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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1975-12-24, Page 110.4 403 It �W'u�fi+�PvM1wnNC`8,"13 q{«��oni>KSt'6iM'-i1 I "tiglie J .j Mw,k sikntl a%i '�'rti:'�Pr,•r �,Rh'-;Yin-,Y: t amara M.1% P ponahte , for mot Perth gid a centres, }knot" in mental di waiters Ow Sete oat -Pa N td he was, st.>itt pat;l.izi ... Oita behind, closing -Pit, gain i;n tan kvagtof thec piton stat7ter,t4s toy, lhfii S it% the ptravinge . MM+ of t)�►t .better facilities ies in tt . t Bryant said, '1th+ rationale QV the It tri r +t ed tw the Ministry for closing Bleb Lt Ceuta. meth' .t director sitar baffled. Dr. Beta. 4'been Mrs. Mi'ter's grade one class concert, at Huron Centennial P ib Retard .Phatot ted a I tf at their Chr.istntats (boot as T nsday, Cute ehi► (News - ay $im Fitageriittd Hely smoke, here ft is Christmas Eve xnd 1 haven't nearly got all my shoppint done yet! If 1 don't soon get away from this column, there's going to be some screaming at home tomorrow morning, After tonight at 6 p.m. everything will be closed up tighter than it drum for the next two.or three days. The Clinton Post Office will be dosed Christth is and Boxing Day, but the lock box lobby will be open both days, Service returns Saturday. but Sunday is again at holiday, I/ A large number of businesses in town. including the banks, will be closed four days straight. so get your cash today or wait until Monday. + 4 + .lust a little reminder fnr an upcoming event in the New Year. The Winter Carnival ° ommittee will meet Wed- nesday January 7th at 8' p.m in the arena, and from then on every Wed, ncsday? until the Carnival, which starts 4nnuarY 30 and ends Feb. 8th. Also please don't forget that the News - Record will he publishing as day earlier next week and all our deadlines have been moved hack a day. The Blas oiled ad deadline is Monday, Dec, i at noon the display advertising deadline is S ., and tht, news copy deadline is +ii }tn. Th hks tor all the help and Merey County recommends all open liquid manure ianks be bonne -ho telahospital . of i is that i x account for mere than t, tna. oar reduction mast ie a rrtiattudonipage9 kee l;eft} was somewhat concerned, report that QPF.k had been tong a 50 to 64 percent aecup ►c • said: that setttee a is "seriously formed'''. �• . Coulon said ho ha* britgan1Pr eZrR troatety_ concerned reed in int woks, abort the aver -ca awding at e says the hospital has been eperatiag at. 90 percent aeempuny of over. it prebbt has the highest admiss ion rate itt the province of Ontario with pit ob ,a bly the highest nanabee► e;rg active care beds, On aye small percentne of the patients are there one i#. toag term basis. . fie prow outlined eche diversity of the sery=ice* at P - adult entre. child care, facility services. care for alcoholics, psychogeriatric services. '1 cachet see how those needs are (ping to be. met in ni unit " without the services* a the hospital,• said Dr. Conlon. tie sad studies hale tee that the • ideal aide for a mental health facilittt is around beds. „lacy longer are larger, cumbersome institutions the optimara for mental The doctor said he was Billy aware of the needs of the retarded in the province. but added that the mental health needs of the community tyre. just as alarming. He said when he came to Goderich, there was a sig; month waiting list to get a child into care at London and suggested that a similar situation might be expected with the toss ref Gc Ply. Dr. Conlon Mt one of the greatest achievements at the hospital, had been the degree of public acceptance it had developed. He praised the informality of the admissions then. and pointed with Pride to the "willingness 'of people to conte in by themselves for cater . He said GPH had the lowest certification admission rate in therovince. Health Minister Frank Miner had some htu'd words lir about S00 hospital board chairmen and administrators in Toronto Prida,y. He saki that even with the planned major cutback in beds affecting most areas of the province. the ministry's share of the total 1976 budget will be up about $300 million cn 11 percent more than this year. Estimates on this year's health budget amount to 52.56 billion or '4,7 percent of they provincial budget. Mr. Miller said the provinces has "reached the fiscal limits of possibilities" in terms of being able to tatt'�t home Citizens' eittivasmove ,muvu Min,Smith's frirfiittW,3i'k luck hetL now lisionwot the first eccupatnts of the new Senior lid � The elinton liansaten have helped a t W seniut+ cord Photo,/ Cli ttoo coat i! wagsieft wondering tas - Monday night at their regular rneeti whether they she td he supporting Ut Tuclt,erstnit„h-V?artastra ay Car Centro, or a nursery school in Town. `Lhe confusion arose aver a letter ceencil from a `y Aun Bakker. a staff member of the Early Childhood Living and c . uurra ng t�entr�e�, which is seeking financial support from m the town, Ms. Bakker said the fourrrday a week nursery for pre-school children now has :l8 children and the three staff members are finding' it very difficult to operate out of borrowed quarters in theLbasement o t�id'estey-Wi'Ills4 nitedChttreh. She said they lack storage space, proper washroom facilities. are forced tothe minimum wage, and can only use paye basement four days a week, 'making it hard,for some parents to tome ap with a babysitter on the off -day. The a tseryy ism* charged a nominal ftm fear. the use at the church. but wants the' town to kick in a few dollars towards buying supplies. Council decided to meet with the nursery staff next month after Mayor Omit Symons wondered if the . nursery wasn't duplicating facilities already, at Vaanastra.