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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1981-09-30, Page 1'!9 133 WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1981 50 CENTS PER COPY ICU fund raising campaign in gear October has officially been declared Hospital Month in Goderich and the campaign to raise funds for a new Intensive Care Unit begins in earnest. The fund-raising committee of the Board of Governors of Alexandra Marine and General Hospital is committed to raising $250,000 of the total cost of $500,000 for the new ICU unit. While their ef- forts have been chanelled into planning for several months, the final surge to raise the pledge will soon take shape. At a regular monthly board meeting Monday, fund- raising chairman, Bob Dempsey presented site plans for the proposed unit as prepared by Ruth, Tillman Architects of London. Dempsey explained that once the fund-raising efforts are complete the project should be tendered by January 1982, started in the spring and occupied by September of next year. At present, the ICU unit is contained in a 432 square foot converted ward, with four treatment beds and equipment. The unit falls well below the government requirements and guidelines and officials claim the equipment is outdated and inadequate. The architect's proposal callsfor a new 2,400 square foot addition to the north side of the building that will contain a four -bed intensive care unit. The addition will also house a semi -private medical area, a day-care surgery area and paediatrics. The cost of the addition is estimated at $495,000 and while the Provincial Government is supportive of the project, it is unable to commit any funding, The hospital board has committed $245,000 to the project from reserve funds and the remaining $250,000 will be raised locally. The addition will cost $375,000 while architects fees ($35,000) and equipment ($85,000) boost the total to $450,000. Now the fund-raising campaign begins in ernest and Dempsey told the board that his committee in- volves 65 to 70 citizens who have held campaign strategy meetings every two weeks since April. "At this point there 65' to 70 people involved in the campaign and there has been a total community commitment," he said. "The response has been astronomical and there has been no rejection entirely to the proposal." Dempsey and his workers are in the middle of an appeal to service clubs, the business campaign has been initiated and he indicated that an industrial canvass will begin soon. The fund-raising campaign will kickoff this Thursday with a candlelight parade scheduled to begin at Victoria Public School at 7 p.m. Everyone, including children, are urged to bring a candle or flashlight and march from the school to The Square as a symbolic gesture. In the case of'rain the parade will be cancelled. IT COULD BE YOU Following the parade, canvass captains will receive a word of encouragement from Mayor Harry Worsell and the campaign will officially begin. Hundreds of canvassers will be out for the door-to- door campaign on Thursday, October 15. Dr. J. T. Rourke, president of the medical staff, explained to the board that the new ICU unit is vital to provide the community with adequate and competent health care. He outlined some of the advantages of the proposed unit. "The four separate cubicles will give us more room and provide a more comfortable atmosphere for the patients," he said. "It will also help halt the spread of infection and the equipment will•enable us to provide better quality health treatment." To date, many local municipal governments have pledged funds and the committee's target of $60,000 to be raised by local government will be realized. . During October, however, the fund-raising effort swings into full, gear and everyone will be asked .to support the cause to provide top quality medical treatment. The Board of Governors of Alexandra Marine and General Hospital has launched a fund-raising campaign to construct a new Intensive Care Unit at the hospital. The existing ICU unit, as pictured above, is termed woefully inadequate by staff both in terms of equipment and space. The new unit will cost $495,000 and $250,000 will be raised locally. ( Photo by Dave Sykes )' INSIDE THE SINAL -STAR Nee Ripping it out Don and Diann Kellestine bought their first home two years ago. They didn't know that the insulation was going to play havoc with the family's health and that Don was going to have to rip out the governement subsidized urea formaldehyde. Read about one Goderich family's experience with the dreaded stuff on page 1A. We've got grads! Well, another crop of graduating students has , come back to the hallowed halls of GDCI for the 1981 commencement exercises. The ', Goderich Signal -Star has enclosed a souvenir graduation edition complete with pictures of ip the grads, award winners, and Ken Wood'stok : valedictory address. r<tl Doing her bit '!