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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1986-05-28, Page 1SEAFORTH, ONTARBO, WEDNESDAY, MAY 28, 1986 — 16 PAGES 50 cents a copy INDEX Births IA11 Brussels 1A5 Classified 1Al2, 13, 14 Dublin /A8 Entertainment /A15, 16 Family /A10, 11 Serving the communities and areas of Seatorth, Brussels, Dublin, Hensall and Walton Hensall /A4 Legion /A15 Obituaries /A11 Sports /A7 Walton /A6 Silent motion of eking, crafts in Cromarty. Sea page AB. octors close office Seaforth doctors will join 17,000 other Ontario physicians in a two-day.interrup, tion of services this week, in support of the Ontario Medical Association's stand against the provincial goveminert's proposed ban on extra -billing. Local doctors will dose their offices on Thursday and Friday, but will provide full outpatient service at the Seatorth Conununity Hospital, said Dr. Ken Rodney, of Seaforth. There will be two doctors "on duty" at the hospital at all times while the offices are closed and Dr. Rodney stresses they will be • available to all patients, "not just emergen- cies." Basically, it will be,�'like we are running our offices out of the hospital," said Dr. Rodney. The main difference from normal is 'that "it will not be a free choice system." "You will be assigned a doctor. That doctor may not be your regular physician, you will have to see one of the doctors on duty," Dr. Rodney said. The Seaforth Hospital is a community hospital, rather than a general hospital, Dr. Rodney explains. This means ordinarily there are no doctors on duty and physicians must be called when needed at the hospital. However, he stresses, during the office closure, doctors will be present at the hospital to see patients. "In no wary do we want to compromise patient care," he said. "All we want to do is get the message across to the government that we are solidly behind the OMA. It's a question of choices and freedoms," he added. The OMA announced last Thursday, their decision to ask member physicians to close theiroffices and also withdraw from all in-hospital committees other than therapeu- tic abortion committees. OMA president Dr. Earl Myers decided the action as the first step in what could become a series of strikes of increasing duration, unless the government withdraws the legisla- tion. "We're showing the government we mean business. This is a token to begin with. We'll see what developes," Dr. Myers stated. Homeclosure almost unnoticed Although the June 30 closure date for the Kilbarchan Nursing Home is fast approach- ing the owner of the town's other nursing home says he hasn't been overwhelmed with requests for residence. Daniel Scully, vice president of the Seaforth Health Care Facility, said only three individuals have requested a transfer to his facility since it indicated last year its willingness to accommodate Kilbarchan residents who did not wish to relocate to Exeter. Last January the then provincial Health Minister Keith Norton gave approval for a licence transfer of the 30 -bed home from Seaforth to Exeter. Mr. Norton's decision ended a two-yearstruggle bysvxeter to obtain facilities for senior citizens„ bin outraged Seatorth residents and employees at Kilbar- Clan, Vrho thou t-the`ttecision.wbuld leave Seitottli Seiiicitg in the lilith. The approval was given. following a proposal bythe home's owner, Tom Kannam- pusha of Mississauga, to build a new centre in Exeter rather than face the expense of upgmding the converted Seaforth house to meet the 1985 health ministry standards. JUST MADE IT — Sometimes, getting over that bar means acting like a contortionist, as Mr.Kannampusha said at the time 'the Melissa Whitmore discovered during the high lump event at the Seatorth Public School Seaforth home, once vacated, would be 'Track and Field Day, May 22. Rains photo converted into a senior citizen apartment building while the 30 occupants of the Ditch filling will require municipal permission BY MUM OKE The Township of Tudt'eersmith has estab- Jisheda policy requiring all residents to apply lto the municipality for permission to fill In the cutches in front of their residences in urban areas. The work must be done wider the supervision of the township or road superin- tendent with all the material installed and the Baal grades of the work meeting his approval. At the five-and-a-half-hourcotxndi session r3lresday, another step was taken by council to inform the Ministry of the FSavironment it Intends to undertake the construction of e.xparision of the Fgmondville water works ffystem to the south side of the Bayfield River this summer, at an estimated gross cost of 110.000. Council