The Huron Expositor, 1979-02-01, Page 39,44.41.•
Inflation haS hit the. eclat Of Severing your
ProPertY• Huron County cOuncil approved a
525 increase to the cost of approved
severances friday which means that The
total cost of iiettieg a severanee will now be
$125„, . • ^ . ,
The countY's bind diviaien ieoinMittee
recemMended to tonna that the extra, $25
be tacked on the cost of an approved
seVerance to help offset ;administrative costs
the county has in processing land divisions,
The administrative Portion of the severance
Cost up
will now be 575.
irynpeed, chairrealt Of the land division
ennuilittee,. 40. Mined that an application
fer SeYerance will still he $SQ H explained
that anyone wishing a severance applies to
,.'-the lane division committee for approval and .
ettys S50 with that applicatien, If he
aPPIleation is approved an extra $n ts
tacked on and the severance preceased.
Reed said Unapproved severaneeS will not
;pat WM 141979, It Still Peata $51 to be told
Amen
by Karl Schuessler
may b I eome through, evert if
am twenty ix years late,
Last Week took My Wife int° a bridal suite
'.
for a night ' '
We had just traveled to Boston. and we
were on our way back ., -the last night before
coming home. On a cloverleaf exit off the
NeW York freeway and not too far -from
Buffalo, we had a cheice of three motels.
One sign offered a free continental breakfast
in the morning. Another one tempted with,
its water bed and the other One, well, it was
a much advertised chain with probably high
rates to match,
I told my wife I was going to check out
each one. I got no further than the second.
The fellow at the desk said someone else had
the water bed all occupied, but he did say
they had a very extra special room I might.
like, Was I married? And he led me down
the hall and flung open the door on the bridal
suite, •
Whate roma it was Not that it was much
bigger than other hotel rooms, but you
should see the bed --a ,king size giant all
decked over with a white satiri spread, and
around the top hung a canopy with draperies
reaching to the floor. The headboard all
tufted and stuffed with White leather-
, claimed more draperies for its backgroand.
And long plump pillows lounged across the
entire expanse of bed.
If I didn't know any better. I could be King
'Henry VIII. If not by his number of wives, at
least by that bed all curtained and draped,
all ready to close for privacy just in case a
servant or valet walked in.
But who needs drawn drapes when the
closed door of the motel room gives you all,
the security yod need?
That s what makes a bridal suite a bridal
suite, dummy, I said, the bed is king in the
bridal room. It's center •stage, and once
you've installed the biggest bed ever, what's
left? After that 'monster bed, What can you
do to enhance the whole scene, but go up?
And, decorate and drape the whole thing and
dazzle the eyes even more.
But my eyes weren't whirring that much. I
did notice the rest of .the room. Every piece
of furniture was white The telephone was
white. The walls were white. Virginal white
wrapped itself around, me, except for a plush
heavenly blue carpet to sink my toes into.
Alad yes, in the corner stood a blue
upholstered Chair, wide enough for an
elephant to sit in But then on second
throught, Wide enough fer both the king and
!peen of the night to tit into.
One sight of that room and I gulped, I'll
take it. ,1 .fergot all about continental
breakfasts and waterbeds. This, Was it.
And so I ushered in My bride of
many -
years and showeifher her first bridal suite,
I'm not apologizing one bitthatI'm so
slow in getting, her there. On that wedding
night those many years long ago and far
away, I couldn't afford a bridal suite, It
wasn't in keeping with my salary. It's about -
the same with a diamond engagement ring.
You can only afford a small sized one then.
• And as the years go by, you could now afford
a more expensive ring. But she lives with
that first one, .so small,' yet leaded in
sentiment and locked in first meanings and,
new beginnings, She never give it up.
' But this bridal suite is something else
again. You've never been in one before. It's
all new. Brand new. A first time. Without
comparisons. ••
To every husband out there, who's never
spent a night in a bridal suite,XteSay..ge out
and rent one for a night. These ,seasotted
brides are potential- first brides. These
veteran brides are really forever a bride.
