The Wingham Advance-Times, 1989-06-20, Page 217,
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opposes violent wegrams
The Huron -Perth Roman
Catholic Separate School Board
trustees have voted in•favor of sup-
porting a neighboring board's cam-
paign against television violence.
Employers offer
their support to
fire department
Three major Wingham employers
have offered their support to the
Wingham Area Fire Department in
an effort to help solve its manpow-
er shortage.
Letters were read at last week's
June fire board meeting from Wing -
ham and District Hospital, Royal
Homes and CKNX Broadcasting, all
indicating their support of the fire
department.
Norman Hayes,, hospital execu-
tive director, pledges the hospital's
commitment to provide personnel
for the fire department.
Royal Homes will allow a maxi-
mum of two employees to attend
fire calls during the day and Al
Skelton, CKNX general manager,
promises the support the station's
management team and employees'
association.
Several representatives of major
Wingham employers attended the
May fire board meeting to discuss
the daytime staffing problems of
the department.
London and Middlesex trustees
recently heard a presentation from
a teacher on television violence, in
particular, the series "Freddy's
Nightmare".
That board gave the: teacher per-
mission to circulate a petiti*n to
parents in the system. The petition
is aimed at the four stations which
carry the program.
It informs the stations of the otic,
tioners' intention to boycott both
the station and its advertisers until
the "graphically violent series" is
removed from broadcast.
The Huron -Perth board will
write a letter of support to the Lon-
don -Middlesex board and send
copies to the television stations.
Huron -Perth Vice Chairman Ben
Brown had some reservations about
the move, however, su esting it is
"kind of risky going against one
program".
"Do we stop at this one or do we
keep going?", he asked,
Mr. Brown said he felt picking
and choosing examples of televi-
sion violence is "pretty danger-
ous", adding that even "Hockey
Night in Canada" is violent at
times.
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store, presented a cheque to Norman. Hayes, hospital executive director, for $1,359 on Monday moil-
ing. The money represents proceeds from a hospital fund-raising week earlylast month at
store, at which 10 per cent of all sales went to t e hospital,y the SAM
orary manager for the fund-raising, also accepts' a cheque for $300, half Councillor which Denise will gooito an lion -
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Fire board says 'no'
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several moments after the letter
was read.
Finally Bill McGrath of Wingham
said, "Without beating around the
bush, what you want is a full-time
deputy chief."
"The board has to make some-
body available," replied the chief.
Mr. McGrath predicted "com-
plete uproar" if the board_ were to
hire a full-time deputy chief,
reminding members of the battle
last year to hire Mr. Gaunt on a full-
time basis.
Mr. McGrath told the fire chief
that his most important job is to
start training an officer in Wingham
who would be able, in five or six
months, to take responsibility if the
chief were out of town.
"Train an officer in five or six
months? Come on," said Norm
Fairies, who added that some offi-
cers at the Corrie station have five
or six years of training and still do
not feel comfortable.
"How do you think it will pass
in Howick if we (the board) are
going to hire a deputy chief?"
asked Mr. McGrath ofMr.Fairies.
"I'm not sure that is the answer,"
replied Mr. Fairies.
FINDING AN ANSWER
Chief Gaunt said his- main con-
cern is, "Whose responsibility is it
when those trucks roll out the
door?"
When John Cox told the chief
that was his job, Mr. Gaunt replied,
"You give me the man."
The fire chief said there are some
people in the fire department who
might make officer material, but
they don't want to be tied down.
"It's called dedication," said Mr.
Fairies. "But that day's long since
gone and what the answer is, 1
don't know."
Nelson Underwood asked
Deputy Chief Hickey if arrange-
ments could be made at the hospi-
tal to have him cover for Chief
Gaunt if the chief were out of town.
In his job as ambulance driver,
Mr. Hickey said, he never can guar-
antee if he will be in town.
After a brief break, the board
reconvened to take another look at
the problem.
Mr Cox suggested the chief pre-
pare a report outlining alternatives.
"I've indicated the only option 1
feel is available to solve the prob'
lem," replied the chief, who added
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that he does not have qualified men
within the department, even
though some have seven or eight
years' experience.
"I think we have one hell of an
internal problem here," said Mr.
McGrath. "Somebody had better
start a training program in this
department."
'It's the 'I -don't -give -a -damn'
attitude," said Chief Gaunt, who
added that the men do not take the
initiative because they know some-
one else is there to do it.
"We have a budget of $175,000
and nobody gives a damn?", asked
an incredulous Mr. Cox.
"It's time the municipalities take
the bull by the horns or pretty soon
we'll be into a half -million -dollar
budget," predicted Mr. McGrath.
"I see what you're saying and I
agree," said the chief.
Mr. Underwood said he has
enough faith in the firemen to
believe that someone would take
charge if forced into the situation.
Following a brief committee-of-
the-whole
ommittee-ofthe-whole session, the board decid-
ed to have Chief Gaunt approach
Bill Doig, Gorrie station officer, to
see if he might be available to come
to Wingham if the chief were out of
town and the deputy chief not
available in the event of a fire call.
Norm Fairies said the depart-
ment sh8uld try to solve the prob-
lem internally and "still work on
training our own guys", as Wayne
Riley added.
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Tickets are available for the third
i annual Ducks Unlimited dinner
and auction to be held Saturday,
Sept 16, at the Belmore Communi-
ty Centre.
Les Tervit, DU spokesman, says
ik that tickets are available by contact" •
ing any local committee members,
including George Skinn,
Jack
Lewis, Dianne Thynne or himself.
Tickets purchased before July 1
are eligible for the early -bird draw,
a, . - he adds.
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