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Jolly said Ant C and »Ben, were- mit%
over statingthealtehokprehlem in this area
and that many people, do mit realize .o r, -t:
serious it is. Jollysaid the kidsseer'
Coming to the emergency department for
treatment at Wing -ham and DistrictRespite'
Who get drunk, take dad'ocarand run it'int+
l; tree are between the ages. of 14 and 15,. •
Jolly commented to ,,Sentinel following
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wed. oututo see the, meeting that when this ,„haappens, the
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alcohol abuse.....ex`p ct
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George tby,.left, and Stuart Call* Were honoured at a redraft* ,„ blnquet and dance
• sato, y evening* their felo v:lrernCf, ,p ist and,.pr+esen t, to recognize their iaervice es 1 +e
chief of the Lucknow District.Fire: Department for 30 Year. andwiecretary-trsuurer of the
department dor 31 pears :respectively. W6f by .received an ourary.. re, Mere helmet'bold
gas. � : barbequearbeque',and:ollye r swas. present With a ' ' moter and desk set.
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for 15 years iati s oktng' ig ettes causes
disease, people continue tO whole,
jolly said. . patents tolerance is unbeliev-
able' If there was :a child molester io the
mscho rli�•�_ eo�ple old 4 doing s mejthing,:;
about'`Btis menace to their 'children, but with
drugs people ignore it. The top 20 abused
drugs ` its North America are ,prescription
drugs; he• noted.
A teacher at Lucknow Central Public,
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board debate procedure
The Wingham and District Hospital board
spent some butte0 -at WS 'regular' meeting last
itek debating pro duces used during an
.camera ses's1on'Aprifi•5 at Which the' new.
building project was officially •approved.
Board member Archie Hill i uestioned the
:ialidity of the motion laeceptiug; the tender,
noting he had risen on a point;Of.order at the
time which had not been. properly' dealt:With.
Another tneriiber Robert . Pike, also
expressed conce,4rll over the way -disea ssibn
,had been cut off to force a vote 'en the
building project.
Administrator Normal Hayes, wlo acts as
ecretary to the beatd;:i told M. Hill he had
;Been out nof•orde>t to 'raising his point. of
Larder, and read a lengthy and obscure
passage front Rbbertts Rules of Order which
„tie ctaimec supported 'his .case.
Hill disagreed with the interpre on
wever, saKyng he still feels there as a
'breach of etisdiiit4ii the part of the board.
"it's up to the hoard what it wants to' do with'
it."
t,. No further action was taken, although
Hayes did agree torevise the minutes of that
fleeting .which several board members
Claimed did net. accurately. reflect' °'all the
iscussion. •
Board member John Shenk raised a •
Oestion about The reasons 'given for the
ids on the :building project having edme in
per cent above the e'atimates, after the
Oaard had been assured they probably would
e 20 per cent below.
When he asked the. question during the
n -camera meeting April $, he explained, he
vas told it was due to inflation and having
hissed the best bidding period last fall. As a
result, lie said, some board members felt
badly that they might have delayed the
project and caused additiotal ,expense.
However henoted that since that meeting
he had checked ' with two people in the
building industry, including one who had bid
on the project,, , and they laughed at that •
explanation, saying prices this spring are
probably the lowest they have been in three
years and bids would have been even higher
last fall.. -
'That's one point of view," Administrator
Norman Hayes told him. But he maintained
that the explanation given earlier by himself
and. the architect is also supported by the
Ministry of Health, bated on its experience
with tendering projects.
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In response to a request made at a previ-
ous board meeting, Hayes presented statist-
ics on the number of patients transferred to
other hospitals during the past six years: He
said the numbers varied, up and down over
the years, with more transfers for . some
types of problems and ,;fewer for, others.
;`it's very hard tersay we transferred more
people in one particular. area or why," he
said, concluding he had reviewed the figures
with the ' medical records department and
there did not appear' to be any clear trends.
However board member Robert Pike disa-
greed, suggesting the figures which showed
transfers of 79, 167, 174, 153. 206 and 218
patients per year between 1978.79• and 1983
did show a rising trend.
"It seems, the number of transfers is
increasing and the number of patients is
declining," indicating a higher percentage
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By Henry Hess .
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A committee of ;area residents has been
forrme'dto lead' the drive to raise money for a
new emergency and out patient wing at the
Wingham and District Hospital, Miry Vair
chairman of the hospital board, announced
last week. •
• The committee includes representatives
from each municipality represented on the
hospital board. Vair said the members were
chosen as a result of consultation with
municipal councillors or hospital board
members and the final • committee 'was
formed' under her authority as board
chairman:
The committee consists of Alex Graham
from Hawick; Bob Perry, Turnberry; Audrey
Cardiff, Morris; Doug Sholdice, Brussels;
Betty Cardiff, Grey; Clarence Hanna, Blyth
and East Wawanosh; Marion Zinn, West
Wawanosh and Ashfield; Frank MacKenzie,
Kinloss; Rod McDonagh, Lucknow; Tom
Miller, Wingham and eorge King, Tees -
water.
Don Thompson of Teeswater will chair the
finance of the fund raising committee, Vair
added.
Murray Cardiff, the Huron -Bruce MP,has
agreed to be the honorary chairman of the
drive, however the actual chairman had not
yet been selected. The committee was sche-
duled to hold its first meeting Tuesday night
and it was expected to choose a .chairman
fromwithin its ranks at that timer:
The committee will spearhead the drive to
raise money for the ' new building project,.
from individuals, groups and businesses in
the hospital community. A final target ^fbr
the fund raising drive has not been
announced, however ' figures ranging be-
tween $300,000 and $400,000 have been
quoted in discussion of the project.
The contract for the new wing has been
awarded- to Refflinghaus Construction of
Goderich at a cost of about $1.5 million, and •
construction is expected to start at once. The
price, which does not include furnishings or
equipment, was about $250,000 more than
the hospital board had expected to pay for
the building, however. the Refflinghaus bid
was the lowest of 13 received.
The Ontario Health Ministry has promised;
to contribute $250,000 toward the project,
with, an additional $93,750 to come from
Huron County. This leaves about. $1.15
million to be made up through the fund
raising campaign and from the hospitals's
own capital funds, which have been swelled
in recent , years by a series of budget
surpluses.
Auction sells farmhouse for 1OO.
Bruce County Federation of Agriculture
and'theCanadian Farm Survival Association
are concerned that the sale of farm land to
foreign interests will erode the municipalit-
ies' tax base in the county, following an
auction of farm buildings on the weekend
where a farm house was sold for $100.
The Survivalists set up a road block but
were unable to stop the auction which saw
the sale of farm buildings on land owned by
Canadian Agra 'nc. to reduce the amount of
taxes to be paid on the property.
Emile Hachey of the Farm Survival
Association said the environment suffers in a
communitywhen land is purchased by
foreign interests which then sell the farm
buildings to reduce their taxes. The` people
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whopurchase the land do not come to live on
the land and the township is left without
people to supports its schools and business-
es. The land is free of taxes which causes an
erosion of the municipality's tax base and
creates a larger burden to be carried by the
remainder of the taxpayers in the municipal-
ity.
Manfred Lesereit of Blyth, a representa-
tive of Canadian Agra Farm, said it is the
lack of government support , for farmers
which has ' led to the sale of the land to
foreign interests and it is the government
which is responsible for the chanes in farm
communities when land is sold to foreign
ownership.