• Last month. council had given their approval to pick up any deficit at the V`aanastr a Centre for children attending from Clinton. In other business. Reeve Harold Lobb assured council that council would meet to sup t t again with the Public t.W.ties Com- m mission about a proposed raise in the e sewage surcharge to a minimum of $8 e per r.nont :. COtwei1 wanted to see an- audited ilia statement of the PUC' , loss on the sewage facilities, which the PUC claims ' is losing $2,400 a month. Deputy.Ree;ve Frank Cook wondered • if the town's anti -parking by-law during the winter months couldn't be more strictly enforced after he told council that several habitual offenders were leaving the cars on the streets overnight. f making it difficult for the Public Works Department to remove snow. Public Works chairman Ernest Brown assured Mr. Cook that there were only a few offenders. but they had been given one warning and would face a fine the next time. Mr. Brown also said the town's new sander was paying off. Now it takes one man using less salt gnly two hours to sand the streets, white it used to take three men five hours the old way. Council was invited by Ontario Premier William Dais to send several representatives to a cabinet meeting in Winghirr : on Jan. 18. 1975 to discuss municipal financing for Huron, Perth, G rey and Bruce Counties. The tender of Clinton Chrysler Plymouth, the lowest of four submitted, was accepted for a new police car. The price was set at $3,202 for a 1976 Plymouth. As homemakers n nurser Cian.cil also granted thu St. John Ambulance of Goderich $104. and discussed tax arrears for the tast five years. but made no deeisiean. on a tax sale of properties four years behind on their taxes. Haspital wilt be used for retarded Upon release of the announcement by the Minister of Heath of the cloning of Northeastern Regional Mental Heath Centre in Timmins and Goderich Psychiatric Hospital, the ,NMinister of Community and Social Services. Honourable James Taylor, announced his Ministry's intention of utilizing these buildings to , provide new resource centres/tor tale mentally retarded in the districts in wbica they are located. These new centres will operate under the direction of community-based Boards of Directors. Detailed operations. including staffing, services. residential and. other facilities will be developed in conjunctiorn with the appropriate , local working groups on mental retardation. Development of these resource cen- tres is in keeping with Ministry policy to develop services and resources in various parts of the Province to meet the needs of mentally retarded persons and their families residing in the area. 12 graduate Twelve women formed the graduating class of homemakers from Conestoga College, Clinton, last Week. These ladies have successfully completed a 12 -week course in the basics of home nursing. They are qualified to work privately in homes where there is a sick member, in nursing homes or under the district Home Care Program. Their main male is to give assistance to ill and convalescing people and their families. The students are financially sponsored by Manpower .during their time at school. The course covers a variety of from Clinton Conestoga topics such as childhood and adult diseases. the aging process, needs of the elderly. cooking, nutrition, home safety, mental retardation and the handicapped person. The students received an introductory course in first aid from the St. John Ambulance Assoc. There were op- portunities to learn and practise bedside patient care and the students spent one week in a nursing home utilizing their acquired skills: They also visited several community resources: Midwestern Regional Children's Centre, a nursery school and a home for the aged. Many guest speakers helped to broaden their un- derstanding of specific problem areas. The ntire experience of the course bus be a very valuable and meaningful one. assisting the women to more intelligently and competently care for the ill at home. Hard work. mingled with much fun, now enables these graduates to serve better in their communities, A recommendation , by the planning board recturtimending that all local rural municipalities pass a bylaw banning open liquid animal waste storage lagoons was approved by Huron Count Council at its final 1975 session in Goderich Friday. December 19. "This seems to be the only way to attempt to centro! this type of waste disposal." said planning board chair- . man Jack L. McCutcheon. Brussels.. ""They create all undesirable en- vironment for anyone in the vicini y of this kind of a disposal,., continued }4r. McCutcheon. "Whether they are rural or urtatn oriented, no one can take as much as th` ey snnnetimes produce in the way of ttufett Townsh'p is the °ply township to have at restrictingbylaw oft Open waste lagoons, Halett Reeve John Jewitt saki his council felt they bylaw was useful and helpW. t._ Stanley Thwn�stifip i presently Looking iinto pausing a simiar bylaw. said Waren Anson McKinley. The road committee got approval for an increase in salary far ttteeir road crews. the same increase which had been turned back to committee at the October session, The increases, which accounted to eabe rat IS per ecent, had been authorized by the roan committee on October 4, befate the price and wage centrals were imposed by the federal government. hut •erairitil had ordered the ao Yt' titteee to held the retoturneridation mitt' other Bounty, salaries had been reviewed and settled. Later in the dmit, the councillors ap- proved an executive committee recommendation to "wholeheartedly support the Federal Anti -Inflation program endorsed by the province of Ontario, and request that all comrt;tacs and boards follow the proposed policy that there be no expansion of services or new services provided in 1916", 'Ilyo more University of Western Ontario scholarships valued crit were announced: one to Charles Murray Workman and one to Elisabeth Mac JoCo tncil agreed with the Huron Coon Library Btaard that the Rayfield Branch he open a total of 12 hours a work - not 10 hours as at present. The library in Bayfield will now be open from 10 to 12 a, m. on Tuesdays.. Space is at premium in the codrt house and the property committee is studying ways and means to provide office accearmndation for all. One suggestion has been to turn the county committee room into office space, with eommitteee meetings to be held In the council chart, biers. The warden and the clerk .have been asked to investigate and, to makerecommendations to the 1916 property committee regaaitling atdditionat storage space, espoeetnlly tor the planning department. Mrs. Gladys • Stiles. winner of the ttoitsbated an page • Ttv'erf on= ,eft Luciatai t trtl WIt et"e P01%11000 vhf p • thele *ebe t