The Wingham Advance-Times, 1987-10-27, Page 01Public hearing on 'railway
closing will be in Wingham
A public hearing on a Canadian
National Railway proposal to
abandon the operation of its Kin-
cardine •subdivision between
Listowel and Wingham will be held
in the Town Hall auditorium on
Tuesday, Nov. 3 at 10 a.m.
At that time the Railway Trans-
port Committee of the Canadian
Transportation Commission will
hear submissions from the public on
the CN proposal.
In a letter sent to all members of
the business community, Mayor
Jack Kopas urged all businessmen
or their agents to attend the hearing
in order to, make the committee
aware of the town's support for
continued rail aft -vice.
"Public demonstration of support
for continued rail service will be
measured by the committee on the
basis of letters received, briefs
presented, and numbers in at-
tendance," Mr. Kopas said in his
appeal to the business community.
Canadian National has ' renewed
its application to abandon the 28.93 -
mile Listowel to Wingham branch
line because of claimed continuing
financial losses on its operation. In
its notice for the, meeting, the
Railway Transport Committee lists
the railway's actual losses for the
past three accounting years for the
Listowel to Wingham branch line at
$210,773 in 1983, $379,806 in 1984 and
$314,396 in 1985.
WINNERS — Don Young, chairman of the Jump Rope for Heart pro
gram for the Huron Chapter of the Heart and Stroke Foundation of On-
tario, presents the trophy for most participation to F. E. Madill Secon-
dary School representatives, Grade 10 students Patrica Daer and
Alison Wardrop, and teacher Betty Shaw.
Planning department hosts
day-longs forxlerks
Municipal clerks and building
officials from across Huron County
gathered in Goderich recently for a
day -long seminar hosted by the
county's planning and development
department.
Purpose of the seminar was to
discuss a number of planning and
development topics, including the
delegation of certain provincial
functions to the county, such as:
approval of plans of subdivision,
plans of condominium, certain road
closings, part lot control bylaws, and
Madill students presented
Jump Rope for Heart trophy
By Yvonne Reynolds
Organ donation is the ultimate
example of charity, guest speaker
Bill Brady told the volunteers at-
tending the annual appreciation
dinner of the Huron Chapter of the
Ontario Heart and Stroke Foun-
dation.
The well-known broadcaster, a
director of the Canadian Heart and
Stroke Foundation, a member of the
executive committee of the John P.
Robarts Research Institute, and
vice-chairman of the board of
directors of University Hospital in
London, related the story behind the
latest heart transplant at University
Hospital.
On Oct. 18, a young girl was
pronounced brain-dead after a year-
end collision in Vancouver. Her
family asked the doctors what they
could do to ensure that their
daughter's death was not in vain.
Meanwhile, a 52 -year-old man had
been flown to London after a virus
had moved to the wall of his heart,
causing ideopathic cardiac
myopathy. ,The man was slowly
slipping away.
A Challenger jet left Vancouver in
the early hours of Wednesday
morning, bringing a strong 19 -year-
old heart to London. At 10 a.m. the
Newfoundlander had a new lease on
life. '
Before the funeral of the Van-
couver girl had taken place, her
heart was beating in another chest.
"T'he man will live to be a
productive citizen, to see his
children grow," Mr. Brady said. "In
Vancouver, a little girl is gone, but
part of her lives on in someone else."
Donating one's organs is a way of
becoming immortal, he added.
Mr. Brady also mentioned some of
the research going on at the Roberts
Institute. Scientists there are
committed to finding the answer to
the devastating effects of the "long
nightmare" of Alzheimer's, the
killing and maiming of diabetes
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melitis, the genetic predisposition to
strokes which hit in mid-life, and
other illnesses which rob and
destroy.
A recent $16.5 million (U.S.) grant
from the National Institute of Health
in Washington will be a big help in
looking for those answers.
Mr. Brady, a stellar example of
someone who donates many hours to
causes in which he believes, com-
mended the men and women who
work for the Heart and Stroke
Foundation. Volunteers are the
"heart and sou]" of the foundation,
he said.
"Being a volunteer is painless,
and what you do comes back one
hundredfold," Mr. Brady added.
Incoming President Byron
"Barney" Goldsmith singled out
volunteer Don Young for special
praise. Mr. Young was one of two
Ontario residents to be honored with
a distinguished service award for his
dedication to the Jump Rope for
Heart program.-
Mr.
rogram.Mr. Young in turn presented the
representatives from F. E. Madill
Secondary School in Wingham with
a trophy, declaring them the win -
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commenting on zone bylaws.
A presentation on the effects of
delegation of each of these planning
functions was delivered by Wayne
Caldwell and Patty Munkittrick of
the county's planning and
development department, and
Norma Forrest and Anna
D'Allessandro of the Ontario
Ministry of Municipal Affairs. A
discussion period folllowed.
