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Home My WebLink AboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1980-06-25, Page 25,A 2 un Janet Bolton from Seaforth, Cathy Pickard from Clinton and Michelle Smith from Clinton are home from university in Guelph, Waterloo and Laurier, to work under a summer youth employment program setting up a Telephone Reassurance Service for the elderly and disabled. The program is being spon- sored by the Huron Day Centre in Clinton and will co-ordinate volunteer callers for the elderly or disabled shut-ins.( Elaine Townshend photo) Service promotes independence BY ELAINE TOWNSHEND As many as 200 local elderly and disabled persons may benefit from a federal summer youth employment program sponsored by Huron Day Centre,. Clinton - Telephone Reassurance Service. Three university students, Janet Bolton, Seaforth; Michelle Smith, Clinton and Cathy Pickard of Clinton are setting up a com- munication system between volunteers and clients who may benefit from a call a day. The network will include five exchanges - 482 (Clinton), 524 (Goderich) , 527 (Seaforth) 565 (Bayfield) and 262 (Hensall). The program is specially designed to help those •living. alone to maintain ipc p9p,deuee. Accidents •th the h itne•'are cornmo . A' tun -i day assures help to an injured or ill person, and besides being a safety precaution, provides valuable social contact. Clients may request the service themselves or be referred by family, friends or agencies. A $2 registration -fee for a year may be charged. Volunteers must' be caring and patient, able to discern problems, handle emergencies and understand the necessity of confidentiality. Transportation is not needed. Two three-hour orientation sessions will be held `to familiarize volunteers with their duties, responsibilities and service procedures. The volunteer will call at the same titre each day - a time agreed on by both volunteer and client. He or she will have a list of emergency numbers including fire, •police, ambulance and doctor. If the client does not an- swer, the volunteer 'will Ball a neighbor, friend, or Police- department to "take a: •eouse:check. In" •most cases, the' client will file a key with a trusted friend, neighbour or the police department. _ The volunteer will, be committed to making one call a day which should last only five to 10 minutes or half an hour in case of problems. Ideally each volunteer will have no more than two clients. Volunteers will be divided into groups. Each group will meet regularly and choose a leader who will report to the program co-ordinator. If a volunteer is going away, he or she will notify the group leader and a standby volunteer will be assigned to make the calls.' The client will be informed that someone else will be calling. The client also makes a committment to be near the phone at the ap- pointed time each day to avoidfalse alarms. If the clienis going away, he or she ,will ' notify the volunteer. Since the end of May, Janet Bolton, Michelle ' Smith and Cathy'Pickard have laid the groundwbfk for the communication system guidelines from successful programs in other centers, such as Ottawa -Ca Iton:. Huron County is unique, they • explain, because of its large populartion of elderly citizens in a rural setting. They have contacted ministers, church organizations, senior citizen's groups and Service clubs. They are eager to describe the program to individuals and groups and urge interested persbns to call them weekdays between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m. at their office at „Huron Day Centre - 482-9630. Volunteers are urgently ,..needed. Three people 'have ' thus• far expressed interest. When 10 volunteers are found, Janet, Michelle and Cathy will hold their first orientation sessions. They will interview •all clients and volunteers to help make compatible matches. Telephone --- Reassurance Service will 'be an on-going program and according to the students, one of their most important tasks is to . find a co-ordinator to operate. the program when they return to university in September. E3 FE as - co lire NE 5 WeII Worst Look'irig.F.or' • DOPER, C WgP Sl7►,t Y, rii.te Lives opens tonight What has long been declared Noel Coward's wittiest, most observant and most ironic comedy vh11 be presented at the Huron Country Playhous.e4 It was previewed June 24 and 25 and opens June 26. This is Private Lives, one of the world's favorite pieces of upper- class slapstick since Coward and the late Gertrude Lawrence acted it in New York in 1931. Ian White (Elyot) and Irena Mayeska (Amanda) will be starred in this bubbling comedy. The mocking plot of Private Lives has to do with a couple who had once been married, got uebe-arab-1y -ri .teachm other's nerves, thrown things at each other, hit • each other and so had been divorced -- and then meet again as they start" honeymoons with a new set of spouses. Frivolously urbane and cosmopolitan types, each is pretty depressed at the prospects of marriage with a new mate of stodgy respectability. When they discover that coincidence has placed them in ad- joining honeymoon suites of a 'resort hotel, the flame of their old at- traction flares up once more, and they "elope". Though diliriously happy to be ,together again, their tendency to squabble also re -asserts itself. Solemnly they cry "Solomon Isaacs" to each other whenever the danger -point of one of their bickers looms tdp, as a signet for a -moment of silence and cooling off. What has been con- sidered one of the stage's most uproarious second - act curtains since.it first delighted theatregoers in 1931, should not be missed! In addition to Ian White (Elyot) and Irena Mayeska (Amanda) • as the scandalously - behaving honeymooners, the cast will include Sharry Flett (Sybil) and I . Anthony Bek+enn (Victor) as the mates they run away from. The production will be directed by Bernard Hopkins, Theatre Lon- don's New Artistic Director. Tocuid e.clVtific '(of (nit( 36 The Square Go,DEF icH 524-4312 Sale Commences .Monday • JIne 3O.t ,Redulc#on on•aI our. Summer Wear Irena Mayeska FU FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY! WHEN: Sunday 9 a.m. June 29th WHERE: Meet• • •Canadian Tire Parking Lot Hwy. No. 8 TAKE A TOUR AROUND GODERICH MAPS SUPPLIED along with CLUES ABOUT THE RALLY You will be girnn a map and soma due, and 'Ont On you, way As you unrou„I Ibe ,lue, you w111 be lad around some :10, 000 na historical ,ilei in GODERICH • REFRESHMENTS a AVAILABLE EN. 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