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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1990-04-25, Page 1(Thituaries ,, A5 Sports. A112.A14 Letters A2, A4 Legion A4 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 • 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." play chef with 600 aa*�mis past Thursday nfte t.n oils, Gly a bet t t`at t S. D. , �g for a4 a►i In laza business.lri toy lot want to look a pizza lit to face lit ria come: ease abounded a's s 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.