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makes good sense for people to
get together on certain projects—
andi believe that a workshop for
retarded adults is one of these
projects.
Maybe I should explain in my
blown fumbling kind of way what a
workshop for retarded adults is.
First of all,. a workshop is a
valuable training program for
many, many people with limited
woman
new. but are we? Are we still not
doing our best to shut these people
away instead Qf bringing them out
into the light of the living.
It is the members of the local
Association for the Mentally
Retarded who really should be
taking the lead toward progress
but it is obvious that theycannot
decide among themselves what
road is'best for the retarded of
.this ,area. It seems that some
.Maple leaf Chapter lODE: plans
Iunch.e�n with DorttAnderson
The regular . meeting of the food, Mrs . J. Stringer; `into the chapter.
Maple, I;eaf Chapter IMperial decorating, Mrs. M. Harper; Mrs - J. Wallace inttoduced
Order Daughters of the Empire table centres, _Mr's. R. McGee; John Hughes, guest speaker. Mr.
was held Tuesday, March 7, at the tables, Mrs. R. Hughes and Mrs. Hughes showed slides and gave an
home of Mrs. R. W. Hughes with R. (Jean)Smith; waitr'sses, Mrs. . informative talk on India, East
31 members and one guest E.' D. Howey; kitchen, Mrs. C. Pakistan, 'Burma, Thailand,
learning ability. It is an on-going members would still shut them
present. )toddy; cloth's and setting, MrS. Imo. Malaya, China and Japan. Mrs, J.
e x p e r ir1 c°e for menta t l y .away in Goderich, for instance, Regent Mrs. , W. McKellar Royal and Mrs, S. Prevett; Stringer thanked , brim for' his
handicapped persons who through rather than letting them move expressed her pleasure in m u's i c , Mrs . E J es Sop. excellent Presentation." • •
same trick .of fate 'or accident at away to another area as .the serving as Vice -Regent -under' a. Volltnteers were :requested £or Tea was served by' Mrs. W.
birth, perhaps, are destihe.d to �averae grown:ctrild usually does... very capable past Regent, Mrs. J waitresses. and'kitchen help. ' • Carrow sand . her, committee to
live their lives in the shadows, We stilly want to hang onto these String,er,. Mrs*. Ron McDonald took her complete a 'very interesting
unless you and 1 do sQm r4iect them and Make,
Ay• letter from the Satiation,., A fi„ mati0 °and was welcomed evening.
,yam y .requesting
help them° them priSoner�s of our concern. AFm was zeal
n canvassers for their annual drive
Years, ago—and unfortunately We mast ask ourselves- Are we
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still today in -some cases thinking about the retarded adults in May.
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A thank • you 'letter from the
society shat these people away oCare we thinking of ourselves,
assuming because they were slow and how we'll 100o k if this Huron -'Perth Regional School of
to learn that they could not learn, community admits to havinra Nursing expressing appreciation
So retarded children were hidden small percentage of people who to the chapter for the bursary for
and kept at home to grow older' and are mentally handicapped and Mrs. Reynolds was read by Mrs.
M older, until one day they were needing special help? • J. Wallace, education convener.
grown men and 'women with the' And ma be 'ust ma be' there ' •
The chapter decided to give
capabilities of children.
y '1 y - financial assistance to students
are some among us who really do -
All
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All was well as long as their not want to let the retarded of our .
protective parents were alive. - a community out from under our
or at least, things seemed to be , thumb. Maybe we don't 'want to
fine because no effolrt had ever" have them underfoot, reminding
e` been made to see if the retarded ° us day after day that such'
could contribute something and 'problems exist. Maybe -we just
.get some joy out of living. don't want to live side by side with
But suddenly, one day even the retarded.
without -.yarning perhaps, that • Whether it is fear or° our own
retardeadult .without any stubborn pride -doesn't matter.
training, with any self-help The fact remains that the
_ program, without any idea of the retarded of Goderich and district
outside world, -.was left alone. The are real—very - real—and we
-.pa•re t&.had lied. can't push them away into second -
What to do? rate quarters any more, They
'The obvious answer was to deserve the very best we can give
shove the retarded into a home them.
"•for people like that'', That kind . Where to start?'
