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awes after 15 years as Manpower m
By D, *liege
Belt Hear manager of
Canada >lriployme;pt
Centre, retired from,- his job
Friday aftet; 15 years at
Goderich,
Hey started working for
Manpower in 1946 after six
years of war experience as a
flight engineer. His first job
was in his home town of
Thunder Bay.
In 1966, Hey took over as a
Manpower office manager in
Kirkland Lake, and two
years later he moved to
Goderich.
As a manager of Man-
power, Hey says his job was
mainly to administer
government programs, such
as unemployment insurance
or student employment
programs. By that, he means
he had to make sure his
office was running ef-
ficiently, and the programs
were being publicized in the
community.
Hey says he likes living
and working in Goderich. He
says Kirkland Lake is a
small town and pretty
isolated, and that's why he
moved here.
Compared to other areas,
he says Goderich comes out
favourably. "There's a
different working en-
vironment in Goderieh,
because it's a rural area,"
He explains that the far-
ming commltnity helps keep
the local economy relatively
stable. He thinks the stable
work force in Huron County
is one of its assets.,
Another asset, according
to Hey, is the "work ethic
that exists in the area.
People are used to working
because it's a semi -rural
area."
Besides his work at
Manpower, Hey has done
other things for the com-
munity. He served as an
industrial commissioner for
the industrial park from 1968
to 1978.
For the future, Hey predicts.
the workforce will change,
but gradually.\ "You can see
the handwriting on the
wall," He says the workforce
is definitely getting older,
and machines are taking
away jobs. But he thinks this
area has not had too many
changes.
For his own future, Hey
says he plans to travel. He
and his wife are going to
Europe in June, and he hopes
to see some of the places he
flew over in the war.
After that, Hey doesn't
have too many plans. After
over 35 years of finding
things for other people to do,
Ben Hey will start having to
look for himself.
OMAF gets new staff
The Huron County branch
of the Ontario Ministry of
Agriculture and Food
(OMAF) will be receiving an
additional staff member.
Huron's agriculture
representative Don Pullen
announced to Huron County
council at its May 12 meeting
that John Bancroft,
currently an agriculture
-assistant in the Ottawa
Carleton area will be
arriving at the Clinton
OMAF branch in mid-June.
nater
Ben Hey retired last Friday after 15 years at the Canada Employment Centre in Goderich.
Hey was the Manpower manager for this area, after serving the same position in Kirkland
Lake. Hey is.a native of Thunder Bay. (photo by Darrell Kloeze)
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Senior citizens li.old rally
Exeter Senior Citizens
hosted the eighthlannual spr-
ing rally of Zone$, United
Senior Citizens oOntario, on
April 27.
One hundred and nineteen
seniors from clubs in
Goderich, Exeter, Brussels,
Bayfield, Grand Bend, Clin-
ton, Londesboro, Blyth,
Seaforth, Hensall, Zurich,
Dashwood, Holmesville, ,
Auburn, and Dungannon at-
tended the day -long session
in the Exeter Legion Hall.
Only one club in Zone 8 was
without representation.
(There are 1,140 clubs in On-
tario.)
Joyce King, Tottenham,
the recording secretary for
the provincial organization,
was the guest speaker. The
dynamic, effervescent Mrs.
King outlined the special
needs of senior citizens, and
what the provincial and na-
tional organizations were do-
ing to make government
more aware of what should
be done to help Canada's
thousands of senior citizens.
For the last four years
through a leadership and
development program,
seniors have been interview-
ing
nterviewing seniors in large and
small communities across
Ontario. The 1,350 interviews
providing a cross-section of
the varying situations of
those who have celebrated at
least 65 birthdays will be col-
lated and the final report
sent to the provincial
government, accompanied
by pertinent resolutions.
"Our stile aim is to better
the lives of senior citizens,"
Mrs. King said.
Areas of concern are in-
adequate pensions for single
men and women living in ur-
ban areas, the inflated price
of hearing aids, eye glasses,
dentures and other health
aids many pensioners need
but can't afford, and the $21
charge each way •to
transport a senior from
home to hospital and back.
(Hospital to hospital charges
are paid by the provincial
medical plan).
Mrs. King would like to see
the emphasis change from
institutional to home care.
She said Ontario has more
seniors per capita in in-
stitutions theq any other pro-
vince in Canada.
Mrs. King joined her local
senior citizens club two
years before the calendar of-
ficially declared her a
senior.
"I jumped in feet first and
am now up to here," she
laughed as she indicated a
mark just under her chin.
She is also a foster grand-
parent to four children in
Tottenham.
Other entertainment in-
cluded a sing song led by
Blanch Dougall and Nola
Love, a reading by Marjorie
Arthur, a piano solo by
Mrs. Dougall, a trumpet ren-
dition by Frans Boogeman,
Dashwood, a mouth organ
medley by Wat Webster and
a quartet composed of Nola
Love, Helen Nadiger and
Alice Tieman, Dashwood
and Ila Keys, Grand Bend.
The 70 -member primary
choir from Exeter Public
School sang.
Draw winners were Annie
Morenz, Irene Ward, John
Dietz, Eileen Curran and
Marjorie Arthur.
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