Wingham Advance-Times, 1978-12-06, Page 16ii
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RON FINLAY
DISTRICT GOVERNOR FOR DIST. 9A
Hard work is needed to aid .
community, Lions club told
Lions club memhers must work hard
through their service club in order to help
their community and needy people in general,
Lion District Governor Ron Finlay told the
Wingham Lions Club last week.
e warned that a long tradition of service
work isn't enough to keep a Lions club active
and' useful in a community. Clubs should
always look for new projects to undertake and
new ways of raising money for those projects.
The District A9 Lions' latest fund-raiser,
the sales of candy -filled plastic canes, was a
step in the right direction because it gives
Lipns profit and also helps the handicapped
people who are employed in filling the tubes.
The district Lions ordered 30,000 of the
candy canes from the P.R.I.D.E. Multicap
Foundation in London, which packages the
candies for sale. Eventually, all employees of
the foundation who are not disabled
physically will be replaced by physically
disabled adults.
"It's a tremendous opportunity to help
these people," Mr. Finlay said.
Selling the foundation's candies is a much
better way of raisingmoney than selling
lottery or draw tickets because people who
buy the candies are getting some mer-
chandise, are supporting the Lions club and
are helping provide jobs for the handicapped.
Mr. Finlay suggested the Lions could
become more involved with people with
hearing problems and could make a major
project of supporting the deaf. The Lions, who
have long been supporters of a leader dog
school for the blind, should think of aiding the
blind in other areas, he said. An early fire
detection system for the Camp Joseph
summer camp for the blind would make their
stay at camp safer, as did the $15,000 of fire-
fighting equipment Lions bought for the camp
several years ago.
He told the Winghain Lions that the idea of
Lionism could be captured in the phrase 'love,
compassion, spirit in action.'
Lions should show their love and com-
passion for fellow men and women and act as
examples to the rest of the community, Mr.
Finlay said. He reminded the Lions that love,
compassion and spirit are no good at all
unless they are put into action.
In order ' to be effective in their com-
munities Lions clubs should try to encourage
people to join and then make sure the new
members understand Lionism and their role
in it, he said. In the last year 218 men joined
Lions clubs in district A9 but 227 dropped out
of the clubs in the same time.
PERFECT ATTENDANCE
Nineteen members of the Wingham Lions
Club were presented with perfect attendance
pins at the meeting. Lions Bob Armstrong,
Doug Bishop, Colin Campbell, Stewart
Beattie, Jim Carr, Bill Cruikshank, Arun
Ghosh, Jack Hayes, Archie Hill, Frank
Madill, Fred McGee, Nick O'Donohue, Andy
Ritskes, Fred Snow, E. L. Stuckey, Bill Tiffin,
Lee Vance, Russell Zurbrigg and Lloyd
'Casey' Casemore all received pins for a
year's perfect attendance at Lions club
meetings.
In other business Mr. Ritskes reported the
centennial talent show the club will look after
will be made up of three preliminary shows in
March, April and May and the final talent
contest Thursday, Aug. 2. Letters will soon go
out to many people who may be interested in
competing in the contest.
He also urged Lions club members to either
ride in or' support the Timmy Snowarama
snowmobile rally which will start from
Wingham Jan. 28. The club will get 50 per cent
of the pledges it receives and in return must
help with the local arrangements.
In brief reports Frank Madill told the club it
had received a total of $1,585 to date in its
CNIB campaign and Mr. Ritskes asked all
club members to try to recruit new members
by talking to two men each about Lionism.
Members of farm forum
tour Teeswater fire hall
A tour° of the Teeswater Fire
Hail and a demonstration of fire-
fighting equipment was a
highlight of the meeting of the
DoCumin Farm Forum of
• Culross when they were, guests
Monday evening of last week of
the . Teeswater-Culross
.Firefighters' Association. Fire
Ch 'ef Bob Meyer and several
firemen Were present to
demonstrate the facilities of their
new , hall and to describe the.
-capabilities of their fire trucks
and equipment. . ° '
A couple' • Of years ago
Teeswater and Culross municipal
c hncils realized the need for
larger facilities for their firemen
and purchased. a local(service
Station On main street. Though
the 'councils made the initial
purchaSe, extensive- renovations
were needed and the firefighters,
with` commendable initiative,
negotiated` a bank loan to . buy
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materials. Using their own and
donated labor, they now have a
debt -free hall which is a real
asset to the community.
All four vehicles are in mint
condition with the exception of
their rescue vehicle, a 1956 Ford,,
which is now unroadworthy.
Chief Meyer feels there is a real
need for a van to replace .this.
machine. The van could serve to
carry their rescue equipment as
well as transport firefighters to
out-of-town calls. Their new
pumper, purchased last summer,
can be operated at speeds up to 70
miles an hour on the way to rural
fires and Chief Meyer feels it is
unsafe to allow his men to ride on
the outside of this vehicle at these
speeds.
