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GODL,RTCIi( SIGNAL -STAR, THURSDAY, 'DECEMBER 5, 1974- PAGE' Oa:
Keeps senior citizens happy at home
The Meals ' on Wheels
program should have sufficient
funds to carry on its vital
program for the' elderly and
handicapped of this town for a
s few months.
- At a recent benefit hockey
game between the Signal -Star
Paper Leafs and the Detroit
Red Wings Old Timers, $900
was raised for Meals on Wheels
locally.
Mrs. Margaret Murray
Meals on Wheels has expressed
her gratitude for the volunteers
who keep Meals on Wheels on
the -road.
This week as well, Mrs.
Murray sent the following clip-
ping from The London Free
Press, Wednesday, November
27. It ,gives some idea of the
value cif the Meal on Wheels
program here even though it
deals with Meals on Wheels in
ROBERTSON ROUNDUP
This week Mrs. Shaddick's.,
Ukelele players are going on .
0' CKNX to the song Skaters
Waltz. The grade sevens are
are going to be playing the
Ukeleles to `Christmas Is A
Comin'.
Mr. Brooks' room has shown
3 filnis since they got their new
curtains.
Miss Bonthron's class did
some puppet plays. • Some of
them were called The Million
Dollar Ticket, The Beaver
Bunch, The Haunted House
and the Funny Clowns.
The Kindergarten pupils
made some bears and the
• children are excited about the
• srrow.
,The •grade 8 girls are playing
soccer against one and another.
Mr. Crawford's grade 8 class is
having a spelling competition
on November 29. The leaders
are Anne McDonald, Randy
Stoddart, Kevin Bundy, and
Mr. Kemp's class is going to
be studying about the Eskimo
language, appearance, their
land, and life.
On Friday; November • 22,
The Huron County Players ac-
ted a ` play called "My Best
Friend is Twelve Feet Tall."
The teachers are looking for-
ward to the turn out for'•the
Junior wing interviews on the
nights of November 27 and 28.
Mr. 'Curr] 's class is almost
finished their`paper mache and
tissue animals. They are star-
ting the ~Christmas Concert.
The play called "let Us Adore
Him" will be held one week
before Christmas:
New engineering course
The University of Western
Ontario is ,now operating a
satellite engineering program
in Sarnia that will enable a
student to earn a degree
without having to set a foot on
campus.
The part-time undergraduate
program leading to a B.E.Sc. in
'Chemical and Biochemical
Engineering is offered at Sar-
nia's Lambton College through-,
Western's Summer School ,and '
Extension Department.
Dean A. • I. Johnson of the
U•W.O.--Faculty -of-Engineering
Science believes it to be the
first such programs• in Canada.
Several universities, including
Western, are offering graduate
programs in engineering at off-
campus centres. However, Dean
Johnson, the originator of the
plan, says that few programs at.
the undergraduate level are
available for any professional
degree.
Thirty-one students, most of
them community college"
technology graduates, began
the first courses this fall. They
can earn their B.E.Sc. .in a
minimum of six years. Depen-
ding on their community
college marks, they are given
credit for up to nine courses in
the engineering program.
The academic requirements
and the courses themselves are
the same as those for^'students
taking their degree on the Lon-
don campus.
Most of the, studenf are
technologists working ' in Sar-
nia, one of the largest
petroleum and petrochemical
industrial centres in Canada:4'`
The first two courses, applied
mathematics and. engineering
science, began this fall arrd are
taught in the evening by
Western professors. The Lamb -
ton College laboratory, library
and classroom facilities are
used in the courses.
• Some of the students are ,
recent graduates of Lambton
and similar applied arts and
technology colleges, while
others have worked in the in-
dustry for years.
The Engineering Science
Faculty's continuing education
officer Prof. W. H. Davis says
that Where a large enough.
student body exists, Western
should branch out and offer •
new extension courses.
"In the future Western may
expand the Sarnia engineering
program to include mechanical
and -electrical engine'ering," he
said.
