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CLINTON NEWS -RECORD, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 30, 1986 -Page 3A
Tlate miracle is there if we agree to donate," says Transpiant founder
A brilliant, sunny Easter Sunday turns to
a day of horror for a Calgary family as their
2'lz year-old child falls off a hayrack on the
family farm and suffers severe head
injuries.
The child is brain dead.
' Through the shock of the tragedy; through
the agony and sadness of losing a child bare-
ly into life, the parents are courageous
enough to turn their thoughts to others. To
transcend the tragedy.
They agree to donate the child's liver and.
turn their own sorrow into a positive and
life-saving unselfish act.
Within hours a surgical team arrives from
London, removes the child's liver and races
against time to save the life a child in Lon-
don waiting for the organ.
They win the race. Barely.
The waiting recipient is a 51/2 year-old
native Indian girl from Manitoba, who, suf-
fering from rickets and tuberculosis, was
abandoned by her parents early in life.
oster parents lovingly nurture her back to
ealth and while her disease laden body was
recovering, she developed liver disease.
Her condition was critical as the Easter
weekend approached. By Easter Sunday,
she faced certain death without a liver
transplant.
On Tuesday of last week, she sat up in her
bed and ate a banana and a bowl of Cheerios
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much to the delight of foster parents and the
staff of the University Hospital who were in-
volved in the hosital's first pediatric liver
transplant.
It was a major victory for life.
The story speaks of the . miracles of
modern day medicine. It speaks of the
fragility of life and the unselfjessness of a
grieving family who could see through the
tears of despair, who could see hope in the
senseless death of their own child.
It is a touching story of man reaching out
to help his fellow man.
The scenario, a true story related by Bill
Brady, the Founding President of
Transplant International Canada and a
director of University Hospital, London,
regaled the audience at the annual meeting
of the Town and Country Homemaker's
Agency in Holmesville Tuesday.
A native of Windsor, and general manager
of CFPL RAdio in London where he has
worked for over 20 years, Brady encouraged
and almost admonished his audience to
think about the prospect of agreeing to
organ donations. That commitment could
ultimately save a life he said.
Many lives came together at University
Hospital, London that one afternoon and a
life was saved in a critical race against
time. Many others, unlike the little native
girl, die because organs are not available.
But people are responding to the plea and
Brady said the story of University
hospital's first pediatric transplant serves
to illustrate the feats that medicine that
accomplish.
"If that's not magic. If that's not the way
the Almighty had wanted us to use our
talents.." Brady said. "We live in a time and
place where, it wasn't possible a few years
ago, but it's now possible."
The problems are twofold in that there is a
critical shortage of donors and many
medical professionals are simply reluctant
to bring up the subject of donation during a
family's grief.
"We know the miracle exists at the hands
of man but there are too few donors," Brady
explained: "We are only asking for your in-
terest and some level of commitment. Peo-
ple don't sign the donor portions of their
licences and don't even think about it. But
most of us will die under circimstances in
which our organs can't be used anyway."
Organ transplantation has become one of
the most dramatic advancements in health
care and the success rate has had a positive
effect on public attitude.
"Organ donation is the gift of life and
many are now family initiated," Brady
said. "If the hospital doens't ask then an
organ is wasted and a life is lost. Only when
the grief and hurt is gone do people rational-
ly consider a donatiot►t
Hospitals and physicians that neglect to
approach faitulies about ,organ donations,
for whatever reason, are denying .ti
an opportunity.
Tile hospital will 'have: been involved in 50
heart transplants this year with the oldest
recipient being 63 years old.:,I see people
returned to the quality of life and I know
what it must mean to the family who made
it made
the decision," Brady said,
"The miracle is there if we agree to
donate. Young people are asked to sign
donor cards or the donor portion of a
drivers' licence," Brady encouraged. "It's
about giving and serving- the greatest
achievements off the human spirit."
Homemakers will expand
When the Town and Country Homemakers Agency was founded in 1978 out of a need to
provide a measure of home care to county residents, the board of directors had little idea
it would grow into an organizations with a $1/2 million dollar budget, more than 200 clients
per month and more than 80 dedicated homemakers.
But that was exactly the state of affairs as reported to the group's annual meeting in
Holmesville Tuesday by Board Chairman Lauretta Siegner.
