The Brussels Post, 1974-04-03, Page 12Arie Van Der Ende led the Christian Reform song service
on Sunday evening. A choir of members of the congregation
led the singing with devotions by Rev. Buekema.
Mrs. Forrest of Clinton, Stanley Tudor of Hensall and Mr.
Jeffrey of Wingham were welcomed to the Home on
Monday's. gettogether. Marie Flynn provided the piano
accompaniment for the old tyme music and sing a long. Lorne
Lawson played the mouth organ with the group and joined
Mrs. Mary Taylor for a harmonica duet. Other members in
the orchestra were Norman Speir, violin, Terry Gibbs and
Jerry Collins, guitar. The Christian Reform volunteers were
on hand to assist with activities.
The Kippen East Women's Institute' were hosts on
Wednesday afternoon for the March birthday party. The
twenty celebrants were presented with gifts and a specially
decorated cup cake and candle following the program. Mrs.
Connelly was M.C. for the occasion and introduced the
following entertainers: Mrs. Mary Broadfoot, Mrs. Hoggarth,
Mrs. Drummond, Mrs. Hummel and Mrs. Kinsman. The
audience enjoyed seeing some of the old tyme dances by the
ladies in costume , the action songs, the sing-a-long and piano
instrumentals. Mrs. Scratch thanked the ladies on behalf of
the residents.
Ken Scott of Blyth and his orchestra entertained on Family
Night. This program of country and western and old tyme
favourites was very popular with the residents. Members of
the orchestra include Mrs. Elaine Nixon, Piano, Larry
Henderson and Ken Scott shared the vocals and
instrumentals with Bob Mann playing both saxaphone and
violin. Mrs. Chellew thanked the group and expressed a wish
that they would visit the Home when ,possible.
13 tables play at WI party
coin or a pin.
Although parents must NI
the main burden of responsibilliy
poison control outside the hog
environment is also improving
Drug bottles are now increasing!
available with child-proof o
(they're often adult-proof, toy
Education programs (throill
government info.rmation 4
similar services) are improving
and labelling is now explicit an:
informative.
The latest available statist'
show that tots one to four yea
old are far and away the nto
susceptible to accidental poisa
ing. Nearly nine times as ma
cases were reported, in this grimj
as among the 5-14 year bracket
Tranquillizers, sleeping pill
vitamin tablets, birth control pit
-and many other drugs common
found in the home figui:
pfominently in child poisonio
In the under-fives, cleaning 51
polishing agents follow aspirint
the most frequent cause
poisoning.
What can you do about
Accept that pre-schoolers havee
insatiable curiousity: they s
out anything within reach -
touch, play with, taste,
Then' keep those substam
that couldb e potentially hard
to them out of their reach —n
out of reach.
Western Star
euchre
winners
Euchre winners at the We te
Star card party last week Iva(
High Lady - Betty McCall; in
Lady - Lottie McCutcheon; liig
Man - Mel McCutcheon; to
Man - Frank Carter; Draw - Mn
Jack Wilson.
New highway
The Mackenzie HigInvaj
Canada's most ambitious rot.
building project, will run LA
miles from the Alberta borderi
the Beaufort Sea. The 296 nail
to Fort Simpson was coipplel
by 1970, Construction was stet
on a section of the road north
Fort Simpson in 1972 and wort
arted on a stretch between inn'
and Arctic Red River is bo
accelerated.
N
HAYWARD'S
Discount. Variety
Potent medicines .6,...Cationeties
Groceries and-Stationery Tobacco
The Majestic W.I. held a card
party in the Library on Monday
night with 13 table,s in play.
Winners were: High Man
A. Hackbart; Low Man- Mrs. V.
I spoke this week on the Throne
debate. I criticized Ontario Hydro'
for their methods of negotiation
and purchase of property for the
power line corridor coming from
Douglas' Point. I was also critical
of the methods used by Ontario
Hydro in selecting the route in
that the line is going through 80%
of Class 1 and 2 agricultural land
where an alternate route could
have been chosen that would have
crossed only about 40% of Class 1
and 2 land.
Specifically, I recommended
that:
1. Hydro should reconsider its
position that its power needs will
double every 10 years. In 1973
Consolidated Edison in the
U.S.A. put on a conservation
drive and while they had had a
regular 8% growth rat; in
previous years, they found in
1975 they were able to reduce
consumption by 10%, I -am sure
Ontario li.ydro could do as well, or
better, if they really tried,
2. A complete independent
assesstnent of the routing of these
lines from DonglaS Point should
be undertaken immediately be.
cause Hydro should not be going
over large percentages of Class 1
and 2 lands
If the Government won't do
this then the Minister of Energy
should insist that Hydro take 500
ft, instead of 900 ft. from Douglas
Poiht to Bradley Sin-idiom 500 ft.
is sufficient for the facilities
presently approved and is cet
Tunney (playing as a man); High
Lady - Mrs. Harold Jacklin; Low
Lady - Mrs. A. Gemmel.
Lunch was served by the
committee in charge.
tainly able to handle all the power
capable of being produced until
1990 and beyond. Hydro is
actually land banking at today's
prices.
