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The Wingham Advance Times, 1995-02-01, Page 3r • offiloto Murray Eistoh...developing at the BEC. y CAMERON J. WOOD The Advance -Times Canadians have always enjoyed an abundance- of good resources. Raw materials and value-added products have traditionally been the cornerstones of the nation's success on the world market. Former Liberal Party of Ontario deputy leader, Murray Elston, ad- dressed the same issues to the Wingham and District Chamber of Commerce for their first annual Ru- ral/Urban night last Friday. Elston quit politics last fall to take a position at the Bruce Energy Centre as president of Ontario In - i�. CRs ;i: rnaM., ll!orking now.;being told exactlr what .the pike of ler finl level"o,,p t l C a 1).15,. Aston to see , that commodity is in the fields and irst hands the Mello between. the ru `; what we have to pay oar not pay for cal pr pct development and the urs '' it. We actually carr snake the econo bap business;'.econoii;t r, .thus mak- t °my work for ,us instead of having lag him an ideal spier to address, Someone make the economy work. the ntixed?ses ion . against us." Elston said. `it' has taken us a long time toElston said the BEC is continual- grabhold of.our.future...you,can- w hl ye looking, at new directions and not make 41180 go of it simply by grow- how to expand' on the value-added in .',and stalling yaw materials. The t approach. Tkle most recent coicept- t'eak advantage,.to dealing in the glo- is bringing a Duteh-owned green bol market economy is to add value hoose to the BEC. They are cur- ie every product you have. In fact, rently negotiating to secure that de- ifyou do that and do it consistently vetopment. at a high quality, than you will be 1, puttitilg yourself in, or above long-;,1,We believe this part ,of south- to r` " hed ctrl 1? osperity, told the aud ,westerly Ontario wills ab�e' to the fu-. ire tyle' centre. of production foto a bot of• products=we havetakenfor granted.,The reason we believe that is because there are only a few places, in the world that can actual y pat th0, types of products that we do, in the volume and quality that we de in this area This area can ac- complish something really impor- tant on a world. scale. `My view is that the lessons I learned 30 years ago weren't really lessonsin, theory, but lessons in re- alityof the economic development of our agricultural viability in west- ern Ontario." it ,: epee of over 100 4,,piTew INDH a di.rector Elston spoke on the development of products at BEC in terms of By JIM BROWN Value-added nature. ::;. The Advance -Times "We are now taking. raw materi- als that are being produced in this The Wingham and District Hos- area and we are processing them It` pita! now has a director of human you follow things at the Bruce En- resources. ergy Centre, you will see the whole, Larry Hindle as umed the posi- idea being of course, to take stearrq tion on Jan. 19, 1995. Hindle will at a very reasonable price and elec be at the hospital three days per tricity and use it to process raw ma -,week. He was introduced to the terials." members of the hospital Board The BEC has gradually grown; However, he noted that al- over the years" to now include not n, though he will be in Wingham on just the power station, but also a re-. > Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fri - search centre, a greenhouse, an eth-'' days, thatcould change depending anol plant, a cubing plant and the -'1 -on the demand. most recent addition, an apple pro;,' :: As the director of human re- cessing plant._ sources, Hindle will be responsi- The five product lines coming ble for payroll, employee and la - out of the BEC, Elston said, are ex- bor relations, pay and employment amples of locally -driven value- • equity, and employee and manage - added inarketing.,Agricultural raw ` ment training. materials are grown in the region, A j "I will also be responsible for processed in the region and then ex- •' the overall setting of policies and ported. procedures' as far as the human re - "We can make the product, we sources go at Wingham and Dis- can chose the market, we can ship trict Hospital," said Hindle.• the product to that market without • -Originally from Meaford, Ilin- Discharges marginally higher 511111 BROWN e fl lie tvance-Times The Wingham and District Hos- ' pital has provided excellent deliv- ery and obstetrical services for many years chief executive officer Lloyd Koch told the board of gov- ernors 11 the January meeting of the hospital board last Thursday. "It is important for the commu- nity to recognize that we are con- tinuing to improve the services we `.provide," he said. Koch said clarification of the hospital's delivery service was re- viewed earlier last month by the Perinatal Committee of the medi= ice staff. He noted that patients being 'provided With pre -natal care by Ytheir local doctor come to the hos- fipital where they are assessed by ;the nursing staff •and the patient's )physican is called to do the deliv- ery. If -.the patient's doctor is una- ivailable the doctor on call or his backup is called to do the delivery. a-ehange in admission policy. "At any point during the deliv- Board member Bob Pike won- ery process the physician may de- dered about the decrease inpaid cide that the patient should be staff hours