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HomeMy WebLinkAboutTimes Advocate, 1991-02-27, Page 22Page 22 Times -Advocate, February 27, 1991 Public speaking champs torztFi:owsllim a� PRESENTS WHISKEY JACK SAT. MARCH 9,1991 DANCE9PM-1AM Re.p.e miott . Ada COUPLES 15.00 SIN6LES1/O. - - JIWCX PROVIDED FOR TICKETS CONTACT. • Wr1YNE- 262- 264-4- • 644• TOM - 235- 2704- • R • 235~ 2902 Oki ANY HAWK PlAYtR A2 EXt(, U !I VE. aviation .l..F•c• Ass Thurs*, Feb. 28 Dabber Bingo Zurich Community Contra Bonanza Game in 55 calls (Estimated value about $700) t s Jackpot $1,100.00 must Go s Bingo Starts at 7 p.m. No one under 16 eligible to play Public speakers - The Exeter Legion presented cash prizes to these Exeter Public School students for their public speaking. From left are Kristy Ahrens, Julie Godbolt, Legion represntative Clay Murray, Crys- talynn Cowell, Rianne Laye and Michelle Snow. Firefighters say thanks By Roberta Walker GRAND BEND - The, Grand Bend Volunteer Fire Department would like to thank the community for their great support when over 400 came to the Firemen's Pancake Breakfast last Sunday during Win- ter Carnival. Grand Bend Lioness are hosting a Pot Luck Supper and Card Party for area seniors on Thursday, Feb- ruary 28, at 6:30 p.m. in the Le- gion Hall. Seniors are asked to bring a dessert. Don't forget World Day of Prayer Service on March 1, at the Church of God at 2 p.m. Precious Blood - These speakers form Precious Blood also received cash prizes from the Exeter Legion. From left are Toni DeJong, San- dra Steele, Legion representative Clay Murray, Christine Coolman, and Lawrence Cole. Scholarship awarded CLINTON - George Thompson, of Clinton, has been selected to re- ceive the prestigious Nuffield Trav- elling Scholarship, and will be in the United Kingdom studying agri- culture for the next four months. The Canadian Nuffield Scholar- ship Association announced that Mr. Thompson, a cash crop farmer from Huron County, has been awarded the scholarship to study land stewardship and conservation issues. Thompson is a graduate from the University of Guelph. Over the past couple of years he has been active- ly involved in the evaluation of OMAF's Land Stewardship Pro- gram and is pursuing his M.Sc. de- gree, as well as continuing the op- eration of his cash crop farm. The Nuffield Scholarship Pro- gram helps promising young Cana- dian farmers study agricultural practices in other Commonwealth No injuries reported EXETER - On Thursday the Ex- eter Police Department investigated a motor vehicle accident at the in- tersection of Main St. and Thames Road. Vanye DeJong of Sudbury was southbound on Main St. when his vehicle collided with a car/horse trailer combination that was north- bound on Main St. and turning left onto Thames Road. The second ve- hicle was driven by Robert Ha- aide mather of Hensall. There were no injuries. On Sunday, the police investigat- ed a car/pedestrian accident near 311 Main St. A southbound car driven by Rob- ert Ironside of London was in colli- sion with Alexander Richardson, 5, of Grand Bend. The impact was slight as the child ran into the side of the slow-moving vehicle. There were no injuries. cording to their abilities to acquire understanding and to share it with other members of the agricultural community. The Canadian Nuffield Agricultu- ral Scholarship Association an- nounced two scholarship awards this year. Ian MacPhadden, a farm- er from Saskatchewan, has been pursuing his scholarship in Austra- lia and New•Zealand. Both Canadi- an scholars will be participating with other countries' Nuffield scholars in Great Britain and France, during the month of March. The Nuffield Scholarship Pro- gram has been operating since 1951 and awards scholarships annually to cover the costs of a four-month study period in Australia, New Zea- land and/or the United Kingdom. On their return, scholars are expect- ed to share their understandings and experiences with their Canadi- an peers. countries. Scholars are selected ac- UCO operating as usual at the Ontario Stock Yards MISSISSAUGA - United Co- operatives of Ontario (UCO) is op- erating as usual at the Ontario Stock Yards, stated Chief Executive Officer Bob Bethune. Last Monday, Livestock Com- missioner Dr. Ken R. Fisk con- firmed the licence for: the co- operative to operate at the Ontario Stock Yards as a commission firm. Until Monday, UCO was deemed to operate as a licensed dealer by the Livestock Inspection Branch of the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food (OMAF). Producers sellinko licensed live- stock dealers are protected from pay- ment default in sales transactions by the Livestock Financial Protec- tion Program which is administered by OMAF. In addition to the protection granted by the Livestock Financial Protection Program, producers sell- ing