Zurich Citizens News, 1981-07-30, Page 7BICYCLE DEXTERITY — Beth Sweeney tries to negotiate her bike through two strings as
part of a bicycle rodeo at the Zurich playground. Heather Sweeney keeps score while
Darrel Regier looks on. "
Income varies health
A report on the -findings of
a special federal govern-
ment survey concerning the
health of Canadians in-
dicates that lower-income
groups have a significantly
higher proportion of health
problems.
The report, called Canada
Health Survey, has been
released by Health and
Welfare Minister Monique
Begin and Jean -Jacques
Blais. Minister responsible
for Statistics Canada.
Carried out between July
1978 and March 1979, the sur-
vey is based on information
collected from 31,000 per-
sons across the country. It
shows that lower-income
groups suffer higher propor-
tions of mental disorders,
heart disease, emphysema
and bronchitis.
The health survey was
designed to generate the
data necessary to determine
the health status of
Canadians, to identify pop-
ulations exposed to risks of
future illness and to evaluate
the impact of illness as it
relates to the individual and
the health care systems. It
deals with such topics as
alcohol and tobacco use,
physical activity versus
fitness. seatbelt use, im-
mune status, health
problems versus disability,
emotional health, blood
pressure, blood
boichemistry, health ser-
vices and medication.
. Some of the highlights
-Canadians are sick an
average of 15.7 days per
year: females and the elder-
ly contribute dispropor-
tionately to this average.
-Heart disease, mental
disorders, bronchitis and
emphysema are more com-
mon among lwer income
groups. -
- Health risk exposure
caused by smoking and
drinking is higher for males;
heavy smokers tend to be
heavy drinkers.
- Physically active persons
experience on an average
better emotional health and
lower blood pressure than
sedentary people.
ON WINGS OR WHEELS — Head to head motorcycle racing is featured at house league
races held at Hully Gully near Varna.
$1200 motocross prizes
The second half of the 1981
Motocross seaon kicked off
with a bang as over 200
riders competed for $1200 in
cash and prizes.Riders from
across Ontario and
Michigan, including Top
Canadian at the 125 World
GP, Rob Hodgson, battled
both the competition and the
rain to put on a fine display
of athletic ability and
Stamina.
An intermission special
included an exhibition race
between CKJD Radio and
the House League Old
Timers.. Class by class
results are as follows:
School Boy 80 A- Randy
Marriage from Clinton, John
Sharp from Guelph and Scott
Wilson from London. School
Boy B- Rick Tripodi from
Markham, Mark Allen from
London and Darcy Taylor
from Barrie. School Boy 100 -
Sean Van Dongen from
Clinton, Stephen Luyks from
Dorchester and Frank
Kovacs from Rodney. Junior
125- Rob Caley from Nor-
wich, Rob McCullough from
Kilbride and Pat Sharp from
Guelph. Junior 250- Eric Van
Kuelen from Wyoming, Bart
Wilfong from Kitchener and
Rick Wilson from
Belfountain. JuniorOpen- Ed
Mendenhall from Toronto,
Dan Luisetto from Hamilton
and Keith Jackson from
Mississauga. 125
Invitational- Doug Hoover
from Mount Albert, Dave
Beatty from Sarnia and Rob
Hodgson from Cambridge.
240 and over Invitational -
Tim Ming from London, Rob
Hodgson from Cambridge
and Doug Hoover from
Mount Albert.
Citizens News, July 30, 1981
Page 7
Playground safety week
By Pat Haggitt, Tracy Risher,
and Jamie Suplat
Senior
Last week was safety
week.
On Monday, Filter from
O'Connor` Ambulance came
to tell us'about safety rules
to follow at home. in the
water arid while playing. He
taught us that the definition
of safety is preventing
something dangerous from
happening. After some first
aid demonstrations we had a
tour of one of the am-
bulances.
During the first part of
Tuesday afternoon we
played a few vicious games
of bingo. Then it was off to
the firehall for a tour given
by firefighter Paul Bedard.
"Freezies" were quickly
gulped down afterwards at
Lori 's.
On Wednesday, we had a
baby bottle relay (How can
babies drink out of those
things?! ) Next we had a
chance to get our hands dirty
- - we made paper mache.
From the mixture of tissue
paper, water and flour we
moulded such things as race
cars, snowmobiles, people
and animals.
We ended the day off with.
roller skating.
Thursday gave us the op-
portunity to show off our 'hot
rods' to our friends. But the
real tests of skill were the
safety check and the in-
tersection skills conducted
by Constable'Gaeler, OPP.
We wound up our second •
week of playground with a
swim at Vanastra.
Junior
This was a learning week
for many of us. Mostly we
got an idea of how to keep
ourselves and others out of
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if they do get in trouble -
even if it only means getting
an adult on the scene.
The ambulance and fire
fighting vehicles which we
saw on Monday and Tuesday
intrigued us. The most ex-
citing part about them was.
their sirens!
On Wednesday the leaders
heard us saying such things
as "yuck", "gross", "this is
yucky". We were saying this
as we made paper mache for
modelling. But the formed
and painted products were
proudly • taken home when
they finally dried.
Thursday brought
something totally different -
a bike rodeo! We got dressed
tip in our cowboy duds and
rode our fiery mounts
through all of the courses.
We spent Friday afternoon
bobbing up and down in the
shallow end of Vanastra
Pool. Many of us learned
how to go underwater for the
first .time.
We took the opportunity to
practise our singing on the
bus to and from Vanastra. In
between songs the familiar
questions was, "When are
we going swimming again?"
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