And the agency will have to respond to increases in demand, administration and case
management as it embarks on a new challenge, the provision of an integrated
homemaker program. One of five agencies to act as a testing ground for the service, the
program, administered by the Huron County Health Unit and the Board of Health, will
provide homemaking service to the frail elderly and handicapped adults.
The program will be implemented May 1 and will provide as much as 60 hours of
homemaking care to frail elderly people and disabled persons in the county. The
Ministry of Community and Social Services will spend $14 million to help these people
live at home rather than being forced into nursing homes or institutions.
Both the role and the sco¢e of the agency's activities will change but Siegner said the
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AUDITOR'S REPORT
To the supporters of the Huron
County Board of Education
We have examined the balance sheet of The Huron County Board of Education as at December 31, 1985 and the revenue fund state-
ment and expenditures, the capital fund statement of operations, the continuity of trust funds and the continuity of reserve funds for
the year then ended. Our examination was made in accordance with generally accepted auditing standards, and accordingly included
such tests and other procedures as we considered necessary in the circumstances.
In our opinion, these financial statements present fairly the financial position of the Board as of December 31, 1985 and the results,
of its operations for the year then ended in accordance. with the acccounting principles described In note 1 to the financial statements
applied on a basis consistent with that of the preceding year.
London, Canada.
March 14, 1986.
Chartered Accountants.
License No. 1217.
THE HURON COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION
BALANCE SHEET
DECEMBER 31, 1985
(with comparative amounts at December 31, 1984)
ASSETS
1985
1984
REVENUE FUND
Cash and term deposits $ 806,312 $1,070,922 • Accounts payable:
Accounts receivable:Local taxation - over requisition
1,667,432 1,615,726 (statement 2) $ 404,447 $ 309,697
Government of Ontario Trade accounts payable and accrued
Local laxation - 33,255 8,032 charges - 1,537,589 1,597,375
Suppletaxes • 472,790 106,553 Other school boards - .114 814 106,611
Other schh0000ll ry boards 53,581 18,345 2, 056, 850 2,013,683
Sundry 3,033,370 2,819,578
114,777 75,585 Due to capital fund 7,275 7,275
Prepaid expenses ` Due to reserve fund 159.022 49,205
166,297 56,480
LIABILITIES AND EQUITY
REVENUE FUND
STATEMENT 1
1985 1984
13,148,147 12,895,163
CAPITAL FUND
Reserve for working funds
CAPITAL FUND
Accounts receivable 9 225 $ 225 Holdbacks payable
Due from revenue fund 7,275 7,275 Ummatured debenture debt
Capital outlay to be recovered in future years 495.826 'I ;482,294
(statement 3)
$ 503,326 $1.489,794
Due from revenue fund
RESERVE FUND
TRUST FUNDS
RESERVE FUND
$ 159,022 $ 49,205 Equity in reserve fund (statement 4)
TRUST FUNDS
Cash $ 17,902 $ 9,948 Awards payable
Investments - at cost which approximates Equity in trust funds (statement 5)
market value 183,901 , 177,968
On behalf of the Board
Director
Director
$ 201.809 $187.916
925.000 82.55 000
$l148.147 $20395,163,
$ 7,500 $ 7,500
495,826 1,482,294
k..11.1121 $1,489`794
$ 159,022 $ - 49,205,
$ 5,540
196,269 $_-_187
916
$ 201,809 $ 187,916
THE HURON COUNTY BOARD'OF EDUCATION
REVENUE FUND STATEMENT OF REVENUE AND EXPENDITURES
YEAR ENDED DECEMBER 31., 1985
(with comparative amounts for 1984)
1. xaenditure:
R"siness administration
C. neral administration
.:umputer services
instruction
Plant operation and maintenance
Transportatioh
tuition fees
Capital expenditure (non -allocable)
ocher operating expenditure
:lebt charges and capital loan interest
Nun -operating expenditures, excluding transfers to reserves
Total expenditure
Secnvery of expenditures:
Other school boards
t.,vernment of Canada
Individuals
