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• Fondly and frieridle attended an. open house and afternoon tea
on Sunday in honour of Helen: *Ward* Who .celebrated her
90th birthday 'June 24. Mtg.. MacMurchy; who farmed *lib
• • her bileband, John on the sixth concession of Soren
Township,has been -a resident of Lucknow sines their
retkethent. Mr. and Ore. 'MacMurchy celebrated their
• diamond wadding anniversary 1111979. Mrs. MacMurchy has •
faidly. of :three daughters, 14 granichilibin and five great
• grindiltildren. • (Sentinel Staff Photo]
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adfurchy celebrates birthday
An open house and afternoon tea was held in honour of
Helen'MacMurchY's 90th birthday on Sunday. June 27 at the •
Lucknow United Church.
Guests included, family, relatives and friends. Background
music was provided by Anne and Mary Farrell, Rev. Warren
McDougall, Pat Lowry and Gail Lowry throughout the after -
neon. .
Helen Farrell was born June 24, 1892, the youngest of a
' family of six, the children of S. H. Farrell and Margaret
Graham of the 10th concession of' Huron Township. ,
. She married John MacMurchy of the .sixth concession of
Huron Township on January 8, 1919 and they farmed on the
MacMurchy farm until . they retired to Lucknow. They
celebrated their diamond wedding anniversary in 1979.
Mrs. MacMurchy has a family of three daughters,
Margaret Ferguson, Lucknow,' Norma Humphrey of Point
Clark and Audrey Ferguson of Huron Township.;She.has 14
grandchildren and and five great grandchildren.
The following poem was written by her daughter, Audrey,
in honour of Mrs. MacMurchy's birthday,
A Tribute To Mother
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It was ninety years ago to -day
That little Helen made her way
Into the world, \with three big brothers,
Two little sisters and all the others.
TO a big brick 'house and an L shaped barn
And a loving family to keep her from harm.
The last little girl in a family of six
Meant lots of fanfare. with each new' trick.
This •blue-eyed baby with long black hair
Blossomed to womanhood with beauty rare.
Much in demand at the country dance,
* Hut Johnny thought he'd take a chance
TO win her friendship, he would try,
This lovely , lady made him sigh.
'To win her .friendship and share her joy
Was the secret whim of • many a boy.
But John was determined ,and ready to try
And. wouldn't give 'up till he beard her sigh
'Oh yes, Dear John you're the man for me
And later on came a family of three.
With two baby boys they were later blest,
But God took them home to their eternal rest.
.And then there was their chosen son
Who stayed with them until twenty-one.
Who at the tender age of eleven.
With both his parents long gone to heaven
• Sailed .across the ocean blue ,
To try his luck in a country. new.
• Ripley was his first abode
Then came Johnny up the road •
Finding Francis ready to cry
"Come home with me, your tears will ,dry."
His •first glimpse of Mother • he'll never forget,
Her love and her welcome stay with him yet.
Her sons-in-law too give her loud acclaim
Mother4plaw is a wonderful name.
Her grandchildren think there is no other
• Than warm hearted, true and kind grandmother.,
Allan looks forward to his daily phone call '
To check Grandma up, bin' she's right on the ball,
Great grandchildren too are a special delight,
With Grandma around, there'll be no .fight.
A wonderful Mother • she's hard to beat,
Cheering us up Is her special feat.
There is a warmness in her smile
With encouragement there, for the second mile.
You never catch her in a huff, \
But humming a tune, while' calling John's bluff.
The reason for her inner. glow •
• Is faith undaunted here below.
• An inspiration to, us all
When trials come - as trials do
Just talk with God,
He'll see you .through.
With John at her side.
• What a wonderful pair!
We praise the good Lord,
For a couple, so rare.•
"HAPPi 90T( H BIRTHDAY MOTHER DEAR
' . . AND GOD BLESS 'YOU'
rossrnan can t say when hospita e icit will be un e
Ontario ,health minister Larry 'Grossman
said in %Ingham June 24 he doesn't know
when Wingham and District Hospital will
• receive supplementary funding to cover the
hospital's $153,236 deficit in its 1981-82
fiscal year.
• • , • The hospital originally submitted a budget •
for $3.8 million to the ministry and has since
submitted two supplementary budgets to
• . Hinclude 'the increased costs for medical and
surgical supplies,drugs and. other supplies
and expenses and the wage and • salary
settlements aWarded to the hospital's regis-
tered nursing assistants, registered nurses,
suktervisors and para medical and -manage-
. *tient personnel. The hospital has been
waiting, for approval of supplementary.
funding since June 1981• .
Grossman said the area planning team is
negotiating with the hospital and only if they
,ton down the hospital's request and the
hospital chooses to appeal to the minister of
• health, will he become directly associated
with the Wingham hospital's deficit.
Hospital treasurer Gordon Baxter said in
• an interview later he expects the ministry
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Signal -Star Publishing Ltd. of Goderich
has purchased publishing, rights to
thre,e publications in Huron County. .The
Huron Expositor of Seaforth, the Brussels
Post and the Blyth Standard. SSP President
R. G. Shrier made the announcement this
week.
This will bring the number of community
weekly newspapers owned by SSP to eight.
