HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1979-04-26, Page 7AM & G Briefs
BY SHIRLEY J.KELLER
The board of Alexandra Marine and General
Hospital learned Monday evening the corporation
finished the business year $5,800 under budget.
Administrator Elmer Taylor points out those figures
are subject to audit adjustments, but are fairly ac-
curate.
The hospital has made its way back to the black
from a deficit of $180,000 discovered last summer.
With $140,000 from the Ontario Ministry of Health and
some good administration, finance chairman Gordon
Crabb was satisfied the small surplus is a sign the
hospital has recovered nicely from most of its
financial problems.
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This week, Alexandra Marine and General Hospital
is receiving its first laundry shipment from London.
Administrator Elmer Taylor is expecting con-
siderable savings will be accrued because of the
decision to send the laundry to Londpn this spring
rather than wait until fall.
Taylor told the Signal -Star this week, he realizes
now the community had the notion that it was a cer-
tainty the laundry from AM&G would be going to the
The Bluewater Centre for the Developmentally
Handicapped. However, he claims that was never a
hard and fast decision of the boa`rd, but that
negotiations with London were going on at the same
time as talks were being held with The Bluewater
Centre.
Taylor added that the London laundry facility is this
month adding South Huron Hospital at Exeter,
Ingersoll Hospital and London Psychiatric Hospital to
its roster of clients, and was anxious to add Goderich
at the same time to make the changeover complete.
"The board could see no reason to wait until fall to
make the switch," Taylor said, adding that staff from
the laundry had been interviewed and placed in other
..jobs at the hospital "d•espite...what town ... council was..
told".
"We could see no hardship for staff," Taylor told the
Signal -Star.
The laundry equipment will be sold, Taylor says,
because the London establishment has assured
hospital officials there will be no requirements for any
part of it in Goderich.
The new laundry facility for dispatching and
receiving laundry is well underway at AM&G with
footings expected to be poured this week.
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Women's Hospital Auxiliary President Mrs.
R.C.McCallum said the final bill for the gift shop
renovatidlts was $1,066.80, and was paid out, of money
from gift shop sales.
She also explained that Penny Fair tickets aiWe on
sale again this year, despite some consideration by the
Auxiliary to discontinue the annual fund raising event.
"It has been a very good mone.y maker in previous
years, and we had all volunteer help. to get the event
underway again for this year, so it is going ahead,"
Mrs:- McCal-lum -told -the board, reminding- board
members to buy a sheet of tickets before going home.
Tag Day is coming up May 11 for the Auxiliary as
Kathy Jenkins and Sally Walker are shown here in a dress rehearsal for
Goderich Little Theatre's final production of the season, a mystery entitled,
Thriller of the Year. The play opened on Wednesday evening at 8:30 in
MacKay Hail and runs until Saturday'eveningwIt'hms-b,een directed by a
professional, David Fanstone. Watch this newspaper for a review next
week. (Photo by Joanne Buchanan)
Cottages
approved
Colborne township drew up its official land
council is . expected to use plan so the project
approve a 64 lot lakefront will not eat up
cottage subdivision just agricultural land. The
west of Sunset Golf lakefront property is on.
Course after a public top of the lake bluff and
meeting Monday night surrounds a ravine that
drew no opposition to the runs through to the lake. '
project. The cottages shouldn't
The meeting, arranged cause any serious erosion
to get public reaction to problems to that ravine
the project, drew about 16 since council can insist ---
people that live near the
that necessary steps be _
site of the proposed taken to protect the
development. Township ravine. It is possible that
council wanted to guage those steps coul'd 'actually
well. public op.ini an-- to —the---rnrp r o - -the---e rvs•i o-=
problems -that presently
exist.
• Drainage of . surface
water and problems
created by the in-
stallation of septic tanks
and wells could be spelled
out in a development
agreement between the
township and Springbank
to satisfy concerns over
erosion.
Springbank plans to use
half acre lots for the
cottages and build the
units to be sold on a price
range of $35,000 to $40,000.
Council will discuss the
project at its May
meeting.
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Dr. Kenton Lambert told the hospital board Monday
evening' members should not become complacent now
that the "politicking" is over. He said the board should
keep working to insure that more active treatment
beds are available at AM&G in years to come.
"We are coping, butonly just coping last week for
instance," Lambert told the board. He said the
hospital was operating at 100 percent occupancy last
week and warned that the present bed situation is still
a problem.
The surgeon was°highly appreciative of the efforts of
the public in and around Goderich during the recent
battle with the Ontario' Ministry of Health. He said
much pressure was brought to bear on the provincial
government by letters, telegrams, phone calls and
visits by the people of this area, and he expressed his
deep satisfaction with the response when the hospital
needed moral support.
cottages before giving its
approval and used the
meeting to do that.
Those present raised
some concerns about the
effect the ,project would
have on the•surrounding
properties. Represen-
tatives of Springbank
Development Ltd. of
London, developers of the
subdivision, explained
details of the project and
means of solving
problems residents felt
could be created by the
seasonal housing.
The area the cottages
are to he constructed on
was designated seasonal
residential when council
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Knox sing
at Knox
On Sunday, April 29,
the three choirs, Juytior,
Intermediate and Senior,
of Knox Presbyterian
Church, Goderich, have
been invited to join the
massed choirs of Knox
Presbyterian Church,
Stratford, to celebrate
the latter's 125th an-
niversary. The Stratford
choirs will be directed by
Joan Gaffney, L.R.C.T.;
the Goderich choirs by
their Director of Praise,
Lorne H. Dotterer.
With approximately 60
members of Knox,
Goderich, and 50
members of Knox,
Stratford, there will be
110 voices participating
in the Choral Service.
The combined choirs
will be singing four
massed numbers, in-
cluding G..F. Handel's
Halleluia Chorus. Each.
choir will perform two
solo numbers and Mr.
Dotterer will play two
organ solos.
There will also be a
special arrangement of
The Covenantor's Hymn,
sung by all choirs with
organ and bagpipe ac-
companiment.
The Reverend Fred
Neil of Knox Church,
Stratford will give a short
history of church music,
telling of the traditions of
music in the
Presbyterian Church,
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