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HomeMy WebLinkAboutTimes-Advocate, 1984-02-15, Page 2t•--1"1777,"rte Page 2 Times -Advocate, February 15, 1984 Love is theme of UCW meeting Sy MRS. WILLIAM RONDE Thomas Rood Pat Connolly returned home from 4eaforth Com- munity hospital last week. Get well wishes are extended. Mr, and Mrs. Cliff Jaques, Zion and granddaughter Leanne Elliott of near Thorn - dale, and Mr. and Mrs. William Rohde spent Thurs- day evening with Mr. and Mrs. Phil Johns. Elimville. Mr. and Mrs. Donald Ker - nick, Goderich are staying at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Ted Kernick and girls. Mr. and Mrs. Mel Blundell, Mark and Craig of London were Sunday supper guests with Mr. and Mrs. Don Richardson and family. Church service Rev. Robert Matheson was in charge of the regular church service. The children's story was entitled "Choose". The sermon was entitled "Which Fork Do We Follow". Life is saturated with choices. As we grow into maturity we are taught how to make more responsible decisions about the future and our behaviour as it affects the lives of our neighbours. Deuteronomy 30: 15-20 speaks of the purpose of law. God gave the Ten Command- ments to assist theChildren of Israel in their decisions of life or death. Choose God's way and you choose life. Paul in 1 Corinthians 2:6-13 tells the people in that city that God has imparted his wisdom to us through Jesus. God's wisdom, then, helps us to choose life. In the Sermon On the Mount in Matthew 5:17 Jesus continues along the theme of choice. He tells us he comes to fulfill the law - not to do away with it. Kirkton By MRS. HAROLD DAVIS Ethel Copeland visited last week with Evelyn Walkom in Kitchener. Mrs. Jack Urquhart spent last week with her daughter Mrs. Dennis Donahoe at Mississauga who has return- ed to her home after surgery in Toronto Hospital. Mrs. Wm. J. Blackler, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Dobson and Mrs. Leslie Fairbairn of Lon- don were Sunday evening din- ner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Burns Blackler. Mrs. Carman Park and Mrs. Eber Shute.left on a tour for Florida last week. Miss Ellen Eveleigh, Toron- to spent the weekend with her parents Mr. and Mrs. Allan Eveleigh and Jamie. He speaks of our relation- ship in terms of contracts. We are told to grow into maturi- ty not only as individuals, but as people. Evidence the fact our international relation- ships still reflect the "eye for an eye" mentality. Our socie- ty still has a lot of room for continued spiritual " growth and continued growth in spiritual wisdom! Rev. Robert Matheson spoke a few words, for Minute for Mission "Salute To Our U.C.W. Groups." The C.G.I.T. will meet next next Sunday evening at Elim- ville February 19 at 7 p.m. Celebration of the Sacra- ment of the Lord's Supper, Sunday, February 26 during the church service. The Fellowship Group will meet Sunday, February 26 at 8 p.m. in Elimville United Church with Mr. Roger Sheeler, Administrator of South Huron Hospital as the guest speaker. Everyone welcome. United Church Women The February meeting of the United Church Women was held Monday evening with 25 ladies present. Miss Doris Elford welcomed everyone and gave the theme which was "Love" and the Call to Worship. Mrs. Ken Duncan gave a poem "Happy Year". The Scripture, 1 Thessalo- nians 3:9-13 was read by Mrs. Gerry Morgan. Miss Doris Elford led in prayer. A reading "Love" by Mrs. Dun- can. A reading "To Have A Friend, Be One" by Mrs. George Kellett. The Offering was received by Mrs. Gladys Miller and Mrs. Morgan with prayer by Doris Elford. The Study Book "Jesus Means Life" was given by Mrs. Kellett, "Jesus the Poor and Us" was given by Mrs. Morgan, "Jesus Means Life to the Poor" by Mrs. Miller. They sang How Great Thou Art. Mrs. Lee Webber president conducted the business. She reads a poem "Waiting For Spring". The roll call was answered "What I Do For Relaxation" minutes, treasurer's report etc. Mrs. Glen Stewart and Mrs. Ken Duncan gave very in- teresting reports from the an- nual meeting which was held in Stratford recently. The ladies from Thames Road are to attend the World Day of Prayer Service at Trivitt Memorial Anglican Church, Exeter, March 2 at 2 p.m. The meeting closed with the singing of Abide With Me and prayer. A sociaLlime . was spent with Group U and the hostess Mrs. David Passmore serving lunch. A RACING CONVERSATION — At Tuesday's Exeter Sportsmen's dinner, longtime London Free Press racing writer Harry Eisen talks with former NHL goalie Dennis Riggin and Exeter Lion Jim Beckett. T -A photo. PD in Middlesex county tion and autonomous work teams); the changing em- phasis from full-time to part- time jobs. He defined an educated per- son as "a self-directed pro- blem solver, coping in the significant situations in his/her real life, confident in • the use of knowledge and con- tinually developing a personal value system". He related all the above points to making sure that our students, right -from Primary Grades, are prepared for this type of The elementary teachers and principals of Middlesex County held their annual Federation -sponsored Profes- sional Development day Friday. During the morning; teachers had a choice of at- tending one of the workshops which were held at Centennial and Medway schools or tour- ing some of the educational facilities in London or arrang- ing their own programs by contacting a classroom in London and spending the morning observing there. In the afternoon, everyone gathered at Banting school in London. Mrs. Phyllis Lyon, the chairman of the Profes- sional Development Commit- tee, welcomed everyone and presented the principal of Banting, Mr. Watts with a book, in appreciation for allowing the use of the facilities. Mrs. Irene Lynn, the chairman of the Mid- dlesex County Board brought greetings from the trustee and Mr. George Robbins a superintendent, spoke on behalf of the Administrative Staff. Dr. Paul Park, the speaker for the afternoon was in- troduced. He is Dean of Education at the University of Western Ontario and has very recently been asked to head up environmental studies in certain parts of South America. His address was warm, lively and well -laced with en- thusiasm for the teaching pro- fession. He spoke gbout the changing elements in society: the shift in the base of economy from Agriculture to Service jobs; the values which used to be important before the industrial age as opposed to now (e.g. before - competition, - now, collabora- TALKING FASTBALL Jack Urquhart is shown chatting with Lynne Farquhar and Susan Scherer at Tuesday's Exeter Sportsmen's dinner. Scherer hos been acat- cher with a number of recent Canadian fastball championship teams.T-A photo. AT SPORTSMEN'S DINNER RECEPTION — A reception was held Tuesday after- noon at the Riverview Estates clubhouse prior to the annual Exeter Lions Sport- smen's dinner. From the left are Jim Veri of Riverview Estates, skating profes- sional Lynn Nightingale and SHDHS student council president Alice Dietrich. t society and the kind of jobs which will become available. He concluded with an ap- peal to the teachers to concen- trate on communicating to parents and the public about the good job that is being done by the educational system in out county, our province. and our Country. Certainlythere are still • problems, but basically, our children are receiving an excellent educa- tion and it is time that we, as Canadians, begin to show some pride in that fact. Institute sponsors euchre at Crediton Sy MRS. PETER MARTIN Crediton The Crediton Womens In- stitute held their second euchre February 7 with 13 tables in play. - Winners were ladies high Doris Pfaff; ladies lone hands Dolores Shapton; ladies low Grace Masse; mens high Lloyd Durr; mens lone hands Charlie Fisher; mens low Donnie Fahner. A box of Valentine chocolate was won by Eric Vandergunst. The next - e icnre is February 21 at the town hall. Church news The piano which was reported as being bought by the U.C.W. was purchased by the church and the annual meeting of the church is being held February 13 not the 24rd as was reported last week. 4-H News - Club 1 By Wendy Boogemans First of all to start off the meeting they introduced the leaders, Mrs. Browning and Heather Hern. The officers are president Kim Hoffman; vice president Terri Maurer and secretary Heather Browning. The new member Sherry Christian was introduced. Mrs. Browning showed the different things we would be Greenway By ANNE WALPER • February always goes quickly. One reason is because it is a short month and the second one is that each day seems more like spring as the sun becomes brighter. It was hard to believe that our road, which in the morning was a sheet of ice was almost bare by the late afternoon oft Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Lewis -and Nola Lewis were recent visitors of Jake and Iva iagerwerf: Fred and Isobel BhIlock entertained their family on Sunday. 1t was a birthday celebration for Fred. Sixteen friends gathered at The Old Mill in Parkhill, Saturday evening to honour Sam Spray on his 80th birth- day. Cecil and Ellen Smithers were among the group. We were Sunday dinner guests of Neil and Marcia Trevithick and family of Brinsley. Jack and Evelyn Trevithick were also present. Rev. Peebles' ,message on Sunday in the United Church was on "Worship". Special music was provided by the choir and in addition Rev. Peebles sang a solo which everyone enjoyed. A lovely arrangement of red roses and carnations was placed in the Sanctuary by Mrs. Lawrence Curts in memory of her husband Lawrence who was a faithful attendant at church as well as member of the Session, for many years. Norma Waun and Irma Baird of Sarnia at- tended the service with their mother. Cecil and Ellen Smithers spent Sunday afternoon with John and Marilyn Smithers, Exeter. making during this quilting club. After she told us what we needed for a sewing box to start quilting. After that we started roll call and read the