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Page 14—CLINTON NEWS -RECORD, WEDNESDAY, MAY 1
New directors
On April 24 the Board of Directors off Town
and Country Homemakers elected its 1985-
86 executive at the first board meeting
following the annual meeting held April 9th.
Thea Trick, Clinton was elected to a second
term as chairman; Lauretta Seigner, Ex-
eter remains as first vice-chairman with
Bruce McDonald, Mildmay as second vice-
chairman; and Jane LeVan stays on the ex-
ecutive as secretary. A newly created posi-
tion of assistant to the chairman was filled
by Betty McGregor, Kippen.
The Board delegate to the Toronto
meetings of the Ontario Association of
Visiting Homemaker Services will continue
to be Jane LeVan with Betty McGregor as
alternate. The Board learned that executive
director Jean Young has just completed
writing the first draft of agency standards of
service for membership in the O.A.V.H.S.
All committees were struck and will pre-
sent their goals and objectives at the next
board meeting on May 22nd.
Executive director Jean Young announc-
ed the names of the delegates who would be
accompanying her to the May 4-5 national
conference in Toronto of the Canadian Coun-
cil on Homemaker Services. They are:
board secretary Jane LeVan, Wingham;
supervisors Estelle Wise, Clinton and
Evelyn Pepper, Seaforth; homemakers
Wilma Bakelaar, Clinton, Marlene DeGraw,
Woodham, Norma Moore, Winghann and
Lyn Reidy, Brucefield.
The first Ontario conference on "Home
Support Services for elderly and disabled
people" is to be held in Toronto on May 29-31
with Joan Watson, Chairman of the Task
Force on the .Allocation of . Health Care
Resources giving the keynote address. This
conference is co-sponsored by the Provin-
cial Home Support Conference Planning
Committee and Ryerson Polytechnical In-
stitute, Continuing Education; with finan-
cial support from the Ontario Ministry of
Community and Social Services. Executive
director Jean Young and board members
Bev Brown, Bluevale will attend this con-
ference on behalf of 'Town and Country
Homemakers.
Looking good
1985
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By Patti Munnings
CLINTON - A "rapid transit" method was
developed at Clinton Public Hospital,
transporting post surgery patients from se-
cond floor to Clinton Hospital's main floor...
and you could safely say it was unique! Dr.
Alex Addison, ( now retired from practice)
described how he and Dr. Walter Oakes car-
ried out this unusual procedure... Dr. Oakes
supported the foot of the stretcher. Dr. Ad-
dison held the top end and the nurses sup-
ported the patient cautiously sliding their
charge down the wide bannister. 'Can you
visualize that happening today!!
Mrs. Ruth Tauber ( daughter of the late
Dr. Percival Hearn ) recalls her father's
description of the heavy leather stretchers
used to transport patients to the operating
room, which preceded today's type of stret-
cher tables.
Dr. Hearn had come to Clinton in 1923 and
took over the practice of the late Dr. Thonip-
sun Sr. whose office was located in the home
now owned by Dr. Frank Newland. He prac-
ticed from this location until the time of his
death in 1940, and during that tinie was an
anaesthetist, along with conducting a
General practice. Dr. Hearn was the only
doctor in the area qualified to run a gas
machine, and had to travel to the area
hospitals., taking his own machine if the
• hospital had none. Mrs. Tauber still recalls
•the overpowering smell of ether which con-
st antl , seemed to envelope her father.
Payment to the doctor in those days fre-
quently was in the foam of produce or fowl,
and there seldom was a shortage of apples
In tht' Hearn home. Dr. Hearn, like most
doctors of his era, was on 24 hour call, and
families had to become accustomed to con-
stant interuptions. Mrs. Tauber remembers
a speaking tube which ran from her parents'
bedroom through a partition to the office en-
trance, enabling patients to summon the
doctor anytime. Because of this so-called
convenience, picnics and parties in the
Hearn home were constantly suspended.
On the request of Dr. Hearn, Dr. Addison
spent time in Clinton as an assistant. He
moved to Zurich to assist the late Dr.
McKinnon, and in 1943 returned to Clinton to
establish a general practice. In a recent in-
terview with I)r. Addison he described the
hospital's own vegetable garden in the loca-
tion of the present parking lot. Patients in
those days enjoyed fresh vegetables right
from the garden, and Miss Grainger
superintendent, personally canned a supply
for winter months.
