HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Citizen, 1990-08-29, Page 6PAGE 6. THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 29, 1990.
Homemakers open Clinton Office
Nature s beauty
Amanda Leger looks at. a lovely prize winning display at the
Brussels Horticultural Society’s Ham and Turkey Dinner and
Flower Show last Wednesday evening at St. John’s Anglican
Church.
In an effort to provide better
service to the county, the Town and
Country Homemakers (TCH) re
cently opened a service office in
Clinton.
The agency, whose motto is
“Keep a Good Home Going”, have
actively provided services in the
county for over a decade. With
their first office in Wingham, the
TCH gradually expanded, to keep
pace with the growing needs of the
communities they serve.
In February, they opened a
South Huron office in Exeter, and
in early July, Clinton’s Central
Huron office was opened.
“We opened this one so we can
provide better service to the central
area,” said Joan Stamper, the
Home Support Program Assistant.
Mrs. Stamper, along with Estelle
Wise, the Homemaker Service
Supervisor for the Goderich and
Bayfield area, and Evelyn Pepper,
the Homemaker Service Supervisor
for the Clinton and Seaforth area,
run the central office.
The TCH, through their own
description, “...provides home
making and home support services
which enable individuals and fami
lies to live independently in their
own homes. Our goals include
maintaining a person’s quality of
life and sustaining a sense of
dignity. Our staff, homemakers,
home support workers and volun
teers all work together with the
same purpose in mind - maintain
ing independence.”
In their area of the TCH, Home
Support sponsors and co-sponsors
a number of seniors’ programs.
They co-sponsor dining for seniors
in Bayfield and Goderich, which
provides seniors with a hot meal
and a social time once a week,
along with Meals on Wheels, in
which meals are delivered to
seniors, by volunteers, on a daily
basis. Costs for these programs are
decided on a case-by-case basis.
Volunteers are also actively in
volved in programs such as trans
portation for seniors, friendly visit
ring for seniors, in which a volun
teer makes a weekly visit to a home
for an hour, and telephone reassur
ance, which gives people living
alone in a community the opportun
ity to enjoy a daily conversation
with a new or old friend. This latter
program also offers a sense of
security to the person being called,
because they know if there is no
answer at the appointed time, a
friend, neighbour or official will
check up on them.
Home Support also offers a home
maintenance service, which in
cludes home, help, such as clean
ing, laundry and shopping errands;
heavy cleaning, such as floor
stripping and rewaxing, and furni
ture moving; and handyman ser
vices such as changing storm
windows and minor home repairs.
“Everything is designed to en
able people to stay in their own
homes for as long as possible,”
Stamper stated. “Home Support
relies very heavily on our volun
teers - we couldn’t run the
organization without them. We
have over 400 volunteers across the
county.”
She added that with the office
located in Clinton, it will now be
easier to keep in touch with local
volunteers.
The Homemakers, for their nart
also offer a number of services,
including personal care, planning,
shopping for and preparing nutri
tious meals and special diets,
household management, compan
ionship, and child care.
Those who use the service in
clude elderly people who may
need assistance with their personal
care, meal preparation and house
hold activities; people who are ill
and prefer to recover at home;
people with disabilities who can
manage at home with a little extra
help; and those who are terminally
ill and wish to be at home with their
loved ones.
Town and Country Homemakers
is a not-for-profit agency, and a
registered charitable organization.
Their Clinton office is located at 52
Huron Street and their phone
number is 482-9264.
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Compiled by Mrs. Mac Engel. Phone 887-6645
Relatives, friends gather
in honour of anniversary
The sympathy of the community
is extended to the wife and family
of the late James Bell Murphy who
died so suddenly on Saturday
night, August 18.
Tom and John Murphy flew from
Scotland on Monday, August 20 for
the funeral of their brother Jim and
returned home on Thursday.
Lloyd and Beryl Smith have
moved to their new house in
Brussels. They were active mem
bers of the community and will be
greatly missed.
On a recent weekend over 60
relatives and friends gathered at
the home of John and Pat Engel to
celebrate a family wedding anni
versary and a birthday.
Judy Engel and friend from
Ottawa spent a week’s holiday with
her family.
Eldon and Isabel Wick and son
John left on Thursday for their
home at Marthon, following a
holiday with family members.
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