per patient days. transferred to a teritiary teaching Koch said that it was all in the hospital if it is felt that resources timing of the closing of Team 'A'. at our hospital at that time are in- He noted it was closed until mid - adequate to deal with the risk of a November in 1993, while it was complicated delivery," said Koch. re -opened late summer last year. He pointed out that this was likely to occur when an anaesthe Even though the totals were it about the same, there were more list and surgeon were not read y available. Koch stated in his report to the` board that the hospitals admissions and discharges are just marginally higher than they were for the same periods in December between 1994 and 1993. "Year-to-date the numbers are quite similar as are the total pa- tient days and our out-patient ac- tivity," he said. The hospital CEO said there is a switch of patient days occurring from active treatment to chronic patient days which is the result of patients in the summer last year. Koch said the number of patients has decreased the past two weeks, and they are not sure why. He pointed out that the figures on based on 1993 statistics. "We are uncomfortable with high summer vacany rates," said the CEO. "We were quite busy in 1994." Koch also reported that- the hos- pital had' been notified by the Col- lege of Nurses of Ontario that the 1993-94 graduating class in the RPN program came in second out fluronCounty recognized for tourism efforts and promotion By FRED GROVES Special to The Advance -Times GODERICH - Huron County re- cently received recognition for its work towards a detailed report and informative brochure promoting tourism in the county.' Tourism is big business all . across Canada. Last week, the tourisrn industry was brought to the forefront of dis- cussion at the Federal Liberal Ru- ral Caucus held in Goderich. The 'caucus, hosted by co-chairman Hilton -Bruce MP Paul Steckle, gave several Ontario associations ' a chance to voice their concerns. "We feel tourism is an industry that has often been neglected," said Andy Griffis, president of the Muskoka Tourism Association. Canada, he explained, employes 1..2 million people through tourism but has recently slipped from sixth to tenth -in popularity of countries visited: "Tauristn is important because it creates jobs and produces rove. nue Mid Ct ffit rWe in Canada ,Attract 12 million U.S. visitors, They spend WO each Visit' Griffit was emoting one of the most visid areas the pmvv 'ince US the - ' uskokas he de- scribed, fresh air and cold water. But not all areas have such natural attractions and have to work hard to bring in tourists. "I don't know how areas can de- velop a strong vibrant program without some assistance," said Es- sex -Windsor MP Sue Whelan. Last year, Japan spent $440 mil- lion on tourism, France dished but $100 million, and the United States just $23 million. And how about Canada? How much do the Liberals put into attracting visi- tors? "For thefrst time, our PrimeMinister ha spoken the word 'tourism',' aid Griffit who was pleased to say the government will be fattening its usual $20 million budget up. to $50 million. ' But while the tourism business is grateful for the financial shot in the arm, la seems that money is not the only thing the tourism associa- tions across the province are ask- ing for. "We're not asking for your mon- ey. We're asking for your meta support. Tourism as something last in in governttient slt times, but it should be put back On the front barter' said + r'riftit,'"We encour- age ncour-age: you to take .tit a 'back ,to hat, quartets tonewish and love.?' • • Some figures about tourism he quoted included the fact that 14 per cent of dollars spent go to- wards accommodations and 30 per cent to food and beverage, "If we can encourage tourism in these tough times, we all win," said Griffit. London West MP Sue Barnes said tourism is becoming a bigger issue amongst members of the ru- ral caucus. She pointed out diffi- culties arising at border crossings. "It's more of a policing voice than a welcoming voices" said Barnes. ar this of 18 ;programs; across,,,the prod ince. "We are proud of the achieve- ment of the students and faculty in, this final year of our program prior to it being transferred to Conesto- ga College," he said. Board chairman Doug Fortune asked the CEO to convey the boards congratulations to the staff - and students of the class. Here are 6 Easy Questions to help assess your relationship: LARRY HINDLE human resources dle has spent the past 11 years at the Freeport -Hospital in Kitchener; including the past six as an assist- ant director of human resources. He was also involved in nursing for many years, after receiving his training in Owen Sound. He was also an advertising manager for a newspaper in Meaford for three yea4rs" ii 'I look ':forward oto serve the Wingl htn and Ilaistrret gospital as human resources directorto' fur- ther serve the staff in all human re- sources aspects," said Hindle. Hindle arid his wife Wendy have three grown sons, Jason 27, Jeremy 26, and Jonathan 24. Hospital chief executive officer Lloyd Koch told the board last Thursday that 50 applications were received the position. Do you feel like a prisoner in your own home, trapped in a love- less relationship? 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