The following text may have been generated by Optical Character Recognition, with varying degrees of accuracy. Reader beware!

i R. E. Elston, Executive Director, Anna Strike, chairman of the Board of Directors and Tom Cowan, chairman of the Hospital Foundation Foundation are more than pleased with the annual report for the corporation as presented last Wednesday evening in Bowman ville. The corporation is now in the throws of their extention and renovations at the hospital which is to be completed within the next thirty months. Memorial Hospital in gn<Ml financial position The Memorial Hospital Corporation Corporation held their annual meeting last Wednesday when Tom Cowan, Anna Anna Strike, Doug James and Gordon Willis were returned to the board of directors for another term of office. • The Executive Director, R.E. • Elston, in his report to the meeting pointed out a small deficit of $103,359 which will be offset "when the Ministry of Health makes adjustment adjustment to their annual grant, recognizing the growth in patient activities for the past year. The financial report shows a total expenditure of $9,312,642 which was an increase of some $700,000 over tfye previous year. Revenue, less the adjustment, amounted to $9,151,060, an increase increase of 6.5 percent over the '86-'87 year. R.E. Elston spoke of constraints in funding and stated that there was no relief in such restraints expected where increase in costs are above the normal inflation rate while ■ revenue remains just under the inflation inflation rate. Elston further stated that the Itoard could expect greater demands, an increase in severity of » illness as well as continuation of funding at a rate less than the inflationary inflationary indexes. He said the funding funding position will call on the strengths, abilities, competence and creativity of the decision-makers in the hospital to devise operational processes that will guarantee our survival into the 1990s. Elston stilted it was the intent to retrench and redesign in order to be on track with the changing provincial-wide development plan. He said that they will continue efforts efforts to develop the multi-level care facility on the Hospital site that will bring a point of access for those who require assistance, service and help in this area. Eilston and the chairman of the board, Anna Strike, both pointed to corporate restructuring as a need to meet the demands of the future and that this was taking place at Memorial. Both the executive director and the chairman spoke briefly df the ; expansion and renovation plan that has now been started and is expected expected to be completed within thirty months. Elston spoke of the introducation of Jennifer McPherson head of diabetic education program at the hospital, Margaret Vandusen who heads the discharge planning and social services department and Linda Linda Hargreaves, recreational therapist. Elston also said the board hoped to introduce occupational therapy on a contract basis sometime this fiscal year. The Hospital Auxiliary reported a most active year with some 5240 ; half days being provided by volunteers at the gift shop and in service at the hospital. A fir- (Continued page 2) Herrema places some blame on Region for dump concerns Close to 400 attended a public meeting last Thursday ' evening sponsored by the Committee of Clarke Constituents and the Port Granby Monitoring Group opposing opposing a Metro landfill site in the Town ■ of Newcastle. Don Scott, chairman of the Clarke Constituents, outlined the Metro proposals in 'the Town of Newcastle. He pointed to a site between between Ontario Hydro and the Darlington Darlington Park south of 401 highway as well as a site in the south east of . Bowmanville. Recent ' proposals from Metro now include a site on either side of Morgan's Road south' of 401 to Lake Ontario and another site north of Highway 2, just west of Newcastle and extending north to the fourth concession road. The latter site takes in ; the present ■ Laidlaw Landfill site. Scott pointed" out that the Clarke Constituents had been successful in defeating a.proposal in 1983 for an extention to the Hale landfill which was reactivated in 1988 with an extention extention by Laidlaw. He said the Î 988 proposal has been turned down both by the Town of Newcastle Newcastle and the Region of Durham. However, he said, the proposal is still active due to the fact that Laidlaw is now prepared to take the .proposal to the Ontario Municipal Board and that the threat of a dump is still ongoing. He said the Laidlaw site has twice been rejected and on sound grounds with course soil and in the floodplain of the Graham Creek. He said the Metro proposal to develop the Morgan Road site would see a dump in the area ten times the size of the Laidlaw site. He also said Metro was asking to forget about the environment and (Continued page 3) Wants consideration for land severances Jan ©'Chonski, Orono, spoke to members of the Town's General Purpose committee on Monday stating that he was being unfairly treated as to severances of land. He pointed- out that the Region plan only allowed bonrfide, farms the opportunity to sever land and that in his case he had been denied " this privilege. He said "I'm'chained to this land for the rest-of my life". O'Cnonski 'was' denied a severance for a lot along O'Chonski Road to the south of his own home, a piece of property that is part of a larger agricultural sector. O'Chon- s'ki said he watited to stay in his house but there was no need for the large acreage attached to the house property. * Counc. Harnre, chairing the meeting, stated that council understood his comments and would consider his request when commenting on the new agricultural policy being established by the Region of Durham. She .said the lot could be considered in filling other than, it is at the end of the line of strip development along the road. Residential-Corn mertiai plan for Newtonville A 28-lot residential sub-division and. a local commercial area was subject of a public hearing at the Town of Newcastle on Monday through a application by Veltri and Sons. The application was on lands south of Highway No. 2 in the eastern section of the hamlet. One local area citizen did speak on the proposal asking council to assure that a green belt buffer be set aside between their property and the entrance to the commercial convenience convenience area. In,the report to council members the Planning Department asked (Continued page 2) Receives an Award of Merit and a new bike Happenings .... CONVICTED ON TRUCK PARKING Bill Spracklin and Robert Henderson, both of Main Street Orono, pleaded quilty on Tuesday morning to charges laid by the Town of Newcastle under 3.14F of the Town's Zoning B-Iaw. Both were convicted by Justice of the Peace, Owen Lent, in Provincial Offensives Offensives court, who will issue a restraining order within the next two weeks. The restraining order will be issued under the Municipal Act in tha'l trucks ate not to be parked on their properties in the residential residential zone. . 1 Brian Irwin, the prosecuting officer for the Town, States that under the order the two are not to park trucks on their property and that if a further charge would tie laid for not obeying the order it would be issued under the criminal code. Irwin said he hopes the word gels out that the conditions of the zoning by-laws arc upheld in the municipality. The conviction did .not call for a fine. ' Dyson Drury of the Orono Public School has shown his dedication to < his appointment to the School Safety Safety Patrol and as a result recently was presented with an Award of Merit and a new 'bike by the Kiwanis Club of Oshawa. Dyson has been seen every morning morning at his station in north Mill Street. .where he guides fellow students safely cross the street. An award well deserved and we pass along congratulations.