Mark my word. One night in a bridal suite
will prove it.
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by Susan Viiihite
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POS1TOR, FEBRUARY la 10711
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I've been called otany plat Ng t Ow Otter. ;the fashion are lost On tOtes
things in niY, rengtkab/Y•• I a s* 11. anyhody Whe'S' Seen me life, but never faihign giiMmtro. ' • -
rth cur
Toronto in f
• The Seaforth Curling rink went all the WaY
to the final round of the Ontario_curling
ASseciatiott Wet PiVision Challenge Round
at the Kitchener -Waterloo. Pranite Club last
Weekend •
.
• The local ceders, who were the top rink in
the "B" side of the tournament, for teams
who had lost one game. were defeated on,
Sunday night by Ron Mannings's Toronto
Terrace rink; by a score ef 91-5. This Means
the Toronto rink will 'advanee to the Ontario
British Consols championships in St.
Thomas Feb. 7-10.
But while the "Torooto rink: endedup
taking the lop honors ,the Seaforth rink, ef
Gerry Walters, Bob Wilson, Don Tremeee
and Bob--,Jarmeth, proved the hit of the
tournament.
Mr. Wilson said the teant received a let Of
support from fans at the Match, "because,
we were the underdogs."
While several of the city rinks looked ' 'like
a bunch of peacocks" Mr. Wilson said in
their matching uniforms, the Seaforth rink'
doesn't dress alike, although the curler
I admitted members may have worn "a lucky
sweater or two."
Whether it was the sweaters, or just the
calibre of play, the local rink won five of ;
seven games in the three day competition,
losing twice to Manning's Toronto team,
On Friday night, the Seaforth team played
against Brian 1)eRooy's London Highland
Club rink, and the local team won the game
with a 7-4 seore.
On Saturday Morning, they faced the
Manning rink, and lost by a 10-0 score.
ugarand spice
By Bill Smiley
Winter has improved
• Just struggled home through about:the
tenth blizzzttd. of this month...You could See
N'ojir hand' before your face, if you had a
large liana and good eyesight.
Found my street More by feel than. sight.
turned off with a skid, wept -through the ,
routine of getting into the garage. It's rather
like launching a small boat in a largesurf. It
tzikeS a lot of skill arid a fair bit of nerve.
At the entranee to the driveway are the
boulders'. These are huge gobbets of' snow
throWn tie by the snowniow, which then,
fretzes them bigger thana large man's
bead. -
Then there is a flat -space".-'- shoVelted.7.'
'about the length of a car. Then, just at the
entraoce to the garage itself, there is a sort
• of reef of ice, built up to a foot or so of frozen
snow.
•
You have to hit the driveway, and there is
a large maple A foot to one side. at iboth 24
miles .in hour. The.re is a great reeding noiSe,
from beneath. just 'like • rocks teriting the,.
bottom out of a .boat. But •you don't even
slowdown. With a judicious touch of brakes
here and accelerator there, You sashay, past
• the mapleline her up for the neddle of the
garage. and goose her just a little on the flat
. patch. There is six inches clearance on each
side. All beitig wen, you then ride up °vet
'the 'reef of iee, with' another rending noise,
this time. priet Of your, roof peeling 'aWay,
eiani the brakes at the last titillate Se that
you • donl go through the end ofthe
garage...switch. off, ,and sit there.wiping your.
brow. '
My Wife is a big chicken, She won't even
try to put the thing in the driveway, let alone
the garage. Maybe that's because,she has
• hit the side of the garage door about 'sia
times, both in and reeling out, . •
1 enjoy it. I feel like a skipper whose ship,is
•••; Sinking, and who has launched a boat, taken
her through the surfover the teasthroegh
the reefs and beaehed her on golden sand.
