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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance-Times, 1983-06-22, Page 5WARD & UPTIGROVE Listowel (519) 291-3040 CHARTERED ACCOUNTANTS Motorcoac h Holidays Lasure OIIrS ONTARIO AND QUEBEC Featuring a cruise through the Trent Canal and fill lock at Peterborough. Two nights in Ottawa plus a guided tour of the city and Parliament Builangs_ Two nights in Quebec Ci- ty plus a tour of the city, visit the Plains of Abraham, the for- tiftcations and view the Parliament Buildings and Place Royale. Visit the exciting city of Montreal, cruise the 1,000 Islands enroute home. • TOUR DEPARTS JULY 24 - 7 DAYS • • • • • • • • • • MILLS, MINES AND MOOSONEE This tour of Northern Ontario will fascinate you from begin- ning to end. See the spectacular pouring of the slag, an open pit mine operation, and a pulp and paper operation from the planting of trees to the newsprint mill. Thrill to the adventure of the Polar Bear Express, an unusual train ride to Moosonee. TOUR DEPARTS JULY 26 - 5 DAYS • • • • • • • • • • GASPE AND THE MARITIMES An all -Canadian adventure to the Eastern Provinces. TOUR DEPARTS SEPT_ 3 - 16 DAYS Book Your Leisure Tour Holiday With HLIDAY WORLD June Alton and Marg Burkhart well be happy to help you with your holiday plans WINGHAM 519-357-2701. OUT OF TOWN CALL COLLECT. LONG SERVICE CERTIFICATES—Mrs. Raye Elmslie, chairman of the hospital board's public,relations committee, last week presented certificates of long service to two retiring hospital employees. Beatrice Brophy retired after 18 years in the dietary department, and Gordon Wall retired following 11 years in the maintenance department. Old bank is given a neve lease on life The stately, old Bank of Hamilton building that graces the square in down- town Wingham has received a new lease on life under new ownership. The building, which stood empty since the Bank of Commerce vacated it last year, recently was pur- chased by Canadian Agra Inc., a Blyth -area company headed by Helmut Sieber which buys and manages farm properties. Manfred Losereit, an associate of Mr. Sieber who is looking after this project, said that rather than modernizing the building they plan to restore it to its ON ALL HARVESTING MACHINES BREEZE THROUGH HARVEST BIG -TRACTOR CAPACITY JONN OE .F The power, traction and capacity of the 145 -hp 6620 speed up harvest Perfect harvesting Conditions or near -impos- sible' It doesn t really matter to the mighty 6620 The .results are the same An outstand- ing job of gathering the crop. separating it. and putting it in the grain tank as a top -grad- ing sample The new HarvesTrakTu combine monitor makes it even easier to get those results No matter what your harvesting conditions. you and your crop deserve a Titan 6620 Stop by today We 11 show you the right headers to match the 6620 and your crops Call Bill or Dave today To Show you these SPECIAL HARVEST VALUES pt, The John Deere 3960 Forage Harvester .. for tractors up to 190 hp For your big tractors. up to 180 hp. the 3960 is the ideal harvester Its power -efficient design begins with 48 hungry knives that shear your crop into a fine-cut. uniform forage Since our cutterhead is an enclosed drum, you won't have to worry about material getting inside and sapping horsepower. The segmented knives are easier to replace and adjust than full - width knives, too. Blyth 523-4244 or Exeter 235-1115 9411 Shaddick West of Myth Dove Thomas test of Blyth former magnificence. "We're doing the opposite of what everyone else is right now," he explained. "We plan to bring it back to the old style." Since the structure has been designated a heritage building by the Town of Wingham, they have discussed their plans with the local architectural conservation advisory committee (LACAC) and "they're just tickled pink" with the proposal, Mr. Losereit said. Plans include restoring the lower floor for use as business offices, while the top two floors will remain as apartments for the personal use of company executives. Ernest Eaton chairman of the Wingham LACAC, confirmed that the group is very pleased with the developments and with the care being taken to preserve and recapture the character of the building, even to precisely matching the color of brick to be used in repairs and returning to the old-style tall entrance door. Work on the building got underway last week, with workmen stripping tiles and panelling to reveal the original ceiling and wain- scoting, which are to be repaired and refinished. The tiled floor was lifted, to be replaced by terrazzo, and the night depository box, sealed in reinforced concrete, was hammered out. Mr. Losereit said the company plans to have the downstairs ready for oc- cupancy within a month. Task fa h Future funding for special education, the decreasing amount of provincial funding for education, increasing costs for UIC and CPP bene- fits and sales tax on school supplies were concerns aired by the Huron County Board