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The Lucknow Sentinel, 1982-02-17, Page 65 edliorlal • The LI, CK . OW SENTINEL "lie Sapay Ten." BataWahad 1873 SHARON J. DIEIZ - Editor PAT LIVINGSTON - Otiice. Manager MERLE ELLIOTT - Typesetter JOAN HELM • Compositor Ladsmw Sa dmi, WitLNday, Fibnaty 17, 1N2,paze 6 Business and Editorial: Office Telephone 528-2822 Mailing Address P.O. Boa 400. Lucknow, NOG 200 Second Class Mail Registration Number 0847 Selimarlpdon who, 511.346 per yaw in advance Senior Moo rent, S12.Npar yew k abases U.S.A. and 'Foreign, OMNI par yew inwhams , Sr. Ot. U.S.A. and )F , WAS psryear In admits CPR: basic life support Ak cardiopulmonary resuscitation. program. has been instituted at the Wingham and District Hospital. The , Lucknow's Women's Institute recently ,purchased an infant mannequin for use in the program and the Lucknow District Lions Club is contributing their share along with other Lions clubs in the area to purchase an adult mannequin for the per• Cardiopulmonary resuscitation is a method of providing rescue breathing by using the mouth-to-mouth technique and artificial:" circulation provided by external cardiac compression, _ which forces the art to 'pump blood delivering oxygen tothe body. CPR is used to deliver oxygen to the vital organs of the body of ° victims of heart attack, poisoning, drowning, suffocation, choking, electrocution, and smoke inhalation. Many ire familiar with the method, having seen it used on.television programs by paramedics and policemen. What many may not realize is that the program is only now'being initiated in Canada, while it has been in use in the United ' States for about 10 years. Up to this time the method was used by most hospitals but Canada, where there are very few paramedics, policemen, firemen and the public were not trained in CPR until now. Statistics show that in .communities where a' majority of the adult population has been trained in CPR, the incidence of death due to heart attack is:.drastically reduced. There are many causes of suddendeath, but the most common is heart attack. According • to Dr. Donald. Jolly of .the tucknow Medical Centre, who spoke to the Lucknow Lions Club on February 8, only three in 10 people iwho_ suffera heart attack live until medical assistance "reaches them or they active` at hospital. The remaining seven die almost immediately. Assistance must reach- the victim within 60 seconds to avoid brain damagedue to lack of oxygen and as Dr. Jolly points out, Lucknow doctors cannot reach a victim in the village under' 10 nwiutes. CPR is a program which has been proven 4ective and valuablein averting tragedy and can also save"L'hildren. A variation of CPR for use with children can restore breathing and circulation for the child who is a victim 'of suffocation, choking, poisoning, drowning, electrocution or smoke inhalation. - The program isbeing offered to Wingham and District Hospital staff who are qualifying and re -qualifying, using the mannequinswhich have been provided by the Lucknow Institute and area Lions ,Clubs. Very shortly the program will be offered to the general public in the communities served by Wingham and District Hospital, Please considerthe advantages of learning CPR., A sudden death couldbe averted. Curious cabinet shuffle Of special importance to the people in our area are the deficit funding procedures of -the Ministry of Health regarding Wingham and District Hospital and the economic crisis facing many farmers. For these reasons Premier William Davis' cabinet shuffle, which puts Larry Grossman in the health portfolio and makes Dennis Timbre' 'agriculture minister are most interesting. The hospital deficit is increasing and wage increases have not been paid to staff, while the hospital's board of governors waits for the province to make a decision about the supplementary budget proposal, submitted by the hospital eight months ago. The ministry's lifter -the -fact funding makes it impossible for the hospital to treat its staff fairly regarding their pay increases and imposes an unnecessary financial strain on the hospital's budget, because neither ,the executive director, the hospital treasurer nor the board of governors know how the hospital's expenses will be met or when. The appointment of Larry Grossman to this ministry leaves him with the challenge of finding a better method of funding the medicare system, settling a salary dispute with the province's doctors and studying the: province's mental health care system. All of these ' challenges will provide Grossman with interesting days ahead. The appointment of former Health Minister Dennis Timbrell to agriculture is curious, especially when one learns that Timbrell asked forthe portfolio. Having carried the ball in the health ministry and emerging tel ;'vely unscathed, Timbrell, the city politician, has decided to e on the .problems of the agriculture industry in this ince. His predeces Henderson, although a farmer himself, did li to resolve the pproblems facing fanners and tint to.' pow y: r•edtr*.es umensommommengimommommilise One cold morning at the end of November, two men journeyed north from Toronto, up the street called Yonge, towards Richmond Hill. One was a bearded man who drove a team and wagon' behind which. a tethered horse .followed. Beside the wagon, end talking to the driver from time to time, a minister of God rodea horse. The two ' men were, of course, Chippy Chisholm and the , Reverend Duncan MacLeod. They' were on their way to deliver the. wagon and team to Hamish Murdoch, and the . tethered. horse would allow Chippy Chisholm to make the return journey. Alf plans had been completed; • and . since • Neil MacCrimmon had already been don- ated. a team and wagon by his employer, William Blake, there was Only one required at. Richmond Hill. That was to accommodate the Mur- doch family., ' It :was dark when they turned into theA'riveway, which was just a ribbon of clearing to the Murdoch cabin in the bush: There were two other lights . in • the distance, a single yellow gleam from the house of Neil MacCrimmon, and a brighter glow from a candelabra at Blake's Folly,. The Murdochs were .both surprised and happy to see the visitors. The men sat at a rough plank table, while Kate Murdoch prepared a meal, and the two children, Teddy and Anne, listen- ed wide eyed, to the stories of Chippy Chisholm. There was a distinct change in Edward. The