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SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, WEDNESDAY, JULY 31, 1985 — TWO SECTIONS — 22 PAGES
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LOWERING THE KA 8OOM — Seaforth and area residents, as well as a number of others, were in attendance Friday night as the
Seaforth and District Community Centres celebrated their third birthday. In addition to a beef barbecue dinner residents were
treated to a little bit of dancing and the traditional birthday party cake and ice cream. As part of the festivities a number of
balloons were dropped from the ceiling at approximately midnight to further celebrate the end of the fundraising for the building.
Seaforth and area residents came together as a joint force just over three years ago and raised the money necessary to build the
facility. (Mcllwraith photo)
Cooperation is key in running
of Huron County Health Unit
Co-operation will be the key word in the
running of the Huron County Health Unit.
"There'll be more co-operation between
the board, the medical officer of health and
the administrator." said board of health
chairman Bill Elston following a special
meeting of the Board on July 24.
The meeting was called to go over model
bylaws and the roles and responsibilities of
boards of health and senior staff as prepared
by the Association of Ontario boards of
health. The bylaws are considered to be the
minimum requirements necessary for boards
of health.
The meeting started with consideration of a
bylaw to provide for banking and finance. The
board of health didn't get through the model .
bylaw, however.
Medical officer of health Dr. Ham Cieslar,
said he wanted his role as MOH and his
relationship with the board and administrator
Bill Hanly to be clarified. Mr. Hardy is the
secretary -treasurer of the board and as such,
handles thd'Finances of the operation.
Dr. Cieslar said he is caught between the
ministry of health and the board. The
Ministry tells him he is in charge of
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everything at the health unit. including
finances, and the board gives final financial
authority to the county administrator.
Mr. Hardy said the only financial matters
that don't pass over the MOH's desk would
be leasing documents and payroll because
these are handled by the county's business
office
"Certain things
I don't like"
uMPIIIMISION A fflA YR BMA WA MAN
There are certain things i don't think I
like. If the board doesn't support me ... " said
Dr. Cieslar leaving the statement unfinished.
Mr. Hanly quickly responded, "f have
never tried to run the health unit nor do i
intend to."
Several times Dr. Cieslar indicated he was
so upset by the lack of his task being clearly
defined, he said he would consider leaving
the employ of the board.
At one point, Mr. Hardy left the boardroom
while the board of health went into a closed
session. The MOH was with the board for just
over an hour in the dosed portion, then the
board met by itself and called in Mr. Hanly.
The board finally came out of the closed
session after almost two hours.
From there it proceeded to go over the roles
and responsibilities.
The administrator's office will continue to
do the finances for the health unit with Dr.
Cieslar being notified of all financial matters.
Board chairman Elston also suggested he
be contacted any time, especially if there is a
problem brewing in the health unit. Other
board members, including Warden Paul
Steckle made similar comments.
The provincial representative on the board.
Bill Morley of Usborne Township, hinted that
untrue rumors which are a result of poor
communication could also be part of .the
problem.
The board will consider the bylaws at
future meetings.
Co-ordinated health
services to be studied
There is a committee in Huron County
looking at co-ordinated health services for
the county and a district health council is at
least one alternative to be considered.
The Huron County community services
council, a group which has been meeting
regularly for a couple of years, has
announced the formation of a health
planning committee to study the matter of
coordinating health services. The council
made the decision on July 2 after Jim Bain,
area planning co-ordinator for district health
councils for the ministry of health, presented
a report on the district health council.
The local initiative has no connection with
a similar study which may be undertaken in
Perth County this fall, sta3ses committee
spokesman Paul Carroll. Mr. Carroll repre-
sents the Huron County board of education
on the council.
Mr. Carroll said there is no push from the
ministry of health or from the local medical
community to look into coordinated health
services.
The community services council has as its
goal, the coordination and cooperation of
social services in the county. There are 35
members of the council representing a wide
variety of agencies, said Mr. Carroll.
He also said the committee wants to stress
it plans to look at the broader question of
whether health care needs to be coordinated.
The idea won't be to see if there is support
for a district health council. Mr. Carroll did
say a district health council could be one
alternative for coordinating health care.
The health planning committee has
decided to host a public forum in mid-✓
October of this year to give an opportunity
for providers and consumers to comment on
the need for more coordination, said Mr.
Carroll.
He indicated a possible outcome would be
for the planning committee to ask the
Minister of Health to establish a steering
committee to formally examine the issue of
coordination should the public forum decide
that.
During the month of August, said Mr.
Carroll, the committee will undertake to
contact municipal representatives at the
local and county level, health providers,
community agencies and the general public
inviting their input.
The questions, he said, will be broad in
nature and will seek to examine the nature of
heal*h planning as it takes place at the
present time. It is hoped that participants
will offer suggestions to ensure the citizens
of Huron are not losing out on any aspect of
health service normally available where
some form of coordinating process is in
place, said the spokesman.
The committee also emphasizes the
geographical area under study is Huron
County alone. Contact will be established
with the Perth County committee as a matter
of keeping information current, but no action
to coordinate a bi-countyeffort is planned at
this time.
In the late 1970's, a bi-county committee
considered and rejected the idea of a district
health council.
