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Times-Advocate, 1981-05-27, Page 6�lJ Aj 1 Pog• 6 Time -Advocate, May 27, 1981 President, speaker talk of disabled - It's great to be living is WI Mrs. Gordon Papple and Mrs. Bruce Shapton welcomed all to the Huron South W.I. district annual at North Side United Church, Seaforth, Thursday. President, Mrs. Carl Payne conducted the days activities and had as her theme, "Isn't it Great to be Living." "As you all know, 1981 has been declared the Inter- national Year of the Disabled and our theme, "Isn't it great to be living" is a quotation from a disabled person. Disabilities can take any shape or form; some are much more noticeable than others, some require the assistance of other persons and some do not, some nobody ever knows about and some are obvious to everybody. It is easy to feel pity for those physically disabled and harder for those whose disabilities are not physical but pity is not what is wanted. Every disabled person has an in- dividual problem and faces it in an individual way. What is a problem? Someone has said a problem is nothing but a challenge. The majority of the disabled face their challenges head on. If the usual way of doing things is forbidden to them they find the unusual way and come up smiling. "Isn't it great to be living" is their attitude towards life. Terry Fox's stupendous effort to run across Canada has shown us all the tremendous effort humans can make to face problems, to meet challenges and to carry on with life. "Isn't it great to be living! Among my audience today, I suppose that at least 90 percent have a disability. You wear glasses, dentures, a hearing aid. A few maybe, use wheelchairs crutches or walking sticks. These are helps for disabilities but so much smaller ones than those many of the disabled cope with. We have only to go to ARC Industries at Dash- wood to see many worse than ourselves. We have only to look around our com- munities to see people who cannot get out as easily as we can. Our newspapers, books and magazines this year are full of stories of people, young and old, who have worse disabilities than we have. Yet they can say, "Isn't it great to be living." Many have faced death and pain, but they still think its great to be alive. Do we always get such a cheerful outlook from able-bodied individuals? A few years ago, I knew a garage man who only had one outlook. Take your car for repairs and you always got the same refrain, "Trouble, trouble, trouble!" My reply was always the same too. "That's what you make your living from." So let us determine that for the rest of this year and the rest of our lives we will always say, "Isn't it great to be living" and live as though it is." Each of the presidents of the nine W.I. branches spoke briefly on the theme "Isn't it great to be living." In memoriam was con- ducted by Crediton Womens Institute and Dashwood and Grand Bend entertained with a humorous reading by Mrs. Irvin Rader and a solo by Mrs. Desjardine ac- companied by Mrs. Tieman. VanSlyke welcomed us and spoke on "Pathways to God through the world around us and concluded by reading Psalm 104." Mrs. H. Dougall in- troduced our guest speaker, Mrs. Sid Greenberg of R.R. 1 Arva, who was thanked by Mrs. Floyd Cooper. She and her husband have a farm and horse riding facilities for the handicapped. This project is named SARI. A film from the Lincoln foundation was shown "Ability not disability." From age 6 on, a han- dicapped child can enrol at the riding institute if referred by a doctor and has a parental signature. Pennies for Friendship were received. Home Economists from Huron County attended our district annual and Jane Muegge said she and Loralee Mar- shall were finalizing the 4-H homemaking and adult programs upcoming this fall, 1981 – Which came first - Was it the chicken or the egg? ; spring 1982 –Bread is back; fall 1982 – More out- door living. and for the adult program -- Fall 1981 – more quilting; spring 1982 -- bazaars - for fun; fall 1982 -- microwave ovens and profit. The board director of F.W.1.0. Mrs. W. Matheson ratified the district direc- tors, spoke of the upcoming events in the new year and conducted the election of officers. The new officers for 1981- 82 are: Past president - Mrs. Carl Payne, Exeter; president - Mrs. Gordan Papple, RR 5 Seaforth; 1st vice president - Mrs. Bruce Shapton, RR 1 Exeter; Znd vice president - Mrs. Murray Coward, RR 1 Woodham; secretary -treas- urer - Mrs. Effie Stephenson, Seaforth; assistant secretary Mrs. Earl Neil, RR 1 Exeter; federation representative - Mrs. Harry Dougall, RR 3 Exeter; alternate federation representative - Mrs. Stewart Pepper, Seaforth; public relations officer - Mrs. Mac Hodgert, R.R. 1 Kirkton; auditors - Mrs. Harold Parsons and Mrs. Vern Alderdice, R.R. 2 Kippen; rally delegate - Mrs. Murray Coward, RR 1 Woodham; London area delegate - Mrs. Gordan theme Papple, Seaforth; alternate London area delegate - Mrs. Bruce Shapton, R.R. 1 Exeter. District Standing Com- mittees -- agriculture and Canadian industries - Mrs. Ron Fletcher, RR 1 Woodham; citizenship and world affairs - Mrs. Jean Kading, Grand Bend; education and cultural ac- tivities - Mrs. Gerald Dearing, RR 1 Exeter; family and consumers affairs - Mrs. Eileen Rannie, Hensall; curator - Mrs. Carl Payne, Hensall ; resolutions - Mrs. Lorne Klopp, Zurich. History book committee – Mrs. Theron Creery, RR 1 Woodham, Mrs. Garnet Hicks, Exeter; Mrs. Alex Hamilton, Grand Bend; and Mrs. Gordan Papple, Seaforth. Gifts were presented by Mrs. Drummond to the retiring president and secretary, Mrs. Payne and Mrs. Pepper. The new president Mrs. Papple spoke on "the beauty of a smile" and asked for our continued support in 1981 and 1982. Zurich Womens Institute extended an invitation to the 1982 District Institute annual. HURON SOUTH WI ELECTS — Election of officers for the Huron South Women's Institute was held Thursday in Seaforth. 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