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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1978-10-26, Page 2PAGE 2 - OI)rEBICj SIGNAL -STAR, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 26,1978 Tid i Bits BY JOANNE BUCHANAN It's that time of year again. The mobile Red Cross_ Unit will roli_.into Goderich and set up its Blood Donor Clinic in the gym at G.D.C.I. on Wednesday, November 8 from 2-5 p.m. and ,from 6:30-8:30 p.m. 0 Negative blood is urgently needed. The Red Cross staff is looking forward to greeting both past donors and new donors from the ages of 17 to 66 on this their bi-annual • visit to Goderich. Their visit is sponsored by the Goderich Kinsmen and Kinette Clubs. These clubs are responsible for sending past donors reminder cards and. the Kinettes will, also offer 'a babysitting service from • 2 .to I .p.m. for mothers who wish to donate blood but have no place to leave their children while they do so. Here are a few pieces of information the Red Cross would like to pass on to you. +++ Many myths still surround the practice of donating blood. One of these is that the recipient „could acquire the racial traits of the blood donor! Unlike skin colors, everyone's blood is red. The average Canadian has between 12 and 15 units of blood in his or her body, depending on the individual's weight and Height, . A ---donation- of blood at the Red Cross clinic is called one unit...nine-tenths of r a pint. - +++ In the middle ages, the practice of transfusing anintal blood to humans proved disastrous. Then in the early 19th century an English physician named James Blundell advocated human blood for human beings. Today millions can attest to the success of his idea. +++ The four basic blood Crisis -developed with liquid waste BY JACK RIDDELL, M.P.P. The Metro Provincial Task Force's Report on Liquid Industrial Waste Disposal, which- was released about a month ago, confirms our fears that a crisis has been permitted to develop with respect to liquid .in- dustrial waste disposal. One fact which is clear is that 20 percent of the wastes ' which were previously sent to the Beare Road site in Scarborough are, at present, unaccounted tor: that site is now closed down. A further 20 percent is transported to the United States, but that border is expected to close to these wastes on December 31 of this year. No alternative disposal arrangements have' apparently been made. Nor has the Govern- ment introduced legislation enabling in- spectors to enter private premises and monitor wastes, in spite of the fact that —Metro Council requested ' such. legislation as long ago as February 1977. The report utilizes a table giving the present whereabouts of Ontario's' hazardous liquid wastes - a table which is questionable, to say the least, being based upon estimates and ap- proximations. How can it be otherwise when the Ministry has not yet received replies to letters sent to -some 240 in- dustries requesting in- formation -on their ,waste disposal problems and practices? The picture is further clouded by the Ministry's failu a to implement an ctive way -bill system in' Ontario. Former Environment Minister George Kerr stated tliat industry should -be responsible for its own 'waste disposal, absorbing the cost as a Civic Corner The Goderich Recreation Board will meet in the board office ▪ tonight at 7:30 p.m. The October, session .of Huron County,.eouncil is scheduled for Friday, October 27 commencing at 10 a.m. in the Council Chambers; Court House, Goderich. The Goderich Economic Development Committee will meet on Wednesday, November 1 at noon at the Candlelight restaurant. The Goderich Airport Committee will meet on Wednesday, November 15 at 8 p.m. in the council chambers at town hall. business expense. In direct contradiction, the Task Force recommends that "the Ministry of the Environment, alone, or in conjunction with private enterprise; should acquire and approve sites and processes". Regrettably, the Task Force has failed to ad- dress .many of the problems raised in the Report itself. No .,legislation is proposed to close loopholes in the Ministry : of , the Environment's way -bill system. There are no recommendations as to how the Province should acquire and license disposal sites. There are no. incentives- for established industries to re -design their processing facilities in order to recover, re -use, exchange, or sell their wastes. The report refers only to new industries. There is no provision for requiring immediate replies , from those in- dustries which have been sent letters from the. Ministry requesting information on the whereabouts of wastes which are generated. The Task Forge con- cludes: "It would appear that no increase in the number of outlets will occur in the near future". This conclusion, based on an enumeration of project proposals currently before the Ministry, is a further indication of the very serious problems of toxic liquid industrial waste disposal in Ontario - problems which urgently require solution. A number of people have already questioned the wisdom of taking" action based solely on the recommendations of the Metro -Provincial Task Force -on ' Liquid Industrial Waste Disposal - recom- mendations which have been formulated on the basis of incomplete in- formation ' provided by. the Ministry of the Environment. Such recommendations must, inevitably, fail to recognize the wide- ranging and serious waste disposal problems of the Province. The Metro Task Force has obviously not really been able to come to grips with the very serious environment hazards posed by inadequate measures for the disposal of liquid industrial waste. Many of the concerns and questions raised in the, Report must be given urgent consideration by the Standing Committee on Resource ' Develop- ment. Cold can kill The loss of heat from the body's inner core faster than it can be replaced is known as hypothermia. It can be a killer when a canoeist or small boat operator is suddenly dumped into cold water. In seven degrees Celsius (45 degrees F) water, , it is possible for a person to lose consciousness in less than 10 minutes. Good physical con- dition may be a deterrent to cold water survival since a physically fit person tends to