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Last fall I found myself in just such a mood and with each days passing, the mood persisted. Thinking back to the times spent in the Polio and Heart Wards of the Children’s Memorial Hospital in Montreal when we really felt we were giving a little of our- selves to help pass the long hours for these patients, in story tel- ling, helping with hobbies and in general j_usvt being there "lo be By Toby Shore We sometimes get that feeling, I think, that we're not much use to anyone other than to see that the family is fed and off to the office and school, housework pretty well caught up and the menu planned for dinner. All this is very necessary but it be- comes routine and just an every- day ritual so that there is noth- ing challenging or much of in- terest to look forward to in the average day. "talked to," only tb reglizc we were getting so much more out of it for ourselves than we could ever hope to give. 50 it was we go‘. in touch with the Princess Margaret Hospital and asked if they were in need of a Volunteer worker. Well! they soon let it: be known thart they were- in des- perate need of help with the flowers and cquld I perhaps come in once a week for about three hours, For complete servlce and parts -â€"new machinery and industrial equipment. . - Goodyear Tire Service. Give us a call for demonstra- tion and full particulars. This too being hefol‘b' Christ- mas meant much decorating was to be done in 'the halls,- waiting rooms and nurses’ centres. Mrs. Gordon McEacheren of Klein- burg. “Torchy” to her friends. is in charge of the flowers and what a jewel when it came time (or 8 miles south of Bolton on Hwy. 50 R. R. 3 Bolton Phone Bolton [5. 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Tea and cookies are served from an attractive tea wagon to those waiting for treatment, or with a patient, to the tune of 2,184 cups of tea served during one month and over 117 hours of volunteer duty for the ladies in that group. . Guides and escorts worked 173% hours, while the ones in recreational therapy put in 156 hours, library 69%. hours visit- ing with patients from out of town 301/; hours. Helping with art classes: over 32 hours: sup- plying magazines. 141,4. hours; letterwriting, 22% hours. The flower volunteers worked 233% hours. While on one of the floors, I overheard a cheery voice en- quire. “Well. Mrs. - would you like to have your hair sham- pooed and set tonight?" and then"‘Mr. - do you feel like hav-‘ ing a hair trim tonight?” In that department hairdressers give of their time each Monday night helping to bring up the morale with goodgrooming.‘ . - . Ovuyo- vv....,,¢, Why is it we seldom if ever think of children having this disease? Older people always seem to be the ones our minds associate with the illness. How- ever, here again we need to ‘be educated regarding the striking power of cancer and that no one of any age group is immune. The children's ward is delightfully decorated and the women who give of their time in this partic- ular section spent over 108 hours during the month._ the decorations, every detail as to color scheme, novelty and sheer antistry, was at her finger- tips. As we piled up the hours so that a little of the festive sea- son would give off a warm glow to staff and patients alike, we fell; inspired helpers. As is so often the case. some of the ladies in the children’s ward have several small children of their own but with their extra large hearts. they divide of their time to soothe ‘and comfort as ‘besL they can these little folk who are so in need of that extra attention. All in all the approximate hours for the different volunteer groups add up to over 1,121 hours per month, but when they don their yellow and white smacks, there is no thought of it being a chore for they are “just doing Itheir duty.” They count it, as I do. a privilege and pleasure to be able to “be a part of such a group, and to 'be able to go away knowing that deep satisfaction and fulfilment which comes with sharing the, good things with those less fortunate. This gives axmeaning to your day and a hea‘rtfelt, “Thank you for the opportunity. - it has in- deed been my pleasure.” KLEINBURG â€" Reports of 'bears in this district turned out to be a gross enlargement of the truth. A small black bear has ta- taken up residence in one of the six conservation areas under the Metro AutLhority - but his whereabouts are being kept sec- ret - for Bruno’s own protection. YOU BROADLOOM WALL-TO-WALL COMPLETE LY INSTALLED (r Shown above are Mr. and Mrs. Don W. Reesor following their recent marriage in Brown’s Corners United Church. The bride is the former