The Citizen, 1995-05-31, Page 1Sports
Brussels Squirts
off to a 3 & 0
season start
Special
Stops Along the Way,
a 32 page guide
to Huron County
Vol. 11 No 22 Wednesday, May 31, 1995
610 + 40 GST 65(4
Area woman on Global show
Fear of heights
Ryan Fear gets two legs up as he takes a running long jump at the East Wawanosh Public
School's track and field event last Thursday. The top athletes from the school will be
competing this Thursday against Brussels, Grey, Howick, Turnberry and Wingham at the
North Huron Regional meet in Howick.
News
Local people
celebrate
milestones
See page 6 See page 11 See inside
Review
Madill librarian
reviews Findley's
latest book
See page 22
Citi Airplane crash zen • claims 2 victims
-rho North Huron
A Brussels businesswoman
Dorothy Cummings, owner of
Barmy Tech, will be featured this
Sunday, June 4 at 1:30 p.m. on
channel 6, cable 3, on Global
Television's Town & Country
Ontario.
Cummings is one of a growing
number of rural entrepreneurs
operating a business from her
home. Barmy Tech designs and
produces reusable cotton bags,
aprons, oven mitts and other
products for the wholesale market.
As the business grows, Barmy
Tech products travel well beyond
the RR 2, Brussels location. "We
sent 1,000 bags to a Niagara Falls
tourist association and they took
By Leanne Lavis
On Monday evening, an all-
candidates metling was held at
Central Huron Secondary School to
discuss health issues pertaining to
the Huron area.
The meeting began with open
outline statements on where the
candidates stood with regards to
these issues. Phil Cornish of the
Family Coalition Party was the first
speaker to express his ideas.
"In the health care area we
believe that there must be
accessibility to core level health
care and essential services. We
believe that there are some areas
that can be cut back. We believe
that there must be a core
fundamental program of health care
and beyond that we believe that
private care - to supplement that -
is the appropriate direction to go
for health care in Ontario," stated
Cornish.
Following Cornish's comments,
Kimble Ainslie of the Reform
Association of Ontario said that in
the health area they want a
complete "overhaul" of the
employer health acts program to
remove the harsh corporate tax on
small businesses to be replaced
with an equitable source reduction
system.
The New Democratic Party's
Paul Klopp, the incumbent, said
that in the past five years spending
.on health care had gone from $15
billion to a little over $17.8 billion
in this province. "We know we
have to change. We just want to
make sure that we are getting the
best possible deal for the consumer
groups. That's who we are really
working for," he said.
Liberal candidate John Jewitt
said that the greatest threat to
health care was the provincial debt
which he claimed was "out of
control". Jewitt also brought up the
issue concerning the "uniqueness"
of rural hospitals. "I am a firm
them to the States to hand out at a
travel trade show," says
Cummings.
She hasn't found operating a
business from a rural concession to
be a drawback. "I find it's great
having it at home," she says, "other
than the dust it creates!"
Cummings is proving that
location and retail exposure aren't
important to her business. She uses
a computer, with fax, modem and
answering machine, to stay in touch
with her customers. "All my
customers are now on-line. I can
just dial them up anytime or they
can reach me 24 hours a day."
Currently in its 13th season, the
award-winning Town & Country
believer that each of the Huron
County hospitals has an important
place in this changing system.
Ontario Liberals are keenly aware
of the difficulties facing rural areas
in providing emergency care," he
said.
He finished by saying that the
Liberal government would
immediately stop the
implementation of Bill 173 and
bring in legislation to allow
agencies such as Meals on Wheels
and the United Way to continue to
provide services.
Helen Johns of the Progressive
Conservative party made the final
statement. She noted there were
four crucial items that they would
not touch, which included health
care, education, law enforcement
and agriculture. She believes in the
Scott report and that health care
dollars need to be spent more
efficiently.
After the opening statements, the
candidates fielded questions from
the audience. A registered nurse
asked Cornish what he meant with
regards to continuing the
accessibility to a core level of
health care, but supplemented by
private care. The concern was that
this would involve user-fees.
"We can offer a program of
having some taxable services. The
person would pay a certain income
tax based on health care services
linked to their income and there are
other factors that would also enable
a return of revenues into the system
and, yet, not allow the continued
problems that health care system is
facing. There's no easy answer,"
said Cornish.
The next concern raised was with
regards to the social contract
ending in 1996. Jewitt said,
"Everything will return to the
collective bargaining process. It
will be up to the boards and
associations and all to negotiate
Continued on page 7
Ontario is produced by the Ontario
Ministry of Agriculture, Food and
Rural Affairs. The program is aired
on more than half the television
stations in the province.
Tragedy struck in North Huron
on May 25, when a vintage aircraft
piloted by veteran flyer John Hind-
marsh, 77, of RR2 Goderich, nose-
dived into a field in Colborne Twp.
A spokesperson of the Goderich
OPP says, two male occupants of
the 1943 Tiger Moth were killed
instantly when the plane suddenly
fell from the sky at 7:55 p.m.
Thursday evening.
The passenger was 16-year-old
Mark Mathers of Goderich.
The cause of the crash is still
unknown as the Department of
Transportation continues to investi-
gate.
Autopsies were conducted at
Stratford General Hospital.
Mathers was the grandson of
Gordon and Helen Blake of Brus-
sels and Jean and late Charles
Mathers of Bluevale.
Candidates discuss
health care issues