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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1979-08-02, Page 181 PAGE 2A—GODERICH SIGNAL -STAR, THURSDAY, AUGUST 2, 1979 G.p , 4 t ,., ou Because you are now a •- to better advantage. The Senior Citizen is no', days and years are going reason to gr i . OLD. The' faster and faster and if last few y- s . you are you don't start now to finding mar ch ges relax and enjoy your and slowing doiiyn", ut"'if golden years then you are you have reasonable going ,to be sorry you health don't get bogged wasted this precitius God - down, lose interest in given time. things around you or take So many people are to the rockingchair in waiting for their front of the TV for hours. retirement to work at a Keep active! hobby or travel or pick up Now is the time to do some schooling you one or some of the things missed - it's never too you have wanted to do for late - unless you make it. 40 years but never found To the younger folk, I the time for it. You are so want to say PLEASE set in your ways that you DON'T wait for your just can't see where you i retirement years to enjoy can possibly find the time the things you are putting even now! aside for now. Well, NOW is the time Who knows, your health to think about it. Try to be may fail before you can objective and stand back reach it, one of you could and take a look at what is be struck down - spend happening to you. What your later years in ill are you doing that takes health and regret that -so- much of your tME-? you did not enjoy each Why are you still doing day as it arrived. some things the way you Yesterday- has gone and did them YEARS ago. we don't know what Can't you pare an hour or TOMORROW has to two off these routines you offer. have established? So think seriously about Are they THAT im- TODAY, work towards portant? If so, why can't tomorrow but don't get you, or why haven't you robbed of NOW. So many been able to do some people want to plan for things faster after all later, it's LATER than these years? you think right now! You need a time study For you seniors, there person to help you see can be things you can where you are wasting a Change. This little item lot of time you could use you probably had not heard about, but I am interested to know if we ave anything in Canada to mateh it. It is called "Learning All Your Life" and this Is the happy formula for enthusiasm followed by retirees in Sarasota, Florida as told by Alison Wyrley Birch. This story typifies avhat's going on today in an exceptional new facility for older people in the ,Florida city. It's the Sarasota •Institute of Lifetime Learning: AARP - the American Association of Retired Persons - members are offered up to 90 learning courses all over the United States. There are two institute buildings in Washington, D.C. and Long Beach, California and extension institutes are going great guns in churches, Senior Centres, and schools in communities everywhere. The husband and wife team specializing in family relationships who have technically retired to Plymouth Harbour in Sarasota, a•re- Dr. Evelyn and her husband Dr. Sylvanus Duvall. Dr. Evelyn was ap- pointed by Florida's governor to be a member of the advisory council to the Bureau on Aging, A Column BY CATH WOODEN I have always maintained that large bodies of water exist for the purposes of boating on, swimming in, drinking from, walking beside, and giving the fish a place of their own. Recently I discovered there are those who add to the list the ac- tivity that requires strapping boards to one's, feet, hanging on to a rope which is attached to a, powerful motor boat driven by a maniac with his tongue out, and travelling across the top of the water , faster than a terrified scream. These people are not normal. Someone should tell them to quit trying to defy nature's laws and go ack to watching beer .com- ercials for sporting excitement. nfortunately, they got to me efore someone could get to them. The Great Lakes Waterskiing Club of Canada (consisting of my. two brothers) united together with the common goal of 'making sister ski so she can see for herself how fun it really is.' • "You'll never change my mind!" I shouted as they tied a life belt around my quivering person. They thoughtfully warned me the belt usually comes undone when the skier reaches a certain speed. "You can't make me do this!" I screamed 1 'sterically while they shoved me over the side of the boat. • I attempted to put -the skiis on and the boys giggled uncontrollably. Finally the wooden things were on my feet. "No, no•!" they— laughed. The skiis and my feet were floating behind me and I was having . difficulty breathing with my face in the water like that. I was told to hold the skiis ver- tically in the water with the tips in the air. "What now?" I asked, exhausted already. They threw the tow rope at me, which immediately began tangling around the skiis. "Hold the bar and we'll drive forward to tighten the rope!" they called, nudging each other and winking. "Signal when you're ready to go." Cross my heart and hope to die, I swear I never signalled. Never- theless, I suddenly found myself bouncing over the water, first on my stomach, then on my back, then on my head. It never occurred to me to let go of the rope. They stopped the boat when they noticed I lost the skiis a couple of bounces behind. Accessing their priorities, the boys went back for the skiis and left me floundering in the water like a wounded tuna. I wanted to go home. "O.K., are you ready to go again?" They had to be kidding. "You have to be kidding." "Oh no. Everybody does it like that the first time." I did it like that the second time, too. And also the third. ar FACES makes... • from page IA mileage. Volunteers are program first. also paid mileage if they Five tents were use their cars. For borrowed from the overnight camping trips, Bluewater Centre for the a van ,has been loaned to program and three or the program from Jim four sleeping bags were Hayter ' C h e v -Old s also purchased. Money Limited. from Family and Children's Services' Last summer Family special benefits fund is and Children's Services used to buy food for the hired a student to conduct campouts. day camps and, send When _.possib le_the_ .children. .to...._organi ed -- children participating in camps. In February, the campouts, are en- Rosemary Foran was, couraged to bring their hired on a