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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance-Times, 1985-11-06, Page 1371-3 Bit. : ch L r 5o.x f.77'0:?a.r_ $ .3 riL. NON zHi r' lf' EMERGENCY WING OPENED—.or. Mel Corrin of the commemorative plaque at last Saturday's official open medical staff at the Wingham and District Hospital and ing of the new ambulatory care and emergency wing at Ontario Minister of Health Murray Elston unveiled a the hospital. Capacity crowd attends emergency wing onenin A capacity crowd was on of the community for their architect, who in turn passed answer to • iur times and an hand last Saturday for the dedication to improving it to Bob Middleton, chair- answer to our obligations to • official opening of the new health care facilties in the man of the hospital board's the citizens of Wingham and ambulatory care and area. emergency wing at the Health care requires pr ansyKuyvenhoven, hos concluded. ding area," he H Wingham and District on oin ren Wingham, Ontario, Wednesday, Nov. 6, 1985 New council will have to decide Council declines to .ass bylaw for police benefits It will be up to the new Wingham council to decide what to do about paying for an early-retirement benefit awarded to th town police, after the outgding council, at the final regular meeting of its term, declined toact on the matter. The new benefit, which makes it possible for police officers to retire up to 10 years earlya; was awarded by the Wingham Board of Police. Commissioners in the contract signed earlier this year with members of the own police association. Hospital g g ewal, said the pital board chairman, gave a • Greetings were read from Organizers obviously were minister, and he has found brief description of the.. new Huron -Bruce MP Murray t that commitment in the wing, not expecting the large Town of Wingham and itssve Cardiff by Margaret Ben- t turnout, estimated at 250 surrounding rooms provide imore privacy localas Progressive surroundinet Con - people, many of whom had to The Ontario government is than the old emergency servative association, and Y stand throughout the 25- dedicated to providing the facility and the new trauma President Gordon Cun- M minute ceremony. best care possible for the' ' room ispvell-e ui b citizens of the province, Mr. is4/uq pled to deal ningha'm brought greetings Ontario Minister of Health, Elston said. He brought Huron -Bruce MPP Murray greetings from Premie Elston was the guest David Peterson, the cabinet speaker. He praised the and all members at Queen's hospital's board of gover- Park because, "Health care nors, its staff and members is not of a partisan nature." R( Mr. Elston and • Dr. Mel errlembrance • Corrin of the hospital medical staff unveiled a Day activities commemorative plaque to be placed in the new wing. Earlier a trey ceremony However it is up to council o find the money to pay for he new plan, which will cost. he town $72,750 over 15 ears, and at the meeting onday night council alked. Following a lengthy and ometimes heated discussion_ pearheaded by Councillor ames A. Currie, councillors eclined to • pass the ecessary bylaw authorizing A church- parade and service and a Remembrance Day service are •activities planned by, the Winghani Legion Branch this Bunday. and Monday. The church parade will with m ltipl.e-injury ac- cidents. The hew wing afso houses rooms for day -case patients, offices for visiting specialists, a quiet room, a classropm and doctors' lounge -library.. There is an ambulance garage and many other facilities have been upgraded, Mr. Kuyvenhoven was performed. Builder said. The radiology and • ultrasound department will John Ref flinghau.s •of be expanded, but are not yet Goderich passed the key to completed, headded. the new wing to Lloyd Kyles, "The 'new wing is the s form outside. the Legion Hall Candidate profiles at 10:30 a.m. Sunday, weather permitting, and conclude this week march to the Salvation Army Citadel fora service. 