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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1964-03-19, Page 9• Easter SeaIs C9, • • • h r • • • ti USING A SAW from a standing position is,hard work,but this young l,aL.em. d LieOntario Crippled Children's Centre has the aded hardship of "sawing while in bed. This is part of the occupational therapy program that strengthens weakened limb and muscles—and still seems like fun. The rehabilitation of physically handicapped children • is very often long—and sometimes results are slow. But there are also the almost mir- . aculous recoveries. Easter Seal contributions have been helping Ontario's crippled chil- dren for 18 years. This, year $1,000,000 is the objective needed to maintain the province wide program. Presbyterian WMS, To Mark 100th Birthday One hundred .years ago, in the city of Montreal, a small group of women came together to assist the Church of Scotland in its French mission work; This year; the . women- of the Presbyterian Church in Canada - willtgather in Montreal on May 8, 9 and 10, in the Church of» St. Andrew and St. Paul, to commemorate a century of or- ganized Presbyterian women's work in Canada, when it is -ex-.. petted representatives of Hur- on Presbyterial - and of First Church WMS here will be pres- ent to join in the occasion. Almost immediately after its formation this small group sup- ported a missionary at Cote St. Paul and started a school on Dorchester Street. A few years later they secured the services of a French Bible woman, Ma- dame Cote,who ministered to the French poor for over 30 years. Working among the Eng- lish-speaking poor at the same time was a deaconess, Miss Mc- . �; Intyre. • As interest -increased in the Iarger mission of the church, money and clothing were sent to India, and the salary of Dr. Lucinda Graham in Ronan,' China, was underwritten. A few years later, in 1900, Dr. Susan McCalla was sent to India, and in 1901 Miss Agnes Dickson and Miss Isabella Little started work among the women and children in South China. In 1904, the name of group became "The Woman's Missionary Society", These w re the beginnings in Mont - Early in 1876, the Toronto daily papers carried notices of a meeting to consider forming a Woman's Society for Foreign Missions, and on March 21st, 1876, .they Woman's Foreign Mis- sionary Society was organized. In 1883 this society adopted the motto, "The World for Christ." This is still the motto of the Society, and .will be the theme of the celebrations in Mont- real. With the discovery of gold in the Klondyke and the subse- quent opening up of the Cana- dian West, a need arose for help at home. The Rev. 'John Pringle, ministering to 1200 miners in Atlin, B.C., asked the women of the Church to send out Christian nurses at once, as men were dying for lack of care. The Atlin Nurse Com- mittee was formed, and includ- ed representatives from .nearly every Presbyterian congrega- tion in Toronto. In July, 1899, Miss Elizabeth Mitchell and Miss Helen Bone arrived in At - lin. Their first hospital was a small cabin with a mud roof and sawdust -floor, and held four cots. When the cabin be- came crowded, a tent was put up beside it. The following Spring everyone in camp gave free labor and St. Andrew's Hospital -- the first Presbyter- ian Hospital in Canada -- was erected. As the Home Mission Work of the Church grew, more hos- b pitals were opened and sehools and residencesbuilt. ;and, the a omen'a,.Home,.l4lis'` THE EASTER SEAL CAMPAIGN makes it possible for the Ontario Society for Crippled Children to help more than 16,000 children ranging in age from birth to nineteen years. Many -of the children are young teenagers who have been disabled through accident or disease when almost fully grown. Therapy and prosthetic equipment help to rehabilitate these youngsters ---and Easter Seal contributions make it all pos- sible. Service Clubs Join To Assist Crippled Dedicated to nothing, short of the unconditional surrender of disease and deformities that prevent little children from run- ning and playing with their bro. thers and sisters, a veritable army of thousands of service club members rally every spring, for their annual. assault: The weapon they unleash on the general public is the Easter` Seal—a symbol of hope and op- portunity provided by the On- tario Society for Crippled, Chil- dren. This year their target is $1,000,000, to be realized in voluntary contributions, a r some of the 16,000 handicapped kiddies across the province will be neglected. city was born in May, 1903. On May 15, 1914, in Knox Chetrch, Toronto, these three women's groups came together to form the Women's Mission- ary Society (W.D:) of the Pres- byterian Church In Canada. This, then, is a double cele - ration -..100 years of organized Presbyterian Women's Work, nd 50 years since the aural, aiiiatief ,ef _the. ..,three .'