$ Ninety-year-old Ruth Orr is doing her share to help out in the Alexandra Marine and General Hospital fund-raising for its new Intensive (,are lE r`iit:Vr'3rr i'i s'rlevn'ird-rita lintom- to tatting doilies to be raffled off. Read about TM` Ruth on page 1A. E., ah4Ati'wLu•iiwarw�Ji :fi w"�•,411 Teacher salaries up 12 per cent BY STEPHANIE LEVESQUE The average salary for an elementary school teacher in Huron County is $27,690 following ratification of the 1981-1982 contract. The Huron County Board of Education ratified the contract at its Sept. 10 meeting, while the members of the Ontario Public School Men's Teacher Federation and the, Federation of Women Teachers of Ontario ratified on Monday, Sept. 21. . NeilStraw, incoming 1981-82 president of the OPSM' said the ratification meeting was well at- . tended and the contract was ratified by a 90 per cent vote. Mr. Straw, ,tea teacher at Huron Centennial • public School, Clinton said the teachers were pleased With the contract. ""' In the contract, the average principal's salary is $42,670. In Huron County, there are 340.3 elementary school teachers and 23 principals. The contract represents a 12 per cent increase, including principals and teachers salaries. Teachers' salaries 'represent 66.5 per cent of the elementary budget. The total cost of the elementary teachers' salaries is $9,422,994, up from $8,354,684. The total cost of the principals' salary.is $981,401, up from $914,401. The teacher grid, which lists teachers' salaries in seven categories, ranging from the starting year to 10 years with the board, starts at $13,900 and ends at $36,000. Thee categories are according to the teachers' qualifications. In category If, the salaries are as follows, with last years' salaries in brackets; starting $13,900 ($12,331), first year $14,680 ($13,024 ), second year $15,460 ($13,717), third year $16,240 ($14,410), fourth year $17,010 ($15,092), fifth year $17,790 ($15,785), sixth year $18,560 ($16,46'7). In category C, the salaries are as follows,.with last years' in brackets; starting $14,700 ($13,057), first year $15,500 ($13,750), second year $16,270 ($14,432), third year $17,050 ($15,125), .fourth year $17,830 ($15,125), fifth year $18,600 ($16,500), sixth year $19,380 ($17,193), seventh year $20,160 ($17,193) eighth year $20,930 ($18,568), ninth year $21,710 ($19,261). In category 8, the salaries are as follows, with the Last year's in brackets; starting $15,520 ($13,772), first year $16,590 ($14,718), second year $17,640 ($15,653), third year $18,710 ($16,599), -$iD;760--47i7;3341;1i11.1r aP- '2078307$1 year $21, (0 ($19,415), seventh year $22,950 ($20,361), eighth year $24,000 ($21,296), ninth year $25,070 ($22,242), tenthyear$26,120 ($23,177). in category Al the salaries are as follows with last follows, with .1980-81 'figures in brackets; starting year's in brackets; starting $16,290 ($14,454), first $3,200 ($3,02'4), first year $3,400 ($3,240), second year year $17,490 ( $15,5211. second year $18,700 ($16,588), $3,700 ($3,456 ),,third year $3,9`00 ($3,672). third year $19,900 417,655 ), fourth year $21,100 • Other changes in the Huron elementary school ($18,722), fifth year $22,300 ($19,789), sixth year contract include life insurance under fringe benefits. $23,510 ( $20,856), seventh year $24,710 ($20,856 ), In the previous contract, the board paid 75 per cent of eighth year $25,910 ( $`22,990), ninth year $27,110 the premium for $30,000. coverage. That has been ($24,057 ), tenth year $28.140 ($24,926). changed to the board paying 100 per cent of the first In category A2, the sa la ries are as follows, with last $25,000 life ' insurance coverage. P.A.'.Gryseels, year's in brackets; starting $17,210 ($15,268), first personnel relations administrator for the. Huron year $18,550 ( $16,456) , se.cond year $19,900 1$17,655 ), County Board of Education, said the change' third year' $21,240 ( $18,843 ), fourth year $22,590.