The Huron Expositor, 1986-11-12, Page 1INDEX
Births /A11
Brussels /A4
Classifieds /Al2, 13, 14
Dublin /A15
Entertainment /A15
Family /A11
Farm /A10
Grads /A16
Hensall /A9
Legion /A7
Obituaries /A16
People /A16
Sports /A5, 6
Walton /A4
Weddings /A11
Job searching a skill to be ierned. See page A3
Rev. Simmons get new appointment. See page A3.
Queens whip Perth in broor' tall'.'' See page A6.
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SEAFORTH, ONTAR O, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER •12, 1986
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Tender accepted
Itl'Wlll,lAOK!s
'I'uvkersmrlh Township Council accepted
the lender of Seaforth Motors Limited of
Seaforth fora new 1987 hall' -ton Ford Duck at
a tendered price of $11,673 subject to the
approval of the Ministry of 'transportation
and Communications. The tender was the
lowest of four received and included the
trade-in of the present truck.
The greenhouse firm of Puregreen of
Loudon was granted permission to remove
the green house frame constructed on Lot 20,
Plan 133, Vanastra upon approval of the
township solicitor. The firm set up the frame,
intending to have a greenhouse where
tomatoes, lettuce and other vegetables could
be grown year round.
Council authorized the payment to Uivis
Contracting Company Limited of Clinton of
580,839 as part payment of work on the
extension of the Egmondville Water System
to the Egmondville residents on the south
side of the Bayfield River.
Passed for payment were the following
accounts: Day Care Centre at Variastra,
58,746,39 special day care centre at Vanastra,
$6,690.17; roads, 521,200.35; Vanastra rec-
reation centre, 514,487.13; and general
accounts, 5.16,163,05 for a grand total of
567;287.09.
Huron County Library
Board may dissolve
The Huron County Library Board may be t
dissolved at the end of the year after a Private
Members Bill, brought before a special
committee of the provincial government last
week, was given approval.
Beginning in January 1987, the Huron
County Library may be brought under the '
jurisdiction of Huron County Council and will
operate as a committee of council. Since 1966,
the Library Board has operated as an
autonomous board under the jurisdiction of
the Ontario Public libraries Act.
Clerk -Treasurer Bill Hanley, Library Board
Chairman Tom Cunningham, Huron County
Warden Leona Armstrong and the county's
solicitor as well as official objectors were
invited to participate in the Standing
Committee on Regulations and Private Bills
meeting which heard the Huron County
matter on October 22 and Char ro29. Tom
According to Library
Cunningham, in a brief description of the
meeting at the Huron County council meeting
on November 6, the Private Members Bill to
dissolve the Library was passed by a close
vote with the chairman of the committee
casting the deciding vote in favor of
dissolving the committee.
He also said the Bill, called Private Bill Pr
7, still has to be given third reading before the
Ontario legislature before it will become law.
"W a really don't have anything concrete
as yet to give to county council," said Mr,
Cunningham on the matter.
in the opinion of officals with the county,
the move to have the library Board come
under the county committee system will
ensure that county council has more control
over the operation of the library system.
According to Warden Leona Armstrong,
he decision to change the Library Board to a
committee, which was made in a vote of
council in February of 1985, will have little or
no effect on the day-to-day operation of the
library. The move will make the library
system more accountable to the county
council.
"County council will have more input into
library decisions. They'll feel more a part of it
(the board's decisions)," she said.
She said she felt that many council
members refused to take part in debate on
library matters as "there was nothing they
could do about it" because the report of the
library board was "just for information as the
motions were all final."
However, she said the county intends to
keep the make-up of the board the same, with
three private citizens continuing to sit on the
board along with four members of county
council.
Huron County Clerk -Treasurer Bill Hanly
said themovetachange the library Board to
a committee was made to get it "back where
it was" before it was changed to a board in
1984. He, too. said the major reason for the
change was for more accountability to county
council.
"Because the council pays 80 per cent of
the costs, they want a say in what's going on.
Accountability is the bottom line," said Mr.
Hanly.
Bill Partridge, the chief librarian in the
Huron County library system. said he is "of
two minds" on the decision to dissolve the
Library Board.