But inevitably, on sueli ectasions, 'my
thoughts turn to the poor devils,,our pioneer
ancesters, wile had te cope with the smile
weather and snow conditions, with a pittanc4
of .what we have to work with, ••
• When I've shut off my.engine, 'feeling a
bit like Captain fillet on Orie of his good
days, all I have to do is walk, 40 yards to the.
house, Inside there is warmth from att Oil,
futnaee, light, ail electric stove to coek
dinner, a colored television to take mcto
lotus -land.
I can huddle' in the cowardly safety of my
modern hOme and defy Me eletnents, Let ''er.
snow, let 'er incev. • !
No thOtes. t� do. No trip t th the bath to
fted..waier, ndlk the beasts, by the light of a
• lantern, in sub -zero tomperatute. No wood
to lug in from the woodpile, er aslieS te tarry
out. All I have to de is it down With a drink,
unfold my daily paper, and welt for dikter.
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he' fecal team.
Then the Seaforth learn met Manning's rink
again and despite a S-4 lead after eight ends,
he Toone° team made a perfect come-
ereutitl hump back to count six in the ninth
end.
•
Ron Manning, skip of the TerentO team,
praised the local rink f011owing the game and
said, "Hell, they beat some great teams.
It's net ho W you throw the • reekit' a what
it does,' '
I‘G'grry Walters, the Goderich• area farmer
who skips the Seaforth team, said, "If you
don't come to a competition like this with
good exeectatiens, I don't think you're going
to go very far. It's the end product that
counts, As long as they get the job done, 1"ra.
happy. We're maybe not as pelished on hits
as some teams, but I realize that
Mr. Wilson said the matching uniforms of
some of the teams may have made the
Seaforth rink look ,hke "rubes fremthe
country" and said one member of a city teeth
joked if the Seaforth rink won the champion
ship, then the other teems would buy them
uniforms - "straw hats and rubber boots,"
The Seaforth rink has only played together
this year.
The members include third Bob Wilson of
•Seaforth, second Doe Tremeer of, Clinton
and lead Bob Jarreuth of the Brodhagen
area.
,"mad7 .and they won their -Saturday
afternoon game, against the Gateau rink
from Totonto, by a score of 11-1.
After this match, the next games were
much tighter.rMics had their eye on the
finals. '
On Saturday night, in a game which went -
an extra end, the Seafordh rink defeated
Dave Velanoff's London Highland Clubrink
by one rock,
• The same thing happened On Sunday
morning, when the local team defeated Ron
, Patton's rink from the Toronto Royals Club
°
by rock in an eleventh end game. •
On Sunday afteraoon, Bit! Lovsires Sarnia
rink sai
also went dowel° defeat at the hands of
And it's no dinner ot salt perk cit. canned -
beef, ‘Vith heartY helping • of Ismashed
pettitoes and SOTO turnips or carrots thy wife -•
had to dig op froth the root cellar, topped off ,
hy sonte preserved ntspberries from last
summer's crop :
No, the refrigerator is one of our modern
gods and one of the heist popular. I think it
takes precedence. even ever the car as a
twentieth-ceetaty deit.y. '
We kneel before, itcontemplating its
inn:trds. We plaee offc•rings of food inside it
much t(s the ancients proffered food to their. '
gods. • • •• .
And just like the tincienti, we art smart
etteugh to take food back and eat it, lifter the
god has been placated.
Not for us the, pioneers' meagte fare. We
have fresh (frozen) nieat 46 hand. We have .
resh„,egetat?les, nothing from the root
cellar, We have cheese and fruit and eggs
and otange juice And a myriad other exotics
that wOuld.rnake.ourancestert blinkinawe
and ft.sar. .