of Education's chairman at the Liberal task force hear- ing in Goderich. Board chairman, Dorothy Wallace made the presenta- tion to the eight -member task force headed by MPP John Eakens (L-Victoria- Haliburton). The two local MPPs, environment critic Murray Elston (L -Huron - Bruce) and agriculture critic Jack Riddell (L -Huron -Mid- dlesex) are also members of the task force. "One hates to make nega- tive comments on Bill 82 (special education)," said Mrs. Wallace, saying the concept of providing educa- tion for all children ranging from those with learning dif- ficulties to the academically gifted is a beautiful idea. But the commitment to special education empha- sized by the Ministry of Edu- cation, or the uncertainty of that commitment has the board worried, said the zhairman. Mrs. Wallace said special education grants to the board cover only 82 per cent of the cost of the program while the remaining 18 per cent is raised from local tax dollars. The chairman also noted concerns as the minis- try has so far only commit- ted special education grants until 1985. "Who pays for it after The Wingham Advance -Times, June 22, 1983—Page 5 rs problems municipalities that?" questioned. Mrs. Wal- lace. She expressed fear that programs for the "middle of the road" students may have to be cut, saying these stu- dents will one day be "the backbone of the country" MPP Riddell said he had served on the committee which reviewed ill 82 and while the education minister assured the committee there would be adequate start-up funds for the program, "we were all a little hazy" about the future hmding. "We also have a concern for the steady decline in the cost of education assumed by the province," said Mrs. Wallace, indicating that in 1975 the ministry paid 72 per cent of the budget while this year the ministry paid 62 per cent of the board's budget. "Would you say this has affected the quality of edu- eAtinn," asked MPP Rid- dell. Mrs. Wallace said some programs have been elimin- ated and that one way to cut costs is to have full class- rooms. She said Latin is no longer taught in Huron schools and machine shops were cut from Central Huron Secondary School in Clinton. On the subject of technical' education, Mrs. Wallace said the technical equipment put in secondary schools in the 1960s has reached the point where it is either worn out or obsolete. "There is no funding to re- place this equipment which is dreadfully expensive," said Mrs. Wallace. Other areas where pro- grams being considered by the ministry are in the ex- tension of the French pro- gram and computers. The chairman said she wonders what kind of funding will be available and for how long. Mrs. Wallace reiterated problems facing the board which she has addressed numerous times. The in- creased cost of Canada Pen- sion Plan and Unemploy- ment Insurance benefits cost the board about $200,000 and the sales tax on school sup- plieshas meant an addition- al $60,000 paid by the board. These costs, along with be- ing caught in a 12 per cent in- crease in salary contracts with .teachers, have left the board needing more funding from the province but get- ting The task force will be traveling throughout the province to hear the con- cerns of rural Ontario and will report its findings to the Liberal caucus. Seniors' Day Centre News By Pam Williams Happy Senior Citizens' Week! This week is devoted to special activities. for seniors and is set aside each year to remember contribu- tions of past and present senior citizens. The theme once again is, "We all have a lot to share", and that's a reminder that seniors are a Hospital shorts A group of local doctors and nurses set a record of a sort recently by scoring a 100 per cent success rate in a weekend course on advanced cardiac life support (ACLS). Dr. Walter Wong, one of those participating, said he believes it is the only time in the history of the ACLS course that everyone passed. The course, an extremely demanding one aimed at medical staff who will be treating heart attack victims, was offered at the Wingham and District Hospital by a team of specialists from London. .44 The hospital now has a new chief of staff. Dr_ ,Brian Hanlon from Wingham was confirmed by the hospital board last week as chief of staff for the next three years. He takes the place of Dr. J. Chong Ping, also of Wingham, who was applauded by the medical staff on his performance during his three-year term. Dr. Walter Wong of Wingham takes the place of Dr. Don Jolly of Lucknow as president of the medical staff association, while Dr. Mel Corrin of Luclmow replaces Dr. Wong as vice president and secretary -treasurer. 