The Huron Expositor, 1979-01-18, Page 1119th Year
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A Sew Ontariohealth Ministry formula,
says Seaforth Community Hospital (SCH)
could lose 16 of its 40 active treatment beds,
a • All province's hospitals will get details of
their 1979 budgets from the ministry, based
.;on the new formula, tomorrow, Friday, in
Toronto SCH administrator Gordon
MelCenzio , and; board' ,member Jud Walker
will be at the meeting.
Although health minister Dennis Timbrell
has refused to say that the bed cuts, 106 in
. all of Huron. will be made this year. Mr.'
McKenzie said the fact that 1979 budgets
will be tallied about at the same time as the
formula, which caps for 3.5 beds per 1,009
PUC will tender
people in the- community, ` instead of the
present 4 beds per 1;,000 has "far reaching
implications,
SCH is Seaferth's largest industry with a
payroll of. over 5900,000 last year. Its total.
budget was $1.,314,000; g it °'
Mr, McKenziesaid the•everity of the
threat to the focal hospital depends on when
the bed cuts will be made. He also said he's
been unable to find out whar, the ministry
const population as the' o ulation which uses SCH
• when h computes its formula Seaforth
gainCommunity, along with allthe provinces
hospitals, expects to get some .answers to
for
ton the'se questions at l=riday's meetingwith
"ssrin . teuc
the mini .t .
m tr formula,.
.,:`. Act:ording• to the new •mi $ y a,
Fi °l BX'WILIVIA OICE.
h. .
The• - Seaforth Public Utilities
.s
, '.Conrtnssion will tender again.: for a new
one -ton truck -this time the tender calls for
(I) a price on .a new truck less trade•in of
present truck and (2) the 'price of a new truck
only. The the PUC will sell the present truck.
`In` e' previous request for tenders, the
commissioners did ;iiot feel the trade in value
. of the truck was nigh dough' to ' be
considered acceptable. 1 n�
The truck will be for the use of the • water
works department mainly, but available for.:
other town work if needed,.
The 70th annual • meeting of the Ontar
io.
Municipal Electrical Association will' be' held
in
Toronto on ' March 4, 5 and. 6. Seaforth
with its three man commission
restri.ti in ; .a -three-phase primary from:. Wingham` could lose 31 beds, Clinton . t3.
B B
Church Street to Adam Street. ' Exeter 10; and Goderich 21 hospitals beds.
.
h a 22 beds in Stratford
oximatel 1,200 feet/ and restringing, . Exeter
County could lose �.
(appy Y �......... �ity ..,
line or, times e an er' -
secondary!(f h b low if d theListowel and St Marys
The men will be ai .,ailing about eighY..ne -r tondon eoiildlose 461 ,hospital beds.
street' 'lights en the street.' These Were * -`"*
purchased by the town last year. •
The PUC is assisting the town to removal 1u s f ra i a n' coup
•of dead trees on town property, and.later wni
carry out a tree trimming program on. both
the front and rear lot distribution system.
•
Again this,year they will take out for
inspection about 200 meters (PUC has• 1,000)
b the de artnientf of Consumer' and.
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Corporate A .airs. This is part of a five year
,
'. cycle to _keep- the meters in good working
order -which is done to protect the
o
Leav
WELCOME TO SEAFORTH SDHS teacher Kerry Jones and his wife
Bell home on John street Where
'::.Julie . relax in -from of the.fire in the B
john [Tall exchanged
1:the nextyear. Mr. Jones aid Jail, ,
they'll be liviri ,for , 5 . : ,
fey 1g,, .,.,Janes,
i ....M.:Rail famil noow liVi+ng''l the
teaching positions for a�rearr ith the , l- Y .�.
: Canberra, berra, Australia: . ; - (Expmsttor o
British
ri i cb_.__ onwealth : countries, gives.
BYA
LICE GiBB B t sh _..nim ..
and JulieJones. ewe of Seaforth's teachers a chance for a firsthand experience.
Kerry,
1 m,' Mr. Jones
an instant 'n another educational system. ewes? residents, have had t 5
the joysof Canadian winters, first applied for the program. in 1977, The
Consumers initiation into
decision native c
at dee their n
votes No. fin 'Preparing for the new senior , cttizens When the couple left th a
'has `three
. ' . was made at the e Australia criteria were that the teacher must be "able to
.
