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Home My WebLink AboutThe Citizen, 1986-04-16, Page 7THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 16, 1986. PAGE 7. Coming year big challenge Homemakers told Bill Brady was the featured speaker at the annual dinner and meeting of Town and Country Homemakers. Head table guests included Maggie and Bruce MacDonald, board chairman Lauretta Stegner and executive director Jean Young. BY YVONNE REYNOLDS "This coming year will be an exciting challenge", executive director Jean Young told those attending the Town and Country Homemakers' annual dinner meeting, held April 8 in the Goderich township hall at Holmes- ville. Young was referring to the still - unknown effects on the agency of a program announced in January by the provincial government to help frail, elderly and disabled people stay in their homes instead of being forced into institutions. Huron County is one of six sites selected for the pilot project, which will fund both improvement in a variety of home and community support systems for needy seniors, and expand the homemaker ser- vice now provided by the social services and health ministries. Under this new program, appli- cants will only have to demonstrate need; current recipients of Home- maker services must qualify through financial or health needs tests which have denied service to some who wished to stay in their own homes. Board chairman Lauretta Siegn- er noted in her report that removal of the means test could result in an increase of as much as 50 percent in the number of seniors taking advantage of the homemakers' services. In anticipation of the expected increase in demand, 22 new homemakers are now being train- ed, Young said. She predicted the government program may mean a reversal of the previous ratio whereby private clients purchased 66.5 percent of the agency's services, and the Home Care Program accounted for 31.5 per- cent. (Allocations from the provin- cial ministry of community and social services allowed Town and Country Homemakers to subsidize the rate charged to private clients through Home Support for the Elderly.) Seaforth's Betty Cardno, whose efforts contributed to the forma- tion of Town and Country Home- makers, said the Integrated Home- maker Program, administered by the Huron County health unit and the board of health, is due to begin May 1. Cardno said the program is strictly homemaking, not home care. "This program is designed to supplement rather than replace what friends and relatives are doing", Cardno observed. Service will be purchased from Town and Country Homemakers, whose trained Homemakers will provide emotional support and encouragement while assisting elderly and disabled persons with meal planning, shopping, clean- ing, laundry, ironing, personal care, assistance in walking and getting in and out of bed, eating, dressing, and other activities pertaining to normal living and maintaining the individual's health and well being. Siegner said that as Huron County has been chosen as one of six test site areas, the Town and Country Homemakers board of directors will have to be "vigilant in estimating procedures, as our handling of the new program will doubtless affect government im- plementation of this program." Inclusion in the provincial pro- ject is another milestone for Town and Country Homemakers, which has grown rapidly since its found- ing in 1978. Last year approximate- ly 80 Homemakers hired within Huron County supplied 61,502 hours of service to residents of this county. The annual budget has increased 62 percent in the past five years to over $490,000 in 1985, making the agency a major contri- butor to the economic health of Huron County. Guest speaker at the annual meeting was Bill Brady, founder and president of Transplants International. Brady cited some touching examples of organ reci- pients who had gone from near death to a new experience of life after receiving a liver or heart transplant. Hullett school students win at 4th Science Fair Hullett Central Public School held its annual science fair on April 4 with students from Grade 7 and 8 entering a number of interesting displays. The winners in the physical Grade 7 group were Lana Law- rence, third place; Kevin Wright, second place and Mike Merner, first place. Jn the Grade 7 biological section the winners were: Tracy Kennedy and Shane Taylor - tied for second and in first place was Shannon Duizer. In the Grade 8 physical division, the winners were: Richard Wilts, third place; Murray Whyte, second place and Darlene Buffinga, first place. In the biological section Anita Gross was the winner with Leona Cunningham placing se- cond and Theresa Knox in third place. The school sold cheese to raise money for student council uses. The students raised approximately $1,200. Mrs. Cooke's Grade 5 class is currently writing to their penpals at Brookside Public School near Lucknow. Public attitudes have changed, Brady said, and people no longer think the subject ghoulish. Brady read two letters with the same theme - a beloved family member had been killed in tragic circum- stances, and the writers regretted not donating organs that would have given life to someone else, and meaning to the loved one's death. Brady said there are still not enough donors, and only 25 out of 100 sign the consent form on their drivers' licences. He said four little children are waiting now at University Hospital for liver trans- plants. Brady urged his audience to sign the consent on their licences, and to tell their families what they have done. He said that older people could give someone else sight by donating their corneas. He assured his audience that actuarial tables show most people do not die under circumstances where their organs are used. Terming every transplant proce- dure a court of last resort Brady concluded by saying that giving and serving are the greatest achievements of the human spirit. The three draw prizes were all won by Hensall residents. Joyce Pepper won the weekend for two at the Pinedale Hotel in Grand Bend, Trudy Ferguson won dinner for four at Robindales, and Janice Baker won the sheepskin rug donated by Baintons in Blyth. Sat., April 26 8:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. A Special Intntation to no' YARD -MAN CELEBRATION! 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