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Deputy Reeve HOWARD ARMSTRONG
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On women's health
Toronto Ontario
Decemberlj, 1987
Dear Editor.
I feel it is important to clarify the
situation regarding the recent an-
nouncement by my colleague Mini-
ster of Health Elinor Caplan of the
first of a series of regional women's
health; centres being established at
Women's College Hospital in To-
ronto.
From the types of comments I
have been receiving, it has become
apparent that many people are urder
the mistaken impression that these
centres will actually be "abortion
clinics". This is definitely not the
case.
This centre, and those which will
follow in other areas of the prov-
ince, will provide a wide range of ed-
ucation, counselling and referral ser-
vices to women. These will include
family planning and birth control,
infertility counselling, pre-menstrual
syndrome and menopause education
and support, counselling on alterna-
tives to abortion, and referral for
women seeking therapeutic abor-
tions
Free standing abortion chaics re-
main illegal ander the federal crimi-
nal code, and neither myself nor the
government of which 1 am a part
support the operating of rtiece "Free
standing" clinics. Abor►iuns will
continue W be performed only in ac-
credited hospitals, following the ap-
proval of therapeutic abortioft com-
mittees, as is the case now. The
centres will provide only pre -and
post -abortion counselling, as .11
as providing a referral scrvic_
those seeking abortions, advising
them of which hospitals do pert
cairn this service.
It is my hope that provision of
better counselling services in the
centre will help to minimize the
number of unwanted pregnancies by
enhancing awareness of birth control
while at the same time ensuring that
women have access t6 the services
they need. a
Yours very truly,
Jack Riddell
MPP - Huron
Minister of Agriculture and Food
foot in the
In more than 23 years as a journal-
ist on half a dozen publications, I�
have turned down at least two jobs
on big -city papers because I have al-
ways loved small-town Life. I am in
that big city of Tranna half an hour
and I've got a headache as big as
Lake Ontario. I don't like the cold-
ness, the meanness of cities.
Rural towns and villages, in my
experience, have always been neigh-
borly places where friends get to.
gether to help each other and to help
strangers. The camaraderie and fel-
lowship has been enough to com-
pensate, for me, for the higher wag-
es in a big city.
But is that spirit of helpfulness
disappearing? Are we seeing, right)
before our eyes, the disintegration
of an entire way of life? Has the cri-
sis on so many farms affected the
very soul of rural Ontario that
strangers would be treated so badly,
they took the time to write a letter
complaining about it?
Are these isolated incidents or are
they now typical of what is happen-
ing, not just in the cities, but in the
rural towns and villages?
I hope not. I had a letter in my
files written almost 20 years ago. It
was written by a young city woman
who had married a hog farmer and
moved to the country near Ripley.
She took half a dozen pages to extol
the wonderful, friendly, co-
operative, neighborly life in a rural
town. I did not use much of her let-
ter in this column because her sur-
prise at the warmth was old -hat to
me. Just a few months ago during a
cleaning spree, I threw the letter
out.
Maybe I should have saved it just
to remind myself of the way it used
to be in small-town Ontario.
But I hope and pray the two let-
ters were isolated cases. Maybe they
will suggest that we all should
be public relations practitioners in
our own way.
Surely, we have not become so
calloused that we believe good Sa-
maritans get it in the ear.
The woman, her husband and their
child were walking down the main
street of a typical small town in
Ontario.
The little boy had an accident.
The father went into a nearby re-
' staurant, asked for some napkins
and inquired about the use of the
rest rooms. The father was refused.
He went outside where his wife was
comforting their child. The young
mother was astounded and went into
the restaurant to ask the same ques-
tions.
The restaurant owner gave her a
resounding no.
This story came to me in a letter
in response to a column about rural
living and how great the spirit of
co-operation is in small towns and
villages. I would have ignored the
letter as simply an exception to
prove the rule but another letter ar-
rived last week with essentially the
same story only this time it was
about a late-night flat tire.
The young couple had to .stop
with tire trouble on the outskirts of
a small town. When the husband
got to the spare . in the trunk, it,
too, was flat. He saw a light in a
home and took his son to the door
with him.
The man's hands were dirty and
his face was smudged from working
on the car. He was wearing jeans
but was otherwise clean and respect-
able -looking. The door was opened
a crack when he knocked. He ex-
plained he only wanted to call the
Ontario Motor League. The door
was slammed in his face.
It happened a second time at an-
other home before he was allowed
to use a telephone at a third house.
For those who are interested, I can
reveal the names of the two towns
in which these incidents occurred.
My address is 5 Eldale Dr., Elmira,
Ont., N3B 2C7.
Is this typical of most small
towns these days?
I do not think so. We have lived
in smaU towns nearly all our lives.
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4-N Council plans
outdoor fun day
The Christmas holidays bring
family and friends together for cele-
bration of the year's blessings and
the charting of the New Year's path.
We hope that you can share with
the 4-H family over the Winter
Break.
The 4-H Youth Council is host-
ing a day of outdoor fun on Decem-
ber 30 at the Pinery Provincial Parr
for the whole famly. Besides a
Posstiat�iisilia►cs a suscRistaesea ova
cd hike of the park, the day will fea-
ture'a roasting fire, so bring your
hot dogs and marshmallows.
Also, cnjoy a ride through the
Park in a Belgian drawn sleigh.
Bring your toboggan, skis or skates
land join in with your 4-H friends in
reminiscing about years gone by
and years to come.
guidWe kn w youhave fun.
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