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The Wingham Advance-Times, 1985-06-26, Page 1Blyth Brunch Bitr .ry Box 32 Blytt, Ont. NON Jin. 5 r E WPS AWARD WINNERS—A Grade 8 banquet was held Monday evening at the Wingham Public School. The following students won medals for general proficiency or proficiency in a certain subject: back, Karen Laidlaw, English and science; Lisa Koyle, art; Kira Stuckey, French and music; Leanne Simpson, music; Ian Ward, Hospitalis• in good shape retfring chairrnanr�ports The Wingham and District Hospital is in a "very en- viable position" among hospitals in Ontario, outgoing chairman Mary Vair told last week's annual meeting of members of the hospital corporation. In her chairman's report, Mrs. Vair said the past year has been one of progress, adding that this hospital is one of a minority in the pro- Vince which is not in financial difficulty. Seventy-five, per cent are having problems balancing their budgets, she reported,, and many, especially the large city hospitals, have deficits. By contrast the auditor's report showed the Wingham hospital with a• surplus of $368,387 for the past year on revenues of $6.3 million and expenses of slightly under $6 million. This is up from a surplus of $235,873 during the i 1983-84 budget year. However, in his executive director's report Norman Hayes told the meeting, "Things will be tight again as they always seem to be geography; Peter Strong, boys' physical education; front, Kevin Smith, Marion Inglis Medal and math ward; Anna Sakasov, girls' Nomail physical education and general proficiency; Cheryl Underwood, gen ral proficiency; Paul Clark, Jim Ward Shield and.Jennifer Hunter, on holiday 'rd There will be no counter hist ry. FIRST SECTION Mbe voltam tonce&3 Wingham, Ontario, Wednesday, June 26,{1985 Single Copy 50c Annual membership fee still $1.00 Kuyvenhoven is new chairman of Wing. &Dist. hospital boar . Hans Kuyvenhoven is the new chairman orthe board of governors of Wingham and District Hospital following the board's inaugural meet- ing' last week. Mr. Kuyvenhoven, who represents Turnberry Town- ship on the board, is a five- year veteran who has previously served as vice chairman and as chairman of the property committee. He succeeds Mary Vair, who had chaired the board for the past three years. The new vice chairman is Mary Lou Thompson, representative of Teeswater- Culross, who last year chaired the public relations committee. Both she and Mr. Kuyvenhoven were elected by acclamation. Ad deadline is advanced The deadline for classified advertising to appear innext week's issue of"The Advance - Times is Friday afternoon, June 28, of this week; The advanced deadline is required because of the Canada Day holiday on Monday, July 1. In the only.other item of business conducted at the inaugural meeting, Robert Pike, John Schenk, Robert Middleton, Shirley GarniSs and Dr. Brian Hanlon were eleected as members of the management committee. This committee, the •most powerful of the board's standing' committees, will meet to decide the member- ship of the other committees. The • inaugural board meeting followed on the heels of a lively and frequently confused annual meeting of the hospital corporation, held . in the auditorium of the Wingham Public School. About 70 people attended the meeting to take part in discussion and voting on a series of proposed changes to the hospital bylaws and in the election of members to the hospital board." The session was notable more for its confusion than its controversy. ' People seemed to know what they wanted to do, but getting it done was seldom simple as amendments goetangled up with motions, creating a great deal of uncertainty about just what was being Elston believed headed for major cabinet post When the new Liberal government of David Peterson is sworn in dt noon today, Wednesday, the riding of Huron -Bruce should have the first cabinet minister in its history. Murray Elston, who .was recently re-elected as MPP for Huron -Bruce with an impressive majority and has been described as one of the bright, young, members at Queen's Park, is expected to get a senior portfolio in the Peterson cabinet. , An experienced political observer speculated Monday that Mr. Elston could be in line for eithej the health, attorney general, en- vironment or municipal affairs ministries, "one of those four", There has never been a cabinet member from Huron -Bruce since the riding was first created in the 1930s' — perhaps not surprising given the riding's recent trend of electing .Liberal members during periods of Conservative government. Several other .midwestern Ontario Libelral ridings also stand to have members in the new cabinet, Jack Riddell, MPP for Huron - Middlesex, has been tipped for the agriculture post while Bob McKessock from Grey is expected to be either a minister or a parliamentary assistant and Hugh Edighoffer from Perth is expected to remain as Speaker of the House. voted on at any given time. In, the end, though, with some backtracking and re - voting, most of the mis- understandings were cleared up and a majority of people appeared satisfied with the results. The only major alteration to the proposed bylaws kept the annual membership fee in the hospital corporation at one dollar, instead of five dollars as