introduction to the club. They closed the meeting with some questions that the members asked about the club this time. Personals Mr. and Mrs. Tom Glavin and family have returned home from a two week visit with Judy's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Alf Smi'dr in Lakeland, Florida. The weather was fine and the Smiths are enjoying themselves. Miss Karen Piper is a pa- tient in St. Joseph's Hospital where she underwent emergency surgery Saturday evening. - Film strip at Granton UC Sy MRS. E. SUMMERS ' Granton At Granton United Church Rev. Bruce Pierce conducted the morning worship. In place of his sermon the minister presented a film strip on the "Ventures in Mission" project which the United Church of Canada is sponsoring. The film deals with, New Church Development, "Church Redevelopment", Training for leadership" and Revising the Minister's Pen- sion Fund. Ventures in Mis- sion will enable the United Church of Canada to serve inore effectively in today's Canadian soceity and to strengthen and enlarge the base from which we seek to minister in the world. At the conclusion of the presentation, there was a question and answer period. A committee had been ap- pointed to handle this project for Granton United Church. At St. Thomas Anglican Church Rev. Peter A. Derrick was in charge of the Morning Prayer Service. The two ap- pointed lessions were read by Jim Hodgins and Helen Herbert. The Rector took as his theme for the children's focus, on how babies are nur- tured in their growth by giv- ing them Pablum etc. Rev. Derrick took his ser - mend from the Epistle of the Day, taken from the 3rd Chap. of 1st Corr. 1-9. We must take time to understand the Gospel, by accepting this knowledge, and to have the courake to work ahead, by ac- cepting God's love and res- pond to it. Correction from last week. The names were omitted in last weeks list of the Official Board of St. Thomas Anglican Church, they were the follow- ing members; Kenneth Hodgins Board of Manag- ment, and John Herbert, Youth observer. Personal Mr. and Mrs. Allan MacKenzie and son Joseph, Scarborough spent a few days last week with Allan's mother, Mrs. Elmer Summers. Two case histories Right from the heart Tom Humphreys celebrates a very special an- nivers4ry this week Last Februar» 15 Tom underwent successful open- heart surgery to by-pass tour sections of blocked coronary artery. Tom, who inherited his family's tendency to hypertension or high blood pressure, had suffered from angina for a number of years. Neither he nor his wife Phyllis ever left home unless both were can yang nitroglycerin tablets in case he needed them. (Nitroglycerin tem- porarily dilates the blood vessels, allowing more blood to flow through more freely, thus alleviating for awhile the pressure and pain.) As Tom's health deteriorated, his condition began to seriously affect the lifestyle of this physically ac- tive man. More and more often he experienced short- ness of breath, numbness down the left arm and sometimes around the jawline, and chest pains after a heavy meal. If he walked from his home on Exeter's Main Street the few blocks to the clerk's office on a cold day to attend a council session as one of the town's elected members, he would have to stop and take some nitroglycerin. A dye test, where a wire is fed from the groin up to the heart and the subject can watch his own heart on a monitor, showed the coronary arterial area 90 percent block- ed in two sections, and nar- rowed to half its capacity in two others. Tom's family doctor, the cardiologist and the surgeon agreed Humphrey was an ex- cellent candidate for a coronary-artery by-pass; he was young (42) and had not had an actual heart attack. He received a call soon after the dye test informing him he could have the surgery within the next few days, but he was not yet ready psychologically. He needed more time. Tom was booked for surgery the following month. In the interval, he talked to four co-workers at Northern Telecom in London where he is employed as a quality con- trol officer. The three men and one woman had all had open heart surgery, and talk- ed freely about their opera- tions to their apprehensive fellow worker. Tom checked into Universi- ty Hospital on February 14, 1983. Preparation for surgery on the fifteenth included being shaved "from chin to toes", and showering with a special soap. He remembers little of the following 48 hours a lit- tle yellow pill he wa's given has erased that time period from his conscious mind. His next memory is waking up in intensive care to see his wife bending over him and hearing her say "It's all over". • From a slide presentation and talks with the doctors before the operation, and the physical evidence of a scar from groin to midcalf on his left leg, and another from breastbone halfway to his navel, Tom knows what hap- pened while he was on the operating table. A skilled, highly trained team of specialists repaired Tom's heart. They opened up his chest, sawed through his breastbone, pulled