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i LL SR a ll ii rT oo ea RT -- RETO a a EET Powenpern hin Sevalall ls Sl Vol. 126 No. 49 PORT PERRY, ONTARIO - TUESDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1992 Copy 65¢ (61¢+4¢GSD 40 Pages A TR SR TR Hospital expansion to begin in spring, say CMH officials By Scott Anderson Port Perry Star The expansion at Community Memorial Hospital is moving ahead as planned, say members of the hospital staff and board. "The hospital is making good progress right now," said Dave Brown, hospital administrator. According to Mr. Brown, the working drawings for the 24,000-square foot, $5.2-million expansion were delivered to the Ministry of Health for its ap- proval on October 21. This was two days ahead of the promised date. The ministry will review the drawings before giving the hos- pital board permission to tender the roject. r. Brown expects to get the go ahead on December 18, and will tender the project in Janu- ary. The board will approve the tender selection at a meeting in late February and award the tenderin April. Originally plans had called for the ground breaking this fall but many factors lead to the schedule being pushed back. "It's a very fair schedule. We must be optimistic," said Kent Farndale, Hospital Chairman. "I'm very excited. I think it's shaping up beautifully." Despite the delay, many have been impressed by the speed at which the project is progress- ing. "This job's moved ahead at a faster pace than what I'm accus- tomed,"" said Mark Agnew, the project's architect. He attributed the team work and co-operation of everybody involved in speeding up the pro- cess. "Team work is the hall- mark of a successful project." The expansion, to be called the Stephen B. Roman Wing, will feature 24,155 square feet of new space. It will feature an expanded rehabilitation centre, a larger emergency depart- ment, increase the size of the cafeteria and kitchen and pro- vide a larger area for laboratory and health records. More than 10,000 square feet of renovations will also be con- ducted. Once the project begins it 1s expected to take eight months to complete the new wing and 12 months for the entire project. "It's one of the best facilities for a small community," said Ted Griffen, past chairman. "I don't think there's going to be anything better." 7 3 } ar)TT ANDE ASON/ PORT PERRY STAR The expansion project at Community Memorial Hospital is going according to schedule, say members of the hospital board. Last week the working drawings of the Stephen B. Ro- man Wing were delivered to the Ministry of Health for its ap- proval. Reviewing the plans are (from left) Mark Agnew, archi- tect, Kent Farndale, hospital chairman, Ted Griffen, past chairman, and John Gibbons, manager of plant maintenance and engineering. DRIVE CAREFULLY - WATCH FOR THE SR J. PETER HVIDSTEN / PORT PER Art Catton and Kevin Rollo were among of the first people casting their ballots on the referendum Monday morning at the Latcham Centre. District Returning Officer Mae Buller and polling clerk Roy Grierson were on duty registering voters. Returning Officer Al McConney reported the advance poll being very heavy with a total of 2,604 people casting votes during the two days. Full results of the Referendum vote will be available Thursday in Star Marketplace. | atv BR RY STAR Wilson tells Rotarians... Speed of economic recovery hinges on referendum results By Scott Anderson Port Perry Star The speed ofthe country's eco- nomic recovery hinges on the outcome of the referendum, gays Michael Wilson, Minister of Industry, Trade and Technol- ogy " yes vote allows us to turn the page to get a number of these issues behind us and put a much greater attention on the economic issues," he said after a speaking engagement in Port Perry on October 21. But should the final vote be in the negative, he predicts a rougher ride and a longer period of time for these programs to be introduced. « 2 8 4 2 A 4 a "BB 48 8 8 7 "We'll still be moving towards dealing with the economic is- sues, but we may have higher interest rates ifthey continue as we've seen them in the past couple of months. We may have some distractions frori political pressures from different parts of the country because people will not let these constitutional issues die. They haven't let them die for 42 years, so they're not going to let them die now un- less we can get that page turned and get those behind us." | Mr. Wilson says it won't be the end of the world if the accord 18 rejected, but wonders what sort of atmosphere will be creat- e EE TE SY NA J NN YY KIDS ON HALL "The sun will rise oh Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday and so on, but what type of weather will it be?" he pondered. The minister said by voting yes to the accord Canada would be sending a signal to the rest of the world that it is ready for business. "Why wouldn't we try to send the signal to the rest of the world with a yes vote that we've got our act together, that we know where we're going and that we're puttingour full atten- tion to these economic issues and in that we keep volitilit) away from Canada." But he says with a no vote (Turn to page 3