As a precursor to the delegation
topic, a presentation was given by
planners Cindy Fisher and Scott
Tousaw on the department's various
functions including, planning,
economic development, tourism and
energy co-ordination for each of
Huron County's 26. municipalities.
Sue MacPherson, from the London
office of the ministry of, municipal
affairs, explained the ministry's
structure and the responsibilities of
its various departments.
The morning session closed with a
presentation by Gary Davidson, the
county's director of planning and
development, on the proposed waste
management master plan which
would study the existing waste
disposal system in the county,
analyze the various options for
waste disposal such as recycling,
landfilling, and incineration, and
identify potential sites for such
facilities. Mr. Davidson advised that
Huron County Council would be
deciding whether to embark on the
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OT available at Wingham x,
hospital over seven ye
Wingham and District Hospital is
joining with many Canadian
hospitals this week in recognizing
the contribution to health care of-
fered by occupational therapy
services.
"Occupational therapy ... the
innovators when daily living
becomes a challenge," is the theme
for National Occupational Therapy
week which started yesterday and
continues through to Saturday, Oct.
31.
Occupational therapy (OT) has
been available at Wingham and
District Hospital for over seven
years and is located in the
rehabilitation services department.
Occupational therapists, through
assessment and treatment, assist
physically and -or psychologically
handicapped individuals to achieve
an optimum level of independence.
Clients or patients treated in OT
include people who have illnesses
which affect their functioning in
daily activities — strokes, arthritis,
multiple sclerosis to name a tow.
Children who are often described
as slow learners may have
developmental delays which require
therapy. Children with physical
handicaps such as cerebral palsy
may also need OT, and people with
joint problems are often referred to
occupational tberapiats for
fabrication of splints or insoles.
Occupational thferapy originated
1u the early IM when work or
occupation therapy was prescribed
to help the healing process. Further
development of OT occurred during
and after the two World Wars when
it became a restorative type of
therapy.
Wounded soldiers were in need of
therapy to assist in learning to do
things for themselves again. They
were also in need of a new oc-
cupation after their injuries, and
OTs assisted these men to adapt to
their change in lifestyle.
Occupational therapy has evolved
over the years and now has a much
broader perspective. Underlying
any treatment given is the goal of
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Law.
optimum independence the
patient, particularly in activities of
daily living.
In Wingham, occupational
therapist Jean Montgomery works
as a team . member with other
hospital staff such as discharge
planning, kinesiology, nursing,
nutritional, physiotherapy, social
work and speech language
pathology. The OT to involved in
many programs, including
rehabilitation program for
physically disabled adults, reac-
tivation program for long-term or
chronic care patients, developmen-
tal stimulation program for children
with perceptual and physical dis-
abilities, and the arthritis education
program.
In the rehabilitation program, the
OT assists stroke patient@ in Warn-
ing to be independent again In the
normal activities of daily living such
as dressing. Some stroke patients
need exercises for a hemiplegic arm
while others need practice in per -
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Parents can do something:
on student drinking driving
Parents who have asked thusm-
selves what they can do to help
prevent students from drinking and
driving will have an opportunity to
hear those questions answered
tomorrow evening at F. E. Madill
Secondary School.
Maeve Connell of the Addiction
Research Foundation's London
office will address the parents at 7
p.m. on their role in curbing the
increasing statistics of drinking and
driving and its disturbing effects,
including death.
Mrs. Connell's appearance is a
part of the Huron County Board of
Education's Alcohol Drug
Awareness Program for Today
(ADAPT). The program will be
concentrated for the next two weeks
at Huron County secondary schools,
including Madill where the program
for students begins tomorrow
morning with an appearance by the
university group BACCHUS which
directs its, message to students
hound for university and community
Wingham holds
annexation talks
in closed session
The Town of Wingham opted to
hold its preliminary discussions with
an Ontario Ministry of Municipal
Affairs fact finder in camera last
week.
At a special meeting called last
Tuesday to allow town council to
present its preliminary proposal to
annex lands currently within Turn -
berry Township, council accepted
the recommendation of the fact
finder and held the discussion in a
closed "in camera" session.
In an interview following that
meeting, Mayor Jack Kopas told
The Advance -Times that council had
presented fact -finder Don Taylor, of
Toronto, with the town's proposal on
the annexation issue.
Although he would not divulge
details of the proposal, Mr. Kopas
said council expected the next step
in the procedure will be for Mr.
Taylor to present the Wingham
position to Turnberry council.
"At this point in time, the two
councils will not be meeting face to
face or around the table," Mr. Kopas
said. "I think it is Mr. Taylor's role
at this time to act. more as a
mediator."