"It's a political decision and 1 will work
with 11. You have to work with the
organization. I don't think It will be a
Continued on Page A14
WEAR A POPPY — Arnold Stinnlssen of the Seaforth Legion
Branch 158 pine a poppy on Peter Groh during the Legion's poppy
campaign Sunday. Young Peter was visiting his grandcparealth photo
ts, Edna
and Nell Bell, for the afternoon.
Huronviewroject safe. - -
New funding proposal
13Y ALAN WVl T1' met with Mrs. Marty Brent, the manager of
Officials connected with the proposed $3.5 the Museum section of the MCC, to discuss
million expansion and renovations project to an amendment to the application which
the Huron County Pioneer Museum are would allow the county to stay as a top priority
breathing a sigh of relief after government for provincial funding. She recommended to
officials accepted a new funding formula for the committee ethat
ade up of project two hasend the
the pmyjed. application
s.
The new funding formula. passed by "She (Mary Brent) gave us every assur-
Huron County Council at its meeting on once that the county museum project would
November 6. calls for the museum project to be top priority and that our application would
be completed in two distinct phases, with the not have to be re -submitted but only
County and the provincial government each re -worked." said Mr. Johnston in explaining
contributing 50 per cent of the $2.4 million the situation to council.
cost for first phase construction. The second Under the new formula, the first phase
phase will be completed as money becomes would include all new construction while the
availahte second phase would include renovations to
the old museum building and the finishing
touches to the total project. such as
landscrping etc.
Mr. Johnston also said that after the new
funding formula was worked out. the
proposal was put before the two local elPPs in
this area (Jack Riddell and Murray Elston) to
seek their support.
"Both Mr. Riddell and Mr. Elston support
fully the Huron County Museum and said
they would do anything possible to assist us
with funding from the province." said Mr.
fohnston, the reeve of Bayfield.
IDENTIFIABLE MARKS — A.pproximateiy 240 area children were fingerprinted Saturday
when the Optimist Club, In conJunctlon with the Seaforth Polios Department, made such e
service available. The Idea of fingerprinting children for the purposes of identification should
something go wrong, has been adapted across Canada. Here, ConstableCharlie
photo
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fingerprints Noelte Thompson.
The original funding plan. adopted last
year by Huron County Council. had the
county. provincial and federal governments
each contributing oneythird each to the
project which was slated to go ahead in one
phase
Museum Committee Chairman Dave John-
ston said the project was put in jeopardy last
week after the County's SI million grant
application through the Federal govern-
ment's Cultural Initiatives Program (CIP)
was declined.
in turn. the County's grant application The Museum Committee also travelled to
under the provincial Ministry of Citizenship Ottawa to find out if the funding change
and Culture (MCC) was also placed in would put federal funding in doubt for the
jeopardy. The provincial ministry refused to project. Mr. Johnston said the director of the
approve the one-third funding proposal by federal OP said the revised county funding
the county after learning of the federal application still meets the requirements for
government announcement. the program.
Mr. Johnston said the committee recently "MP Murray Cardiff is also in full support
accepted
of the pmjed and has also said he will do
everything possible at the federal level.
"We haven't jeopardized the project and.
from all signals, all the federal and provincial
ministries are fully in favor of the project."
Mr. Johnston concluded.
Museum Project Director Claus Breede
said county officials were worried the CIP
would view the project as two distinct projects
which would sizeably reduce the county's
grant prospects.
He said under the C IP program, it will fund
up to one-third of any major capital project. If
the second phase of the museum project was
viewed as a separate project. the county
would have been eligible for only one-third of
their S1 million grant request.
"We would have been cutting our own
throats." said Mr. Breede.
However. Mr. Breede said the CIP officials
still see the museum project as a $3.5 million
venture. But. because of their small S8
million yearly budget which is spent across
Canada. the county may not receive a CIP
grant until 1988.
Mr. Breede says he expects to have an
answer regarding the provincial funding for
the project within the next four to six weeks.
If a guaranteed commitment is made by the
province, tenders will be called to begin
construction.
