HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1979-02-08, Page 10PAGE 10—THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1979
Round about the village
Brigadier and Mrs.
Morgan Smith have
returned to the village
from a trip to Washington
where they visited with
their daughter Sally and
family. They then
travelled to Daytona,
Florida where they
visited with cousins. They
enjoyed beautiful
weather, Morgan reports,
during the whole of their
trip.
The ABC ladies held a
special party in aid of the
Clinton Hospital
Auxiliary, on Wednesday
last week. They were
invited to the home of
Mrs. Doug Ball for the
occasion and four tables
of bridge were played.
Kelly Ball and Fern
Baker were the
hostesses. Marnie
Walden had the high
score (somewhere over
7,000) and Ethel Knight
was low. Lillian Higgins
thanked the hostesses for
a pleasant afternoon.
Dawna Westlake,
Clinton Hospital
Auxiliary President, who
is a member of ABC, says
that her Executive will
greatly appreciate
anyone holding a card
party to raise funds for
the Auxiliary.
Ken and • Marion
Mackie and family of
London enjoyed last
weekend in their new
home on Jane Street.
Brigadier and Mrs.
Fred Clift have returned
from. a lengthy holiday in
Montserrat, West Indies.
They were inclined to
wish they had stayed
longer when they saw the
snow, built like a fortress
around 'Clifton', when
they arrived home last
Friday night. It was a
family get-together for
the Clifts in Montserrat.
Their daughter, Barbara
was with them from
Ottawa and their son and
his wife, Gerald and
Sherrille, with their
children, Alison and
Sarah from London.
Auxiliary to the Scout group
The. Ladies Auxiliary to Jean Dunn were the
the various scout groups winners. Kathie Van
met at 10 a.m. in the Aiken won the 'regular
kitchen of St. Andrew's draw.
church basement, when A village canvass for
the president, Brenda 'March of Dimes' will be
F a n s h e r welcomed undertaken immediately.
members.. Plans were If someone who is missed
finalized for the Valen- in the canvass wishes to
tine dessert and games contribute will they
party on February 6th. please contact Carleen
Draws were held on Phoenix 565-2561.
three bags of groceries. The next meeting will
Sharon Overholt, beheld on April 1st at 10
Kathleen Siertsema and a.m.
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Discount Dave's Home Centres reece'ntly made a
donation of 85,000 to the 13ayfield Arena. Com-
pany president, David Conftlin, is shown
presenting the cheque to Mr. John Siertslema,
principal of Huron Park School and Mr. Gordon
the BAYFIELDGwen bugle 1
Health care concerns in Huron
There were gloomy
reports last week about
the future of health care
in Huron County.
Administrator Norm.
Hayes of the Wingha>`n
and District Hospital
voiced his concern that
▪ about 20 beds in his
hospital will have to be
closed. He intends to
press for a new 'holistic'
medicine centre which it
is reported, would be the
first of its kind in Ontario
- a pilot project. This is
just a new name for a
community health centre
of the kind recommended
in the Hastings report in
1972.
It was the result of a
commission set up by the
Minister of National
Health and Welfare on
behalf of a conference of
health ministers of
an MOH make a cogent
appeal for more money to
be spent on preventive
services. That year -1972-
only about one percent of
the provincial health
budget was allotted to the
Official Health Agencies.
I doubt if it is any more
now.
The MOH said "The
way the money is spent is
shaped, and determined
by the services already
being provided, rather
than reflecting -the true
needs of the people.
Huron and four other
counties, incidentally,
receive only 50 percent of
their budget from the
province, whereas the
other counties receive 75
percent.
From Clinton comes a
report that Huron County
doctors are looking to the
Canada. To keep the- public to spearhead a
record straight, a'holistic drive to save 96 county
medical centre in hospital beds. I would like
Wingham would not be advice from the doctors
the first of its kind in ; bn" two matters - First,
Ontario. In 1973 the South- how should the public
west Middlesex Health spearhead a drive and
Centre opened. Built in a second should the drive
doctor -starved area, it emphasize rather, more a
boasted 11 examining community health care in
rooms, a treatment room, the way of home services,
doctors' offices, x-ray nursing home care and
room, laboratory, health clinics "to
pharmacy, a dental suite determine' underlying
with three chairs, causes, and not just treat
sleeping quarters for symptoms" to use Norm
resident doctors, a, Hayes' words?
physiotherapy room and Dr. Doug Mowbray,
an office for a Public President of the Huron
Health Nurse. County Medical
In opening the centre Association said in
the Ontario Health Clinton that the province
Minister, Frank Miller hasn't considered the
stated that the concept special problems of rural
was still -in the appraisal areas, such as distances
stage, and that establish- between hospitals and the
ment of more centres often poor driving con -
would depend on its ditions. Would the doctors
success. That it might be support a public drive to
the only such facility in consider the formation of
Ontario to receive a District Health Council
provincial financing. again, or is that a dead
duck in Huron County? It
seems to me that such a
body would consider local
problems from which the
province is too far
removed - that the pur-
pose. was .just . that, for
setting up that kind of
liaison with the,province.
Dr. Mowbray is right in
In Goderich, Dr. Brian
Lynch, Huron County
Medical Officer of Health
pointed out that with
fewer hospital beds, the
onus for additional forms
of health care will fall
mainly on public health
units. At an OMA spon-
sored conference I heard
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thinking that the public
should be invplved. The
Health Planning Task
Force said inti its report
"If the' health services
system that is developed
is, to be truly effective in
meeting health care
needs, both health
professionals and Ontario
residents (The users of
health services) will have
to participate in the
selection of priorities and
the integration of ser-
vices. We believed that
community input will be
increasingly important in
determining which new
health services should be
introduced and which
existing ones should be
modified A better
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insist upon more direct
participation in decision-
making on policies and
priorities in publicly
supported services that
affect them personally".
