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Clinton News-Record, 1977-04-21, Page 1" 0 55 31 32 35 47 ' Ruin 40' 58 70 7..7 80 81 82 19 29 31 49 50 53 42 •o s itl given gov 't reprieve ^� Clinton Hospital may be getting a permanent reprieve, in what is viewed as a major reversal in Provincial Government policy, Health Minthor Dennis Timbrell announced Tuesday. Clinton, along with hospitals in Durham, Chesley, and Doctor's Hospital in Toronto will not be closed by the governrnent after all, following a year- |ong struggle by the hospitals to stay Oen. � The four hospitals had been ordered to close in February of 1076. but through a series of court battles, have all remained open. Former Health Minister Frank Miller had visited Clinton in February 1976 and ordered the hospital closed, but a strong protest was mounted by the community and a Court battle ensued with the Divisional Court of Ontario ruling last May that the government couldn't legally close hospitals with orders in v* council. The government has since appealed the decision and another hearing with the Supreme Court is scheduled to start this coming May 2. Mr. Timbrell said that even though the hospitals won't be c\oaod, the govurnmuntadUintendatopruceod-with 6 the court battle to win the right to close hospitals, if they wish. The announced reprieve was made in the legislature, but Mr. Trimbrell said the ministry would be conducting bed studies in Huron and Perth Counties, so local officials aren't sure they're completely off the hook yet. Reaction in Clinton Wednesday morning to the announcement was one of pleasure and happiness. Beecher Menzies', chairman of the mnClinton Public Hospital board, said he was "very pleased and exhilarated to to, receive the news"The floor of the Clinton arena is in "I'm sure the reaction of the com- worse shape this year than last, and may munity (to the closing) had a significant need replacing before ice can be put. n influence in reversing the government's again, the Clinton recreation committe �� xtand.^Kxr. Kxonziea suid of the atrung proteat muuntod in C\intun by tbe cihzcna und the 8uve Uur Boep|to\ AcdonCononniuee. |Juug\ou Covenory. C|intun hnopita} udministrator. yaid ho auepocusd yor a \ong dmc thut tbe govorn,nent waa tryinA to bock down. ospecoUy whmn dhny�emovod Frank D8U|er Yrom the ministry. �� �� ��\�� age Lovc8prinBaEtcrnu|! At \cust |t seemx tbat waywben two rooidento uY Buronview cn �nd bve ond go oo har ao uo Aet nnurricdindhoirwaningyeary. For che Yirat t|me in z0 yeara. a morriogo woy perfor,ned laot Soturduy right in Burnnview. lt wue thc aeound ,norriage oY a coun\e Yrorn d`e hmo. Bowover the Yirst one *aon't perforo`cdat dho hun`obutinthpTownBuU iu C|inton.John S. y�cCuUun. 85. noarried Vehnd n�cFoUs *ho is 7S aYter meodngoauhothoratBuronview. They werc unitcd by Rev. Barn|d 8neU. {Ixeter. a |iYo'\nnQ Crindny D�r. 0�oCuUurny. Rov. 8neU. .who wusbnrnindhe Londeoboro areu. im un omsiatant minimtor in Exptpr.`'l've known Johna\hmy\iYoondu,nvoryheppy yurhino ondVe\ma. ^Vel,no wue o padsh|oner otdza church whore l preach. yur muny ycure. l know thcm bnch vory vveU.^ Thebridewaa8ivenuwuybyher aun VViU|am. Ber duughter. ��ra. Donnu pu�erson. wao her o�tcndunt. Froaer NeobofStro�ord. ures|dento[BuronvinwmnduQood Yriend o[d`e grnom. nau tbebeut mun. x recepdon wao be\d at BuronviewjbUowin8tbe,narriu8p ut vvhich 50 8ueota aupnded. ��unt were Ya,ni\y und Yriendy oy tbe couple. ^vvm are very exoitd ubout this.''comnnentcd 'Cheater Ar ufBuronviu*. ^lt�'io d`c Yiryt wodding oy reyidentoainceI havcbponbern. lt ia a|so thu �rat porYurmed rightin thehonne.^ n�ony oC d`e Buronview otavy ouondedtbeweddinA. ^^Tbe su/y[ is very opdnuisdc.^ Cuventzy oaid. ^m\tbougb ,nooakobaoo'c roaUybeonaprob)enn.'' »t u premo conforence in Torootn. Bea\d` &�iniuuyr TioobroU conYirnoed Coventry`s mumpiciono when be oaid: `^Thorearonotnnw.norhavetberobeen uny nrdera insued by nne ([orolnsingm) hunginguverdnoaohndpita|m.''C\inton ��ayor Baro\d Lobb xuid b* wuo ''very p|uuood dzot tbey (tho guve'nment) have changed t6elr mindy.''