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The Wingham Advance-Times, 1979-10-03, Page 1FIRST SECTION ser .R ih. �4* AM7 01 n rtin Wingham, Wednesdq, Oetaber 3, 1979 ► 0 n arm cos i w.hhoIds 4 ecision on%ionat..'I'o,nos Wince un 1, y Wingham councillors want to citizens' group spearheading the the costs are being allocated. Supreme Court. He also noted the all 100 beds open. The case is still have a clearer picture of just fundraising drive, will be invited At a meeting last month $12,425 requested would mean 3% with its lawyer and no court date what is going on before they to a council meeting Nov. 5 to members of the hospital board to four mills on next year's taxes has been set - decide whether to commit more present their case. and the Citizens' Action Com- and said he doesn't think the town At another meeting the than $12,000 to a legal battle Mayor William Walden sits on mittee picked $50,000 as a target can afford it. following week the board voted to being pursued by Wingham and the hospital board and Councillor to raise for the legal defence. "It seems to me they made an ' close 14 active beds and lay off 12 District Hospital. Gordon Baxter is board This is being pro -rated to the 15 admission they can do without full-time staff when it found the treasurer, however Mr. _Waldep municipalities which send most the beds when they closed them," hospital was running into the red. At a meeting Monday night explained he had been unable to of 1he patients to the hospital on Councillor Ray Walker com- council decided to withhold its attend the past several board " basis of the number of ad- mented, adding the only people decision on a request for a meetings and Mr. Baxter missions from each during the who would get rich from a court Post office donation to the hospital's legal declared a conflict of interest and past fiscal year. Wingham, with case would be the lawyers. defence fund until it can get some abstained from any discussion of about 25 per cent of the ad- Both he and Mr. Harrison • explanation of the matter. the matter. missions, is being asked for questioned why the hospital is expansion Hospital Administrator Nor- Councillors were not opposed to $12,425. going to the municipalities for man Hayes, Jack Kopas, the request for support from the Councillor Allan Harrison said money if it has funds of its own is p I a n n ed chairman of the hospital board's municipalities, but they had he isn't so sure this is a fair way put away. public relations committee, and some questions about the court of dividing up the costs, noting it Councillor Jack Bateson said The federal government has John Mann, who chairs the case itself and the way in which is possible last year was a "bad he thinks it's not a bad idea to ask awarded the contract for ad - year" for Wingham, with an the town and townships for ditional construction at the unusually large number of people money, pointing out that is Wingham Post Office and work K getting sick. possibly the hospital's only should begin shortly, Huron - Town council s h o � He suggested it might have source for donations of this Bruce MP Bob McKinley an been fairer to split•things on the amount. nounced Monday. basis of population, the number "I'm not against this," he He said the contract for the The anti -noise bylaw con- Reporting for the finance of people in each municipality declared. "I don't care if there $67,000 expansion project was sidered by council at its Sep- committee, Councillor Baxter who have access to the hospital if are only two beds up there, but if awarded Friday to Don Riehl tember meeting and later said he has received an interim they need it. I get sick I want one of them," Construction of New Hamburg. published in The Advance -Times financial report for the period Mr. Walden told council he had The hospital board decided in a The addition, which is to be was passed Monday night by a ending June 30 and it appears the favored going to court against the closed meeting Sept. 12 to take built onto the north end of the narrow margin. majority of accounts are within health ministry until he heard the the Ontario :health ministry to 'posting building, will contain a Clerk William Renwick the bounds of the budget. Windsor hospital lost a similar court in an attempt to get ad- new office for the postmaster and reported two letters were Councillor Harrison asked case on an appeal to the Ontario ditional funding needed to keep additional work area. received in response to council's whether it would be possible to invitatio$ for comments on the get an actual, up to date budget proposed bylaw, both in favor of picture for the police department the measure. and Mr. Baxter promised that is Councillor Allan Harrison said 0 the works for all departments Florence ReaWe o�nted �pp the two major thrusts of the and should be ready before the ; bylaw will be to control the next council meeting. playing of stereos at high volume 04)-0 and squealing of tires on private