Information flyers and bulletins will be
issued during the month of September to
provide background information and gener-
ate public interest in the October forum.
Members of the planning committee are
chairperson Valerie Bolton representing
Women Today, secretary Paul Carroll, Gord
McKenzie representing community hospital
administrators, Paula Pranovi representing
the addiction research foundation, Lynne
Armstrong -Hayes representing Canadian
Cancer Society, Laurie Urb and Tom
Hanrahan representing palliative care pro-
ject, Dr. Don Neal representing the Huron
County medical society, Jim Ham and Doug
Hornell, representing the ministry of health.
Other members are expected to be added.
The next meeting of the planning
committee is set for Wednesday, Aug. 21.
PUC to fix transformer
The Public Utilities Commission is taking
steps to upgrade a transformer at its MST
sub station.
The decision to upgrade came at a recent
meeting of the PUC when Mark Sleeves, a
representative of Ontario Hydro, confirmed
suspicions of the local PUC, that Seaforth
stations needed to upgrade in order to meet
the needs of the community.
According to Seaforth PUC manager Tom
Phillips the stations in town are getting to
the point they are overloading in the winter
months. As a result there is some paranoia
the current transformer will not continue to
meet the needs in the near future. The plan
is to upgrade the current transformer from a
2MVA to SMVA unit. That, according to Mr.
Phillips, means replacing one transformer
with three existing transformers.
"We've been taking oil sample tests to
determine the chemical properties and
deterioration of the transformer and knew
we had to make a decision whether or not to
leep the transformer as it is and repair it
with treatment. or if it could last a little
longer, replace it." he said.
Unfortunately there is no guarantee the
current transformer, which was installed in
1945. will last much longer, although it
could. Initial steps were taken two years ago
when the PUC upgraded the fusing on the
high and low side of the transformer.
"We knew it was coming in time. After we
upgraded the fusing we knew the next step
would be to upgrade the transformer." said
Mr. Phillips.
"As soon as a transformer starts working
it begins to deteriorate. So after 40 years of
use there is bound to be other problems with
it as well. We thought we'd be safer to
upgrade the unit rather than repair it."
Although the PUC hadn't budgeted to
upgrade the transformer Mr. Phillips said it
is necessary to do so. in order to continue
providing for community needs.
"There is no guarantee how long the
current transformer will last. We are taking
action as a remedying situation," he said.
As manager Mr. Phillips will now draw up
specs on the new transformer. He said he
hopes to have it tendered as soon as
possible.
Once tendered he said it could be a
six-month wait for delivery. In the meantime
the PUC will continue to monitor with oil
samples to see if any further deterioration
occurs.
W Ell. REPA iRS
In other PUC business minor repairs done
to Chalk Street wells have brought them up
to good running order.
The repairs, done by W.D. Hopper and
Sons, cost approximately $400 and have
restored the wells virtually to perfect
runningorder. Replacement of the 40 -year-
old wells could have cost between $10 and
$12 -thousand dollars.
NEW LINES
New hydro lines are being installed along
George Street East between Victoria and
Crombie Streets.
The installment is part of a plan to .
upgrade the main line with wires, transform-
ers and streetlights.
CHARGES UP
The Seaforth PUC has agreed to increase
its truck rental charge for MAR accounts.
At a recent meeting of the commission the
rental charge for the bucket truck was upped
from $12 to $22 an hour. The increased
charge will cover operation of the truck and
deter users from using the vehicle unneces-
sarily.
JARViS STREET
The PUC will be meeting shortly with
B.M. Ross and Associates to discuss
tendering for the boring process needed in
extending the Jarvis Street line.
The PUC said it hopes to get that process
underway as soon as possible. The sooner a
six-inch pipe is placed under the railway
lines the sooner residents living on the south
side of the tracks will be assured they will
have a constant supply of water.
At present there is only one line
connecting south side residents to the main
• supply. if anything should happen they
could be without water for some time.
Burnt out property purchased
At long last someone has plans for the
burnt out property located beside the
Superior Grocery Store on Seaforth's Main
Street.
Just what exactly those plans are .lean and
Ken Wolfe would rather not devulge at this
time, but they do say they plan on cleaning up
the location, building on to it and making it at
least a little more respectable. Whatever they
do they say they will keep within guidelines
given to them by LACAC.
"We're not really sure what our plans are
at this point," said Mrs. Wolfe.
"Were still in a bit of a humbo jumbo state
after purchasing the property. W e really have
no definite idea about what we're going to do
with the property, it all depends on how the
money situation goes. We ' 'may open a
business or we may just fix up the property
and rent it out. It could take up three years or
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it could take us 10. "
Originally of Seaforth the Wolfes are
presently living in Goderich. They plan a
move to Seaforth at the beginning of August
and say they will live in the apartment in the
building they have purchased.
The W oLfe property was previously known
as the Copper Cafe and the Hesson Haus. The
front part of the building was gutted by fire
approximately five years ago.
Since the fire the property has been sold
twice but it was only until six months ago the
fire insurance claim was settled so any
owners of the property could proceed with
plans for restoration of the building.
"It's a cute little sit. We liked it and the
price was right•" added Mrs. Wolfe.
Mrs. Wolfe said she expects she and her
husband will have more definite plans for the
building by spring.