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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1987-04-29, Page 4Page 4—CLINTON NEWS -RECORD, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 29, 1987 The Clinton News -Record Is published each Wednesday at P.O. Bos 39, Clinton. Ontario. Canada. 630M 11.0. Tel.. 402-3443. Subscription Rote: Canada.121.00 Sr. Citizen • 610.00 per year U.S.A. foreign 860.00 per year It Is registered es second class mall 'by the post oHlce under the permit number 0017, Tho News -Record Incorporated In 1924 thouuron News -Record, founded In 1081, and The Clinton News Ere, founded In 1063. Totpl press runs 3,700. Incorporating THE BLYTH STANDARD) ANNE NAREJKO - Editor FREDA McLEOD - Office Manager SHELLEY McPHEE HAIST - Reporter DAVID EMSLIE - Reporter JANICE GIBSON - Advertising LAUREL MITCHELL - Circulation/Classified GARY HAIST - General Manager CCNA eA MEMBER OWE MORON AWARD 1985. Display advertlsIng rates available on request. Ask for Rate Card No. 13 effective Oc- tober 1, 1984. Board of Education focuses on public relations The Huron County Board of Education has inaugurated a program of improved public relations. This coming Monday, May 4 the board's com- munications committee will play host to a Professional Development Day that will involve more than 1,000 people. Teachers, both elementary and secondary, board trustees and ad- ministration staff, secretaries, janitors bus drivers - all employees of the Huron Board will participate in this one day event. More than 50 workshops will be featured, each designed to focus on various aspects of public relations. The workshops will provide an opportunity for everyone to meet a cross-section of people who make the school system work. They will allow people who share similar interests the opportunity to share develop new ideas. This goal, to promote and develop a positive public relations program to the Huron County Board of Education is a valid aim. Proposed goals of this scheme look to several areas, including: • To review and strengthen internal and external communications. By diminishing weakness and accentuating the strengths, the aim is to foster overall public confidence in the Huron County Board of Education. • To investigate and respond to - ommunity needs. Surveys could help identify the needs, which may inciude, adult education, day care, co-op education, pre -natal support for future parents and wider community use of computers. • To enhance staff and student self-esteem for the development of pride in the system. When staff members are given positive feedback for a job well done and feelings of worth are improved, the school system general- ly benefits as a whole. Likewise, when students are regularly rewarded and told of their accomplishments they gain positive feelings of the school environment. These "good vibrations" then reach the home and the community. •. To encourage community involvement through regular volunteer methods, speakers, special programs and use of classrooms in off -hours. With more people involved in the school there will be greater chance that there will be an increased commitment to those schools, the programs, the staff and the pupils. • To look to the future. The graduates of the year 2000 have almost com- pleted their first year at school. Their world will not be the way we know it. The future needs of these pupils, the system and the technological world they will enter must be studied. • To explore creative alternatives for financing. The public impression that all education is too costly should be dispelled. Through investigation, creative financing can be applied to have profitable programs with surplus money utilized to fund other activities. • To strengthen the partnership with other community service agencies. The aim is to provide co-operative assistance for the betterment of the students. The development of a comprehensive public relations agenda is more than an advertising scheme for the school board. It is more than an at- tempt for the school board to "blow its own horn." The upcoming PD Day promises to set the wheels in motion of a longterm plan that will work to instill pride and enthusiasm in the school system and improve the services and facilities. It is a plan that makes a lot of good sense. By S. McPhee Haist. Give a special gift Dear Editor "A Mother's love is special for we have only one Mother." As Mother's Day is celebrated on May 10 i have the privilege of asking you to share with me a way of honoring and remember- ing our Mothers. As a youngster and on into my own mother and grandmotherhood I wore the customary red carnation signifying my mother was still alive. Now that she is gone I still like to remember her in a prac- tical way .. by restoring someone to sight who is blind. Do you realize what a chain reaction is Set off when sight is restored? There is a truism which says: Give man a fish and he can eat for a day, but teach him how to fish and he can feed his family. In a similar fashion a $25 gift can restore eyesight to a cataract blind person, enabl- ing