The Brussels Post, 1975-01-01, Page 7TODAY'S CHILD.
BY HELEN ALLEN
Senior Friendship Club
donates to Bangladesh
NEEDS TEENS IN FAMILY
Jamie has just turned 10. He's slender and healthy with
brown hair, blue eyes and fair skin. He needs glasses for
astigmatism and far-sightedness but doesn't like_wearing them,
so they are often conveniently forgotten.
This lad likes grown up company but isn't a good mixer with
children. 'Part of the problem is that he is poorly co-ordinated so
that some activities, especially sports, are hard for him. He
tends to be a loner, preferring crafts or reading or television to
games.
Jamie is in a class for children with perceptual problems. He
enjoys school and tackles his work with enthusiasm.
Academically, he is at the Grade two to four level but in a recent
verbal test he ranked with some 11-year-olds.
Warm, firm, understanding parents and some teenagers to
take an interest in him will be an ideal family for Jainie. To
inquire about adopting Jamie, please write to Today's Child,
Ministry of Community and Social Services, Box 888, Station K,
Toronto M4P 2H2. For general adoption information, consult
your local Children's Aid Society.
Happy New Year?
The Brussels Senior Friendship
Club met on Thursday. December
19 in the Legion Hall with about
60 members present. The
president told of her meeting with
the district representative for the
federal Horizon's Grant. He
explained that the club is eligible
for assistance to pay rent on a
drop-in centre and to pay part of
the cost for materials for crafts. A
now vacant store mentioned as a
possibility and enquiries had
been made and the rent would be
$50. a month. Added expense
would include heat and hydro.
mission and
bookkeeping for
projects.
His personal life revolves
around the missionary and his
family and some friends at a
nearby Mennonite mission. He
has some coloured photographs of
the Christmas festivities with his
friends in Bunkpurugo last year,
complete with Christmas tree and
Christmas dinner.
Jerry has done some travelling
around Ghana and into the nearby
African countries of Togo, Mali
and Upper Volta. He hopes to see
more of the continent before he •
comes back to Canada. Jerry can
speak some of the' local language
but he relies on an interpreter to
explain the details as he talks to
people in various villages about
how they can improve farming
methods. "There is a great
difference in interpreters", Jerry
says. "I have to have someone
who understands the agricultural
methods I'm talking about".
Interested persons were asked to
sign their names on a form.
A 50 cent collection at the door
taken instead of exchanging small
gifts among the members was
given to the "Bangladesh We
Hear You" fund.
The Friendship Club quilt
made and quilted by a group of
lady members was on display.
A Christmas ' programme
included a 'short play "The
Family Hold-out" by six young
ladies who were introduced by
'Mrs. Allan Webb; a reading "The
Food in Canada. is "dirt cheap"
compared to Ghana, according to
Jerry. Here we work four or five
hours to buy a week's groceries.
In Ghana, where, grain costs $3 -
$4 a bushel a person would have
to work for three or four days to
buy his food.
The changes that Jerry has
introduced to the Bunkpurugu
area arc not big ones and he
;stresses this.But improvements
like cleaner wells, steel blades on
,hoes and fertilizer all add up and
will allow the people Jerry knows
to become more able to feed
themselves and others. And in
these days of famine and
starvation in Africa, that is what
caring is all about.
Day that Was by Mrs. Bill. Miller
and a Christmas story by Three
Shepherds - Mrs. Amy Speir,
Mrs. Anne Smith and Miss Laura
Lucas, accompanied by a quar-
tette of carol singers, Mrs. D.
Steffer, S, Stephenson,
McCutcheon and R. Hupfer.
Six games of 'progressive
euchre, were played with winners
as follows: High Lady - Mrs.
Hackwell; High Man - Mrs W.C.
Kerr; Low Lady - Mrs. Stevens;
Low Man - Mac Shaw; Most lone
Hands - Mrs. W. C. Kerr.
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will improve the roads. (some are
just paths between villages.
Jerry hopes that local people
will carry on the agriculture
improvement programs when he
leaves.
Jerry follows the local pattern
of having a rest in the afternoon
when it is really hot and in the
evening he works at his small
"experimental farm" at the
does the
his various
Walton man tells of
An ode to the rural mailman
(By Robert E. Hulley)
The services to the rural area
Make: life so smooth and sure.
The milkman, to the- dairy,
If the weather, be good or poor.
The bread man, with his happy
Smile
The fuel man, never fails
As they drive the country, mile by
mile
In rain, and sleet, and hail.
These service men, you get to
know
As you meet them, day to day.
But , there is one more, that is on
the go
You'd miss him, if he went away.
He's the faithful, rural mailman,
In his banged up, little car.
Do you ever, really give a dart!?
How good, his conditions are.
You never get to meet him
Or your face would sure be reds
With the condition of your
mailbox, being more than sin
Yet, not a word, is said.
The mail box door, just will not fit
Unless you use both hands.
The post leans way out, towards
the ditch
Just reach it if you can:
The box is filled, with starlings
ests
Now look up at your hoine,
How smooth arid tidy, with little
mess
Did you hear that mail man
groan?
The snow plow sweeps the road
so clean
The conditions are the best.
Now where does all that wet snow
lean?
Against the post, you bet.
See, there comes the rural mail-
man
With red flag on his car ; to show
But he'll have to be, a superman
To get near the box, for snow.
Someday there may be a better
way,
To deliver mail, to country folk.
'Till then, let's vote him a raise in
pay,
For his conditions, are sure no
joke.
vvie Christ mast/
Hear ye! Hear ye! 'Tis our wish
that this holiday be a bell ringer
in the spirit of Christmases
past. Glad tidings,
and thanks!
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