($20, represents no increased cost to the board. • 042), fifth year $23,930 1121,230 1, sixth year, $25,280 "Our costs are the same," said Mr. Gryseels. ($22,429), seventh year $26,620 ($23,617), eighth year Something new in the agreement between .the $27,970 ($24,816), ninth dear $29,310 ($26,0041, tenth elementary school teachers and the board is a year $30,490 ($27,005 ). teacher funded leave plan. This plan allows a teacher ' In category A3, the sa laries areas follows; with last to take a year's. leave of absence if they wish, .year's in brackets: starting $18,760 ($16,643 ), first •receiving 80 per cent of the salary over five years. year $20,320 ($18,029), second year $21,880 ($19,415), Mr. Gyscels said previously if a teacher took a third year $23,430 ($2i'.790), fourth year $24,990 year's leave of absence, they did so without pay. He ($22,176), fifth year $26,550 ($23,562 ), sixth year said the plan was originally designed to help alleviate $28,100 ($24,937), seventh year $29,670 ($26,323), declining enrolment at, the secondary school revel. eighth year $31,230 ( $27,709), ninth year $32,780 The administrator said the plan, also provides the ($29,084), tenth year $34,1101$30,272). opportunity for the teachers to further their In category A4, the salaries are as follows, with last education attheir expense. year's in brackets; starting $19,190 ($17,028), first Other changes in' the elementary schocl contract year. $20,890 ($18,535), si cowl year $22,590 1$20,042), were wording clarification in appointment to prin- third year $24,290 1 821.549 ), fourth year $25,980 c•ipal's position, grievance of accumulated sick leave, ($23,056), fifth year 127,680 ($24,563), sixth year transfer, mileage, teacher evaluation, and grievance. $29,380 ( $26,070), seventh year $31,080 • ($2`7,577 ), procedure. eighth year $32,780 ($29,084 ), ninth year $34,480 In comparison to surrounding boards; including ($30,591), tenth year $36,(100 ($31,900). Bruce, Grey. I,ambton, Middlesex ( excluding Lon - For the principals, the calculation of their salary don), Perth. •Wellington and the Huron -Perth changed this year. Previously they had their own grid Separate • School Board, Huron County elementary which for 1980-81 ranged from $33,357 to $39,457. This school teachers are the third highest. Comparing the year, 1981-82 a principal's salary is calculated by the A4 category maximum, only Lambton and Wellington teachers' grid plus $8.00() surpass Huron. The vice-principaLs' salaries, of which there are 10 In a comparison of the maximum principals' in the county, are calculated by the teachers' grid salary, Huron ranks fourth highest, surpassed by plus their own grid. This vice -principals' grid is as Wellington, laimbton and Middlesex. Champion denies order for Australia relations, said the company has no, agreement to manufacture graders for Atistralia. He added that the statement was obviously a mistake in a release that. originated with the Ministry of Industry and Tourism. Blackwood Hodge Ltd. an Australian importer ofr"( fot .. dustries. is reported to have signed a contract with the Diesel Division of General Motors of Canada Ltd. in London worth $31 million. A news release claiming that Champion Road Machinery Ltd of Goderich had received a $3 million grader order from Australia is false a company of- ficial said Tuesday. fourth year A news release stated that Champion had signed a d,48ii), sixth contract with Alist raih.1n purchasers for 30 road graders worth $3.5 million after Premier William Davis made a recent visit to that country. Iain Bain, Corporate Vice -President, employee Talks with teachers, board off Negotiations between the secondary school teachers and the Huron County Board of Education have broken off. Mediator Professor Jeffrey Gandz of the Universi- ty of Western Ontario said "the two parties are far apart", when asked why negotiations had broken off. The professor said the next step is for the Educa- tion Relations Commission to appoint a fact -finder by early October. Prof. Gandz said he will remain .as mediator. Last week' the Education Relations Commission appointed Ann Barrett of Toronto as fact finder in the negotiations between the Huron County Board of Education and its secondary school teachers. As.a fact finder, Ms. Barrett will meet with.thetwo parties andsubmit a report stating which