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The Wingham Advance-Times, 1979-01-24, Page 2M Advance-'rmos, January 24. 1979 TRANSPORTATION MEETING—Dr. Tony Fuller of the Rural Development Outreach Project described transportation problems In north Huron County at Saturday's open transportation meeting. About a third of the peoplearea re s to could ake use stores, medical a better transportation system which would allow peopleithout appointments and social gatherings more often. r Last summer's Rural Development Outreach Project transportation survey showed about a third of the 16,000 people in north Huron have a transportation problem — they can't always get around when it is con- venient or when they need to. About 40 people heard the problems in an open meeting Saturday and came up with possible sohrtions. The elderly, families at home without a car while the breadwinner is at work and people with physical or mental handicaps are the groups most in need of transportation help, Dr. Tony Fuller of the University of Guelph told the meeting. People at the meeting suggested senior citizens' clubs and church groups could coordinate a volunteer driver bureau, that an expanded taxi service serving outlying areas might be feasible one day a week and that a minibus might be used to transport people to and from Walkerton and Listowel so they could meet buses to Tnrnnto Kitchener and other large centres. Other suggestions included the use of school buses 'during the day, the formation of an emergency driver bureau, planning of cooperative bus trips to cities for shopping and the purchase of a small dial -a -bus to be paid for by service clubs, businesses and the local goverMent. Participants in the open meeting e saw and heard a slide and tape show made from interviews of area people and their problems in getting around. One woman said she wanted to belong to a senior citizens' group for the companimohip but she didn't have a ride. Even grocery shopping and doctor's appointments were hard to 14an ahead, as she relied on neighbors to take her to town. ` "I don't like bugging the neigh- bors," she said. "I hate that. I usually go when they're going " She suggested that if a bus were available for even a few hours a week it would be a big help for people like her. Several other people who, don't have their own cars also suggested a bus would be.a big help even if it ran only once a week. One woman said she had to stock- pile her food because she got to town so seldom. Though she liked to read she couldn't go to the public library and take out books because she WWWI , acs uuss w ... .... two-week due date. A young woman with two small children shared some of the problems with people who had no car because her husband had the family car while he was at work. An 81 -year-old man longed to go to regulate � MRS GEORGE GROWN � club to.SnowmobileNotes Gorrie Personal No e use abuse of tra'Is Mr• and Mrs. Allan onFishHyndmanr Murray and Marian, Fred public / and Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Fisher Coulter and Mrs. Thomas property owners. returned Sunday from a two- Templeman called at the Continued from front pagenumber of them and most were P Pe Y Schreiter-Sandroch Funeral licence fees and taxes it returns very cooperative, he reported. Mr. McGee also said there is a week trip to Oahu and Maui in the Home, Kitchener, to pay their next to, nothing to the He also urged club members to plan in the works to loosen the Hawaiian Islands.ts snowmobiling frAternity. This make every effort to cooperate pug strings in Queen's Park Mr. and Mrs. James Wylie and � Tge Breanmrle= °,They late year the 14 _clubx in the Bruce with the property owners. and get back more of the Righten- ret and Mrs. Robert p to have visited Ken Coulter and Mr. and Region were offered a $5,000 total "Take some licence numbers cing revenues for trails. Right returned from a trip to Las Mrs Gordon Coulter of Kitchener grant to use in preparing and and turn them over to the Opp now the money goes to whoever Vegas, Nevada, and California. on Sunday. maintaining trails, less than half and see what happens." hollers loudest, he said, noting Robbie Snell of RR 3, what the region received last Mr. Crump said he talked with not many members of Moorefield spent the weekend �r year and only a tenth of the sum John Dabrowski, owner of the parliament are snowmobilers. with Mr. and Mrs. Blake Me - requested. Wingham Motel, and he has Millan. The clubs rejected the grant agreed to offer club mem- In other business at the Mrs. Edith Campbell of and so all the trails now berships to patrons who have meeting it was announced the Holland, Manitoba, is visiting private and a number of clubs come for a weekend of club membership was up to 76, with Mrs. Joe Simmons. Mrs. are starting to post the 'No clubs comesnombilr double its size last year, and Mr. Joyce Snare and Mrs. Leslie Trespassing' s he said: Crump said later that with new House of Toronto visited p�mg >�, registrations it is probably over Saturday at the same home. He also noted that , the Grey- "We've got to make a start 80 by -now. Since most of these are Mr, and Mrs. Gordon Mann, Bruce Tourist Council, with the someplace," the club ,was told. family memberships and Susan, Stephen and Michael, help of the ministry of natural A trail ride immediately estimating three persons per accompanied by Mrs. Sheldon resources, recently published following the meeting removed family, this gives the club an Mann, visited Sunday with Ms. the t copies of a map showing