that person to work and thus be able to feed and support a family. There are many people in the developing countries who are curably blind. ('an we in Canada com- prehend 40 million blind people, almost twice our population, half of which are curable if funds were available. It's hard to imagine that many blind people but we can do something about it. For a $25 !tax deductible l donation to the Canadian charity Operation Eyesight Universal, will pay for sight restoring cataract surgery, drugs, hospitalization, special glasses and follow-up care for the patient. A patient identification card signed by the attending surgeon will be sent to you, or if you choose to your mother, giving the name, sex. age and town or village of the one restored to sight. Why don't you plan on honoring your mother or her memory in this way' Send to Operation Eyesight Universal, Box 123, Stn, "M", Calgary, Alberta T2P 2H6. In care & concern Gertrude Roberts 48 Canyon Dr. N.W., Calgary, Alberta T2i , OR3 Got an opinion? Write a letter to the editor Shelley McPhee Nast Down but not out It was raining out. For the third day in a row I awoke with a headache. Blast this weather anyway. Blast these "weather heads" of mine. I was feeling tired and crabby. Baby had a bad night. She couldn't sleep. So I couldn't sleep. Chalk up another restless night to teething problems. I staggered downstairs. Plugged in the coffee pot and waited impatiently for a caf- feine fix. There was no milk for my coffee. No milk for Baby. I became ever so briefly ambitious and decided to take the garbage out. The bag broke. Thousands of peas tumbled down the basement stairs. The remains of last night's cabbage salad squished into the carpet. Jars rolled down the stairs, and smashed to the ground. On to lunch. I was set to prepare a nice rice casserole, an easy enough recipe for me to tackle on such a lousy day. I only had to climb to the top of the cupboard to haul down the large casserole dish. I was too lazy to use a chair. I stretched as high as my five foot frame would allow. I inched my fingers upward, caught hold of the casserole with my fingertips and pulled. The casserole came careening down from the top shelf. It hit me, hit the counter top, then the floor. Tiny bits of shredded `glass were everywhere, in the toaster, in the bread basket, strewn across the kitchen floor, atop my freshly baked muffins. I cut my hand. It ,wouldn't stop bleeding and it hurt like the dickens. I didn't have any bandages in the house and had to settle for a wad of paper towelling as a first aid treatment. I was having a bad day. I resolved not to touch anything, do anything, say anything for the remaining 24 hours that lay ahead of me. The day was in a shambles and the clock had yet to ring in 12 noon. I threw up my one good hand, and my wounded limb, in abandon, announced to Baby, "I quit," and headed to the liv- ingroom where I proceeded to watch televi- sion for the rest of the day. According to the Canadian Mental Health Association, depression is the most common and perhaps the oldest known emotional problem. Socrates described it as melan- cholia. Lincoln suffered from depression most of his adult life. Virtually not one is free from occasional bouts of the blues. Medical research has determined that depression can be caused by chemical changes in the body, from the foods we eat, by the way we react to events in our lives, or from events from the past that have made lasting impressions on us. A Reader's Digest article stated "Your Emotions Can Kill You." The article noted that sudden heart attack deaths may be caused by emotional factors such as anger, frustration, terror and aban- donment. Among the findings noted in the article where: • About 20 per cent of those who suffered sudden cardiac arrest, had experienced acute psychological stress in the preceeding 24 hours. • A study comparing two groups of Japanese -American men in California showed that the single highest risk factor for coronary heart disease was abandonment of the stable web of social. and family ties of traditional Japanese culture. Further studies have indicated that isolation by itself may triple the risk of coronary death. • Those recently widowed have a sudden - death rate 40 per cent higher than that of married persons the same age. • Cardiac deaths among men increase drastically in the first year after retirement. • Among the factors that can increase a women's susceptibility to sudden death are - not being married, a history of psychiatric illness, or the loss of a job. Scientists have established a link between hormones and arterial injury, traumatic emotional reactions and damage to heart - tissue fibres, abnormal chemical levels in the body and hypertension. Sudden -death researchers are asking some profound psychological and physiological questions, "Does each surge of tension and anger intensify one's risk of sudden death by exhausting one's will and heart? Does something in the mind even- tually snap under the weight of too many afronts and heartaches, and unleash its own messenger of death?" The Canadian Mental Health Association notes that it is normal for everyone to have periods when they feel worthless, afraid, useless or alone. However, when depression lasts a long time, professional help should be sought. A family doctor, social service agency or local branch of the Canadian Mental Health Association can refer you to sources of help. If your depression is not severe, the Men- tal Health Association suggests that there are several ways that you can help yourself. 