'The second and final in- polls open from 11:00 a.m. On Monday, _Nov. 11, the stalment of the feature until 8:00 -p.m: Notices ap- Remembrance. Day service providing profiles of the pearing elsewhere in this will commence at 10:45 a.m.' candidates in the upcoming issue provide information on at the Legion Hall, with municipal elections appears the location of polling places wreath -laying 'at the this week, - focussing on the in each of the area cenotaph following the serv- race for seats on the municipalities. ice. There also will be a Wingham Town Council and We urge all readers to p service at . Brookhaven Public Utilities Commission, ' make -the effort to et, out ecoiar and Mom Nursing Home that af- The election will be held and- votes for the -.candidates --The- rehabilitation defrrtments. Mr. -ternoon— • _ _. Phe cost a� the first pit—ase eon Y oftherr from the Ontario Hospital s Association. Following the ceremony, j those present were invited to d tour the facilities and attend n a reception in the hospital cafeteria.. The cost of the project, which is about 97 'per cent complete, is estimated at • K $1.7 million„ .which was Po funded through a corn- ne bination of grants, iocat• fund-raising and the M hospital's own resource0A to fund-raising campaign.sec raised $400,000; the province contributed $250,000; the ha County of Huron gave coke $93,750; the Hospital re. Foundation donated $50,000, lux and Bruce County chipped in •fo with $10,000, leaving about pol $900,000 to come from e hospital funds the The new wing is the second 'em phase of an expansion tre project star upgraded physiotherap the change in benefits, leaving the matter in limbo. Although . Councillor Jack opas, who 'also sits on the lice commission, made the cessary motion to approve e .a saw, repeated calls by ayor William Harris failed find anyone willing to and the motion. Several other . councillors d echoed Mr. Currie's Cern that the early- tirement benefit is a ury the town cannot af- drand that giving it to the ice represents "the thin ed of the wedge",opening way for other municipal ployees to demand equal atment. ed in 1981 which M laboratory, crit admitting, ' rep th r: Currie also -leveled icism at council's two resentatives on the police mission, Mr. Harris and Kopas, for failing to vey council's concerns to commission and not choice. next Tuesda , Nov. 12 with was about $500,000. - the RESISTANCE MONUMENT -Hans Renshof and Peter Deunissen, two fighters in the Dutch Resistance during World War 11; gaze at a monument built to 46 innocent Dutch people shot:after the Resistance put to death four German soldiers in March 1945. The inscription on the monument reads: "Warm blood drowned our fields., And richer ripens here the corn. 0, -should out the victim heroes, such a.harvest of liberty borne! In memory of 46 countrymen at this place shot on' March 2, 1945." DUTCH VISITORS --Lloyd "Casey"C asemore of Wingham recently had Doreen and Peter Deunissen of Holland as his guests. keeping council informed about what was being handed. out. Mr. Currie led off discussion by saying he had not understood the police were being given anything other than the long-term and short-term disability benefit package negotiated with the other town employees. "1 think l'understand the mechanics behind this (earl -retirement benefit),". he told council. "This has beer, horseplayed around the negotiating table for the five years I was on council, and long before that." Saying that by giving it , only to one set of employees the town would be "making -fish of one and fowl of .. allot her," he challenged someone to •'show me how in hell w e' .can afford this luXury Councillor Tom Miller carried the discussion fur- ther, saying. it had never been reported to council that the police were awarded a 20' g per cent pay raise over three C years; that they also were to _be allowed to carry /some of i their benefits into retire- . b ment, at a cost he estimated • a at "at least five per cent over b three years"; or that they were getting the early- g . retirement benefit at a cost b he estimated at 11 per cent over three years, bringing the total to 36 per cent. hi "Now we're finding out of exactly what this provision is w ,costing us," he said, adding, co "It certainly doesn't appear b to be in line with other settle- w ments. " m Mr. Kopas responded that ac he was' not too sure how th