matters have been agreed to and which matters remain in dispute. The report may also contain recom- mendations for a settlement. Ms. Barrett is a graduate of Osgoode Law School and has had previous fact finding appointments in Timmins, Kirkland Lake and Niagara South. In the fact finding process, she will be assisted by Robert Ratcliffe of Toronto. No dud for Goderch despite talk This Bud's for you. Or so the advertising slogan boasts. But rumors around. town recently have been boasting that the John Labatt Company had investigated the possibility of locating a Budweiser plant in the Goderich-Kincardine area. While' rumors abound, town officials have not heard from Budweiser or from the people who are cir- culating the rumor. In fact, those contacted by the Signal -Star were not even aware of the rumor. Town clerk Larry McCabe said nothing of that nature has been discussed and that the company has not, in any way, approached the town. McCabe is also secretary of the town's economic development committee and claimed therewvas no contact through that body of council. . Chairman of the economic development com- mittee, Jack Brady, was also surprised when asked if such a development had inquired about location here. "I haven't heard a word. I haven't even heard the rumor," he said. "some inquiries are made that don't reach the committee ,but I' haven't heard anything like that." Committee member, Dave Gower, also pleaded innocence on the matter and Mayor Harry Worsell said he had "not heard a word about it." . While no-one seems to know anything about the alleged inquiry, some people are talking about it. Or is'the rumor just an offspring of product endorsation. Employee to. work' for town: Under the Canadian. Community Development. Project, Goderich's tourist committee and recreation board will be able to hire at least one person to work full-time for the next year on a F:L.O.A.T. II project. Last summer, the tourist committee was able tq hire two people for 13 weeks on a project titled F.L.O.A.T. (Familiarizing Locals and Others About our Town). This project will be an extension of the summer works project. The Canadian Community Development Project will pay the salary ($170) of the person hired plus $40 a week for capital expenditures. Doug Bundy, of the tourist committee, obtained permission from council last week to make the application which must be in by October 9. At its regular meeting last Thursday, rec board moved that the application be carried out and that rec director Jane Netzke would iron out the details. • Activities of the person hired will include: working with the recreation staff to locate and map suitable cross-country ski trails in the Goderich area and produce literature about it; completing the per- manent float to be used .in parades to promote' Goderich: assisting the rec staff and the tourist committee in the planning, organizing and ad- vertising of the Canada Day Parade in June; assisting the tourist committee ,in the task of ad- vertising and promoting various events in the coming year such as the Festival of the Arts; assisting program director Bob Marshall to develop, plan and initiate activities,which would be beneficial to groups such as senior citizens, underprivileged, disabled or physically handicapped. Later next spring, a second person will be hired to complete miscellaneous construction work. Boy dies following bus accident A Lucknow area boy has died of 'injuries he received in an accident on September 9. Paul Riegling, son of Max and Helen Riegling, Huron Township, died at Victoria Hospital in London on Monday afternoon. He was injured when struck by a pick-up truck as he crossed Highway 86 to board the. school bus. Paul Joseph Rielgling was born on October 25, 1975. He was a Grade 1 student at $t. Joseph's Ceimmunity School, Kingsbridge, • and a member of the Kingsbridge Beavers. He is survived by his parents. three brothers, Dean, Jay, and Beau, all at home: his maternal grand- mother, Mrs. Leo Courtney of Goderich and his paternal grandparents,. Mr. and Mrs. Carl Riegling of Ashfield Township. His paternal great grandfather. Fares Edmondson of Chatham also survives. Resting at MacKenzie and McCreath Funeral Home in Lucknow Wednesday after 2 p.m. Thence to r - for Mass of the Christian Burial on Thursday morning at 1.0:30. Burial to follow at St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Cemetery