proposed. How- ever a proposal to raise the requirement for life mem- bership to a $500 donation in- stead of a $100 donation was approved. The annual meeting also struck out a section of the bylaw which gave the hospital board the power to change the annual member- ship fee, and brought the age requirement for a life member into line with that for an annual member. Both must now be at least 18 years of age. Before this there had been no minimum age limit for a life member. The problems started with the very first bylaw change, defining the position of the hospital's chief executive officer. Archie Hill, a former board member, questioned the wording which defined the position as, among other things, "chief executive officer of the board of gover- nors", asking if this would not fn effect make the CEO the boss of the board instead of its employee. Mrs. Vair, who chaired the annual meeting, and Nor- man Hayes, who is the hospital's administrator and CEO, said the proposed wording had been taken directly from prototype by- lawsrprovided by the Ontario Hospital Association, but they maid' not explain exact- ly what it meant. Finally, after several attempts at amending, the definition — and the defeat of a motion to table the whole thing until the next annual meeting for clarification -- it was agreed that the word "of" would be changed to "to" so the section would read "chief executive officer to the board of governors". A second proposed than defining who is a member f . the hospital corporation — and thus entitled to vote a the annual meeting proved to be• even stickier leading into- "'a lengthy ."discussion and a great dea of confusion about just what • was or was ' of being changed in a sucession of amendments. • Don Kennedy firs questioned the section • „which also had appeared in the old bylaw, saying that the membership feemaybe "established from time to time by resolution of the board of governors:" He asked what would happen if the board decided suddenly to raise the fee to $1,000. Art Clark proposed an amendment deleting that phrase from, the bylaw but leaving the rest of it intact, including a proposal to raise the annual membership fee . to $5.00 from $1.00. • However, Mr. Hill ques- tionedthe rationale for rais- -ingihe fee. Even an increase to $5.00 would tend to deter people from coming out to the annual meetings, he sug- gested, "and we don't have very many as it is." Dr. Hanlon, who' had ochaired the committee which reviewed the bylaws, said one dollar does not cover the costs of processing and mailing out membership receipts, adding the fee had not been changed. in more than 20 years. George Michie said he still saw no reason to raise the fee and Elinor Neill asked why it was necessary to mail the receipts since people used to pick them up at the hospital office. Dr. Hanlon said the change was made to eliminate ac- cusations of abuse in the case of people coming in and buying multiple member- ships in the 'names of other individuals. However Mrs. Neill pointed out it would still 'be possible to require people to come in and sign for a membership before it was issued. At that point the discussion shifted, with Arnold Taylor • service or rural delivery at the Wingham Post Office on Monday, July 1. Mail will`be collected from the red mail lxox in front of the post office at noon on Sunday, June 30. Outgoing mail will be collected from the street letter boxes starting at 11 a.m. on Sunday. - J ge pointing out a discrepancy o , between the requirements ,,for anannual membership t and for a life member. In the case . of the annual mem- , bership it must be purchased at least 15 days prior to the 1 annual meeting in order to vote, and the holder must be at least 18 years old; he 4 noted, while there were no such requirements for life t members. After an amendment was '(Continued on Page 5). Youth injured when cycle hits . pickup •A Belgrave-area youth was injured Monday when the motorcycle he was riding collided with a pickup truck at a crossroads in East Wawanosh Township. Bradley J. Cook, 19, of RR 1, Belgrave, wastaken to the Wingham and District Hospital' for treatment of bruises, abrasions and a. fractured wrist. He was reported to be in good con- dition Tuesday morning. Provincial police at Wingham reported that Mr. Cook was astbound on Con. 4-5 at about 8:25 a.m. when he collided with the truck driven by Ronald A. Howatt, 36, also of RR 1, Belgrave, which was southbound on Sideroad 33-34 "and failed to stop at the intersection. The motorcycle struck the right front corner of the pickup, causing an estimat- ed $1,000 damage to the cycle aid, $500 damage to the truck, owned by Howatt lately." He also said he_ ha hoped to have the n emergency and outpatien wing completed for thi meeting, "but it was not to be." Completion is now fore- / cast for this fall. The report of the financ and audit committee note an increase in hospital ac tivity of 4.5 per cent over th previous year, but when a question was raised abou the increase Mr. HayeS explained it is because there were more long-term patients in the hospital, not because more patients were using it. He said that pattern ap- pears to be continuing, although it is too early to establish a trend for the current year. (The hospital year runs from April 1 through