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Walter Arnold, co-chairman of .the Lucknow District Community Centre fund raising
committee announces the winner of the first Community Centre Lottery draw for
$1,000. Joy Houston of RL 3.41101yrood. wow IvItItAtheAttekr,lieket4777-.Bath
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[McIntyre] Pratt of Hamilton,. who made the draw for the ticket and 'Gerry PriestaPe
co-chairman of the Community Centre fund raising conmdttees look on.
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$10 A Year In Advance $14 To and Foreign
WEDNESDAY, MARCH, 8, ,1978
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Two area boys,, attended camp
last summer sponsored in part by
the Lucknow District Crippled
Childrens' Easter Seal campaign
administered by, the Lucknow
District Lions Club and the
community. services fund of the
Lucknow District Kinsmen Club.
Kevin and Jamie Alton, sons of
Frank and Loreen Alton, R. R. 7
Lucknow, are liemoPhelid6s and
4they ;*-go to .tamp Illahue, -a
.,sutttmer camp . near Cobourg,
••Ontario, for diabetic asthmatic,
epileptic and hemopheliac child-
ren.
The camp's •activities are
almost endless says thirteen -
year -old Kevin who has attended
the three week camps for five
summers. There is canoeing,
archery, swimming, crafts, camp-
fires on the beach, drama and
tennis. Special events during the
camp area fairytale "night, 'treas-
ure. hunts, the camp olympics,
aquarama and swimming and
diving events.
Kevin has been named mayor
of the camp in 1975, Mr.
• Illahue, a take -off of Mr.
America in 1974 and last year won
the title, .Tennis player of the
camp - 1977.
"Nobody - thinks about their
icondttion while, we're -at- camp,"
says Kevin. "We're a group of
kids enjoying summer,"
The camp is special because it
trains the children to treat their
"onditions% Diabetics learn to give
themselves insulin treatments
and heMopheliacs learn to give
cryo -precipitate treatments.
Hemophelia is a hereditary
disorder -of the blood clotting
mechanism in the blood and it
primarily affects males. Hemoph-
eliacs bruise more easily than
people who ° do not have the
condition. When, hemorrhaging
occurs, the joints stiffen and,
treatment of the bleeding is
required to replace the missing
coagulation factor in their blood.
The bleeding causes pain in the
joints and repeated bleeding can -
cause crippling.
A -cryoprecipitate treatment is
a liquid replacement of the
coagulation factor given by syr-
inge which wises the blood to
coagulate 'and Itop the -bleeding.
A dried concentrate is available
but is very expensive,. so Kevin
and Jamie use the liquid ithich
must be kept in the freezer until it
is required.
Loreen points out that they do
not treat the boys on a preventive
basis because they do not want
them to become immune. to the
treatment. The boys are treated'
when bleeding occurs or when
they feel their joints begin to
stiffen. •
Kevin can usually tell when' a
.treatment is required because his
elbow or his ankle has that
"funny feeling" as he calls it. He
b
is learning to give himself the
• treatment and has taken some
training in the summer camps'.
Loreen says that the three week
camps are a real • lift for the
parents as well' as the boys. She
and her husband, •Frank,. must
always know that if they are not
near, • to 'give the boys a
treatment, that there is someone
• camp
available t� 'take the responsibil-
ity.
"Even when we go to London
for the day, we ask a nurse who
lives near the school if she will be _
home for the day, to give a
treatment if something were to .
E• very child eventually leaves
home and Loreen and Frank feel
that the three weeks •away in
summer prepares the boys and
their parents for the day when
they will be independent. "I don't
feel the pulling' ,way as much,
happen to one of the boys," says since the boys have been going
Loreen, "The weeks the boys are
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at camp gives us a break."
oard cancels March exams
• BY JEFF SEDDON
Huron County Board of Educa-,
tion decided Monday that March
Secondary School' examinations
will be cancelled in an effort to
make up lost school time caused
by the Secondary School teachers
strike. The Board decided to
cancel the examinations to make
up between seven and nine
instructional days that normally
would be set aside for mid-term.
Along with the exams,' the
board decided to request school
principals to be very careful
screening student field 'trips
before asking for board approval.
The board also tancelled two
professional development days in
April and may delay final exaMin-
ations .in June to make up even
more school time if necessary.
Education Director John. Coch-
rane told the board, that the
students can be tested in class
after the strike is over and that
the March examinations were not
necessary. He said teachers could
estimate marks and give their
students class tests to achieve the
same results the March exams
would give. He added that the
teachers can come up with some
kind of testing "presumably
sometime in April".
Cochrane said that the conver-
sion of the -examination time
would result in seven to nine
more instructional days. He said
that if the weather man co-oper-
ated for the remainder Of the
winter, the board will be ahead of
last year in terms of lost time due
to winter storms.
The director said that South
• Huron Secondary and Staforth
Secondary had scheduled profes-
sional development days n April
and that those shoul&be'cancel-
led,
He said that these naives by the
a
board should leave the students
"not that far behind in instruc-
tional time lost if the strike is
settled soon."
Cochrane said that the board 2„
could arrange for more class time
in June, if it was required. He
said the final examinations could
be pushed back farther in the
month but added that he would
recommend the matter be left
until the board knows how much
time will be lost by the strike.
He said that the screening of
field trips may result in some
cancellations if the principals do
not feel that the educational
benefits of the trip warrant the
students leavihg the classroom.
He said he would urge the
principals to be very careful
before they ask the board to
approve the trip.
The board gave the director
power to act in approving a field
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