The Goderich Signal-Star, 1976-12-30, Page 61
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ERICH SIGNAL -STAR, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 30. 1876
Goderich Fire Chief Ted Bisset retired after nearly 40 years on the volunteer fire fighting
team. Bisset also- retired from his employment at the Bluewater Centre in May. The
Bisset name has long been associated with the local fire department.
GPH closes down
(continued from page 9)
hospital and would be •ad-
ministered by the Alexandra
Marine and General Hospital.
Employees of the GPH
were advised by ad-
ministeator Ross Bryant that
the Ministry of Community
and Social Services would
maintain 157 jobs at GPH.
Every employee at the
hospital ,was put on, a list for
jobs at the mental retardation
resource center that compare
•to present employment. Next
Monday, the members of the
• . ministry will go over the list
and retain personnel for the
jobs according .to length of
service, qualifications and
,other driteria.•
And Goderich Town.Council
dropped • injunction
proceedings against the
•'closing of the GPI -I Monday
• night 'on the advice of legal
counsel and the Ontario
•Ombudsman;
• Project People to People, a
local .fund for earthquake
• victims in Guatemala being
co-ordinated,by the Rev. and
• Mrs. Kennison Lawton of
Bethel Holiness Chapel Bible
Missionary Church, •is cat-„-
• ching on•slowly in Goderich.
Mrs. Lawton tdld the
• Signal -Star Tuesday about
- $100 in cash and two
•" donations - one blanket and
• some clothing - have been. the
• sum of response to date.
FEBRUARY 26
•
•The Goderich Police
-7- Commission offered the local
force an eight per cent salary
increase under the terms of.
the 1975 agreement between
the commission and the
• Goderich Police Association
to establish a 1976 working
contract. The increase was
made to meet federal ,wage
and price guidelines and is
the same percentage other'
•own employees 'were offered
in a package deal from Town
Council.
The Goderich Police
Commission passed the 1976
taxi bylaw 'for the town at
their last meeting making it
law for cabs to be hired on a
metered rate and setting
down .that rate for the year.
The rate became •one dollar
for the first three-quarters of
• a mile and ten cents for each'
• additional eighth ofa mile.
Another'important feature
of the bylaw was the 24-hour
• • service required by law,
meaning if the taxi company
does not provide round-the-
clock • service, their •license
•can be suspended. '
The community of Clinton
was up in arms the previous
week followin-g an' order from
Frank Miller, Minister of
Health, that Clinton's 62 -bed
•
hospital be closed down by
April 1; throwing 75 full-time
and -35 part-time employees
out of work and endangering
.the health service in the area.
It was the tenth and last'.
hospital Mr. Miller said he -
was closing to save some of
the province's $3.4 billion
health care budget.
Dr. Brian Baker, chief of
medlcal staff at the Clinton
Hospital, stated that closure
of the Clinton facility
represented a threat to the
health care of people in the
Clinton area, because the
Huron hospitals in Goderich,
Exeter, Seaforth and
Wingham have no room for
Clinton patients.
New Democratic Party
leader Stephen Lewis was
back in Huron County on
Friday on what was believed
to be another fact-finding
mission on the hospital
closings in Clinton , and
Goderich. •
Mr. Lewis was -gathering
feelings, opinions and facts on
the closure of the 'Clinton
Hospital •and the Goderich
Psychiatric Hospital.He
promised citizens in .the
communities affected that he
will take the provincial
government and Frank Miller
to task when the .Ontario
Legislature ' resumed in
March.
MARCH 4 n
Opposition leader Stephen
•Lewis • arrived •in town on
Friday. He told the CSS in
Goderich to personally ap-
peal to politicians of all three
parties in an effort to con-
vince the Ontario government.
to reverse its decision' con-
cerning the GPH closing. He
told members to attend
caucus meetings of the three
parties to make •their
arguments heard prior to the
reconvening of the legislature
this month.
After considerable
discussion.Monday afternoon
the Huron County Board of
Education referred recom-
mendations from the budget
committee to a special
meeting to be held Monday,
March15.
A budget committee
suggested several ways"
which costs can be reduced.
Superintendent of. business
affairs Roy Dunlop said the
proposed cuts would reduce
the overall budget by only
about one percent.
"We don't want to let the
quality • of education
deteriorate," ' commented
board • chairman Herb
Turkheim, •"but we want to
assure our taxpayers that the
mi-il rate will be held as low as
possible.'"
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Clinton hospital threatened
MPP for Huron -Middlesex,
said he had been talking to
Hon. Frank Miller An the
morning and Mr. Miller said
he was flexible on the Clinton
Hospital closing.
"Mr. Miller5.aid that if the
five hospital 6 in Huron could
decide among . themselves
how to cut their budgets
enough to total $800,000 that
would be saved by closing
just: Clinton, then Clinton
would stay open,'." Mr. Rid-
dell said.
The Shopper's Square
Association, formerly the
Goderich Businessmen's
Association, presented a
proposal to council for the
financing of • off-street
parking and square
beautification.
• The program .calls for •
removal of existing sidewalks
where necessary and
replacement with new
sidewalks and paving stones,
trees and new lighting 'be
installed on the sidewalks on
the Square and radiating
• streets as proposed last year.
A structural analysis of the
arena has been delayed since
it is impossible for the
engineers to examine the roof
at the 50 foot level without the
use, of an aerial ladder or
truck. Since such a truck
could not at the time pass
through the doors of the,
arena, a recommendation
was referred to the recreation
board to look into such.. an
alteration. • -
A fairly large section of the
Lake Huron 'shore was •
• reclai-med sometime last
week leav,ing an arm of mud
about 30 yards long extending
out into the lake as witness to
the erosion of the 1,4keshore.
Police Chief Pat King•said
he was concerned about the
possibility •df another slide
and had-tUblic schools in
Goderich announce during
school that children were to
stay away from the Iakeshare
area. He said he checked the
ground at the top of the bank
and could see no signs of a
slide but added that the
original •mudslide was un-
detected.
Thtrz
--wirst jce storm in 10
years crippled a large part of
southwestern Ontario.
Downed hydro wires caused
by excessive weight or. fallen
tree limbs cutpower for some
time in the area and rural and
secondary schools in the area
• were shut down.
. MARCH 11
Gus Chisholm, general •
manager of Dearborn Steel .
- Tubing Manufacturing Co. of
Canada Ltd. announced last
week that the company had
been sold to a group of
Canadians.
Bob Brown and John Funk
acquired control 'of the now
all -Canadian Dearborn Steel -
Tubing Incorporated' on
' February 1.
The transition of Goderich
Psychiatric Hospital to a /
Mental Retardation Resourcp
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motion Thursday night
granting the Goderich
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