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The Wingham Advance-Times, 1987-06-23, Page 019 J Hospital year finishes well, despite its pessimminstic Is Despite the pessimistic promise at its outset, the fiscal year 1986-87 has been desekibed as a good one for the ,Wingham and District Hospital. That message was one given to a smallgathering of approximately 35 people who turned out last Thursday for the annual meeting of the Wingham and District Hospital Cor- poration. At the beginning of the fiscal year, the hospital's board of governors was anticipating a deficit by the end of 1986-87. Instead, however, the hospital finished the 12 -month period with a surplus of slightly less than $308,000. In her report submitted to the annual meeting, Board Chairman Mary Lou Thompson, credits careful planning by the hospital's financial and administrative staff for the financial turnaround. In his report, Executive Director Norman Hayes explained the year began on a pessimistic note for the hospital as it was once again faced with watching health ministry Township plans appreciation night to honor warden Turnberry council is planning an appreciation night this fall for Huron County Warden Brian McBurney, the reeve of the township. Plans are being finalized, for the Sept. 25 appreciation night to be held at, the Belmore Community Centre. There will be dancing, lunch and it will be open to residents of the township and county. , Further details will appear in later editions of the newspaper. funding decline on a percentage basis below the hospital's actual cost of providing service. This meant that more and more of the hospital's expenses had to be met from resources earmarked for the future, Mr. Hayes said in his report. For example, interest earned on hospital capital funds invested for future growth had to be diverted to operating expense. However, Mr. Hayes also pointed out, this year the ministry of health and the provincial government recognized this erosion of capital was occurring and took Steps to rectify it through the provision of additional funding. "We were fortunate to receive additional funding from the ministry of health as the result of a year-over- Wingham will year increase in the cost of operating the hospital," Robert.Pike told those attending the annual meeting. Mr. Pike, as chairman of the board's finance and audit com- mittee, made the statement during his presentation of the auditors' report and financial statement to the annual meeting. Referring also to the change from anticipated deficit to actual surplus, Mr. Pike suggested the public should "interpret cautiously the meaning of a surplus". He said three factors affect the bottom line of the hospital's operating budget — the level of activity, funding from MOH and the extent or degree to which the hospital can control expenses. "The surplus was not the result of participate program in recreation grant Wingham is among 46 municipalities and non-profit groups in Southwestern Ontario to be receiving a total of $131,366 in Summer Experience 87 funding, Ontario Tourism and Recreation Minister John Eakins announced last week. In making the announcement, Mr. Eakins said the program is aimed at students in the 15 to 24 age group. The funds, he said, enable municipalities, recreation, sports and tourism organizations to hire students who will provide vital services ' to the province while gaining career -oriented skills. In Wingham, the $2,002 grant will be used for the recreation depart - ment junior playground leaders pro- gram. Under Summer Experience 87, students in Southwestern Ontario will be involved in 'a variety of ac- tivities including work as travel counsellors, researching and planning community recreation programs, teaching sports and recreation programs .to all ages and expanding summer recreation programs. The ministry is providing a total of $548,324 to all five regions in the province. Approximately 450 Ontario students will be hired through this year's Summer Experience program. a decrease in services, but rather in spite of an increase in services," Mr. Pike said. Unlike it is in the normal business world, where increased activity usually translates into in- creased revenue, the opposite is true with hospitals, he explained. In addition, it will be increasingly more difficult for the hospital to control costs in the years. ahead due to the anticipated increase in activity, Mr. Pike added. The hospital's revenue during the fiscal year totalled $7,220,651 while expenses reached $6,912,856, resulting in a surplus of $307,795, according to the financial statement included in the auditors' report from Thorne, Ernst and Whinney of London. Also in her report, Mrs. Thompson said the board of governors is awaiting the presentation of the final draft of a role study for the hospital. The board's management com- mittee has worked closely with David Coulson and Associates to complete the study and it has been a "learning experience" for all concerned, she said. `The study has indicated the need for some changes in the hospital's current operation in order to meet the changing demographics and needs of the area which it serves. Dr. Brian Hanlon, the hospital's chief of staff and chairman of the board's management committee, also made reference to the role study.. in his report to the annual meeting. The medical staff, 'Dr. Hanlon said, "is finding the beds at the hospital to be taken up more and more by aging patients in need of . .. (Pleaze turn to Page 3) ` D. Kennedy is president of foundry as&—miation k Donald P. Kennedy, corporate reject a .petition by the American vice-president of the Western foundry industry to impose high Foundry, Wingham, was elected tariffs on castings imported into the k, president of the Canadian Foundry United States. Association at its twelfth annual meeting of June 5. The meeting was held at Niagara- E on -the -Lake. It was well attended'" and delegates included foundry personnel from across Canada, ;a industry suppliers, consultants and officals from both the federal and Z � . • � ' , � .; ��y � provincial governments. The theme of the meeting was "The Impact of Government on Businessi♦ and