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The Goderich Signal-Star, 1978-09-28, Page 6PAGE 6—THE GODERICH SIGNAL -STAR, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1978 Workload increased over 20O% County will hire public h BY JEFF SEDDON Huron County council agreed Friday to spend $13,000 in salary for a public health inspector to ease the workload of three inspectors that the Huron County 'medical officer of health indicated were sharing the duties of that fourth person. Dr. Brian Lynch, MOH for Huron, told council that the public health protection division of the health unit had increased its workload over 200 percent since losing a health inspector, recently and that to stay abreast of the work a fourth in- spector was needed. Dr. Lynch told council that the Sudden increase of work was not due to a sudden growth in Huron County but was due to the health unit doing a better and more complete job of inspecting public facilities in the county. He said the workload had increased from 2,000 cases a year to 6,700 since the number of inspectors was reduced to three .and that the work was being handled by three regular inspectors and a student. Lynch said that the workload was increased by efforts to do a better job of inspecting premises in the county. He said much of the work was already there but for a number of reasons was not done properly. He said the health unit was much more effective because of the added work but added that the effectiveness was being jeopardized by the stretching of manpower. The MOH explained to council that the health unit's reasons for in- specting public premises such as restaurants, dairies, public swimming pools and other food and water supplying facilities was to ensure that the utmost is being done to protect the public. He said it was not being done to be i thorn in the side of owners of the premises"' but was being done as a preventive measure. Lynch cited the International Plowing Match as an example explaining that improper inspection of food booths at the match could result in tremendous problems for the health unit, match organizers and the medical services in the Wingham area. He pointed out that if food poisoning was not discovered at the match and only 10 percent of the people there became ill that would be 5,000 to 10,000 cases of poisoning to be handled in a very -short period of time. The MOH said health protection was a "funny business" adding that he found it much different from general practice as, Chuck and Chester don't seem to be impressed with all the fuss, over plowing and just set about to get the job done Tuesday at the opening of the International Plowing Match. The two oxen, Chuck at left weighing in at 1,840 pounds, and Chester, tipping the scales at an even ton, were used by owners John Thomson Sr., guiding the walking plow, and John Thomson Jr., driving the team. The Thomsons, from the Stratford area, said that on a good day the team of oxen could plow an acre of land. (photo by Jeff Seddon) a doctor. He said rather than dealing with specific problems he is now "keeping an eye on things where there may not be anything wrong but if things do go wrong there could be tremendous problems." Lynch said public celebrations and events like fall fairswere a particular problem for the health inspectors. He said the food booths at fall fairs are set up out of the blue and the health unit does not have the staff to properly inspect the booths. He said restaurants in the county are under regular in- • alth inspector spection and can be monitored but the booths at the fairs sometimes operate with no in- spection. "Most large outbreaks of food poisoning occur at events like this," he told council. Goderich township deputy reeve Grant Stirling didn't dispute the need for the health unit to inspect facilities at events like fairs but questioned some recomrnendatons arising from those inspections. Stirling said a health inspector came to a fish fry being staged recently Townshend eynote speaker in the village of Bayfield by the Lions club and demanded that the Lions doing volunteer work for the event wear hair nets when working with the food. "Most of . the Lions don't need a hair net,they need hair," said Stirling. The deputy reeve added that a health in- spector came to the site of the Bayfield Fall Fair and instructed fair organizers to provide eight Johnny on the Spots for fairgoers': Stirling said the portable toilets were to replace facilities in the Bayfield Arena that Rural Action will be the theme of Elaine Town- shend's keynote. address at the Ontario4larch of Dimes' annual campaign dinner on Oct. 3, 1978 at the Kitchener Granite Club. About 125' volunteers from the counties of Waterloo, Perth, Wellington, Dufferin, Grey, Bruce and Huron are expected to attend what promises to be a most interesting evening. Ms. Townshend is president of the Huron County