all any doubt that the heavy traffic effective membership of close to Marilyn Connell of Clinton. the trails in pits area which is is indeed "playing hell with the �0 he noted, making it one of the �•, and Mrs. Alex Graham being distributed around the trails" as Mr. Crump claimed. largest organizations in the area. spent a few days in Chatham and province. Trails that had been im- Not only does this break an maculate following hours of also visited with Mrs. James MNR pledge that the information grooming by club members the Huetwith of Wallaceburg. provi0ed by the clubs would not previous week now resembled MISS LINDA RENWICK Marlene and Michele Coulter be published, he declared, it also the surface of a frozen lake with spent Sunday afternoon with threatens to create a black eye three-foot waves and were Belmore MIs. E. Kress of Listowel. for the clubs since the map is five almost impassable as the result Mr. and Mrs. James Moloney years out of date and many of the of weekend traffic. and Christopher of Bramalea trails have been moved. On a bright note Doug Filsinger A large crowd attended the spent the weekend at the home of Snowmobilers in general will get told the club the Canadian dance in the Belmore complex on Mr. and Mrs. John McCutcheon. a bad name if people start National and Canadian Pacific Saturday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Ron Mann, - • • driving up and running around on railways are proposing to close The Masons held a bonspiel at Douglas, Robbie and Janice • • farms where there are no longer their rail lines through this area, the curling rink on Saturday. spent the weekend with Mr. and trails, he warned. opening up the possibility of a 125 Wilfred Johann is currently a Mrs. Merle Weber of Kimberley. • He said it's time to put a stop to mile trail loop along the rights -of- patient in Wingham and District Mr. and Mrs. Cameron the government's attitude of way. Hospital. Robertson, Teeswater, visited t • • letting the clubs do all the work He urged the regional In hockey action last week, the Tuesday with Mr. and Mrs. • • and it grabbing all the glory for snowmobile associations to get Tykes defeated Kurtzville 2-1. Gordon Edgar. Mr. and Mrs. the trail network. busy with the government to The Squirts defeated Clifford 5-1 Charles Robson, Mr. and Mrs. HOW TO POLICE? ensure these are kept ^open for but were badly beaten by Cameron Robson, all of Durham, Most club members agreed public use. Trail bikes could use Belgrave 9-0. The Pee Wees slid Murray Gaunt, MPP, Wingham, ���� traffic on the trails should be them in the summer and past Clifford 7-1 and the Bantams and Mr' and Mrs. Frank Kemp, regulated, but Jon Bateson and snowmobiles in winter, he noted. tied Clifford 4-4. The Juvenile Molesworth, also visited at the others questioned how they would However he added this is still Girls blanked Ripley 10-0. same home. and h be policed. at least five years off and agreed Mr. and Mrs. Clifton Coulter, Fred McGee suggested the that in the meantime place to start is to talk to the out- snowmobilers remain dependent of4own snowmobilers. 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He sold his because his e was deteriora . He said it would be a big help if milk and bread were delivered, as he relies on neigh- bors to give him a ride to town for his shopping. grocery I'very f� "I'm nate because I have a good neighbor here," he said. Dr. Fuller explained that though many people who don't have cars do have neighbors who are willing to help, people don't want to be a burden. "They wouldUM to feel that they're independent to the extent that they can come and go when they want to." In most cases people who ask for rides just ask for help when they have to go sho ung or wish to go to church but the don't ask for rides for a pleasure trip. "Beyond &,, church, they didn't get out too often," he said of RDOP survey findings. GROUPS ARE TRYING ALTERNATIVES Je#n Young of the Town and Country Homemakers tole 61C meeting her organization recently started coordinating a volunteer driver bureau. The program is just getting started and few people know of it, but instead of having user fees, people who use the phone in service make donations and drivers are paid for their mileage• Drivers will to right to the homes of people needing a ride, so the service is good for senior citizens who can't walk far in the wii w. Town and Country Homemakers representatives are putting up notices of the service in grocery stores and are available to speak to groups to explain the volunteer driver program. Most of the drivers who have of- fered their services so far have been retired people who really en joy getting out and beingwith other seniors, Mrs. Young said. Anne Marie Burnell of the centre for the homebound in , Clinton reported that volunteers had logged`a total of 45,375 miles so far drivigg people to and from the centre for the homebound- and driving the homebound to the centre's activities. Most of the drivers are paid mileage for the rides, but charge no other fees. Many of the drivers won't accept any money for the service. A number of people attending the RDOP meeting offered to help the g, vup find w,pus determining the feasibility of some of the tran- sportation alternatives presented. They will meet with the RDOP Huron Committee to discuss ways of kielping people in need of better tran- sportation. or Snap up the opportunities in the CLASSIFIED ADS The Advance -Times 357-2320 LYNN HOY ENTERPRISES Hwy. 86 East Wingham, Ont., NOG 2WO 519-357-3435 41