.. • with the d. school program where he.was
meeting, 'if all wall attend along o be built on John streetthis year, to Seaforth 'they also left behin fit into •the s l p g
• comptex t.
bairn summer temperatures., going Y
manager, Tom Phillips. -The
P. P hethe new well is due the PliC is ready to,feed a line into the rear •'• um ouse ovr .,. .
Weather far completion this month The cold cath
ee area.
Mayor John Sinnamon markers being `removed by children•t The
Mr, Phillips. asked May
to come ,
t 'nhemust ••.be willing to
'Since settli .and that.1 g
n $
is in the
exchange his house,'car, etc: with the
here. they've learned that Australia
Y teacher a was ehan' in places. with. The
heh g g.
Jones are living in the Bali's house on John.
Street.
reference
d it their first
�l'.lie Jones a mpreference
under the : excl n e re ram would have
been Britain.. where they would have come
far a y' ear, ;
and
igeographyout ahead financially.
Mr. Jones, who is teaching
e:studies:at Seaforth Die rice High But since the wanted to escape city living
family life _t }
School, is on a one=year, exchange program. and experience a country town. 'they're not.
eacher John -tall. disappointed at endingu in Seaforth..
with Seaforth t pP .., p
exchange ro ram, which operates to The Jones, who are both' teachers, live inVt
TheP 8 •
• Concern was ex ressed about. :hydrant
has slowed construction. � . P _...: ,_". ,
town will be markers are pet upeach year so that location .,
for. a. list of Streets: which She P . ,
thisyis easy , for firemen in ease of
� working, on this year. The Mayor said major of. all. hydrantsY
r s.: .
work will be done on one or two streets, and tires. Town workmen do clean snow away
whenP lans are worked out the P.U.C. will but citizens can help. by doing. this when
," be notified.. y ra
his report to the Commission the' properties.
In p
ince someof the work keeping
manager Soil
a :, this `season such as the
PUC: staff busy, t
h d nts are located in front of or near their
The manager reported that to date no
freeze tips have been• re once on water
freeP.
work' on James >`St eet rebuilding the lines, lines..
throes of .
heat wave, with temperatures. of
a
38 .,g. -de grees C i the mid=afternoon.i: _r
p
.degrees
fact that the y would, leave summer
t
behind 'p roves just how much the. Jones
wanted to etcp-, etienee life. %ii another country,,
New ho. uses already built on the site of the former Viltage,.of Aima.
BY ELAINE TOWNSI1ENte. Some controversy has risen over the On January 24, 1857, the Villageof Alma streets, Don contends they have always
was registered. It consisted' of 38 lots on the . rbeen the -responsibility of the township:
Huron Road (Highway #8) in Hullett However, : Iiullett • council says it's
Township between Seaforth and Clinton: obligated to maintain the streets: only if
In a few years, the settlement boasted a Don brings them up• to Ontario Municipal
Methodist: Church, a blacksmith 'shop,:.. a_ .Standards, which it feels he`has not done..
carriage factory 'bed a hotel. The church • Five lots have been Sold and five houses
was: the focal point of the community with' have been built thus far: Don and Grace
Bible studies held regulerty•and an annual • stipulated ' that a certain standard' of
picnic taking place on the front lawn. of a housing should :be attained,' and Hullett.
nearby farm owned by the Dale family, . • councillor. and formerrreeve, John Jewitt;
Mrs. Edith Dale Baker of R"R.4, Clinton who has been, familiar with the proceedings
, recalls that•her father, John Dale Jr., often since they began says, "the council is
talked about Alma. He was a•rnember of pleased see the high class of homes in
Alma's gang - a group of nine young men the township,' .
whose meeting -place was a large rock, in When Pon Watson tried to sell lots••along
the •village instead of a modern • recreation 8 highway, County. Council intervened>'
centre and: whose fun consisted of harmless Gary Davidson of the Huron County'
pranks. ; , , ' Planning Board explains that, since .e
.t
•Mr, Dale and. the other residents :were Alma plan was drawn up in the 1800's, tic
Confident Alma would thrivebecause of its highway has been widened twice 'and a
.. Road, ' . , has been expropriated,
location on the main road. -.the Hurontotal of st!tteen feet
and because the t,:,in stoppedjusta.`few They lot's with highway frontage have
`miles south of the village to transport the become partial lots requiring severance. in
farmers' produce,' addition, the municipal drain along the
But Alma wasnot destined to prosper, .second row of lets puts some of the sites
and her demise began in the. early 1900s. below health regulations.
