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GODERICH
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etting -old is .a growing process, not a loss
Keep active and keep happy
s the advice offered by Rev.
R. McWhinnie of Goderich as
pointed up the theme of the
y.long workshop held at Huron-
ew, Clinton, Wednesday.
Mr. McWhirtnie was one of the
ve-rnernber panel at the after-
oon sess ion of the workshop,
eeping Active After ?, which
as sponsored by the Huron
()linty Chapter of tile Registered
lases Association of Ontario.
Mr McWhinnie said one of his
jectives in life had been to keep
ung and he had been doing it
wn through the years by
eping active and happy.. A
aplain at Huronview he said he
joyed visiting the residents and
e continues to golf and swim.
Shirley Weary of Goderich, and
high school teacher in Clinton
ill ,be trying for a seat in
rliament for the third time as
e NDP candidate for Huron-
iddlesex.
At the meeting held in
derich, she named Paul Carroll
her campaign manager.
She told the small gathering
at "people matter more than
rporations". She said that there
re many loopholes in the
esent tax system and that
dividuals were `paying heavier
xes than they ought to."
Mrs. Weary also made note of
need in Canada for a food
ices review board. While she
loves that the farmers should
ive a guaranteed return .on
eat products, she feels there
uld be investigations on the
as where there is high profits.
he said there is a need to
ordinate federal and provincial
grams so they are not working
ainst each other.
The nation's polluters are
Other trouble spot according to
rs. Weary. She suggested there
"tough penalties for senior
cials who pollute" and they
st be enforced.
ACROSS
1. Light wood
6. Indian
state
11. Spirit in
"The
Tempest"
12. Beamed
11 Banshee's
relatives
15. Bikini part
16. Pasture
17. Dress
20. Pitfall
23, Taj Mahal
city
25. Hot-air
artist
29. Gaelic war
cry
(3 wds.)
31, Of the
season be-
fore Easter
32. Corner
33. Surrounded
by
35. Geological
time
division
36. Beard on
wheat
39. Buddhist
sect
41. Cudgels
from Cork
47. Sweet stuff
48. Playboy's
malady
49. Behave
theatrically
50. Intimidate
DOWN
Rem ainder" (abbr.)
you
with ?"
3. Back talk
4. One of
Tito's people
6. Watehfill
He laughed that he does not seem
to be getting any older.
• Panelist Mrs. Betty Cardno of
Seaforth, Home Care Administra-
tor for Huron, spoke of helping
people to keep their indepen-
dence and remain in their homes
when disabled, by sending a
physiotherapist, homemaker,
nurse or occupational therapist to
work with them. Mrs. Cardno
spoke on the importance of good
nutr ition and the telephone link
maintained by some older people
who phone regularly those living
alone,
Panelist Mrs. Stella Tate, an
occupational therapist from Tor-
onto, said our enthusiasm for life
is what makes aging successful.
She said the way we feel has a lot
SHIRLEY WEARY
Mrs. Weary has been in this
area for 10 . years, coming from
Hamilton. She has done work
with the Canadian Association of
Consumers and was previously a
member of theOffice Employees
Union. The school teacher will be
40 the day before the election.
"That's if I'm still alive," she
said jokingly.
Guest speaker for the evening
24. Archi- toDAse s ANSWER
tec-
tural
pier
26. Ending
for
silver
or
glass
27. Ger-
man
river
28. Flight-
less 40. Zola
bird novel
30. Jewel 42. Allow
34. Erased 43. Caustic
36. Tennis sub-
champ stance
37. Pronoun 44. African
often antelope
misused 45. Barbarian
38. Boxing's 46. Hold
a
Benvenuti session
to do With the way we keep active,
She stressed the importance of
being responsible for one's own
health and well-being.
`If we are watching our weight
and eat well, we shall hlep to keep
our health,' Mrs. Tate stated,
• Mrs. Tate said Canada has
more people in institutions than
any other country. 'Is institutional
care what we want for ourselves?'
she asked and warned that we
should be planning for the future
to get the environment we want.
Chester A. Archibald, Huron-
view Administrator, said retire-
ment at a certain age has
encouraged the general attitude
that at that age people are ready
for the boneyard or to take it easy
in their declining years.
was Fred Young, MPP for
Yorkview. Mr. Young spoke
largely on price control.
He cited many cases of profits
that are. "unparalled in the
history of Canada." He charged
that companies "don't compete
anymore -- they get together and
decide on prices."
He mentioned several
monopolies' in Canada which the
NDP think should be investigated
because of their profits.
He feels the present
government has ignored these
monopolies and price rises:
"Prime Minister Trudeau says
it's free enterprise," he said.
He then went on to say that
"there is no such thing as free
enterprise in this country."
Mr. Young explained how
companies will create a scarcity.
