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®Juana d gens evidenced
Doctors in the United
States have ,t -en asked by
the Sturgeon General to try to
discour _'e marijuana ate by
their patients and to advise
,►;..rents about its dangers to
young people.
lin his statement to doc-
tors,
oe-tors, US Surgeon General
Everett Koop said:' "The
health consequences of
marijuana, use have been the
subject of scientific and
public debate for almost 20
years.
"Based on scientific
evidence published to date,
the Public Health Service
has concluded that
marijuana use has a broad
range of psychological and
biological effects, many of
which are dangerous and
harmful to health."
Dr. Koop said the recent
advisory on Marijuana and
Health issued by Richard
Schweiker, US secretary of
health and human services,
was based on two com-
prehensive scientific
reviews on the subject: one
by the Addiction Research
Foundation of Ontario in
collaboration with the World
Health Organization (The
Journal, January 82, May
81), and the other by the US
National Academy of
Sciences ( The Journal,
April) .
Both reviews corroborate
priog findings of health
hazards associated with
marijuana use. Dr. Koop
Ajterr
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s vilL ge librarian
y Sagan White
Not many people have a public library at
home next to the living room.:: in then not
many people would put up with opening
that hoagie to the public for four hours, one
day a week, for 26 years m a row.
Isabel Scott t. Brucefield, a special per-
son, is an exception. Since the I.:st week in
November, 1956, she's operated the
Brucefield Library, now the Brucefield
branch of the Huron County library, every
Thursday out of her home just west of
Highway No. 4 in the village. In �6 years
she's only massed t" ung in her front room
library on two occasions, when she was
away on long trips.
"The library was open though,." she
notes. "I asked someone to fill in for me."
Mixed Feelings
Mrs. Scott, a 1912 baby, retired at the
end of the year, with mixed feelings. "1'm
50 per cent happy, because I won't be tied
down, but 50 per cent sad because 1'll miss
the people and the convenience of having
the books right in my house."
The books, two walls of them, aren't
moving far. The Brucefield library, found-
ed in 1901, will continue at the home of
Mrs. Scott's neighbour, Louise Hallam,
next door. She'll keep the same hours.
Thurdays 2 - 5 p.m. and 7 - 8, that have
been in effect for years.
The late Mrs. J.K. Cornish was librarian
before Isabel, one of half a dozen ap-
plicants, took over the job ip 1956. More
books were circulated then, perhaps 2,000
a year compared to the present 1,500. But,
Mrs. Scott says westerns and romances
have been the constant village favorites.
Brucefield customers, about 40 regulars,
read more non-fiction when Mrs. Scott
started out than they do now.
Most of them would be inconvenienced if
there wasn't a library right in the village.
Huron's county library system operates 16
other small branches like Brucefield's and
while circulation is declining, county
librarian Bill Partridge thinks it's a wor-
thwhile service.
According to Mr. Partridge, Mrs. Scott's
26 years of operating the library is a
record in the system. "She'll be missed,"
he adds, and remembers the special things
she's always done for county library per-
a;innel .. like providing them with fresh
horseradish from her garden. Mr. Par-
tridge notes that with the retirement of
four longtime county library employees
this year, the whole approach is changing.
•• It's too bad. "
The book collection m Brucefield, with
the exception of some shelves full of books
that have been there for 40 years or so,
changes every four months when a new
batch, picked out by headquarters, ar-
rives. That collection circulates around
four small libraries in the south part of the
county .
Special Books
However, if someone in Brucefield for
any other place in the county with library
service) wants a special book, it'll be
available in about a week, mailed from
headquarters in Goderich, Mrs. Scott says.
The Brucefield library also has a small
collection of reference books and part of
Mrs. Scott's job has been to help children
working on school projects. "It's fun when
they come on Thursday night to work on
something that's due Friday," she smiles.
Those books can't be taken out of the
library so "I set up the card table and let
them go to it."
Overdue book fines in a library that's
only open one day a week are just five
cents a week per book. Mrs. Scott puts no
limit on the number of books her
customers take out, and in fact she doesn't
often have overdue books.
Does she ever send out notices? "Oh, no,
I collar them," says the retiring librarian,
who's out and around Brucefield every day
and is active in her church.
The library opened in the Hallam house
last Thursday. Mrs. Scott has more time
for crocheting, knitting and quilting. She's
an avid gardener, well known for her
beautiful flowers. She'll be able to visit her
husband Bill, a patient in the Seaforth
Manor nursing home, on Thursday after-
noons, something she's always done
several other days a week. And she'll be
more free to do her own favourite reading,
a wide range of fiction and non-fiction.
The difference will be that the books, in-
stead of being a few steps away from her
comfortable living room, are one house to
the west. And only available on Thursdays,
2-5 and? -8.
You can quit smoking too
January 23-29, 1983, is Na-
tional Non -Smoking Week.
This special week is design-
ed to help create a genera-
tion of non-smokers by en-
couraging smokers to quit
smoking and non-smokers
not to start smoking.
