HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1990-04-25, Page 1(Thituaries ,, A5
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Serving the communities
and areas of Seafortli,
Brussels, Dublin, Hensall
and Walton
Seaforth, Ontario
Two retire from clinic
BY SUSAN OXFORD
Two long time employees of the Seaforth
Medical clinic are retiring, taking with
them many memories. Lil Sallows and
Corrie Snowden, clinic receptionists, had a
dinner in their honour April 16 attended by
the people they had worked so closely
with. The retirees have observed many
changes at the clini
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Lil Sallows began working at the clinic
of Drs. Brady and McMaster at its old
location on Goderich Street 26 years ago.
Her job as receptionist involved a "little of
everything."
"The doctors used to make housecalls,"
Lil recalled. "They still will for someone
who is much older or infirm. We really
haven't had that many doctors come
through Seaforth. They seem to stick
around for a while."
"The clinic used to perform small opera-
tions now done in the hospital. We had a
room upstairs where doctors would remove
tonsils, lance boils and, before I worked
there° extract teeth. Now doctors see more
people in the hospital."
"People seem healthier now. Maybe they
are doctoring themselves more. However,
maybe doctors got busier when OHIP was
formed."
"It seems more people see doctors when
they shouldn't," Lil explained. "It's usually
the ones who are really sick that won't
come in. When
doctor
call an ambulance to bring them tohe'll
hospital. Maybe he'll make a bousecall."
Lil liked the idea of OHIP issuing plan
users a statement of costs of services us-
ed by the patient. She said the plan may
50 cents a copy
"open patients eyes to the costs incurred
by OHIP."
When she first worked at the clinic Dr.
Brapaydthe�full pr�icegeofseeltvic-es, couldn't aa
recall that usually these people would give
the doctor some food or a chicken in
return for his services. The wealthier were
charged frill price and never complained.
"Of course, this was all private and just
between the doctor and patient."
Lil doesn't have any concrete plaits for
retirement. "I'm holidaying right now. It's
all in the air what I'll do. °Corrie Sowden has some '
or her
retireme to She will be visitingg wilans th her
children more. When she isn't out improv-
ing her golfing she might work on the quilt
she started 10 years ago.
Corrie began working at the clinic 19
years ago as a receptionist. Of all the. doe -
tors there have been in Seaforth she has
no favourites because "they all were nice."
"1 really like this new clinic. It's bigger
and brighter and the filing system is bet-
ter," said Corrie. "We needed a new clinic
because the other one was so old and dark.
It was awfully cramped."
Patients are just the same and "as he -
patient as ever" she joked. Corrie said the
patients really are nice and she's pleased
that she made so many frien. ° at the
clinic. She saw changes through the years,
including clinic hours change and Saturday
morning hours omitted and less housecalls
being made. She noticed the clinic and
hospital ve became more busy.
"I've enjoyed working at the clinic,"
add Conde. "I'll miss everyone here, but
t is nice to go home."
Mun icipalitiesfeelmg squeeze s n ee. e : of
..Autab�l�e
The Ausable-Bayfield Conservation
Authority is pleading no control over the
issue, but area municipalities are feeling
the crunch of increased levies imposed by
the Authority to cover the 1990 budget.
General manager/Secretary-treasurer
Tom Prout appeared before Tuckersmith
Council last week on behalf of the Ausable-
Bayfield Conservation Authority to go over
the organization's budgeting procedures.
The Authority's levy on Tuckersmith was
upped by 22% from their 1989 levy, but a
9% increase in the township's assessment
base reduced the actual levy increase to
13%. The 1990 total levy works out to
$14,378 or approximately five dollars per
capita. Ausable-Bayfield's total general
levy for 1990 is $305,739.
Using figures from the past 18. years,
Mr. Prout in,'cated the amount of expen-
ditures placed into various Conservation
Authority projects. Since 1946, over $2.2
million has been funneled into special
Benefitting Projects for the participating
municipalities, while major capital projects
- ie, engineering studies, dam maintenance,
and reforestation and erosion control ef-
forts - have totalled $7.5 million. An addi-
tional $1.2 million has gone towards conser-
vation areas development. Total expen-
ditures for the past 18 years works out to
slightly less than $11 million, and Mr. Pro-
ut fully expects "that by the end of 1990,
it will exceed $11 million."
This figure, he added, does not include
auxiliary expenses such as special employ-
ment projects, maintenance work and staff
expenditures.
Citing these figures, Mr. Prout reasoned
that over the long term, the genera: r levy
has exorbitant
rate, and has averaged ot been increasing
uttooa14. % of the
total budget over the 18 years.