• On the shelves in the kitehen we have '
another host Of luxuries; canned 'fruit and
vegetables :Ind -soupceffee and, tea and
Sugar and smoked oysters awl sardines and .
salmon and tuna. In the bread -box, cookies
and ezikes and bread that cost, money but no
labour. •
After a meal that would appear to a
Pioneer as food for the gods (even though
half the stuff in it iS g�ing to giVe us cancer,
according to the tpuicks). WC don't have to sit
huddled by the stoVe trying to read, a,
week-old newspaper bv the light of a
kerosene lamp,
We can sit; in comfort ind read t book
•frorit among thousands in a libtary 'five
nidoses liWay, Or we can listen to niusie
draela froni hundreds of miles away, Or we
tan watch the siimeor the news of the day,
f`toin thousands'of"iiiiles away. By merely
twisting a dial,
How did ' they stand it, those sturdy
'forebears of Ours? Wouldn't you. think ;that
they'd have gone starkers muter the burden
of never-cndieg rte,er ending cold and/
snow, 'levee:riding motiotony tiodlonelinets
iti Whiter?
. Not a bit of it. They thrived and
Multiplied. (Maybe the latter was Hie
answer. There's nothing like. 4 bit of
moltiplyhig to pass. the titne)
Many olthent didn't survive, of emitse.
Children died in infancy, Women Were Old at
30. But it WAS a lifelong test etiticte In
survival. and the tough ones Mate it.
What a lot of reomplaining, com"plaeol
Slobs 'we are today!.•
But I'M sure glad I defil, have to g� eet to
the barn.4 put hay down for the horses, Milk
ihecows, and drag in a qtlarter-cord ePatied
to keep lite stoves going tonight._
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41tglY tell yOlit.:
"ItYhat's that on your
head? A tea PM?" a COI-
leagUe asked. Mel AS I Was;
Igaltinga rent Meeting.
Somewhat taken aback
• Painted out that it keeps my
ears, warm and that my hat
,
was the height of taselen
when I bought it, two years
ago in NYC, the big apple; at
least before I altered it to fit
my big head,
That's the point I guess.
Comfort and praticality is
what counts with me and
clothes: NOW I'm not
claiming that totally im-
mune to the dictates, cif
fashion, I'm not still' M
mini -skirts and rve got a, few
things that are quite current
in style, (At least t thought
so 'el I talked to ny laShion
donut sister who turris ever
her wardrobe every three or
, four months.)
I like colours, but my
favourites stay fairly con-
stant despite what's in
Vogue. I hate synthetic knits
• and wool itches me but I love
corduroys, and fine cottons.
In my student .days
I picked up quite a bit of what
I wore at goodwill steres and
• rummage sales aed old.
habits die hard. The "big
look" fur coat I wear with my
tea cosy hat cost me a big $2
at a church rummage sale.
• So though my income is up
a bitfrom those days it's
:taken me awhile to get
comfortable with today's
'clothing prices. I've done it
though and can spend 5100
-On olOthos roallY like • with
the 'hest of thoto Qr at iOast I
ditl, one cePple of
years ago.
. What is totally in-
' 4ernpreltiensible to Me
though is really high fashion,
My a fore mentipeed clothing
Stere owing stater has
-Fiends ivEti geall CAlt 'Kt get
' 'the look"; You've seen
what I mean. ,some goo4
looking girl • tottering on
backbreaking heels, with
• seamed nylon Stockings, the
latest expensive eutfit top-
ped off with a forties look
hat, complete with veil.
Just the thing for working
in beautiful downtown
Seafprth, Someone dressed
like that on the Expositor
staff would fit in as well as a
little ' green Man. (We're
•expecting an Application
from one of them any day
now). •
Oh they look pretty spiffy'
in our front offiee but those
of us who mostly work be-
hind the scenes are a pretty
casual lot, And I'm the most
casual of them all, When I
come into work in a dress
everybody knows I've got
either a visiting dignitary or
a doctor's appointnient.
I was shocked to hear
another etilliague at a news-
paper convention once say
that he enforces dress re-
gulations in his' office. No-
body, at least nobody female,
conies to work in pants,
Besides the funny feeling
that gave me about civil.
rights, I knew tbat guy
•
wouldn't last long it this,
paper business.
You earr argue clothes til
yotere blue in the face -1
think spending a big Portion
of Your income fl thent
dumb- My Alger in the
business says for her Mends "
the trappings of fashen are
as necessary as my type,
writer ts to me. •
Could be ;he's right ttrut
that e lot of the "el*
world agrees, That's •why
she's sunning herself don
soeth for fobruarY; while 1#;in
my jeans and turtle neck, am.,
pounding, away at the above
mentioned machine.
