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The Wingham Advance Times, 1995-03-29, Page 18THE MOM AMU EINES S March 26 -April 1 ARIES - March. 21/April 20 SCORPIO Oct 24/N ov Your ability to make quick decisions It's a week of 'reflection and ��o- may be an impressive trait, but liv- spection. Memories of a pat love ing with the repercussions isn't may consume your thoughts. Try not always, worth the glory. Take a les- to let them interfere with your work,, son from the cautious Libra; think or you could.•overlook an important before,you act. Get a head start on a detail. Instead, look'ahead, and think pet project, as there may be compli- about what you could do to improve cations later on. today and tomorrow, TAURUS - Apri121/May 21 SAGITTARIUS - NOV 23/Dec21 Don't push a loved one to his/her A new experience this week will emotional limits - especially if you recharge your batteries. You may are involved with a Scorpio. Take a vow t� try something new every day. calm, logical approach if there is an Why not? A recent investment issue you want to discuss. At work, proves worthwhile. You may even trust the wisdom of an experienced be tempted to make further invest- colleague when making an important ments. Be sure you have enough of a move or decision, nest egg before writing any checks. GEMINI - May 22/June 21 . CAPRICORN - Dec 22/Jan 20 Just when you are about to lose faith There are unexpected pleasures to be in humanity, something spectacular had this week. Something you had will happen to restore it. If your dreaded could turn out to be highly w or is becoming overly demand- ing, it may be time to reevaluate your responsibilities. Perhaps there is something you can delegate to lighten the load. CANCER - June 22/July 22 If you're hosting a party this'week- end, it's bound to be a success especially .if you're the one doing the. cooking. The Cancer's creative touch is always a gastronomical delight. A financial windfall is - likely. It's a good week to play lot- teries or enter contests. LEO - July 23/August 23 . A telephone conversation on Mon- day could set the tone for the week. You'll he reminded of the past and feel nostalgic for the times you've had long ago. A mood of spontaneity could lead you to interesting places. Social events and interactions will be more abundant than usual. VIRGO - Aug 24/Sept 22 Virgos do well in business, because they're highly organized and know how to hold on to a dollar. Although this quality can lead you to a brilliant , career, it doesn't always go bver so well when' it comes to romance. Remember, it' there's an occasion for gift -giving this week,.be generous. LIBRA - Sept 23/Oct 23 Ignore the whims of temperamental loved ones, Use your cool. calm manner to get you through'. An opportunity .to make extra money may present itself. Just be sure you have the time to spare before com- mitting,to anything. It's a good time to start an exercise routine or. improve on an existing one. • enjoyable. Don't be afraid to ask for help if you feel overwhelmed at work. You'd be surprised how happy some people can be to lend a hand. A romance may be headed for trouble. AQUARIUS - Jan 21/Feb 18 A much younger person - probably a Leo - will have a strong influence, on the week's events. You will realize something new about yourself because of this person. Your light, airy manner will work to your advan- tage in a. tense situation at work. Others will admire your calm attitude. PISCES - Feb 19/March 20 Turning your mind .to home and family will help you keep things on an even keel. Take t easy in your work, and preserve strength as much • as possible. Learn to keep emotions out of the workplace. A "friend" may try to take advantage of your tgenerosity. Be on your guard, YOUR BIRTHDAY THIS WEEK The next 12 months: You could learn some valuable lessons this year, but if you're smart," you won't have to learn them the hard way. This is especially true if you're in a position of power. Don't let your status go to your head by try- ing to manipulate others. This sort of behavior can only backfire and make you look bad in the long run. On the lighter side, there will be some happy moments involving family. Someone you're close to' (perhaps a child or parent) will reach a very important milestone: When dealing with loved ones, try. to express your true feelings, and leave your cold. suppressed side in the past. FOR ENTERTAINMENT PURPOSES ONLY 1111111111111111 ill 1111111111 III Ell III II III 111111111 II 1° NM= II III 111111 II 111 IIIIIIIIIIIII 111111111111111111111 1111111111111111111 MI 1111 illp IllII1111 III 1111 ME IIIlan. 