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The Wingham Advance-Times, 1979-05-16, Page 1LAND -KA -AIR FACKA" TOM - buussiness or pleosvre - Wok now! m T/rAIOU � K Listowel, Oetorio lO 2!1.2111 Coll Toll Free 1-OW26&3220 FIRST SECTION Wingham, W0404 WAY. 'flay 16.1979 Smgle Copy Not Over 85c a h es H spit I P set Laet i n wi 'Oth e Mini th-'-'try Members of the Wingham and instead found itself being told the conjunction with the pilot project restored if it decides to gq along 1 apologize." an obviously District Hospital board, doctors hospital still faces the prospect of turned out,to be only so much thin with the experiment • Ho%X.V4W. angry Norman Hayes. executive he s id the ministry air. has 'ill' director of the Wingham hospital, and other interested citizens closing seven beds this year. i`� received a rude shock last week And when the topic did turn to Dr. Allan Dyer, the senior tention at this time bf supp�yin0 told the board. "It's obvious what fk nistry official in charge of any capital funding. c 1 hear in one location is different when they met here with discussion of the HSO board mi representatives of the provincial members found surprises institutional health care, told the "What capital funding do yob from what i hear in another ti 9 health ministry. awaited them there too. What board he thinks the HSO "cer- need^" he asked. "We're 110t location I've been had." Expecting to hear details of the they had regarded as a com taiply would be an interesting talking about putting a buildiajg . Following a` meeting last : health services organization mitment by the health ministry concept for you to embrace" and up or changing the practiced month with ministry officials inf' tW fry to apt the inPtiu•ine iust different fut- Toronto Mr Haves hari fnhi the Y (HSO) the ministry has proposed to tuna 'construction of a i;i Yromis� ., € t;; as a pilot project here, the group million addition to the hospital in hospital's full operating funds ding." board the ministry agreed to provide capital funding for an �- expansion to the hospital in 6F conjunction with the HSO. The Vit' Director calls ministryoffer a addition would provide more facilities for outpatient treat- ment as well as offices for doc- tors and other health-related organizations. He said the added facilities are necessary to permit"°; . The Ontario health ministry's He pointed out that when the obtained a similar commitment the hospital to provide the type of offer to reinstate seven beds here ministry deducted 1188,000 from from Health Minister Dennis treatment required by an HSO.' However, Chetram Singh, a as chronic treatment beds the hospital budget this year for Timbrell regarding conversion of ngz , (detailed in another story on this the 14 active treatment beds active to chronic beds. will make Ilii' member of the ministry team, page) is nothing more than a declared surplus it had to add out. Goderich Administrator c claimed that at the earlier misleading' numbers game, some money to bring the budget Elmer Taylor said last week the meeting, "We were talking r s level in generalities," and that the executive back u to last ea _ e Y Norman Hayes, P Y hospital behoves rt has a commit ministry had never promised director of Wingham and District line with its commitment that no ment from Mr. Timbrell to allow Hospital charged Monday. hospital would receive fewer the conversion, but added that capital funding would be dollars this year. Once this available. Repeating his contention that some interesting verbal com- COULD STILL LOSE BEDS° bonus' is deducted from the �> the bottom line in this whole ments from'others in the health According to Dr. Dyer the promised 184,000, together with minist have cast doubt on the affair is dollars and not beds, he r Y Wingham hospital could still face other adjustments for the amount agreement. said the so-called reinstatement g a cut in beds, despite what board` of money the Hospital is expected P of beds offered by ministry of -members believed was a pledge to collect through the daily user He said that following the ficials during a meeting here last GRADUATE' by Health Minister Dennis fee for chronic patients, less than meeting with Mr. Timbrell, y week would return only 12,780 to g Timbrell to restore fundi and '• 12,800 would be left, he which took lace the same da as Rick Demaray, Son of Mr. the hospital budget—not nearly calculated. P Y and Mrs. Max Demaray . Permit all beds to remain open. the Wingham hos ital's meeting enough to keep the beds open. At an operating cost of roughly g P ng RR 2, Bluevaie, .recently: After meeting with Mr. Tim - with the minister, the board sent brell a delegation from the board The rest of