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Lucknow Sentinel, Wednesday, July 20, 1983—Page 9
Susan Bell of Goderich, who Is legally blind, and Bill
Partridge, Huron County Chief Librarian, are shown here
with the set of talking encyclopedias recently purchased by
the library for blind patrons in the county.
[Photo by Joanne Buchanan]
Purchase talking books
for blind patrons
The Huron County Library
recently purchased a set of
talking encyclopedias for its
blind patrons in the county.
The Talking World Book
set cost $2,000 and was
purchased with part of a
$21,000 BILD grant from the
Ontario government. The
rest of the money was used to
buy reference books and
large print books.
Developed by the
American Printing House for
the blind with a $360,000
grant from the American
Department of Education,
the Talking World Book set
consists of an index in braille
and an index in large print;
four track tape cassettes
running one way; and a tape
cassette player which is
programmed to find any
article a person wants in less
than a minute. Thousands of
articles are included in the
1300 hours on tape and these
articles are read by
professional announcers for
clarity.
Susan Bell of Goderich,
one of over 100 legally blind
persons in the county, first
discovered the Talking
Word Book set while visiting
The World's Largest Book
Store in Toronto. She then
brought it to the attention of
Huron County Chief
Librarian Bill Partridge who
took it from there.
In order to ensure that all
blind patrons in the county
have a chance to use the
talking set, it will be sent to
each town library branch for
two weeks according to the
following schedule:
Goderich--July 12-25;
Clinton—July 26 -August 8;
Exeter --August 9-22;
Seaforth--August 23 -
September 12; and
Wingham—September 13-26.
Blind patrons will be
phoned to attend an open
house at each of the bran-
ches on the first Thursday of
the week that the talking set
arrives. After the two week
program, the set will be
returned to the various
branches on a more per-
manent basis for a two
month loan.
Whitechurch institute
Whitechurch Women's In-
stitute Resolutions meeting
was held Wednesday, July
13 in Whitechurch Com-
munity Memorial Hall. The
hostess was Mrs. Fred Tiffin.
Mrs. John A. Currie, vice-
president, presided for the
president. Agnes Farrier.
Mrs. Currie opened the
meeting with a poem and
welcome to all. The roll call
was answered by something
achieved through resolu-
tions. there were 15 present
but few answered with a
resolution.
The minutes were read by
the secretary -treasurer, Jean
McGuire and the financial
statement given. Thank you
was received from Mr. and
Mrs. Dirstein and Mr. and
Mrs. Donald Gaunt for the
catering for Mr. and Mrs.
Russel Gaunt's 50th wedding
anniversary.
Stephen and Dean Tiffin
sang, He's Got The Whole
World In His Hand and
Country Road. Dean sang a
solo, Sweet Little Robin and
Stephen sang the solo, A
Roving. Three community
songs were sung with Mrs.
Don Ross, pianist.
Mrs. Currie gave Rena
Fisher's report of the Offic-
ers Conference she attended.
Mrs. Victor Emerson gave
the motto, Good Resolutions
are not worth much until they
turn into good ideas. She
then discussed a newspaper
clipping, Pick Your Own
Poison, referring to Captan,
the white powder spray put
on strawberries to keep them
from rot, and gave four
precautions.
Merle Wilson gave the
report of the Bruce South
District annual held at Luck -
now. The Distrist is now
twins with New Brunswick.
Conveners giving reports
were Mrs. Bill Rintoul,
Merle Wilson and Mrs. Tom
Day.
Mrs. Dan Tiffin held a
contest. Winners were Mrs.
Johnston and Mrs. Lewis.
Lunch was served by Mrs.
Dave Gibb, Mrs. Fred Tiffin
and Mrs. Tom Day.
Molly writes from Ireland
59 Killyman Road,
Dungannon, Co. Tyrone,
N. Ireland, July 7, 1983.
Dear Friend,
This is my birthday and I write to say how often I think of
your town, LUCKNOW, and its people during your 125th
birthday celebrations. Someone, I'm sure, will send me the
special celebration edition of your paper so I can share this
special time more fully with you all.
I hope the weather has been good for you. Here we're in
the middle of a rare heat wave which everyone is enjoying to
the full. As a gardener, though, I'm beginning already to
long for rain! In this country, according to my husband, who
is a Water Engineer, 14 days without rain is an official
drought, a fact that I'm sure will surprise a lot of your
readers.
As always, I'm in a terrible rush, trying to catch up on
jobs I want to do, so could I, please, again through you thank
my many friends out there for their continuing kindness to
me? First, my thanks to Todd and Bradley Park for their
good wishes and card which arrived in good time for my
birthday and to Mrs. Mary Alton whose birthday card and
letter arrived this morning on the dot. She couldn't have
managed it more cleverely unless she'd delivered it herself!
Thanks, too, as always to Mrs. Sheila Campbell for
sending not just one by two copies of my last open letter to
CO.OP
your paper, so I had one for my scrapbook and one for
friends. 1 don't know what 1'd do without her, she's always
so thoughtful in this way. My thanks to Mrs. Mabel Murdie
and Mrs. Irene Brown of Kitchener for their letters and
everyone here is delighted to know they enjoyed their stay
so much. They also wrote a lovely letter of appreciation to
our Branch of the Royal British Legion which as Secretary 1
read out at our last meeting. Everyone is hoping it won't be
too long before they pay us another visit.
My thanks to Mrs. Margaret Pentland Pritchard for her
letter which 1 will reply to in due course, as I mean to reply
to everyone but with so much to fit into the time 1 have, no
day is long enough for me. After attending the Legion
Conference as Branch delegate in Portsmouth, I spent a few
days with an ex-Waaf who served with me in the war and
her husband in nearby Rustington, then a few days in
London that was pure bliss, seeing my son and revisiting old
haunts. I also called with another ex-Waaf friend I hadn't
seen for 18 years so you can imagine the excitement and the
chat.
Since I came home I've been trying vainly to catch up on
articles for my weekly column, housework, garden, so dear
friends, please accept this open letter in the meantime. My
greetings to you all and to the whole community and warm
thanks to the Lucknow Sentinel.
Sincerely,
(Mrs.) Mollie Whiteside.
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