1. Concentrate on doing things that will do you well in order to build up your self- esteem. 2. Engage in physical activity of some kind. 3. Talk your feelings over with someone you trust. And don't forget your community "hot-line" if you want to talk anonymously. 4. Focus your energy upon someone besides yourself. Visit someone who is ill or lonely. 5. Break up your usual routine. Take a dif- ferent route to work. Eat something new for lunch at a different time and place than usual. Take a vacation if you can. 6. List as many of your personal and profes- sional accomplishments as you can. 7. Even though you may not feel like it, work at making your physical appearance as nice as possible. So, there I sat on that bad day of mine. I watched the soaps, worked on my knitting, ate some chocolate ice cream. Later on in the day Baby and I went out for a drive. I'm feeling better now. Thank goodness my "black days" are few and far between. You 5Ay You'Re oN THE ENDANGERED Z. /St �- BUT WE 1/(ir CANT TAKE A C/-/AA/CE �. oNANY aL' FLy-B '-4 6s/rER EEIRLY FILES 5 years ago April 28, 1982 Street Work Gets Green Light - East and West Rattenbury Street, Princess and Beech Streets will be receiving additional or finishing work in Clinton's street reconstruction plan for the year. The tender of Lavis Contracting has been accepted by town council to do the work for a total of $74,480. New Shaft, New jobs - Between 50 and 70 new employees may be needed at Sifto Salt Mines in Goderich by summer. The mine will be completing construction on a third shaft by late spring or early sum- mer and additional manpower will be re- quired. Sifto is not firmly decided on the number of personnel to be hired, but it's ex- pected that the increase in the local Tabor force will help Goderich through the present economic slump. Four Youths Escape injuries - Four Ex- eter youths escaped serious injuries when 12 balloons filled with oxygen and acetylene exploded in a car on April 9. The force of the explosion caused about $1,500 damage to the vehicle as the windows were blown out and the interior was ruined. Luckily, one of the car doors had been left open and some of the force was dissipated. The youths involved received minor cuts, but police said they would have received more serious injuries or could have been killed if all of the doors had been shut tight. 10 years ago April 28, 1977 Vanastra To Get Resource Centre - Vanastra will be developing its own resource centre to provide more accessible services to area residents and promote com- munity participation. Approximately 45 members of the com- munity met with the Clinton Branch of the Huron County Health Unit and other service agencies on Tuesday, April 19 to discuss the project. Council, PUC To Help Factory - Clinton Council decided that they and the Public Utilities Commission will do anything they can to help keep the Sherlock . Manning Piano Factory operating in town, but as far as they know, there is little other physical help they can offer the 36 employee plant. Baptist Church Opens Year After Bad Fire - Following a fire on May 11, 1976 and $50,000 later, Clinton's First Baptist Church had its official opening on Saturday April 24. The service, held at 7:30 p.m., was attend- ed by more than 100 people and various representatives spoke at the re -dedication. 25 years ago Apri128,1937 Appeal For Couple Witnesses To Beating - Police Chief Elmer Hutchinson, Wednesday asked an unknown couple to come forward to tell what they know of the beating of a Clinton man April 6. The couple, the chief said, were alleged to have been at the scene when a man was set upon, kicked and beaten by three men. The victim is now recovering in Victoria Hospital, London, after an operation to wire his jaw together. it was broken in three places. Excavating For Hospital Wing - Serious work began on the 20 -bed addition to Clinton Public Hospital on Monday, when exEava- tion equipment moved onto the site. It was Tuesday that the official sod - turning ceremony took place. The fund raising problem took another turn for the better with definite word this week that Blyth Regal Chapter Order of the Eastern Star will undertake the task of rais- ing $750 to furnish one seperate "room. Kinsmen Celebrate 10th Anniversary - Ten years of service to Clinton and district was celebrated last Thursday evening when the Kinsmen Club of Clinton held it's 10th anniversary party in the Legion hall here. Over 130 Kinsmen, former members and guests were banqueted and entertained, and listened to speeches and congratulatory remarks. Turn to page 5