sound a basis there was for the statistics and data being ca 'thrown around by Mr. m Miller. He told council that, Po according to data for police th forces- in. Zone 5, Wingham s ranked ninth out of 23 in Po terms of salary in 1983, ap dropping to 15th in each 1984 and 1985. However he later agre with Mr. Miller that t increase had been "fait substantial". He said council cou decline to pass the bylaw a means of sending message to the poli commission, but in that ca the Ontario Municipal Boa would simply instru council that it must pass t bylaw. Several other counc members also expresse their 'concerns, with Deput Reeve Patricia Baile saying small towns coul of guardian of "the bottom line. ed • Although he also ex - he pressed "infinite trust" in ly the police commission, which he had championed, Id he said he never thought it as wduld act in an arbitrary a manner: without regard for ce precedents established by se council. • • rd Saying he "won't vote for . ct . this (extended benefit) till I he see it in black and white," he added, "I don't care if the ()MB throws me in the can!" d • Mr Kopas tried to calm y .the. troubled waters, noting Y that, "None of us is going to. jail if we Vote against this • eventually lose their polic forces if the unions repre senting the officers Contin ued their high demands. "Eventually you'll de mand yourself Gut of a job.' e thisovening. The debate • showed genuine concern by - mem- bers of council, he said, adding. (fiat if council is •stifficientIv displeased- with the police commission it can .have it dissolved or contact the at t(>rnev •general and ask to have members• of the commission replaced. Mr. ('urrie told him that 4 asn't the point. "They're - .wasn't a good job'." he said, but 'if` ,muni' u)• public life ('.u1'i. Like shine crdtic ism thct.stluuldn't get into it." • Responding to Mr. Kopas's r(rglinftri'r ff>�t- the, police. has- 'a mandate, lir ('ctr11(' concluded by declaring, ••'l�hey have a mandate, but this council has the ultimate respcin- sihility kit. approving :the . budget,'' adding in a raised-' - . vc)ice, "%An(d don't ever forget. il!' , This 'earned a reprimand Irorrl the • mayor .Of, "You. don't h�(V e• to :shout, Mr Currie!" 11r Kopas then made the motion that c(iunc'il should p;>ss,the hyl,nt' providing for • t'arl'v r(•!it'e>ilei>( benefits for the poi,,e(:c' Row'( vrr'; -despitt- . three •.three c•a:ils 1>y the mayor, no one would.second the motion - and it Wi as declared lost • Councillor Bruce. Machan asked , how other town esti ployees would be affected b• earning what had been iven to the police, -while ouncillor Jerry Cho'myr. pointed out that .municipal ties are getting into a .hind y losing control over more nd more areas of their udgets. "Somewl ere somebody's oing to ha .to gran the: bull. y the horns and 'say Whoa'." However Mr. Currie, mself a former chairman the police committee hich preceded the police inmission, carried the ulk of the argument, inning support even from embers of council more customed to finding emselves at odds with him. In what Reeve .Joe Kerr lied, "the 'best speech you'. ade yet," • Mr.. Currieinted out that council, as e people's elected repre= • entative• (as apposed to the lice commission which is pointed), must act as the • Dutch Resistance, figh recalls his `blackest Forty years.-ha-ve not -dimmed the memory of that "blackest day", 'the day Peter Deunissen and a group of his counterparts in . the Dutch Resistance were forced to kill to save their cause. Their • cause was to defeat the German army at any cost, even if that meant stealing and even if it meant risking their _ own lives anri..th -their countrymen.g Mr. Deunissen an s wife, Doreen, visited recently at th'e home of his Wingham friend, Lloyd "('asey" Casemore, a man they have known since 1981. While in Wingham, Mr. Deunissen recounted some of his wartime experiences. When war broke out in Europe in 1939, young Peter was still a school boy. However once he turned 18 in February of 1943, he Was expected to go to work in a German forcedtlabor camp as his homeland, the Netherlands, was under occupation by German troops, Young Peter knew though that he did not want to work for the Germans and made plans to escape to England. Those plans were thwarted when he could not produce the proper papers at the border. But if you had a. chance to do more, " whuld you? the man persisted: • Once again the answer was, yes. Several•nights later the man took Peter to • a nearby farm house. it was a house used by the •Dutch Resistance fighters and he met a • number of people there, including two Allied pilots who were in hiding. • Mr. Deunissen immediately agreed to join d his the Resistance. 