The Lucknow Sentinel, 1979-04-25, Page 11 SEE......
By The Sentine
Wins trophy
The Allan .Maclntyre. Memorial Tro
phy to, the best Atom defenceman was
presented —to. Luck ow ' Atom Richard
MacDonald by. May Maclntyre at 'the'
Atom's family night. in Holyrood Hall.
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Election '79
Bob. McKinley, .Huron -Bruce Conserv
vative candidate in the upcoming .-elec ;.
tion, says the conservative objective is
to get Joe Clark elected prime minister
and the Heron -Bruce New Democratics
nominate Moira Couper bf Bayfield as •
their candidate. Local election coverage.
on pages 4 and 5.
The. last train
Acres of Memory reflects on a time.
when the railway still ran to Raintrees:
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Watercolour
workshop workshop
The Blyth Centre for the arts is
holding a watercolour workshop under
the direction of two lively graduates of
the Ontario College of Art on the
weekend' of May 4 - 6. The workshop
will consist ofides, demonstrations
and practical .applications of various
water colour methods. It will. be of
interest to beginners and advanced
painters.
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'Home and School Associations
Want pinball arcades regulated
The Ontario Federation of Home and
School Associations passed a resolution at
their 60th annual convention in Toronto,
petitioning the premier of .Ontario and the
appropriate ministries to pass legislation
allowing municipal ties to regulate pin ball.
establishments. The convention held at the
Hotel Triumph April 19 - 21 resolved that
pin ball establishments should be regu-
lated as to hours of operation, distance
from schools, number of persons allowed
on the premises at one time and age of
participants.
Linda Emmerton, Culross, who attended'
asa representative of the Teeswater Home'
and School Association said the delegates
at the convention were very concerned that
municipalities have no legislation . to back
them up in regulating pin ball establish-
ments.
Dr. Bette Stephenson, minister of
dducation, who spoke to the convention
told. the delegates she supports home and
school associations. She said they should
make themselves heard. Home and school
associations should, get out and show what
parents' rights are concerning the educa-
tion of their children and what home and
.school associations stand .for. She com-
mented they. should show they are more
than a "milk and cookie' group"..
Parents complain nobody listens to them
said the minister.
"Join a home and school association and
you will be heard effectively," she said.
Stephenson told the convention schools
belong to the taxpayers who •pay the taxes
and they have the right to expect good
education for their tax money. Parents and
taxpayershave the right to be in the
schools she said. They should .go into the
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The
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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 25, 1979
Single Copy 25c
The 14 beds Wingham and. District
Hospital was to close. April have been
• designated "floatingbeds by the Minist-
ry of Health and will remain open, accord-
ing . to. the •hospital's executive director,
Norman Hayes... Hayes met with ministry
officials in Torontoon Monday and told the
Sentinel Tuesday morning;, . the Hospital
will .keen its 100 beds and the money taken
out of the operating budget when the beds
were ordered closedwill be restored,
We have our beds for now; and we have
our money back for now," said Hayes.
The hospital board of governors decided
at a meeting April 11 - to •approach ' the
ministry to maintain the;; status quo at the
Boys
crook too
The boys at Lucknow Central Public School take a turn in the
Home Economics kitchen and learncooking is fun. ,Scott
McKim, left and Doug Clark prepared "pizza tarts" and
passed them out for parents and children to sample at the
annual Open House at the school on April 18. Parents and
grandparents came to the school to view the work on display
In the classrooms. The projects completed In the school's
night school courses were also exhibited.
[Sentinel"Staff Photo]
hospital . while they looked into' a Health
Service Organization, (H5O). Hayes said
Tuesday, the ministry's decision to allow
the -beds to'remain 'open and to restore the
money to the hospital budget is not
contingent on Wingham's establishing a
Health Service Organization .
The decision to, keep open' the 14 beds
now;does. not mean the 17 beds scheduled:
to close in October to meet ministry
guidelines will 'also remain open. Hayes
said the 14. beds was his prerequisite for
negotiating with the ministry over the
HSO:
The .floating status for the 14 beds'
willmean- the hospital cart use the beds as
either active treatment or chronic care
beds.
Ministry officials are coming to Wing-'
ham on Thursday to meet with the hospital
board of governors,physician and the
steering committee for wholistic care to
discuss a Health Service Organization as a•
pilot program in Wingharn over a five tyea.r.
period:
If the hospital were to act as the nucleus
of an HSO, the project would provide
funding to build an addition to the hospital
to update servicesincluding an intensive
care unit;` an operating glom and ou.tpat-
lents services. The second floor of the -
addition would .provide rental space, for
public health and other uses, seminar and
meeting rooms and offices.
, Hayes told •'a regular meeting of the
hospital's board of governors on April 19'.
he thinks Wingham hospital as a part of an `
HSO could begin to market their services
effectively.., Such a. centre he said would
attract' physicians to Wingham and pati
encs who would have involvement in their
own condition. Very few patients would be -
sent to referral centres becausethe equip-
ment and doctors would be in Wingham.
Special accident and surgery cases would
still.. be referred said Hayes.
It is not inconceivable that Wingham in
its central location in this area may become
a referral centreif it persues the HSO
scheme, he observed.
Boris Milosevic, member of the hospital
board, commented the board and its "
citizens action committee have achieved
the goal of keeping the beds openand
retaining hospital's funding as before.
"There are negotiations ahead and if we
tred carefully," said Milosevic, "we'll
achieve what we want."
"But for now, we have our hospital as it
stands," he added.
Mary Vair of the board said the 17 beds
which are to close in the fall .;an be worked
into the negotiations with the ministry
concerning the HSO.
"Everything is still negotiable," she
said. We're in a very good position."
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