Chief Meyer spoke briefly on
bylaws pertaining to firefighting
and the use of extinguishers and
smoke detectors. Because. of- the
rising incidence of fires in farm
silos he described : the best
method of extinguishing this type
of fire. Terry . Sillick demon-
strated theoxygen equipment
which has been used frequently
in heart attack emergencies.
Teeswater Firefighters have a
mutual aid agreement with thea
Firefighters' Association in
Wingham..:
Minister agrees
to agrominium
project
By Adrian Vos
It appears Ontario's minister
of agriculture has changed his
mind on the contentious issue of
agrominiums. At the questioning
on the subject at the breakfast
meeting of the Ontario Federa-
tion of Agriculture, Bill Newman
admitted he has agreed to give a
licence for a pilot project.
Farmers in Simcoe County
have strenuously objected to an
agrominium in West Gwillem-
bury Township. They claim it is
just a disguise for urban develop-
ment: The OFA has supported
them in their, position.
An agrominium is a sort off
commune where a developer
divides a hundred acre farm into
10 acre lots and puts 10 houses on
it. The owners supposedly will
continue to farm the remaining
90 acres and pay the mortgage
from the profit.
The farmers see the future as
10 lots with some horses or weeds
and many complaints about the
normal farming operations of the
regular. farmer. .
Mr. Newman said at the break-
fast meeting the licence would
not be given, in the originally
intended Simcoe Township.
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Annual reports of board are
heard bif M�rris.Twp.'Council
At its inaugural meeting of the two years and he recommended
1979-80 . term, Morris Township formally called public tenders for
council heard presentations by repairs and ' purchases. The
its representatives on four area cemetery board manager
community boards. generally gets a couple of prices
Wingham and District Hospital for work or purchases, but
Board represent- ative Isobel doesn't call tenders, Mr. Taylor
Garniss told council Dec. 4 that said.
the hospital is being managed Carman Craig, Morris
well, that daily rates of bed care Township's Blyth and District
are lower than in Goderich or Community Centre Board
Seaforth and that there is great representative, told 'council it
interest in the wholistic care might not get too much warning
proposal. if a grant is needed by the board.
The daily bed care rates have
been raised to $101.49 from an $87
level in August, but the rates are'
still lower than in many other
area hospitals, Mrs. Garniss told,
council.
The hospital board of gover-
nors is still seeking reaction from
• The success of fund-raising
projects like dances will deter-
mine whether the community
centre's needs can be met by
grants from Blyth servi cubs,
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Legion will be picking up the ice Morrisy
the provincial government on the " time deficit; but the board might rucouncil} fears that . the
wholistic care plan; but earlyhave to areaeaff ouldfrom cathuse Diagonal Road
go, to the public and could cause erosion and
indications are that the province councils to meet: capital • ex- flooding oblems. A six-foot tile
is enthusiastic about the idea. , penditures. - would 'be required to,carry the
Wholistic health care would put ' If the ' public supports the •
1 dances there may not be a need water under the highway,, council
wasstold. .
for grants and a fund-raising "I don't know what a six foot
campaign, Mr. Craig said. culvert of water coming through
Allan 'Searls, Seaforth Corn- there is going to do,'.' Reeve
munity Hospital Board William Elston said.
representative, reported that the Though the drain work would
need for storage space would be be entirely on highway property,
alienated by the purchase of a , the water could affect a private
portable ' classroom -type landowner, he said.
building.'In other business, council
He also said there is currently decided it will apply for a grant 'to
an effort to allow senior citizens replace the Martin Bridge,
waiting for entry to county senior located a mile south-west of the
homes, to'stay in the empty township hall. Repair of the
,hospital beds in Seaforth. There bridge still wouldn't make the
are now lists. of senior citizens bridge strong enough to carry
waiting for entry to nursing
homes. township graders, Mr. 'Elston
' '
The number of patients treated said.
at the hospital has decreased by
about 100 in the last five years,
because , some Mitchell doctors
who had sent patients to the
Seaforth hospital now send them
to Stratford for treatment.
BLACKBALL DRAIN
Council decided it would wait
until the Jan. 8 meeting to make a
decision on a Town of Wingham
proposal to add runoff from the
Diagonal Road area north of
Highway . 86 to the ; Blackhall
Drain.
Water presently flows westerly
down each side of the highway
toward the Maitland River, but
Wingham wants some of the
water on the north side of the
highway to flow under the
roadway at Diagonal Road to the
'al social and health agencies
under one roof and would allow
for ' well-rounded physical . and
mental health care, Mrs. Garniss
reported.
Agencies like the Victorian
'Order of Nurses, ' the cancer
society and .the local ministerial
association would be housed in an
addition to Wingham and District
Hospital if the wholistic health
care -scheme is accepted.
Wholistic health care would
probably free some hospital beds
by administering preventative
health care.
Boyd Taylor reported that the
Blyth Union Cemetery Board
probably wouldn't need any
funds from council. He said there
has been one meeting in the past
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NEW MORRIS COUNCILLOR --Clare Van Camp is the new
Morris Township councillor elected in the Nov. 13 municipal
elections. He takes the seat formerly held by Sam Pletch,
who was defeated in his bid for the reeve's position.
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