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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1972-05-25, Page 14Cool Crow and Bashful Beaver, along with four other bird and animal "characters" will add to family fun at Ontario Place this summer. The seven-foot-tall fun folk were designed and built by Canadian artist-sculptress Tanya Petrova who will also create a red fox, raccoon, deer and moose to join the zany crow and beaver. They will appear around the site and at the Children's Village during the Ontario Place season, from May 20 to October 9. "":;••••?. MOW f .4 090631 IVI/INI/ESMRTS 84RAINg SHESORMACK.. PAUL KERRIGAN Po 462-9653 1379 VICTORIAST,S.,CLINTONI BP THE McKILLOP MUTUAL FIRE INSURANCE CO. OFFICE — Main Street, Seaforth — Phone 527.0400 Mrs. Margaret Sharp, Secretary-Treasurer FIRE, EXTENDED COVERAGE, WINDSTORM, THEFT, ' PROPERTY DAMAGE,. 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Moira Couper is concerned about the fulfillment of other people. especially those people in, Huron County, 'Jensen housewife, Mrs. Couper is the wife of Archie Couper, manager of the Hensel' District Co-op, The couple has four children, ages 19, 17, 13 and nine. That would be enough to keep most women busy, but Moira Couper has a host of other interests which have just lately lead into the field of recreation. This summer Mrs. Couper has taken on the task of co-ordinating recreation in areas of Huron County where there are no community recreation directors to take hold of things and bolstering other established recreation programs with sound new ideas. Retained by the Youth and Recreation Branca of the Ontario Department of Community and atchet SALES & SERVICE i"We Service What We Sell" 267 VICTORIA ST. HWY. No. 4. S. CLINTON — 482-9167 Social Services, Mrs. Couper is just finishing a three-year Provincial Institute Leadership course sponsored by the Youth and Recreation Branch. "It has done wonders for me." bubbles Mrs. Couper. "It has opened all sorts of doors which just weren't visible before." For many years now, Mrs. Couper has been interested in art and crafts, particularly hand- spinning and weaving. She has always preferred to work through the community and to share her knowledge and skill with others. But as she so modestly pointed out, she had no particular teaching ability. No leadership training. And that's precisely the reason she became involved in the Provincial Institute Leadership Course — to try to make her involvement more meaningful and more helpful to greater numbers of people, That's where she got the impetus to run a playground in 'Jensen for three weeks in each of the past two summers. It wasn't just an ordinary playground in a small town where children went because there was nothing else to do. It was an imaginative playground, Mrs. Couper boasts, which brought the children and the adults of the community together in one grand summertime activity — and held their interest. "I went into the project green," smiled Mrs, Couper. ''But I believe in letting the children set the pace and the theme for their playground. It only cost us $200 for a whole season, and the children made some money to boot." Mrs, Couper has also been involved in a learning experience at St. Boniface School in Zurich, She has been transmitting her special craft — spinning and weaving— to the children at that school, and according to Mrs. Couper, the children and their parents are excited about what has been accomplished thus far. "Culture and crafts could be carried further 'in, Huron," observes Mrs. Couper, "and I don't mean popsicle stick crafts. I Mrs. Moira Couper mean crafts which belong to our heritage. Terrific things can happen that just aren't happening." "The working class of the future is going to have more leisure time," continues Mrs. Couper. "They will have no fulfillment unless they've learned skills which will hold their interest." And there are new interests cropping up for Mrs, Couper. She now believes it is a vital thing to teach children to love their landscape, to use it, to build upon it, preserve it. Her' summer, ob with the Youth The year round safety of children is of concern to almost everyone. Each year statistics tell the same story—accidents are the leading cause of death among children under fifteen. More children are dying as a result of accidents than from all the leading childhood diseases combined, and the biggest single killer is traffic. Consumers' Association of Canada reminds parents that today's children live in an increasingly complex world. An important part of their education is learning how to live safely in our modern, fast-moving.soeiety. Children can and should be taught to be careful, and the chances of accident reduced by all possible means. • The creation of safe attitudes in children depends largely on teaching by example, By taking time now to explain possible dangers to children, and show them how to meet possible hazards, will help there to avoid accidents throughout their entire lives. Accidents do not just happen. The use of safety restraints in cars is assuming greater importance as the toll in child passenger injuries increases each year. Specially built seats anchored to the safety belt system are proven devices for preventing Pa cc eti - FUEL KIDS' FARMERS WILL NOT BE WITHOUT IT, WI-lEN IHEYVE USED AND KNOWABOUT tinefc#Ar 02, 5 6 ---171skv, O LOCA 1,TRADEMARKS, In.. Now that you know, keep your farm machinery going with a full supply of gasoline from PAUL KERRIGAN FUELS, Our efficiehcy gets your .shores done quickly and economically because we see that you always have gasoline on hand. —21b and Recreation Branch will never provide outlets for all the idE s Milling around in Mrs. Coupel head, Her main job in Huron \via be to assist small communities such as Zurich„ Ijensail, Bayfield, Blyth and Brussels to develop programs where there have been only limited activities in the past, She will also assist with programs in the larger centres where playgrounds have been well established for years and she plans to organize an inter- community service throughout the county whereby municipalities can share activities and benefit from them. Mrs, Couper talks about bringing youth theatre to the county — a group to not only produce plays but to train other