the $84,000 the beds 1100 per bed per day, that would a letter asking for written con- graduated from Centralia and a local citizens' action TALKING WITH AUSTRALIA is Wingham Mayor William Walden. Bill Cruikshank, . should be worth under the be sufficient to keep the seven firmation of what it interpreted College of Agricultural Tedi- committee reported he had of- standing, now talks with Wingham, New South Wales, Australia, every week. The local ministry's $12,000 per excess bed beds open for about four days. P notogy in the Agricultural, ma and the or of the Australian town talked with each other by single side bandpenaltypalty formula would disappear Mr. Hayes also said he is to be the commitment. It is ex- Busipess Management' pro.. fered the possibility of converting mayor mayor back into the ministry's coffers waiting with interest to hear how petting a reply to the letter this gram. Rick plans to:. seek the 14 active treatment beds radio Monday morning and compared notes on the two towns. The Australian mayor will through its budgeting process. the Goderich -hospital, which week. employment in the Poultry the new visit here during the town's centenary In August. rY' funding formula *to 'floating' industry. beds, which could be used for • • • i0m,active or chronic care as needed.����r�''�n m or to v�s�t Pre�l in hand Tuesday night Dr. Dyer denied the meeting here last -r having heard of the term • • floating' and said figuresIll/* ham ear' �n Av ustpr(, d, 1 by the hospital show ag y gfor biggrade. on August 4 � , tor only seven more chronic t" The mayor of Wingham, New dreamed of talking with someone transmission conditions .were treatment beds, not 14. South Wales, Australia, will be so far away. He described the excellent Monday morning, so Pennsylvania. nin s of the big weekend in Mr Singh, who is the here for Wingham's .centennial local town and Mr. Walker, in an Mr. Walden and Mr. Cruikshank "Ii you wanted the parade to Y g g ministr. 's senior consultant for start tomorrow morning we could The parade will start at 1 p.m. August. this are: paid the ministry would celebrations in August. accent similar to an English were able to talk with three probably get it arranged," Tom at the intersection of Josephine Pilots from a large area will be considei request from the Local Mayor William Walden accent, reported that his 'New amateur radio operators in the Deyell, parade committee Street and the Turnberry B line invited to fly into Wingham for F.�s ital re fund an additional got the news Monday morning Smith Wales town is one of the Australian town, though by 9 chairman told the Wingham It will proceed down Josephine one of the community breakfasts P when he talked with Bill Walker, smallest in the area and that one a.m. their `iradio signals were Street to Victoria Street, turn and to spend the da helping seven chru..ic beds, which he said Centennial Committee at its right, and then to Minnie Street Y P should cope reasonably well with mayor of the Australian town, of the main industries in the area weakening. weekly meeting last Thursday. 8 celebrate the town's centenary. the patient .oad. He noted the with the aid of Bill Cruikshank's is the timber industry. and back to the marshalling zone If the weather is good as man 2,000 -watt single side band radio. Mr. Walden also talked with Mr. Cruikshank now talks with preparations for the Saturday,g Y hos ital had asked that all 14 be The Australian mayor, his wife Ralph Metcalfe, Wingham, g in the industrial area in the north P Wingham, Australia radio t' -Au 4 rade are in cod shape, as 100 airplanes could fly in for kept open as `holding' beds, but operators each Monday morning. g• Pa g Pe, west part of town. the event, Dave Cameron said. declared that no such beds exist Helen and his father will be in Australia, deputy mayor. Radio Y ng• with a number of good bands There will be first and second a midway hadn't been booked town for a day or two in the first booked, Shriners committed to prizes in the best decorated Y in any other hospital across the week in August while on cumin antique cars scheduled P as of the Thursdaymeeting,but g g. q commercial, most humorous, the committee was hopefuit can province. vacation. He expressed hopes Firemen answer false alarms to come and sores of groups, "We don't have holding g P most original and best centennial et a midway for much of the g that the local town will have a The Wingham Fire Depart- fire fighting and prevention area businesses and individuals in- g Y (floating) P theme categories. In addition successful celebration of its forested in entering floats in the Aug. 1 to 6 centennial week. Mr. Hayes angrily responded mnt answered two