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Orono Weekly Times, 27 Jun 1979, p. 1

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Orono Weekly Times, Wednesday, June 27th, 1979 And they get better every time Last Saturday the Orono Firefighters held another successful successful Pancake Breakfast. In all about 150 people, sat down to eat the Pancakes and sausages prepared by the Close to 1,000 join local Summer School Somewhere between 900 and 1000 children and adults have signed up for a varied program of interest courses, new credit courses and elementary elementary remedial or enrichment enrichment programs being undertaken undertaken by the Northumberland and Newcastle Board of Education for a six week period this summer. /tr The program for those s in the western area of the Board of Education centres at the, Bowmanville High School with some of the programs being offered outside the schoof such as horséfnanship and courses being offered at the Visual Arts Centre in Bowmanville. In speaking with . Garth happening; si... CHARGED WITH ROBBERY WITH VIOLENCE According to Regional Police three Oshawa men have been charged with. robbery with violence following an incidence Tuesday morning at 2:30 p.m. A car with three men filled up with gas at the DX Station on 115 south with the three men re-appearing on foot, threatening the attendant with violence. The money at the station was turned over. The three men fled on foot to their car and drove north where they were stopped at 35 and 115 by the Ontario Provincial Police and turned over to the Regional Police. Charged are Bradley Murphy, 24, Raymond Sisson, 31, and Michael Donahue, all of Oshawa. END SEASON WITH PARTY The Orono Badminton Club which held forth at the Orono Public School up to the time of the caretaker's strike ended the season on Saturday evening with a barbecue and social outing. The event was held at the home of Mr. and Mrs. L. Garrison, Leskard Road, with a good turnout of members andean enjoyable outing for all. ORONO ARENA FUND ACTIVE This week the Orono Arena Building, Fund was presented with a cheque in the amount of $250.00 from the Orono Home and School Association. Charles Gray, chairman of the fund committee states they will be accepting ledges and cash donations until thfe local community -commitment is met. Firemen. Shown above John Clap- dorp takes time out from his duties to try out the breakfast served by chefs .Terry Hardy and Francis Tennant. Gilpin and Bill Brunt, who are running the summer school for the board, they Said they are more than satisfied with the enrolment and the interest interest in the various courses. Of the 900 to 1000 persons enrolled in the program some 300 students from grade one to six are enrolled in the elementary program of re- • medial or enrichment reading, reading, mathematics or French. Mr. Brant states that from ' 75 to 100 students are enrolled in the new credit courses for High School Dilomas. These. courses contain some 110 to 120 hours of instruction. The general interest courses courses are proving most popular and with the seventy adults enrolled the interest for them centres around tennis, photography, photography, guitar, golf, judo and other sports oriented events. According to Mr. Brunt tennis is possibly the most popular with the younger set as well as the adults and it has required six classes in this part of the program itself. Half of the total enrolment rests in the general interest courses but a surprising number are continuing their schooling in the elementary program. The fee for the courses is a modest $10.00 "regardless of the number of courses taken. There are some exceptions when it requires supplies or corral fees for the horsemanship horsemanship course. The summer school has been divided into two three- ( Continued page 2 ) Clarke High Ontario Scholars Matthew William Irwin 87.5 Son of Mr. and Mrs. F. Irwin, R.R. 1, Orono, Ontario Mary Ann Valorie Veldhuis 82.0 Daughter of Mr. and Mrs»E.J. Veldhuis, NeA'tonville, Ontario Kristine Grace Dennis 81.7' Daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. Dennis, Kendal, Ontario Recommendations for hospital-doctors Following a coroner's jury hearing related to the death of 67 year-old Harold Hibben in Sunnybrook Hospital in November November of 1978, who had been a prior patient at the Memorial Hospital in Bowmanville, a number of recommendations were made. The five-member jury concluded that Hibben had died as a result of "A combination of adverse circumstances" circumstances" three days after walking into Memorial Hospital Hospital on November 7th, 1978. The jury heard testimony from the crown's expert • witness, Dr. D. Jursch of Toronto as well as fifteen other witnesses. . The jury recommended: -that. hospital and doctor's records be kept up-to-date at all times. -that vital signs should be monitored every hour and recorded immediately regardless regardless of the patient's location in the hospital; -that a doctor be in attendance attendance at Memorial Hospital 24 hours a day; -that recommendations for further treatment made be- ■ tween doctors should be followed up;, -improved communications and information exchange between family physicians, specialists, nursing staff and i between hospitals when patients, patients, are transfered; -that ' hospitals should be staffed consistant with the equipment that is available ; -limita tibns in hospital facili- • ties should betecognized and patients transferred; -standardization and uniformity uniformity in hospital records keeping. keeping. From evidence reported from the hearing Hibben was Lance William Payne 85.7 Son of Mr. and Mrs. M. Payne R.R. 3, Newcastle, Ontario Jane Ann Staples , 81.0 Daughter of Mr. and Mrs. D.H. Staples, R.R. 1, Orono, Ontario < a patient of Dr. A.F. McKenzie McKenzie being examined on November November 3rd, 1978. Due to bed shortage at Memorial Hospital Hospital he was not admitted until November 7th. After looking at X-ray plates Dr. McKenzie tvirned his patient over to surgeon Dr. R.K. Sengal. Reports from the hearing (Continued page 9) Mayor to crack procedure whip Mayor Rickard has' stated he intends to crack the whip early at council meetings in order that they do not become marathons lasting up to six and seven hours. He claims meetings are prolonged too often and too long. Many evening meetings starting at 7:00 will continue until after midnight while day meetings could last up to seven and eight hours. At the most recent evening meeting the Mayor when the hour was, approaching midnight warned warned that he would Have to take action to speed up the process of council. Mayor Rickard has stated that all members of council should be well informed on all matters that come before . council either through the committee meetings or thn- ough dialogue with staff. He felt • members of council should be', ready to make decisions when they come to council meetings. Diane Elizabeth Pigeon 84.8 Daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A.J. Pigeon, Newcastle, Ontario Siizanne M. Chidley 80.8 Daughter of Mf. and Mrs. R. Chidley, Leskard Road, R.R. 2, Orono

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