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C) ver the•past six'months, the Huron County Long -Term Care
Planning Committee has been meeting to plan Long -Term Care Services
to serve the needs of people who live in Huron County. Long Term Care
services include government funded services such as •Long -Term Care Facilities
(Nursing Homes and Homes for the Aged), Hbme Care, Visiting .Nurses,
Homemakers, Seniors' Day Centres, Alzheimer Programs and Attendant Services.
The clients of these services are elderly people and adults with physical disabili-
ties as well as their families and friends who help took after the daily needs of
those who are unable to do so for themselves.
The Huron County Long -Term Care Planning Committee is composed of con-
sumers of Long -Term Care services, service providers'and representatives of local
government, service clubs, the ministerial association and advocacy gmups for
the physically handicapped. The Committee members come from all five geo-
graphic areas of the County:,North (Wingham and area), East (Seaforth and area),
West (Goderich and area), South (Exeter and area) and Central (Clinton and area.)
The county Planning Committee members are:
Consumers: . Alternates
(Central Huron - Bayfield) • Marg Talbot
(East Huron - Seaforth) Helen McLean
• (North Huron - Wingham) Myrtle Pengelly •
•(South Huron - Exeter) • Lois Thiel
Rose Merner
` Hilda Ungar
Joyce •Sccitchmer.
Anne James
Lillian Smith
Fairley Marten
• Hrflen Hopper . (West Huron - Goderich)
Martina Schneiker (West Huron - Goderich)
Other Community Representatives • Alternates .
Hal Cta' s, Chairperson Chief of Police, Seaforth Rev. Janies'Sloan
Dr. HarryCieslar .. Physician, Goderich • 1)r. Frank Newland
Rev. Peggy Campbell Huron Ministerial' Association's
Pastoral Care Committee Rev, Clare Geddes
Leona Armstrong Township of Grey Pearl Whitehead
Don Forrest- • • Diamonds Margaret White
Kathleen Buckley West Huron Betty Simmons
Service Providers:•
Gloria Workman •
Vice Chairperson
Janice Hayter -Oke
Jean Young
Alternates
Wingham Seniors Day Centre Nancy Klomps
Victorian Order of Nurses • Cathy Walker
Town & Country Betty McGregor- ,
Homemakers Ehgoetz•
Josef Risi
Pat Pietrik
Joanne Jasper
Ruth Hildebrand • Seaforth Manor •
Yvirnne Kitchen Saforth.Community Hospital
Dr. Maarten Bokhout1 Huron County Health Unit
The Huron County Long -Term Care Planning Committee.meets on the 3rd
Thursday of each month, Through the winter, the meetings were held in Clinton.
Now That the Weather has improved, the meetings will move across the County.
All 'Committeemeetings are open to the public. The next meeting will take place
on June.1'6, 1994 at 9:30 a,m. at the Lion's Youth Centre, 125 John St. West, Exeter.
Updates of each Planning Committee meeting are provided in the Focus
Newsmagazine.
Key'to Huron's planning. for Long -Term Care services are the 5 local planning
groups who meet in their ownareas of the county. The local planning groups give
advice and feedback to the county planning committee. Local. planning groups
meetings are open to all to allow participation of the many people who use Long -
Term Care services.' The dates and locations of the'Iocal planning groups.are listed
below:
Meal Planning Groups:
South Huron
2nd Thursday at 10:00 a.m. at the Lion's Youth Centre, Exeter
East Huron
4th Thursday at 10:00 a.m. at the Seaforth Community Hospital
Central Huron
4th Thursday at 1:1)0 p.m. at the Huron Adult Day Centre,
Clinton
West Huron. •
' 1st Tuesday at 1:30 p.m. at the MacKay Centre, Goderich
North Huron
2nd Monday at 10:01) a.m. at the Wingham Seniors Day Centre
Chairperson/
Secretary
• Sheila Dolmage
Joan Spittal '
Joanne Riehl
Shirley O'Brien
Kathleen Buckley
Leona Armstrong
The local planning groups and the'county planning committee will continue to
plan.and make decisions that will affect Long -Term Care Services now and in the
future. So far, their recommendations have included funding recommendations,
for Palliative Cate Volunteer Programs and the allocation of short stay beds' in the
,County's .Long -Term Care facilities. Over the spring, summer and into the fall the
planning committee and the local groups will be discussing the development of
the Huron Multi -Service Agency. This new organization will provide easier access
to a wide range of Long -Term Care services and streamline the administration of
services now delivered by many agencies across the county. The Committee will
also be getting help from the local planning groups to write a 3-5 year plan for
Long -Term Care services to meet the needs of Huron County residents.
