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Home My WebLink AboutThe Brussels Post, 1976-03-24, Page 12Correspondent Mrs. Mac Engel The Sacrament of the Lord's Supper *as celebrated on Sunday morning with Rev. Young of Goderich as minister. Mrs. Donald Cotton has been a patient in Listowel Memorial Hospital where she underwent" surgery. Tracey and Danny Jacklin, Bloomingdale, are _having hol- idays at the thome of their grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Earl Dunn. Miss Laurie Elliott underwent a tonsilectomy on Friday in Lis- towel Memorial Hospital. Quite a number participated in family bowling on Friday evening at Molesworth. Miss Susan McKone, London, visited Mrs. Lylle Gordon over Sunday. Mrs. -Stuart McNair visited with Mr. and Mrs. Bill Henry- Goderich, and Mrs. Arlie. Shaw, Mt. Forest. Come to the Community Centre on Friday evening, March 26, at 8 o'clock for an evening of cards. Everyone is welcome. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Workman and boys visited on the Weekend with Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Brewer Milton. W.I. meets Mrs. Ross Knight was hostess for the March meeting 'of Cran- brook W.I. which opened in thea usual manner. The minutes of the February meeting were read and approved. Mrs. Hart gave the treasurer's report and the pennies for friendship and the regular collec- tion were taken. The food forum "more' about. Today's Health Sexual responsibility means knowledge QUALITY SERVICE ICRAFTMANSHIP Open Every Weekday Your Guarantee for Oyer 35 Years of CEMETERY LETTERING Box 158, WINGHAM JOHN MALLIC New Cons truction -Renovation and Repairs HENRY F. EXEL CONSTRUCTION Residential • Agricultural • Commerc Phone PO Box 21 Brussels 0 887-6561 NVG IH Air iq 8 t Wingham Memorial Shop ( the Pa pf lea Pr pa arb in t ant mil cut • exp mai has clai hos bei ANY WAY YOU LOOK AT IT BERG HAS THE BEST BARN CLEANER *•;;:iiftto•:, Berg Barn Cleaners are the best you can put in any barn. -They're the best in strength, durability and ' performance. 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IsONDHESSORO SEED PLANT Robert Shaddia 521,4899. a nutrition" will be held April 6 to 8:00p.m. in. the Clinton High School, Everyone is welcome to this forum. The annual meeting will be held April 8 at the home of Mrs. Jack, Cox. The change in date will accomodate those who wish to attend the food forum. Of the 1976-77 training schools offered, Cranbrook members chose "Quilts" as first choice and "Needlepoint for the Begin- ners" as second choice. It was decided to continue with "Sunshine Sisters" for 1976-77 • with cards to be exchanged on birthdays and wedding anniver- saries and a gift exchange at the annual meeting. The gift limit is $1.50. Standing committee members who are retiring this year are to find someone to take their place rather than have a nominating committee. Mrs. Jack Conley was appoint- ed as an auditor to replace Mrs. Lylle Gordon. A meeting to prepare annual reports will be held on March 25th at 8;30p.M. at Mrs. Clare Veitch's. Mrs. Conley and Mrs.Ross Knight, conveners of the Resolu- tions committee • presented the evening program. The roll call "a law I want changed or kept and why?" was answered by 9 members. Mrs. Ross Knight gave a most interesting talk on Nellie. McClung's life's work of rights for women, particularly her work to obtain the vote for women. Mrs. Knight also read several "smi les" Mrs. Ella Knight had se nt from Florida where she is spending the winter. Mrs. Gordon Engel reviewed her year's work on . the Tweedsmuir books. She has done a tremendous amount of research from old Brussels Posts, as well as getting the information typed and into the proper books. Mrs, Leslie Knight and .the hostess served lunch prepared by Mrs. Knight and Miss Kate McNabb. The meeting closed by singing "0 Canada". Compared with the Victorians -- some of whom clothed piano legs in socks to prevent lascivious thoughts -- we, in the last quarter of the 20th century, seem highly enlightened and tolerant about sex.- But are we really? Despite enormous advances in communication, ignorance of contraceptive methods is widespread; despite the fact that we have a &eater choice of birth control measures than did the Victorians the Pill, for instance, has only been around since the 1950s -- there are still frightening numbers of unwantied pregnancies. The solution is one of individual and collective responsibility: do we, as a couple, want to produce a child? Can we care, and be fully responsible, for that child? Are we prepared to be responsible to others and the community? In announcing a program including public information at - the community level started in the 1975-76 fiscal year, Ontario Minister of Health Frank Miller said: "Sexual activity is occurring at earlier ages than previously, and -- to a larger extent — without the formation of long-term relationships. In our society, this increased sexual 'freedom makes the need for the exercise of individual responsibility a matter of public concern, as well as of concern to the individuals." This public concern has been translated into action on the part of Ontario's health units, most of which have started information centres for birth control counselling and hired nurses to provide sex and contraceptive information in local high schools, clinics and health centres along with other services in family planning. The important thing IS to make the knowledge readily available, says Dr.Robin associate medical officer of health , at the Niagara Regional Health Unit, and in charge of the Unit's family planning services, Many teen-age girls who become pregnant, pr. WillianiS says, either didn't know where to' find a4vice about contraception -- or they were afraid to ask someone. It a disturbing nttniber of eases, the lade of aWareneSs about contraception leads to a false sense Of security: "1 didn't think it 00:1 happen to rri e." The answer, as Dr. Williams sees it, is to provide the so-called facts of life accurately and early: Parents can and should do this -- if necessary, with the help of one of the many books on the subject -- and schools should provide professionally-run sexuality courses. The teen-ager who has been inadequately served by a these sources can get additional contraceptive information and advice from the local health unit or birth control clinic -- or from the family doctor. The service is a confidential one. , Responsibility, in sexual as in other matters, can- only rest on knowledge. Facts alone are not enough, however. 'Motivation is also important, and so we have to look at our values too; and the standards we are transmitting. • Cranbrook WI to learn about quilts A Wh app con gov bee pro pay clai Sta sai for zatii and get con. T pro Nov 197. duri pay wei • per pro 197 pays wei and slau C are pub S b S chili la ly type som the Fi you Too assu gro dan safe ope gro whil can sire Lea bra han situ ped reqi st F urid tot co Co n Wit YOU = "4,-,-THE BRUSSELS POST MARCH 24, 1976