^l d`ink tbe bad wiotpr omoyhe bad something todo,vid` it.''Lobb said. ^l dnn't tb(nk che 'U hotbor ue ageiu un!nao we gnt out uY \ine (un uperutiu0 expenyeu).''Lobb udded. ''Vve went alung wid` tbomo und out our ox»ennes.''hp suid. 7lrnbroU aoid the ent wuu\d cqndnue tn pursue the court cane nn hoypitu| clooiogs ''tooett)etbe quemtiony uY princip\e concerning tbe abUity ofthe miniatry to doee yaciUtieu it connut finance." ��.'''l°ng fence Qmiogs@2,000l�em/K�nrlzouogrmot,dmeK%bmtuoLawoBomling Club hascoode escenmiveimmprovmxoeotmtotbeirB�ery8treetgreeoo.��erobermereu6edayeocm \amt 8atonday io a ^^bme,', Thmy slonpnormd soevvpatto, 800gbt bowvlm, atowl hed,andalavvnromwver.(��e`mm'Reuwrd phnto) ��' �y '��l�������� �N�N�����N0^�����������r �~�o]�� J�����y�x�������� �������� ������w��������� ������ ����� �������� �� ���� �����J��� CUntun`s propoyed tonn|s onu�e. u ywimmin0 pou). new aoytboUdiu,nundn. u ncw orono y)uor und uquipmpnt Yor mnst yports teoms in uzwn aro aUgib\e �y���]� ����� ����m� ������r ���������� r����laci���. ��. ��` �� cautioitsongetting sping work on land done • "Once bitten, twice ohy." seems to be the advice being used this spring by Huron County Farmers. Despite ideal planting weather in the last two weeks, Huron farmers are not rushing out onto the land to get their • Su � (ioI,,,,,, AL By Jim Fitzgerald It seems almost an unwritten rule now, but every time the Clinton Volunteer Fire Department has their annual dance, they have a fire call early the next morning. And last Sunday was no exception, as the boys in "rod" were called out to a small roof fireat l39High Streat. first thing. We can't figure out, dnough, which was redder, their eyes or the truck. • The brigade was also out on a minor motorcyclefire week ago, on Walker Street and were out watering a grass fire in Goderich Township last Tuesday afternoon. +++ \KeU all have red eyes this wepkond, as baylight Saving Time starts on Sunday morning at 2 a.m. so don't forget to turn your clocks ahead one hour, and get up an hour earlier. fff Spring or eunnnoer, which ever term you wish, is finaily here, as the prize Iist for the Spring Fair was released this week. Copies are available from thpug^ office, or give Bob Gibbings a calI. + ++ -WnU, we did it, despite the terrible winter when we thought spring would never onmno, the garden went in last weehond, tying a record for earliness set last year. As of preomdrne, many of the vegetables were already poking their • heads through dn ' d. The Horticultural Society too, has spring u"ouuhte in mu|nd, as next Wed- nesday night April 27 at 8 p.m. they will feature a speaker from the firm of Ben Ve\dhuia, a florist from Hamilton. Location: the Anglican Parish Hall. + ++ w* 0 "r� Otte old -sage we know in town quipped the other day after the "language lesson" by Bobby Clark on Sunday night's telecast of the Leaf -Flyer game, that the. CBC should flash a "restricted" sign on the screen before the game starts! f ff But there's sure no restriction on who can enter the Kinsmen's Canoe Race this Qooduy, beginning at ll a.m. at Auburn. The more the merrier, the Klnsmen say, and It's all for a good cause. Cystic Fibrosis. spring seeding done. According to Mike Miller, associate Agricultural representative in Burnn, farmers this year are a little leary of getting their crops in, after being burned last year. Last year, near perfect conditions also prevailed in rnid'April, only to be followed by a snowstorm and cold weather in the last part of the month, that hurt the early seeded crops. "There are- some spring grains and cunning'peoain," said Mr. &8iUer."but the farmers don't seem `mzbo in any big hurrytogotuntha|und." The winter wheat is also coming through in fair nbmpe, despite going in late in a record cold fall. Like last year, though, the fruit far- mers aren't too happy with the warm weather, as it could bring a repeat of last year when the trees were lured into an early b\naaorn, only to be hit by a late - April frost. ate'Apri|yrust. Mr. Miller said he expects the acreage of the various crops to be about the same as last year, because of fairly stable prices. learned last Thursday night. Arena manager Clarence Neilans said that the, ice making machinery has been