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The Brussels Post, 1981-02-18, Page 3THE BRUSSELS POST, FEBRUARY 18, 1981 - , Local lady heads Alpha Insurance collapse some local affect Pat Watson of Brussels was named president of Alpha Huron for a third term, at the annual meeting held in Clinton Public School. Other officers are Sharon Warwick, Brussels, 1st vice president; Bruce Scott, OFA says its program OK Seaforth, 2nd vice president; Jane Bensette, 13rucefield, treasurer; Bessie Townshend, Porter Hill, lunch convenor; Phyllis Cox, Goderich, secretary. Ralph Watson showed slides taken of members of the group depicting the Alpha Huron has on file a usability of streets and public roster of dentists for people places for handicapped with special requirements, persons. These slides are to who have difficulty finding *be used at speaking dental services. engagments during IYDP (Inter-national Year of Disabled Persons) A break, enter and theft at McGavin's Farm Equipment in Walton recently netted the thieves $970 in cash and a number of cheques made payable to the company. A window was smashed in order to enter Window smashed, safe broken in Walton Alpha Huron will meet game at Wingham High Feb. 17 at the Watson home School, Sunday, Feb, 22 at 2 in Brussels, Final ar- p.m. rangelments will be made for Tickets are the Wheelchair Basketball available. the building and a safe was broken open. Wingham O.P.P. estimated damage to the safe and window at $1,100. The theft occured sometime in the early morning hours of February 6. still Faulty wiring may have . A caused Belgrave fire A fire which destroyed the Belgrave area faulty wiring, according to Wingham /homeo of Lottie Scott and her family a week Chief Dave Crothers. ago, is believed to have been caused by Sugar and spice By Bill Smiley $725,000 in permits issued last year for buildings in McKillop BY WILMA OKE McKillop Township issued building permits amounting to $725,000 in 1980, reported building inspector Eugene McAdam Monday. Included were permits for new buildings and renovations. Council approved applications for two drain loans amounting to $27,000. Passed for payment were road accounts amounting to $13,454.40 and general accounts amounting to $6,190.60. Gravel tenders will be advertised which are to be in for the next meeting on March 2. Council wants the gravel to be put on the roads early this year. A discussion was held on thei.oad budget which will be finalized at a later meeting. A letter from the ministry Neglect of animals charge laid near here Ruth Ann Poag of R.R. 2, Brussels has been charged with neglect of animals, after Wingham O.P.P. found five dead calves and eight dead pigs in the barn on Friday, February 13. As a result of the condition of the rest of 31 registered J.;rseys, the police had them removed to a livestock oper- ation in Hanover, but one cow has died since then. Wingham O.P.P report that feed was availabe, but that the cattle didn't have access to it and that the Many local people have been affected by the liquidation of the Co-operative Health Services Ltd., ordered into receivership Feb. 9. But the company's collapse isn't expected to jeopardize the Ontario Federation of Agriculture's (OFA) extended health insurance program. Co-operative Health Services was the company underwriting the OFA health plan, available to farmers and their families across the province. Altogether, more than 120,000 people in Ontario subscribed to various health insurance and dental plans underwritten by the Toronto- based company which went into receiver- ship. Co-operative Health Services Ltd. was liquidated by the Ministry of Consumer and Commercial Relations Department's superintendent of insurance. On Feb. 6, the Ontario Supreme Court judge ordered the company into receiver- ship. Co-operative Health Services Ltd. was liquidated by the Ministry of Consumer and Commercial Relations Department's superintendent of insurance. On Feb. 6, the Ontario Supreme Court judge ordered the company into receiver- ship after its licence to contract new business was suspended. Since the company went into receiver- ship, OFA officials have been negotiating with selected insurance companies to have the program underwritten again. Jack Hale, OFA general manager, said the OFA program didn't bring about the Co-op Health Services failure, and added the 3,500 OFA particpants in the plan make it desirable business for other insurance companies. Merle Gunby, the Ashfield Township farmer who serves on the OFA's insurance committee, said OFA is recommending that people who have claims under the Continued from page 2 think much of today's big schools. Of the ,",new permissiveness: "Anti-social behaviour today may be blamed on everything from sun spots to Grandpa's weakness for women and hard liquor, which all agree is a vast improvement on the old concept." A strapping at school and another at home for being strapped at school. His last school was graded "superior," because it taught to Grade 11. Equipment consisted of a tray of mineral specimens, the remains of a cheap chemistry set, and a leather strap, but managed to turn out a number of people who went into the professions. Bill Francis says; "The school's rather good record was due not only to excellent instruction, but also to drawing; from a radius of five miles around; those whose insurance plan up to and including Feb. 9. 1981, forward them to Co-Op Health Services. The company's address is 6043 Yonge Street, Willowdale. This ensures these people have tiled their claim with the receiver. Mr. Gunby said he'll be down to Toronto to an OFA board meeting later this week, and expects the insurance situation will be discussed in detail then. He said there is a pretty good chance OFA will re-negotiate the health coverage plan with another insurance company. Mr. Hale, the OFA general manager, said members are urged to continue signing up for the plan, and in that way. strengthen the OFA's position during negotiations. Don Kernigan, assistant administrator at Seaforth Community Hospital, said the hospital hasn't any official word on problems with the Co-operative Health Services Ltd. insurance. While the hospital doesn't carry any insurance under the plan, he said people in the area might be affected if they have personal health insurnace with the company. Mr. Kernigan said he expects there will be sonic advice coming from the Ontario Hospital Association in the near future. He said they'll be dealing with the situation and advising hospitals what steps to take. Companies and institutions insured through Co-operative Health Services are now "all scrambling madly to get re- placement coverage, preferably backdated to Feb. 1, according to a spokesman for the Clarkson Co. Ltd. in Toronto, the firm handling liquidation procedures. Also, charges may be laid against the health insurance company by the Metro police fund squad. Fire eyes were fixed on distant goals and whose legs were equal to hoofing it back and forth. There was nothing wrong with my legs and 1 lived nearby. "Just a' little light upstairs, they said; a handicap I've learned to live with. "Now, some seventy years later and a little wiser, I have become just an old fellow round whom the wind blows in the laugh of the loon and the caw of the crows and the wind whistles by so dreary and cold, in chilling disdain of ways that are old. But this feckless old fellow just putters around'and heeds not the wind nor its desolate sound. Cares not a whit for what the winds say; just listens for echoes of things far away." I think that is wise and honest and real, May I feel the same. I'll be in touch, Bill Francis , You're a literate man with some brains in your head. An unusual phenomenon. At Your Service... Put your order in t newspaper, and our staf will serve up your message just the way you want! Newspaper adver- tising lets you tell it in 1001 different ways, and we'll kelp you do it effectively! Brussels Post 887-6641 of natural resources reported the deer hunting season last fall was successful with 103 deer killed. The report said that 885 licences were issued with 728 hunters using them in Huron County and 70 per cent of these hunters were residents of Huron. The meeting was adjourned at 5:00 p.m. water was frozen. Police fed Ruth Ann Poag is to some pigs that were left in appear in Wingham Provinc- the barn. ial Court March 11. WEDDING INVITATIONS THE HURON EXPOSITOR PHONE 527-0240 — SEAFORTH II 11.1.,9P1 zYr~a~/N'^iuH~MNk'rvnAht~SiL