0494 The hospital will once again be able to offer an or- thopedic clinic with the arrival of two orthopedic surgeons on a visiting basis next month_ The previous clinic program had to be cancelled when the orthopedic surgeon running it moved from the area. 044 Members of the hospital board will have a chance to hone their lifesaving, skills at a basic cardiac life support (BCLS) course to be offered in July. Board members were challenged to take the course, which has been : de mandatory for all staff at the hospital_ It teaches embers of the general public haw to help victims of .: attacks of choking, providing on -the -spot treatm t until medical help can arrive. Board members are assured Decline in hospital activity does not jeopardize funding Even though the number of patients at the Wingham and District Hospital is continuing to run at a level significantly below that of two years ago, there is no immediate reason to fear that funding will be cut back, Executive Director Norman Hayes told members of the hospital board last week. Responding to a question from Finance Chairman Robert Pike, Mr. Hayes said it still is too early to say the lower level of hospital activity will be a long-term trend. it is more likely to be a "ripple" that will even out over time, he suggested. "It's too early to say that by the end of 1983-84 these figures will be the same," he said_ Traditionally activity has declined over the summer and then picked up in the fall and winter, though last year the upturn never appeared. However he was concerned as well, he added, and so he talked to a senior Health Ministry consultant for this area. "He assured me they weren't going to take any money away." This yds the second meeting in a row at which Mr. Pike had expressed concern over the mow level of hospital activity. Re noted that activity is down in just about every area, and asked what the effect would be if the trend continued. "What is the position of the Ministry of Health, since we are funded en the basis of our level of activity?" He also asked what steps are being taken to cut costs in response to the lower levels of activity. Mr. Hayes told him the hospital is doing what it can to reduce costs. Part-time hours have been cut, but there is a core staff of full-time people who cannot be cut back without the risk of losing them when activity picks up again. Dr. Walter Wong, a board member, agreed the slackening of use is likely to be temporary. He said he had read a Statistics Canada report that when the economy is depressed, people in lower income brackets tend to use health services less,, so when the economy turns around activity at the hospital should pick up too. Rather than looking at the short term, he suggested, it is necessary to view these things over a three to five-year cycle. Dr. Wong also congratulated Mr. Hayes on refusing to manipulate the figures to make the reports look better. He said be had been at a meeting and heard represen- tatives of some other hospitals advocating keeping patients in hospital longer as a way of improving their financial performance. "1 was very proud of Mr. Hayes when he said we wouldn't admit anyone not in need of hospitalization, no matter what the effect on the bank account," Dr. Wong reported. "He said he was a taxpayer too and diidn't want to see the dollars, wasted." Jack Kopas, another board member, said he understands the drop in activity is not a unique phenomenon with this hospital; other hospitals are feeling it too. He added that he could foresee -horrendous complications" if the ministry tried to budget hospitals based on the activity of the previous year. valuable part of our society. Last Tuesday; we enjoyed a bus trip to the Elmira- Hawkesville area. We viewed the West Montrose covered bridge, fondly known as the "Kissing Bridge". In Hawkesville, the group enjoyed a full course meal and to end the day, we toured Brox Old Time Village in ELnira. It was a good day out for everyone. Last Thursday, Sheryl Gilbert, a health educator from the Huron . County Health Unit, was our guest speaker. She spoke about the use of medications and the effects on health. She also reminded the seniors that there are special methods to set up a system of a daily reminder to take medica- tions. M. Gilbert gave an informative talk and many hints for the seniors. The Lycerun Theatre held a special matin4 for Senior Otnze n' Week and showed the film "The Terry Fox Story" today at 1 pm. The day centre's annual meeting is scheduled for Thursday afternoon. Anyone from the community is welcome to attend and hear our guest speaker, yearly reports and the results of our financial audit. Next week, we are at- tending the matinee per- formance at the Blyth Summer Festival to see the play "My Wild Irish Rose". We will be attending other plays throughout the sum- mer. A thought for this week is: It is the greatest of an mistakes to do nothing because you can do only a little. Do what you can I hope you enjoy all the ac- tivities that are planned for Senior Citizens' Week_ DENMARK — Convicted drunk drivers receive a three-week jail term and loss of their licence for a year and a half — with no excep- tions- CONESTOGA GRAD Edward Leader, son of Mr. and Mrs. Don Leader of 355 Minnie Street. 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