back his ribs and exposed his heart. He was hooked to a heart-lung machine that circulated his blood while the doctors removed one of the veins in his 14, cut it into the proper lengths, and sewed it in place to by-pass the blocked sections. Four lengths of vein were sewn into position with stit- ches so close together and tiny they could only be discerned by microscope, then the patient was -switched back from the machine and his heart restarted. The medical team watched close- ly to see if the sewing had been done properly; they didn't want any leaks. After making sure everything was all right, the doctors stapled the chest incision closed, and secured the skin with surgical tape. ( Ironically, at the time T -A editor Bill Batten assigned this article, he had no idea he would be recuperating from his own coronary. artery by- pass grafts by the time this article was printed. Among Tom's most vivid recollections of con- valescence are the pain of coughing, and the tube from his nose into his lungs to vacuum the accumulated fluid. He describes the latter •is feeling like being scratch- ed from the inside. Within three days Tom was up and walking, on doctors' orders. By the end of the week, though hurting and tired, he could navigate the circuit of hallways that form a square around the hospital's sixth floor. Humphreys was discharg- ed from the hospital nine days after he had checked in. He concedes he suffered a great deal of pain for awhile, and had difficulty sitting or lying down because the incisions pulled. At first, he walked for half an hour, then for an hour each day, forcing himself to continually put one foot in front of the other. "I think I walked every street in Exeter", he says now. Eventually he could trek twice daily from his home to the Co -Op, north to Highway 83, on to Huron Street, back to the Co -Op and home. His weight dropped from 195 to 175. Tom returned to work for two weeks in July and has been there regularly since late August, after Northern Telecom's annual three-week shut -down. He ruefully ad- mits he is falling back into some of his old habits - not ex- ercising enough, and letting the pounds creep back on - but is "relieved and happy" that he had the by-pass. "It has enhanced the quali- ty of my life. I am able to do things I could last do 10 years ago, and with relative ease" he concludes. Bill Gilfillan is another lucky and happy man, one of the fifty percent of people who survive a first heart attack. May 15, 1977 is a day Gilfillan will never " forget. The then 41 -year-old Exeter volunteer fireman had been indulging in some vigorous horseplay after an evening fire practice in the fire hall. He suddenly felt weak, his throat seemed to swell up, and he had difficulty breathing. (He had none of the classic symptoms in his chest or left arm.) Bill relaxed for 30 minutes, then went home. Two hours later, with the symptoms per- sisting, he decided to visit the Exeter hospital. The doctor on duty, immediately suspec- ting what was wrong, made arrangements to send him on to London at once. Gilfillan arrived at St. Joseph's at mid- night, and was quickly ushered into intensive care and hooked up to a heart monitor. Bill's attack came without warning. He had no family history of heart disease, and had rarely taken a pill for any illness. Give... THE HEART FUND "I think my case is dif- ferent than some. I run my motor faster than 1 should, and part of it blew", Gilfillan says now. By fortuitous coincidence, the cardiologist was conduc- ting tests on members of the London fire department. Hearing that Gilfillan was a volunteer fireman too, he in- cluded him in the comprehen- sive research. Among other exercises, Gilfillan spent many hours being monitored while walking a treadmill the last week of his three -week -hospital stay. He returned fulitime to his job as manager of Tuckey Beverages six weeks after be- ing discharged from the hospital, and confesses he had been back in the office part time before that. Gilfillan's attack was trig- gered by a slight blockage in the lower left ventricle. Though his doctor told him there is no such thing as a slight heart attack, a scan a year ago showed no further damage. He has taken part in games of shinny hockey this winter, and worklhen's com- pensation regulations, not health, have prevented his return to the fire hall. His experience has im- pressed on Gilfillan the im- portance of caring for one's body. He quit his two -pack-a- day smoking habit, which he beleives was the main factor contributing to his heart attack. "Having a heart attack, if you survive, is not the end of the world. It has given me a greater appreciation for everything, and I have learn- ed tq enjoy life more than I ever did before", Gilfillan can say almost seven years later. BED • BATH KITCHEN • GiFTS BOUTIQUE Last 3 Days Renovation Sale Feb. 16, 17, 18 20% Off in store stock up to 50% off selected items Closed for renovations Mon,, Wed.' 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