false alarms ' and to participate in workshops B there will be a 1100 prize for the Betty Thompson, daughter that the hospitalgsurve owed centnayy and said he is looking in the last week, but no alarms on fire fighting, hazards, fire two or three hour centennial best overall float and prizes for When making plans fo; the of Robert and the late Mrs. all the beds here are full anyway, forward to his visit to his town's when there were fires. investigations, the Ontario Fire Parade• the best horses. beer tent which will be erected Thompson of Wingham, re- al matter what the are alley, Canadian namesake. Fire Chief Dave Crothers Code, dealing with arson and the Bands already booked for the For area people who can't adjacent to the Wingham Arena cently graduated from Cen- and charged that the are called, is The Walkers will arrive in reported the department thinks it transportation of hazardous paraCavaliers of Kitchener -Waterloo, parade committee s e include the Kiwanis enter a float in the look ng for suggested arade the on aresd residents of thoad, Don e area tralia College of Agricultural "going around again" on the Toronto about July 31 and will knows who is phoning in the false materials by truck or rail. the Standish Senior Band from sponsors to help offset the high where the beer tent will be Technology in the Food Serv- matter of surplus beds. leave Aug. 6. Though they wish to alarms and is checking into the Standish, Michigan, the Durham cost of bands for the big'parade. located should receive some ice Management program "We've already been over that see other sights in Canada they matter. Mr. Crothers was one of 230 fire Girls Drum and Bugle Band, the In other business the cen- recognition for putting up with with honors. Betty plans to ground," he declared. "That just `"'ill spend a day or two in Wing- The fire chief was at an Ontario chiefs from across the province Brussels Legion Pipe Band and tennial committee approved a the noise which will result from seek employment in the hos- won't do!" ham-, Association of Fire Chiefs con- to participate in the convention . the Teeswater Pipe Band. There plan to have an airplane fly in for nightly celebrating. No decision pitality industry as a food Dr. Dyer offered that the Mr. Walden told the vention in Cornwall most of last and will report to town council on wilralso be a band from Butler, the Saturday and Sunday mor- was made on the matter. service supervisor. Please turn to Page 3 Australians he had never week to share experiences in the the five-day meeting. / Public approval of plaza plan dominates open meeting .. The desire for increased supermarket competition in Wingham and economic growth in town set the tone foh a public meeting called by the planning board to gcp:..,.._ .hlic yiowa fnr and against a . shopping plaza south of the Canadian Tire store on Highwav 4. About 130 people were at the meeting May 8 to hear the proposal of developer Jerry Sprackman, the objections by M. Loeb lawyer Lindsay Elwood and to voice their own opinions. in a show of hands at the end of the meeting 35 Wingham and area residents voted in favor of having the plaza at the site and six opposed it. The rest didn't vote. Tom Deyell, chairman of the meeting and of the planning board, noted that the vote by people at the meeting is only an indication of how area people feel about the proposed development and neither the planning board nor town council has to heed the vote when deciding whether to amend the official plan to allow a plaza to locate at the site. There were fears that both taxes and flood waters will rise if land fill is added to the site and a plaza built. A number of people at the, meeting, held in the courtroom of the town hall, expressed concern about the affect on flood levels of filling the plaza site with land fill b Flood levels would rise only about one tenth of an inch if the whole 2.8 acre plaza site were filled to the necessary level, according to the Maitland Valley Con- servation Authority, Gary Davidson, Huron County Planning Departnne„t head reported. Mr. Sprackman rejected merchant Lee Vance's suggestion that property taxes might rise in Wingham if the plaza is built. He said the plaza would pay for the services provided. "i can assure you that not one dollar is (going to be) paid by the people of this community," he declared. The developer is also concerned about the flood waters of the Maitland River. but said he has no intention of con- structing a building which floods or a parking lot which becomes submerged. Tom Miller said 'a plaza would be a definite economic benefit to Wingham and area and said that while the local supermarkets would find themselves competing against a