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The Wingham Advance-Times, 1979-04-25, Page 1r t LAND -SEA -AIR PACKAGE TOUNS "s Susinoss or pleosure - book now! SERVICE !IcteAGM7 Listowel, Ontario .`',e 291.2111 q ' 1 Call Toll Free 1-SW2"-3220 Wingham, Wednesday, April 'L5,1979 YMST SECTION --- -. - -JA o cutbacks a hospita. his r •dcit,izens .r or assures oar an. There won't be any layoffs at the public on the question of the Funding for the health services Proposed the HSO would be to sole the the sonatas problems. to Wingham and District Hospital Health Services Organization organization has not yet been Purely a funding orgaverythi address the problem of wh this year and the hospital won't (HSO) proposed for this hospital worked out, he said, but funding He also emphasized everything P Y is still " people in its referral area are very much in the talking be reducing services, Executive as a five-year pilot project. on the basis of 'capitation', with is still with no firm cam- going to other hospitals. Director Norman Hayes assured There is no intention of the centre receiving a set amount stamiments either way. The "How are you going to get the board of governors and about decreasing the number of beds, for each of the 31,000 persons in ministry has a team preparing a people to use this hospital who a dozen members of the Citizens' he said. "It is our intention the its service area, has been position on what it sees as an.HSO don:I now?" he asked. "Ad - Action Committee last week. HSO is an add-on to the existing discussed. and he is meeting with them vertise•'" He noted a large During a regular meeting of hospital." In response to a question by proportion of people in some the hoapital board Wednesday He also sketched what he sees Rae Elmslie, who asked whether April He said there are no guaran- nearby communities such as night Mr. Hayes reported he has as the HSO, which would involve the hospital might be faced with a tees as far as the next 17 beds are Brussels are currently going to been in contact with the ministry updating various hospital return to the 3.5 per thousand bed concerned, but . he expressed hospitals other than Wingham. and has been promised funding facilities as well as building a two formula after the pilot project doubt the ministry will come However, East Wawanosh will be restored to allow the or three-storey addition at the expires in five years, Mr. Hayes back for those beds. (Under the Tfivnship Reeve Simon hospital to continue operating 100 southeast corner of the hospital. said: "I don't think we'll ever 3.5 per thousand guideline Hallahan, who attended the beds, at least for another year. The hospital would use the first hear that figure again." Wingham hospital faced possible meeting with other members of He was scheduled to meet with floor while the second floor would He went on to say the hospital closure of a further 17 active the citizens' group, encouraged the ministry Monday, at which contain offices, seminar rooms must learn to market its ser- treatment beds next year.) the board that, "There's only one time he hoped to get the and space for rental to other vices; to build "customer Board member Don Kennedy way to go and that's forward." guarantee in writing as well as health care related agencies. The loyalty" to the hospital. expressed some reservations We already have one of the best find out just how much of the ministry has now suggested that "A key part of the wholistic about expecting customer loyalty hospitals in the area, he $168,000 slashed from the budget if the doctors are interested it approach is patient involvement. declared. this year will be restored. will give sufficient money to add We have to appear the best In other business at the k f h Ith Single Copy Not Over 35c Mr. Hayes also attempted to a third floor containing doctors choice when they loo or ea meeting the board deferred reassure concerned members of offices, he reported. care." However, he added that as Two injured action on a proposal to have Thorne -Riddell, an accounting in collision firm from London, prepare a study on a cost accounting system for the hospital. Mr. with bridge Hayes said the hospital will GOOD RUMMAGE SALE --The hospital auxiliary had a successful rummage sale last really neethe system no matter oed ed on Page 2 Friday, bringing in a total of $1,412. Jean Heffer measures T. P. O'Malley for a h 'Cat. d th Two Gorrie area men were FIRST SOD TURNED—United Co -Operatives of Ontario representatives turned the first sod last week at the site of the Wingham Feed Mill, a UCO feed plant to be completed in about a year with a capacity of 20,000 tons of feed a year. From left: Don McCorquodale, UCO Listowel group manager; Belgrave council chairman Murray Vincent; UCO presi- dent Robert Coulthard, UCO Chairman Julian Smith and Bob Down, UCO 2nd vice presi- dent. Sod turned at UCO feed Mill, The first sod was officially turned last Wednesday to signify the start of construction of the $2.3 million United Cooperatives of Ontario wholesale feed plant two miles north of Wingham. Local and UCO officials gathered to see the sod turning and to hear plans for the feed mill, which will service Co-op feed mills within a 25 -mile radius when production starts in about a year. The wholesale mill will stand on a 30 -acre site on the east side of Highway 4, will stand 90 -feet high, and will have an annual production capacity of 20,000 tons of animal feed. The mill will be one of five UCO wholesale feed plants in southern Ontario. The other plants are at Kemptville, Glencoe, Guelph and Peterborough. Don McCorquodale, UCO Listowel group chairman, said the mill will be computer con- trolled and will include pelleting facilities as well as a flaking process in which grain is steamed before it is rolled and dried. Five or six people will be employed at the Wingham Feed Mill in one daily shift. The plant's ecological facilities to reduce dust, noise and fire problems will add between $100,000 and $200,000 to the cost of the mill, according to UCO engineer Fred Enger. The mill, which