strong,,quiet, and under- standing personality of Hamishhad won the boy's admiration and affec- tion. Gone now was the bitterness of • - by don campbelh. accepting a' second father. It was replaced by a confidence he had never known before. It had taken time, of course; and Hamish had been patient v . with the lad. Firm but patient. So it was with confidence that the Mind= oohs looked to the future. They, were all excited and could hardly wait for the coming of spring. It'was quite late when the three men drove the team to the Blake's Folly and asked permission to stable the horses for the winter. They found Mr. , Blake deeply .in his cups, but amiably so, and in such a state of mind that he would have agreed to any request 'which was asked of him. Whenall arrangements had been made, and after they had partaken of • William's liquid generosity, they went. to visit the MacCrimmons, the warmth of the whisky taking the edge off a chilling wind. It was a happy evening. In some detail, the minister went over the. plans. In. April, he told them, the Murdochs and MacCrimmons must drive their wagons to Toronto and assemble with the rest of the Friends of 'Skye for the journey to the. ,new lands. lands. Neil MacCrimmon had some misgivings. "Di ye no think that April is a- wee bif too early to make the move?' There'll be the frost aconin' oot o' the earth. 'Twill be muddy Sir, and hard frae the wagon wheels to pass along the trail. Aye, I've heard it said too, there . has often been snow even in April!'. Neil shook his head. 'Twill no be easy Sir, 'twill no be easy." The minister agreed with all that Neil had said, but he also .pointed out one foot in the furrow. that they needed all the time they could possibly gain, in order to be established before the following win- ter. This seemed to satisfy Neil MacCrimmon. They discussed the de- tails which had been planned, and Neil ,was surprised to learn of the generos- ity of Jane Dove, and delighted that the young doctor had found a wife. The evening, of course, was not allowed to pass without a "blaw" from Neil MacCrimmon. ,With the sidden skirl that rent the air, baby James awoke from • his sleep in the small cradle which had been fashioned by Hamish Murdoch. Startled, he began to cry. . Then, as if by some magical power, he seemed to be soothed by the 'c. His blue eyes, wide and intelligent, searched from whence came therant of his ancestors. The Reverend went overr to the baby, and kissed him gently • on the forehead. ''Thereis no doubt as to the ;blood which flows in this child's veins," is all* he said. • When it was at last time . for the minister and t.Chippy to return to Blake's Folly and find accommodation for the night, Neil MacCrimmon paused with them on the verandah. "We hae ' the wagons and the supplies. Aye, we hae a minister, and thank God also, we hae a doctor, but we willneed . someone to lead the people through the bush." The minister smiled and patted Neil on the back. "Dinna fash ye sel," *he said, "for we hae a leader: His name is Neil MacCrimmon!" by, bob trotter No civilized person would live in this country in the wintertime, said . a visitor from the southern United States: • • Why don't all Canadians move to Florida for the winter and close the country up during January and Feb- ruary? After four stormy weekends in a row, many would agree with him but I'll bet a Confederate dollar he has never walked out on a February night when the moon is bright. We went cross-country skiing the other night and I believe I couldhave read this newspaper by the light. The stars were sparkling blue -white, flashing like jewels on a dark background. The hush of the hardwood bush behind our house on winter nights is something more than silence. It is so intense you want to reach out and pull it aside to let sounds come in. You actually find yourself straining your ears without knowing why you're listening. When the hush is suddenly broken by the swoosh of .a vehicle on the highway, you realize that in the still, clear air the range of your hearing has increased fourfold. My great uncle was a woodsman all his life and 1 can remember him saying that a February night when the moon W is bright, things are so quiet youcan hear a field mouse snore. We can ski for miles from our back door these days but the older I get, . the. shorter the distances 1 put between myself and the house. We have gone as far as five miles in other years but a mile is about all I feel like going these days. ' 1 enjoy looking.across the still; white fields. The horse barn looms black as I look backat the house and see the cheery lights burning in the family. room windows. The soft, • pine walls appear warm and . inviting while the great maple trees stand like sentinels in the moonlight. b. It is coldly beautiful and silent. That visitor from across the line, I'm sure, would find it unreal and starkly. beautiful, too, but he would view it only from a car. I find it wonderfully exhilarating to ski up to the barn and have the buckskin mare greet me with a surprised snort as I skim through the corral over snowbanks that are higher than the fence. If that colt ever finds out that he can step right over the fence; he'll be causing problems. Right now, he won't move too far away from the mare and she is too smart to wander far from the shelter of the barn. We never close our barn door. It faces south and the winds come from other directions. Both horses wander in and: out all year 'round and grow heavy coats and long beards. They seem surprised to see some- , body at the barn when it's close to midnight. And they are not the only things to be surprised. I poke my head inthe barn and a screech owl is startled by the sudden light. They are beautiful birds with feathered tufts like ears. • It is with a joyful heart I turn off the lights after handing the horses an extra mouthful of oats and start for the house where a pot of tea will be brewing and my beautiful daughters will welcome us home. Mind you, 1, too, am getting a little tired of cold" weather and snpw and snowbanks and hard to start cars and heavy coats and cold toes and snow shovels and winds as wicked as a wolverine. But the thrill that conies in one or two February nights makes me feel hearty and hardy. Canadians have to be hardy to survive' in such a climate and the winter provides us with a different kind Of beauty that cannot be found in any southern state.'