Times-Advocate, 1983-06-01, Page 36
RETIREMENT PARTY — Food supervisor Lila Smith has
retired after 20 years on the staff of South Huron
Hospital. Hospital administrator Roger Sheeler holds a
cake baked especially for the popular staffer's farewell
party.
Completes career
on hospital staff
Friday, May 27 was Lila
Smith's final day of work at
South Huron Hospital, mark-
ing the end of a twenty-year
career. All staff who could be
spared crowded into the
hospital dining room for a
farewell party for the popular
food supervisor.
Hospital administrator
Roger Sheeler presented Lila
with a 1983 Hummel china
bell to add to her collection,
chairman Bob Dinney added
his thanks and appreciation
on behalf of the hospital
board, and Leroy Edwards
read a poem expressing the
staff's regrets about losing
one of their most caring,
thoughtful and talented
members.
With a glint of tears in her
eyes, and an emotional
quaver in her voice, Lila
assured everyone the hospital
had not seen the last of her -
she planned to come back
often to keep in touch with all
her friends. -
"She leaves a big pair of
shoes to fill", director of
nurses Audrey Pooley said
afterward.
Mrs. Pooley, who has work-
ed with Lila for many years,
explained that besides her
cooking talents, Mrs. Smith
was a poet, a writer of witty
skits for events like the Aux-
iliary Christn5as party, and a
skillful costume maker for
those same skits.
Last Hallowe'en she was
spotted flying through the cor-
ridors dressed as a witch ac-
companied by an old gaffer
suspiciously like the hospital
administrator in height and
build. After dispensing some
brew from a steamy
cauldron, the two creatures
paid a visit to the public
school to put the students in
the proper spirit for
Hallowe'en.
Besides extra special treats
cooked and Naked for special .
occasions (and leftovers
smuggled hack to - on -duty
staff ). Audrey mentioned the
many times after someone
asked Lila for an idea for a
baby or bridal shower, the
obliging lady would go home
and crochet, knit or otherwise
put together the ideal item for
the occasion.
Sheeler agreed with the
nursing director, and added,
"Lila excelled at special func-
tions. She's a tremendous
sport, and did everything ask-
ed of her.
Lila began working at the
hospital in 1963 as part of the
cleaning staff. The old Carl-
ing estate building was still on
the front, the present room 20
downstairs was a children's
ward, and 12 student nurses
lived on the second floor.
Two years later she was of-
fered the chance to take the
l0-monthfood supervisor's
course at South Huron, spen-
ding the last two weeks at
OCE in Guelph for final
studies and exams.
All menus were planned at
South Huron, and Lila would
pay personal visits to the pa-
tients to find out their
preferences. Four years ago
Clinton, Goderich, Seaforth
and Exeter received selection
menus from University
Hospital. Though the area
hospitals can still consult with
the large city institute, South
Huron dropped the shared
service six months ago, and
now has a full-time trained
dietitian on staff.
Lila said she really enjoyed
her job, especially visiting the
patients. She has made no big
plans for retirement. She will
just spend more time -knitting..
crocheting, golfing and law,
bowling. And keeping in touch
with all the friends she has
made while working at South
Huron Hospital for the past 20
years.
A traveling saleman sub-
mitted his expense account.
Stabbing at it with his foref-
inger, the boss demanded,
"What's this big item?"
"Oh," said the salesman,
"that's just my hotel bill."
"Well," said the boss,
"don't buy any more hotels!"
Off to Africa
Continued from front page
are ext acted to do so.
The nondenominational
organization has over 1.81$)
missionaries and support
staff working with native
tribes in 17 countries around
the world.. \!any of the tribal
people have no written
language. Missionaries live
with a tribe. study its
language and culture, and
begin a literary program to
put the Ianguarle into written
form and teach the people
how to read and write. The
first book to be translated in-
to each native language is the
Bible.
As new members. • Peter
and Susan spent the next 12
months at the 75 -acre site of
the Canadian headquarters of
New Tri hes .T ss jon a
Durli.un (.n Highway 6. Ilere
trainees are taught to "make
'do" like they will have to in
the more primitive conditions
they will encounter in other
countries.
In a simulated $ankle came
the couple built their own
house out of the bush, baked
bread in a stove made of five -
gallon oil drums, hauled their
water from a creek, and
washed their clothes on a
scrub hoard.
Susan particularly
remembers an 18 -mile, day
and a half hike along the
Bruce trail with a 20 -pound
backpack. soon after her ar-
rival in Durham. She was
ready to collapse after an
hour, hut there was always an
encouraging hand when she
fell. She made it.
While his wife was hiking,
Peter did the laundry and
found it takes four hours to
perform the same task with a
scrub board that a washing
machine can accomplish
without effort in one-quarter
the time.
For the the final six months the
Fraynes went to the New
Tribes Mission language
school in Camden, Missouri.
