Clinton News-Record, 1986-09-10, Page 23Page 2A—CLINTON NEWS -RECORD, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1986
MPP JACK RIDDELL
Ministry tries to provide best possible health
Communities in Southwestern, West Cen-
tral and Northern Ontario will receive more
hospital beds as a result of recent an-
nouncements by Health Minister Murray
Elston.
In Southwestern Ontario, while visiting
London, St. Thomas and Sarnia, Health
Minister Elston announced 328 new chronic
care and, 37 new acute care beds for the
Southwestern region. Funding for the
region, including additional funding for the
London cancer clinic, will total $104.6
million. The Southwestern region includes
the district health councils of Middlesex,
Oxford, Perth, Essex, Grey, Bruce, Huron,
Elgin, Kent and Lambton.
All of these projects are part of the $850
million, 4,400 bed province -wide expansion
promised in the May 13 budget. Most con-,
struction should begin within five"years.
"The -province -wide capital allocation for
new hospital beds is, the largest in the
history of Ontario," Elston said. "Our goal
is to see that all , Ontarians have the best
possible health care into the 21st century."
Bill 51 goes
to committee
Legislation to reform Ontario's system of
rent review, Bill 51, went before the
Resources Development Committee at
Queen's Park beginning Aug. 19. Housing
Minister Alvin Curling was the first to ad-
dress- the committee and answered ques-
tions on Bill 51, the Residential Rent Regula-
tions Act.
The new Bill is significant in that it pro-
vides the tenants of Ontario with real and
universal protection from unfair rent in-
creases, it provides for the revitalization of
rental housing construction in this province
and creates a system of rent review that is
fair and equitable to all
Bill 51 contains seven major features: (1)
the establishment of an annual rent review
guideline based on an inflation index, (2) a
costs -no -longer -borne procedure for some
financing and capital costs, (3) the
establishment of a comprehensive province -
wide rent registry, (4) a provision for the
elimination of economic loss on post -1975
buildings to ensure the viability of those pro-
perties, (5) the provision of a revised form
of hardship relief for owners of pre -1976
buildings, (6) the establishment of the
Residential Rental Standards Board 'to
develop provincial property standards, and
(7) the establishment of a new streamlined
rent review process.
From Aug. 26 to 28 and from Sept. 3 to 18,
there will be public hearings in Toronto,
London, Windsor, Thunder Bay, Kingston,
and Ottawa to hear concerns and answer
questions from citizens across the province
about the legislation.
Sports grants
Ontario athletes will have the opportunity
to participate in provincial, national and in-
ternational games through grants announc-
ed by Tourism and Recreation Minister
John Eakins. Sports governing bodies in On-
tario will receive $1.8 million in Wintario
grants Eakins announced.
The funds will also go to sports groups to
allow them to host championships. "These
grants will help our Ontario athletes to com-
pete at various levels and will give them the
chance to meet and become friends with
other athletes from the province, the coun-
try and from around the world," Eakins
said.
The grants will allow Ontario swimmers
to attend events such as the Monaco Inter-
national Swimming Competition and the
U.S. Open Swimming Championships in
Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Ontario sailors will
attend the America's Cup in Australia and
will host the World Wayfares Championship
at Geneva Park, Ontario. In addition, the
Ontario Special Olympics will benefit from
this funding. Athletes from all over Ontario
will compete in the National Summer
Games in Calgary.
Stabilization for
oats, canola
Stabilization for oats, canola winter and
spring canola and oats H^••^
care
for the first time in the Income Stabilization
Program for 1986, in an announcement I
made last week as Minister of Agriculture
and Food. The new commodities have been
added to the grain income stabilization pro-
gram at the request of growers.
Other commodities covered under the
three-year program, which came into effect
in 1985, are corn, soybeans, white beans,
winter beans, winter wheat and barley.
Final application date for the 1986 crop is
Oct. 1, 1986.
Registration forms and brochures con-
taining programdetails will be automatical-
ly mailed to those who were enrolled in the
program in 1985. Producers are able to
credit any fees deposited in 1985 against the
fees payable for 1986. The form will show in-
dividual growers the amount of deposit in
their acount.
Application forms and brochures for
those not enrolled in 1985 will be available at
the end of August from local ministry
offices.
I might also remind growers that the
government's portion of the payout for the
1985 corn and soybean crop is scheduled to
be mailed out in the last two weeks of
August. The interim payment is $3.50 per
tonne for corn and $9 per tonne for soybeans.
New ambulance
Along with Health Minister Murray
Elston, I was pleased to announce last week
the $64,000 funding for an extra ambulance
and two additional attendants to serve Clin-
ton and Seaforth area residents.
The need for the extraambulance, which
will be stationed in Seaforth and added to
the day shift, was necessitated by the large
number of patient transfers to London
hospitals.
Playground grant
My colleague, John Eakins the Minister of
Tourism and Recreation, has announced a
$7,377 capital grant for the new creative
playground at the Clinton Public School.
