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The Goderich Signal-Star, 1982-08-25, Page 8PAGE 8 —GODERICH SIGNAL -STAR, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 25,1982 Homemakers provide valuable service for many BY JOANNE BUCHANAN Last February, at the age • of 90, Nina Walters of Goderich fell and broke her leg. After nine months recuperating in hospital she was ready to go home to her apartment. Her doctor suggested that she enlist the services of a homemaker in order to help ber make the difficult adjustment. Enter Gladys East, a trained homemaker with Huron County's Town and 'Country Homemakers agency. Mrs. East arrived on the scene the same day as Miss Walters came home from hospital and helped her move from an upstairs apartment to one on the ground floor. She note spends two half days per week at Miss Walters' apartment where she does her wieldy cleaning and washing and leaves food prepared fot her Meals. She also drives Miss Walters to the doctor, the bank and the grocery store. "She likes to get out for the • ride. Sometimes we just go out for a walk. She takes a big interest in what is going, on hi the world and her mind is very alert. A lot of what I • provide is simply com- panionship because she has no one else to depend on," explains Mrs. East. Mimi Walters has no living relatives eicept a nephew and a cousin who both live quite a distance from her. "She (QS me every day to check her hearingaids and also, if something is botheringiter, she calls me and I can usually get At straightened out. She is on her own and quite dependent. on me. If I don't hear from her by a ceitain.time“ will hellasteaft" saYs Mrs - East. Miss Walters knows that if it were not for the hOinemaking service that she would be living in a nursing home instead of in her own apartment. , "My doctor thought I wouldn't last a month on my own;" she says. "But it's been ten months now." Mrs. East, , a former xolunteer With the. Day Centre for the Honiebainid at fiiionview, finds her job as a homemaker very fulfilling, • even more so than her for- mer nursing job. "Our object as homemakers is not to baby our clients but to get them to look 'after themselves with just a little bit of help," she says. +++ When Agnes Walker, M, of Goderich was ready to return home from hospital in March after recovering from a heart attack, her doctor suggested a homemaker. "There was just no way I could. manage alone," ad - nuts Mrs. Walker even though she says her two married children and their spouses help her as much as they can. Homemaker Annie Har - titian now visits Mrs. Walker three half days a week in her home. She makes her hot meals, does some washing and ironing,a little bit of housework and .helps her with her bath. - -!`1--. enjoy working _with people," says Mrs. Hartman who has been a homemaker for three and a -half years now. "I especially • enjoy older people. I looked after my own mother for eight and a half years and I now look after my aunt and uncle _ besides my other clients. It gets • pretty hectic sometimes!" • +++ • Miss Walters and Mrs. Walker represent only two local people who have been 'helped by Town and Country Homemakers since its in- corporation in 1978. More than 75 trained homemakers and home helpers assisted . 1,914 patients and clients in the county last year, • providing 52,000 lamas of in- home service not only for the elderly but the ill, the han- dicapped or anyone 'needing help to maintain their home or assistance to remain in the home. Assisting in all areas of home management, per- sonal care and special diets, the homemakers are well- trained for their duties after studying ' a three month, • course at Clinton's Conestoga College campus. • The hourly cost for the homemaking service is $6.25. Out of this, the non-profit agency which co-ordinates the service, pays the homemaker's wage, part of the homemaker's travelling expenses, employee benefits and costs necessary to operate the agency. This October, the Town and Country Homemakers will be looking for financial support in a county -wide fund raising effort. The goal for the campaign is $70,000. From this, $50,000 will be used to assist those who need homemaking but cannot afford the full cost. A financial assessment will determine when this assistance is necessary. The remaining $20,000 will help to pay off the mortgage on the Wingham house where the . agency's offices are located. The house was purchased last June anti $18,000 was raised . in 1981 • toward the purchase price. Deanne Dickson, volunteer co-ordinator at the. agency, explains, "The campaign doesn't necessarily support the agency. We would keep, operating whether we had the campaign or not. It supports the people in the • county who can't afford the • service. We know that many of our clients need financial assistance to • continue having homemaking and that others who need help are reluctant to ask for it because of the cost. We want to be able to provide. service where •it is genuinely needed." • Mrs. Dickson explains that Town and Country . Homemakers is strictly a local charity and revenue generated from the fund raisingcampaign would help people right in