As for the federal government's grant
refusal for the project this year. Mr. Breede
said the county will not need to proceed with
the second phase renovations until 1989. He
expects the first phase of the project to he
completed by that time.
ers an alternative to `anaesthetic -in -white aura
Junior volunteers
ft's a job that offers no salary, but its
rewards are far greater -- at least according to
the 10 girls alio make up the Junior Volunteer
progiant at the Seaforth Community Hospi-
tal.
"1 don't think people really understand,"
said Susy Dinsmore, 16. a junior volunteer of
three years with more than 500 hours of
caring under her belt.
"They don't reallysee what the big deal is.
But we who work here know. It's exciting. It
helps with the careers you want, because
whatever you do in life you're going to have to
rnminathicate with purple- It sakes us
friendlier, and it makes us feel good to be
helping someone else. added
"We can feel the difference.
Amanda Phillips. 14, a junior volunteer for
two years.
"People think it is something we do just to
get out of the house, but it's not,"
According to Frances Teetero, the liaison
officer of sorts, between the volunteers and
the hospital, the junior volunteer program is
perhaps most widely misunderstood by other
teenagers.
"A lot of people consider it sissy if you
show an interest in being a junior volunteer. l
think that's darn sad. There are some great
volunteers here, and there have been some
that have gone on to do wonderful things,"
she said.
People think all we do is stuff with
bed' ane and blood, and say, Why bother,"
said 18 -year-old Patricia Schwarz, who has
been in the program for five years.
"But it's not an that. It's good Stuff too."
Marianne..Moylan, 15, and Lon Hendee,
son, 16. say the question they get asked most
frequently. is shy they do the work when they
don't get paid.
Both girls, who are considering careers in
the area of social services. said they thought
being volunteers at the hospital would be a
good experience. as well as a good means of
determining whether or not they would be
able to cope with a career in that field. They
are even more dedicated now.
While the volunteers admit at times their
job cart be depressing - like when they have to
feed people who don't want to be fed, or after
a child is sick all over them - for the most part
they enjoy it.
it's the routine of it. You go in, do your
work and know you're doing something good,
and it adds to your day," said Amanda
Each of them do however have their
favorite parts of the job.
"1 like the older people," said Susy.
"You can take them for walks and they go
to the windows and look out. They tell you
things and you can tell them things. The little
kids are cute but they can't tell you things,
and experiences. The seniors confide in you
and I think they really look forward to us
coming m
Patricia too admitted enjoying her visits
with thc'elderiy patients at the hospital.
'They let you read their cards and tell you
how things Were when they were young. And
you can sit down and chat with them,' she
said.
All of the volunteers said they enjoyed the
finite they Spent with the children jI the
hospital.
Marianne Moylan said she someday Wants
to work to the pediatrics ward of a hospital.
Tracy Fortune, a newcomer to the program,
and Lori. said they too. felt a kieship with the
children.
"1 think the kids are very trusting with the
junior volunteers." said Mrs. Teatero.
"1 think a child can relate to a younger '!
person quicker in a hospital situation. The
children don't shy away from the kids. i think t
the basic difference for most is that they don't 1�`
present that antiseptic in white that nurses ��,- �`�
and doctors do. And i think the kids are very
affectionate towards the children, which \\\kkt
them feel good," she addedd. tarted In l ;�. " �� i\The hotter i
Seaforth in 19671unteerthro through theroefforts of the h `' telt
Hospital Auxiliary. A hands-on program it ; i
not only provides the volunteers with
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perfect opportunity to assess a myriad of
career opportunities, but it also provides an
opportunity for personal growth and develop-
ment since such service points up the need for
capability and the acceptance of responsibil-
ity.
Service to, hospital patients creates a
climate for understanding the voluntary
concept of hospitals, and interests and
concern for others by community service. i i i
The program is open to both males and N
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females. and anyone who wishes to be a voltinteer is expected to realize that it', ✓�
is a s serious
- - ainenitment to
is a serious and responsible
schedules and tasks assigned. He orshe trust
actepl the discipline of the hospital. The
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or many, depending
on ho green canlevo e to UNIOR"VOLUNTEER Patricia Schwarz hands hospital patient Tom Wall a glass of water.
on how much time a volunteer hasgive.J
Volunteers are trained on a one-to-one ,�okfng aftec fhe patients' needs on a more informal level Is one of file responsibilitiesnnaith photo
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