The Lucknow Sentinel, 1979-04-18, Page 1I SEE . .
By The Sentine
Lose tide
• The Lucknovv. Juveniles lost the
OMHA All Ontario Championship td
Godfrey on Saturday. They won the
first two games of the series and then
lost three straight. Details on page 12.
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Protect agriculture•
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An economic seminar in Goderich
• recently, proposes light non -Pollutant
industry in Huron County which will
not disrupt the agriculture industry
here.
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The Lucknow Midgets ride on the Lucknow Fire Department's ladder for the champions who held high their trophy as they were greeted. by
truck In a victory parade down main street on their arrival home from their fans who lined the main street and formed the parade in their
•[Sentinel Staff Photo]
.winning the All Ontario OMIIA ChanipiOnsliip In Aiarnior4 ears. • °.
SMiday.. Members of the. Luatiow. Concert Band turned.. out to play
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Sign up for school
Lucknow school held registration for.
the children who will start Kinder-
garten next fall. Clint Thomson met
his new teacher and acquainted ;.
bitriself with the toys M his Classroont.
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Special consideration
• A brief presented to Ontario's.
health, minister by a Wingham dele-
gation stresses .the special considera-
tion the ministry should give to
• Wingham hoipital in relation to the
proposed bed cuts in Ontario hospit-
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'ropose wholistic health cctre
• The Ontario health ministry will not
allow Wingham and District Hospital to
• , keep open 14 active treatment beds
ordered closed on April 1. A delegation
from Wingham which met with Health
Minister Dennis Timbrell in Toronto on
April 5. and 10, were told the 14 beds could
be designated chronic care beds but the
• ministry would not back down from their
decision that all Ontario hospitals must
adhere to a ratio of 3.5 beds per 1000
• population within the next -three years.
The' 'ministry did propose Wingham
. could be funded under wholistic health
care in a pilot project 'over the next five
years. At a special meeting of the board on
April 11, a motion was passed to approach
the 'minister to - maintain the status quo
prior to April 1 while the board looks into
establishing a Health Service,Organiza-
tion, making_ no further commitments
• without consultation with the board.
The hospital'executive director, Norm-
an Hayes explained a Health Service
• Organization (FISO) would be an umbrella
organization which would receive a global
budget from the ministry based on 'a per -
capita approach to the district served by
the organization. The budget would be
, based on some 31,000 people, including
everyone whether sick or well, in the area'
served by Wingham Hospital.
Every service would then be billed
against the organizition. Should the
hospital be the umbrella organization for
'the program. the doctors would bill the
hospital on a fee for services basis as they
now bill OH1P; Goderich hospital would bill
• Wingham hospital for the psychiatric • and an in-hotise coniputer system' because
program they provide in Wingham; the they would be billing for individual ihings.
Wingham hospital would bill public health The organization would also be Subject to
for services they provide for public health,' inspections by officials, from the mitilfstry
etewho could even suggest a patient would be
The mechanics of the system are subject better cared for in a chronic bed than an
• to negotiation and the board would have to active treatment bed.
make surelthere would be enough money in
the budget to:me•et their obligations, said
Hayes. '
He warned that the system would be
WANT CLARIFICATION
It must be clarified with the ministry
whether the budget for the organization
Would be based on Wingtifm as a 100 bed
very costly to administer. The hospital hospital or as an 86 ebed hospital as the
would require a full cost accounting system
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rowns Florida
A Huron Township man was drowned in
a boat accident while fishing on Lake
Hendry near Fort Meade, Florida on April
Robert Colin Campbell, Campbell
Farms, 4th concession, Huron Township,
• died when the boat'he and two friends were
in capsized. One of the other passengers in
the boat, Thomas J.- Wylder, 78, of Fort
• Meade also drowned.
The body of Mr. Campbell was recover-
ed on April 10 after a search by the Polk
• County Search and Recovery Team, the
'Florida Game and Fresh Water • Fish
Commission, Jim Schaill and members of
the Polk County Sheriff's Department. An
aircraft was used in the search and
numerous volunteers from the Fort Meade ,
area assisted.
Mr. WiltYlder's body was recovered
• shortly after the accident.
• • Mr. Campbell was the youngest son of
Don and Marj Campbell, HurZnrTownship.
He was assisting relatives during the
winter on their orange groves at
Fort
Meade at the time 'Of the accident.
Mr. Campbell attended Ripley Public
and High Schools and graduated last April
from Centralia Agricultural College.
Surviving besides his mother and father
are his sisters and brothers, Jean, Mrs. L.
Fannon of Sudbury; Sue, Mrs. J. Fennerof
Prince George, B.C.; Captain Malcolm S.
Campbell of Montreal; Howard of Toronto;
Donald A. Jr. of Toronto; Victoria, Mrs. A.
Portelli of Toronto and Patricia, (Tish),
Mrs, R. Delcourt of Whitby.
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