However, council did appoint a
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Public meeting
is first step in
pilot program
The Huron County Board of Health
is expecting input from a public
meeting on Thursday, Oct. 29 to
provide the basis for the first step in
the development of a new pilot
program for the elderly.
Interested groups,' agencies and
individuals are invited to attend the
public meeting at 2 p.m. in the
Clinton Town Hall to learn more
about the "One Stop Access"
program.
The pilot program is funded en-
tirely by the provincial government
and will assist with the development
of a more co-ordinated approach to
the provision and planning of ser-
vices for the elderly by improving
access to services.
In Huron County, the board of
health has been selected as a local
authority and is responsible for the
planning, development and
management of One Step Access.
college next year.
At Madill, the program also will
feature a road trauma presentation
by Dr. Peter Knight of Hamilton, a
discussion on the consequences of
drinking and driving presented by
Pat Franks of Flesherton, and a
presentation on alcohol and drug
concerns by retired RCMP drug
investigator John Townsend of
Wardsville.
In addition, the Wingham Optimist
Club is sponsoring a presentation by
the Survival Guide Project, a multi-
media concert -styled production
focusing on substance abuse.
The Huron -Perth group of in-
surance brokers has also added its
support to the ADAPT program,
Sinclair Wardrop and Murray
Hunter, F. E. Madill's represen-
tatives on the ADAPT committee
said last week while announcing the
program here. The Wingham
business community has also been
approached to help, they added.
Drinking and driving is now -con-
sidered a, major problem among
high school students today, Mr.
Hunter said, because of alcohol's
easy accessibility and a certain
amount of social acceptance. 'Phe
program, however, is particularly
concerned with the increasing
number of deaths related to drinking
and driving.
Mr. Hunter and Mr. Wardrop each
stressed their hope that parents will
take advantage of the opportunity to
hear Mrs. Connell.
"I heard a good quote the outer
day," Mr. Wardrop said. "You can't
teach a dead kid."
Donors should
notify clerk if
names incorrect
Members of the fund-raising
committee for the new library have
become aware that some of the
names of donors may not be listed on
The Advance -Times thermometer
exactly as they should appear an the
commemorative plaque.
If such is the case, donors are
asked to contact Clerk -treasurer
Byron Adams to advise him of the
necessary changes.
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Teacher' PD Day spent
studying natural resources
By Toby Rainey
Elementary school teachers from
all across Huron County took to the
woods — and to the fields, streams
and hedgerows — Friday, as they
spent their professional develop-
ment day learning more about the
natural resources in the area and
ways they can teach their students
more about the subject.
Despite raw winds and
threatening rain, the teachers split
into small groups and travelled to
the Wawanosh Nature Centre, the
Bannockburn Wildlife Area near
Varna, the Hullett Conservation
Area, and farm conservation sites
and woodlots across much of the
county in their pursuit of knowledge
on the out-of-doors.
"We welcome the opportunity to
make teachers more aware of the
need for outdoor education," said
Paul Weitendorf, community
relations co-ordinator for the
Maitland Valley Conservation
Authority. "We hope that this day
will also allow them to see the
facilities that are available in the
area, and to learn how to make them
available to their classes."
The day began at 8:30 a.m. with
coffee and juice in the Blyth and
District Community Centre,
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followed by a keynote address from
Bill Andrews, a science professor
from the University of Toronto.
At 10 a.m. they boarded buses for
the field sites or went to Blyth Public
School where a number of
workshops and seminars were held
for the less athletically inclined.
The entire group returned to Blyth
for lunch, then set out again for the
afternoon, returning at 3 p.m. for a
summary of the day, prepared by
Tom Purdy, director of the Pond
Mills Outdoor Education School in
London.
The day was jointly :.ponsored by
the Ontario Public School Teachers'
Federation - Huron, the Huron
Women Teachers' Association, the
Ontario Ministry of , Natural
Resources, the Maitland Valley
Conservation Authority, and the
Ausable-Bayfield Conservation
Authority. Personnel from each
organization helped organize the
day as well as serving as tour guides
and workshop leaders.
It was the first time outdoor
education has been offered to Huron
County teachers on such a large
scale, and the experience will
hopefully allow them to place a
strong emphasis on outdoor
education in their classrooms
LIBRARY OPENS — The new Belgrave Library facNty opened on Saturday with an open house and puppet
show for children. Several members of the Huron County Library Board were in attendance to welcome
patrons to the library's new quarters. Belgrave Library Supervisor Irene Lamont signs out a book for Mildred
Vulll of Belprav+e, whlb board member Isabel Elston, County Assistant Librarian and Children's Librarian
Sharon Cox and board members Bob Ritter and Martina Schneiker look on. (Blyth Citizen photo)
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