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The Goderich Signal-Star, 1986-10-01, Page 1Coun (q efsH.:a sdayc e : centre in Goderich motion to establish day care st®s i BY SUSAN HUNDER ARK that More than 60 angry parents council had not seen the last of them after Goderich council defeated a motion to establish a municipal day care centre in town. • We certainly aren't defeated. It's too important an issue to let it drop at this point. We're looking into every possibility to Arm- strong, spokesperson it back to ifor'the daycare parents. A 4 to 4 recorded vote defeated the mo- tion to establish a day care centre based on three principles: that parents who don't qualify for assistance pay a substantial amount of the cost, that cost to taxpayers, should be minimal and that neighboring municipalities should contribute to the costs if their residents.are going to benefit. "Child care really should be one of our top priorities," said Coun. John Stringer who made the motion. "I have no personal need for day care but for Goderich, day care is an invest- ment in society. When more and more children have the very best of care, it's bound to have an effect on all of us. It could decrease juvenile delinquency," he said. Administrator Larry McCabe said that capital money had been made available to pay 80 per cent of therenpvations cost accor- ding Mini Community estimate would cost $80 50. The preliminary be spent by Mar. 31, 1987. Ongoing costs to the town would be $10,000 to $15,000 a year. Involving the sur- rounding townships in day care would cut the town's cost by $3,000 to $4,000 con- tributed from each township, he said. He added that running the Mini Com- munity Centre under a day care budget could also mean a $5,000 savings in the town's recreation budget. supported the mo- Coun. Glen Carey also Goderich std ie. �..... . .. 138 YEAR - 40 tion saying it was absolutely clear that the need for day care exists in Goderich. "We have responded to lesser needs than this. Neither cost (start-up or operating) is overwhelmingly expensive. Both can be met reasonably easily," he said. Carey said the "fruit" of government capital grants are there for council to grasp. He added that council could control how the fee schedule would' be set up and therefore make the centre operate almost without a deficit by using means testing. "The centre could be self-supporting without stretching people's pocketbooks too far. We (council) want to know how much you (parents) earn. I'm not sug- gesting we run it at a profit. Just run it so it breaks even. That to pay too happen uch," he without asking people said. Several members of the audience were invited to give input to the issue. Christine McPhee, a supervisor with Family and Children's Services said day care is a very needed service in the community. Dr. Donald Pearce, a family physician in town, said day care is important to the integrity of a family emotionally, physical- ly and spiritually. And, Allison Hollingworth, a concerned citizen whose children are too old for day care said it's an inescapable more and more wonien are that entering workforce. "If day care is not provided, women will not stop working but the children will be the council nse our taxes wisely and our children eed these facilities," she said. Brian Donald, of the day care commit- tee, said the cost of day care seemed small compared to the regular expenditures of council. He suggested that parents would be willing to pay more than $12 a day to Turn to page 2 Goderich man remanded A Goderich man was remanded in custody for sentencing on 34 counts of break, and theft and one t pf theft which rdate back to March of this year. Michael Douglas Dalton, 20, pleaded guilty in Goderich Provincial Court, Mon- day to charges stemming from occur- rences at Treleaven's Lucknow Feed Mill, Buffy's Burger Bar in Lucknow, W. G. Thompson's at Port Albert, Robertson Public School in Goderich, The Met in Goderich, Reavie Farm Equipment, Lucknow, Colborne Central School, cot- tages at Bluewater Beach and numerous other area locations. y In another case before Provincial Court on Monday, Todd Smith off Toronto was fin- ed $200 for shoplifting after he was con- victed of stealing meat from Shanahan's Foodland in Goderich, May 17. Police look into sexual assault Goderich police are investigating an in- cident in which a five year old boy was sex- ually molested by two teenage boys. The incident occurred behind Goderich District Collegiate Institute on September 24 between 6:30 amd 7 p.m. Police Chief Pat King said some reports of sexual assault could be considered a prank but this incident was a definite inde- cent assault. Police have a vague description of the two teenagers who are believed to be no older than 15 years of age. Police are conti- nuing their investigation. • 60 CENTS PER