The. University now offers a
wide variety of .courses in 15
cities • and towns in South-
western Ontario. The largest
' outside centres are in Brant-
ford, Owen Sound and Sarnia,
with__Sirocoe _growing_ ,rapidly;
says Summer School and Ex-
tension Director, Angela Ar -
mitt.
This fall„ new centres`' in
Goderich, Mount Forest,
Walkerton and Watford were
started.
There are close to 2,000.•
course registrations in these
outside centres.
Howie.Kuenzie
•
takes bonspiel
Howie Kuenzie's Kitchener -
Waterloo Granite Club rink
captured the Mutual Life Cup,
November 23 at the eighth an-
nual Mutual Life bonspiel at
the Stratford Country Club.
Kuerizie, a Goderich native,
skipped his rink to a decisive
12-3 victory over Fred Osburn's
Guelph Curling Club rink, in
the cup finals.
Other members of Kuenzie's\
rink were, Fran Campbell,
lead; Bud Cruikshank, second;
and Keith Kaye, vice. They
were winners of the third event,
last year.
There -we•re 175 rinks from
• nine area curling clubs entered
in the' week-long spiel. Bryan
Duncan's Galt Curling Club
rink won the Mutual Life
Trophy. The third event was
won by Cliff Elsley's Guelph
rink,
"Generally we were con-
sistent throughout the "bon -
spiel," said Kuenzie. "When
o►1e guy would let down,
another would pick up the
slack,"
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New York City.
Five days a week,, Roger
White climbs three ,.narrow
flights of 'stairs in a bleak
tenement here and delivers a
hot lunch to- a 90 -year-old
woman who has not been well
enough . to„ leave her musty
apartment for six years.'
Although he stops only long
enough to place a hot
aluminum container with rice,
fried chicken and peas; a few
pieces of fruit; some bread and
a cup of juice on the cluttered
kitchen table, White's visits
and his few words of banter are
among the last fragile threads
that.sti,ll link the old woman to
the rest of the .world.
Tie food that White totes up
and down the shabby staircases
of the Yorkville section of
Manhattan is supplied by
Meals on Wheels, one of more
than 200'puhlicly and privately
sponsored programs that sup-
ply .hot lunches — some at no
cost and some _for a small
suggested contribution — to the
elderly poor in homes, chur-
ches, housing projects and
senior centres- throughout the
city.
For some of the frail old
people of New York, these lun-
ches are the key to their sur-
vival. It is not unusual at the
centres where the lunches 'are
served to see a slice'.of bread or
a piece of fruit furtivelyslipped
into a handbag to guarantee
the evening meal that fixed-
income budgets cannot afford.
For still others, the lunch
programs provide the ,only
socializing in their lonely lives
and the final barrier that keeps
them from crossing ,over the
line between coherence and
senility
"1''. . w.urked in nursing
homes and Tye' seen so ina°ny
people 141,t like the ones we're
now feeding in their homes,"
says Frank l'o wer, director of
"Meal, on Wheels," a federal
program that feeds 150
homebound elderly in the
Yorkville area. "We're
enabling them to continue 'to
live at home and to 'hold on. So
many of them, if they went into
nursing homes, would be senile
by the c-nd of the week."
Hot lunches are being served
daily to, :h),000 elderly people
here hut, according to the
mayor's office for the aging,
,there are 300,000 elderly people
living at or below the poverty
level who are in..desperate need
of the programs.
The nutritional problems of
• the elderly are particularly
acute in New York City because
one out of every 20 persons
over 65 years of age in the
United States lives here`? Of the
nearly one million elderly New,
Yorkers, 300,009 are living on
annual incomes of $2,100 or
less if they are single, $2,800
for two if they are married, ac-
cording to the statistics of the
office for the aging.
An even more staggering
statistic is that `more • than
135,000 old people here 1x4 per
cent of those (Aver 65) are living
on $1,313 a year 'if they are
single, and $1,661 for two, if
they are married.
"They.are the hidden people
in our Society," says Dr. Luise•
-Light, assistant professor in the
department of home economics
and nutrition at New York
University. "And we pay no at-
tention to them."
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