through UCO Livestock Divi- sion have always been secured through UCO's "Shipper's Trust Account". Immediately upon the sale of a producer's livestock at the firm, the producer is paid from that account. Buyers must pay UCO within 48' hours. "The co-op has been in continu- ous existence at the stock yards in Toronto for over 70 years," said Bethune. "It has always had a repu- tation for being a fair and effective livestock marketing. In an open auction, farmers selling their live- stock through UCO get a fair com- petitive price." - UCO is the largest commission firm at the Ontario Stock Yards, handling approximately 42 percent of all livestock and in the fall, 70 percent of all stocker cattle going through the yards. UCO is the largest farm supply and marketing co-operative in On- tario, owned by over 49,000 indi- vidual members, and 42 indepen- dent member co-operatives representing another 42,000 mem- bers. Intravenous treatment available at home CLINTON - Long hospital stays may be a thing of the past for pa- tients requiring intravenous thera- py, says Joanne Jasper, Director of the Huron County Horne Care Pro- gram. Starting immediately, Home Care is introducing an intravenous (1.V.) program for Huron County resi- dents. The service will be provided by the community nursing agen- cies, the Victorian Order of Nurses and Community Nursing Services, who are contracted by Home Care when patients require nursing care. "Registered nurses who work for the agencies are well trained in the latest intravenous techniques and can assist clients requiring this type of therapy in their own homes" says Jasper. "Clients and their fami- lies will be taught ongoing care of the I.V. by specially trained visiting nurses. Referral for the service is made by the attending physician." Jasper also noted that this pro- gram is part of a trend toward com- ntrmity based health care, which is more cost effective as well as bene- ficial to clients and their families. Since it started in 1970 the Huron County Home Care Program has continually expanded and increased its services and is currently Main- taining between 700 and 800 client/ patients in their own home,+i in all areas of the county. "Reintegration of the patient into the family setting, even while re- maining on active medical they, is an exciting prospect," says Dr. Peter Salsbury, medical advise( to the Home Care program. Ideal candidates for the new in- travenous program," says Linda Knight, Director of Community Nursing Services, "are clients re- quiring IV antibiotic therapy, medi- cation for pain control and other in- travenous medications. New technology has simplified I.V. ther- apy so that most clients and their families can now manage this west, ment in their homes." Lynne McDonald, Executive Di- rector of the V.O.N., comments: "Home 1.V. therapy means a person can receive intermittent I.V. thera- py without being connected contin- uously to tubing and poles. Patients are then free to carry on their nor- mal routines at home and being at home, for most people, improves their recovery." V.O.N. provides services in Huron County from their office in Hensall. More information on this intrave- nous Program can be had by calling the Huron County Home Care Pro grarrr at 482-3411 or 357-2264 or by asking your family physician. iia{ ..,.//• .r,.;S.,..{; �.. .Y.. { Vis• {.3'r'?^^a:':,S";?i`: _ r .:>:.:• •:i>J.yF:.rn..`.J::::.:. }::.}:: :w{.'; .?C}i}; •': i:::. {' 'y;S .. ....::hi:{':'v". r:.. T.;.... {.. �{: ryij: �b �5�.;'r:. .. s:s GRANTON AND DISTRICT LiONS CLUB Fifty's Dance Sat., March 2 9 p.m. -1 a.m. Kirkton-Woodham Community Centre Music by: B & L Stereo Music Proceeds to Community Betterment Tickets $6.00 from any Lions member or at the door. BARN DANCE 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. Fri. March 1 Singles Dance Lee Davidson and Sagebrush Sat.. March 2 Night Watch Sun.. March 3 Old Time Fiddler's Jamboree (2 p.m. - ?) 'Dress Code 'Group Reservations Welcome 'Hall Rental Available 349-2678 w "Green" fever is spreading through Ontario's hospitals - hitting staff, administration and patients alike. Environmental committees are busy keeping up with a rash of new ideas to handle and reduce the garbage which hospitals produce. Together staff and administrators are examining offices, kitchens and operating rooms in the search to find better ways to use and reuse the products of daily hospital routine. Like other businesses and industry, hospitals are tackling the obvious - recycling paper and pop cans, reducing packaging and replacing plas- tics with glass.. But hospitals face other public issues as sensitive, for example, as newborn bottoms: Should cloth diapers or disposables be ed? "We can't do things fast enough," says Peter Ingham, waste manage- ment committee chair and materials