3° IIIIIIIIIIIII 111 IIII III III1111111, ill 111111• HIM. 1111 111111111111111 9 22 23 CLUES ACROSS I. Stared 4. Signal light 8. Watch 9. Goodbye 10. Possessor 11. Bath 12. Relate to 13. Raising 16. Amenable 19. Straggle 23. Hopelessness 26. Finished 28. Mongrel 29. Garden ornament 30. Spotless 31. Female deer 32. Having a dull finish 33. Devil • CLUES DOWN 2. Woe 3. Unbiased 4. Weak 5. Distant 6. Boredom 7. Small branch 9. Nitter 14. Bitumen 15. Fresh 17. Short poem • • I. Mischievous child 20. impaled 21. Heavily loaded 22: Covered walk 23. Tenet 24. Tempest 25. Wide awake 27. Imagine mEtErmaginufsams you're not subscribing to Subscription Rates The Wingham Advance -Times, Canada within 40 miles (65 km) 1 you're missing Out. Use this coupon $27 plus 1.89 GST to subscribe today! Outside 40 miles 1 Name: 1 1 $40 plus 2.80 GST 1 Address: Outside Canada 1 City: $80 plus 5.60 GST Prov: Retum to: ' Postal Code: The Wingham Advance -Times I or Call us 519-357-2320. P.O. Box 390 5 Diagonal Rd. Wingham, Ontario NOG 2W0 Howick Township supports WEDNESDAY WARM move by Fordwich Nursing Home for beds FORDWICH--Howiek 'Township Council and Huron . MPP Paul Klopp have voiced support for a move by the owner of the Ford- wich Village Nursing Home to have- four beds transferred to the home. The active beds would replace four beds now designated as res- pite beds in the nursing home which has 33 active beds. Nursing home owner, Thomas Kannampuzha of Mississauga, .in- formed this newspaper he has been fortunate enough to purchase 18 li- cences for nursing home beds as the result of the closure of a home for 'developmentally handicapped children in Huntsville. Mr. Kannampuzha will apply to the Ministry of Health to . transfer. 13 of the licences to his nursin home in Exeter, four to the home in Fordwich, and one to bis Lake- Simcoe Nursing Home. The four respite beds in the Fordwich Village Nursing Home are not being used, Mr. Katinampuzha said, and' are therefore not bringing in any reve- nue. 'The transfer- of active beds to replace those respite beds would make the facility more financially viable," Mr. Kannampuzha said. Howick Township Council ap- proved a resolution supporting Mr. Kannampuzha's application for the bed transfer at council's March meeting. A spokesperson for Mr. Klopp's riding office in Clinton said the Huron MPP will most certainly support Mr. Kannampuzha's appli- cation to the Ministry of J-Iealth. According to the spokesperson, Festiva1 The Blyth Festival Singers will be presenting a concert of seasonal music for Holy Week andEaster at St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church in Wingham on Sunday, April 9, at 7:30 p.m, St. Andrew's - is pleased to _ present this special concert, one of three performances that the Blyth Festival Singers will be presenting in Huron County during the Easter season.There will be no admission charged, but a free-will offering. The Wingham concert will be highlighted by the performance of "The Crucifixtion" by John Stan- ner. Subtitled "A Meditation on the Sacred Passion of the Holy Re- deemer," this passion story is told by the choir and tenor soloist John DeJagar of Goderich. The program also will include a selection of other traditional and contemporary compositions from Nursi'hg Home...activity director Lis Hargrave, left, talks with residents Solomon Steckley, Earl White and Clara Fitch. The home is looking to add four more beds. Mr. Klopp was instrumental in keeping the nursing home in Ford- wich, and in assisting Mr. Kannampuzha in expanding ' the home, and will do everything pos- sible to .make it as fmancially vi- able as possible. Howick citizens turned out in force a few years ago when it was learned a new nursing home would not be built in Fordwich, and unless a number of improve- ments were made, the existing fa- cility. was in danger of being closed. The results were - that Mr. Kannainpuzha built a modern addition to the home and com- pletely renovated the existing fa- cility which many years ago bad been converted from a long - closed continuation school to a nursing home. People of the village and sur- rounding area today are justly proud of the modern facility which features rooms with lots of windows, an elevator, modern alarm systems, relaxing recreation rooms and spacious grounds with a number of mature trees. Employees of the home fully support the move to convert the respite , beds to active 'nursing beds. The respite beds aren't being used, they say, and people of the area want to be assured there will• be room available at a community facility for relatives who might need nursing home care. Besides, employees -as well as owners of private nursing homes everywhere say as much revenue as possible is required to keep the facilities viable, singers plan Easter service "Behold the Lamb of God" from Handel's "Messiah" to "A South African Trilogy". The stately tem- po of the Handel piece provides an interesting. contrast to the rhythms of ""A South African Trilogy", which includes three pieces from a collection of "Songs of Protest and Praise from South Africa" The music speaks of the political climate of South Africa, but carries the . universal statement, "We are marching in the light of God." Blyth Festival Music Director Wade Whittaker of Stratford has selected an eclectic variety of mu- sic to complement "The Crucifix- ion" for this concert. The various pieces of music aim to inspire re- flection, celebration and praise, as well as comment on the struggle for peace and freedom throughout the world. The 45 -voice festival choir will Ruby -throated Hummingbird suffers through energy crisis If you used energy at the same rate as the Ruby - throated Hummingbird you would have to eat nearly twice your weight in high - calorie food each and every day just to avoid starving to death. Monte HUMMEL At a mere seven to nine centimetres long and weighing just 2.5 to 4.5 grams, the iridescent Ruby -throat shares a difficult survival challenge with other very small