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HomeMy WebLinkAboutTimes Advocate, 1997-07-02, Page 2Page 2, Times -Advocate, ult2, 1997 Regional wrap up Tempers short at meeting T. MAR'YS - You either real- ly like the idea, or you hate it. According..to the $t. Marys Jour- nal -Argus. that was the mood at an' 'information session' June 19 about the ,planned 'multi- purpose complex' at the St. Mar- ys Quarry. The project has been. mired: in controversy since town council approved the .S689.00X) facility in early June. Ai the meeting. those, opposed to . the project seenied less than satisfied with the information they. received. Regardless Of the feelings of St. Marys:residents. according to Major Hahn. the decision to situ- ate the new curling .club at the Quarry, is final • „• Goderich goes to Ontario Provincial Police GODER'ICH - The Goderich :Signal -Star reports the days of the Goderich Police -Service are numbered. .The Police Services Board and, town council have decided to re place the towns municipal po- lice force withpolicing provided by the Ontario Provincial Police. According. to the costing,and services .report provided by the OPP: police Coverage in the town should stay• basically the -:same. The next step is to%arrange a series of meetings between. pPP. and town officials to work out the details. Agriculture and tourism studied HURON COUNTY - Farming and tourism go hand-in-hand to provide to provide .a- sound eco- nomic base in 'Huron County. According to the Wingham Ad- vance -Times. two University of Guelph researchers will .pro'tde an accurate picture of the size and irftportance'of tourism and fanning to this county. • ' No previous study has looked at the impact of tourism in Hu- ron and researchers will fill that void. Last summer: • Dr. Cum- mings ummings and graduate student Da_ n McLennan studied the' impact of agriculture. and agriculturally - related businesses. in the county. Weather great for crops SEAFORTH - The unseasona- bly hot and muggy weather niay have been uncomfortable for people. hut. it has tyeeh ideal- for field crops- to play "catch-up". • reports the Huron Expositor. With the ::oldest Ontario spring in 80 years. Huron County expe- rienced an entire month without . crop production. The poor weather accelerated a trend to more acres being de- • voted to soybeans in Huron. The most recent figures from Brian Hall of the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture. Food and Rural Af- fairs show that across Ontario. there are now 2 -IR million acres of soybeans and I-1/2 mil- lion acres devoted to corn. It has .only been in the past couple of years that soybeans have moved past corn in total acreage. This spring's weather also re- sulted in poor germination in winter wheat with some of the acreage being planted into soy- beans. Butterflies at the Pinery Flying beauties. Brenda Kulon; left, and Pinery Provincial Park naturalists Terri Groch and Geoff Cattrall examine a Tiger Swallowtail. and a Red Spotted Purple at the fourth annual Lambton County Butterfly Count on at the park on Saturday. `Chucky' leaving McD's on high note EXETER = 'Chucky' has' made a big impassion in; her ,10 months'-. -.shelling out. burgers and fries -at McDonald's. Charlene Cunningham tCFiucky • to her, co=workerst.a McDonald:s • second assistant:`is leaving. Exeter's McDonald's for the same post• at Stratford's -McDonald's. Cunning- ham' is originally. from Stratford where she started with McDonald's one and ahalf years ago • While fob' transfers aren't riec- essarily big news. Cunningham. 34. had something' good to say about Exeter's 69 youths 'that work along side her. , 'The kids here work really, really hard," 'she said. "Especially. the kids that close at night. They're all willing -to learn," he said. "She's al phenomenal,. Last nighttheyways brightening up.someone's -busy till 11:30 • e. were • • day." p.m. and . couldn't . do , anything" out ,back. They .ended , up Ieaving'at 1:30 a.m:" . Regular • quitting time. in- cluding clean up/ preparation work "out back," is ei- ther midnight or 12:30 a.m. for "Chuck is, probably my favorite manager. She makes our shifts enjoyable. • cl;singstaff. - - Exeter McDonald's manager Frank Rozic. who also hails. from Stratford. said Cunningham will; be. "Missed for sure." • - "Charlene is 'hard working and: Kathy Oliver. 17. said while :'no one . here is lazy." Cunning- , ham makes 'it easy to go -about their.