The Goderich Signal-Star, 1983-03-30, Page 18)
The 1983 executive of the Exeter Branch of the Canadian Cancer Society was named
recently. Back row, left to right, Vehna Huff, transportation; Maida Baynham, In
Memoriam; Carl Cain, special events; Bill Mickle, campaign chairman; and Loretta
Seigner, special education. Front row, Left to right, are Marjorie Delbridge, patient ser-
vices; Leone Brock, president; and Joyce Black, treasurer. (T -A photo)
Exeter has special events
BY CA11tF CANN . B.C. via air carrier, 600 in a
Special events are a very box looking like stacks of
important part of the asparagus; but when they
campaign for funds to meet are brought out of cold
the budget demands and storage and placed in fresh
requirements of the water, they open out into
Canadian Cancer Society. gorgeous yellow blooms.
The main special events for Local industry, com-
the Exeter Branch are the mercial businesses and the
sale of daffodils by the Beta South Huron District. High
Sigma Phi Sorority, the School have purchased
Ladies' Great Ride for hundreds of blooms for
Cancer conducted by the distribution and display
Exeter Lioness Club and the purposes. The balance are
bi-annual fashion show sold to private people on the
sponsored by the Merry streets of Exeter and the
Rags Fashion Boutique of surrounding community.
Grand Bend. Last year the sorority sold
The daffodil sale is the about $2,200 worth of daf-
"kick off" of the annual . fodils and expect to increase
campaign for funds. For that amount this year.
eight years the Beta Sigma On Sunday, May 1 Exeter
Phi Sorority has sold will hold its third annual
thousands of daffodils for the Ladies' Great Ride for
Cancer Society, This year Cancer sponsored by the
12,000 arrived for sale on Exeter Lioness Club. There
Friday, March 25. The have been two very suc-
flowers are shipped from cessful events in the past
raising about $4,600 each
year.
The public has very
generously supported the
rides and in the past two
years there are now con-
testants who have joined the
"Hundred Dollar Club"
raising 8100 or more from the
sponsors of the ride. There
will be prizes of ladies'
wearing apparel from Merry
Rags for highest amounts
collected this year.
The very successful
fashion show held every
second year and put on by
Merry Rags has raised about
$5,000 each year on the
previous three shows.
Notable personalities such
as Bill Brady and Jim -Swan
of CFPL Radio and Jan
Tennant of the CBC have
contributed their time to this
success. Another such event
is looked forward to in 1984.
Over 200 volunteers
to canvass South Huron
During the month of April,
250 volunteers will be can-
vassing South Huron for the
Canadian Cancer Society.
The Exeter Branch com-
prises an area that contains
the rural townships of Hay,
Stephen and Usborne and the
urban communities of
Centralia, Crediton, Huron
Park, Dashwood, Zurich,
Hensen and Exeter.
The goal is $19,000. Each
challenge has been met in
the past and campaign
chairman Bill Mickle feels
confident that this year's will
be met as well. The hard
work of the volunteers and
the support and generosity of
the citizens is a winning.
combination.
Based on a recent ten year
average for each dollar
collected, your donation is
used as follows: 61 cents for
research, 16 cents for patient
services, 14 cents for
education, six cents for fund
raising and three cents for
administration.
The Canadian Cancer
Society benefits from the
services of thousands of
volunteers, private ,citizens
like yourself who are in-
volved in public education,
patient services and this
campaign. Your support to
their call for donations will
add to the research and
programs required to "Beat
Cancer."
Coif ,ction of a la
311 -he • a: ditto 9 to
Thames -wood . Dodge fn;
London is wellunderway and'
an Augustcompletion is
possible.
The addition will bring to
00 the number of beds at
Thameswood Lodge
available for ambulatory
patients from outside
London who are undergoing
chemotherapy - or radiation
therapy at the Ontario
Cancer Foundation's London
Cancer Clinic.
The expansion will
alleviate overcrowding
which has led to nearly 190
patients being placed in
hotels, nursing residences
and elsewhere between April.
1, 1982 and January 24, 1983.
Although it is expected that
10 beds will satisfy short.
term needs, the four to six
per cent annual increase in
the number of patients
served at the Lodge means
the other 10 beds will soon be
needed. It is expected that
the. expanded Lodge will be
sufficient until at least 1990.
In addition to the 2i1 new
beds, lounge and
recreational areas for
'patients aro being_expanded,
as are kitchenfaedities.
When construction is
complete; the entrance to
ThameswoodLodge . of icesand wtheill
be on the western side of the.
building facing the Clinic.
Visitors will enter into anew
lobby -reception area and.
then can go left to the Cancer
Society offices or right to the
Lodge. Three new bedrooms
are ' being added to the
southeast corner of the.
building.
Three new bedrooms will,
be situated above the three
new bedrooms, on the first
floor. An additional three
bedrooms will be placed
above the lobby -reception
area. A lounge, suit -deck and
TV room are being added
above the present general
office of the Cancer Society.
Some alterations will be
made to existing facilities in
order to create improved
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WO dam
dive
The expansiun of
Thameswood Lodge will lead
to.aziore efficient Canadian.
Cancer Society office,
predicts district director Bob
Montgomery.
"When the construction is
finished, we won't have a
great deal More space, but
the space we.do have will be
better utilized which will
lead to greater efficiency," •
Bob said.
He added that the ad-
ditional bedrooms will prove
beneficial to patients, since
none will have to be ac-
commodated elsewhere. In
the %past, . those who were
"boarded out" missed out an
the beneficial" socialir�ing
crafts, games, volunteer
programs,. and "peaceand
serenity" of the Lodge.
Thecontract for con-
struction has been awarded
to Bronnenco Limited of
Hyde Park, Ontario.
•
Education has .three thrusts
Norm, Lang of London,
chairman of the south
western district education
committee, spoke at a Huron
County Unit meeting of the
Canadian Cancer Society
recently. He said the three
main thrusts upcoming for
branch and unit education
committees will be in the
areas of: smoking cessation
programs; occult blood test
for colo -rectal cancer;. and
breast self-examination
teaching clinics.
Lois McGill, education
chairman for the Goderich
Branch, reports a busy year
in education for that branch
which is probably fairly
indicative of some of the
work the other county
branch education com-
mittees do.
Kits and other materials
have been supplied for the
local schools. A display was
set up at Suncoast Mall in co-'
Norm Lang -
operation with the Huron
County Health Unit during
National Non -Smoking
Week. Small group
discussions have been held
for local women who have
had mastectomies. Pam-
phlets have been given out at
Rotary and Lions Club
meetings and pamphlets and
posters have been
distributed in doctors' of-
fices, the hospital and
Bluewater...Centre. Bus
arrangements were made
for those local women
participating in the breast
screening program at Mount
Sinai Hospital in Toronto.
And a four -night discussion
group on Coping with
Smoking was held at
Alexandra - Marine and
General Hospital.
Upcoming education
events include a display at
Suncoast Mall April 7, 8 and 9
on the prevention of cancer
and a breast self-
examination teaching clinic
April 13 with Dr. Bruce
Thomson at the Assessment
Office in Goderich.
now the.. signs
-lump in the neck, groin or
armpit
-open sore that does not heal
-blood in urine or stool.
-prolonged indigestion
-unexplained weight loss
-persistent cough "'"F --
-trouble swallowing
-change in a mole
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