4. Hydro's methods of nego.
tiation and acquisition are
severely lacking and should be
cleaned up.
5, More money should be given
to Kincardine to provide the
services and accommodation
needed to house the workers from
Douglas Point. The town should
have another million dollars from
Hydro, over and above what is
being given.
In a statement in the Legisla-
ture this week, Premier Davis
indicated that Ontario wants
Ottawa to relax restrictions on
foreign ownership and control of
uranium because uranium is now
becoming an increasingly import-
ant source of energy. He
maintained that present federal
government policies have greatly
inhibited exploration and
development of uranium, proving
much' more restrictive than in the
case of oil, gas and coal. Although
the premier feels that control of
plutonium and international and
interprovincial movement of
uranium and thorium Should
remain under the control of the
federal government he would like
-Ontario to control uranium.
liberal Leader Robert Nixon
and 'Opposition members sharply
attacked this statement and asked
whether it meant the Governinetit
Patients
have rights
There was a time when people
thought health care was a
privilege. Now almost everyone
believes adeqUate health care is a
basic human right.
Hospital patients even have in
a sense their own Bill of Rights.
All patients have a right to
considerate and respectful care.
They have a right to complete
information about their diagnosis
and treatment -- in terms they can
understand. They also have a
right to refuse treatment to the
extent the law allows and to know
the medical , consequences of
doing so.
Among other safeguards,
patients have a right to have the
records of their case kept
confidential. They have a right to
expect reasonable responses to
requests for services and a right
to know why they may be
transferred to other institutions.
They have a right to expect
adequate continuity of care. They
have a right to examine their bills
and have them explained,
regardless of who pays the bill.
A Patient's right to know about
his illness is an important
building block in the growing
effort to provide guarantee's of
adequate health care for
EVERYONE, Lung patients, for
example, are a special concern of
the Christmas Seal Association,
whose goal is to establish
comprehensive care for all lung
patients by the end of the next,
decade. The Association supports
a health program believing the
provincial government should
establish cost controls and set
minimum standards for all health
services assuring adequate
coverage for comprehensive care
and catastrophic illness.
is prepared to allow ownership
and control of uranium to fall into
foreign hands; Had it not been" for
the intervention of the Federal
Government, Consolidated
Denison Mines, a company
controlling large amounts of
uranium would have been sold to
U.S. interests, for instance.
Premier Davis has indicated
that his Government is planning
some relief for people of low or
fixed incomes who will be hit by
the proposed 7-10c fuel price
increases agreed on in Ottawa on
Wednesday.
The Treasurer John White has
rescheduled budget day from the
originally planned April 4th date
to April 9th so he cart have
another couple of days to look at
the economic consequences of
these oil price changes.
Pat Reid, (Lib-Lab rri.p,p. for
Rainy River) has 'been elected
Chairman of the. Public Accounts
Committee of the Ontario Legisla-
ture.
The Public Accounts Commit-
tee, which traditionally is the Only
Legislative committee with a
Member of the Opposition as
chairman, Studies revenues and
expenditures of the Provincial
Government for the preceeding
fiscal year.. It also studies hi depth
the annual report of the Provincial
Auditor, Norman Scott; This
year's report, tabled, recently,
was critical of several areas of
`spending Within the GoVernitent,
(Today's Health is provided to
weekly newspapers by the
Ontario Ministry of Health) '
by David Woods
There is another drug problem.
It ism t new. It has nothing to do
with marijuana or heroin. But it's,
pretty serious nonetheless.
Fifty per cent of poisonings in
children are caused by drugs, and
the principal offender, believe it
or not, is aspirin — good for your.
headache, perhaps, but also
potentially lethal to your toddler.
Of course; the child who
poison's himself with too many
pills. can hardly be blamed for his
actions. The responsibility must
rest with careless adults who
leave drugs, or .other"potentially
poisonous substances, within
reach of children.
The fact that nearly all child
poisonings occur in the home
points to negligence as a prime
cause. This is particularly true
when you consider that nine out
of ten children poisoned are
between one and five years old.
This group is far too young to
seek out harmful substances and
experiment with them. They are
simply inclined to place
everything that looks remotely
edible in their mouths.
'The first preventive step,
obviously , is to move all
potentially harmful drugs and
chemicals out of the reach of
children. A good second
precaution is to keep the phone
number of the nearest poison
control centre, doctor, or hoSpital
somewhere near the phone,
clearly identified for easy
reference, even by non-members
of the family — say, your
baby-sitter.
Ideally, drugs should be kept in
locked bathroom cabinets.
Various household cleansers that
are potentially lethal should not
be kept under the kitchen sink --
but place up high where
safari-bound preschoolers won't
start playing with them.
Aspirin accounts for roughly
one-quarter of child poisonings.
However indespensable you may
find. it in your home, it'll take
something stronger than that to
relieve the headache induced by
whisking a child off to hospital.
*who has swallowed a dozen or
more tablets at one go.
Not all poisoning is preventable
of course — children aren't
always under the direct super-
vision of parents. Parents would
be wise, therefore, to learn
something about first aid — what
to do in the case of, say,
snakebite, or a child swallowing a
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