mu or
-acre
the lot had
n 40 years ago,
separate deed.
across the road
as sue,/1 for 26
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rm, eagle in to
Shown cutting the ribbon are Corey Sargeant, Ken Czettisch and Gail Cave of the Ford Motor Company, . o as so a ac
Prydes
Usborne Townshp reeve Gerry Prout, owner Bob Sargeant and Exeter mayor Brute Shaw. a'
been severed more
and had always ha
• In addition, the ba
bad not been us
years.
Larry Elder, w
remainder of the
back up the Pryd
Wilder sympathl
the Huron County
ment is trying to e
blems, and their d
on the existing sittgttion. lie agreed
,;pointed out the Prynit have the g
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Hecilth Unit suffering financial)
By Susan Ilundermark
The Huron County Health Unit is in
a financial crisis and may be laying
off staff this year, says Dr. Harry
Cieslar, Meidcal Officer of Health.
"We're asking people to take leave
of absence but if not enough people
take them, we'll be looking at lay-offs.
This is the fust year we've ever n
in this state: •ntgt tectMb
ting all the money while public health
gets less and less," he says.
The Huron County Health Unit
employs approximately 50 people.
Each employee is being asked to take
a two-week leave of absence without
pay. And, if the health unit cannot
make a four percent wage settlement
with its employees, two to four week
lay-offs of staff may result, Says Dr.
Ciesla-.
"We're not planning on stopping
any services. We're hoping the staff
can rotate with their leaves."
Out of a $10 billion budget for health
care in Ontario, public health is
allocated 8140 million, which Dr.
Cieslar says is the budget of one large
hospital and "a drop in the bucket"
of the whole budget.
Half of the health care budget goes
to hospitals, says Dr. Cieslar pointing
to the latest $850 trillion grant by
Health Minister Murray Elston to On-
tario hospitals. Southwestern Ontario,
including Huron County will get 8100
Million which will pay for 328 chronic
beds and 37 acute beds.
"We're such a small business I sup-
pose that the hospitals carry the
day," he says.
The Huron County Health Unit has
a budget of 81 million to cover the
various services it provides the coun-
ty such as prenatal clinics, nutrition
services, health education and inspec-
ting area restaurants, stores, pools
and the lake for cleanliness and
safety.
"That's $22 for each person in the
county -the cost of one case of beer.
For a Couple of cases of beer more,
we could be able to do so much
more," he says.
Brian McBurney, chairman of the
Huron County board of health says
the board feels that the province is be-
ing inflexible by freezing the budgets
of both large and small health units
at four percent.
"We're the smallest health unit in
the province and there's a great dif-
ference between four percent of our
budget and four percent of a much
larger budget," says McBurney.
And, because 85 percent of Huron's
budget is wages, the health unit is
very restricted.
McBurney says the 10 health units
in Southwestern Ontario have united
into a group which has been lobbying
the provincial government for a year
now for larger budgets.
After a representative from the
Ministry of Health attended the Huron
board of health's last meeting,
McBurney says he was not optimistic
that the board would get any more
"If things don't improve, we'll
definitely have to cut services but
we'te hoping they'll come through
with the money," he says.
"We're carrying on right now as if
we're fully budgetted but lay-offs are
a possibility."
McBurney says the comparatively
small budgets given to health units
are representative of a viewpoint of
treating disease rather than preven-
ting it.
"If a person is saved from being
sick, nobody hears about it but if a
person gets a heart transplant, it's in
all the newspapers," he says.
Dr. Cieslar agrees adding that
though it's difficult to measure the
roll of prevention, it's obvious that
there are a lot of things the health unit
could be doing to promote the health
of people in the county with more
money.
"Nobody ever thanks you for not
having a heart. attack. But, it's pro-
ven that lifestyle plays a big part in
stayng healthy. Fifty percent of all
cancers can be prevented. We can do
something about our own exposures
to chemicals, have breast examina-
tions and pap smears."
"A lot more screening of diseases
could be done with the state of
knowledge we have. We hear a lot
about people scrambling to get into
cancer beds in hospitals but we could
be helping to prevent those cancers,"
he says.
With a bigger budget, Dr. Cieslar
says the health unit could also be help-
ing to improve parenting skills in the
county and therefore reduce the
abuse of children by increasing the
Manpower trained to identify families
at risk.
It could also improve its services
aimed at the health of county
adolescents by increasing education
about teen pregnancy, alcohol and
drug abuse and teen suicide.
"A high-poewred community
psychologist would go a tremendous
way in Huron County but we don't
have the budget to pay for his or her
wages," he says.
More supportive housing services
could keep more elderly people at
home out of . nursing homes and
hospital beds. And, greater education
about diet and exercise Could keep
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more people who require triple by-
pass operations out of the hospital.
As far as health unit employees are
fladitionally underpaid does nothing
to help the quality of the unit's work,
says Dr. Cieslar.
"Everyone talks about how good
public health nurses are but they're
dramatically underpaid ev • gh
'``•I've �o rt'id> g li at II, : s . n
many nurses m hospitals. They could .•
be making up to $3,000 more a year
at a hospital and that's not the wayit
should be. In the long term, that's not
good for public health," he says.
opics
A good tithe was spent shuffling at
the Exeter arena Wednesday.
Top scores were Ernie Chipchase-
465, Olga Chipchase- 390, Howard
Johns- 375, Ray Cottle- 358 and John
Pepper- 331.
'•arguntents.
but explained
tanning rt-
inatefutl�i
ision was based
V
the zoning made tot useless, end
rl
appeal: Ptiblle htgeaeiisni
the Prydes wish to launch ari earlier
appeal, they will have to pay the costs
of holding the required public
meeting; which would be a minimum
of $250.
Wilder advised the Prydes to' talk
to their lawyer, and let him consult
with Don Pullen about OMAF regula-
tions, and with chief county planner
Dr:'Oary Davidson about the zoning.
Karl Haberer also attended the
meeting to get an update on the
Zurich drain situation. Wilder. said
Zurich has appointed Don Pletch of
Huron -Middlesex Engineering to des
survey and' bring in a preliminary
report, and Hay is waiting until the
report is brought in.
Haberer would like to see work pro-
ceed as quickly as possible. He is con-
cerned about what could happen if a
lot of rain fell in a short time, as hap-
pened recently in Pittsburgh. He said
the present conditions also devalue af-
fected real estate, and "too many
have forgotten Hurricane Hazel."
Wilder promised to "find out what
stage we are at" when he meets with
Zurich reeve Bob Fisher this week.
In other business, road superinten-
dent Ross Fisher was asked to attend
the meeting in Exeter on the Beaver
drain to find out exactly where the
dividing line goes on Walper St. bet-
ween town and township.
The old tanker truck will be sold to
Wayne Glanville for $1,000, and the
township of Stanley will be sent 35
percent share of the proceeds.
A bylaw was passed changing the
amount of loan for tile drainage to 75
percent to a maximum of $20,000.
Angel to companion: "I know you us-
ed to be in advertising, Ernie, but up
here we refer to them as "converts,"
not "new accounts."
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