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6 — THE BRUSSELS POST APRIL 26, 1978
Home care workers are bysy,.
As the cost of hospital care
increases, a Huron County
organization offers people
qualified care in their own homes.
The organization is the Town.
and County Homemakers which
has 41 members across the
county,
Salome C, Mallon, president of
the Family Care Workers of
Ontario, and Muriel Knight,
Vice-President, visited the local
organization last week to discuss
the upcoming Canadian Care In
the Home Conference, which will
be held in Ottawa next month,
and to advocate accreditation of
the ,homemaker organizations
across the country.
Mrs. Mallon said as the trend
of more health care at home.
grows, "Homemakers are coming
into their own."
The homemakers, an in-
dependent organization in Huron
County, work with ..a number
ofhealth and social agencies
including Family and childrens
Services, the Canadian Cancer
Society and - Community and
Social Services, as well as wItn
individuals who contact the or-
ganization for help in the home.
The organization's code of
ethics defines family care workers
as those people who "hclp
maintain and preserve a family
environment with skills in. 'both
homemaking and personal care
when an individual's or family's
physcial or mental well-being is
threatened, disrupted or in the
process of rehabilitation.,"
The upcoming confernecc,
which is jointly sponsored by the
Family Care Workers and the
National Health and Welfare
ministry, will' be attended by a
number of Huron County home-
makers.
Local delegate's arc Jean
YoUng, Wingham, president of
the group; Nelly Petronella,
Clinton, development officer for
the Town and Country Home-
makers; Wilma Bakclaar,
Clinton, a homemaker; Beatrice
Storey, Seaforth, a homaker;
Anne Thompson, Wingham, area
homemaker; Muriel Workman,
Clinton, homemaker; Estelle
Wise, Clinton, homemaker; and
Betty. Cardno, administrator of
the Seaforth. Home-Care.
Program, who is attending the
conference as an observer.
The head office of the Town
and, Country Homemakers is in
Wingham, and can be reached by
calling 357-3222,
In outlining the confetence
agenda, Mrs. Mallon said the
hope is that with accreditation,
homemakers across.- Canada •
would receive the same training
and have the Same qualifications.
Following a discgssion of the
upcoming conference, guest
speakers Bev Brown and Gerry
Zurbrigg of the Energy Con-
servation Centres, in Lucknow
and Goderich, presented a series
of tips on conserving energy in
and, around the home,
Miss Brown, told the home-
makers the cost of fuel in Canada
is rising 12 per cent a year or
doubling every six years.
She said the government
realizes it can't legislate energy
saving, so 1.50 energy centres
have been set up across the
country to educate the public in
conserving energy and looking at
alternative sources of energy.
Miss Brown said while Canada
has only seven per cent of the
world's population, it is using. 30
per cent of the world's energy
resources, and studies have
shown Canadians are wasting SO
per cent of the energy they use.
- Mrs. Zurbrigg suggested a
number of way to reject, re-use or
re-cyCle articles in the home to
conserve the use of energy.'
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She recommended re-cycling
such items as brown paper bags,
envelopes,, and the styrofoam
meat trays and egg cartons.
She pointed out microwave
ovens are fabulous energy savers
since the food is cooked in a much
shorter period of time. She said
while plugging in the electric
kettle to boil water uses 1,500
watts, water can be set in cups
inside a microwave oven and will
boil with 600 watts of .electricity.
Mrs. Zurbrigg also praised
local organizations who are col-
lecting newspapers for re-cycling.
Both speakers invited the
homemakers to attend the various
seminars presented at the energy
centre and said the centres hope
In ogranize a bus tour of various
solar-heated barns and houses in
the future. •
Definition of retarded
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Nobody knows exactly the basis training schools at 'Atwood, St.
on which mental retardation
determined.
Well, at least,
officially.
argued at Perth B of E
nobody knows
is Mary's and Stratford.
There was always the pos-
sibility that the program "Might
come to naught," R.K. Self,
county director of edujation, tolcl
the board, in the event that
existing organizations did not
wish to participate.
The question of who is mentally
retarded took up most of the time
of the Perth County Board of
Education's meeting, but the
board did agree that a committee
be established to study a proposal
that handling of mentally retard-
ed be taken out of the liana of
the training school at.
Palmerston
The Perth County board would
not operate schools for the
mentally retarded. That job would
be in the jurisdiction of co-
operative body formed of existing
Cranbrook 4-H club
has garden course
Cranbrook 4-11 garden club met
on April 13, at Mrs. ,toe
Tcrpstra's home. Seven club
members were present with the
leader, Mrs. JocTerpstra and.the
assistant leader, Mrs. Herman
Terpstra. Several pamphlets were
given to the members and the
topics "Why grow a vegetable
garden", 'Where to plant a
vegetable garden", "Planning a
garden", and "Flowers• and why
plant the-m", were discussed. The
next meeting will be held on May
10.
13ut board Members admitted
there was some confusion involv-
ing .eventual responsibility.
Trustee R.F. Boyce, for in-
stance, said he thought some
trainees in existing schools "did,
not belong there," but shmild be
in other institutions. •
And even board chairman
Barbara Herman admitted "We
are floundering," and• that the
board did not have adequate
information to make an im-
mediate decision.
A Development Centres
Committee, if formed, would
apply to the ministry of com-
munity and social services to
establish day care centres staffed
by the provincial department.
When Trustee W.. F. Jones said
he was confused by wording of a
report presented by L.F. Feeney,
and trustee Mary Hill asked for a
definition of "Developmental",
the board • was told' by assistant
superintendent of program, R.G.
Boyce, that terminology, was
copied from provincial regulat-
ions and that exact definitions
would not be. available until
legislation was finally 'approved.
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