The growth and success of Seaforth was on REZONE
reason,., but Mr,: • Dale believed another" ' In 1976, Don Watson applied to County
factot was poor drainage.spring' the Villageof
land floodedanti even in the church shed, Alma from ag ieultu al land former
residential,
horses stood in water. hi. those days,,the 'Thirteen houses could be built next to the
settlers retied on their livestock ; a' horse, a new ones, and only 50 et 60 rads of
OW and some chickens, Poor drainage additional streets would be needed
made raising the animals' and crops The County ,Planning Board maintains
difficult,' and gradually theresidents• he i5 using an old plata,,' which is only
. reldeated. • partially valid,'The new leauses are built on
. , DRAIN TOO LATE the valid ;part, and what he• is asking for
• Later a municipal drain, was built, .but it now is an extension." The Board suge
was too late for the village. The residents guested that he survey the parcel of land
had drifted• away, the buildings had 'fallen 'not divided into lots and draw up a
down or had been torn down Alta sabdivisioe plan to present to county
disappeared and lay dormant for 'many council. A public meeting would then be
years. 'held to inform local residents of the plan
In 1961. Don and Grate Watson, then of and to, heer.their views.::Don hesitates to
Clinton, bought their farm from the estate , undertake the survey, because it Would
of Charles Mann. Each of the 38 lots, that cdst'at least 52,0004 with ho'g,uarantee of
ra dmade up the Village of Alma, had to be acceptance,
t
r d separatel . Don, who had been a Gary Davidson of the Huron County
technician with Un ea Breeders Inc. for 25 Planning Board and John Jewitt of tlullett
years, gave tittle thought- to the Iota until Council suggest an alternative may occur
1971 when he dt ' ded to try to -r establish when a Secondary flan is drawn up for
the village and see the lets, He tltecked the 1.lullett Township, At that time, Don.
roe rds and toted Alma wa still re- ' Watson could again request rezoning from.
glStcred. •
, : agricultural to residential. However, ac-
Iiullctt Townshi Council rhes tided ceptance is not certain because the site is
tt favourably to the idea, Two street. Were tet prime agricultural land and bad been
Ve opened off the township toed, tt►tailintg,1.65 .::'karmed before the Watstfns bouglit it,
feet and;eorresponditig with the i`iginal .--bon atld Grace Watson: Say their
' , :lay -out,. •
(Ctlntinued tin'‘liigt± 37
Lyon and Grace Watson of, A.R. #A 'Caton toni study the 1819 atlas Of lure
,County, In which the former Village of Alnia is shown. sir1te 1971, they ha
tried .to re-establish' the Village.
•
t
u kersm it
' ees #` pay
or early
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BYWILMAQKE
Tuckersnuth Township council agreed
Tuesday to go along with ,a;reggest from • the
budding inspector„ Henry VanWieren; of
R.R.2, Kipper), that he be laaid; on a salary
basis yearly, rather than by the agreement
he has'now, lois salary amount to 53,360
per year `plus mileage of .12 cents per
kilam4ter. He will be responsible for his, own
insurance fees Stich as Workman`s
Compensation.
ttrfr. VanWieren is the building inspector
ass well for the townships ,of Usborne and,
Stanley. the Town of Seaforth and . the
villages. of Hensall and Bayfield, and they
are being asked to accept the salary proposal'
on a cost: sharing basis, If all the
mutricipalities accept his proposal his total
salary would amount to $12,000 yearly,
lvlr Van W ieren said his. present agree-
ment`limits him to four inspections which: he
said were inadequate for certain buildings,
CODE OF PKKACTICE
Ron , leming oft tario Ministry of
ed t
he
d
n
h l"nt�C .n attended A gri€alture an'd F�ocl�C r , t
severalproblem
council session; to `discus's . se
inctudin the cede of.practice for, site
(Continued �on,'Pagex20)
Canberra. Australia. a city of 220,U00 people
v. ii h "s also the country's ca ital.
1 t, i 1?
