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PAGE 8B .GODE ICH SIGNAL -STAR, THURSDAY,'DI�Ir
• EM1314'R 11. 1975
Ed Tonks (left) and Maurice Wilkinson (right) of the Royal`
Canadian Legion Branch 109, Goderich present Legion
jubilee bookcovers to Robertson Memorial school principal
ti n,
Coroner's inquest held
Garnet Harland (centre) and students Charlotte Wirtzfeld
and Darryl Squires. Legions across Canada will be
celebratirig their 5bth anniversary next year. (staff -photo)
Recommend Heather Gardens- close
unless- licensed by provincial govt
( Intended for last wi'n'k
By Jim Fitzgerald
of the News -Record
A
coroner's' inquest in
Clinton last Friday- recom-
mended -that unless. Hc�ather�
Gardens of ‘'angstra can get
provincial licensing, then the
home for . ex-.{�syc.hiatric
patients should.he , closed. •
ty,
That was ono' Of the '.,.
qualifi«,'.d medical persc;onnel
})(' hired to look *after th,e
'Qatients:• that al! drugs he
administered by :-qualified
medical persons,• with no
pati,ats having custody of his
or her drugs: that 'stricter
r•n ning be carred out on
ail patients before they' are
rt leased°frum hospital' to the
hrrmr': and that a closer
recommendations the fire x.y liaison be established het-.
person jury made after the r'''n Heather Gardens and
da looE, those psyc•hitatric hospitals
day -
g inquiry y y into ,
death ofViltisily Churkin. 61,�r
releasing pato nts to Hetather
resi'denttf the home. t'``r c'' res.
Mr. Churkin t •way tt,tun"d The inquest was called by.
hanging by, ran electrical.cr,rtf Huron, County coroner Dr.
R
in a stairwell. at the home on
�a, ' Flowers of C,�•inton, while
George" Mag wood of '
weeks later, September 26 in k ;aii.r'rtr�t� • acted as Cr`ri�v.n
University Hosp1t.�s+l• in Attorney. Alen Bc.lislc of
London, I � rron'tn acted as counsel for
- the ministry of health. and"
.the jury[which deliberated Roger Cyr, a 'St. Thomas
\t
for about an hour.%retured at 1L1y,,r. acted as counsel for
10:15 p.m.' with the' verdict t'lrair Hackett, the owner of
and declared that -Mr. Heather Gardens.
Churkin died of self-induced The inquest learned that
hanging. ' Mr. Churkin, a Russian
The jury, comprised of native''•, Baas'' discharged �tci
Russell Byers, Aileen Craig Mrs Haskett's care on
and Margaret Maguire, -all -of October ` , 1974 after,spending.
Clinton, Claire Harmon of nearly 20 years in St, Thomas
Goderich and Ross N.lerrall of Psychiatric Hospital. Heo,,.e
Bayfield, also brought an five md up to Heather Gardens
Other. recomme.n.ciattons, in January of this. year along
•including: thtat .tlerather 'AO 11 other patients when
Gardens Seek licensing under• Mrs. Hackett bought the '
the Homes for Special Care! farmer uffiders' mess and the
Act;, that until licensed,''
September 12, and died two,
two b•
arrack blocks at the
farmer Canadian Forces
Base Clinton.
During the inquest,
testimony 'centered around
the kind of facility Mrs.
'Hackett is running without p
any grants orprovincial
funding, with the patients
paying 86.25 per day for their
...meals and ledging.
All•of the outside witnesses,
those from London and St.
Thomas, gave Mrs.' Haskett
their unqualified support for
the home,. while. Huron
County officials -thought it
was a good idea, but had
reservations on how it was
being run.
Dr. Flowers • said he had
called the inquest to focus
community attention on the
case of the mentally ill, that'
could put a person• into a
hoarding home .setting after
nearly 20 years of in-
stitutionalized life, and Dr.
Flower's said it wasn't an
isolated case' because the
p< tilent population of ,St.
Thomas Psychiatric Hospital
had dropped from 2,200 to 480
ih the last four years.
Mr. Cyr, speaking on behalf
of Mrs. Haskett, ' said. the
facility was run' as a
humanitarian project, a'nd'
Mrs. Haskett called it
Heather Gardens after her 12-
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year-old daughter' who died
several 'years . ago of bone
cancer.
'Mr. Cyr said Mrs. Haskett,
'a• native yf Scotland, had 10
years experience working
with psychiatric patients and
29 years ' experience 'working
as anurse. He said that the
home fulfills a purpose for the
released patient who has no
other place to g.9. •
Many witnesses, mostly
from London and St. Thomas,
Television culprit.....
(continued f r•oni' page 18
'objectionable content of
shows.
The concept of non-
commercial television was a
ell -supported proposal
included • in several briefs
Wednesday. Hans Feldmann
of RR 3, Listowel, suggested
that a publically-own'ed
net.,work would provide
alternative prograrn ming for
parents who protest against
the %•iolent content in' the.
media. S'eral speakers also
suggested that the prim -e
viewing hours be designated
as "family viewing time"
with only non -objectionable
material broadcast' at the
time.
,A rather different definition
of violence Ayq•s presented by
Mrs. Sally Campeau of the
Wingham Pro -Life group.
"We call abortion' intra-
uterine - violence," she ex-
plained.
She protested advertising •
on some Canadian networks
for abortionists in the United
States arid- called for "a
clean-up of pro-abortiona.l
advertising,in the media".
The Wingham hearing was
also made unique to date by a
brief . presentation from the
first newspaper publisher to
appear before the corn -
.mission. Burry Wenger.
publisher of the `Wingham
Advance -Times, Listowel
Banner and Modnt Forest
Confederate, • submitted- - a
brief citing the Ontario Press
Council as an effective
monitor for newspapers. He
explained that membership
in the council voluntary and
discipline is imposed by one's
peers.
"This is the 'best. form of
control," Mr: Wenger said.
• The' undisputed culprit of
this hearing, and."of all the
commission hearings so -far,
,vas television. It was cited
variously as the strongest
influence in society today,c;an
"authority figure'' fol
children, an educational
medium and as the first .
"involktn•tary medium" in the
history of communications.
The power of television,
therefore, 'seemed to make it
the most popular target for
criticism of both program
and ad'ertising content.
Bev Brown, a pig farmer
o,
in the Wingham area per -haps
best summed up the majority
'opinion on teleV cion at the
-hearing.
Asked by Judy LaMarsh
whether she had television
sets in the pig barn. Mist
Brown answered, "No, we
wouldn't let otic pigs be in-
fluenced by that sort of
thing."
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