COPY GODERICH, ONTARIO, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1986 1945 snowblower will be replaced Over 200 attend opening Nothing's more inviting on a wet but warm r day y to az a group Jeff of 10 -year-old boys than a large puddle.. Gautreau and Gary Fuller, all 19, of Goderich had a great time on Monday driving their bikes into an overflowing ditch in the in- Auxiliarythetouch .persoflal�1lr®V1 � A cart was purchased from a donation from the duplicate bridge club. in memory of Mrs. A. Nicol, a former president and it is taken to the patients on the hospital's three floors several days a week by a hospital auxiliary member. The name of the auxiliary has been changed from Women's Hospital Auxiliary to Hospital Auxiliary to open the member- ship to men. The auxiliary has one male member, Stanley Wheeler, president Jean Wheeler's husband. • Fund raising projects now include spr- ing and fall bake sales for the hospital staff, tag day, the garage sale in the arena, the beauty shop and the gift shop and cart. The oldest auxiliary member is May Mooney, now of Brockville, formerly of Goderich. Auxiliary past presidents in- clude Mrs. George MacEwan, Mrs. J. Kinkead, Mrs. E. Pridham, Mrs. F. Curry, - Mrs. G. C. White, Mrs. J. Berry, Mrs. C. J. Worse, Mrs. C. McDonald, Mrs. Mrss.. C. . C. Kalbfleisch, Mrs. N. Jackson and Mrs. S. Wheeler. Auxiliary donations to the hospital in the past have included for the kitchen, a refrigerator, convection oven, ultra kettle; for the nursery, a heating cainet and bub- ble top crib top; for the emergency, a por- table monitor, heart monitor and sky light; second floor, refrigerator and ice machine, washer and dryer; uniforms for the candy stripers; three geriatric chairs; rubber maid max system cart; gomco suc- tion machine; disposable mattress and pumps; furnishings for room on second floor east; furnishings for the beauty shop the $200 bursaries each year to us ria par . u ge recen ra a ' o ' e c as suffered lit- , tle flooding because it's on high ground. Several storm sewers have backed up and t ere has beenk�or flooding on top of the ground. (photo by Susan Goderich council agreed to spend $16,000 on a new snowblower for the municipal air- port at its Sept. 28 meeting. "The snowblower we have now is a 1945 model and it's basically a piece of junk. It's impossible to get parts for it and we've lookingbeen lace- mentfor it,," for said Works Commissioner Ken Hunter. Reeve Harry Worsell asked if it would be possible to use the snowblower anywhere else than at the airport but Hunter replied it would be too big to use on the streets. The machine was used by the Depart- ment of National Defence and is located at Camp Petawawa near Pembroke. The cost to transport the $14,000 machine plus $1,000 tax; will be $1,000. Though the machine is 20 years old, Hunter estimates that it will last another 10 to 15 years at the airport. Over 200 people from across Southwestern Ontario attended the grand opening of Quest for Health at RR2 Bayfield on Sunday afternoon, ato holistic ether health centre which plans to bring together medical and natural healing methods for the good of the patient. Quest for Health president Armand Roth said=the opening was the fulfillment of- a dream of the. board. . "There are a large number of problems people are suffering from and the resources exist to meet those needs. We want to bring together the different heal- ing modalities not for personal gam but to answer those needs," he said. He told those present that non-toxic far- ming to bring the land on the 115 acres which Quest for Health is situated at is an important focus of the centre: "Senator Sparrow has said some distur- bing things about Canadian agriculture and the top six inches of top soil on workable land. He said that there will be no viable _agricultural , land left in the Marines in 30 years, that in Quebec there are 20 years left and that in Ontario there are 30 to 40 years left." "In Ontario, 53 per cent of one and two class farmland is visible from the top of •the CN Tower and disappearing at a rapid rate. It took Ethiopia 1000 years to destroy their agriculture. We are Turn t rpage 4 of• BY SHARON DIETZ When you're sick and in hospital, it's sometimes the little things that count. The emphasis of the hospital auxiliary is just that, "creature comfort as auxiliary president Jean Wheeler calls it. "The patient is our employer.We would not need doctors, equipment or a hospital if we didn't have; patients," says Jean. The personal touch would be lost if it weren't for the auxiliary members, says fhospital administrator Ken Englestad. `The auxiliary provides services the staff just cannot because of time restrictions. The contribution in hours and dollars of grouponce a week to inlay makes it one very big debt under the leadershiplorers from the town