this un - mediate area. But while it is a charity, it is also a business which provides employment for area residents. In 1982, operating expenditures pumped -$333,060 into the economy. Almost every cent was spent in Huron County. "The population of the county is 56,000," Mrs. Dickson notes; "and if everyone gave $1 to the 'hind raising campaign, it would greatly help.' Nina Walters with her homemaker Gladys East Agnes Walker with her hometnaker Annie Hartman Stacey Brothers win award Stacey Brothers of Mit- chell has again won the championship for butter at the Canadian National Ex hibition. This year's win was in the "salted butter" categories.. Stacey was awarded 98.40 points out of a possible 100 to capture the top award. For the two major com- petitions in Canada, the C.N.E. and Royal Agricultural Winter Fair, Stacey has now captured an unprecedented record of seven championships for the last eight competitions. Butter Department super- visor Karl Graf and his capable staff were responsi- ble for producing the winn- ing butter. Garage sales, yard sales, antique sales and rummage sales have all grown very popular. People chase theAl for fun or profit. Many of the people at the flea markets take advantage of these little sales to add to their stock. People love the challenge of dickering at the flea markets. Anyway the dickerer and the dlckeree both enjoy it and everyone is happy. A great deal of time and labour goes into getting these shows ready. Most of the sales are short and to the point with everyone feeling good about it. In the little yard sales, I think it is great when two or three go together to make it a wor- thwhile stop. Anyway these sales are all alike to me and I always. come home with something I honestly don't need. But they are fun. Last weekend a couple of friends "collected" me and we went yard hopping, en- ding up antique hunting. I don't need any more anti- ques but enjoyed the looking and "I'll be darned" or "I can'thelieve #" stops. We hit a lot of shops - en- ding up in Exeter late in the afternoon. Since we didn't know THAT area at all, we found only one place and headed for home. Suddenly the driver pulled off the road - she had spotted a sign "Antiques 1/2 mile". We backed up and drove down a dirt road where we found the people had renovated their garage for a nice little shop. At one point, I head some "dickering" on a item - "Would you ac- cept $45 and drop the sales tax?" The lady wasn't going • to get into trouble with the sales tax people but - "I'll take off $10 and add the tax", she said and it was a deal. A bargain,Ithiiik. What do you think? It didn't make sense to me! In Bayfield we stopped for a coffee and a donut - but one place there was a $3.50 ser- vice charge - would make it an expensive coffee but the next place the service charge was $1.75 and the "donut" a peach and baking powder biscuit dessert for two ten. No use to bother the Little Inn - it was supper time there, so we ended up with a $10.treat and a feeling that wehad just had fun that with tha Mar tha Rathburn. day. No profit. Anyway I enjoyed my friends and the roving about. It was an eye opener as well as tiring and I felt I had learned a lot about "jun- que". September should be the COLOR month - but with the chill of the weekend, I think it might snow. The squirrels have been mighty busy doing nutting, the trees are chang- ing fast and the ball games are finishing up this weekend. The kids down for school, the mothers say, "thank goodness and collapse and we all say good- bye to a two month summer. They get THAT much up in the Arctic! Don't forget the BOOK and BAKE sale this Saturday a.m. August 28 at the Livery Theatre Building; call 4-2269 or 4-8969 for pickup if need. ed. Saturday is the. day of the sale but bring along your books. Then enjoy the big, Western Night with bean supper and two bands for the dancing. Have fun. Love, Martha: Midgets will host township tourney HOLMESVILLE NEWS Blertahe DIROVOIlls 482-33E33 The Goderich TOwnship Squirt GirLs beat Goderich and the Squirt Boys were defeated by the' Goderich A team. The PeeWee Boys lost .to Colborne. The Bantam Boys -defeated Londesboro. The Midget Boys lost their second game to Ripley on Tuesday night in .a hard fought game. This eliminates them from fur- ther WOAA play. The slo-pitch team played two games this week, losing to Goderich and winning against the Midgets in an exhibition game. Just a reminder that the Midgets will be hosting an Inter -Township Tournament in Goderich Township on Saturday, August 28th. Action gets underway at 8:30 a.m.. at both the school diamond and the township diamond. Come out and support your favourite team. In Tournaments the Squirt girls lost, the PeeWee boys lost and the Bantam girls lost in the consolation final to Clinton Bantam boys won the, Championship final. • Congratulations to Mary Jean Betties and Kevin Baer on the marriage last Saturday in Holmesville United Church. May they have a long and happy life together. Arabell Bushell of London spent the weekend with Gertrude and Douglas Feagan and attended the Betties and Baer wedding. 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