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ti Y 11 ' volu`nteer stranger to nclgat Deo lc >it Awn Ch id #� 8 was never. really` city-
b p a+p fi and ?
organizatis arelooking for town. * Mrs; egsed to griented, Before
family Qy,a b r moving to
more volunteers. But in She wants to make iii Blear she and her `
Goder1eti there is'an example that she isnot trying toil people; She Has. w .ked as a Goderich,
"busy body" or a gossip: She;` , cashler in a bank d in food lived in Wiarton for two
of the reverse chseclerk and years.
Mrs. Pat White, a; youngdoes not want-to.pry into �„as a file.. She o workeda
personal lives. She Asa child, -Mrs. White was,
stores. She has a
Gelde iclt flans izati n lar in people's secretary. has a
for' an.; orgaxrixatiori or :ins just thinks that by . visite '':
1 h could help `'highschool diploma in boarded out by her parer s.
secretarial arts. She lived with aider people
Besides' offering her ser-
vices as a conversationalist,
babysitter and general
"cheerer -upper", she says
she could also recommend
people or' places where a
troubled person could go to
for help if it is needed.
What started Mrs. White
thinking about helping lonely
people was a widow who she
met while taking her children
on their rounds on Halloween
h This widow was very
dividual instance where , she lonely peop she
6d
may,step in and donate her break the monotonY of their
services. So fear, she has been day.
unsuccessful. x- "It's just sort of a friend'
plais "What Mrs. d irWhike e,a"is eto relationship I'm offering;'?
reach people that.no one. else she says. I just want to help
is reaching.'.` someone, I don't want to push
She,''is sure there must be myself on anyone."
many lonely and Who
Mrs.. White reads a lot.
people in town who never Even when she was a child,
have any visitors to cheer she was an avid reader and
them up.: She thinks that would often read things
loneliness is one of the biggest beyond her years. Sometimes
killers of old people. she will read something ,or,.
--.---�- "I'm tired of hearing about make some observation that
• people who try to commit will hit her so hard, she says,
suicide because they are that she.has'"eo tell somebody.
lonely or depressed. I'd like to She feels she could ,share
do something to help,” she these observations with be otners aruw,
others in conversation. She widow who are craving if tmeor or a out
the e of some
someone to talk to
at White of Goderich is a young housewife looking
organization or individual case where she can step
volunteer her services as a visitor, friend and
°nal babysitter. She is particularly interested in
g lonely or depressed people Whitwho nee ver
have ve any
rs to cheer them up.
in
ch since July with her husband and three children.
photo)
no
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and ' says she was sort, of a
foster child and an only.child.
Her urge to, help other people -
in some wa}i`haS always been
strong. Now that her children
are in school and she has
some free tine on her hands,
she wants to offer her ser-
vices as a visitor and a friend.
She doesn't have a means of
transportation but says she is
not adverse to walking
places.
night. is wi Mrs. White has been, in
lonely and she and Mrs. White touch with several
talked and talked. Mrs. White organizations in town to offer
then realized that there must her services but nothing has
d like this come of her efforts so far. So,
says.
Mrs. White says she has also likes plants and gar-:; "Lots of eo le.don't have organization needs help, get
"the gift of the gab" but is dening. She likes children too, p p
also a good listener. She feels and would be .willing to offer families," she says. She feels in touch with Mrs. White who
that sometimes people can her services as a babysitter thathat becausele peeople are so they do She's in onthaTrafalgar bookr et.
nd
open up easier to a stranger for housewives who can't-, have fatriilies, they may be will be oily too happy to
and speak of their problems. afford one but would like to',' volunteer her time and
She has only lived in Goderich get out of the house for:;;; hundreds of miles
e was part. and volunteer
es where she can.
since July and co shn ,, awhile. She has three of her'
Mrs
?eople
iflparticUlar
Ann Leadbetter (left), droppe1gdin to Knox Presbyterian Church last Wednesday afternoon
to buy a pie at the annual pie bake held by the Arthur Circle women's group of that church.
Chris Hyde of the Arthur Circle group packages the pie far Mrs. Leadbetter. Proceeds
from the piebake go tawardtlthe various projects of the Women's Missionary Society.
(staff photo)
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