Action League for the Physically Han- dicapped, a group of handicapped people who live mainly 'in rural settings throughout Huron County. Despite her disability of no arms, Ms. Town- shend, is a free lance writer and photographer, who lives on her own and is a •f-amiliar face" to residents'of Goderich and Clinton as she'frequently passes through, driving her slightly modified car. Ms. Townshend will be ■■ Too fat? Too thin? Too tired? Too often? Do something for somebody,. . Your body! Fitness is fun. Try some. PPRT/C/Pac710/711� NOMINATIONS Notice is hereby given to the Municipal Electors of the Town of Goderich, Town of Clinton and The Township of Goderich in the County of Huron that the period during which nomination papers may be filed In the office of the clerk for the purpose of municipal elections will commence on October 16th at the hour of 8:30 o'clock a.m., and close on October 23rd at the hour of 5 o'clock p.m. for the purpose of nominating fit and proper persons for the office(s) of one member of the Huron and Perth Counties combined Roman Catholic Separate School Zone Board reoresentina the Town of Goderich. the Town of Clinton and the Township of Goderich; of which all Electors are hereby required to take notice and govern themselves accordingly, and further take notice that the manner in which said nominations shall be filed k set forth in section 36 of Tho Municipal Elections Act which provides that: How nominated - 36,- (1) A person may be nominated as a candidate for the office by filing in the office of the clerk, during the no rural office hours of the clerk within the period in which nominations, may be filed, a nomination paper in prescribed form which: (a) shall be signed by at least ten electors whose names are en- tered in the polling lists of electors entitled to vote In an election to such office; (b) shall state the name arid address of the person nominated in such manner as will identify him and the office for which he is nominated; and (c) shall state the name and address of each elector signing the nomination paper ,and. where the office for which the person is nominated is a member of a school board, that such nominator Is a public or a separate school elector, as the fact Is. 1974, c. 32; s. 20'(1). Consent and declaration to be filed (2) No nomination is valid unless there Is filed with the nomination paper a concent In writing to the nomination and a declaration of qualification in the prescribed form by the person nominated. Public school nominators (3) A nomination paper nominating a person for an office the holder of which Is required to be elected by public school electors shall be signed by public school electors only. 1974 c. 32, s. 20 (2). Separate school nominators (4) A nomination paper nominating a person for an office the holder of which, is required to be elected by separate school electors shall be signed by separate school electors only. 1974, e. 32, s. 20 (3). Separate nomination papers (3) Each person to be nominated for election to an office shall be nominated by a separate nomination paper, hut an elector may sign more than one nomination paper for the samerson and the nomination papers of more than one person. 1972, c. 95, se; 34 (S). e ' p Clerk to keep nomination paper (6) After a nomination paper is flied with the clerk it shall remain in the possession of the clerk. ` Onus on persons nominated (7) Tho onus is on the person nominated for election to an office to file a bona fide nomination paper. If a greater number of candidates than required to fill the said offices, aro nominated and make the required declarations, notice of the ttrno fa *he holding off the poll, fncludina the advance poll and notice of the last day for making applications for a certificate to vote by proxy will be given forthwith. Givon ender my band this twenty-fifth day of September, 1971. Larry J. McCabe, 57 West Street, Returning Offlcor. f . introduced by the Campaign Chairman of Milverton, Mrs. Jack, and will be thanked by Lucknow's Campaign Chairman, Laura Lee Cayley. Making its premiere is 25 minute slide presentation on the entire March of Dimes' organization which shows how the donor dollar is used to the benefit of physically disabled adults. The presentation will be given by Larry Parker of Kitchener, An outline of the • 1979 campaign will • be given by the recently appointed Director of• Resources, Anne Moore. The dinner promises to be a most informative one especially to those people interested and concerned about the future of .Ontario's physically disabled adults. had been condemned by the province and sub- sequently torn down. "The health inspector said we needed eight Johnny on the Spots and we only had two washrooms in the arena when it was open and they weren't busy," said Stirling. "I guess the rest were going to the bush." 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