HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 2016-04-06, Page 1616 Lucknow Sentinel • Wednesday, April 6, 2016
One per cent hospital budget increase helps with balance Ripley Wolves
lose WOAA title
Don Crosby
For Postmedia
The one per cent increase
in hospital budgets con-
tained in the provincial gov-
ernment's recent budget is
hardly a windfall said Paul
Rosebush, President and
CEO of the South Bruce Grey
Health Centre.
On the hospital's $30 mil-
lion budget on per cent
doesn't even offset
inflation.
"But it does help us man-
age some of those costs,"
said Rosebush during a
March 23 hospital board
meeting in Durham. "We still
always have to find efficien-
cies every year which means
finding better use of staff
and ways to reduce waste
across the organization."
The corporation will end
this fiscal year with a bal-
anced budget and likely a
small surplus; the exact
amount won't be known
until the auditor completes
his report.
Plans are to submit a bal-
anced budget for the 2016-
17 fiscal year as well.
"We've been advised that
nine hospitals across the
South West Local Health
Integration Network are
going to finish this year in
deficit and 20-30 hospitals
across Ontario are going to
be submitting deficit budg-
ets for next year," said
Rosebush, who is proud of
the board's commitment to
a balanced budget next
year without cuts in
service.
The hospital network con-
tinues to trim costs and still
maintain services at all four
sites.
"Sustainability is our num-
ber one goal," he said.
An end to
another season
Darryl Coote/Reporter
The ice was pulled out last week from
the Lucknow arena ending another
season of hockey and skating.
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The Ripley Wolves have
lost the WOAA SR Hockey
'A' title.
On Saturday, April 2,
2016, The Tillsonburg
Thunder beat the Wolves
4-3 at home in Ripley to
take the series 4-1.
It was a high scoring final,
though the Wolves would be
on the short side of that
numeric. Tillsonburg
notched a total 23 goals over
the five games to Ripley's 15.
Game 1 set a negative tone
for the series as Tillsonburg
won at home 7-1.
Game 2 was Ripley's sole
win of the series, with them
taking the 'W' 6-3 in front of
a home crowd.
Game 3 would be a much
closer contest requiring over-
time to settle the matter, how-
ever it would be the Wolves
who would go down in the
series with a 2-1 loss here.
Game 4 had the writing on
the wall for Ripley as they
would fall even deeper
behind Tillsonburg and they
would do so by losing 7-4.
Game 5 on Saturday at
home would crown Tillson-
burg the victors.
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Ripley Huron Community Centre
17 Queen Street
Ripley, ON
Thursday, April 14, 2016
1 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Friday, April 15, 2016
9 a.m. to 3 p.m.