Here they absorbed study
helps, linguistics, ways to
translate and presen'
language to illiterate people.
how 16. begin a New Testa-
ment Church, and "shot 'each
other full of sugared water"
as part of a .course in
rudimentary medical
training.
The Fraynes also faced the
reality of being separated
from their family.
"We couldn't have done it
without God", Susan told her
audience.
Peter and Susan will take
their three youngest children,
Jennifer, 10. Stella, 9 and
Vicky. 7 with them. The oldest
four, involved in post-
secondary education or work-
ing, will stay behind. For the
first year the couple will be
dormitory parents on a mis-
sion base. caring for the
ehildren of other missionaries
in the field. They will also be
studying French, the national
language of Senegal.
When asked how she felt
about having her only child go
so far away, Peter's mother
Deanie (Eileen) replied, "i'm
happy for Peter and Susan.
This is what they feel they
must do." •
Peter expressed his feel-
ings very succinctly by saying
"We haven't given up
anything important. We are
commanded, not called, to.go
into all the world and preach
the gospel to every creature."
Cite excessive cost of move
Times -Advocate, June 1, 1983 Pogo 3
Local food tres start
swltch to metric measurements
will be later in June or pointing to the wattage onages" such as an apple being
perhaps even July before the light bulbs ss one example. WO". and therefore 10 apples
scale companies arrive to He es not to at. i}o being one kilogram.
change their equipment.
Jim Darling said he an-
ticipates lost sales until peo-
ple get accustomed to the
price change.
From the staet date of con-
version in this area, grocery
advertising will show prices
by both metric and Imperial
units. For example, ground
meat might be advertised at
both $3.30 per kilogram and
$1.50 per pound. Under the
provisions of the Weights and
Measures regulations, adver-
tising stating prices in both
metric and Imperial units will
be allowed to continue until
the end of December of this
year. After this date, metric
units will be used exclusively.
Metric Commission Canada
has prepared an- extensive
public awareness program.
As part of it, information
pamphlets,will be available in
the stores to help shoppers
adapt to metric units.
Peter McCulloch, a
spokesman for the Metric
Commission, told the T -A on
Monday that the cutoff date
for stores in Huron to convert
to metric is September 30;
He explains that this is the
last major change in
Canada's total metric conver-
sion and it follows the conver-
sions that have taken place is
the weather forecasts and at
the gasoline station.
McCulloch added that peo-.
ple have been using the
metric system in some pro-
ducts for a number of years,
Exeter area food stores are
scheduled to convert their
scales to weigh all food in
metric during the next few
weeks and the majority of
owners term it nothing more
than a waste of money.
Costs of up to $10,000 are be-
ing cited from some of those
who own more than one store
in the area.
Leo Masse of the
Tenderspot in Grand Bend
had to have that store.con-
verted to metric last summer
and will see his other stores in
Bayfield and Zurich %witch
this summer.
He indicated there was con-
siderable resentment from
the public when the Grand
Bend store converted last
year.
"The general opinion is that
it is a nuisance," Masse said,
adding that he shares that
opinion.
Masse said he is slowly get-
ting accustomed to met:-ic
and there are charts and
pamphlets throughout his
Grand Bend store to help
educate the public, but he said
most customers are too busy
to take time to read the
information. +
"I guess we'll get used k
commented Donat
Beauchamp, who will soon be
converting the stores he
operates in Hensel! and
Zurich.
Zehrs Market will be
among the'first in Exeter to
change as the conversion
there is planned for next Mon-
day. Other owners indicate it
SS board
buy busses
The Huron -Perth Separate
School Board met on May 24
and dealt briefly with the
following:
The tender of McNab Bus
Sales in Ingersoll was ac-
cepted for the purchase of
three school busses at a total
cost of $69,490 including pro-
vincial sales tax. Two of the
school busses, a 48 and a
54 -seater will be for St. Marys
separate school in Hesson and
a 60 -passenger bus will go to
St Boniface in Zurich.
Resignations from four
teachers were accepted, all
effective August 31. The
teachers are Sister Audrey
Dummouchelle, principal at
St. Michael's in Stratford;
Jim Nigh of Sacred Heart in
Wingham, Carmella Martone
of St. Michael's in Stratford
and Margaret Coates of Our
Lady of Mount Carmel in
Mount Carmel.
Kippen man
heads group
A Kippen man will head the
Huron -Perth Lung Associa-
tion for the coming year.
Michael Connolly steps up
from his position as vice-
president to take over the
president's chair from
William Leney of Stratford.
Mr. Connolly took over the
position at 'the association's
annual meeting held in Strat-
ford on May 25.
Other members of the ex-
ecutive council include vice-
president, David Wall of
Stratford; financial advisor,
Mark Hipkins of Stratford;
medical advisors, Dr.. D. J.
Thompson and Dr. David
Tamblyn; community ser-
vices, Edith Brothers of Strat-
ford, Ellen Doyle of Dablin,
and Dorothy Siberry of St.