Ambulance service in Dr. Addison's time
was provided by Clinton's two funeral -direc-
tors, but frequently he transported his pa-
tients to hospital in the rear of his own car.
Dr. Addison will never forget September 16,
1943... the occasion when penicillin was first
administered in Clinton. Because this now
-miracle drug" was still in the research
stage, Dr. Addison had to consent to send
daily blood samples un the morning 7:00
a.m. train to Toronto and a report to a
Toronto laboratory. Ile also recalled
visiting his patient frequently each day, and
keeping a detailed account of her condition.
I)r. Addison remembered his usual good
morning from the nurses at the nurses sta-
tion,
rdens
In 1946 Miss Jessie Grainger superinten-
dent of Clinton Public Hospital since 1919
retired, and was succeeded by Miss Annette
Sinclair. Miss Grainger had taught the first
nursing class at the old Clinton Hospital,
and from that class Miss Sinclair had
graduated.
Due to a continuous overcrowded condi-
tion, plans were being considered for a new
wing at the south end of the hospital. They
were given the go ahead and Clinton Public
Hospital's new wing was completed in 1948.
The official grand opening ceremonies did
not take place until May 12, 1949. It was
stated that they wanted just the right time
and weather. It was said that they couldn't
have had a more beautiful day with the
ceremony being held on the front lawn of the
hospital. The official opening ceremony was
performed by Thomas Pryde of Exeter
M.L.A. for South Huron. Other speakers in-
cluded Dr. W.A. Oakes, Elston Cardiff, M.P.
for South Huron, and John Armstrong
Warden for Huron County. A plaque which
was placed in the corridor of the new wing
conunemorating residents of Clinton,
dedicated by Rev. D.J. Lane, Minister of
Clinton was unveiled by Dr. J.W. Shaw.
Mrs. Bess Fingland President of the Clinton
Public Hospital Auxiliary was also there to
greet the guests.
This was all made possible by grants and
donations along with the auxiliary helping to
furnish it. This•new wing would surely make
things easier for the Clinton Public
Hospital'? To be continued...
By Toby Rainey
VANAS'I'RA-Those first few fantastic
days of summer weather rushed a number.
of Spring -spruce -ups in Vanastra, with
several homes sporting •smart new siding
from top to bottom, yards glowing with spr-
ing flowers, newly manicured grass and
hedges, and some bright new fences. •
After .the annual Community Clean -Up
project in mid-May, Vanastra should indeed
be a showplace worthy of a Sunday drive.
Even the new Bayfield Boats building has
its foundation laid, while several other eum-
mercial projects are well underway in the
Industrial Park. ' .
Lifeguard training
Over the weekend, the Vanastra Pool was
host to the first of two sessions of the dif-
ficult National Lifeguard Service training;
course, with 14 lifeguards from Clinton,
Goderich, Seaforth and Exeter taking part,
as well as Vanastra's own ('HRISTA
LEHNON and KERRY SCHMIDT.
The entire course consists of 48 hours of
intensive classroom and in -pool instruction,
including simulated real-life pool rescues,
lifeguard team work, public relations and
public awareness, i ajor first-aid training
and pool maintenance and improvements.
Participants must be at least 16 years old,
and have achieved their Bronze National
Life Saving award.
The National Lifeguard Service I til Sl
training was launched in 1964 in reponse to
the recognized need for 'an advanced and
consistent level of training fur pool and
waterfront personnel, and is today the only
. recognized lifeguard award in Canada. As
well, the NIS award has a major first-aid
component equal to that of the Canadian
Red Cross Society's Emergency First Aid.
Certificate. •
• The second 'segment of the Vanastra
course will be held May 10-12. ('hief in-
structor is TONY KYLE, assisted by ('IN -
DY GARD and ELAINE SCIIENK. all of
London.
Please vote
Remember to• get out and vote on :'1a) 2.
Although polls show that ern! one in three
Ontarians has any interest in the upromme
election, it is as true as always that we
deserve the government we Let - so slake
sure you get what you want'
Sobering farts
Thought for today: the number or Inn
paired drivers on nun roads is roughly
equivalent to the number of empty liquor
bottles tossed nut 1n ditches along; those
roads. A sobering thought, hey'
News reports .
Dont forget, if you have a Vanastra news
item you want in this column, phone 'l'OBY
RAINI- Y at 482-3815. It's your c•olcun i. so he
sure to have your say' Both bouquets and
brickbats Ore welcome'
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