of Ontado AMR property, which is not covered . Council has accepted withdirecfor d the Hi Tr ff' A t regret the resignation of Marie LAND -SEA -AIR PACKAGE TOM Bu/sinus or pleasure • book now! sEltvicE Listowel, OntarioZO: "1-2111 Call T 11 Fro* 1-•00-263-3220 Single Copy Not Over Sk t un er alMy a he c . Reeve 'Joe Kerr questioned MacLean as assistant clerk- Mrs. Florence Reavie, presi- Programs for the retarded in out in supervised work groups to Rev. J. Hardy of Clinton and what effect it might have on noise treasurer effective Feb. 29, 1980. dent of the Wingham and District the area are now in full operatiot rake and bag leaves for Wingham Deanery to represent the church made by snow removal equip- In her letter of resignation Mrs. g MacLean noted she has been Association for the Mentally Re- tarded, - has been appointed and the local association execu - iitouseholders. Anyone interested tive is working toward a .... , l : ira:�l>is service can -arrange for it , I EN'OF T!;�E IR—Seventepfl OI Mary Beth Sanderson was u'gMm- %-'% .._ w '1nq night y meet late at t or earl m the working for the town for to regional director for the Ontario to build a new workshop. Adults, + telephoning the workshop. ed Queem""""o i e 4t a I`16W1 ktM% >t a r fast afur�y morning, but it was noted council years and said she feels it is time for Association for the Mentally . Re- at the Jack. Reavie Opportunity The workshop is in need of sup -Lorraine Mary Beth sponsorey HowtcJunior igoer plrs, Dins - d by JiWI, won over eight other can rant exem tions for such g P her to retire. tarded. Mrs. Reavie will rep- Workshop are busy with work plies for' its many craft projects more, first runner-up, Janice Behrns, Susan Edgar, Diane McLean, Nancy Fisher, Nancy activities. Council passed the bylaw by a No action has yet been taken to resent North Huron on this contracts with Stanley Door and and donations of the following Dixon, P Schneider and Sharon Brown. The new queen was crowned b last ear's Peggy 4 Y Y vote of -43 with one councillor look for a replacement in the governing board. Russell Fear. They are also going items _ would be appreciated: winner, Barbara Harkness. . absent position. Hospital vote will assess students and work yarn, dry cleaner bags, old with room teachers, resource Clerav is Homed Christmas decorations, quilt bat- ting, pieces of ribbon, lace and Baptist Church expanding nfelt, old candles, styrofoam, fab- Oppositionpromised to bylaw rics, spice jars, baby food jars, The Wingham Baptist Church seeing the construction, which is styrofoam and tin dishes, tin cans has begun work on an expansion being undertaken by members of with plastic lids, bottle caps, program which, when completed, the congregation on a volunteer empty tubes from paper towels, rezoning Cruickshank Park. will more than double its present basis. He said they expect to have etc. floor area. the walls up and the roof on Several new volunteers are The next stop a�ppears certain zone change. They, as well as any should realize the. opposition A new addition being con- before the snow flies. now helping with the pre- to be an Ontario Municipal Board other interested persons or strutted at the west side of the He also expressed his pleasure schoolers at the Silver Circle among townspeople fo the P P hearing for the proposal to groups, have 21 days in which to and recommended 103 -year-old church will hold at the growth in the size of the Nursery. The executive is grate- � file an objection with the town proposal i thea' Sunda School rooms a pastor's congregation which has made the ful to these interested le for construct senior citizens housing jeo drop it and look :., . .... for Sunday omop in a portion of Cruickshank Park. clerk. The bylaw, together with suitable land before more time study, library and washrooms as addition necessary. The old their help. Dori its meeting Monde any objections, is then forwarded well as an annex to accept church was b' enough for 103 Plans are being made for an During g y and money are wasted. P hg > F g overflow from the main sant- years, but now is too small to hold open meeting to be held on Octo- night Wingham council passed to the OMB, which will schedule a Hardly a day goes by without tuathe bylaw rezoning a section of 'hearing on the objections. someone dropping in at his shop store The addition will be two everyone, he noted. The addition Un e C urc . T at Wingham the park for the housing, however The rezoning bylaw had earlier to voice opposition to the plan, he stories high and finished in will accommodate 100 more United Church. The association several merchants who attended cleared the town planning board Angelstone to fit in with the adults at services, but he said he needs new members, and anyone which in a close vote, retain said. existing building. expects the church eventuallyinterested in the work it does is the meeting promised they will Mr. McGee pointed out that if continue their objections