Only twice previously has there been a
major hike in the levy rates. In 1977, the
expense of mapping the watershed at a
scale of 1:5,000 was a major contributing
factor in the fee hike, and in 1988 lower
Provincial grants, increased insurance
premiums and the addition of the Shoreline
•
Mandate played a role in the levy
our budget process," he explained.
"We didn't like increasing 'bine levy as
much as we did this year because we
know it causes concerns," he added, main-
taining that the Authority has noo control
over the formula used to calculate..the in-
dividual levies, or increases in any given
municipality's assessment.
Deputy -Reeve Bill Carnochan pointed to
a surveys and studies allocation in the
Authority's 1990 budget that leapt from ap-
proximately $20k in 1989 to over $100,000.
"We have absolutely, and I mean ab -
increase. solutely, no control over that," Mr. Prout
Defending the 1990 levy hike, Mr. Prout argued, adding that the province's pro -
re
came armed with a list of factors that con- aedunts for allocating grante monies
tributed to the fee increase, most notablyand luck -of -the -draw
kto little more than file shuffling
the implementation of Pay Equity anand a luc'dt know from dei one toy.
Employer Health Tax payments. Also cited We don't toget year to the
pro -
were ck of funding from the Province next if we're going get money for a loss of revenue from the sale of cottage jeCar
lots, loss of Farm Tax Rebate, stricter implementing questioned when the necessity were
government environmental legislation, and noreadily available, lad e, and suggested that
discontinued or reduced grants from bodies the Authority carry them over a year or
such as O.M.A.F and the Ministry of the
Environment. two rather than upping the budget.
The Authority started their budgetary "WE have to drop projects in the
process in June for 1990, and capital works township when we're going that go over
applications were submitted to the Pro- bbudget. .wens're wondering if kind e
vince in July. Finalization of the budget authordget philosophy can't be adopted by the
was underway by January and most pro- aaAllthough thties," he percentageened.
grams were committed and underway lasto of the levy coin_
month. Mr. Prout stressed that $1.1 million pared a the budget levyrs not increased,going
n
has already been shaved off of the original rcontinued, andde keeps going up do
budget of $3.3 million. municipalities." dollars, that puts a real crunch on
"The point here is that to reduce our murucipalities.°°
Mr. Prout responded that any further
budget now would be difficult because of cutbacks on the Ausable-Bayfield budget,
th j swings as then winter wgather.
n called than out, to the skies dui
ass Efllott photo.
Bciyfield levies
or would
ih�thutd sht ira the utdown surrendering of projects
authorities in Ontario are currently
authorities. undergoing a major review process span-
eethewven rrof �nuc"That may be a reality," he admitted. review, wpast
could recommend such
Councillor Rowena Wallace, Tuckersmith s
Township's representative on the ABCA
oard, agreed.
"We've already cut $1.1 million, and the
next step would be eliminating some of the
non -revenue producing conservation
authorities...some people think that may be
the best thing to do," Councillor Wallace
remarked after the meeting.
However, she added, "..to the people
who use the conservation authorities,
they're an important part of the communi-
ty.„
s different
Mr. Prout Trot d that the priorities."
conservation
Weeping changes as amalgamations, flat
grant rates and the closure of O.M.A.F
and Ministry of Natural Resources offices
at the county and district level, is expected
to structurush e and hoperations byes in e January authorities',
1992.
In the meantime, he assured the Coun-
cil, the Ausable-Bayfield board will be go-
ing over correspondence received by other
municipalities regarding the 1990 levy
rates.
Next year, we certainly don't anticipate
an increase like this one," he told Council.
"We didn't expect this increase this year."
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PUCKER UP FOR PIGGY - Sdiiforth High teacher Mr. Polss
lays a sloppy one on a piglet held by Theresa Campbell. The
'Kiss the Plg' contest, sponsored by the Students Against Im-
paired Driving at the high school, had students pay 60 cents
for a ballot to have the teacher of their choice kiss the very
confused piglet on Tuesday morning. Mr. Poles tied with Ms.
Burton tor tho honours. The money raised will go towards the
purchase of refreshments for thestudent fennel. Elliott Photo,
PEPPERONI DETAIL - Cathy Dalrynple
was stuck with the dubious honour of
slapping the pepperoni on the pizzas
last week when Grade 12 and 13
students spent the afternoon In the pie
making business. Elliott photo.
Dublin boy reported stable
was
reported in borstable condition at bSeaforth
Community Hospital after a pedlstrlan-
car collison in front of St. Patrick's
seperate school at 3:40 p.m., April 17.
Craig Leslie of Dublin had just emerg-
ed from a bus on school property when
he collided with a car driven by Joseph
Feeney, 65, of RR 2, Dublin.
The Sebringville police reported that no
charges were laid as a result of the
mishap.