HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1977-03-30, Page 9THE BRUSSELS POST, MARCH 30, 1977 —
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WILL YOU LOOK AT THAT!..— About 75 Brussels and area kids
crowded into the Library Thursday to see a puppet show by No
Strings Attached puppeteers, Richard Keelan andCheryl Smith. The
er Bureau offer:
satisfaction to both parties will be
a fantastic return on your
investment of time and concern
for a neighbour.
To volunteers in general, we
extend a warm invitation to join
us. Do you have a special skill or
interest y ou can offer? Even if
it's nothing specific, give us a
call.
Call the. Volunteer Bureau at
482-3037.
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Requirements in -
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Seed Grain
Funks Seed Corn
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REMEMBER:
We do seed cleaning
- Seed grain supplies are
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community. The emphasis is in
this project is not so much on
material aid as on "friendly human
contact. You can check on your
neighbour regularly to see how
things are going; this is' particu-
larly good in a case where a
person has a chronic ailment or
some physical handicap.
Even if you can offer only an
hour a week, p lease do. That
hour could mean much to
someone who is lonely and trying
to manage on a minimum of
outside assistance.
We'll be telling you more about
the Workshop in a little while.
But please, even if you cannot
attend it, give us a call and your
name, if you are interested in the
Friendly Visiting Program. If you
would like to be visited, we want
to know; if you want to be a visitor
we'd be glad to have you in our
group of volunteers. It need not
take too much of your time, and
the personal rewards , and
continue in the regular school
system.
A major project coming up is
our Friendly Visiting Program.
Watch for more news on this. We
will be holding an information
workshop in Goderich, in April,
and we hope for a good public
response.
The aim of this program is to
encourage personal friendly
contact a "Good neighbour"
policy - between volunteer
visitors and anyone who wants
the service; shutins, the elderly,
the handicapped, or just anyone
who wants some companionship.
In some instances, it will be
helpful if the volunteer can shovel
a pensioner's walk of ter a heavy
snowfall, or perhaps pick up a few
groceries or a prescription for a ,
neighbour, when down town.
We want to encourage the kind
of easy, sociable neighbourhood
co-operation that should ideally
come naturally in every
(By the Huron Volunteer Bureau)
The Huron Volunteer Bureau
should, we hope, be a familiar
name to many of you by now. We
would like to take this opportunity
to explain to you something of our
organization and the nature of our
work,
The Bureau is set up to serve
all of Huron County. Headquar-
ters is an office in Ontario Street
United Church in Clinton; there
are other occasional offices in
Exeter and Wingham.
Perhaps you are not sure just
what a "volunteer bureau" does,
and why we would like your
support.
The idea of the Huron Bureau
is to find out what kinds of
services are needed by various
residents of our county, and who
can "volunteer" to provide those
services. It is also our job to know
what groups and_ organizations
are doing in the line of volunteer
work, and to use these groups as
sources of assistance.
In other words, we try to see the
maximum good is obtained from
exisiting programs, and that
groups are identified and
communicate with each other.
This saves the cost and waste of
duplication. Often a service is
already available; people are
simply not aware of it.
Many people get the
impression that a volunteer
bureau deals mainly with the
elderly or the handicapped. We
do a lot of work with these
citizens, but we are really
designed to help anybody who
has a request for any kind of
volunteer service.
Becauase this is a rural area ,
widely spread out, we find a lot of
our requests are for people to
drive someone to a town for a
doctor's appointment; to get
grocieries; to make special trips
such as to "specialists" in
London. This reflects out country
living it is always necessary to
go somewhere to get anything
done, even if it is just a mile or
two.
We have currently , a program in operatiOn helping senior,
citizens with their income tax forms. One call came in for a'
group of volunteers to paint a
building on the Square' ' in
Goderich.
Another appeal is for tutoring;
a Young fellow who is partly blind
needs extra help with his
schoolwork if he is to be able to
Cranbrook
Baby baptized
Mrs. Mac Engel
Correspondent
The Sacrament of Baptism was
celebrated on Sunday at the
regular morning service. Rev. Dr.
Ross J.K. Thomson baptized
Shawn Douglas, infant son of Mr.
and Mrs. Douglas Conley.
The sympathy of the
community is extended to the
Workman family in the death of
the late Mrs. Ruth (Workman)
Ruston, in University Hospital,
London ,on Thursday.
Mr. and Mrs. Earl Dunn
arrived home on Friday from
Lakeland Florida where they have
been since early in January.
Mrs. Bill McNair, Mrs. Bruce
Allan and daughers Linda and
Joanne" of London visited Mrs.
Glenn Huether.
Mrs. Stuart McNair spent a few
days in Goderich with Mr. and
Mrs. Bill Henry.
Mr. and Mrs. Eldon. Wick and
family, RR 1, Ripley, spent
Wednesday with Mr. and Mrs.
Ross Engel.
Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Engel
and family visited over the
weekend with Mr. and Mrs.
Walter Johnson and family,
London.
There were eleven tables
playing at the progressive euchre
party in the Community Centre on
Friday evening. High scores went
to Mrs. Elliott and Lloyd Smith,
low to Mrs. S. Schwark and Stan
Fishcer. The travelling prize for
lone hands was won by Brad
Knight,
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