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Home My WebLink AboutClinton News-Record, 1976-01-22, Page 39r.- , ; , ' 7 g,,!•" • cember4, inquest in n last Friday teem- AkaluniesS Heather 4* :Os of VanPtra can get OvineiR1 licensing, Own the me for ex -psychiatric cts 'Should be closed. was One of the six commendationsthe five Pon jury made after the y-Iong inquiry into the OtWasily Churkin; 61, a ent of the hope. One will say for sure that Clinton'Public Hospital be on the Ontario inistry of Health's doomed t 123 hospitals to be OSed. Frank Miller, minister of health, hati not divulged any • the names on his list, but ick Riddell, Huron County's is trying, to get some ormation. wilt be a three-way race Ps chiatric hos roe warden in Huron COUnlY, • in January. Reeve' .Jack MeCutcheon of Brussels, Reeve Allan Campbell of McitilloP And Reeve Harold Lobb of Clinton, will vie for the County's top ()Mee. , The 44 -day postal strike is over, and lullservice resumed at the Clinton Post Office on Wednesday mor- ning. • Clinton council reversed its stand last Monday night at their regular meeting and decided to help the Tucker- smith-Vanastra Day Care Centre after alt. Last month, Clinton had decided against giving any financial support to the Day Care Centre after Tucker - smith council , had asked - Clinton that they pickup part ' of the operating deficit only on children from Clinton who do not pay the fulLdaily rate, pitat to close letter to council from Mary Ann Bakker, a staff member of the Early Childhood Living and Learning centre, which is seeking financial support •from the town. Ms. Bakker said the four- day -a -week nursery for pre- school children now has 38 . children and the three staff . members are finding it very difficult to operate out of borrowed quarters in the basement of 'Wesley -Willis United Church. A recommendation by the planning board recom- mending that all local rural municipalities. pass a bylaw banning open liquid animal wastes storage lagoons was approved by Huron County Council at its final 1975 session in Goderich Friday, December 19. Wed., December 24,1975 Upoi release of the an- nouncement by the Minister of Health of the closing of Northeastern Regional Mental Health Centre in Timmins and Goderich Psychiatric Hospital the inister of Community and Social Services, Honourable • ames Taylor, announced his • Ministry's intentions of utilizing these buildings to ProViire new resource centres for the manta* retarded in •the districts in which they are located. Clinton council was left worPlering Int Monday night • at their; regular meeting whether they should be •supporting the Tuckersmith +VariasOa Day Care Centre, or a nursery school inTown. The confusion arose over a • Kinsmen Al Finch and Bob-Gibbings move Mrs. Smith's furniture (Dec. 24) into her new home on King Street. Mrs. Smith is one of the first occupants of the new Senior Citizens' Apartment bidldirtg. The Clinton Kinsmen have helped a few senior citizens move in. (News -Record - Photo) Congratulations and best wishes Irom. Murray' Taylor YOUR STERLING FUELS AGENT FOR CLINTON & DISTRICT 22 NORTH ST 4124411 For all your Heating Needs Farm Petroleum Valvoline Oils & Greases 4 4, • , . k 'I' *, 1, The iUSt, completed VanastraRecrea on and Day Care .111,00 was attielaillf opened last Saturday, (020,‘ 2)' night at a banquet and dance that Included_a symbolic ribbon cutting ceremony. 'Cutting the ribbon are, left to righ;:nuel'elsolofter, Liberal MPP for, Perth, Elgin Thompson, Reeve of Tuckersmith Township; the funding Municipality, and Jack 'lidded, MPP for Huron -Middlesex. (News-Recordphota) h.• , octors say ospdal needed -.Thursday, December 11, 1975 pointed agricultural critic Five out of fierefilMilt‘ea last Friday by the provincial doctors, questioned by the Liberal Party, replacing News -Record agree that the Murray Gaunt, MPP for community will suffer a great Huron -Bruce. toss' if -the Ontario govern- Mr. Gaunt has been ap- ment xnoves to close the pointed chairman of the Clinton Public HifspitaL Liberal caucus. Drs. Baker, Flowers, The new -assistant ad- Harrett, Palmer and ministrator oHuronview has Thompson were unanimous in arrived. finding the hospital to be used Wayne Lester began his as much, if not more than any new position on December 1, of the surrounding hospitals. and. comes from the Golden "We're located on a =for 4 Davni nursing home in Lions arterial axis, so we have more road accidents than the hospitals in other areas," Dr. Brian Baker said. . , As of last Thursday, the Clinton branch of the Bank of Montreal has become com- pletely Mechanized. One of six branches of the Bank of Montreal in Canada to become fully mechanized, Clinton tellers are now able to put through customers transactions directly to their accounts by the use of ter- minals in.the branch. These terminals are connected to a central computer in Toronto. Jack Riddell, MPP for Huron Middlesex, 'was ap- Sewage rate up? Thursday, November Z7, 1975 Unless the Clinton Public Utilities and the Clinton Town Council can come to some agreement. the minimum sewage surcharge rate to Clinton users may jump from $5.75 to 88 per month. The PUC says they are losing an average of $2.000 per , month on running the sewage system, and will ask the town council to either raise the surcharge rate, or put the cost of paying for the new sewage system on the mill rate. Despite expanding to a larger "B" Fair, the Huron Central Agricultural Society learned at their annual meeting last week at the White Carnation that they had a modest profit. Total expenses for the year ending October 31 were 823,215.05, while total • revenues were 824,215.05 for a modest profit of 5542.37. Head, where he was assistant administrator for the last year. The Clinton Recreation budget will likely be in the hole again -this year. Although no finat figures are in yet, a deficit of 83,000 to 84,000 is forecast on. the 1975 budget of 585,735. At their regular monthly meeting last Thursday night, the recreation committee decided to have the Huron County Health Unit in to tell them just what is needed to bring Clinton's aging swimming pool up to stan- dards, and the rec. com- mittee will then decide ivfiether to go to town council for money to either repair the pool or build a new ori. Bluewater TV Cable Ltd. will be again applying to the Canadian Radio and Television Commission in January for an increase in subscriber's rates. The_company which serves the Goderich, Clinton, Vanastra and Holmesville area made a bid last year to the CRTC for a rise in rates, but were turned down after customers complained of poor service. As of January 1, 1976, the Goderich Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police will be implementing a selective traffic enforcement program. So far in 1975 .in the Goderich detachment area. there have been a total of 404 accidents, out of which there were nine fatal accidents, killing nine people. There were 134 injury accidents in which 211 teople were injured and 261 property damage accidents. • Herb Turkheim of Zurich was elected the new chair- man of . the Huron County board of education at an organizational meeting in Clinton Monday night. Farms incomes are ex- pected to decline in 1976 following record highs., this year, according to a Statistics Canada report to the Agricultural Outlook con- ference, Monday. Economists predict next year's gross farm income could decline to $9.4 billion from Ibis year's $9.8 billion. Real Estate Limited Congratulates Clinton on its Centennial Year and its Christmas promotion MASON BAILEY FAYE FEAR Broker -Manager Secretary $2 Mr t? St. 4112.9371 . One or the chief reasons for Central Huron' Secondary School's win (Nov. 13) in the championship Huron -Perth football final -last Saturday was a stubborn .atut deter- mined defence that time after time stopped Exeter drives. Here Al Young (26) and Gary HeSselwood bring down an Exeter ball carrier. (photo by Dave Sykes) a' Thanks and Congratulations -on Centennial Year Willard & Art Aiken AIKEN S Leggege-Clothing-feetweer Albert St.. Clinton since 1123 442.9352 fr