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PAGE 22. THE CITIZEN, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 7, 2004.
To the highest bidder
It was going, going, gone this past weekend at Blyth
- Festival's big fundraising gala auction. Auctioneer Burt
Lobb does his best to bring in the highest bid. (Vicky Bremner
photo)
Hospice Awareness
Week recognizes
gifts hospice brings
their choice.
Hospice palliative care provides
the practical, emotional, spiritual and
'bereavement care necessary to
ensure quality of life through the
final stages of life. Hospice Week
2004 marks a celebration of life,
recognition of the many gifts caring
for one and other holds.
Major school bus safety
campaign underway in region
Eight Southwestern and.
Midwestern Ontario school boards
have teamed up with the Ontario
School Bus Operators. the Ministry
of Transportation and the Chum
Group Television stations in
London. Wingham and Windsor to
launch a major school bus safety
campaign.
The Campaign Think of Us on the
Bus kicked off the week before the
new school year got underway to
remind drivers to watch out for
children getting on and off the
school bus. on rural roads or city
streets.
The school boards and their bus
operators involved in the
partnership are: The Avon Maitland
District School Board of Huron and
Perth Counties, the Huron-Perth
Catholic District School Board, the
Thames Valley District School
Board, the London and District
Catholic School Board, the
Bluewater District School Board of
Bruce and Grey Counties, the
Bruce-Grey Catholic District School
Board, the Lambton Kent District
School Board and the St. Clair
Catholic District School Board.
The Think of Us on the Bus
campaign was developed to remind
drivers to avoid distraction while •
driving_ and pay particular attention
to school buses. Vehicles travelling
in either direction are required by
law to stop for a school bus when its
red lights are flashing and its stop
arm is extended. It was determined
that the campaign would be more
effective by creating messages with
a visual impact as opposed to
information segments that focus on
the legal consequences.
Three 30-second public service
messages were created and now air
in high rotation on the three Churn
Group stations. These hard-hitting
realistic dramatizations focus
attention on the danger involved for
our children when drivers are
distracted from the task at hand.
The messages are delivered from
three perspectives, that of the bus
driver, that of the children riding the
bus to and from school, and that of
the distracted and potentially:
dangerous driver. All three messages
climax with a scene that depicts a
driver narrowly avoiding hitting a
seven-year-old female student who
had just disembarked from the
school bus.
Think of Us on the Bus was
launched live on the New Day
program aired on three stations. As a
followup to the launch and the
ongoing airing of the messages, the
Partnership will come together once
again on Oct. 20 on the New Day
Television Program for a series of
segments on School Bus Evacuation
in an emergency, and emergency
extraction training for police and
firefighters. As well, the popular
Buster the Bus will put on a show
for the primary children.
In the late fall/early winter, a new
series of messages will- be produced
focusing on winter driving and.
school bus safety:
According to a national poll,
conducted by Ipsos Reid, and
released September 2004, although
more than 90 per cent of Canadians
want to die at home, 75 per cent still
die in hospitals.
Only 15 per. cent of Canadians
receive quality end-of-life care. And
only 8 per cent of people who care
for family members facing end of
life 'believe they could care for their
loved one at home without services
provided by hospices such as
Wingham and Area Palliative Care
Services, Inc.
These numbers, as well as
Canada's aging demographics and
increasing incidence of cancer and
other diseases, provide a 'stark
picture of the growing need for the
care and compassion provided by
hospices such as Wingham and Area
Palliative Care Services, Inc.
Oct. 10 - 17 marks Hospice
Awareness Week across the
province, and it has never been -more
important to recognize the gift of
time, care and humanity that
hospices provide in more that 450
communities throughout Ontario.
"Since the program's beginning in
1989, almost 400 individual persons
have been cared for by volunteers of
the Wingham and Area Palliative
Care Services, Inc. Over the past six
months we've served over 20 new
referrals. The need for palliative care
workers is growing at a fast rate.
Helping people means providing
on-going emotional, psychological
and spiritual support to people who
are dying. For family members. it
means being able to have someone
relieve them of their care giving role,
to -provide respite support. It also
means providing emotional wand
bereavement support, on average, to
live family members.
For Ruth Jesshope, -a hospice
volunteer, this means sharing a cup
of tea and chatting about the news of
the day with her client.- —It is
essential that clients not feel alone. I
provide emotional support and
practical care", June MacEwen,
another volunteer who has given
much to caring for others:
"As a society we often fear death
more than we recognize the richness
of life at the end-of-life" noted
executive director Kathy Procter. All
citizens have the right to die with
dignity, free of pain, surrounded by
their loved ones in a setting of choice
Nappy. 50th Wedding anninetaaty.
The family of
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invites you to a
Come and Go tea and social time
at the home of John and Carol
85554 McDonald Line
from 2:00 pm to 4:30 pm on !I(
Sunday., 02cta4et 24tk, 2004
Best Wishes Only Please
- Bill, Dorothy, Annette, Cathy, Bruce & Robert
Help protect the
environment
Reduce, reuse
and recycle
WEDDINGS
Performed - your location or our
iindoor or outdoor chapel.
(non-denominational)
For brochure call:
REV. CHRIS MORGAN
ALL FAITHS PASTORAL CENTRE
BENMILLER, 524-5724
CHRISTENINGS