have little body fat and therefore less protection. Too, physical fitness . may cause over confidence and, therefore, a disregard for normal precautions. • The Ontario Safety League warns fishermen, especially, of the dangers of inclement weather during this fall 'fishing season. Each year, hypothermia claims the lives of those who fail to take the recognized steps that prevent small boats from - capsizing or swamping: effective motor maintenance, thorough weather knowledge, Vorrect loading weights and procedures, daytime operation only. Survival.. is directly related to how quickly a small boat operator can get out of the water and get warm. During cold water months, boaters must' not stay with the boat. They must swim to shore quickly, find shelter, build a fire and remove all wet clothing. types were only i ientified at the turn of this cen- tury. They are A. B. AB, and 0, though there are dozens of-subgroupings. In Canada 42 percent .of the population has type A; nine percent has type B; three percent has type AB and 46 percent has type O. When needed all blood becomes rare. +++ A Canadian from Gravenhurst, Ontario, Dr. Norman Bethune established the first mobile bloodibank during the civil war in. Spain in 1936. The next year similar banks were in- troduced in North America. +++ Your donation Cif blood at a Red Cross clinic takes 35___minutes _ to. give...from registration 'to coffee afterwards. Only 35 minutes. +++ In 1947 the Canadian Red Cross Society began its voluntary blood transfusion service in western Canada. That year donations enough were- given to transfuse everyone in the present- day town of Cap -de -la - Madeleine in ' Quebec, (pop. 32,021). This year the nationwide donations will be more than enough to transfuse the million - plus populattion of Metro.politain Van- couver. +++ It is estimated that there are' about 2;000 hemophiliacs in Canada. One in every 10,000 males has this disease which prevents blood from clotting. Through your donations, hemophiliacs need no longer be crip- pled from . internal bleeding. +++ • After you have donated blood at a Red Cross clinic,, your body begins the 48 hour operation of replacing the plasma you have donated. The red cells take a few weeks to replace themselves which is•why you can only donate blood four times a year. Now that's , a beautiful - natural resource. +++ In- Canada about 1,500 people suffer from leukemia, a form of cancer of the blood. As research for a cure continues, victims can be treated by being given platelets, one of the components of your blood Which prevents bleeding. +++ Through Red Cross, Canada has a voluntary blood transfusion service. Many other countries don't have our system but treat blood like any other commodity to be bought and sold. The strength of our system is the thousands of volunteer donors and volunteer clinic workers. +++ Last year one major hospital performed 602 open heart operations, each of which requires an average of 10 units of blood. That represents i God-erich Little Theatre 1978-1979 Season Membership Tickets FOR 3 PRODUCTIONS Adults '=7.00 Students $3.00 AVA;LABLE AT: R.W. BELL OPTOMETRIST during business hdurs•(closed Saturday aft.) OR PHONE 524-4605 or 524.2768 1st Production -CINDERELLA -a pantomime -Dec. 8, 9, 10 2nd Production -FOUR OUSTER BED -February lid Production.Y0 iE ANNOUNCED • • r 6,029' units •• in only one hospital for heart operations on friends and relatives of yours. Blood is -truly -the giftof-life. ..._- +++ While/the average open heart operation requires 10 units of blood, a hemophiliac could use between 80 and 100 units of cryoprecipitate (a component of blood) for the simple extraction of a tooth. Your donation every third month is vital to many people (you never know when you yourself might need a blood donation). And Red Cross -the middleman - thanks you on their „ behalf. Excuse this lengthy Tid Bit for blood donors but whati mn trying to say is: - Count yourself lucky if you are •healthy and voluntarily donate blood to the unhealthy. Mark November 8 on your calendar today! +++ This week's winner in the Goderich and District Community Grandstand lottery . _is Clarence A. Hyatt of Leamington. The lucky ticket, number was 0675. +++ A picture which ap- peared on the editorial page of last week's paper asking who, what, when and where, was promptly answered by two Signal -Stan readers this week. Mrs. Reg McGee in- forms us that the picture was taken about 30 years ago in MacKay Hall. The event was a party put on for the Louzon Flyers hockey team which had won the intermediate championship, that year for Goderich. In the front row are Ivan Louzon, Mac MacDonald and his wife, George Westlake and his girlfriend and the Warren • boys and their girlfriends. In the background are Gerry Ginn, Len McGee. and his wife Donna, Reg McGee and`his wife who hosted the party, Guy Emerson and his wife, Nip Whetstone and Frank WalkQm. Mrs. McGee was sorry she could not identify everyone. John ane phoned1ater - with a few more names to add to the list. They were Bob Allen, Doug McNeil, Bill Newcombe, Murney Johnstone, Marie Talbot, Helen Ingles and two men whose ' last names were known only, Needham • and Price: Is there anyone who can further identify those in the picture? +++ Along these same lines is a picture on this week's editorial page of a group of Bell Telephone operators from Goderich and Clinton at a banquet aheld for them '30 years Back row, left to right, are Marg • McKinnon, Jessie,Hort, Lillian Gale (supervisor from Lon- don)', .Alice (Hanson) Mero, Doris (Sowerby) ` Little, Helen Edith (Forrester) Elliott, Helen Shaddock, Jean (Wilson) Anderson, Mary (Wilson) Campbell, a mystery lady (can anyone identify her?), Sylvia (Craddock) Fulford, Helen Taylor, Lois Connell, Vivian (Glen) Schilbe, " Muriel Rowden, Harriet Wise and Marilyn (Culp) Bannister Front row, left to right, are Catherine '(Barton) Jerry, Elaine • (McNallj Johnston, Frances Armstrong, Helen Lobb, Gert Beattie; Katie (Rowell) nyder, Dorothy (Johnston) Sowerby, Doreen Orr, - Doris (Beattie) Glousher, Mona Fowler, Betty (West- brook) Falconer and Jean Steep. b Idol/ . !!C�/.ao = w,-1 .r JOHN P. 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