authorized Richard Anderson of B.M. Ross and Associates of Goderich to proceed with the final drawings and apply for approval as quickly as possible for this water expansion program, after he presented the preliminary drawings of the work at the meeting Tuesday. Hunan County Planner Warne Caldwell, Warden Leona Armstrong and John Dough- erty, a memberof the Huron County Planning Committee attended the meeting to hear the discussion on proposed amendment No. 104 to the official plan for the County of Huron. The purpose of the proposed amendment is to include policies in the secondary plan of the municipality in order to enable it to use site plan control in the future. Court of Revision was held on the Charters drainage works with ane owner, Nico Peters, of east part of lot 31, concession 7, Huron Road Survey, who has appealed his assess• ment on the drain. Mr. Peters outlined his objection because, in his view, he received no benefit from the installation of the under ground B branch tile. His appeal was denied, and the engineer's assessment schedule was endorsed. Coundl opened thetenderson the Charters drain, both for the open work, with seven rived and the dosed work, with eight received. Fbrtheopen work, council accepted the tenderof Manna and Hamilton Construe - tion Company Ltd. ata tender price of $7,352, Continued on Page A14 Education report is accepted 13i't ril MA OKE The Huron -Perth County Holman Catholic ieparateSdhoel Board voted to accepts its ad hot committee's report and responses to the Early teary Education p%ieci sent out froth the Ministry of Education earlier this bring, at a meeting of the board in Dublin Monday night. The board appointed the ad hoc ci'rnrnittee to studyand respaaid to the project which they did and reported bask to the board at a theetintv;o weeks ago. It was derided not to vote ori it than but lett to this meeting *Sten it was approved in a vote of eight to three. 'The next step is to send the committee's responses to the Ministry of Education. The committee members attending the board meeting were: Connie Birmingham, Exeter; coordinator of spedal education; Edith McCarroll, Stratford, librarian; Marg- aret Medve, Exeter; principal; Margaret Rowland, Dublin, teacher; Arthur Haid, RR 4, Listowel. trustee; and John McCauley, Superintendent of Education. Also attending was Marion Hockton, an exchange teacher from England, now principal at St. Mary's School in Roderick until the end of June. Mrs floddon addressed the board, speaking of her experience in England as an earlyprimarytearher. She spoke of the many advantages of a nursery school and of children starting school in the year a child is fiveyeart-old. She said the FSiglfsb school system is based on teaching the three lis and she explained liowchhildrenlearn through thearconstrudfve play end even music in these early classes. She said three half days a week is the ideal d - and long. enough for the foam -year-old child She stressed the they pdren to mix with their peers as Ms. Medve said it was important that parents have a choice should they decide on earlyeducation andsaid "ours orieena should be the needs of ell the children in the province." She spoke of the, changing needs of the • mmunit and of the import:Mice of home, school and-dnntdh working together Trustee Behold Moo 65 Dublin expr� ed his concern that in a junior kmdeg• . Was to be irnplernented and the funding for it not totincomang from the Ministry of Education and the money Wes not there -� then that is the probleem. Board aharmhan Ronald Marcy said the ad hod conunittee only supported the jtinidr kindergarten on the basis there would be funding to Cover theexpendrure of starting tip the program anof c'arryying it on 7n othef_busiiness the board accepted the fender of Exeter Roofing and Sheet Metal Company ltd for putting a nnewYoof_on St. Patrick's School in, Dublin for $89,800 the lowest of four tenders. • To cover the costa of the Supreme Court of ,Canada Constitutional Challenge over the fundingof CatholieHigti Scheela special levy May Eves set by the Ontario Separate School NURSE RETIRES = Elsie Southgate; left, of Seafdrib; retires as seen 31 after 23 years 0 This' tee's Assoeiathon at 50e per student., .. st dents 1 2 5 i 00i00ot the Seatorth Medical Clint°. Here. Mrs. Southgate Is seen with'Owen Devereaux and will pay $ , 59.25 for 2,518. the will replace her as head `nurse, of a party for Mrs, Southgate on May �. Aetna photo nursing home beds would have first crack at the new beds in Exeter. Following the decision to transfer the Kilbarchan licence to Exeter, efforts by various town groups, resulted in 10 extra beds being awarded