Dorothy Eileen Hood, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Douglas E. Hood, Buttonville. The groom is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Reesor of Markham. During the bad driving weather last week there were many resi- dents of this area whose cars “took -to the ditch”. But the worst accident happened to Mr. R. Dowding, Schomberg Rd. Mr. Dowding was making a left turn into Aubrey Ave. from Yonge St. and had almost cleared the shoulder of the highway when his car was struck by a truck travelling south. The driver of the truck had apparently leaned over to close a loose door on his vehicle when he momentarily lost control, slid over onto the shoulder and skid- ded into Mr. Dowding’s car. As a result of the collision Mr. Dowding’s-new car (it had 97 miles on the speedometer) is a total wreck; he was unconscious for some time after the accident from a bump on the head; lost a week’s work and is-still combing glass splinters out of his hair. Charges Were laid against the truck driver, the case will be heard in February. WOODBRIDGE â€"- During the recent ice storm Woodbridge area, hardest hit community in‘ that section of the county. Dam- age and disaster conditions Where so critical for a time it was thought the National Red Cross would have to be called on for aid. ' Until a new car arrives â€"â€" the other.one had all windOWS broken and doors torn off â€".Mr. Dowd- ing is driving a car loaned by his car salesman. KLEINBURJG ~â€" A slaughtered- goat, a Hereford calf (weighing between 350 and 400 'pounds), with slashed throat, and cowering dogs - plus noises in the night have caused residents in the vic- inity of the Circle M Ranch near Klein‘burg concern recently. 17- year-old James Tilly, investiga- ting night noises accidently dis- charged a deer rifle into him- self as he rushed to grab his rifle from a ranch wagon on the Circle M property, The bullet en- tered {his abdomen and erupted through his 'back. He is now off the critidal list. A AURORA : Miss Joanne Burling. deputy-clerk of Aurora, resigned efiective January 15. although council tried to talk her out of her decision. Reeve Davis said she had done a good job and is a very capable person and very young to be deputy-.clerk of the town, I, Ivan Boutilier of 34A Yonge St. South, Richmond Hill, give notice that I will not be reSponsible for any debts contracted in my name Without my written consent. January 18. 1960 fl Oak Ridges NOTICE IVAN BO UTILIER Married Recently New Town Doctor _ Following a most colourful ten- year stint with the navy, where he had seven years in surgery, Dr. D. B. Maunsel‘l (pronounced Mansel) has opened a practice in the Royal Bank of Canada Build- ing at 31 Yonge St. North, Rich- mond Hill, where he will conduct a general practice. Born in Fort William, Ontario, Dr. Maunsell attended _public school in that city and later was a student at Toronto Harbord and Prescott High Schools be- fore graduating from Queen’s University. He interned at the Hotel Dieu, Kingston, Ontario and the Montreal General Hos- pital going, from there into the army. He was the first senior medical officer for the Army’s North West Highway system, AI- aska, which included being com- manding officer of the hospital at White Horse and in charge of the medical system from Edmon- ton right up to rtlhe border. At this time the not only looked after service personnel but also civil- ians and their families. .Following his army‘service Dr. Maunsell joined the navy and in 1950 married the matron of his hospital at the H. M. S. Corn- wallis, Digby, the former Jean Margaret Keenan of Kenora, a graduate of Toronto General Hospital. It is interesting to note that the same minister, Rev. Pat- rick Ploughman, who performed their wedding ceremony. also christened both Dr. and Mrs. Maunsell‘s children. Shelley, now four years old ‘had the distinction of being christened aboard the H.M.S. Quebec and Susan Jean was christened in the church in which her parents had been mar- ried. The family now attend St. Mary’s Anglican Church in Richâ€" mond Hill. since moving here last August. During his course of sea duty with the navy Dr. Maunsell said, “I think I’ve visited every isle in Uhe Carribean." Now on the naval reserve list. he is pleased ‘he and his wife chose Richmond Hill for his first private practice and hopes to join in community life and its at- tendant amenities as time goes on. Both the doctor and his wife enjoy several 'ho‘b’bies. M-rs. Maunsell is a keen badminton and tennis player,as well as a skater and her husband says his hobbies are swimming, skiing. fishing and woodworking - when he gets the time to indulge. WHITCHURCH : At the Whit- church Council inaugural Reeve George Richardson called for a “mm as we go” policy and cau- tioned the township should pro- ceed cautiously on most of its projects this year. INTEEWIji-fi'efafi" éx‘tfiefids; raucordial welcome to Richmond Hil-I, to the Maunsel family. AURORA The Azm'ora Board of Trade will have an open dis- cussion on a liquor vote for its April meeting. The board will not support either side but merely seeks to get the points out be- fore the public. Dr. D. B. MAUNSELL The Naturalists‘ Club had ano- ther outstanding meeting this past week. Dr. D. Pimlott, Department of Lands and Forests, spoke and showed picures of Newfoundland, telling much of its customs, peop- le, natural history and landscape. His transparencies were 50 ex- cellent it is hard to mention a few that might be better than others. Definitely the puffins in full spring plumage, sitting in a row on a rock cairn was one. 01:- hers were the caribou, at close range, moose, cod fishing With the subsequent drying processes, the herding of the whales into narrow bays to be killed and the many pictures of the bird life on the Funk Islands which are lo- cated ofi‘ the NE. corner of New- foundland. Newfoundland is rugged and we think of it as forest-covered but at 1500 feet above sea level it is flat. muskeg, tundra type terrain with trees in patches and dotted .with innumerable lakes. The nextltime we think of spring being a long time in arriving we should think of our tenth prov- ince. Because of ice floes drifting down from the Arctic the springs are very cold and the leaves do not come into full leaf until the second week in June. Mr. R. Tilt, the president, gave an outline of the programme for the annual meeting of the Feder- ation of Ontario Naturalists which Richmond Hill United Church The meeting of the Richmond Hill United Church C.G.I.T. was opened with the C.G.I.T. purpose, hymn and the Lord’s Prayer. A sing-song was held and then the members met in groups. C GIT Doings W Mrs. Patton’éflgfbup-wonked their mission study. "’M’rsT'éAhfieisdh‘s group has stayted to work on their craft whxch is soap carving. WMFSf'WilIi‘arfi’s grBup worked on mission study. This group i! alsioi going bowfingAnext week.‘ r :MrEW'Ettiihghafi’s group work ed on mission study. ’ Mg.’Mac”"bona1a"s m mk- ed on mission study. BY Dom BARKER Y Edl ors are often afflicted with the same habit. They hang in the subconscious regions of their minds 3 baros meter which registers either what they consider their success or failure in their chosen field. This instrument is affected almost daily by the brickbats and bouquets they receive from their readers. In my early vagabond- ing days, as I made my weekly entries in this diary, I missed this device for measuring readership reaction to my efforts. m- _A11 executive Hugging was held, and then the meeting closed with RP!- mu T’i‘hen ietters began appearing in my post office mm with a bold “Please forward” as an identifying symbol that inside would be welcome suggestions or cyiticjsmls. First there was the letter from an editor who wrote that my early experience in a roomette had influenced him to change his habit of reserving a different mode of train accommodation, in order to find out whether he had become muscle-bound or Witless while chained to an editor’s chair. He wrote that if I could cope with the (routine of retiring in a foomette, so could he on his planned trip to New York. ' up 1 11,!!! Then out of the west came another “fan letter”! This one enclosed a missive from the letter writer’s sis- ter in Melbourne, Australia. The weekly home town paper, she said, is always forwarded to this transplanted relative and her enclosed letter was secretly satisfying. I am only sorry that I cannot accept her invitation to visit Australia. Not because I am afraid I might get mixed up with a kangaroo and travel pouch-wise across the country down under, but merely because I can get into enough trouble on my native soil without seeking green pastures on the other side at the world. There was the letter from a citizen in a small town in New Brunswick inviting me to visit that community and I must admit the promise of shore dinners and ocean sails has me hooked. Fundy National Park is already marked as a must for next summer’s tra‘vel schedule. ‘ From the International border, an editor wrote that he would be happy to show me the beauty of the Peace Garden in the Three Lakes area of south western Mani- toba. This too, gave me a happy sense of anticipation for future travel plans. As this diary is not often an instrument for editor- ial comment, my old habit of being too outspoken' on controversial