.: on s... The hands of a Rotary club member, for example, may' hold the surgeons knife in.,a vitally important corrective operation which will allow a child to walk alone and unaided .again.' The hands of a Lions club member may hold a steering wheel of a car or station wagon 'that takes crippled children to 'clin- ics, baseball games, picnics or Christmas parties. The hands of a Kiwanian may hold a paint brush that helps to decorate one of the Society's five summer camps in readiness . for hun- dreds of cheering youngsters who are eligible no where else in the summer months. From the simple act of lick- ing a stanip and mailing you a campaign letter and a block of Easter Seals, to the important business of the formation of the Society's policies and ex- pansion program, the service club members take a keen in- terest and active part. When a child who has never walked stands on his own feet and says "Happy Easter”<--it'is Worth it only them does tlta setwlee club inentber feel he is : «Paid':, in . Mill" 1 In co-operation with tie 'On- tario Society for Crippled Chil- dren, the Seaforth Lions Club is again sponsoring this year's sale of Easter Seals.- .. - According to committee chair- man W. D. Stephenson, some 2100 envelopes have been mail= ed to residents of Seaforth and surrounding area, This year the local objective has been increased to $2;000, Mr. Stephenson said... To }'each this, the co-operation' of the entire community 'will 'he nee- essary. Crippled children's weds is one of the main projects of the local club and it is only through the sale of EasterSeals• •that they are able to assist locally, any crippled child who needs special braces •or other assist- ance, in order that they may live a happier and more useful life. - 'rhe club also arranges and pays for a •two-weejc vaca- 'tion at the society's camp in Northwestern Ontario for crip- • pled cbildrers' �' .m ittee h.e en in charge of this year's drive has asked that anyone receiving Easter Seals who does ,not care to sen • in a donation to please han or . send the seals to ;a friend or neighbor. Please do not return the seals to the club, since it cpsts the club seven cents to redeem them from the Post Office. - To date, about 300 envelopes containing cheques or cash have been received, but it is anticipated- OW' ,a uch better; response Will ,be ale during.; the next few days. f a' If the campaign is _to be. a; sticcess---and it must be a SOP' cess, Mr. Stephenson said .,a great many more eootributions are required, Eetween now and the close of the drive, at' least an additional 500 donations are, anticipated to put Seaforth over - the, top. At the present time gifts total ..$785.00L—less than half the aunt • SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, THURSDAY, MARCH 19, 1964 — Second Section. Pages 9 to 16 Legion Corner By JACK HOLLAND. Well, comrades and friends. The trophy night for the young lads is overfor another year, and on behalf of the local Le- gion Branch' I wish to thank one and all who turned out last Saturday night to give the boys •a cheer. . , , This is a most important ev- ent for them and they really appreciate it when a crowd comes out, so thanks again. You know, folks, it's worth a lot to the future of the youth in any community to have such a sports program, as it deveI- ops strong bodies, a competi- tive spirit,' and a sense of . fair- play—all very worthwhile. Be sure and get your tickets for the banquet and dance on Friday night, being held as a St. Patrick's night. Naturally, all tfie Irish will be thereinland so they should! There was a disappointing crowd at the zone meeting. in Wingham last Sunday, but a good deal - of .Legion business was done, and the host branch provided fine - refreshments. But, like all gatherings when veterans get together, the talk always goes back to other days and 'other friends who are no longer with us, and a little sil- ence creeps into the conversa- tion for a moment as a flash- back of memory runs through your mind: "At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, we shall remember them." Easter Seals MeanH�pe To 16,143 CrippledChildren The 16,149 crippled children in the province, living on farms or in city homes or in remote northern hamlets, know that the 1964 Easter Seal campaign means hope. To them the 'Eas- ter' Seals bring treatment and training, a possibility of inde- pendence and relief from the physical handicaps. that birth, illness Or_ accident have -left with "them. Last year the Ontario Society for Crippled Children, whose only appeal for funds is made in 'the annual Easter Seal cam- paign•by 230 service clubs, car- ried out its biggest program in a]1 its history. 