to the Seaforth Health Care Facility, by the Ministry of Health. Before these beds can be added, however, the facility must proceed through a compli- ance plan review process of the Ministry where their plans are scrutinized for adherence to the Nursing Homes Act.'That means the existing physical plant must be brought up to current standards at the same time as the 10 beds are added. Mr. Scully said his company expects this process to take until the late summer orearly fall. Allowing for tendering etc. this would indicate -aqanstructigp. start in'thi3 Siiiiilg,'bf f33#7. Utilizing these ' assumptions, the additional beds would be on stream by the fall of next year," he said. Mr. Scully also added though that doesn't mean the SHCF is full and unapproachable. "It should be noted that we have had several vacancies since Kilbarchan an- nounced its intention to relocate: in particu- lar, for several weeks last summer we were running with four beds empty at one time, " he said. Part of the reason the facility was empty according to Mr. Scully was because of the home's refusal to actively pursue the residents of the Kilbarchan home. "As a matter of professional courtesy, we have not attempted to contact Kilbarchan residents when vacancies occurred, except those three who approached us. We have assumed that the Kilbarchan administration -h48 pip iet1y'tht6 Willingness --- and ramllles df o willingness to cooper ate." Grade 7 an added option BY ANNE NAREJKO It was only two short years ago that parents, teachers and supporting organizations were forced to rally behind Vanastra Public School to keep it from being dosed. The Huta County Board of Education was closely watching the school to determine if it was "educationally viable." Vanastra Public School not only passed the test, but is now in the position toofferGrade7 classes, starting in September of this year and Grade 8 in September of 1987. The announcement to extend the school's grades from kindergarten to Grade 7 was made at the board's April 7 meeting and was passed without discussion. Sally Rathwell, Tuckersmith. hvxnship's representative on the board, Tater explained the present Grade8 students at the Vanastra school will make up the first Grade7 class this fall and will then make up the Grade 8 doss in 1987. Ms. Rathwell also said students currently attending Clinton Public School will not be required to switch over to Vanastra. The students have done enough shuffling around " she said. Final pians as to whether additional teachers will be hired or whether an additional room is needed have not been finalized. The school, Chink Currently has 90 students registered, is in Its ninth year of operation. BUNS TOWN DEBENTURE _.- Saaforth Mayor AN Ross, left, and McKillop Mutual insurance Manager Robert Coleman flnallxe the paper work for the sale of a Town of Seaforth debenture to Mckillop Mutual. The 385,000 debenture was issued to raise ftis dahoto r the newly -hastened PUC transforrner at Main Station No. 1. p Local insurance company buys $85,000 debenture from town McKillo Mutual Inshrancc, a local oom- manager Ot McKillop Mutual said has firm parry which has operated in Seaforth for over considers such debentures secure invest - 10q years•, loos purchased an $85,000 merits, not'mg the company picked up a debentune_fi»m the Town of Seatorth. $40,000 debenture from the Town of Clinton Mayor Alt Ross says he is !pleased the last year. debenture, which covers the est of the tie* Seafoith's Chief Administrator J`un Creek- pee reek PUC hydro transformer, was purchased er said this method of raising the money for locally the transformerWes diosenbecause itis 'the '`It shows confidence in the town and lit the most economical" adminnistraiion," said Mr; Ross. The last time the town sold debentures to The: debenture, whish carries a semi -an, raise money was in 1976, to fund the Seaforth nual interest rate of 9.75 per cent, will run and Distnet Community Centres. McKillop overs penodof 10 years, and takes effect July Mutual has a debenture from ale town 00 its 2,book, issued 15 years ago.At that hire, the Robert Coleman, secretary`treasurer and interest rate was 5.75 per cent. Town buys lend for• two dollars. For the sum of two dollars and under the from James Lome Bosman and Ann Iorraiire terries and conditions deemed advisable, by Bosman. The passing of sudi a� bylaw is the mayor and the town Berk Seatorth has acceptable under the municipal act atiatlited another portion of land for its uses, lite land a uied_ispartofParktot6 ito Town sound' passed a by loco last week authorizing' the acquisition of Certain lands 392 of the `Tow n rff 5eafortlt. t Plan