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The Wingham Advance-Times, 1985-04-24, Page 30J Of the nine forest regions in Canada, the most exten- sive is the BorealaForest Re- gion. Scotch pine is not native to Canada and often grows poorly because of bad seed sources. Balsam fir is more vulner- able to the Spruce Budworm than is white, red, or black spruce. r,IfLTSR 1 ` :VL 11!1%Hi CAR CITY CHRYSLER SELLS FOR LESS Come in now #oryour.Spring Service CHECK-UP! Keep your car in top running order this spring. Don't let the damp weather cause any unhappy surprises. Trust us to do a complete motor tune-up. We'll do a complete check on your carburetor and electrical system as well as brakes, lubrication and an oil change if necessary. Call for an appoint= ment today! SAVE ON A SPRING TUNE-UP NOW! 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You are eating at a restaurant when a man at the next table stands, his hands clasped around his throat, choking. The ambulance, the fire department or the police can't get to your husband within the critical four to six minutes after his collapse. Thechoking victim can't breathe and needs help now. Neither he nor your husband can afford to wait for the best response time in the world. Help can't be im- • mediate for either of these victims unless you are train- ed in cardio pulmonary resuscitation (CPR) or on how to manage a choking person. The responsibility of en- suring that heart attack or choking victims receive the immediate care that could mean the difference between life and death rests in the publics' hands — your hands. "You could have all the para -medics irethe world but they won't be of any assist- ance until they arrive on the scene, "emphasizes Bob Plamondon, a CPR instruct- or in Mount Forest. In the fpur minutes or longer that it Could take help to arrive, the victim could be dead and be- yond help or if resuscitated, brain damaged. "If one in five people knew CPR, 45 per cent of 'the peo- ple who die from coronary arrest could be saved," adds David Massey, a director of Heart Save Wellington, a non-profit volunteer agency aimed at promoting quality CPR instruction in Welling- ton County. CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING E OF ONTARIO FOR ONLY $175 NORTHERN OUEBEC Pembroke ' Oshawa Toronto Have your classified ad reach 3.5 million readers of 166 community newspapers in Ontario for $175.00 m ALL YOU DO IS HAND YOUR CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS TO THIS NEWSPAPER. WE WILL DO THE REST OR YOU CAN CHOOSE YOUR COVERAGE AREA Region Papers Circulation Cost Ontario 166 1.064,993 ' $175 Eastern & Quebec 32 2'10,027 50 Central 43 363.003 85 Northern 18 1,35,484 30 Western 68 321.608 80 (All paces based on 25 words ) Province Papers B C & Yukon Alberta& NWT Saskatchewan Manitoba Maritimes Circulation Cost 75 668.000 $99 98 308.136 99 75 129,526 85 50 143.000 75 42 254.164 75 All Canada 506 2,567,819 608 To place your order call The Listowel Banner 291-1660 The Milverton Sun 595-8921 The Mount Forest Confederate 323-1550 The Wingham Advance -Times 357-2320 12,000 EACH YEAR The statistics speak for themselves: '`Twelve thousand people die in On- tario every year because of heart attack; two-thirds die before medical help ar- rives," Massey says. Waterloo Regional Heart Save, also a non-profit charitable organization, wants to see one in every three citizens in Waterloo re- gion trained in CPR. "We would like to train 50,000 to 100,000 people," says Diane Bauer, a CPR instructor and co-ordinator of Waterloo Re- gional Heart Save. In the past two years Bauer and the 50 to 60 in- structors in Waterloo region have been responsible for training 3,000 people but Bauer says that figure has to be increased. I,n Mount. Forest, Plamondon es- timates 25'per cent of the community, excluding the elderly portion of the popula- tion, is trained in CPR, under the umbrella of Heart Save Wellington. In Listowel, a community of about 5,000, one person, Kevin Sholdice is attempting to train the people. He wants to contact people who would be interested in becoming in- structors. At this point, Sholdice has trained. ap- proximately 50 people in CPR. According to Plamondon the public doesn't often see the importance of its role in an emergency situation. Many people assume that government should provide the proper medical back-up, the ambulance or the para- medics for emergency. Plamondon says Mount Forest has an excellent back-up system, the am- bulance attendant super- visor. With a population over 3,500 the community seems well covered — two am- bulances, a hospital and police and fire departments trained in CPR. PUBLIC TRAINING CPR training for the public, however, remains just as important in Mount Forest a's it is in Elmira, a' town of 6,000 where there is no ambulance or hospital but a fire and police depart- ments trained for emergencies. In either community a heart attack victim still needs CPR within four to six minutes of his collapse and isn't likely to get it unless someone with him at the tifne of the attack is trained. So CPR instructors go out into the community to train the public. There seems to be . an unspoken code of deter- mination and dedication to see a community with CPR trained citizens, As Bauer points out, comprehensive training of the public in first aid and CPR is the second component of 15 set out by the ministry of .healthfor a comprehensive emergency health service system.. The third component in- cludes a single emergency telephone access, such as 911. Waterloo region resi- dents are fortunate to have this one phone number for all emergencies — fire; police and ambulance. Probably unknown to most of the public, even in Waterloo re- gion, is the fact that the local level of government pays Bell Canada for the 911 emergency number. It isn't given away and it is up to a community and its govern- . ment to request and pay for the,911 emergency system. As well as conducting classes (in your home if you wis'h), Bauer and other in- structors in Waterloo Region take speaking engagements to educate the public about CPR and heart attack. Bauer believes thetas important as knowing CPR is recognizing the signs of a heart attack, These signals include: 1. Heavy pressure, squeezing, fullness, burning or pain in the..centre of the chest which may come and go and may not be severe. 