to force mended to council it bepassed. the plan goes through it would Pastor Ross Smith is over- will need even more room. invited to attend. an OMB hearing. The objectors, including Bob j Crawford, Fred McGee and John dace a residential complex right The merchants object to in the middle of a commercial placing a residential develop- Malick, all of whom operate area and said he doesn't think the ment in the middle of a com- businesses in the area right two •uses are compatible. mercial area. They feel the park around Cruickshank Park, "If it goes to the OMB I don't should either be left as a park or showed up at the meeting after think it will go through." developed commercially and also the bylaw had been passed, but He noted that virbually all the suggested the main street is too council agreed to hear them• surrounding businesses involve noisy for an apartment complex. Mr. Crawford declared all the use of machinery and predicted Council, on the other hand, business people on the main this would lead to noise com- continues to favor the park as a street oppose putting the apart- plaints. He would be right in the site for seniors' housing and ments in the park -and showed middle and he foresees problems although it realized the rezoning council a letter of opposition ..,;,,, is certain to draw objections written back in February by the said, commenting that perhaps decided to push it through and Wingham Business Association. he should sell his lot for senior see what happens. A delegation from the association citizens' housing and move The bylaw must now be cir- was supposed to come to council elsewhere culated to all property owners at that time, but never appeared. He emphasized he is in favor of within 400 feet of the proposed He added that councillors having the housing, but doesn't think it needs to be right down- town. Fe The only reason it's a good ive treated location is because it's near people downtown and the town owns the land so it can give the housing in Wroxeter mishap ministry ad�� �nki�a be an insurmountable difficulty Five persons were taken to injuries to two persons. to put the apartments a couplg of Wingham and District Hospital Douglas Moore of RR 2, blocks off the main street. for treatment -of minor injuries Teeswater, was travelling down Mr. Malick agreed there would following a collision between two a private drive at the ballpark in be a noise problem for apartment cars in Wroxeter Sunday night. a heavy fog when he ran off the residents living on the main Provincial police at the road and hit a Hydro pole, police street, which is a provincial high- Wingham detachment report that report. He and a passenger, way. He said he had talked with a vehicle driver by Robert Peel Tammy Mason of Listowel, were some seniors and they expressed of RR 1, Bluevale, was parked taken to Wingham hospital for reservations about living on main along Howick Street and then treatment. Mr. Moore was street with trucks going by and backed across the roadway into treated and discharged while stopping late at night or early in the path of another vehicle being Miss Mason was admitted. the morning. driven by George Dunkin of RR 4, James Houston of Wroxeter Mayor William Walden noted Goderich. and a passenger in his pickup the objections, but said council Both drivers were injured as truck were treated at hospital for has its own ideas and wants to go were three passengers in the minor injuries following a single to the end and see what happens. Dunkin vehicle: Larry Daer, vehicle accident along Highway It's now up to the OMB. he said. Gerald Gaynor and Kenneth 88 three miles east of Wingham. Council has agreed to sell a Reid, all of Goderich. Police report the truck ran off the portion of the park amounting to The accident occurred at about road and into the ditch; hitting about % of an acre to Ontario CHURCH GROWING—The Wingham Baptist Church has begun wont on an expansion 11:15 p.m. Sunday. some shrubs. The accident took Housing for slightly over 04,000. which will more than double the space available. The new addition will house Sunday Another accident in Wroxeter place at 6:45 p.m. Sept. 26. Also it is to be used for construction of School rooms, accommodate overflow from the existing sanctuary and hold a pastor's during the early hours of injured was Mrs. Kathleen a 19 -unit, subsidized rental, study, library room and washrooms. Saturday morning caused minor Cassidy of Wingham, seniors' apartment complex. � t • b ■ 4; f to liaison committee By Wilma Oke They will help complete the Rev. J. Hardy of Clinton and curriculum for the students being Rev. P. Mooney of Zurich have taught family life in the system's been named by the Stratford 19 schools. Deanery to represent the church In other business at the on the trustee -clergy liaison meeting held last week in Dublin committee of the Huron -Perth . Christine Kelly, speech Roman Catholic Separate School pathologist with the board, gave Board. I I a presentation on the language Board representatives on the and speech program she im- committee are trustees Arthur plemented in the schools last Haid and Michael Connolly- and year. During the past year 160 the representative from the students had in-depth administrative staff is John assessments and a treatment McCauley, superintendent of program was recommended for education. 