management director at Bame's Royal Victoria Hospital. There, several reduction and recycling initia- tives are underway with more coming soon. - Ingham explains that hospitals; are trying to find alternatives to incin- eration and costly hauling to ever -diminishing landfill sites. Those pres- sures ibmbined With environrrintallY-tebiisciotis attitudes are paymP off irlIftew programs that have ithe support of both staff; management and community whether they be patients, visitors or volunteers. "Our employees have been bringing home newspaper to put in their own Blue Boxes. I'm doing that myself," Ingham says. He predicts that 98 percent of the cardboard, used to package hospital supplies, will be recycled by the end of this year and one-quarter of all glass is targeted for recycling by March, 1991. Along with taking pride in doing their part for the environment, staff members at the Royal Victoria can take home free firewood chopped from the non -returnable wood pallets used as shipping crates. Not only are hospital employees getting the itch to pitch in and clean up, hospitals are finding patients eager to get involved. The Royal Ottawa Health Care Group includes both physical rehabili- tation and psychiatric facilities. Shelly Lavenne of the public affairs department says environmental efforts have been worked into patient programs. Now patients are collecting paper around the building for recycling, and they are also making scratch pads from used paper. Lavenne says the Royal Ottawa is new to the green bandwagon but the staff, many of whom take home pop cans and bottles, community volunteers and the administration are getting on board. "A few months ago we thought, how on earth are we going to get all this started, and now it's very exciting." Lavenne found help for her projects from a new group of hospital en- vironmentalists. The group started with representatives of nine Metro Toronto hospitals earlier this year, and now has members from more than 113 hospitals province -wide. Cynthia Martin, a founder of the Health Care Environmental Network and Sunnybrook Health Science Centre's public affairs director, says the group's aim is to set up a central information bank. The information bank will give hospitals across Ontario the resources needed to make decisions from purchasing supplies in bulk in order to reduce packag- ing to enlisting new technology in the disposal of biomedical hazardous waste. "We're working on solving our own problems and solving each others problems," Martin says. Only a few years ago, hospitals were rushing to replace all sorts of supplies and equipment with disposables. Now cloth diapers, china dishes, stainless steel trays and glass intravenous bottles are making a comeback as the trend reverses. Smaller hospitals like Allistori's Stevenson Memorial still have the sterilization equipment for items such as stainless steel dressing trays and other instruments. Many bigger -city hospitals, which switched to disposable supplies years ago, are now scrambling to acquire reusable equipment again. Nursing supervisor Marilyn Roberts heads up the hospital's "clean team". She says the hospital has come down on the cloth side of the di- aper debate while some other hospitals have weighed the health and en- vironmental factors and are staying with disposables. With on -premise laundry facilities and handy local suppliers, cloth di- apers are back in Stevenson Memorial's maternity ward. And comple- mentary gift packs are given to new parents to promote their continued use at home. While hospitals are finding new and better ways to handle most of their garbage, they are alv tackling the question of how to di se of the average 10 percent ortheir biomedical waste which can be hazard- ous. Since 1986, tough provincial regulations have all but eliminated hos- pital incinerators. As a result, mast biomedical waste is now transport- ed to controlled sites where it can be safely treated and landfilled. New technologies to decontaminate this waste and new incineration techniques are only in the experimental stage. For Northern hospitals, situated far from approved disposal sites, the disposal issue has become a pressing issue. Ronald Campbell, St. Joseph's General Hospital administrator in Blind River, says northern hospitals are now involved in a study with the provincial health and environment ministries to build new up -to - standard incineration sites. "We're trying to find a balance between building a number of smaller incinerators and transporting to larger regional facilities which may be either private nit publicly -owned," Campbell said. Hoapitals, he says, are naturally interested in taking initiatives to pro- tect the environment. "Like alt industry, we are environmentally - conscious. 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