'This year, the more than 16,000 youngsters who are listed on . the Society's rolls as "active" cases . will have increased because Ontario's s w i f tl y growing operation means hundreds of new cases each year. The. provincial ob- jective of this year's,Easter Seal campaign is $1,000,000. The organization that cares forthis number -of children is amazingly small, A tightly knit office staff at headquarters in Toronto, a score of highly train- ed nurses, a crops of volunteer doctors and an' army of public spirited citizens who give free- ly of their time. The resultji s� a volume of service out of `all proportion to the money spent on the work. - This • work takes several forms. There is a nursing serv- ice made up of 28 graduate nurses each of whom has taken a special post -graduate course by in orthopaedics. The summer camp program which includes the operation of five different camps provides holidays- for more than 1,200 children who would otherwise have ne such vacation because of tSeir in- ability to attend conventional camps or other summer vaca- tion locations. This is the big- gest crippled children's camp- ing program of any single po- 1itical area in the world. Clinics, transportation, the provision of crutches, correc- tive braces, wheelchairs, re- search and many other such activities are how the Easter Seal funds are providing the. means for allev-iation of suffer- ing, and in many cases the re- moval or'redileing of handicap- ped conditio i It is reassuNig to know that every Easter Seal gift will be of some help to a crippled child. BRUCEF1ELD NEWS OF THE ` WEEK Miss Marie .Elliott - is visiting with her aunt, Mrs. B. Menerey, Next Sunday morning at 10 o'clock, Confirmation and Holy. Communion will be observed Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Taylor, Varna; Mr. and Mrs, John Scotchmer, Bayfield and Mr. Clarence 'Park, Hensall, are in Toronto attending the Mutual Fire Underwriters' Association convention. Mr. R. Black, sec- retary and 'manager- of Hay Mutual Fire, has been president of this organization for the past year. The annual meeting of Baird's Cemetery Board was held in the Oddfellows',Hall, Brucefield. Mr. Watson Webster was ap- pointed chairman, and Harvey Taylor, secretary -treasurer. Unit Four of the UCW of B rucefield .United Church held their March meeting . at the home of Mrs., H. Plant. . The meeting opened with the hymn, "Let. the-_ "Beauty of Jesus Be Seen in Me " • The leader, Mrs. Arnold Tay- lor, conducted the business part of the meeting. The secretary's report was given by Mrs. John Taylor, reporting that $40.75 had been raised by the penny contest. Stanley Iadies, were the •winners. Tuckersmith ladies will provide a pot -luck supper at the April meeting. Mrs. Ken Scott, card convener, gave her report. The devotion was in charge of Mrs. V. Hargreaves and Mrs. Fred. McGregor, "The Meaning of Easter." The study book was in charge of Mrs. R. Allan and Mrs. H, Plant, based on "India Today," with the n$bdelling of a "Sari" by Mrs. F. • McGregor. A filmstrip, "Life in India," was shown, followed by a discus- sion. ...Mrs. Don Straughan was dire seated with a' gift by the ''units before her departure to reside in Lucknow. Mrs. John Taylor and her committee served a de- li cIous lunch. r1' W. • D. STEPHENSON,' itsilio is chairman for the Eastgr Seal Campaign being spo - cored locally by the Seafgrth Lions Club. Proceeds from the campaign make pos Ie the Lions Club crippled chil- dren's work in the area- L•FORD, President of the Seaforth Lions Club, which is sponsoring the Eas- ter Seal Campaign in Sea -- forth and district. A man rushed into a drug store and asked the druggist how to stop the hiccups. The answer was a slap in the face. Amazed and—angry, the man demanded the reason for 'such behaviorw .= "Weft thedruggtst said'with t smirk, ,, `yptx don't have the hiccups now, do"you? "No," shouted the customer, "but my wife out in the car still has.-' ou Can Flel vying a IF YOU DON'T RECEIVE AN ENVELOPE OF EASTER SEALS IN THE MAIL, SEND YOUR EASTER SEAL DONATION TO: W. D. Stephenson Camp��gtl Chairman For faster Searle SEAFORTH, ONTARIO SEAFORTH .LIONS, CLUB.. AM •