Paul's, health education,
Eileen Beauchemin +f
Goderich and Salim Remtulla
of Goderich, public relations,
Mary Dodds of Stratford.
secretary and bookkeeper,
Delphine Dutton of Stratford
and- executive director
Marybelle Ford of Stratford.
Paving
Continued from front page
provements under the Local
improvement Act, the com-
mittee decided Monday to
proceed with the paving
schedule as planned.
Tenders for street paving
were subsequently reviewed
and the bid of Yundt
Brothers Construction Ltd.
was accepted, it being the
lowest of five received.
The total cost was $34,617
for paving of Anne, Churchill
and three sections on William.
The latter include Huron to
Waterloo, Victoria to Well-
ington and Highway 83 to
Walper.
The same firm also submit-
ted the low hid of $16,527 for
the paving of Highway 4 from
Huron to the southern limits
of town. The town will pay 10
percent of the Main St. job.
The tenders for the town
streets were slightly under
estimate and were accepted
subject the usual approvals
from the engineers and the
ministry of transportation
and communication.
A
tempt to convert metric
measures back to Imperial,
but rather "transfer im-
LOCAL MEMBERS OF STRATFORD ROYCHOIR -- Choir accompanist Ralph Topp
(back left) Exeter youths Mark McDonnell and Dennis Webster and (front) Wayne
Scotchmer, Hensall.and RickTopp,Exeter pose with Boychoir director Gordon Scott
before a well-received performance at Trivitt Memorial Church.
Boychoir thrills audience
More than 200 people turn-
ed out to hear the Stratford
Boychoir at Trivitt Memorial
Church Sunday night. They
were amply- rewarded. The
well-trained, well -disciplined
choir presented a 90 -minute
concert that filled the vaulted
sanctuary with the beautiful
sound of 33 unchanged
youthful voices.
To the amazement and
delight of the audience, the
young men presented the en-
tire prgram without benefit of
song sheets. They had
memorized the words and
music to everything from
lighthearted limericks. to an
antiphonal psalm, from com-
positions by Mozart to Robert.
Fleming, and lyrics in French
and Latin as well as English.
Throughout the program 33
pairs of eyes were riveted on
director Gordon Scott, whose
every gesture was im-
mediately transposed into
adagio or allegro, staccato or
fortissimo.
While the Boychoir took a
well-deserved break, the
director joined accompanist
Ralph Topp at the concert
grand and the two men
delighted their audience with
a talented piano duet of Anton
Dvorak's Slavonic Dances VI
and VIII.
The young men:who look-
ed like cherubs and sang like
angels, proved to be boys
after all. As the last of the
choir disappeared through the
side door, whoops of delight
that the concert was over
"drifted back into the church.
The hard-working
organizers of the evening's
entertainment were just as
jubilant. The restoration fund
to restore the Trivitt
Memorial Church organ was
off to a good start.
People .can say what they . and that will be a benefit tot •
want about metric, but it's not both retailer and consumer
going to make a great change and the new digirtal electrode
in our lives," he said. scales being used in asast
If people normally buy pork stores are much faster than
chops, they'll still get two. the old ones.
pork chops, he continued, "It will certainly make it
noting that the butcher will easier for unit pricing," the
still. be able to fill the re- spokesman explained, addhlg
quirements of those looking that there are no fractions In
for a pound of hamburg, the metric systeiln.
although he'll weigh it out in Pointing to the vast number
metric. of countries which already
McCulloch says that metric use metric, he said "they
weights are more accurate can't all be wrong."
PC delegates
able to attend.
The Donnelly duo, of
course, have received
duplicates of ei+erything for
their perusal, as has Mrs.
Bennett, , who somehow
managed to get two.addresses
into the hands of the leader-
ship candidates.
Bell, who o newcomer to
conventisgjsays the big
question is for delegates to
choose the man who will be
the best leader and who can
inspire the country. "I don't
think the problem is in
policy," he noted.
"It's going to be fun," he
mused regarding his conven-
tion date and that appeared to
be the opinion of his counter-
parts elsewhere in the riding.
Most of the delegates plan
to head for Ottawa next
Wednesday and the can-
didates will air their major
speeches on Friday. The
voting takes place on
Saturday.
Continued from front page
MP Jake Epp, who was
replaced when he came out in
strong support of Clark.
"He has to be impartial",
Pearson said of Cardiff's posi-
tion, which entails scheduling
all the events associated with
the convention program.
The delegates all agree
they have a wealth of infor-
mation from all the can-
didates on which to help make
a decision.
"I've had a barrelful of
phone calls and literature by
the yard," claimed 1, who
noted there didn't appear to
be much difference in the
thinking of the candidates.
He also received a cassette
tape so he could listen to one
contender.
Both heand Kleinstiver were
chuckling over receipt of a
letter from Wilson in which
they were thanked for
meeting him at his rally at
Wingham. Neither man was
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