• You're
invited
Canadian Calorie Counters
meet every Monday night in
Brodhagen Community
Centre at 8 p.m. ,Men,
women and children are wel-
come"
You're invited to the fait
meeting of the Jun ior Horti-
cultural Society at the Sea -
forth •Public School Audit-
orium on February 7th at
3;45 p.m. Membership open
to students from grades 3 to
• You're invited tette Meet-
ing of the Seaforth Co-op
nursery school at 8:15 p.m.' '
on February 6th at the lower
library. .
t7ii honors tare e eeves
Mr. Wilson said this loss made the teamS f
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((enttnued trom Page I)
The chief said if the 'tire hadn't been .,
brought under control, "Main Street could
have been a 'disaster site on .the' %,est side,"
Harvey Da3e. owner of the Royal
Apartments' building, said' he wanted to
thank all the people who had helped out on
the night of the • fire.. ineluding Clarence
Reet`es, the pence and lire departments; and
Mr. and Mrs. Ferg McKellar, who provided
a temporary place .fet the apartment
residents to stay.
Mr. Dale said be bi.s found. when he
travels. from Goderich to Stratford' that a
• number of people have .heard of Clarence's
role in rescuing the ether tenants.. .
Following Mr. Dale's remarks, Betty
• Cardrth, president of the Seaforth Chamber
of Cominerce, presented Clarence' with a
framed scroll titled ."A grateful recognition
of an Act of Courage" • ,
The 'scroll praised Clarence anti d
"withoet regard to his personal safety and
having ensured firemen were suinmoned,
,. (he) proceeded to arouse his fellow
residents, thereby ensuring their Safety and
the preservation ot' the. building,"
The town of Seaforth Oen presented
Clarence with a color television set in
Behind the see nes recognition, of his bravery.
The Seaforth Optimists and the Seaforth
•
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by Keithiloulston.
• One of the traits of the 197Q's has been
that people keep Coming up with . simple
'
solutions to:diffieult problems : solutions
that seldom work but sound nice. ,
• I fear that Canada is falling (leder the
influence of one of these widely accepted
solutions at present , •
The Task Force on Canadian Unity made
itsreport ' last week and the report was
generally well receivit by various gioups.
There were many suggestions made in the
report but the one that comes through most
Strongly; and the ,one that seems to win
widest' support, is: the proposal to hand
over more power to the provinees. It's not a
new SuggeStion, of course,Aes- been the
panacea Proposed. by erovincial premiers
and opposition 'leaders for several yeara,
• now. With so many people supporting the .
idea, I should be all:for-it, but somehow I ”
think. the whole solution is too -simplistic, •
naive, and is perhaps. playing with fire.
Before we start shifting responsibilityfor
tea many things we. should perhaps take.a
look at the record to see just how Well we
have heeti served by Our provincial
governments. Last Week ata conference of
ministers. of education, the Quebec
.. Minister Claimed the federalgovernment is
always starting projectsthen backing out
and leaving the .provinees toleck Up the
tab. He get general, agreentent from his '
colleagues from other provinces et who
has been worse than provincial govern-.
nietifs at starting things:then dumping the
billson the local taxpayere. • •
In Ontario,. for instance, the provincial
government Used the carrot And the stick to
get ,us into a systeth of county sehoel -
'boards The carrot waSinreTscd giafltS,
the stick, legislatioe, So how that we have
an expensive county archoolboard system
the province had decided it no longer want
the burden tit its high echicatieri bills and is
throwing responsibility to the local beards
and Municipalities. '
The sante sad tale hat been told where ,
people hive been unlucky eeought to take
the,govermilenes bait and begin, regional
governments oely to have the •provincial
governmetit back out leaving the
municipalities with A liege bureaeratic
Striitture, And be* about the libapitial
situation? And thu.se storiet are net -hitt
Ontario. Stetiet, The% have been repeated
Attest: the country in every provinee.
