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Wingham Advance-Times, 1978-12-28, Page 111.s slit Neir FIRST SECTION • :a • i+fo, r, s,w4!4i :�M�i 4F4o AiN"�+ �• � • yiM�f MIVRi 3141/" y q, o 0 o r o Sli AIS" ® r r - 1 .0,1011141;10 '� '""" !r r d�irfi o • � ler o • aG+fa A1f°�fa �'�b Nai*rA' o r LAND -SEA -AIR PAICKA TOURS, Business or pleoSurO boas nowt Wingham, Thurs4ay;; Accident takes life of Brussels. man A Brussels man lost h;s life as the result of an auto,ccident early last Friday aternoon. Thomas G. Moore, 72, of Elizabeth Street died of internal injuries shortly. after his arrival at Wingham and District Hospital. The cause of death was originally thought to have been a heart attack, but an autopsy at Kitchener showed death resulted Firefighters have a quiet Christmas It was a quiet Christmas holiday for . Wingham firefighters, Fire Chief Dave Crothers reports. No major blazes marred the festivities and the only incident was a minor fire in the basement of a main street building. He said the investigation of this fire had been pupned over to the Once and nd'%erther details were. available. ` Wingham Police'.Chief Robert Wittig reported the investigation turned up no evidence of arson and said the fire was probably due to kids playing with gas, which ` t►'s11 ,, AS rom4y , extingtushh'ed" aha" l i i'a' iter damage. The police also had' a pretty quiet holiday, he said, with only a few minor accidents and a couple I of occurrences. from serious internal injuries. Sgt. Roy Anderson of the n- tario •, Provincial Polie, Wingham detachment, reported Mr_ Moore was driving his 1972 Matador northbound along County Road 12, seven kilometers north of Brussels, and attempting to pass a truck when he lost control on the icy surface. • The car crossed the road and hit a second vehicle driven by Frederick Watson, 47, of RR 3, Ayton, which had pulled over onto the shoulder:in an attempt to avoid the collision. Mr: Watson ' and two passengers''?in the car, Royden Harrison, 50; of RR 4, Durham ';and Ursula Peitz, 31, of Durham, all received minor injuries. Sgt. Anderson noted that Mr. Moore had not been wearing his seatbelti at the time of the collision. CHILD STRUCK BY CAR Another accident later the same afternoon.sent a youngster to University Hospital, London, with a badly broken leg and other injuries. Kathryn Larrisa Newell, six- year-old daughter of Mr. and. iters: G 311ewell ' AR!- .. _ Wingham,, was struck by a car along RigJ way 4 near the Wingham Motel after stepping off a school bus at 2:45 p.m. Provincial police report the driver of the car, Mrs. Agnes Lucas, 55, of RR 4. Thedford, apparently didn't see the flashing lights op .the bus and failed to stop. Visibility was perfect at the time of the accident and in- dependent witnesses have con- firmed ' t1ie.. lights 'On the bus, driven by Evelyn Galbraith of RR 3, Wingham, were working, police said. Mrs. Lucas has been charged with careless driving. Three members of a family were taken to Listowel hospital by ambulance following an• ac- cident in Grey Township shortly after noon on Dec. 24. Provincial police report injuries to all were minor. The accident occurred when a vehicle travelling north along Sideroad 30-31 slid through a yield sign and collided broadside with a car travelling west along Con. 17. Darrell Ropp, 22, of New Hamburg, the driver of the second car, anis two passengers, his wife, Shirley, and infant daughter, Jill, all received minor injuries. Mary, Beth Ma, • 31i of -Mo1, -nktoni-the=drover-of4hh t vehicle, has been charged with failing to yield the right of way. There were a number of other accidents around the area over the Christmas holiday, OPP report, but none caused injui°ii' , r One accident resulted in 0,o $2,000 damage when a',=~ knocked down the gas, pirl, after . stopping for fuel", Hamilton's service station 'at tWe, north end of Wingham..• ,'• .1, ..: Former resit" marks voider' anniversary BELGRAV*--Mr. and 11 Louis D.. Ham of'• Elyr , Ohio-- celebrated their gelden"•wedding7: anniversary 27. Mrs, Hays .. is the former Dorothy Brydges„ youngest daughter sof the -late Mr.' and Mrs. Tl oinep: -Brydges Belgrave. • The couple- has four. children::' Mrs. John •(Jean)Van •.Camp of Belgrave and Lt. Thomas Hayes, Mrs. Joseph Maven) Ramirez and William of Elyriia..They have 17 grandchildren Mr. and 'Mr's. Hayes were married Dec. 27, OA, at the home of the:. bride's .parents in Belgrave, wilth Jaines„'Brydges as best man and Anne,°Geddes as maid of honor, The _ wedding music was . plated lt3'ileen :,,.