of meet as anlorgan a dding forr the ladies an to the the auxiliary Cameron, willing Village that the community owes the auxiliary,Saltfnga and hospital. says the hospital's director of nursing � Goderich, Leebrn,of Dungannon, do the sewingand of the auxiliary was Joyce Shack.joined the effort. In 1943 the president Members of the Alexandra Marine and Goderich Township president has con - women Auxiliary are at the Throughout the 1920s and 1930s the asked to sit on the board ofgovernors General P A dedicated group of Women's Hospital Auxiliary raised money which the to do since that ay• hospital every day. operate the by holding theatre parties, bridge parties, the Untied who work hard, they P hospital day teas, garden parties, raffles In the summer solarium of ,the the hospital gift shop and beauty shop) and portering, selling tickets and was set up ft case in cook books. entrance on Napier Street. The case was at b (taking charts to x-ray etc.) look after and tag days and by the gift cart• a vital role raising bet- In the early days when the hospital's first dsttoca ed with gifts of knitting interested sew- - . They also playgreat, the aux- ing resod int buying ween sip and Purchases a year in donations need for funds was very and wool and $3,615.63 from 1921- 23. ladies in town. As it progressed, and equipment purchases for the hospital. Thobject of the funraised some raising projects was committee was set up firstlyhospital needs such as equipment, material for knitting and sewing was given Since 1921 when membership has fees wereworkers. only 50 cents the auxiliary has held stead- p fast to its constitution, which says the ob- supplies and furnishings but at times the out to willing he else- In the late faC�see�5�de the donation shop ject of hte auxiliary shall be to assist the . auxiliary even assisted by paying large display work of the hospital in every way possible tele light bill. small comforts for the sick. A nurses' training thesel as sits uated the small attractive. tracts e. instrument replaced the ase which and to provide marks its 65th the hospital dicing This year the celebrating as wen as of the new five while still managing to set used in the solarium and the other anniversary,s' was ;celebrating 65 years of aiixiliaryas very conscious! of the help was first Used.Oo a floor waiting room. and boys who continue in the nursing *Ante they couldg fund. Bused i in th *Anted* work for the hospital. aside a good sum for the building field. The Grist the l had its or McKay, nsp in The Second World War brought a con- In 1967 when the new wing to the hospital girls go inspec- ened the Hospital Aux- The auxiliary is a wonderful group of tsr1 when the late Doled that McKay, board of siderable change in the regular routine of was o was given Women'sheir own gift room, women who play a significant role at the for ofbospit Hospital requested Marine and the auxiliary. During these years the aux- Ciliaryjust inside the front entrance to the hospital, says president Jean role The tau% rs of the Alexandra set of by-passed business grew hospital, 1, ay pr president anyone who adopt a new iliary had representation on the Citizen's locatedthe bears General hin use by service me men rnrriittee. _They sent overseas and end thAstock increased. A few years laterpi's xliary interested in meMbers erslan tan g ne o 'theS� by- advisedwart the-. bj' lawsservicn fromt f monerich ed in half aril the gift case was moved to Can contact Jean ifr"lieeler or an ausi i'ary • .- � � a magi and in adopting Pb Artfi vrs attention was drawn to the 'an don, En land. money to a hospital in the front entrance Waiting room w member. Ahab a by , Hospital Aid. Several London, g ;,c... the present location. l�vor'k of the �11'omen s fiusp , in 1942 they held a hospital birthday Mtn in in town became interested and "Thep atient is our employer. We would not need doctors, equipment or a hospital if we didn't haVe patients," says Jean • Home schooling Pauli and Phil Sommer of Ashfield Township have decided to educate their children at home. The Sommers sa they hope to correct what theyeconsider detrimental in existing educational facilities. Read this fascinating feature on home schooling on today's community front. Sailors are back The Sailors will be back this season. After it was reported last week the Goderich Sailors had folded, because the executive reasoned it couldn't ice a com- petitive team, Gary Allen has successfully revived the team. Allen says the prospects for this season are good. Get the details on today's sports page, section A. Victory for Vikings The, senior and junior Vikings defeated Norwell here Thursday putting the juniors in first place in the standings and giving the seniors their first win of the season. See this week's football report for the details on today's sports page.