The school where they taught was called a
secondary colic e, and theres'.ere 850 senior'
students (Grades 11,.12) and `a; staff of '75,
teachers, Jr< :a
Julie'Jones said the original concept of the.
collegegwas to offer all types of education ie
•o: Some of students specialize :one schools so a p
l academie subjects while others are
in strictly j
taking trades such as motor mechanics or
secretarial sciences. '
1 y e
' the Jones pointed out uneni o,. n ni
Both P P
is as problem roblem in Australia right. now,
Much as it is in Canada, and the major, group,
of unemployed are votin people between
p.. Young
IS and 19 years of age.
UNEMPLOYMENT
Since unemployment :is a
SProblem, some
young oun people are •staying in school longer
than they would have in the past. The Jones
said they also had mature students, includ-
ing some in their 40's and 50's returning to
school to upgrade their.' education and learn
some job skills ,
The Australian schools have one major
difference from Canadian schools - students.
don't have to take any'•compulsory subjects.`
For example.: while ,many students 'take'
English, they can take other subjects like
Lots of snow
for Optimist
Media ' studies, or drama instead, External
exams, similar to our departmental exams
Australia ome ears
were 'abandoned in� y
a o the same as they were in Ontario.
said , there's a tremen-
dous campaign afoot int � , }
"three R's" in school and go back to
to the t
external eXarns
the t � •: --.
aren't compulsory, Since courses Kerry
Jones said the significant thing for teachers
is that they have to attract kids into their,
courses. This 'isn`t a problem for English,
others `like
math or science teachers. but
•' advertise:." The
himself; get. out and
advertising includesaround hanging posters
.
the school and hoping that the word of
mouth rating of students will attract others
to your course.
TURNOVER
'
Mr.: -Janes said the` main difference cehes
noticed to date between the. Seaforth District
High School and Dixon College where he
taught geography and mankind and society
is that the staff turnover at the Seaforth
school is less than at the schoolhe left.' He
said he's found all the kids here know the
teachers and vice -versa, whereas 'in the
school _ he taught ' in Australia, he knew
largely only students that were in his
classes.
Also,: he finds the geography courses he's'
teaching. at SDHS more academically
oriented than the course he :`taught in
Australia which was more practical in .
nature. with, an emphasis on topics like
' mapping. --
Although the Jones haven't really been
here long enough to make many compar-
isons between Canada and .Australia they
have noticed some differences in the prices
•
carnval •
of consumer goods. •
Canadian meat is. much more expensive
• There's lots of the main ingredient—Snow
and Seaforth Optimists are confident . that
this weekend's winter carnival.: their, 12th,,
will be a big success.
Nets this year is a Paull Bunyan or
Woodfest theme which will see .'local,
residents try out lumberjack sports,
'
Saturday from 10 a.ni, at•the Optimist Park.
Other events include an Atom Hockey
tournament, ' running all weekend at . the
than meat in Australia, bat avocados and
some other produce are much cheaper,
Consumer durables, Mrs,Jones said, are.
gener i "much, much cheaper here.
Forexample, a . compact 6 -cylinder car
would cost aboiit,'58,000 .Australian dollars,
or about 510,000 •in Canadian currency.
The other, difference, which the Jones
•wine
but 'n ice is thewinter r weather,
can't help of
While temperatures are chilly in an.
Australianyi'inter, Julie.lonessaid it's a real
arena. and snow sculpture contests.Saturday novelty to have t'o put en a hat; coat and
morning at the park. Sunday will bring boots every time she steps outside the door.
snowmobile and cross country ski poker The only fortunate thing is that the boots.
rallys. 'kicking off ' at 2 p.m, from the and heavy coats which the Balis left behind,
Optimist Paris,just happen to fit the Jones,
Three big.dances, one Friday • night ant The main drawback to the winter weather
'two Saturday are also :planned. is that Julie Jones, who took a year's
Stick, to the ribs winter food will be offered sabbatical from her ditties as an English
with special carnival breakfasts Saturday ..teacher, had hoped to spend the time picking
and Sunday mornings tt the park and a steak up some dxtra credits from the linivsersity of.
and beans dinner cooked outside and served Western Ontario.
at 12 'noon on Saturday. Already she's discovered: that getting to
Carnival cn-chairmen are Doug Smale'tma London tin a. regular basis this tinie•of year
Larry Wesenbetg. Chas some "very major complications..
“S'rto tune like winter"
Paretns get storm bulletin ,.'
'Rahtams tied
.Curling lonSpel