speakers included Patrick Lavelle, Ontario deputy minister of industry, trade and y' ti technology and George Taylor, a ,r former solicitor general of Ontario. A panel presentation and discussion` x on important topics, featuring ex- pert x pert panelists from Canada and the �' 3 I Meeting over severance #urns unruly at Turnberry What was meant to be a simple discussion about a severance turned unruly at last Tuesday's meeting of Turnberry Township Council. Reeve Brian McBurney was forced to call for order on several occasions when tempers flared during a discussion between Ron and Linda Walden of Wingham and a group of B-line area residents. The Waldens applied to sever a house from the 4.5 -acre property they recently purchased on the B- line, near their already -established trucking operation. Mr. Walden said he plans to clean truck trailers at the site, but may eventually add another garage. He added that he may sell the house in the future and that is why he is seeking a severance. The entire property is zoned industrial and the house would be classified as a non- conforming use under the terms of the severance. The severance application was approved at last Thursday's county land division hearing. It now must be ratified by the entire county council. A delegation of eight nearby landowners attended the meeting. not to oppose the severance, but to question the actual practice of granting severances and express concerns about possible con- tamination of their spring -fed water supply. Mrs. Murray McDougall asked council how Mr. Walden could sever a house from his property when she was told several years ago she wouldn't have "a snowball's chance" of severing a house on her property only a few hundred feet away. Mr. McBurney said that while severances are permitted under the county and township land -use plans in the industrial zone, they a e not allowed in a restricted-agri ulture zone, where the McDougall y is located. The reeve tol Mrs. McDougall her propety is restricted because it is wit in 2,000 feet of the Town of Wingha As a non -conforming se, the house Mr. Walden is severing will be allowed to remain standing in the industrial zone, with the un- derstanding that any future owners will not be able to complain about the activity around them. The discussion then turned to concerns over the water supply. Mrs. Orville Welsh said she feared (Please turn to Page 3) BILL HENDERSON SR. of Wingham celebrated his 80th birthday last Wednesday, but family and friends honored him at an open house at the Salvation Army Citadel on June 14. Mr. Henderson was a barber in Wingham for almost 50 years and has been a local officer with the Salvation Army for 29 years. Group still feels pavilion location. should be changed .. It appears the controversy surrounding the scheduled con- struction of a washroom pavilion at Riverside Park is not yet ready to become a dead issue. Following a number of meetings last week, the Riverside Ratepayers Association issued ' a media statement which makes it clear the group is still seeking to have Wingham Town Council reconsider its June 11 decision to proceed with the construction of the pavilion at its proposed location between the two ball diamonds at the south end of the park. At a special meeting on that date, council told representatives from ,the association that this location was the one" most suitable for the washroom pavilion. At least two members of council indicated at that meeting that the location selected had been recommended by the Maitland Valley Conservation Authority and that an alternative location being suggested by the association had been considered earlier by council, but that. MVCA had ruled it out at that time. However, MVCA General Manager Les Tervet in a telephone interview following publication of an account of the June 11 meeting, told The Advance -Times the authority had not recommended any location as the one most suitable. In fact, Mr. Tervet said the alternative suggested by the association would be an acceptable one to MVCA. Since that time, it has been learned that although the MVCA was cited as responsible for determining the proposed location, that responsibility instead fell squarely on the shoulders of the Huron County Health Unit. In a June 18 letter to Director hired by health board 'for new program A London woman has been selected as program director for the brand new Huron Alcohol and Addiction Assessment and Referral Program. Councillor James McGregor, chairman of the town's finance and management committee chairman, E. T. Harrison, director of public health inspections, confirms the health unit's position on the location of the sewage disposal system for the proposed pavilion. The health unit's certificate of approval, issued Feb. - 3, 1987, showing the system to be installed approximately 50 feet north of Park Drive "is the only location deemed to be suitable by this health unit," the letter states. An alternate location proposed previously was not acceptable because of possible contamination to the environment, the letter continues. It does not, however, specify where that alternate site is located in the park. In its media statement, the association says it still feels a simple solution to the issue would be the construction of washrooms to the north and east of the currently proposed site. The statement also refutes remarks made at the June 11 Announcement of the appointment (Please turn to Page 3) - % I United States, was a highlight of the" of Linda Price as the new program meeting. director was made to Huron County Freak rainfall The Canadian Foundry Gorrie fire call Council at its regular June meeting Aga „ Association, founded in 1975, is the by Dr. James McGregor of hits south end ' ' Is false alar national trade association for senior Wingham, the county's acting ° f managers of the Canadian metal- Firefighters from the Wingham medical officer of health. Wingham residents have been k casting industry. Its objectives areand District Fire Department's No. The provincially funded program commenting on a freak rainfall #� pg, to stimulate the growth of thein- 2 station at Gorrie responded to an was recently announced by.the