losing coo\ont, and he suspects it is cracksseeping oi3t4hyough h pipes where the floor has heaved. Mr. Neilans said the -t ooling system had lost a ton of calcium chloride over the season. The chloride is mixed with water and then cooled and pumped through the pipes embedded in the concrete. Two years ago, an engineer's report said it would cost $100.000 to tear up the old Oour, insulate the bottom, and install new pipes and pour a new floor. The new floor would have to set a month before ice could be made, and the rec committee will wait on town council before making a move. The cost of the new floor would be funded by a $25.000 Community Centres Act grant, a $25,000 Wintario grunt, with another $25.000 from public donadonu, and the remaining $25.000 coming from the taxpayers. The arena board already has a $15.000 legacy left to them this year by the late A. Luurietokluhoun. so would only have to raise $10,000 from donations. "It would be a crime to put ice into the arena this fall (on the old floor) and then lose it in the middle of.the winter." rec chairman Ross Livermore said. "There's sure a lot of cracks in it (the floor)," member Dennis Jewitt said. Pool heater In other buoineao, the rec committee approved a suggestion from the Clinton Kinettes that the club be allowed to '� A.•�x, =~^�" donate a $5,000 heater to warm the water f the town's outdoor swimming pool. Mrs. Arnold Riley was presentatd,e rheeting and said that the 1,000,000 BTU heafer'WoUld be portable ehough that if a new pool is built in the future, the heater could belsed again. The rec committee also agreed to rent the arena floor to the Kinsmen each Sunday during the summer for $75 a day, and charge the service club $100 a week to clean up the grounds after the races. The rec committee also °agreed to a suggestion from the Lions club who want to erect a picnic pavilion in the park, using some 'materials from the former covered mutuel area, now torn down. The Lions also indicated interest in herping fund erection of 'a new •tractor room for the arena. The committee won't give back the ':1.000. it was also decided, to the Goderich Lions Club, who had booked the Clinton arena for `young Canada Week, in case their arena wasn't ready. The Goderich rink was finished in time for the week, and Dennis Jewitt felt Clinton should give the money back. forgrants, and many don't know it. ' That was the consensus of opinion at last Thursday night's meeting of the Clinton Recreation commiueo, when a spokesman from the ministry of culture and recreation told the committee about yarious grants available to the town. Al Sincluir, a consultant with the Hanover office of the ministry of culture and rocreutiun, gave the committee an enlightening three-hour talk on grants available to the town, mostly in the recreation area. BusicuUy, he said there were three- types ,reetypea of recreation grants avo(kable,to the town, the Community Centres Act grant. which covers 25 percent or up to 5.000 of a project a \iNinturio capital gruht which provided up to one-third of the cost of a project after all other grants have been deducted and vvintaridnon- capital grnnts, which cover equipment for teams and sports ranging from ar- chery ,chery to tennis, and nearly every sport in between. Mr. Sinu\gir said that under the community centrcs grant act. the arena. the grandstand, the swimming pool, multi use sports [ie\da, and the tennis -courts are each treated separately. and each are eligible for up to a $75`000 grunt. - or /5 percent of the total, whichcver is less. Wintario would also cover another one-third of each project after all other grants have been deducted, On each project, however, 25 percent of the total rnust be from non -tax dollars. Along with the recreation committee members, several members were present' from the minor soccer and hockey associations to hear of the non- cupito| Wintario grants covering some equipment for various sports. Wintario will pay up to half the cost of various equipment such as goal nets, hc\moty, pucko, and edcko, if the yundo, are matched by the club or Ieague. Mr. Sinclair wurned, however, that some co-ordinating effort should be tlsaiue some of the money the6�seives'to make the players realize the value of their equipment, anc he said a co-ordinating effort should be made when buying the equipment so that there is no duplicati9n of equipment. "There should be someone in the community wbb is the central co- ordinator when applying for the grants," o'ordinutorwhcnapplyingYorthogrontm.'