Kinsmen raise over $26 million in Canada
Loyola Sullivan, vice-president and a ma-
jor shareholder in Calvert Fish Industries of
Fermeuse, Nfld., was recently elected the
66th national president of the Association of
Kinsmen Clubs. The election took place at
Kinsmen's national convention in Saskatoon
where it was announced that during the past
year the more than 1,100 Kinsmen and
Kinette clubs across Canada donated a
record $26,321,220 in service funds to their
communities.
This year the Association was again the
largest single contributor to the Canadian
Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. Kinsmen and
Kinettes donated a record $1.5 million to
help find a control or cure for cystic fibrosis
(CF ), which is second only to cancer in
claiming the lives of young Canadians.
In addition, the Association's members
supported many . other organizations, in-
cluding the Canadian Diabetes Association,
.the Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada,
the Unitarian Service Comittee of Canada
and the March of Dimes.
Kinsmen also operate the Kinsmen Foun-
dation of Saskatchewan and the Kinsmen
Rehabilitation Foundation of British Colum-
bia, both of which serve the needs of disabl-
ed people in those provinces. This year
Saskatchewan clubs again raised over $2
million during a 20 -hour telethon called
Telemiracle to support the work of their
foundation while B.C. clubs assisted their
foundation by raising over $1.1 million in a
door-to-door fund-raising blitz known as the
Kinsmen Mother's March.
In addition to providing support for
numerous community projects across
Canada, ranging from constructing swimm-
ing pools and arenas to .purchasing equip-
ment for hospitals and schools, Kinsmen
and Kinette clubs this year donated over
$100,000 to fund the ongoing work of the
Kinsmen. African Medical Relief (KAMR)
prniect inEthiopia.
To date KAMR has sent nearly 100 Cana-
dian doctors and nurses to work at Kinsmen
Camp Bete to provide medical aid to that
country's needy.
Kinds el have also been busy this past year
prepdi'ifii to assist '• Canadian wheelchair
athlete Rick Hansen with the final cross -
Canada leg of his around -the -world journey
to raise money for spinal cord research and
to generate world wide awareness of the
potential of disabled people. Kinsmen clubs
along Rick's route will be organizing fund-
raising events and media conferences as
well as providing whatever other support is
necessary.
Sullivan, who is a member of the Kinsmen
Club of Fermeuse-Renews (Nfld.), is also a
high school science teacher havmg taught
for 15 years. He has been a Kinsman for nine
years and has earned a wide variety of
awards and held many club offices, in-
cluding president
Peter Wiley, from the Clinton-Seaforth Veterinary Services, and his daughter Erin in-
spect the two headed call that he delivered on a farm near Walton.
A mystery birth
WALTON - Peter Wiley, a veterinarian at
the new Clinton-Seaforth Veterinary Ser-
vices recently had an unusual experience,
he delivered a two headed calf.
Mr. Wiley explained that he was called out
to the farm in Walton when the farmer was
having trouble with the delivery because it
was coming out backwards.
"When I arrived I noticed something was
a little different, but I didn't realize it had
two heads," Mr. Wiley said. "I delivered the
calf, and out popped two heads."
Although the calf was stillborn, two head-
ed or otherwise irregular animals have liv-
ed for hours up to days. "Mother nature
doesn't let things like that live," he
explained.
He reported the birth to the biomedical
sciences department of the Ontario
Sullivan is married to Verna and they , Veterinary Hospital at Guelph University
have three children — Ju7ie, Shelley and because they are doing studies on abnormal
Stefan. births.
"Their standpoint in Guelph is to see how
The Association of Kinsmen Clubs is an they are formed abnormally to learn how
all -Canadian organization founded in 1920 in they are formed normally," Mr. Wiley said.
Hamilton, Ontario. The Kinsmen National Two faced animals are more common, he
Headquarters is located in Cambridge, Ont., ,explained, but actual two headed calfs with
adjacent to Highway 40}.p The, Association two necks come in approximately one in a
has a total membership of nearly 20,000 half million births.
young meh and women. betweelrtihe ages of
::"Of.iE¢;tii one in �i100 with two, actual
21 and -40 in -more than 41100ubs across .niefeks; °only one has-been given to-4uelph,"
Canada. Kinsmen provides its members
with a wide variety ofosoc
i
a
l
iactivities as
well as many Opportunities
lf-
development by serving their communities
through fund-raising and service projects.
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he stated.
Mr. Wiley said Guelph is relying on word
of mouth to let farmers know they ar in-
terested in abnormal animals, but, "a lot of
farmers don't want something like this
known."
The cause of such strange births remains
a mystery to those studying it.
•
He reported the birth to the biomedical
sciences department of the Ontario
Veterinary Hospital at Guelph University
because they are doing studies on abnormal
births.
"Their standpoint in Guelph is to see how
they are formed abnormally to learn how
they are formed normally," Mr. Wiley said.
Two faced animals are more common, he
explained, but actual two headed calfs with
two necks come in approximately one in a
half million births.
"Of that one in 500,000 with two actual
necks, only one has been given to Guelph,"
he stated. -
Mr. Wiley said Guelph is relying on word
of mouth to let farmers know they are in-
terested in abnormal animals, but, "a lot of
farmers don't want something like this
known."
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a mystery to those studying it.
This picture demonstrates how the two headed calf, delivered by Peter Wiley, has not on-
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