-Nicholson of Detroit,:wit ,llt[rs' ; Clarenee--Wade as soloist An open house was held by their children, at the home of Mrs. Ramirez in Elyria. This was attended by many friends and neighbors. tion of Mrs. camber 28, 1978 ' .F•• , 46' a PRIMARY CHOIR—The Primary Choir, under the direr- Schedler, sang about what happens when Santa Claus gets your letter as well . as other songs during the. Christmas assembly at Wingham Publk.School. r Transportation co-op needs $2,50 By Dave Dineen Physically disabled people have a tough time getting around at best, but it may become harder for north,' Huron and south Bruce disabled if the Bruce - Huron Disability.. Transportation Co-op doesn't find $2,500 by Jan. 1. The recently formed cooperative needs the money to complete the purchase of a specially -equipped van which allows wheelchair patients and other physically disabled more mobility. The locally owned and operated co-op is trying to provide the service an eight- month provincial government pilot project provided in Grey and Bruce Counties and is purchasing the hydraulic wheelchair lift° van the government had leased. Government funding for the project ran out Nov. 30 and long before that deadline co-op members started ap- proaching service clubs, municipal councils, the provincial government and individuals for donations to help keep the service in operation. "We're grasping at any straws,” Co- op Chairman .Frank Field of Teeswater said recently. "We've got to have more (money) coming in." The cooperative members pay $100 or $200 for the use of the van's service for a year and county councils are asked to match that amoimt. To date though, "we haven't gotten a nickel from a council". A former warden of Bruce County, Mr. Field *as discouraged when county council turned down his bid for a grant to help purchase the van and keep it operating. Many councillors in the area should be more interested in their constituents than road graders and gravel, but that doesn't seem to be the case, he said. HOW CO-OP STARTED Six transportation projects to determine the transportation needs of the physically handicapped were initiated two years ago, with the Bruce - Grey Transportation Pilot Project the only rural project. It was funded by a $60,000 grant from., the community and social services ministry, while the He urban projects were funded by the ministry of tran- sportation and communications. The specially -equipped van was 1 operated the last eight months of the two year term and in that time about 35,600 miles were put on, transporting people to hospital, doctors, physidtherapy and to shopping aind work. The transportation co-op is just one of the projects resulting from the original government 'program, as a volunteer. driver bureau has been developed in Owen Sound and other Grey County areas and dial -a -ride services have been investigated for large urban areas like Kincardine and Owen Sound,• The Walkerton -based van provides transportation to 15-30 south Bruce and North Huron people who can't readily make use of standard cars and trucks. Many are transported daily to Arc 'Industries in Walkerton for oc- cupational therapy and ,work training. There is also a 90 mile trip twice daily to Lurgan Beach near Kincardine for therapy there! I SNOW IS A PROBLEM—Snow is a problem for physically or mentally handicapped people and the Bruce -Huron Disability Transportation Coq* provides help in getting people from their houses to the special van which has a hydraulic lift. Frank Field, Co-op chairman, Is shown get- ting to the van with the help of driver Ted Zettier of Walker- ton. used to make the final payment to meet the Jan. 31 deadline. CO-OP OPERATES VAN CHEAPER Mr. Field said that even if the co-op gets local funding and provincial grants, maintaining the service may be difficult under available funds, so the co-op is making the transportation service less expensive to operate. The co-op won't be paying the high leasing fees the provincial government was during the eight months it was in charge of the service. It also a/61ft be paying a full-time driver $6 an hour, but switched to a part-time driver scheme in which the drivers get $5 an hour. "We're running this thing cheaper now than it was ever run," Mr. Field said. Even with the reduced pay and hours for the drivers, Ted and Nancy Zettler of Walkerton and, their son, the bulk of the operating expenses go toward drivers' salaries. The co-op hopes to eventually run the van with volunteer drivers to keep costs down. Co-op executives work for free, spending many hours seeking help from service clubs and community groaps, corresponding with the provincial and local governments, and planning the - direction the co-op will take in providing transportation for the han- CO-OP MAY SERVE NORTH HURON HOMEBOUND Plans are underway in the Wingham area to develop a ceritre for the homebound, which would -allow people who can't get away from home often to socialize with others. The disability transportation co-op hopes its van can transport the homebound to the centre each week so the group sponsoring the homebound centre can help defray van operating costs. , Co-op members don't pretend they can provide adequate transportation for the handicapped in two counties, so they are concentrating their efforts on just the south regions of Bruce County and the extrenie north of Huron. In their search for funds, co-op members remind area people who are healthy and drive their own cars that they are only an auto accident or a stroke away from needing the Bruce - Huron Disability Transportation Co-op. y HYDRAULIC LIFT—The specially -equipped' van the dis- ability transportation co-op is in the process of buying has an hydraulic lift which allows wheel chair patients to enter the van without geffing out of their wheelchairs. to=op chairman Frank Field is shown getting into the van. If the co-op doesn't come up with $2,500 by the end of January, it cannot purchase "the van.