Prrivindial gevetnnientS are 'being
favoured 'Mier the federal gclvettiment
because they are supposed to be eleser to
the people than the federal goirettinent
The ;people in British Colurnbia, Alberta
arid Saskatchewan feel very Mitigate and ill
served by the federal goVernirient but ere
they served any Merepoorly by Ottawa.
than Northern Ontario is by Toronto? Ate
We ittillurcin County any more remote friar*
Me federal govertitnent than front Qiieeti'S
Park, eiren though the latter is 600 miles
closer? We hear. about the arrogance of the
federal government but as faras its effect '
onour everyday life was concerned, that
was nothing compared to the arrogance •
shown by the provincial government before'
it 'recently had to face a minority gevetn-
ment situation. '
I wonder if the idea of handing,4 more
power to the provinces is based SO Much on
sober "thought as it is on ..politite: The
present occupant of the prime Minister's
residence is not popular with the general 7'
public se lett show him; let's take his
power. away. -
Then we have the simple arithmetic of
the situation; there is one federal govern-
ment to defend centralized power, there
are 10 provincial premiers to attack it. The
premiers are, human beings and politicans
and their natural ,goal is to seek more
eOwer. In additioe, they are in a very good
position policitically. When things go
vvreng they can blame the federal govern-.
ment in one direction, or pass On the
responsibility to the municipalities• in the .
other direction, They take all the credit and .
pass on all the Warne. ,
Will passing on mete power to the ,
provinces unite the country? My fear is
that it will Make it worse. The premiers will
still use Ottawa as a whipping boy when
they're in trouble, leading to continued
disunity' there If the federal government
gets out of trying to push language rights
all understanding will vaishall one has to
do to realize that is leek if Manitoba where
the provined took' atvay the rights of
French-speaking people or Ottebee that
stripped the English of their-- rights or
Ontario where Premier Davis is too afraid
to lose a vote to nialce a Move towards
helping the French-speaking population.
Our present provineial boundaties are SO
large that I really doubt the government
will get much closer to the people. If we
Want to give Mere power to the provinces,
we should subdivide the preseet 10 •
:prOVinces into Smaller units. Northern
OntatiO, for instance, should be Separated
from the rest tif the previnee, "Otherwise,
we're goicg to get all of the problems �f
balkanization with very h w benefits, if, for
instance, conithunications -IS handed ever
to the provinees as is proposed, we'll learn'
aven less about people in other provinces
thanSve do now see how good A job the
preVitteeS...have done irt teaching us about
the rest of our Men country, take a lOok at
the t duelition ;system, that is deminated by
II.Si text books.
No one is a greater opponent Of 'big
government than this writer but I do hope •
That People will do la let of serious thought
before turning imote power over to the
provintes. Initeied d two stifle:idea, We
mny end up with 10,
ambulance service also presented gifts.
Harry, HeWlett of Toronto, nephew of Mr.:
Reeve's. thatikel the town on behalf Of his
uncle, "since Clarence himself is a person of
fess
Mr‘‘rd
:,..°Hest;:lett said he thought the gift of a
television was very fitting since Clarence '
• h,siasdferssa,v.e:_peopMSr liVes and he would be
• able to watch people on television, Mr.
Hewlett thanked the town. and the audience
on behalf of Clarence Reeves and his three
.• The sisters, who attended the appreciation
night were Mrs. Lillian Hewlett of Toronto.
Mrs. Myrtle Webster of Detroit and Mrs. •
„,Margaret MeNair,n of Egrmandville.
Other relatives in attendance included
Terry and Karen Hewlett of Toronto, Mary
(Webster) Lenartowicz of Detroit and
members of the McNairn family,
The Legion Ladies Auxiliary served lunch
to the crowd after the presentation.
County wants h
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said six of the 12 receive 60 percent funding
and six units in Toronto receive 25 percent.
Huron County rmives 50 percent.