March 31.) The report also noted that an estimated $425,000 remains to be spent on the new building and $500,000 on property development and equipment. Mr. Hayes said the $500,000 figure includes slightly over $300,000 for the new radiology machine and also money for replacement of other equipment. Reporting for the joint conference committee, Mrs. Vair said it had looked at the health eare provided by this hospital and found it to be excellent. Chief of Staff Dr. Brian Hanlon reported that the medical staff "sees many d changes occurring in the ew health field in years t ahead..." Asked) to elabor- s ate, he predicted there will be more emphasis on health maintenance, trying to keep people well instead of only e treating their illnesses. d Those at the meeting also - heard a report from Jean e Ellacott, retiring director of 4" the RNA training centre, t that graduates from this school had ranked first out of 31 training centres in Ontario at this year's registration examination for nursing assistants. At SeStatt orthe meeting, those present watched as t}id draw was made for the winner of a new car, the major prize in the hospital fund-raising-•; lottery. The winning ticket was No. 456, held by Andy Ste. Marie of Wroxeter. Lottery Chairman Rod McDonagh of Lucknow reported a total of 1,598 tickets had been sold for total proceeds of $31,960. From this '$11,952 had been paid out in prizes and ex- penses, leaving a profit of $20,008. The committee had set a goal of raising $20,000 from the lottery, so it was almost exactly on target, he noted. He also thanked Clarence Hanna, Tom Miller and Gordon Baxter for their help, nnting. that Mr. Baxter was by far the top ticket salesman. - Huron teachers vote on f two-year contract Secondary school teachers in - Huron County are scheduled to vote today, Wednesday, on a new con- tract with, the county board of education. A tentative agreement was reached late last week during meetings between'the two negotiating teams with a mediator in London and it was expected to be ratified by the board on Tuesday night. Prof. David Whitehead of the University of Western Ontario, appointed by the Education Relations Com- mission, conducted the med- iation sessions which started about 3 p.m. on the Wednes- day and ended Thursday evening. "The agreement is ex- tremely fair to both sides," said the professor. Mrs. Weary also used the .words "fair for both sides" in describing the tentative agreement. The school board voted on the tentative agreement on Tuesday, June 25 while Mrs. Weary said teachers will vote on it on Wednesday, June 26. The details of the agree- ment won't be released until after it has been ratified by Bros. Limited. both. . • CHIEF SCOUTS AWARDS were presented recently to Ian Ward, centre, and Murray Lapp, right, both of Wingham, by Ontario Lieut. -Gov, John Black Aird. ,Scouter Ken Foxton of Wingham is shown with the boys. The award is presented to Scouts with a reputation of service to their club and their community. !an and Murray are' the seven- teenth and eighteenth Wingham boys to be presented with the award in its 1 2 -year history, "Both parties desired a reasonable compromise," said Prof. Whitehead in sum- ming up the two day of talks. "Both parties worked hard and they are to be congratu- lated." The tentative agreement covers a two-year period, from Sept. 1, 1984 to Aug. 31, 1986. "I think its a very good collective agreement," said the board's superintendent of personnel Peter Gryseels, adding it is "reasonable" to both sides. He said the percentage in- crease is "right' on the line" with other tentative agree- ments reached recently and which have yet to be ratified by the respective groups and the school board. Mr..Gryseels said the se- condary. school teachers' tentative agreement does fall within the school board's 1985 budget. The new vote comes a month after high school teachers overwhelmingly re- jected a previous offer and. authorizeda strike, although no strike action has yet been taken. Huron' County Director of Education Bob Allen said the board would also be voting Tuesday on agreements with its elementary teachers and with the.custodial and secretaril staff unions. The elementary teachers have already voted to accept their contract, but the custodial and secretarial contracts still must be ratified by the employees. Whitechurch woman wins highest award A Whitechurch woman was honored with the highest award given by Conestoga College during its 17th convocation held June 22. Kathleen Gibson, a graduate of the health care aide program at the college's Clinton campus, received the James . W. Church Achieve- ment Award. This award, which consists of $1,000 plus an inscribed shield related to the winner's program of study, was established in honor of the college's founding president. It recognizes a combination of academic excellence, concern for the dignity of the individual and a contribution to society. Mrs. Gibson was honored for the personal care and concern shown during the course of her work at the Pinecrest Manor Nursing Home in Lucknow, her leadership in organizing activities at her place of work and through her church, her efforts on behalf of charitable endeavors in her community and her use of research skills to develop her professional coni• petence,