matters has not come in for letters of either applauding approval or derision which I was wont to receive as an editor. I think I like much better this new type of welcome and appreciation that is becoming a regular Visitor in my mail box. What a sense of warmth and friendship a letter telling of another’s experience in midwifery gave me after a reader of a British Columbia weekly wrote that she had enjoyed the entry about the baby born aboard the CNR train on its way through the Rockies. And the one from the gentleman who claimed he was one of the “unshaven, who was the victim of mamma’s deter- mination to sit it out in the men’s quarters of the train bound from Halifax to Montreal,” which I wrote about in an article recently. These unseen and unknowu friends, which I am making through fche columns of weeklies across Canada. have given me a new sense of values and, indeed. a new sense of my responsibility as a colunmist recording Canada and my association with its citizens. There have been those who expressed the wish that I might describe more of the beauty which abounds in this land and others who have commented on the pleas- ure they derive in reading about my inescapable dilem- mas. I try to cram as much as possible into the seven hundred Odd words at my disposal each week and diver- sify the entries at the same time. I am quite overcome at the immensity of this land and the fact that thous- ands of words would never do it justice. a barometer ofvthe diary’s leadership, which I greatly appreciate. Readers from coast to coast can be assured their letters are always mere than welcome. They_age indeed Nature Notes QM; is being held in Richmond Hll on February 19. He also suggested that if people were planning on planting trees this spring it might be more advisable to plant slow- er-growing trees. such as Norway Pine or Sugar Maple rather than Carolina Poplar. Black Willow or Manitoba Maple. These latter faster-growing trees produce soft limbs and therefore suffer the greater damage from ice storms. This winter continues to proâ€" duce the unusual in oirds. A male red-headed woodpecker has been seen frequently, at a feed- ing station, in the Bayview-Mark- ham Road area. A hermit thrush visits daily at a farm near Un- ionville (seven hermits were coun- ted on the Toronto census. On January 17, Mr. J. Lunn. Mr. J. ‘Baillie and Mr. R, Sounders saw lfemale pine grosbeaks in two sep- arate spots between Boyd Park and Kleinburg. a red-bellied woodpecker near Nashville; and beyond Purpleville seven eastern meadowlarks and nine northern horned larks, Keep in mind our special field trip for next Sunday. January 24, to observe ducks and water birds along the lakefront, Mr and Mrs. John Lunn are the leaders. Meet at the town hall, Yonge and Wright Sts. at_9 a.m. Dress warm- ly, especially good footwear and bring a lunch, “It would be impossible to succeed without the constant and invaluable help of our volunteers throughout the province - in whatever capac- ity they may work. They are all devoted workers and de- termined to make the fight a- gainst cancer in this province - indeed in the world - one that will, in the end, we pray, pm successful." Richmond H in Unit FACT FOR. THE WEEK CANADIAN CANCER SOCIETY THE LIBERAL. Richmond Hill, Ontario, Thursday, January 3‘1. 1960 1! Typewriters - Addint Machine. SA'LES - SERVICE - RENTALS yuur ufiice 88 Baker .~\ve.. Richmond Hill WHEREAS, the week of January 23rd is being ob- served throughout Canada as a period to focué public attention on the physical, character-build- WHEREAS the game of hockey is recognized as Canada's National Game which teaches our youth to develop a competitive spirit, co-operation with “Minor Hockey Week In Canada" MINOR . HOCKEY WEEK * IN CANADA WHEREAS Minor Hockey is the foundation from which accomplished hockey players develop. ‘ V Wee} NOW THEREFORE, Llas Mayor of Richmond Hill. do hereby declare the week commencing January 23rd be observed as ‘ See portable models at Ianuary 20. 1960 Smoother Sledding! nus. L. H. SIMS Wight‘s Pharmacy THE CANADIAN BANK OF COMMERCE ‘ing and other benefits of hockey and 1‘€ )thers, and Town \ 9f Richmond Hill MONEY B’N F‘WE BANK MEANS PIA“ Of It". quest that all parents and others support this ance by attending games during Minor Hockey and thereafter until the minor hockey season We find it easier sledding in our family. That is because a good bank balance through regular saving has given as security and peace of mind. We‘re 211 steady savers at machine specialis‘ 1);)(lyâ€"bui1-(ling, and respect for authority, [in Km W. 30m , .ll/l/lw All popular flakes on hand Special Sludents’ Rates for our youth, 'agon