The deputy reeve said the delegation that
visited Timbrell to ask for more mcairtried
to find out why settle health units received •
lessprovincial -Money than ethers. He said
l'imbrell was aware of the situation and was
Sympathetic to the Units not receiving 75
• percent funding, He added that ttheminister
ealth funding
could not tell the group why that situation
existed but did say that the province was in
the process of developing standards for
health units in the province. Mr. Steckle said
Timbrell indicated the standards were in the
making but could not say when they would
actually come about
He told council' the total amount aksed for
by the health units getting shorted by the
ministry was not a hefty sum. He said Huron
County's share of increase amounted to
about $140,000.
unt not worri
ssii)le bed
• Wareiegs. that bed cut S' in Huron
Coenty's -five hospitals' will oast county
ratepayers more :money m the next few years
did not seem to bether,fluree county council
Friday„, • ,
Dr. Brian Lyncli, the county medical
officer of health .° told council on several
occasions that dollars Saved by the province
through proposed bed cuts will not
necessarily be dollars Saved by taxpayer's.
Dr. Lynch said the bed cuts will mean extra
work for the county health Unit adding that
the extra Work Will require more
money...money provided by Huron County „
The MOH told council that proposed bed'
cuts may mean that many services now
provided frir patients in hospital beds will
• have to be provided for them in their hernes
He said the home tare services for those
people Will be proVided through the county
health unit and that the extra work will be at
the expense of the county,
COPE?:
Dr. Lynch said he had attended several
hospital board meetingsitt the county to try
to learn how hospitals planned to cope with
provincial cutbacks pointing out that he felt
be could probably answer a few qtreStiont,
-teuncil members may have 1..le said the
hospitals appeared to be trying to make the
best of a bad thing aud,were in theprocess ef
budgetirig withinministry of health
guidelines ' •
He said the (Vette et some hospitrilS was
• eloUdy becattse Of the cutbacksAdding that
Some may eve% ad Up citised irt the next few
• years. He said there was no way of telling
now what the nest two or three years had in
' 'attire for the hospitals but said there 'will
oncern amongst toMehospital boatt
..members that the smaller facilites r'in the
teunty could end up closed, .
"If ihcy Oath (the five County itOspitals)
Make Straight bed tuts they Call keeptheir
budgets dowebut static hospitals will end u
with less than SO ketiVe beds." said tit.
tynellt,• "these sitteler hospitals may be
deemed financially inefficient in a few years
and be closed." • • '
Dr. Lynch said,inany of the hospitals had
no choice but to eut beds. He said there was
very little room to cut labratery or
m the hospitals which
left them no alternative but bed 'cuts.
' The MOH told council that to operative
effort amongst all health cate delivery.
services in the county may get the hospitals
through the bed cuts. He saidthebed cuts
were goirtg to make demands on all other
health services in, the county but with
planning the added demands may be
handled efficiently,
"We can help the hospitals` get through the
bed euts," he told council.
The concerns of Dr. Lynch appeared to all
.on deaf ears. HIS comments that hospitals
could become inefficient, and end up closed,
that patieets May not be able to get proper
care from eouety hospitals and that the
provincial savings will end up costing the
county Mere money did not even stir council
No one asked . any questions or appeared
upset at the prospect of losing half of the
hospital beds in the edunty.
Dr. Lynch said later °he' could not
understood:the apathy over the hospital bed
cuts. He said he hoped the pubile as Well as
the politicians had simply not had time to
have the impact of the bed cuts sink in, He
said 000 the ‘surface the bed cuts appeared
• sensible and would Save money but taid
there was Mere te be considered than just
dollars t asked, He Said he felt there was not
enough information or time allo4ved for the
issue tit "Sink in"
111V1PAer
"I 'don't think the general public knows
the impact of the deciSiOn, by the proVinee,"
he Said. He added that If no publk reaction
creates a stir polititit4 and the bed cute,
Come about all that the hositils, health Omit
end -Medical ptotessiehids Will be tett to dols
"give the tervieettve out With the reitaltelt