These are important discussions and decisions about services that are very impor-
tant in peoples' lives. We invite you to get involved , to come to a sleeting and
voice your concerns, to talk to. a member of the County Planning Committee or a
member of the local planning group in your area. You have a chance''() shape the
future of these services.
Come and join us.
Women in the Wind
By Scott Hilgendorff
A half-dozen motorcycles travel-
ling the open highway in formation
may not seem too unusual.
But this group still tums some
heads when passing motorists
realize they are all women motor-
cyclists.
"We're trying to create a more
positive image of female motor-
cyclists," said Magy King, who
started the Lakeshore chapter of
Women in the Wind in 1992.
The local chapter, which has
members from Port Elgin and Kin-
cardine through Wingham and
Lucknow, is one of 44 chapters in
North America. It is the only chap-
ter ,in Ontario.
"We want to get. rid of that
female biker stereotype," King said.
They don't walk around in
leathers and tatoos, biting the tops
off .beer bottles.
Many in the organization are
career women and motherrs.
"There's a bit of a male,' macho
image of motorcycling," King said.
She has been riding for about 14
years.
"We can't maintain that kind of.
image."
Within Women in the, Wind,
members find camaraderie and
support. '
, Locally, there are nine members.
who ride together. They'll go on
rides to places like the Bruce Penin-
sula or Goderich.
Sometimes two or three members
of the group will get together to go
for shorter rides.
As an organization, they have
helped with charity rides and two
years ago, had a run to raise funds
for a trust fund in memory of an
area girl who died of meningitis.
While riding together, King said,
"You help build each other's sense
of motorcycling."
King, who rides a Harley David-
son Sportster, 1000 said she had
always been interested in motor-
cycling.
She started riding when her hus-
band bought her a Honda motor-
cycle in 1980.
The freedom is what appeals to
her.
She finds being in a car restric-
tive, holding back the 'smell of the.
grass and the feel of the sunshine..
"All your senses seem to be so.
much more alerted than when
you're in a car," she said. '
And she also said, "You don't
h ve to be tough to ride a motor -
c. cle."
arol Phillips, a member of
omen in the Wind from Luck -
now, has been a licensed rider for
seven .years and rides a 1976, 550-4
in line prototype Honda.
She said there is a "tremendous
`trying
to create
a more
positive
image
stereotype" for female bikers.
It is a stereotype that portrays
them as that rough and tough, tat-
tooed biker.
"When people meet me, one of
the last things they find out is I ride
a motorcycle." '
Phillips, a mother of a nine-year-
old daughter and columnist. for
Canadian Biker, said she takes
pleasure in breaking the stereotype.
She said the biker stereotypes
come from the riders on the
extreme end; the riders who sport
countless studs on their leather
jackets and attract a lot of attention
with their appearance.
She • said these are the bikers
people remember when they pass
them on highways.
For those motorcyclists, it's a lot
of costuming.
"Going out on a bike is just like
dressing for Hallowe'en," she said.
"Some people go overboard."
A biker taking a drive belt .off a
bike and wearing it as a belt around
his pants is an example of the
extreme.
"You've got to wonder how
necessary that is," Phillips `said.
As an organization, Women in the
Wind helps create a positive public
image of female motorcyclists.
The number of women motor-
cyclists is increasing and there are
more than 500 members of Women
in the Wind in North America and
Great Britain.
As a result, Phillips said motor-
cycle manufacturers are taking that
into consideration and are designing
bikes for better handling by smaller
riders.
In addition to the stereotypes,
King said there are still men out
there who say the only place for a
woman on a motorcycle is riding on
the back.
But she said women are making a
mark for themselves in sport and
recreation.
She said they are creating their
own place in the realm of motor-
cycling.
"The bottom line is, [Women in
the Wind] unites women who share
the common interest in motor-
cycling," King said.
"We're not trying to steal the last
male preserve. We • just want to
ride," she said.
King hopes the Lakeshore chapter
of Women in the Wind will expand.
She knows there are a lot more
female riders in the area and wel-
comes them to join. ' She is par-
- titularly interested in finding riders
from the Goderich area, to join the
Lakeshore chapter. .
Magy King is the founder of the Lakeshore chapter of Women
In the Wind, formed In 1992. She says the groups is trying to
create a more positive Image of female motorcyclists. (Scott
Hilgendorff photo)
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