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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1976-10-28, Page 39• Members of the Goderich Green Thuntbers''garden club, Who won top positionsin the recent summer garden com- petition, were presented with rose bushes when the club met at Victoria Public:School on Friday evening. Winners were (left to right, back) Patrick .Madden, Michael Madden, ocaI hospital needs (continued from page 3A) plastic donor cards. • The cards, when presented at a •• clinic, provide accurate in- formation about the donor including the number of prior donations. COMPUTER SERVICE The efficiencies of com- puterization enables blood of specified types tobe tran- sferred between centres to meet abnormal requirements or tomeet emergencies. The Toronto. Blood Transfusion . Centre keeps frozen ;100 units of rare blood types and the - Ottawa. Centre has four freezers 'with a total capacity of 1,000 units stored ' with blood from all groups in- cluding very rare types. of problem cases.. This is Canada's' •national • frozen reserve and; in emergencies, . , supplies rare types to other countries: The 15 Blood.' Transfusion Centres not only conduct a sophisticated batteryof tests to ensure. the purity of each unit of blood but they also greatly assist hospitals by sub -grouping blood to assist in cross-matching with the - individual patient's blood. They alsoproduce blood components used for a great variety of purposes, e.g: in the .treatment of shock (serum `albumin) ; protection against diseases caused by a virus (Gamma Globulin) ; the treatment of haemophilia (cryoprecipitate); and other. disorders resulting in spontaneous .'bleeding: (platelets). The. National Red Cross Research Laboratory located in Toronto, has recently been expanded and modernized. and continues to contrili'ute greatly to the science of blood component therapy. From the foregoing it is safe to say, that Canada has the most successful com- puterized ..national blood collection and .. transfusion system in the world. Thanks to the thousands of volunteer blood .donors 'and generous. government support, blood. and blood products • are provided to all patients in Canada without charge. Also, IT a Canadian citizen, should need blood while in the United States, ,arrangements are made to replace it by the Red Cross at no cost to the. patient. The voluntary donation of blood ensures its high quality. In countries which rely on commercial collection agencies, • where donors are not as thoroughly screened and blood is less thoroughly tested, diseases can be transmitted to the patient. In Canada there is no incentive for donors to be dishonest about health conditions or drugs . being' taken which might be harmful to recipients. Canadian donors' are limited to four donations a year. There are also weight: and haemoglobin limitations. Commercial agencies in the United States for example have . no. such : limitations. Donor protection is always an Robin MacDonald, Valerie. Montgomery, Diana Claus and Vicki Beattie; (front) Kim Fangrad, Jennifer. Dobie, Genny Madden, Ingrid Claus, GeorgeZoethout, Gardner Moulton„ Brian Moulton and John Dobie.'(staff photo) ••••• important facet of the Canadian system. a NEED DONORS, , The program is, however, only as good as donor recruitment efforts make it and herein lies the system's greatest. continuous challenge. The b400d program 'requires strong support from both individuals, industrial and community' groups. Clinics held in • industrial plants, offices,. churches, - schools, . colleges, univer- sities, government offices, service clubs etc. - in short, where groups of people can be reached through an existing organization .provide the_ most productive recruitment media. Their success depends on management support and encouragement of em- ployees. Special clinics, held during the Christmas holidays and summer vacation .periods,; helpto fill most , difficult. • supply periods when regular clinics are difficult •to schedule or attendance is poor, and when traffic :ac- cidents•.aretlgreatest. , '•' • Apathy and fear are our greatest recruitment nemeses, The Red Cross has, splendid nucleus of regular donors - those who are im- -pelled by a -sense of public spiritednessto give the gift of life,' one, two, three, and often four -times a year.. Those who donate represent less than 10 • percent • of eligible donors those in good health, not Reading and Writing: Helping Your Child Improve y • .4.0 under medication, • between the ages of 18 and 65. Those with hepatitis;. venereal. and, other ' .communicable diseases, those taking any form of medication, including those containing aspirin (A•S.A•) are ineligible. In all, between. . 12 -15 percent -of those presenting- themselves at clinics are turned down, some , only • temporarily deferred. The main challenge is to reach and attract the other 90 percent who, often through ignorance and lack of un-- derstanding, fail to make the• effort. Too many are willing to let others carry the burden of providing for their friends, relatives, .or • even them- selves, should the need arise. . There is a large educational program required, par- ticularly when one considers the large- percentage of new Canadians in the population. who are largely uninformed of their responsibility in this regard. • • if,-'^.. 1777...m•,7 •; • GODS RICH S, Speide-i--- anno�n• three promotions Speidel-Textron announced a seriesof protriotions at their ,G.pderich plant Monday morning with three manageriaal changes. The firm . is expanding its Canadian market and in- ';t`edtti�ing new. products which prompted the promotions here. Richard Boyne was named the pew ..'Goderich plant manager to replace John Austin who was transferred to the Speidel • watch operations in Kansas City, Missouri; where he will be general manager. Mr. Boyne has been in Speidel since 1973 and was' the materials manager in Goderich- before. 'his pr-olnotion. • Reginald 'J. Huckins will succeed _ Mr. Boyne as the materials and production manager. Mr; Huckins has been,with the firm since 1973 - and worked in materials control: Timed with the production promotions was the an- nouncement that Tom Cor- nwall would take over as accounting manager. Mr. , Cornwall hasbeen with Speidel since 1974 and has worked in the' . accounting -department• since his arrival • at the Goderich plant. being introduced in Canada according to Mr. Boyne. He said the firm is now selling more types of watch - bands and bracelets • and is .1n - Reg Huckins* troducing a watch this year, that will be marketed in Canada through the Speidel. subsidiary here. The new timepiece. is a liquid crystal display -watch and is assembled in the United States. It is a new product for Speidel. 'WE.14AVE EQUIPMENT,' ' PROPEP TYPES, TO CLEAN THOSE CLOGGED.. UP SEWER PIPES Richard Boyne The promotions are as a , result of an expansion of the Speidel ` marketing scheme - and some new product lines GLT khan ed;`to Nov: 18 20 The dates for the first Goderich Little Theatre. production have been -changed to November„ 18, 19 and -20 so as not to conflict with other events that were scheduled fortheprevious dates. ' Rehearsals are going along • well, and the back stage crew is busy getting the set ready. As usual they can always•use more help in all departments, especially in wardrobe and make-up for this playas there is a large cast. Box office information wilt be announced soon. See y all -at the show! . Ontario has prep 5 free pamphle for �� ourschools. 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