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Activities for seniors
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visitor to the home can usually find resident
Elsie Henderson playing the piano, or staf-
fer Jane Ladd leading residents in morning
exercises. A WI group may be visiting the
home, to host the monthly birthday party.
Another visitor, Shirley Prouty can be found
leading the weekly Bible study and a
number of adults and school children from
the area come to Huronview each week to
provide musicial entertainment for the
residents.
There are barbecues and fashion shows,
shopping trips and craft bazaars, residents'
council meetings and sporting events.
The motto of Huronview today is best ex-
emplified in a poem, included in a brochure
about the Horne of the Aged. It reads:
If you come to Huronview - you are our main
concern.
If you are happy - we'll laugh with you,
If you are downhearted - we'll try to cheer
you,
If you are in sorrow - we'll give our compas-
sion,
If you are' lonely - we'll give you companion-
ship,
If you are sick - we'll nurse you,
If you're unable' to write - we'll do it for you,
If you have a hobby - we'll encourage you,
If you come to Huronview - we'll love you.
Huronview has grown over the years. At one time It w,as a home for the poor, but today It houses the elderly.
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TUCKERSMITH
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Celebrations!"
SEAFORTH
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Reporter
visits institution
June 2, 1910
Clinton News -Record
A representative of the News -Record paid
a visit to the House of Refuge one day
recently - that retreat on the London Road,
where the old, the friendless and the poor of
the county of Huron are gathered together "
and housed and fed and cared for. It was a
perfect May day and the first thought that
struck the visitors was the fine situation, the
magnificent view to be had from the place.
The capable and cheery matron, after a
few words of greeting and the usual formali-
ty of signing the big visitor's book, then lead
the way on a tour of inspection.
It is a vast building and it was the writer's
first visit to the institution . The whole
place from attic to cellar was visited. The
place is kept scrupleously clean. You could
literally "eat off the floors." The rooms are
large and light and airy and on this par-
ticular day, were full of sunshine and cheer-
fulness. The building is well equipped.
Nothing seems to have been forgotten in its
construction with regard to the quick and
easy accomplishment of dll necessary work.
There are at present 86 inmates, most of
them well along in years; some of them are
young or in the prime of their life, but with
these the light of intellect is dim. They are
not capable of managing the affairs of their
own lives and so are considered wards of the
state. The•inmates are on the whole cheerful
and happy. A few are ill, unable to leave
their rooms. One old lady, said to be over 100
years of age, is confined to bed and lies
there day by day awaiting the summons,
which cannot be long in coming.
One of the happiest inmates is totally
blind. She conversed cheerfully and had a
cheery word of greeting and farewell. A
number were sitting in their rooms, one old
lady busily knitting by her open window;
some were in groups in their sitting rooms
and some, the younger ones, were busy with
household duties. One women of over 80 just
left her room and the matron opened her
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Happy Sesquicentennia
to Tuckersmith Townshi
from your friends in Clinton
On behalf of all the citizens of Clinton we are
pleased to extend to the citizens of Tuckersmith
Township congratulations on your 150th Birthday.
MAYOR: Chester Archibald
REEVE: Ernest Brown
DEPUTY REEVE: Frank Van Altena
A\ COUNCILLORS: Bee Cooke, John Deeves,
101Charrles Burgess, Ross Carter, Jim Hunter,
'� Gordon Gerrits
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THE CORPORATION OF
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