97 of them. Father Hardy is also the Miss Kelly said articulation second member of the clergy on and language were the problems the family life advisory com- most commonly dealt with but mittee; Rev. A. Loebach of dysfluency (stuttering) and voice Goderich is the other member. and hearing problems were also assessed. During this school term she Hospital vote will assess students and work with room teachers, resource not unanimous tnarho,•a nn,i �e.�;�w The vote by the hospital board The board voted to support to close 14 active beds and lay off classroom use of the Farm Safety 12 staff members was not Association's elementary school unanimous, as reported by Board Program beginning next Sep - Chairman Bora Milosevic last tember• Present staff members week, although it was unopposed. will attend workshops and Board member Mrs. Rae receive training from association Elmslie reports she opposed the personnel and will then instruct move but abstained from voting the students. on the matter. The vote as well as an dhasssion of theclosings and MVCA gets g layoffs was held m closed session. Mrs. Elmslie was also critical grant for of the timing of the closures, which comes just as the board is flood warning preparing to go to court in an attempt to pry additional funding A S31,5W provincial grant will from the provincial health be used by the Maitland Valley ministry. Conservation Authority to im- She reported that at a meeting prove the flood warning system Sept. 12, at which the board for the 2,989 sq. km. (1,154 sq. approved taking legal action, mi.) area under its jurisdiction. Hospital Administrator Norman In announcing approval of the Hayes had assured members it grant, Natural Resources Minis - would not be necessary to close ter James Auld said that the pro - beds for several months. posed improvements to the However, at the regular meeting system will not only more effec- one week later the board was told tively service the flood warning it was necessary to close beds needs of the watershed residents, and lay off staff immediately. but will also facilitate future The hospital reported an management of the water re - estimated operating deficit of sources within the Maitland $0,628 as of the end of August as Authority. a result of the board's decision EctiuMted total cat of the pro - earlier in the year not to cut beds jest which wW be undertaken and lay off staff. over a five year period Is tj70,000. Christmas decorations, quilt bat- ting, pieces of ribbon, lace and Baptist Church expanding nfelt, old candles, styrofoam, fab- Oppositionpromised to bylaw rics, spice jars, baby food jars, The Wingham Baptist Church seeing the construction, which is styrofoam and tin dishes, tin cans has begun work on an expansion being undertaken by members of with plastic lids, bottle caps, program which, when completed, the congregation on a volunteer empty tubes from paper towels, rezoning Cruickshank Park. will more than double its present basis. He said they expect to have etc. floor area. the walls up and the roof on Several new volunteers are The next stop a�ppears certain zone change. They, as well as any should realize the. opposition A new addition being con- before the snow flies. now helping with the pre- to be an Ontario Municipal Board other interested persons or strutted at the west side of the He also expressed his pleasure schoolers at the Silver Circle among townspeople fo the P P hearing for the proposal to groups, have 21 days in which to and recommended 103 -year-old church will hold at the growth in the size of the Nursery. The executive is grate- � file an objection with the town proposal i thea' Sunda School rooms a pastor's congregation which has made the ful to these interested le for construct senior citizens housing jeo drop it and look :., . .... for Sunday omop in a portion of Cruickshank Park. clerk. The bylaw, together with suitable land before more time study, library and washrooms as addition necessary. The old their help. Dori its meeting Monde any objections, is then forwarded well as an annex to accept church was b' enough for 103 Plans are being made for an During g y and money are wasted. P hg > F g overflow from the main sant- years, but now is too small to hold open meeting to be held on Octo- night Wingham council passed to the OMB, which will schedule a Hardly a day goes by without tuathe bylaw rezoning a section of 'hearing on the objections. someone dropping in at his shop store The addition will be two everyone, he noted. The addition Un e C urc . T at Wingham the park for the housing, however The rezoning bylaw had