will include 2,400 tons of bulk storage space and a large area for bag feed storage, will probably be the most efficient in the province, according to Bruce Chambers, UCO feed division manager. He predicted that operating costs of the mill per ton of output will be the lowest among UCO mills or even the feed plants of com- petitors. Julian Smith, general manager of UCO, said the Wingham Feed Mill will be unequalled in its flexibility to prepare, process and blend feed ingredients, in- cluding antibiotics. If animal feed use increases at the same rate it has for the past two years, UCO must build a plant the size of the Wingham mill every three years, he said. UCO President Robert Coulthard said management surveys indicated the need for a large UCO feed facility to serve the Huron, Perth, Grey and Bruce area because present manufacturing facilities are rapidly becoming obsolete. Farmers in the area are growing more grains, especially corn, and the shift must be met with new feed production facilities, he said. Hog farmers who like pelleted feeds made from their owh grain can be accommodated by the Wingham Feed Mjll facilities when they go into production. Turning the first sod were Mr. Coulthard and Murray Vincent, Belgrave Co-op council chair- man. treated at hospital here Saturday following a single car accident on Huron (;aunty Road 20 west of Highway 4. a rd will l h public meeting g Douglas Morland and Lee Griffith received minor injuries when the car Mr. Morland wa.: I�o ' n plaza driving apparently went out of ;; ed new scontrol and struck a bridge near Onpropospp9Belgrave. Both were discharged from hospital following treat- Wingham residents will get the have been required, but most the only one to speak out,in op- Following the meeting t e ment. chance to have their say on the board members felt it was best to position, however, and the planning board will meet to make, A second single car accident on question of the small shopping get things out in the open right motion passed easily. its recommendation to the town Sunday caused minor injury to plaza proposed for the south end from the start. Neither the developer nor the council and it is then up to council to Donald M. Dunbar of RR 1, of town at a public meeting called Chairman Tom Deyell noted he opponents of the, proposed plaza p decide whether or not to Belgrave. The accident occurred; . for May 8. The meeting will be didn't.. want to be accused of were present at the meet proceed with an amendment. qn Sideroad 33-34 north of Con. 8-9.0 teAd in the town hall and trying to .push things through in althoug%` both had been invited ` As with a zoning bylaw change, in East Wawanosh Township. "everyone interested is welcome secret and Gary Davidson, head attend. Vice Chairman Jim Watt it is possible to file objections to a to attend. of the Huron County planning reported that Ken Crawford, plan amendment in which case The town planning board department, agreed, this ap- owner of the Wingham IGA store the matter goes to the Ontario committed itself to holding the proach was best. and primary opponent of the Municipal Board fora hearing Awards night public meeting when decided at "Do things as openly as development, would not be at- and adjudication. On Cabe TV a meeting last week to proceed possible and take any flak at the tending because a study he NEW APARTMENT with the necessary rezoning of beginning," he counselled the had commissioned was not yet APPROVED IN PRINCIPLE hfelt it would be Earlier ithe meeting the Anyone who couldn't make it to the land by way of amendment to board. "It hurts less." complete and e fewou s last week's Wingham Minor Wingham's official plan rather He also agreed it is better to an exercise in futility. board gave approval in principle Hockey Association's annual than simply amending the zoning proceed by way of plan amend- Mr. Davidson said he wasn't to a proposal by Baden developer awards night or who wants to bylaw. ment, noting this gives the town sure why developer Jerry Helmut Krauck to build a 15 -unit take another look can see it Under the amendment to the much more control over the type Sprackman wasn't represented, apartment complex on Edward tonight (April 25) at 8 p.m. on official plan the area would be of development that can go into but suggested it could be because Street. Wingham Cable TV. assigned a special zoning not now the area. of confusion over the date of the Erection of the apartment The boys and girls who spent so included in the plan, with a list of While Tom Greenall and Lloyd meeting. Mr. Sprackman has building at 196 Edward Street many hours at the arena and permitted uses to be drawn up by Gilroy urged the board to move been represented in previous would require a zoning change to travelling to other towns got the planning board. via the plan amendment and dealings with the board by Ian R-3 from R-2, but the board in - some recognition for their efforts The board could have added a public meeting, Roger Keay MacNaughton, a Kitchener based dicated it will look favorably on at the awards night which will be supermarket to the list of uses expressed a dissenting view- planning consultant. the application when Mr. Krauck aired on Cable 12. permitted under the current point. He said he didn't think all The Planning Act requires that returns with a boundary survey Winners of most valuable highway commercial zoning or that was necessary and proposed a public meeting be held, with of the lot. The survey is player, most improved player rezoned the land as retail corn- the board leave the plan alone but two weeks notice, before a necessary to make sure the and -top scorer awards were mercial—general (C-1), in which amend the zoning to permit con- munic,pality can proceed with proposed building will fit on the named for each team, case no, public meeting would struction of a food store. He was any changes to its official plan. Continued on Page 2 ICOOKIES FOR SALE—The Wingham Brownies will ne selling their cookies in town next week, so they lined up to show how many will be out selling them.