giant corporation, the situation wouldn't be more difficult than that faced by many local operations which corppete against large companies like Canadian Tire and Simpsons -Sears. • Mr. Sprackman's Listowel plaza is scheduled to pay $37,000 in property taxes this year, Mr. Miller said. He pointed out that this money goes to the municipality and contributes toward the prosperity of the community. UNFAiR COMPETITION^ A larize supermarket operated by a big food chain could be unfair competition for existing locally -owned supermarkets and small food stores. Mr Flwood charged. A large food chain would likely operate for the first while with low prices until the existing food stores could no longer compete and then food prices would rise, he said Though Mr Sprackman claimed a Wingham plaza would stop an estimated 35 per cent of the grocery buying power from leaving the area. Mr F,Iwood said a plaza wouldn't be such a drawing card. bringing shoppers back to town Experience indicates that if a plaza opened in Wingham, downtown stores would either suffer or close, Nlr Elwood charged. The M. Loeb lawyer was met with jeers when, in arguing how well Ken Crawford's downtown iGA store serves the community, he said the store had a "great deal of parking". When the room had quieted he said the iGA had "potential for a great deal of parking'' TYPES OF STORES Mr. Deyell reported the planning board had developed a list of types of stores it would allow in a plaza should the site be rezoned to allow a grouped commercial development. The planning board favors having a food store, a drug store, a fabrics outlet, a financial institution, a barbershop, a sporting goods store, an industrial supply operation and a restaurant or fast food outlet. The planning board developed the list earlier this year. In the 40 plazas Mr. Sprackman has built in Ontario in the past seven years in towns similar in size to Wingham the plazas have included supermarkets. financial institutions, small restaurants, hardware stores, barbershops and generally a drug store if the community has only ane. _ Newly developed small plazas rarely have fashion stores, Mr. Sprackman said. "You have nothing to fear here." he told those at the meeting. He said a plaza in town would create employment, would bring more shoppers to town regularly and would help Wingham prosper. "None of our developments are doing poorly," in the towns and cities where they are located. "in the other cases all the communities have prospered from it.,, The developer asked for a show of hands to indicate how many people regularly do grocery shopping out of town. Only a few admitted to shopping out of town once a week, a few more indicated they shopped out of town twice a month and mol$ than 20 showed they buy groceries out of town once a month. if a plaza were built many of these people would come back to town to do their major weekly shopping for groceries, Mr. Sprackman said. ''If you get them in for the major purchase here they're going to go and shop in those other stores " LOCAL STORES ARE FRiENDLY Patricia Bailey of Sun Rise Dairy said employees and owners at the locally owned supermarkets in Wingham treat customers with real friendliness, something not offered at many large chain stores She warned that the plaza could make it tough on local food stores for a while by dropping some prices below cost to at- tract customers and then hiking the prices after hurting the local stores. The ultimate decision on whether there should be a plaza should be made by the public, she said. Mr. Elwood got some sharp criticism from the crowd when he urged that existing independent stores be protected from large chains. Mr. Miller asked why the lawyer didn't recommend that Macintyre's Bakery be protected when the IGA store decided to open an instore bakery. He noted that r --- before IGA opened in Wingham there were several smaller grocery stores which served the community, but they were closed down by IGA competition. With the public meeting over the planning board will now make a recommendation to town council whether or not the town's official plan should lie amended to allow a plaza to locate at the site south of Canadian Tire, which is now zoned highway commercial and doesn't allow a supermarket to be built. The town council can overturn the planning board's recommendation with a two-thirds vote and anyone in town can appeal council's decision at an Ontario Municipal Board hearing if one is necessary. The day after the public meeting Mr. Deyell reported the planning board had instructed Mr. Davidson to draw up a proposed amendment to the Wingham official plan, which will be reviewed by the planning board before a decision is made. 0