amateur theatre groups, Bringing Summer Sounds, a musical group, to Huron is another project on Mrs. Couper's schedule. It is a full summer's work for Mrs. Couper who may he contacted through the Huron County Development Office. But when the leaves begin to'fall and the wind begins to chill once more, Moira Couper's dreams for Huron County will still be 'burning brightly. Don't be sffrprised if some of her imaginative schemes culminate into realistic. workable programs for the •?tterment of all for Mrs. Moil a Couper is a determined lady with vision. death and injury to tots and babies. To be effective, the restraints mustbe anchored to the frame of the car. Seats that only hook over or slide under the seat back without being anchored to the car frame offer no protection in an accident. In fact they add another 10 pounds to the weight of a child if he is thrown forward in a sudden stop or collision, Children under the age of five or under 50 pounds should not be restrained by the adult automobile seat belt. Many parents do not realize that due to - incomplete development of bon,c,3,,, structure, children of this age should have a restraint that will distribute the force of a collision over a wide area of the body. For the older child, the best way to reduce the incidence of injuries is for parents to insist that all children over 50 pounds, buckle their safety belts. They may be propped up on a firm cushion so that they can see outside. The. belt should be adjusted to fit across the hips, it must not be permitted to ride across the stomach according to Canada-Safety Council. It is not recommended that children use the shoulder harness until they are at least four foot seven inches tall.. Each year Canada Safety Council promotes an awareness campaign to direct attention to the issue of child safety, and each year the statistics show an increasing number of children killed and , injured in cars. Consumers' Association of Canada has co-operated with the Safety Council in trying to inform and educate the general public to the need for properly restraining children while they are riding in a car. The Association has received a large volume of correspondence and requests from concerned parents for information to help them understand the necessary safety considerations, and this has resulted in the development of a series of articles on this topic. The complete series on Children's Automobile Safety is available, price 50c, from CAC, 100 Gloucester Street, Ottawa, Ontario, K2P 0A3. ,1*(PREVENT FOREST FIRES The world is surely a crazy place to live, isn't it, but unfortunately, there's no place else to go. We're here on this planet and we're stuck with it— for a while at least. A few days ago I was having a kind of ecumenical discussion with a friend of mine. We were talking about all sorts of things. but as usually happens when I talk with this particular friend. the topic got around to religion. Now don't get me wrong, This column isn't going to be a discourse on the differences between religious denominations...although I'll just bet there are many readers out there who would get a big bang out of reading something like that. Actually what my friend was saying was that The Pope in Rome turns him off because The Pope dons his papal robes and emerges from his papal palace and tells the masses to love one another, to feed the starving, to clothe the naked, to heal the sick. He then returns to the seclusion of his finely furnished, well-stocked mansion and does nothing. Well, I don't know what the papal palace looks like. I don't know whether The Pope wears ermine or rags. I don't know whether he eats steak or' dry bread. And it doesn't much matter to me becaus,e I believe that in our own ways, each of us is a hypocrite...and anyone who says he isn't is that much more of a hypocrite, • I told my friend not to fault The Pope for his human weaknesses unless he could prove blameless himself. I reminded him that in my humble opinion, anyone who lived comfortably and ate well and dressed warmly and did not share with his neighbors and friends who were in need was just as guilty as anyone. And that's what turns me off when it comes to most modern- day peacemakers. So many of these would-be do-gooders think that by sitting idly by writing poetry and talking about love, they are bringing peace to the world, Tell someone Who's being oppressed that you're aiding him by wearing a flower in your teeth and strumming a guitar, and he'll tell you you've got something to learn, buddy. BY SHIRLEY .1 KELLER It really irks me, too, that some people believe they are perfectly within their rights to live the way they want to live...despite the fact that their only source of income is welfare. And here again, please don't get.the idea that I'm opposed to welfare. For deserving people—folks who for some reason beyond their own control are unable to earn a , decent wage— I believe welfare should be provided in such amounts that it provides a dignified life for the recipient. But take the healthy, virile male who prefers to recline in bed until noon and rises only to rest until evening when the action begins.„just because he doesn't "dig" (agree with) the free enterprize, democratic concept. This fellow will brag about his "rights" in a free society—and then ignore the people who fought to make it free. He'll do nothing at all to retain the precious freedom which makes it possible for him to enjoy his peculiar quirks in peace. When he gets hungry, he'll expect to be fed. ,.but he'll scoff at the silly fools who expend an honest day's effort to provide the funds for his welfare cheque. He'll beg all to leave off working, but has no thought for where the funds will be realized to support his life. He won't lift a pinky to help himself or anyone else, but he'll scream bloody murder and protest all day and half-way through the night if necessary to complain when there's a so-called "injustice". He'd kill and maim and burn and plunder in the name of peace—and he'll call it "justice''. I just don't "get it on with" (understand) the people who, as the Bible so aptly puts it, fail to remove the beam from their own eye before attempting to take out the splinter from the other fellow's peepers. 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