Huron and Perth
Counties are, I believe,
the only places in Ontario
now which do not have a
District Health Council.
The steering committee
set up to endeavor to find
out whether we wanted a
District Health Council,
by a vote of eight to seven
decided against it. In my
opinion it was a wrong
decision which has set
Huron' and Perth back
seriously in participation
in the Ontario health
program.
As a member of the
steering,, committee, I
attended with other
members a conference of
District Health Councils
and alreadyfelt very
much out of the main
stream. Reports of
progress were often
confused as was natural
in such new un-
dertaking but the rest of
Ontario was at least
taking first steps into the
future,,usually with great
optimism.
The Area Co-ordinator
of District Health
Councils phoned a few
weeks ago to ask if
anyone was doing
anything about making
another start here. I will
be glad to hear of it, if
there is such a move,
though I believe that a
new steering committee
should start fresh, with a
different group of
members. Residents of
Huron and Perth have
had more time to think
about health problems
now. The first steering
committee often felt it
was up against.a.4wall of
apathy. A second com-
mittee might haver more
direction.
Smile
When are unruly
children like cornstalks?
When getting their ears
pulled.
.1. Graham, clerk treasurer of the Village of
Rayfield. To Mr. Conklin's immediate right is
1111. Jeffrey, manager of Discount Dave'sbranch
in (;rand Bend, and Ron Blue, manager of the
company's branch in Goderich.
So& c ty sees log house
•
John Hindmars as .log
houses are not like t;,,"li!
You walk into one • . is
houses authenti �;.:ly
restored and re -b •;r�;'. °a'
lajceshore site., 'a : you")
are liter.11y back 1' e it
was when first e • cted,
maybe 150 1's'..:'go. A
picture is worth . a -
thousand words? Well a
• Hindmarsh restoration is
worth a thousand pic-
tures as a lesson in
history!
Thirty or so members
of the Bayfield Historical
Society were guests of
Mr. and Mrs. Hindmarsh
in one of these wonderful
houses recently. The
party included a sleigh -
ride behind Molly and
Dolly, the patient team.
The passengers shed
their usual decorum as
they shouted, sang, threw
snow -balls, fell off, ran
behind, unloaded to view
a special vista of the
Lakeshore and generally
behaved like lids:
After the ride the
ravenous merry -makers
enjoyed a pot -luck supper
laid out on the huge slab
of pine which serves as a
table in the old log house
and sat around a roaring
fire. A crock of baked
beans, casseroles,
pasties, home-made
brown bread, pickles and
salads rapidly disap-
peared, then cakes,
cookies ,and pies- I was
lucky enough to have a
wedge of red currant pie.
Antique treasures were
examined and exclaimed
over by the delighted
guests, caught up in the
spell of the past. Cars
were the only casualties
of the party, as more than
one fell victim to the deep
snow and had to be
pushed or hauled out.
Give the bath a
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The Old Log
Ilouse
Rickety, shingleless, old and gray,
Scathed by the stormsofmany a day,
In a wayside spot where the wild weeds grow,
Stands the old log cabin of long ago.
On every side, within and without,
The chinking and plaster are falling out,
And the sagging sash with its broken pane
Is a fence no more 'gainst the wind and rain.
In and out through its drooping door
The feet of the fathers will,fall no more,.
As back and forth on their weary way
They went to their work with the waking day.
Through that mouldering -doorway, I entered in,
And I stood by the spot where the hearth had been;
Where the backlog fire with its ruddy light
Had burned and blazed through the livelong night,
But the fires were out and the lug -pole gone,
All cracked and crumbling the old hearthstone,
And fallen the jambs by the fireplace wall,
Where the weird night shadows had loved to fall.
Silent I stood on the rotting floor,
While I looked the old house o'er and o'er,
And my eyes with burning tears filled fast
As my heart went back to the vanished past.
From
'The Old Log House'
Thorpas Sparks,
M.D.
St. Marys 1899
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Anglican officers
At the Annual Vestry
meeting, held on January
17 of Trinity Anglican
Church, the Rector
reporte4 a successful
year and offered
suggestipns to the new
board olio Management for
1979. Reports of the
women's groups were
made by Eveline Earl,
secretary of Anglican
Church Wome , Ber-
thena Ha mond,
secretary of till Ladies'
Guild, and Patricia Van
Patter, secretary of
Trinity Chancel Guild.
The Board of
Management for 1979 will
be as follows: Rector:
Rev. W.M. Bennett -
Chairman. Gordon
Graham recorded the
minutes.
Rector's ap-
pointments: George
Fellows, Mrs. Lorna
Merner, Miss Kay Reid,
Lorne Bamford, Mrs.
Patricia Van Patter,
Tudor Wain; . Rector's
Warden - Brig. Morgan
Smith; People's Warden
Haay,rry Baker; Mrs.
Lillian Higgins, Mrs.
Helen Le Beau, Mrs.
Vera Turner, Mrs.
Florence Scott, Robin
Hunter, Mrs. Bessie
Hulls; Lay delegates to
Synod: George Fellows,
Lorne Bamford, Sub Lay
Delegates, Mrs. Pat Van
Patter, Mrs. Lorna
Merner; Nominating
Committee - Ernie
Hovey, Robert Turner;
Auditors - Rev. George
.Youmatoff, Philip Du
Boulay ; Vestry clerk for
1979 - Miss Kay Reid;
peoperty committee -
Harry Baker, Robert
Turner; organist - Mrs.
Jackie Johnston; choir
director, - EricEarl;
church school Moira
Couper and Jeanne
Bennett.
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