ether revenue, excluding transfers From reserves
Total recovery of expenditures
Net expenditure
F,nenced by,
Transfer from (to) reserve funds (statement 4)
frinsfer to revenue fund reserve for working funds
novernment of Ontario - general legislative grant
Local taxation - raised in current year
Previous year's over (under) requisition
Under (over) requisition of taxes for year
maskramamemnauttecetemtamdietralliffiai
Elementary
Schools
$ 214,867
225,616
7,959
15,976,184
1,555,482
1,963,860
17,741
61,371
21,625
375,897
44.788
20.465,390
1985
Secondary
Schools
S 214,868
225,615
7,959
12,465,478
1,636,226
1,604,190
909,014
69,477
21,625
221,537
6'6,291
Total
$ 429,735
451,231
15,918
28,441,662
3,f91,708
3,568,050
926,755
130,848
43,250
597,434
111,079
17,442,280 37,907,670
125,290 1,057,237
26,411 1,49]
1,445 53,810 22,493
22,833 12,751
149,568 1,150,209 1,299,777 24,877 1,283,335
16,292,071 36,607,893 18,784,018 . 16,738,310
1,182,527
26,411
55,255
35,584
1984
STATEMENT 2
Elementary
Schools
Secondary
'Schools
Total
1 190,222 $ 197,195 $ 415,69487,417
204,106 211,588
11,039 11,444 22,483
14,410,955 12,585,523 26,996,478
1,424,927 1,712,657 3,137,584
1,721,938 1,708,393 3,430,331
22,185 905,553 927,738
309,680 336,697 646,377
11,741 12,067 23,808
414,986 221,558 636,544
87,1)6 118,970' 206,086
18,808,895 18,021•.645 36.830,540
982 1,123,804
40,392
74,212
44,927
20,315,822
1,124,786
40,392
75,705
67.329
1.308,212
35,527,328
(36,890) (58,800)
(48,754) (61,063)0 (109,817) (100,000) (100,000)
(50,000)7169,821) (100,000) 10,769,192 23,201,447
16,85,496 10,369,821 23,827,222 '12,432,2555,882,657 12,342,247
6,845,49628617 6,239,742 13,085,238 6,459,590 425.221
23.518 309.,697178,352 246.869
266,179 , 16,761..828 35,832,025
20,490,322 ' 16,522,018 37,012,340 19,070,197,
$ (174,500) $ (229,947) $, (404,447) $ (286..179) $ .(23.,518) $ .(309.697)
FINANCIAL
STATEMENTS
oE�EM.Ea,,.,4„
STATEMENT 3
THE HURON COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION
CAPITAL FUND STATEMENT OF OPERATIONS
YEAR ENDED DECEMBER 31, 1985
(with comparative amounts for 1984)
1985 1984
Sources of recovery of capital expenditures: •
485,420 $ 970,796
'Capit:l expenditures.out of revenue Eund $
Debenture -principal payments included in 513,120 522,236
revenue fund expenditures
• Ontario Education Capital Aid Corporation 473,348
debenture writedown
1,471,888 1,493,032
Capital expenditures: 80,641 592,435
Land and buildings 404,779 378,361
Furniture and equipment 485,420 970 796
Net recovery of prior years' capital 986,468 522,236
expenditures
Unrecovered capital expenditures, bzginning
of year
1,482,294 2,004,530
Unrecovered capital expenditures, end of year 5 495,826 $1.482.294
STATEMENT 4
THE HURON COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION
CONTINUITY OF RESERVE FUNDS
YEAR ENDED DECEMBER 31, 1985
(with comparative amounts for 1984)
Elementary reserves:
Future capital expenditures -
Ministry equity
Future capital expenditures -
Board equity
Retirement gratuities
Secondary reserves:
Capital improvements
Retirement gratuities
Total
Balance Transfers - Balance
beginning from (to) end
of year revenue fund of year
$ 6,022 $ 6,022
6,293
$ 48,754
12,315 48 54
36,890
61,063
36,890 61,063
6,293
48,754
61,069
36,890
61,063
97,953
$49 205 $109817 $159,022
STATEMENT 5
THE HURON COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION
CONTINUITY OF TRUST FUNDS
YEAR ENDED DECEMBER 31, 1985
(with comparative amounts for 1984)
Balance, beginning of year
Add:
Trust funds received in year
Investment income
Deduct awards
Balance, end of year
1985 1984
4187,916 5179,229
16,554 15,455
23,907 22,588
228,377 217,272
32,108 29,356
31.96,269 3187,916
"Copies of the Audited Financial Report from which these statements have been extracted may be examined
at the office of the Secretary -Treasurer, Huron County Board of Eduoation,103Albert Street, Clinton, Ontario."
R.B. ALLAN
Director of Education
A.W. CLARK
Chairman of the Board