earlier to voice opposition to the plan, he stories high and finished in will accommodate 100 more United Church. The association several merchants who attended cleared the town planning board Angelstone to fit in with the adults at services, but he said he needs new members, and anyone which in a close vote, retain said. existing building. expects the church eventuallyinterested in the work it does is the meeting promised they will Mr. McGee pointed out that if continue their objections to force mended to council it bepassed. the plan goes through it would Pastor Ross Smith is over- will need even more room. invited to attend. an OMB hearing. The objectors, including Bob j Crawford, Fred McGee and John dace a residential complex right The merchants object to in the middle of a commercial placing a residential develop- Malick, all of whom operate area and said he doesn't think the ment in the middle of a com- businesses in the area right two •uses are compatible. mercial area. They feel the park around Cruickshank Park, "If it goes to the OMB I don't should either be left as a park or showed up at the meeting after think it will go through." developed commercially and also the bylaw had been passed, but He noted that virbually all the suggested the main street is too council agreed to hear them• surrounding businesses involve noisy for an apartment complex. Mr. Crawford declared all the use of machinery and predicted Council, on the other hand, business people on the main this would lead to noise com- continues to favor the park as a street oppose putting the apart- plaints. He would be right in the site for seniors' housing and ments in the park -and showed middle and he foresees problems although it realized the rezoning council a letter of opposition ..,;,,, is certain to draw objections written back in February by the said, commenting that perhaps decided to push it through and Wingham Business Association. he should sell his lot for senior see what happens. A delegation from the association citizens' housing and move The bylaw must now be cir- was supposed to come to council elsewhere culated to all property owners at that time, but never appeared. He emphasized he is in favor of within 400 feet of the proposed He added that councillors having the housing, but doesn't think it needs to be right down- town. Fe The only reason it's a good ive treated location is because it's near people downtown and the town owns the land so it can give the housing in Wroxeter mishap ministry ad�� �nki�a be an insurmountable difficulty Five persons were taken to injuries to two persons. to put the apartments a couplg of Wingham and District Hospital Douglas Moore of RR 2, blocks off the main street. for treatment -of minor injuries Teeswater, was travelling down Mr. Malick agreed there would following a collision between two a private drive at the ballpark in be a noise problem for apartment cars in Wroxeter Sunday night. a heavy fog when he ran off the residents living on the main Provincial police at the road and hit a Hydro pole, police street, which is a provincial high- Wingham detachment report that report. He and a passenger, way. He said he had talked with a vehicle driver by Robert Peel Tammy Mason of Listowel, were some seniors and they expressed of RR 1, Bluevale, was parked taken to Wingham hospital for reservations about living on main along Howick Street and then treatment. Mr. Moore was street with trucks going by and backed across the roadway into treated and discharged while stopping late at night or early in the path of another vehicle being Miss Mason was admitted. the morning. driven by George Dunkin of RR 4, James Houston of Wroxeter Mayor William Walden noted Goderich. and a passenger in his pickup the objections, but said council Both drivers were injured as truck were treated at hospital for has its own ideas and wants to go were three passengers in the minor injuries following a single to the end and see what happens. Dunkin vehicle: Larry Daer, vehicle accident along Highway It's now up to the OMB. he said. Gerald Gaynor and Kenneth 88 three miles east of Wingham. Council has agreed to sell a Reid, all of Goderich. Police report the truck ran off the portion of the park amounting to The accident occurred at about road and into the ditch; hitting about % of an acre to Ontario CHURCH GROWING—The Wingham Baptist Church has begun wont on an expansion 11:15 p.m. Sunday. some shrubs. The accident took Housing for slightly over 04,000. which will more than double the space available. The new addition will house Sunday Another accident in Wroxeter place at 6:45 p.m. Sept. 26. Also it is to be used for construction of School rooms, accommodate overflow from the existing sanctuary and hold a pastor's during the early hours of injured was Mrs. Kathleen a 19 -unit, subsidized rental, study, library room and washrooms. Saturday morning caused minor Cassidy of Wingham, seniors' apartment complex. � t • b ■ 4; f