Y of treatment would be frightening `.Fir'st of all, ,these people
for people with all their -mental deserve our interest and we can
faculties but think --just try ,to show that Monday evening, March
• imagine -what a horrible, 20 at a meeting at 8 p.m. in Queen
terrifying, experience•that would Elizabeth School,
be for a retarded man or woman Secondly, aims and objectives
who 'came from childhood had of the local Association for the
never been away from his or her Mentally Retarded need to be
parents, • clearly defined, Members should
We're supposed to be smarter decide what avenue they want to
now. We're supposed to have follow—end then follow it.
learned. that the retarded in our Thirdly, the Association for the
midst are •not• all, helpless, Mentally Retarded should be
hopeless souls. There are some, •- that—it shoo -d be for the mentally
of course, who will never: be able retarded. It should consider the
todo,anythingfor; „themselvesbut retarded first, realizing that if
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their numbers are small and they don't the government will.
growing smaller. Thank God have to step in and do it for then,i
there are some people who are' just the way the go.vernment
working with these people ,while. 'always must when people at the
they are yet small childr•eri and local- level refuse to take the
teaching them to dress, initiative. •
them'sel-ves pr•orrrly, to eat, to Lastly, everyone.of ,us should
• count; tip reahenough to get by, to become acquainted . with the
dial the .telephone, to dance, to, . abilities of the - retarded. ,We
* sing, to play hall, to skate, and"`"""•stotiid'make"it our"'business to
most important, to live and to find out just how capable these
work and get along with all people, people really are—just how much
not just others who are retarded. . they'can really contribute if they
, We're supposed to be, wiser ' are given a decent chance: ,
'q , • And after we've learned the
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retarded are not all lest souls.
without any'. skills or reasoning
power, we should begin the long-
and yes, expensive --trek towards
allowiang thesepeople their rights
as Canadian citizens. We should
be able to see they should have the
chance to grow up and live for
themselves as fulfilled humans in
bright, well -furnished; well-
equipped surroundings—at work,
at play, at home.
It is -only fair and just.
URGES POSTAL FLEXIBILITY
Wickets, are closed,rin a
considerable 'number of sub post
offices during the noon hour when
many employed consumers wish
to make use of the postal
services. _ Consumer's:
Association of • Canada . has
requested the Postmaster
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the flexibility to adapt its hours of
operation to the general working
pattern of the locality in which it
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attendingthe Ontario Youth Music
Camp again this year.
Mrs. Wallace announced the
winners of the Oral
Communications Festival: first,
Mary Anne Frayne, Kingsbridge
P.S.; second, Vicky Peel,
Turnberry P.S.; third, Carol
Chapman, Robertson P.S. The
winner, Mary Anne Fraype, plans
to attend the meeting�in April to
deliver her winning speech on the
Huron County Museum.
The children were, delighted
with' tile prizes donated, b'i our
chapter. Mrs. R. Hughes,
Mrs, C. Edwards and /Mrs.
Wallace acted•as judges -Sor some
of the contests.
Mrs. B, Ainslie announced that
the luncheon will be held April 26
at 1:00 p.m. at North Street United
Church. The guest speaker will be
.Doris Anderson, editor, of
.Chatelaine.
Others on the committee are:
Dungannon drain topic
of West Wawanosh
The March session of West
Wawanosh Township Council was
held at the herad'of the clerk on
Tuesday afternoon, March 7, with
all members in attendance and
Reeve Bob Lyons presiding.
The Clerk reported that not
word had been received from the
Engineer in regard to the
Dungannon. Drain, and Council
instructed her to write again ,to
the Engineer in the same
connection.
Councillor Aitchison, West
Wawanosh representative to the
Lucknow Fire Department
Tanker Committee, reported to
Council on progress to date
regarding a tanker purchase.
Tenders and applications for
the 1972 Warble Fly campaign
were opened. Council was
informed that the Agricultural
grant previously paid on :the
Inspector's salary has been
withdrawn.
After
considerable
• The Seaforth Junior Band led ay
Doctor Toll ,provided a variety
Program on Sunday afternoon in
the auditorium. Doug Hooper as
Master of Ceremonies for the
program, introduced the numbers
which included several selections
bythe band, atror3tbone duet, Don
-Bepeivis, Glen Stewart, guitar
duet4eliber•4;-4stersfi vocal::-•d.uet
Rose Sisters, tap dancing Rose
Marie - Kelly and pianist .Mrs.
Rose. The residents -are, looking
forward,to a return visit from this
band sometime during , the
summer..
- The first company -Girl Guides -
of Hensall visited the Thome on
Tuesday evening and .presented
Miss Ida Cunningham with an
afghan that had been knit by the
girls as one - of their craft'
projects. Miss Cunningham has
the honour of being the first lady
resident ofHuronview. The Guide
leader, Mrs. Couper, who
incidently is `an ; experienced
weaver -is sfarting her group to
work with hapd loorns that were
made by some of the male
residents of Huroirvie.w. ,
A full length movie "Jaunty•
Jalope" was shown on Thursday
night. Percy Brown •
of Clinton was in charge of the
Goderich , students' ass .
p
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projector assisted
Colombe.