Canada Works own sleeping bags and grant to help community provide some of their own child abuse worker Kathy food. Pryde. She started Those working on the organizing the camping program use their own program in the . early cars and are paid spring and got it going by mar • Reupholstering and Refinishing For The Discriminating Nome or Office •QUALITY CRAFTSMANSHIP •REASONABLE PRICES •PROMPT SERVICE For Free. Estimate Phone Lou Heinbuck Upholstery MITCHELL 348-9971 FURNITURE REPAIRED - REMODELLED - RECOVERED the middle of May. Margaret and Pauline, a physical education student going into her second year at McMaster University in the fall, were hired through the Canada Employment Centre for Students to run the -program in June. They will work until the end of August. Division cf Family Services of Florida's Department of Health and Rehabilitation. In the fall of 1971, when preparing a Conference on Creative Retirement, sponsored by the First Congregational Church of Sarasot.a-to discuss what Sarasota was not doing for its elderly citizens, Dr. Duvall enlisted the help of AARP members in the community. ''An Institute of Lifetime Learning is what we need!" The Conference learned what was needed and what the members Martha Rathhurn wished to be taught. They began with seminars on Social Roles of the Aging on Ecology. There were six weeks of weekly sessions each one and a half hours long. By the fall of '72 the Institute for Sarasota was well on .its way. The Institute teaches courses in all the arts, languages as well as the humanities, health . and such practical subjects as figuring income tax. Some of several retired students went on to get a real estate licence and go. into business. The Sarasota Institute has had some growing pains - mostly financial. "Money is always tight," said Dr. Duvall, "but we finally licked it . by ignoring it. Whatever money we get goes' in the kitty for hospitality (coffee, etc.), advertising and so forth." Another problem• was getting instructors for the six weeks and the problem of poor press. "Old people are not newsworthy," one editor said. "It's better to present Sarasota as a growing YOUNG com- munity." Dr. Duvall asked, "Did you know there are 45,000 people on Social Security here this verytuoment?'' She got a six column spread and has had no trouble with poor press since. The. seminars integrate the community and interwoven into the fabric of Doing and Learning and Being is the resultant social life and the chance to actively participate in group meetings. When the ten seminars were tabulated the young Institute of Lifetime Learning had brought new knowledge, new interests and new social involvement to a total of 2,632 individuals. That was back in 1972; It has made great strides ever since. Another help for MAIM C i©), 4.1 `vans QUALITY VAN ACCESSORIES SINCE 1974 We'-uifinally caught up on 'our back log of work! Whewww!! * Call us now for immediate service LOTS OF SUMMER SPECIALS Hwy. 23 Nov4h of Mitchell Ph. 348-8169 OPEN Mon. -Fri. 9 a.m. - 6 p.m. Wednesday 9 a.m..- 12 noon Saturday 9 a.m. - 3 p.m. COLOUR REPRINTS FROM YOUR FAVOURITE COLOUR NEGATIVES SPECIAL LOW - PRICE ONLY REG. 45c each $1"199 If yolu're NEW IN TOWN and don't know which way to .turn, call 'the 9/frerun, LTD hostess at 524.9676 _ You're glad you did. CLIP AND PRESENT THIS COUPON This offer good for reprints from already developed colour negatives - not from unprocessed rolls. Regular size prints only. Bring your favourite colour negatives to our store with this coupon. Don't miss this great opportunity to save! EXPIRES AUGUST 15, 1979 NAKAMURA PHARMACY Suncoast Mall, Goderich. OPEN MON.-FRI. 10.12, 12:30-6 WEEKDAY EVENINGS 6:30 P.M. -9 P,M._ SATURDAYS 10-6 124-2191 GUARDIAN DRUGS SUNCOAST STRIP retirement doldrums was this - rent yourself an office! "Joe" realized he would miss the routine of going .to the office, put- tering among his papers, being ueful in the business world, chatting with his friends at lunch or on coffee breaks and coming home with the rest of the business world to a ' hot supper. Such routines were in his blood. So, when he retired, one of the first things he did was look for a small, inexpensive office to rent where he might carry on at least, the more pleasant aspects of his former lifestyle. Sometimes it is better to retain the routine of a lifetime than try to adjust to a completely new one. Many couples discover that their domestic tranquility is upset by the abrasion of being con- stantly together. The woman 'finds it difficult to carry on her own routine efficiently with her husband always there. Twenty-four hours of togetherness - seven days a week - usually is too much.. We heard of a stamp collector who took his entire collection of albums, tongs, catalogues, trade papers and magazines to his "office", where he was able to work his hobby to his heart's content, had room to lay out and file his stamps properly and spent many happy hours, each day, pursuing his hobby. He left late in the morning, shortly before his mail would arrive from the many trading auction and new issue sources. His wife, who hated stamps, was delighted with the arrangement. Often he had visits from other collectors to talk shop, trade stamps or just eat lunch. One retiree bought a small building, set up a hobby workshop where he could turn his wood- carving hobby int+) profit. Often visitors drop in to watch or just chat, but most important he was still "in business". One man sat in his barren office reading the morning paper when he spotted an ad for someone to make pot handles - wooden ones. A former carpenter and woodcarving enthusiast, he applied and got a large order for the handles. Now he is busy five days a week - in his office. A downtown office also can mean you may visit the old coffee shops to gossip with your friends or they can visit you. And another thing, young folks, don't give up DANCI-NG as you grow older. Since my partner was incapacitated just when we • should have been having a good time sliding down the other side of life - I have grown away from dancing - something I really loved - and now I envy those who still enjoy it. Dancing' is not only Turn to page 7A • PFAFF SERVING MACHINE CO. OF.C'ANADA LTD. , >.a Welcomes PFAFF' SALLY MacEWAN As Sales Representative In Goderich FOR FREE DEMONSTRATION CALL SALLY MacEWAN 524-7685 PROCLAMATION To the. 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