More than two million
Canadians have already
"kicked the habit". Many
communities have t..ssed
by-laws restricting smoking
in public p . ces and today's
movie stars no longer "light
up" to portray sex and
sophistication. Feeling good
and healthy lifestyle habits
are becoming important
parts of many people's lives.
Eventually, cigarettes will
follow the spitoon's disap-
pearance from common use.
However, we're not there
yet. Forty percent of adult
Canadians still smoke!
How about focusing your
attention on this major
preventable health problem
during National Non -
Smoking Week. If you're a
smoker, try to kick the habit
- just for the health of it! The
following activities might be
useful "tools" when attemp-
ting to quit smoking:
+ light up and smoke the
cigarette using the opposite
hand that you would normal-
ly use
+ make a list of all the
reasons ( benefits) for quit-
ting and read it every time
you want a cigarette
+ put all smoking ac-
cessories (ashtrays, mat-
ches) in a "hard to get"
place
+ hide your cigarettes in
inconvenient places
- use a jar tor asnes
rather than an ashtray to re -
HELP FIGHT
KIDNEY
DISEASE.
(i1V('
to the KidnE'v
Foundation
r►f Canada
mind you of how dirty the
habit it
+ start an exercise pro-
gram that requires lots of
breathing - it could provide
an incentive to improve
breathing capacity by quit-
ting sirnoking.
+ avoid situations where
you would usually have a
cigarette, ie., leave the table
when finished eating and go
for a walk, doodle while on
the phone rather than having
a cigarette
+ when you get an urge to
smoke, delay having a
cigarette for at least one
minute - the delay
sometimes allows time for
the urge to go away
+ keep a card in your
cigarette package and
record the time, place and
circumstances for each
cigarette smoked. Use this to
determine when and why
you smoke. Use this infor-
mation to avoid situations
that may elicit a smoking
urge.
None of these things will
work unless YOU DECIDE
that you WANT TO QUIT
SMOKING! Once you've
made that decision, stick to
it, and use these suggestions
to help you succeed. —
Presented by Health Educa-
tion Services, Huron County
Health Unit.
Brucef`ield's kaelael Scott
,Separate trustee fails in
effort to lower honorarium
By Stephanie Levesque
A trustee on the Huron -Perth Separate
School Board tried once again to have
trustees' honorariums reduced without
success.
Stratford Trustee Ronald Marcy asked if
the trustees' honorarium should be rolled
back to a five per cent increase at the
board's Jan. 10 meeting.
The previous board increased the wages
effective Dec. 1 to $200 from $180 represen-
ting an approximate 12 per cent increase.
"I feel something should be done." com-
mented Mr. Marcy.
Superintendent of business and finance
Jack Lane said the board had not yet
received any worksheets from the provin-
cial government on which the salary in-
creases would be filed. He said a report
would be made to the board once the
documents were received.
Mr. Marcy had asked the previous board
to roll back the increase to five per cent
but it was left to the discretion of the new
board.
"Would it not show a good example if we
rolled it back to five per cent?" asked
Trustee Louis Maloney.
Trustee Tim McDonnell pointed out the
honorarium should have been at $200
before last fall. Mr. Lane added that when
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piterne: 324- 9442
Theresa Rose Radley,
daughter of Fred and Diane
Radley of Clinton. graduated
from Fanshawe College
Nursing course in June, 1982.
Theresa received the Dunlop
Award for General
Proficicency and the Oxford
County Registered Nurses
Association of Ontario
Leadership Award. Theresa
has accepted a position at
Woodstock General Hospital
where she trained.
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nunorariums were based on the amount of
students in a school system, Huron -Perth's
maximum figure was $200 per month.
Since last fall, school boards were able to
set the incoming board's rate with no
limits. The present board may not in-
crease trustees' honorarium, but it may
roll the stipend back.
The board will take a wait and see ap-
proach.
In other business, the board was in-
troduced to Brian Annable who will be
working two days a week as superinten-
dent of education. Mr. Annable is principal
at St. Mark's Secondary School in Kit-
chener. On loan from the Waterloo
Separate School Board, the Huron -Perth
Board will be billed for any expenses in-
curred by Mr. Annable during his time
here. The extra administration help was
required because superintendent of educa-
tion John McCauley is filling in while
director of education William Eckert
recovers from a mild heart attack.
The board approved a request from
Justin Tomasulo of St. Mary's Separate
School, Hesson to be in the teacher funded
leave plan. For four years Mr. Tomasulo
will receive 80 per cent of his salary and
then the fifth year, which he will have off,
he will receive the held -back pay.
added: "1 am especially
concerned a' •t ut long-term
developmental effects of
marijuana use on children
and adolescents who are
particularly vulnerable to
the drug's behavioral and
physiological effects."
To find out more about
marijuana eons fi your Ir,r•al
lung association - The
Christmas Seal" People -
and ask for the pamphlet,
'What you should know
about marijuana.,'
Write Huron Perth Lung
Association, 653 West Gore
Street, Stratford. Ontario or
phone 271 :500.
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