' The Old Tyme Dance .club of
Clinton are planning a visit on
Friday 17th (St. Patricks) in the
evening from 8 to.9.
Monday the resideuts were
once again treated to an old tyme,
music session by Norman Speir
and 1UI.1Ns.,.. Mary Tav1&--.. This.
• week's program, however, ,
featured Mrs, McReal and Mr.
and Mrs. Bert Finlay of Goderich.
who played the piano and violins
respectively. The special
attraction was a variety violin'
.numbers -: played-- by - _ Howarrt-
Turner. The size of thecrowd anAl
the ,applause which they' gave
indicated that the unique .get-
together was a success in every
way. The volunteer group from
Goderich which offered their help
' with all•phases of th'e activity did
an excellent job and their time and
effort was sincerly appreciated.
by Albert
The results are •in from the .
Western Ontario Conservatory of
Music examinations held recently
for several Goderich and district
musicians. - -
The gradings are: first class
honors, 80 to 100 marks; honors,
70 to 79 marks; and pass', 60' to 69
marks.
The following results are listed
by WOCM:
PIANOFORTE
Grade IX, -pass, R. Thornas
McGill. -
Grade VIII, honc'urs, Marlene -
Turnbull,
Grade VII, honours, Marianne;
Frayne. .
Grade VI, first class honours,
David Feaver; honouirs, Susan
Feaver:
Grade IV, honours, Mary Anne
Boyle.
Grade II, honours; Anita
Shrier.'
Grade 1, first class honours,'
Shelley Hill; honours, 'Roberta
Ann Wheeler.
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Grade IV Harmony, pass, Mary
Ellen McGill.
Grade I1I History, honours, R-:'
Thomas „McGill; Mary Ellen
McGill. .
Grade .1 Theory, first class
honours, Kumudini
Weerasooriya; pass, Lucille
Frayne.
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deliberation and calculations, the
following motion by Councillors
McDonald and Durnin was
carried: That West Wawanosh
Township Co.uncil accept ,the,
tender of Murray.Reid,
Londesboro,, to sup -ply
approximately 600 lbs. warble fly
powder at $4.50 per 15 lb. bag; the
tender of Murray• Reid
Londesbora, to .spray cattle for
warbles at 15c per head , per
spray; the application of John
Rutherford, RR 2, Lucknow; to act
as Warble Fly Inspector.at $2.50
perhtiur; and that West Wawanosh
farmers be charged 23c per head
per spray for the application of
warbicide,
• Motion by Councillors Hickey
and Aitchison that ,West
Wawanosh Township write off two'
dog tax charges for 1968, totalling
$4.00.
A motion by Councillors
McDonald anti Aitchison raised
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theexpense allowance paidby the
_township, to members in
attendance at conventions from
$55 to $75. Council of tee
Township of West Wawanosh will
.request • the Department of
Transportation' a'ntr•
Communications to- grant a •
Supplementary Allocat'icth- af.%
subsidy money for the year •1972.
in the amount of $12,000.00 and
will also apply; to the •Dep'artment:
of Transportation' and
Communications for the Annual .
Subsidy on . 1,971 Road •
Expenditures in the amount of
$87,347.77. -
The Road Superintendent was -
<structed to advertise for.
tenders in the Daily Commercial
Newson March 17, for tenders for
•crushing a'nd hauling
approximately -12,000 cu. yds. of
'.A" gravel. '
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Organisational Meetings
1.—Clinton TownHall,•Tuesday, March 21st, 1972 at 2:00
R.M.
—Bayfield 4-H .Calf Club
—North Huron 4-H
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2. -Blyth Public School, Tuesday, March 21st; 1972 at 8:00
P.M.
—Blyth 4-H Dairy Calf Club
—Blyth:Belgrave 4-H Beef Club -
—Blyth 4-H Cern Club
3.—Brookside Public School, Wednesday, March 22nd, 1972
at 8:00 P.M. n '
.—Dungannon 4-H. Calf Club
—Lucknow 4-H Calf Club
—Lucknow 4-H Grain Corn Club '
The Huron County 4-H Machinery Maintenance Club and .the
Huron County 4-H Conservation Club will be organized at a
later date. • •
Enroltent forms can be filled out and handed in at the
organizational meeting for these clubs and any other clubs
that you may wish to join. You may also enroll by sending your
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Food, Box 159, Clinton, Ontario. °
If ypu are a parent and would like to see your child join a 4-H
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