- work with a smile. "She's great,"' Oliver said of Cunningham. "She's always energer- ic and in; a good mood." • Jasmine McCarthy agreed. -"Chuck is: probably my favorite -manager. She makes .our shifts en- joyable." she said. _ • Ctinningham's last day was Sun-, day. Leaving with -a smile. Exeter McDonald'sassistant manager Charlene Cunningham, front centre, has`been transferred •back to her hometown of Stratford. Cunningham had nothing but praise for ."her young co-workers includirg, from -left, Jasmine McCarthy,. Gabrielle McCarthy. Theresa Wilhelm, Tracy McIntosh. Kathleen Oliver. Pam Waiper, Cheryl Kelly -and restaurant manager Frank'Rozic, Assault, drinking and driving charges at court EXETER At the June 26 Provincial Court sitting in Exeter. Judge . R.G.E. Hunter dealt with charges against eight people and a number of other charges were deferred to later court dates. Assault charges Mark Deitz, 21, of 98 Mill St., Hensall pleaded guilty in connection with an assault which took place in Hensall on April 19, 1997. Deitz was accused of striking and kicking the male victim. Judge•Hunter levied a fine of S500 and ' placed Deity under probation for 12 months during which time he is not to be in contact with the victim: Perry Weido, 18 of 16-189 Victoria St.. Exeteralso pleaded guilty to assault charges. On April 20, 1997 Weido grabbed the female victim 'iy the arms and wrapped a telephone cord around her neck. Since the incident, Weido has enrolled,tn 'anger counselling', He was fined $500, placed on probation for 12 months. ordered to continue the counselling $rid is not to own or possess dangerous weap- on's,' Exeter Court ILilinammo . -Refused-screening sample - - Lee A:Foster. 19, of 312 Algonquin Dr.. Huron Park pleaded guilty to refusing to'supply a sample for a breathalizer test. On October 6. 1996, an Ontario Provincial Police officer observed .Foster's vehicle swerving and travelling approximately 100 kilometers per hour in a 60 kph zone. When the officer stopped the vehicle, he de- tected an odor of alcohol 9n Foster's. breath. When requested to pro- . vide a breath sample, Foster's three attemptsresulted in error messages on the breathalizer-. Shestated she was afraid to give a sample because of alcohol. ' • - - -. • - - - • Judge Hunter fined Foster.S750 and a nine month driving prohibi- tion. • - • - . ' .. Drinking and driving. Clifford.Kidd, 61 of 56-197 Victoria Si., Exeter was fined S850 and prohibited from driving for 12 months after pleading. guilty to operat- ing avehicle while his blood alcohol content was over the legal Limit. • ' An OPP officer stopped Kidd's swerving vehicle on November. 16. 1996. When speaking with Kidd, the officer noticed an alcoholic odor on Kidd's-breath and other signs of impairment. Breathalizer tests recorded readings of 180. and 160 mg of alcohol. Judge Hunter levied a fine of S750 ander 12 -month driving prohibi- tion._against Sylvester Jones of •R.R. 1 Exeter after /ones pleaded guilty to driving with over 80 mg of alcohol in 100.m1 of blood. On May 22. Constable Finch of the Exeter OPP was called to a mo- tor otor vehicle accident -in Stephen.Township. The GMC Tracker operated by Jones had been removed from.the scene. However, upon talking with Jones, the officer observed an odor of alcohol on Jones' breath and his eyes were bloodshot and watery. Breathalizer tests registered blood alcohol readings of 130'and i40 mg. Crediton _Optimists sponsor community wide festival CREDITON--.The place to be on July 19 is the. Crediton ball park=as the Crediton Optimists -present -their fiFst community festival. - • . To begin, this exciting day. the community of Crediton will be hav- ing the first-ever town wide yard sales. There will be plenty of yard sales around. with lots of items topick and choose kom. -At -I p.m.. festiviii begin 16 with -line. dancers, Belts. Buckles and Spurs. The 4 entire afternoon will be filled with a pig roast. served .-with all the • trim- mings. -and once again. fol- lowed up with more entertain- ment.:. - This will continue until the live • band. Night Wind. :be- gins the night's fun with the -dance starting at 8 p.m...con- tinning until 1 a.m. This.event is' being hosted by the Crediton and District .Optimist Club, co -hosted by Stephen Town- ship Firemen and women as well as many volunteers. Optimist presi= dent Brenda Morgan says. "It is be- - ing held to try to raise funds for the Optimist Club. so we can retain the level of services to.our'children and . youth. that we have been - support- ing. (e.g. bus . trips, donations to area schools. and clubs, school dances, summer camps. Easter egg July 19, there will be plenty of pnz- es and draws to go.along with the • . "'entertainment that will fill our festi- • val. •' If you intend to join in the festi- val. be prepared -to have lots of fun and excitement. - Bring you family and . friends to support the Club whose only intention is to • take care if.it's•communi-. For more information. . or advance tickets. please call 2346219:..2-3#6445: or 228-6094.. •Meal ticket prices are: Adults S8: children ages five to 12 S5; and under four years old free. Dance ticket prices are: Adults . .S5: children free when accompa- nied by an adult. If you intend to go to both the meal and the dance. ' they can be .. bought together to sive money. The Cost • of the meal and dance whet' bought together is' S 11.50. To give you an. idea of the enter- tainment. here is just a portion of • what can be expected: Parachuters from S.W.O.O.P., Andrea's Dance . Team: horse shoe tournament. Wild - West Dance Troop: Buggy burnout. Clung Fu demonstration: children's games otchance. volleyball, karate demonstration, Doug Lewis's band. children's bingo. • professional —hunts, etc.)" • -c-lowns:• BX-93-Country_-Ctauser,- During the afternoon and evening plus much, much more. Minister says no hospitals will close l Continued from front page more spec itic ." • Hospitals within 40 km of each other will be eap cted to form clus-' ters with common administration and governance. Those Clusters will • be part Of a larger network of hos- pitals. - Wilson began to develop the rural health care policy after rural MPPs. like Huron MPP Helen Johns. his • parliamentary' assistant, began to come to him, "with frowns. on their faces" and concerns • about what ‘y•.is happening in rural Ontario.. ofter 'consulting with health councils, hospitals and medical staffs he found that "Waal health care needs are unique and that a cookie -cutter approach won't work." An expert panel of health care ex- perts, such as Dr. Jim Rourke of Godench, were put together to pro- vide recommendations on the pol- icy. Rourke, • speaking in Goderich, po& "d out the difference in the ra- tio 'hectors to patients in Waal areas compared to Toronto. There is one doctor for 1.800 patients in rural ar- eas and one doctor for 900 patients in Toronto. He said this makes linking hospitals together more im- portant. "This . policy provides a frame- work to maintain rural health care: .it includes training family doctors to work in rural areas, and to give them appropriate support to do their work. It. supports lural hos- pitals changing roles to meet die needs of their population base now and in the future. It emphasizes cooperation, coordination of rural health services and the establish: ment of rural health networks to do this without hospital closures. • Most importantly it emphasizes ac- cess to care, as close to home as possible." - There will be four categories. of hospitals: • Level A hospitals will provide access to 24-hour emergency care and will provide assessment, re- suscitation and stabilization usually provided by a registered nurse with a access to a physician for advice and direction. Level A hospitals may or may not have inpatient beds, but will have at least one overnight observation bed. • Level B hospitals will have on- call physicians. and • will provide some secondary services such as general surgery.; internal medicine. anesthesia • and other support ser- vices: They will also have . some acute carebeds and provide basic emergency services; 'such as su- turing wounds and setting simple fractures. • Level C hospitals will have ei- ther on-site or on-call physicians 24 -hours • each day. They will also have more advanced technological and diagnostic capabilities and will offer more specialty services. Level C hospitals will have acute and specialty care beds. Each rural net- work will have at least one Level C hospital, likely Stratford in Hu- ron -Perth. • • Level.D hospitals are those such as hospitals in Toronto. London and 'Hamilton. Hospitals are also encouraged to form links with Level D hospitals, such as the Wingham and District Hospital has done with the St. Jo- sephs hospital for the supply of services. • Wilson emphasized that a major change in the policy is that the so- lutions • will be, found at the local level. But those changes will have to. be approved by the provincial • hospital and related health services - commission, which has closed many hospitals in cities. .Dr. Duncan Sinclair, the chair- man of the commission had asked for the .rural health policy before the commission started to do any - work in iural.areas. ' Other .aspects of the plan include greater responsibility placed nurses, nurse practitioners'and p rar- -. amedics •in stabilizing patients be- ' fore they are moved to other hos- pitals. Hospitals • are also encouraged to become health cen- - Cres by using vacated space for doc- tor and dentist clinics, Community Care Access Centres. mental health, palliative care and seniors' day programs. No time line has been set for the changes to be implemented, but Wilson told reporters after the an- nouncement that the commission is set up for four years. Butterfly species identified ir Continued from front page Similar butterfly counts arc held across North America at this time and results are sent to the North American Butterfly Association (also known as the Zeroes Foundation). Though Cattrall said butterfly watchers don't need any equip- ment to • practice their -hobby. here's some items that eventual- ly should be in every watcher's kit: a butterfly" field guide. bi- noculars and a butterfly net. Hazards of chasing butterflies include heat and sun stroke (so wear sunscreen and a hat), dis- ease -carrying ticks, ever present mosquitos and poison ivy. Backyard watchers can use this trick to attract butterflies: put some gravel down on a part of the yard• and spray it with your garden hose — butterflies will touch down for a drink.