which was enjoyed by only the : W#r dustry, to promote the interests of alarm early Monday morning at Ontario Ministry of Health and is to southern section of the town last Sat - the members and the industry, ti y to Watson's Hardware at Gorrie. be administered by the Huron urday. provide information and make However, Wingham Fire Chief County Board of Health through a Shortly before noon a brief rain - representation to Canadian and Harley Gaunt reports it was a false separate advisory council. storm swept in from the -west to cool foreign governments on policies and alarm triggered by a malfunction in Appointments to that eight -mem- off the homes and provide a badly - 5, matters of concern to the industry, the store's alarm system. her advisory council were made by needed drink for lawns and gardens A highlight of the 1986 activities DONALD P. KENNEDY of Wing- In a separate call last week, the board in March and approved by — in the southern section of the town was the successful defence action by ham recently was elected presl- firemen from Wingham were Called county council at its regular April only. Shoppers from John Street 100TH ANNIVERSARY — The Women's Missionary Society from the association to protect the in- dent of the Canadian Foundry out early Tuesday evening to the meeting. north were surprised to find puddles Chalmers Presbyterian Church at Whitechurch celebrated Its 100th terests of Canadian foundries in the Association. Mr. Kennedy Is cor Keith Cameron residence on Carling In making the announcement of on the pavement when they drove anniversary at a special service and tea last Sunday. The president, U.S. market. The CFA presented a porate vice president of the Terrace to extinguish a blaze from a Mrs. Price's appointment to council, downtown during the noon hour. Not Mrs. Walter Elliott, assisted two of the group's longest -serving strong case to convince the U.S. Western Foundry, Wingham. gas barbecue. Mr. Gaunt reports Dr. McGregor said the new program a drop had fallen north of John members, Annie Laidlaw and Mrs. Wes Tiffin, In cutting the cake. International Trade Commission to (Photo by Snyder Studio). about $100 damage to the barbecue. director will start in July. Street. evelo r con rm s o u s co o in e ming Plans for the development of a while 10 to 15 would be on a part-time a major Quebec chain of similar property located on the west side of department store chain accepts the and is now Awaiting a formal ap- reported to be considered for the retail department store for basis. stores. Josephine Street between Victoria changes, he is confident the building plication from the Calgary firm. town earlier. Speculation on that Wingham have been confirmed by While SAAN is an acronym for The Wingham outlet In the second and Scott Streets, subject to the permit application would then "We determined that the ptoperty overture led town council to consider the vice-president of Hawk Surplus Army Airforce Navy, SAAN to be confirmed for this area In as approval of a building permit. receive the required approvals. did not fall within the special policy the rezoning of the Josephine Street properties Ltd. of Calgary. stores have not been handling armed many weeks. Last week Listowel Although the company would like On Friday, Phil Beard of MVCA area, but was on the flood fringe and ball perk in order to accommodate In a telephone interview Friday, forces surplus stock for a number of Town Council approved a building to start construction in early July, said although the major portion of the development should come under such a commercial development. Don Sedgwick told The Advance- years now, he said. Instead the application for a 12,000 square foot that is not likely to occur until at the property to be developed is site plan control," Mr. Currie said. However, approximately 100 rest - Times that the Calgary -based firm outlets are now known as junior least atter July S when the Maitland outside a proposed special policy dents turned out at a public meeting SAAN store there. Stores have been The developer seems to be res hopes to have approval soon for the department — or soft goods — confirmed for Exeter and St. Marys Valley Conservation Authority and area, it still falls within the flood sible he said, and if the flood- on the rezoning issue to oppose the development of property at the south stores, selling clothing for the entire and his firm also is looking at the towns planning advisory fringe and any building to be con- �n changes are acceptable the change. At that time, Mayor Jack end d town to accommodate sone- family, linens and other software Hanover, Orangeville d Alliston, committee have considered a formai steucted must be adequately flood- application ill likely be in line fora Kopsa told the meeting he believed storey, 11,000 square foot SAAN household items. application which will include roofed to meet regional flood the proposed development had been Mr. Sedgwick said. pp p 'erica d eon lights. The com- department store with an estimated With its headquarters in Win- revisions to ensure adequate Rood- standards. g lost to the Town of Mount Forest, a 99 parking spaces. nipeg, the SAAN corporation is pati Hawk Properties Ltd. will own the Ring in the proposed buildings James A. Ctu-rie, planning and mittee expects to receive formal statement challenged by PAC When completed the retail outlet of the large Gendis corporation, Mr. buildings and will lose than to design. advisory committee chairman, said application for consideration at its member Dianne Grummett who could provide as many as 21 new Sedgwick said. Among the cor SAAN stores. However, I&. Sedgwick said his the committee had looked at an next meeting, July e. indicated the developer was still jobs for the town, Mr. Sedgwick poration's other holdings are Sony Mr. Sedgwick Said his company company had submitted a revised informal presentation of the nom- This proposal is believed to be the negotiating for a property In said, six of these woldd be full-time Canada, the Metropolitan stores and has taken an option on the Murray proposal to SAAN and if the pony's proposal at its lost same as one which had been Wingham._