/ Mr.Sinc|uirnoid. He also wurned, hpwevpr, that the comrnunity s1ould not get too dependent on grants. because many of them are "political- and could disappear tomorrow. He said the town should.alsoundertake a leadership training program for teenagers, to ensure that the town has plenty of well-trained and eager youngsters to carry on non-paying programs in town, Alt grants will be co-ordinated through the rec committee, Newspaper ���������J�seeks ��������filming Huron County weekly newspapers will make back copies of their papers availab,le to the County of Huron so that they can be microfi\rned, county clerk - treasurer Bill Hanly was assured when " 'm on five V� �erThe highway between Clinton and Goderich was nearlyblocked last Priday when Harvey Carter, along with threepolice cruisers,*a department of highways vehicles, movedtin over -sized building to Goderich. The former ludge's • ` stand at the Clinton Raceway was lowered onto wheels and moved to Goderich where it will see a similar . Goderich paid $500 for the structure. (News -Record photo) he attended the annual meeting of the Bluewater Regional Newspaper Net- - work (BRNN) last Thursday inClinton. Mr. Hanly told BRNN members that the county's history project has an in- dex, n' dox.bayoduninyorrnudonobtainpdYrorn Huron week '. � ' on and would like to make ~"atrncoackcopiouon which the index is based are available to the public. Details will be worked out with County Council and with Huron weeklies. Member papers of the BRNN, in- cluding the Blyth Standard, Brussels Post, Clinton Newu'Record, Exeter Times Advocate, Goderich Signal -Star, Listowel Banner, Seaforth Huron Excrositor, Wingham Advance -Times and Zurich Citizens News, re-elected Bill Botten, editor of the Exeter paper, as president and Howard Abbon, general manager of'the Clinton News -Record, as secretary -treasurer. The 8\ueweter Necvvork, which provides ce u e for member papers of county counc(l, school bourdu. Federation of Agriculture and other county wide nnestingn, is planning a presentation on the weekly press in Huron to County Council in the fall. A series of seminars on photography, advertising and freedom of information will be held by the network for the staff oymember papers. schedule Grandstand on "� another work bee needed Beautiful warm, summer like weather is helping with construction on Clinton's new grondotund, and so far, work is right on schedule CaIe Doucette and Ger-Rock Forming poured the back footing and retaining wall on the weekend, and on Tuesday hd haif the cement columns in place. The contractors hope that the weather holds so thecan complete the footings by the end of this week, in preparation for the erection of steel, which begins on May 3. The contraotorm, along with the Fair toard and the 1Cinsmen, hope to have th seating area of the grandt d readiby the opening of the Spring Fair on Jrnt 3, with final completion by the start of the racing season on June 26. "There's still a lot of vol'unteer labor needed yet.' said Kinsmen president Paul Kerrigan, "so to get the hub rail • and the grandstand seats 'ready tor the Fair, we're planning on having several mnoreworkheom." Mr. Kerrigan said that starting next Friday, April 29, work bees will b'e held each night and on Saturdays to try and paint the seats and hub rail ahead of installation. Be said that in order to organize the program efficientlv�lunteers (male or female) should phone the town hall, leave their name and pone number; and the number of hours and which evening they would be avaitble for help. This Mr. Kerign pointed out, the work bees can be set up without having too many one not, and not enough another. • The boards for the would be primed and painted first:with the final cpat going on after they areinstalled.