'After .being drilled and trained, he was ready to participate in some of the group's activities. always done under the cover of night. These activities included stealing am- munition from the Germans and sabotaging • their plants and equipment. Resistance fighters even were forced to steal food from -their own •countrymen , in order to keep going. Resistance members kept in close radio contact with the Allied forces since the Allies dropj)ed ammunition and equipment to them al night. Mr. Deunissen 'said he recalls standing in a field one night with a number of other Resistance members, all holding flashlights to signal an Allied plane where to drop supplies . ?.tic__(L�i._..e.F4rl�_I=u--ylarc 1 45, Three-.._...' i and was captured by the Germans deteri'atibiT -escape Tiffs capto mi'r led to several other escape attempts, each of them foiled. At one paint, he was in- terrogated and neaten by SS soldiers and marvels today at why the Germans just did not kill him. At one point he was hiding out at his family home at Nijmegen, but was turned in by eight Dutch traitors. He was imprisoned, but escaped once more, this time to the Dutch countryside. One day early in 1945, Mr. Deunissen was out working in a farmer's field when a neighbor came up to him and asked, "Peter, are,you satisfied with this work?". "Yes," he replied. German off, ers broke into the. Resistance farmhouse and rdisco‘ered a large cache of stolen wea pons and ammunition. - As the Hes•istanee fighters could not afford to let word of their whereabouts he known, they were forted to capture - the three •Germans and their driver The underground members debated what to do with the tour Germans and finally decided they had io he put to death. So the officers were hanged one by one. Even 40 years later Mr DeUnissen still is pained when he remembers how one young officer pleaded for his life and called for his mother.. The thought of it causes Mr. Deunissen to stop, unable to go on for a few moments. . The 1 Resistance a1lerllt4et! to• rlestrov evidence of the murder:- I,• 1411..4 lots up the Germans' stall eat .( 1111 t.hr• i('.ld u(tic•('r; inside. However one t h;!rc'e .(Ild not detonate. rri(':Irling Ito• 4.;0,'14,•,• ul the hangings was not ('(>lllpi(•!,•I\ ;(!': 11•0„•,,,t !,1,:! n111,.1, Hit r used the (;er'tnarl' c'rrllli,i:ir•4 (I' 'I 41: .1I111seell( I)I.rteh people.,ter'e marl he f e'I', a 1I('ft! the. nexl day and tihot ,1 11uu,1uo1'nt el,rks.ah, spot today w•Ii 'r e I he' The Resistance f igh,t•r, v:$.re 1,,r,'e,t% to find a new hiding:To! :'1'I.,' ID,• X1:1 'r,, Ment and came close 1,1 lH",Ii' 11•I11 '1 "lt ),1.‘re than one occasion The group Hayed ;, ,1,,,.. 1 , l ,'r ;I month, 1111411 one 't;: and said. '•V .ik'' up 1,(,. •- .1!,• Mr 1)ellnl"e1, 1(,c1„ ..i r; , (•1r ,sirs which was hf,t•r,i11,R l' . ! ., r(!,u.•1 I.,ller he was on a mine '' i:1. "e1 ',1 , :1 •.:1 1)111(14 field, of land 111;140;. Atter Sp('ll(1I144! .11n ,•,• I 4 0.1.• I' al• East. 114Donn I' I the Netherlands, •,4 ht.! • I>( I ,. r ' ( .! .: !! 40:1 11mink fox tarn ..... In recent re,Itr he Ila , ,, 1; battle •igal11,t L14 1, LI 14 1,1•,1)0 groups which ha4eh1' i,' r„ I ,rn .il:d tried to (lestro} h ' 1r,• ', t animal' with paint The action. of thea( , ;,,,,1,. ,,1111' r rthti confuse Mr Deur;, ('1 t,1. ••,,1d he and others like 111nt 111)11:1 "r ,tl•; nard 4o years ago so 1he.1' pe(11,4 nisi 14.e I! Pe and now 1Jlev t(' de,trn• tlr•. 1„ „1" I t� floex('r h('' has r,,,c hoer bothered in recent nionth' and !!,q,1'.. t (,II1 std'. 114!4 way The I)etinls,ens visited lore last month at the ('asemore home and v,111 play host to Mr ('asemore when he visits Europe later this month 1 0.