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Clinton News-Record, 1984-07-11, Page 3Water therapy helps to relax muscles and provides recreational activity for stroke °victims. The Huron Day Care Centre for the Homebound holds weekly water therapy sessions for their Stroke Recovery Club members at the Vanstra Recreation Centre pool. Co-ordinators Nancy Wise and Sandy Fremlin supervise the. program and volunteers offer individual help. (Shelley McPhee .photo ) Committee plan week of events for town hall CLINTON - A gala opening, featuring a weeklong schedule of events has been planned for the Clinton Town Hall Grand Opening. The program has been developed by member of the Town Hall Steering Committee and is set to run from Saturday, October 27 to Saturday, November 3. The events will include: Saturday, October 27 - Grand Opening Day, featuring speeches, facility tours, balloon launching and an evening variety show. Sunday, October 28 - Community church serivce, evening interdenominational service and community choir performance. Monday, October 29 -. Craft Day, with craft' art displays and sale. Table space will be rented out and proceeds will go towards the Town Hall Auditorium Fund Raising • Campaign. Tuesday, October 30 - Community Day, with a parent and tot morning program, senior citizen afternoon program,, club' and organization displays_ . Wednesday,. October 31 - Children's Day, featuring a theatre. or puppet show, sponsored by the. Recreation Committee, a town hall coloring contest and an evening Hallowe'en party for children. , Thursday, November 1 = Ethnic Day, with mornign displays, a live noon performance, Mr. Duguay noted that the would look at buffet community supper and two evening " equipment, "to meet the express needs of ethnic performance extravaganzas. Clinton residents," Friday, November a 2 - heritage Day, featuring a bicentennial film, displays and an evening fashion show. Saturday, November 3 - Film Festival, with children and family films, a comrtiunity breakfast and evening (music, and drama performances, put on by Central Huron Secondary School students. Recreation Director Kevin Duguay presented the tentative schedule to council at their June 21 meeting. He explained, "What the committee is looking for is the green light to proceed." Council supported the grand opening program and approved the Town Hall Steering Committee budget of Mr. Duguay also reported. ' that the committee recently conducted a survey regarding the types of programs people would like to see brought, to Clinton. The questionaire was sent out to 750 people and a 45 per cent return is expected. The results will be presented to council. The committee was also given council's go. ahead, to investigate and . price the ' equipment and furnishing necessary for the town hall auditorium. 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NASTAIA, Huron 'County people are pain and pressure that strokes tti a water therapy prograt , eo lel by theHuron Pay Care Centre for e Homebound. The. Centre's Stroke Recovery Clab is making use of the indoor heated swimming . pool at the Vanastra recreation Centre. The weekly water therapy session offers Stroke. Club clients an opportunity to relax and socialize. . •The Stroke Recovery Club, is .one of the many programs offered at tiv Moron Day mare -Centre. Stroke . vi . ims from throughout the county meet at, the. Centre every .Wednesday morning and. in the summer months take part in a water therapy program at the Vanastra pool. The program, active during the summer months, is •co-ordinated by Day Centre. Activities Director Nancy Wise, with the assistance of Sandy Fremlin, from the Recreation Centre. For 45 minutes, each Wednesday morning, the Day Care clients relax in the cool comfort of the pool and go through an exercise routine led by Miss Fremlin. Each client is assisted inthe water by a volunteer who donates an hour -and -a -half of time of their time each week to help out with the water program. "It's very hard to "find volunteers," Mrs. Wise said, noting that all it requires is an hour each week. Volunteers, she noted, don't have to swim, their job is simply to assist the stroke clients on an individual basis in the waist deep water. An average of 15 people attend the water therapy club and as many as 20 could be accommodated if there were enough volunteers to help. The water technique is a well established program, but is relatively new to Huron County. It isn't designed to cure or heal, but acts as a recreational, social outlet. 4t to or pre Janet • Bannerrna"C �hysio� anal occupational.. therapist with the county Home rare- program explained that the. wOtertkPrOP7 Slims 010 people a feeling of normalitynd n sense of a accomplishment. 'The *II' of the program is not to speed recovery, or offer physiotherapy, but it does keep muscles loose and prevent contractions. The 'Stroke. Club. therapy is one the programs recommended by the Home Care agency and Mrs. Bannerman noted, "Many people who wouldn't take part in the exercise program will take in. the pool therapy." The need for additional volunteers is, essential to the continued subeess of the program and Mrs. Bannerman warned, r•het ncy:o t r 0S a eX,r reay: Or• "When you run out of volunteers, you ruts out of a program." The water therapy program runs until October and volunteer helpers may contact Nancy Wise and the Huron Day Care Centre for more information. the fallt lth ,Stroke crlub actixlties y at heventre. Here clients Me exercise with :parallel', barn, (.pulleys and tura shoulder r el and relax inn whirlpool laths. of :eta "ne are spent playing dames, cards,. Serabb and Super Quiz.. ` S cialixation is the big thing," Mrs,: Wise said, explaining that the Day Care Centre offers- entertainment and friendship- to p eople w• ho would otherwise by confined to 1 es. The Stroke 'Recovery club is one of the many services and activities, offered at the Day Care' Centre. The -centre is used by ., more than 100 clients, five days. a week and. provides social, physical and:. educational . support nand companionship.: Any person who i's, homebound by reason of age . or disability may use this service. • ,The Centre is assisted by '50 men and women who volunteer their services to help in the various programs or with transportation. In the summer, however, more volunteer assistance is needed because of holiday §chedules and more programs offered. If you can help with the water therapy or any other program offered at the Day Care Centre, call 482-7943. 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