Using the oil companies in the
United States as an example he
said that several years ago. they
stopped production of refinery
capacities and when the Mid-East
war broke out again, it merely
helped them along.
Quoting Johnny Carson, he
said, "I have a funny feeling
there is a lot of 75 cent gas around
and when the price goes up to 75
cents, we'll have lots of .gas."
He said the "corporate rip-off"
that David Lewis warned the
people of a couple of years ago
has happened.
He said the corporations blame
the workers on the inflation
because of high wages but he said
studies have shown they have
little to do with it. Instead "the
wage earners are merely trying to
catch up to the pace of inflation."
"There is complete price
control in this country," he said,
"but the wrong people are setting
them."
Concluding his talk, Mr,
Archibald said, "I think we have
to convince retired people
themselves and those
approaching retirement of their
continuing personal worth.
Retirement is not an ending but
merely a transition into a new
phase of life and if we plan it as
carefully as we plan the work
phase it can be not only fun but
downright soul satisfying."
Mr,Archibald reminded his
audience that retirement can
mean the start of a new life -- that
some of the great figures of
history made their greatest
contributions to mankind after the
age at which we face retirement
today.
Mrs. Ann Redmond, Goderich,
a volunteer for many years, was
the final panelist. As a volunteer
co-ordinator who had organized
.500 volunteers for the Psychiatric
Hospital at Goderieh, she spoke
of people taking leadership when
they realized volunteers were
needed in the hospital.
In the question and answer
period following the panel
Mr.Archibald reminded the
audience that when people are
admitted to a Nursing or County
Home they 'should not be
forgotten. It is exceedingly
important they are visited and
retain a connection with their old
community.
Some of the suggestions put
forth by the audience included --
adopt a grandparent;
encouraging young people to visit
and possibly assist older people in
their homes so that they may
manage without having to be
admitted to a Home; have.older
people with their many
experiences share their
'knowledge (such as tewhing
knitting, describing old ways of
doing things, etc.) with young
people; telephone chains to those
living alone; and identify with
older people, give them a„sense of
dignity and they will 'respond and
something will come out so that
they won't just sit.
Mrs. Fran McHale, London,
supervisor of senior citizens'
activities, Department of
Recreation in London, was the
guest speaker. Canada is fast
becoming an aging society but it
is ill-prepared to face up to this
situation because of its negataive
attitude toward aging in general,
she said. Aging is still perceived
in terms of loss, rather than a
biological as well as psychological
and sociological process that
varies tremendously from one
individual to another.
She urged that people would be
better off if they lived lives of
involvement and purpose to
sustain them after all illusions
have been lost and passion
cooled..
Mrs. McHale spoke of young
people as `great new allies' in
working with older people.
"Young people and old people
have much in common", she said.
Mrs. McHale spoke of the New
Horizons program started in 1972
by the federal government when
$10 million was made available
for non-repayable grants to
groups of retired persons. She
said this is an invitation to
involvement and explained how to
apply for such as grant which is
available for almost any activity
which will usefully and creatively
involve retired people, meets
their needs and benefits them or
their community.
Mrs. McHale said there is only
one absolutely reliable statistic
about aging -- the rate at which
people age is exactly the same
all over the world, one day at a
time from birth.
Mrs. McHale outlined many
ways of getting older people
involved in keeping active and
brought along a group from her
senior community centre in
London called the L.B.'s who
have prepared a program of
exercises to be done to music and
games. The group,*all in their
sixties and seventies, kept the
audience laughing with • their
songs, dances and skits.
Old-time hoedown
entertainment was provided with
95-year old Mrs. Mary Taylor on
her mouthorgan, Mrs. Nellie
Welsh, on piano, Norman Speir
on violin, all residents of
Huronview, accompanied by Ross
Love of Exeter on violin.
Harry Hoffman and his group
from Exeter area entertained with
their singing of old songs and
hymns.
Mrs. Sheila Hallahan of
Seaforth, president of the Huron
Chapter of Registered Nurses,
presided for the event attended
by about a hundred guests.
The
Blooming
THING
By
ED VAN
GEEST
Nowadays, money CAN buy hap-
piness. What it can't buy is any-
thing else.
• • •
Then.. there's,. the.. driver who
found out how to avoid parking
tickets he removed his wind-
shield wipers.
• • •
There's ..as „much authority An
families as there ever was - only
now the children exercise it.
6. Residue
7. Shinto
temple
8. Kind
of
food
9. Boleyn
10. High
plateau
14. Char
17. Chinese
weight
unit
18. Bug-
bear
19. Broad
smile
21. Eccle-
sias-
tical '
vest-
ment
22. Mores-
by or '
Royal
CROSSWORD PUZZLE
hirley Weary is NDP choice
• • •
Today's commercial traveller is a
• TV viewer who goes to the re-
frigerator during the sponsor's
message.
• • •
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trying on the-mink, "but it clash-
es with my salary."
• • •
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