animals - maintaining body heat. In any animal, proper body temperature regulation hinges on the rela- tionship between internal volume (containing the organs and muscles that generate heat) and surface area (the skin through which heat is lost). Small animals have far less internal volume for each square centi- metre of skin area than do larger animals. So it's much harder for them to make up lost heat. The tiny hummingbird has scrmuch skin area for so little body vol- ume that it must spend virtually all its time eating to replace the heat it loses so easily. This means using precious energy emptying a thousand blossoms of their rich nectar every day, and catching the insect delica- cies that provide a high -protein diet supplement. Hummingbirds eat, drink, fight and court in'flight, so the demand for energy is constant. But, though they barely enough food is to work at it from dawn to dusk, only ken in, Surprisingly, eight of l63 known species find the energy every May to fly 1600 kilometres to Canada from Central America. In September, they leave us rather than shiver through our winter. Seven species visit only B.C. while the Ruby -throat graces our other provinces from the Rockies to the Atlantic. • When you see a hummingbird hovering at a flower with its delicate wings a musical blur and its slender beak deep within the blossom, con- sider that it perches precariously on the edge of a personal energy cri- sis. It depends on nature's balance to help it keep its own. •• Nature's Miracles is brought to you by the Advance -Times and the World Wildlife Fund Canada. To find out how you can help save wwe wildlife and wild places, can VJWF at 1 -800 -26 -PANDA. Nature's Miracles t - sing pieces such as the traditional "In Paradisum" from "The Re- quiem" to the popular jazz selec- tion "Hymn To Freedom" by Oscar Peterson. "Hymn To Freedom" was written in 1963 and arranged for choir for the 1986 International Festival of Children's Choirs in Helsinki. It has been a"favorite selection of the Blyth Festival Singers and Mr. Whittaker notes, "This ballad uses jazz choirs and a slow, irresistable beat to draw us toward the day when all will live in dignity." Other performance pieces will include two Easter selections from Canadian composer Healey Willan, an unaccompanied arangement of the traditional spirtual "Sometimes 1 Feel -Like a Motherless Child" and Whittaker's own arrangement of Psalm 51. Of that, Mr. Whittaker says, "I set the first half as a kind of meditation, intending the music to support the text, but not to embroi- der in any way. The second half is a lively gospel tune, as the singers exclaim, 'My heart shall show my praise.'" The Blyth Festival Singers' Easter concert promises to be a performance that offers reflections for the Easter season, as well as a celebration of hope, peace and praise through song. The Blyth Festival Singers is a community choir, nbw in its 15th year. The choir is led by Mr. Whit- taker and accompanied by Carol Carter of Seaforth. The choir re- hearses on Monday nights in Blyth and presents several concerts through the year. There are eight members from Wingham and other members come from Blyth, Brus- sels, Exeter, Stratford, Goderich and Seaforth: Business planning seminar for farms The Ontario Ministry of Agri- culture, Food and Rural ,Affairs (OMAFRA) is hosting a one -day business planning seminar for ex- isting farm corporations and small agri-related corporations. The purpose of this 'seminar is to provide accounting, tax, and le- gal information unique to farms operating in a corporation; and to provide ideas and advice to assist in longer term business planning. The seminar will be held Fri- day, March 31 at the Festival Inn in Stratford, beginning at 9:30 a.m.. Registration fee including lunch and proceedings is $45 per person. Pre -registration is required by calling the OMAFRA office in Clinton ar 482-3428 or 1-800-265- 5170. The fax number is 482- 5031. The morning program will fea- ture accountants discusssing busi- ness and tax strategies for corpora- tion shareholders including: shareholder remuneration, com- pensation, advances, how to get . your money out, income splitting, dealing with the mature corpora • - tion, and preparing for the sale, transfer of the corporation, 'To complete the morning, .a lawyer will be discussing shareholder agreements, corporate housekeep- ing, director and environmental li- ability, contingency planning and minority shareholders. The afternoon will feature three speakers discussing business strat- egies. Tom Chudleigh, president of Chudleigh's Apple Farms of Milton, will share their "growing pains" and how they effectively use an advisory board in their business. Wes Thompson Jr., W.G. Thompson and Sons Ltd. will be sharing the Thompson sto- ry and ideas on "Keeping the Fam- ily Business a Family Business." The final speaker for the day is Morris Eccles, chief executive of- ficer of Coldsprings Agri - Services, located in Putnam and Norwich. Eccles' presentation on "Growing Beyond the Family" will look at how Coldsprings ' Agri - Services has grown over the years, and have now extended their corpo- ration structure beyond family shareholders . to include employee participation. For further information or to pre - register, contact the OMAFRA of- fice in Clinton.