Times-Advocate, 1983-04-13, Page 7Rebekahs
make plans
Pride of Huron Rebekah
Lodge held its regular meeting
April 6 with Noble Grand
Audrey Rowe presiding,
assisted by Vice Grand Bar-
bara Whiting.
Mrs. Whiting gave a report
of the visits she had made to
sick members. Iva Blair ask-
ed for donations of food for the
district meeting in the Lodge
Hall April 13 at 2 p.m.
Cheryl Edwards gave a
very interesting report of the
School of Instruction which
was held March 30 afternoon
and evening when about 80
Rebekahs from Huron
District 23 came to Exeter to,
learn about Rebekah Lodge
meetings.
Betty Robinson, Dorchester
and Helen Bowmen, Ingersoll,
both Past Assembly
presidents, were the instruc-
tors. Mrs. Whiting told about
our visit to Huronic Rebekah
Lodge, Clinton. We were
reminded that the last euchre
of the season will be held in
the Lodge Hall April 27.
A letter from Rebekah
Assembly explained that the
Oddfellow Rebekah Float in
the Rose Bowl Parade was
not seen January 1 because of
the breakdown of at least one
float which delayed the
parade past the 10:30 deadline
when the national networks
switched to the football game.
It was especially disappoin-
ting because it was one of the
most beautiful floats the Odd -
fellows and Rebekahs have
ever entered.
Morning Star Rebekah
Lodge, Brussels invited the
Exeter lodge to their meeting
April 12 when Mrs. Alice
Bowen, District Deputy
President of Huron District 23
will pay her official visit to
their lodge.
At the next meeting, April
20, Pride of Huron will honor
Mrs. Bowen with a banquet in
Exeter United Church. At the
meeting to follow in the Lodge
Hall, Mrs. Bowen will make
her official visit to the lodge.
Members who had ordered
Rebekah Jewellery were able
to pick it up. Ordered were
Rebekah cups and saucers to
be given to members sick in
hospital.
Plans were made for a
Friendship Night May 4,
when members will each ask
a Rebekah friend to the
meeting.
Members will join the Ex-
eter Subordinate Lodge at the
annual Church Service in Ex-
eter United Church April 24.
Members will meet at the
Lodge Hall at 10:30 and
parade to the Church. District
Annual Church Service will
be May 1.
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REHEARSAL — South Huron Junior Formers Rob Essery, Robin Preece (centre) and
Catherine Johns rehearse a play they later performed at the Junior Farmers' pro-
vincial dramafest in Blyth, hosted this year by Huron County.
Metric medicine easier
than it appears at first
It's hard to break the think-
ing habits of a lifetime. Why
should we anyway? We still
have our old scales to weigh
ourselves, our old ther-
mometers to take our
temperature, and our old tape
measures to size ourselves
up. But it's a metric world we
live in.
Ninety-eight percent of the
world is now on the metric
system or moving into the
metric system, and Canada is
one of the last countries to
convert. Canadian manufac-
tured goods can't compete in
a world that wants metric. '1'o
say "go metric or go broke"
is putting it very strongly. but
it may not be far from the
truth.
So, like it or not, it's hap-
pening. Labs and hospitals
have already converted.
eventually, doctors will too.
And sooner and later, the old
thermometers will crack, the
old scales will break, and the
old tape measure will wear
out.
Your temperature i n
Celsius - Learning to read a
Celsius thermometer correct-
ly is. an essential. Normal
hody temperature- in Celsius
is 37 degrees (37 degrees C),
The danger here is when your
temperature is not normal.
One degree Celsius is equal to
nearly two degrees
Fahrenheit. So on a Celsius
theremometer, two degrees
above normal is a very high
temperature. A baby's
temperature, taken rectally
should he :37.5 degrees C.
Your height in Centimetres or bad. And a cream puff is a
- Learning to think of height
in centimetres is less essen-
tial, but very useful, especial-
ly for parents of growing
children. An average man
stands about 180 cm. tall; an
average Woman, 162 cm. One
metre ( 100 cm ) is about the
height of a 31:2 year old child.
A newborn baby will average
about 50 cin. in length.
Your weight in kilograms
- It's important to learn
something about your weight
in kilograms. If you put on 2
kg. of body weight, you've
just gained more than you
probably think. The average
woman (162 cm. tall) should
weigh 55 to 67 kg. The average
man (180 cm tall) should
weigh, from 72 to 80 kg.
Taking your metric
medicine - Prescriptions or
patent medicines which now
call for a teaspoon measure-
ment may, instead, call for 5
ml. The two measurements
are roughly equivalent.
More to come - Don't be
alarmed when you start hear-
ing other metric
measurements applied to the
health system' Eventually.
your visual acuity will be
measured that way (6/6 in-
stead of 20/20). Your doctor
may readyour blood pressure
in kilopascals. Diet charts will
talk about kilojoules instead
of calories. But that's all in
the future and in most cases,
you won't have to learn what
the measurements mean.
Trust your doctor to tell you
whether your eyesight and
your blood pressure are good
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Of course you can't carry
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Times -Advocate, April 13, 1983
Jlach d 1offing3
Liberals seek women's perspective
By Jack Riddell MPP
On Saturday, May 14, the
Ontario Liberal Women's
Perspective Advisory Com-
mittee is sponsoring a Con-
ference, "Women's Perspec-
tives '83", the theme of which
is "Look at the Past - Plan for
the Future."
The Conference is open to
all, and will be held in the
Concert Hall at the Royal
York Hotel in Toronto, from
9:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. While it is
sponsored by an Ontario
Liberal Committee, every ef-
fort has been made - in in-
viting guest speakers and
panelists - to keep the Con-
ference as non-partisan as
possible. The objective is to
provide a forum for debate
and discussion, led by experts
in various fields.
Registration fee for the
Conference is $25.00 (in-
cluding luncheon), $30.00
after May 6, and forms are
available from my office.
Guest speakers at the Con-
ference are Monica Townson;
economist and author of "The
Canadian Woman's Guide to
Money", Linda Silver
Dranoff, Lawyer, Writer and
Activist - who some of you will
recognize from the "Ask a
Lawyer" section . of
"Chatelaine", and David
Peterson, Leader of the On-
tario Liberal Party.
Monica Townson will speak
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There are to be five
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noon, with participants given
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day care - micro -technology.
Based upon a wide-ranging
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this workshop, led by expert
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Barriers — The barriers to
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.teal or imagined, external
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woman whose children have
"grown and flown" who
wishes to expand her
horizons. Panelists will offer
guidance on financial, emo-
tional, career and
social/lifestyle needs.
Violence — Almost daily,
we hear tragic and horrifying
accounts of - domestic abuse
of women and children - sex-
ual assault and "street
violence" - proliferation of
pornography which has
elements of hatred and cruel-
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must be done? What can WE
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What it does
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health beyond repair? What is
happening to - out air - our
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Panelists with environmental
expertise will discuss, and
answer questions about,
developments which affect
our very survival.
The Women's Perspective
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in the Liberal Caucus Room
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and arrangements for such
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