2. Shortness of breath, pallor, sweating or weakness. 3. Nausea, vomit- ing and -or indigestion. 4. Ap- prehension, fear and 5. Any combination of 1, 2, 3 and 4 makes a heart attack more likely. NEED NOT REALIZED "We have the capability to train more people but citizens don't realize the need," Bauer says of their speaking engagements. In Mount Forest, Plamon- don has targeted certain groups, such as restaurant staffs, large firms or nursing home personnel to be train- ed. Sholdice has trained staff t the two doctors' clinics in Listowel as well as hospital taff, Ontario Hydro em- Crossroads—Apr. 24, 1985—Page 11 • • • • One of the best kept secrets around the province is the existence of Ontario's Magnetic Hill. If you happen to mention Atte magnetic hill phenome- non, most people will say, "Oh yes, I've heard about that. There's one. down in New Brunswick, isn't there?'' There is one in Moncton, New Brunswick all right, and the last I heard the gov- ernment had spent five mil- lion dollars adding to it, and publicizing it. But few people have ever heard of Ontario's hill, which some say is even more "magnetic" than the one in New Brunswick. If you're unfamiliar with magnetic hills in general, they're unusual slopes where ployees and some bank em- ployees. Sholdice is an am- bulance attendant and works m housekeeping at Listowel Memorial Hospital. When he trains people outside of the hospital he is doing it on his own time. As with all i?istructors, Sholdice is monitored once a year by the Ontario Heart and Stroke Foundation. All courses taught by these in- structors have standards set by the Foundation. The courses include Heart Saver where one-man CPR and how to manage a con- scious or an unconscious choking victim are taught. The course is approximately five hours in length. For special interest groups such as police, fire depart- ments and medical person- nel or for anyone who wants to learn more, the Basic Rescuer course teaches two- man CPR, more on obstruct- ed airway techniques and in- fant resuscitation. In Mount Forest and other areas under Heart Save Wellington (Guelph, Pal- merston, Erin, Harriston and Fergus) a third and in- novative course is offered on the resuscitation of infants and the management of a choking baby. The course is taught as part of pre -natal and post -natal classes, at babysitting courses, to par- ents and to day-care person- nel. It was developed locally by nurses in Moun Forest, staff at Heart Save Welling- ton offices as well as staff with the Fergus hospital and ambulance service. David Massey is the health curriculum co-ordinator of the Wellington County Board of Education as well as being a director of Heart Save Wellington. The board of education is the first in Ca- nada to make CPR instruc- tion a mandatory part of its health curriculum. All grade 11 and 12 students in the physical and health educa- tion classes are taught CPR. When there is an organiza- tion behind the efforts to train the public, much more appears to be accomplished. In Wellington County it was the board of education, the, Rotary Club, the Chamber of Commerce, the ambulance service and the Heart Foundation that form- ed Heart Save. In Mount Forest, the Lions Club help- ed purchase the mannequins ' needed for training. The adult mannequin, called Resusi-Annie, cost over $800. The baby is $500 and it costs $1,700 for the mannequin needed to train instructors. Waterloo Regional Heart Save was formed by several concerned CPR instructors, particularly Diane Bauer, an RNA at St. Mary's Hospital. "I came back from a symposium and thought there was' nothing in the re- gion. I realized the in- structors would have to do it." The Twin Cities Kiwanis Club is picking up the tab to rent a room at King Edward School on King Street in Kitchener where instructors will be trained. There is no central location for Heart Saver instruction. However, the Basic Rescuer course is. taught Thursday evenings at St. Mary's Hospital. Waterloo Region residents who want to learn CPR should call Diane Bauer et 884-2045. Listowel and area resi- dents should call Kevin Shol- dice at work, 291-1483 to sign up for CPR instruction. Contacts foe Wellington County residents are as fol- lows: Erin, 833-9684; Fergus, 843-5590; Mount Forest, 323- 1332; Palmerston, 343-2337 and Guelph, 822-4420. if you get the sensation you're going up when you're ac- tually going down! Ontario's magnetic hill is in the Ottawa Valley on the outskirts of the village of Dacre, near Renfrew. I first heard about it a few years . ago' from Bernie *..?"- Bedore. He's an Ottawa Valley woodsman, writer, storyteller and creator of Joe Mufferaw, the mythical gentle giant who once in- habited the Ottawa Valley. Bernie lives near Arn- prior, and one day he took me over to Dacre to see the Magnetic Hill. I would never have found it on my own. There's 'a tiny government sign on the main highway pointing toward the hill, but unless you were really looking you'd drive right by it. The hill isn't very steep, and it's only about 300 yards long. But when you drive over its crest, strange things begin to happen. If you stop your car half way down and put it into neutral gear, you seem to begin moving up the hill again. Backwards, as if you're being pulled back by some magnetic force. And from the outside it also ap- pears that the car is moving backup the hill! Not everyone gets the sen- sation, but many people do. I did, and I was astounded! Bernie chuckled at my amazement, and explained that it was because of "the lay of the land", as he put it. There's also a stream that runs beside the hill, and you'd swear it was running up hill! I asked Bernie why the hill hadn't been publicized more. He just shook his head. "It's a more effective hill than the one in New Brunswick," he said. "But nobody knows about it, and nobody takes the trouble to tell them." It's all an optical illusion of course. But when you're sit- ting in your car, going uphill backwards, and apparently defying all the laws of gravity, it's quite an- ex- perience. Interesting. And a bit weird. •• ;84,Your heart works 01harder when you're not in the game. Get fit — and turn the clock back. Fitness is fun. 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