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Home My WebLink AboutHuron Expositor, 2016-02-24, Page 9thr�1 ru toM1= OTO CONTEST Win $250 for you plus $250 for a charity of your choice! Libro is renovating its Clinton branch to serve you and the community better! Help us showcase this beautiful region in our newly -renovated community room, a space local community groups may use for meetings or events, free of charge. Share a photo representing this community. It may be lush fields or a vibrant townscape, or maybe a sunset at a local beach - whatever showcases the region to you. from from from Goderich •Dianne Beach. •Lynn Higgs. The Inspiring Woman and Young Inspiring Woman Awards for 2016 will take place in Goder- ich at the Knights of Columbus Community Hall at 6 p.m. on March 4. The winning photo will be displayed in the brand new community room of the Clinton branch. Enter by March 11 Email your photo to stella.monk@libro.ca or drop it off at Libro's Clinton branch. Ask us for full contest details. 48 Ontario Street, Clinton 519-482-3466 Libro CREDIT UNION Wednesday, February 24, 2016 • Huron Expositor 9 Protect youth by rating films showing smoking Huron County, ON — Oscar excitement is build- ing, but did you know that almost 40% of youth start smoking because they see it in movies? The Huron County Health Unit helps raise awareness of the impact that smoking in movies has on children and youth. Public Health Pro- moter Sam Docherty is pleased to see the World Health Organization (WHO) calling on govern- ments to change the rating of movies that show smoking. "Research shows that 37% of youth start smok- ing because of what they see in movies. By giving an 18A rating to movies showing tobacco use, we could reduce the number of teen smokers. This could prevent about 43,000 premature deaths from smoking among Canadian children and youth alive today," says Docherty. The Health Unit is a member of the Ontario Coalition for Smoke -Free Movies, an initiative that is working to prevent tobacco from being in movies that are rated for children and youth. This means giving movies con- taining tobacco use a rat- ing of 18A, similar to that of an R rating in the United States. According to the new WHO Smoke -Free Movies Report - From evidence to action, the third edition since its launch in 2009, movies showing use of tobacco products have enticed millions of chil- dren and youth worldwide to start smoking. In Ontario, between 2004 and 2013, 57% of top grossing movies featured onscreen smoking, and 86% of movies with tobacco were youth -rated. "With ever tighter restrictions on tobacco advertising, film remains one of the last channels exposing millions of ado- lescents to smoking imagery without restric- tions," says Dr. Douglas Bettcher, WHO's Director for the Department of Pre- vention of Noncommuni- cable Diseases. Bettcher says taking concrete steps, including rating films with tobacco scenes and displaying tobacco warnings before films with tobacco, can stop children around the world from being intro- duced to tobacco products and subsequent tobacco - related addiction, disabil- ity and death. The recommendations provided by the WHO include the following, and are in line with those given by the OCSFM: • Requiring age classifica- tion ratings for films with tobacco imagery to reduce overall exposure of youth to tobacco imagery in films. • Certifying in movie credits that film producers receive nothing of value from anyone in exchange for using or displaying tobacco products in a film. • Ending display of tobacco brands in films. • Requiring strong anti- smoking advertisements to be shown before films containing tobacco imagery in all distribution channels (cinemas, televi- sions, online, etc). For more information please go to smokefree- movies.ca or read the WHO report here: http:// www.who.int/tobacco/ publications/marketing/ smoke-free-movies-third- edition/en/ Seaforth's nursing pioneer nominated for Inspiring Women in Huron Award Shaun Gregory Huron Expositor With more than 40 years on and off working in the health sector, Gwen Devereaux is being acknowledged for her com- mitments. The Seaforth res- ident has recently been nominated for the Inspiring Women in Huron Award. Devereaux is the person solely responsible for the initiative of Seaforth's suc- cessful HealthKick pro- gram, a schooling project that once witnessed thou- sands of alumni in the medical field. Due to a shortage of funding the program was forced to call it quits last December after a decade of providing Huron County with local health practitioners. This strategic arrangement has the focus of keeping grad- uates in the area rather than having them go else- where. The profession of looking after a person's well-being is something she has known she was destined to do since the 60's while in high school MAKEISH. Because some wishes can't wait for someday. www.makeawish.ca 1-888-822-9474 and she found herself in the hospital's care. "I had my appendix out when I was in Grade 11 and after that no one could convince me to do any other profession but nursing, when I was in the hospital I thought the nurses were angels," recalled Devereaux. Since 1972, this almost lifetime calling has led Devereaux into strangers and friends lives at their most unforgettable stand points and sometimes in the worst of days. "You spend the time with these people when they are sick, when they are having babies or when their loved ones are pass- ing away," she said. The line of work of that Devereaux considers to be `needed' is a duty she has never asked for anything in return for, so when she was nominated for the award she told the Exposi- tor she was thrilled. "It's a wonderful honour to be nominated and to (be) recognized by your peers," Devereaux stated on February 18. "But no one that does this kind of work I do, does it for recognition." Also nominated for the Inspiring Woman and Young Woman in Huron Awards is: •Rosanna Grobbink from Walton. •Judy Thomas. •Kimberly Hart from Goderich. •Robin Wiley. •Erin Grandmaison from Goderich. •Kendra Wilts from Blyth. •Jill Bazinet. • Lisa Hood from Goderich. •Riley MacLennan from Goderich. •Deb Homuth, from Exeter. •Dr. Tricia Denunzio from Goderich. • Elisabeth Spaleta. •Lianti Muller from Goderich. • Robyn Ross from Goderich. •Sharon Johnston from Goderich. •Kittie MacGregor from Londesboro. •Naomi Pal. •Bridget Jeffray Goderich. • Laura Johnston Goderich. • Dorothy Lyndon 6.ea orthhuronexsositor.co FREE Business Webinar HuRON March 2, 11:30 am —1 pm Tina Heathers, Marketing your Business CaII 519.527.0305 to register