They include The Lucknow Sentinel, The
Kincardine News, The codeitich Signal -Star,
The Clinton News Record and the Mitchell
• Advocate,
Other publications in, this part of Ontario
incude Focus, a bi-weekly newsmagazine,
• circulated in Huron and Perth counties and
Leisure Life, a tourist magazine which
• circulates throughout. southwestern Ontario
twice each year.
The. Bradford Paper Group, comprising
the Bradford Witness and York Regional
will notify the hospital Of their decision after
they have received the financial statements
from all the hospitals in the province. Baxter
said this is the time of the year when these
statements are submitted to the ministry for ,
the past fiscal year and he anticipates some
hospitals will have been over funded during •
the 1981-82 fiscal year.
When the ministry has looked over the
statements, they will probably fund some
hospital. deficits which meet their criteria
with the money turned back to the ministry
by hospitals which had surpluses last year.
Grossman was quick to point out in his
interview with the press following the,
opening ceremony for the new addition and.',
renovations at the hospital, that only
hospitals which have implemented cost
effective programs and have met ministry
• guidelines will have their deficits funded.
Grossman said hospitals In the province can-
not continue to operate more beds than the
ministry guidelines permit and then expect
• the ministry to recover 'their deficit.
Grossman•pointed out in his speech at the
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an newspapers
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Topic Newimagazing, is partially owned and
managed by. SSP. '
In addition to the customer printing opera-
• tion atGoderich SSP:owns an offset printing
plant in Guelph.
• Shrier stated that the economic reality of
confirming to publish the Blyth Standard and
Brussels Post independently was no longer
viable. He explained however, these two
papers will ' not lose their identity. The
Brussels Post will be amalgamated into the
Huron Eikfositor; The Blyth Standard into
the Clinton News Record. The Post and The
Standard will 6ontinue to serve their
communities at the usual high standards.
SSP vice-president J. A. Shrier has been
named publisher, of the Huron Expesitor.
Susan White, a, former owner of the
Expositor and daughter of publisher-ovvner
A. Y. MacLean, will remain as editor. Herb
Turkheim has been appointed advertising
manager for the Expositor.
opening ceremony that Wingham is an
example to the province of how cost effective
programs and shared service programs can
permit a hospital to stretch the shrinking
dollars available to health care in the
province. Grossmann said he attended the opening
ceremony to emphasize that Wingham hos-
pital is an example of how other hospitals in
the province should be conducting their
business. • • •
Grossman cotnmented chronic honie care
is a priority with his ministry because it is
better and cheaper health care than institu-
tional care, He. said Huron County ranks
• fairly high in this regard because it has a
dispitoportionAte number of senior citizens
compared to other areas of the province.
Grossman' said he has announced two new
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• chronic home care progranis in recent weeks
and his ministry is working toward expand-
ing the program throughout the province;
The minister stated he is not in favour of a
:user fee to defray: the province's health
costs. He: said he. would not entertain the
idea of user .fees while he is minister of
health. . •
The health minister said he met with the
Ontario Medical Association June 23 and he
_was reassured that the medicare system is
still inplace and that patients will have the
option of choosing a physician who has not
opted out of medicare. .Grossman said he
plans to have' a regulation passed by
• September 1 whereby all opted out physic-
• ians .• must give advance notice to
the patient that they w,iil be billed. extra for
services.
Unveilplaque...
During the official' opening and dedication
ceremonies, Grossman unveiled a plaque
which will hang in the new addition. He was
assisted by Dr, J. C. McKim, president of
the, hospital's medical staff Jack Kopas,
chairman of the hospital's board of ,gover- •
nors; Norman Hayes, the hospital's crew -
five director •and Hans Kuyvenhoven,
chairman of, the hospital board's property
committee. • ,•
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Greetings from the federal and provincial
governments were brought by Huron -Bruce
• MP Murray Cardiff and I.Iuron-Bruce MPP
Murray Elston. Eve Menich broughtgreet-
ings from the Ontario Hospital Association.
During the ceretrionY, Henry Battaglia of
Battaglia Construction presented key to
the , new addition and renovations to the
architect, Lloyd Kyles of Kyles, Kyles and
Garratt who Oresented the key to Hans
Kuyvenhoven of the beard's property com-
tnittee, In the absence of Mr, Battaglia, the.
hospital's treasurer Gordon Baxter made
the initial presentation of the key,
' • Distinguished guests who attended inclu-
ded the reeves of neighbouring municipal-
ities as well as the wardens of Huron and
Bruce Counties which participated' in the
• funding of the building project.
• Master of Ceremonies Jack Kopas ack-
nowledged the contributions made by these
municipalities and their continuing 'kupport
• of the hospital throughout its history.
Following the opening ceremonies, Mr,
• Grossman and the guests took a tout' of the
, hospital to see how the new ,addition and
renovations, are functioning:
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rice, fish, fresh fruits, and vegetables. Sugar
is not used except in coffee. Consequently
there is no heart disease. t
• The houses are small and most have about
four rooms. You sit on the floor to eat and
there is not much furniture.•
Their chief means of transportation is
walking or biking, The people work 12 to 16
hours a day at a very low wage. •
• Mrs. ClarenCe Ritchie graciously thanked
the speaker and presented her with a gilt.
Rev. McDougall closed the service with
the benediction.
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