This thru Rehearsals for the Acton High School production of Superman are going on schedule The musical Is slated for performances on the nights of April and 10 The play s title role goes to Andreas Thlel shown In rehearsal with Adeia She has the part of Lois Lane The musical has roles for Supernlce Girls and one of them DenlseDlIbey watches Superman and Lois rehearse Photos bv Lynda Hill Lindsay has the part of Sydney Chris who thou Id era the role of Clark Kent team up in one of the Superman play rehear Adela Rodrlguei tries getting over a bout of stage Play director talks over parts of the fright by fingering tissue during rehearsals script with Chris Rosenqulst He has the role of f the Acton High School s production of Super Clark Kent man Care of dying and families group plans April meeting The North Pall alive Care Interest Group which was or to study the needs and concerns of the dying and their families Is holding its second meeting April the Milton hospital The speaker for the April meeting will be the Reverend Clinton a former member of the Halton District Health Council presently a grief counsellor and chaplain at West Park Hospital Toronto Rev Rohr will speak on grief and bereavement The overwhelming Interest shown at its first meeting January at Glen Will aged the raordinators to arrange this fallow up meeting Plans are also being made for a meeting May in Acton and a June meeting in George town Tho concept of total care for the dying and their families is known as Palliative or Hospice Care It ffers from trad care In several as pects 1 The physical core of the patient and symptom control are the prime concern but once this Is done psychological lal and spiritual needs are of central Import The patient and family not Just the patient alone are the unit of care Bereavement follow up is always a sequel Where a patient has to be hospitalized in a Ilia Hon Is watched for and minimized and so there Is a relaxation of regulations I con visitors food etc The focus Is not on dying but on the quality of the remaining life There always exists the potential for personal growth reconciliations and fulfilment There are mechanisms of support for the stresses ex perlenccd by the patient family and core givers A blurring of traditional professional roles Is accepted neces patience skilled listening and con tributlons from different disciplines to a team ap proach to care giving The group coorgan izers Karen Ferguson and Eva Sanson feel a strong com mi to creating community focus on this approach to care The aims of the organizers are 1 To stimulate people to investigate their personal feelings about death Invite people to con the special needs of persons with life threat illness and their family 3 Introduce the avail able services which are designed to meet those needs Encourage people confidence and comfort In recognizing these needs and offering the necessary supports to their patients friends or family Directory listings free Anyone who runs a business even one in their home and wants to be listed free of charge In the Acton Chamber of Commerce directory should contact Charlie Auger at IGA Janet Fleming or Murray Kittmer at Acton High School There has been some confusion because ad vertisements are also being sold in the dir ectory this year but the listings are free RACEWAY HARNESS RACING Post Time Thursday Sunday Evening Afternoon 8pm 2pm ALL NEW Betting and CahkigSY3tem Trlactor Wage ng Air Condition ad i Actario means possible MEETING ROOMS FOR SERVICE CLUBS comptoto f 6617 jo pus deos hum a jsdns 1 1 30IUdU3cinS The Acton Press day Mar 1931 3 Board adds 18000 to budget for books Board of Education trustees passed a record budget Thursday at Burlington- after adding for text books trustee Betty Walker proposed adding per student In grades seven and eight for text books The board expanded that to include all grades six seven and eight That added I ve had telephone calls from several par with respect to Stewart town school com plaining there are not enough text or resource books In the library said Walker Acton trustee Bruce said in reference to Mid die School I think we are selling them a little short Other attempts to cut the budget at the last minute failed as did a bid to add for lunch room supervision Former board chair man Bill Herd tried to drop about million It seems to me in education the time has long passed when we can come and ask taxpayers to contribute mightily when about half of hem don have children In the system said Herd The Oakville trustee said he did not want to delete what he termed addons such as ex of core French special education energy conservation minicoin or other Items He wanted to cut the budget by the value of the add There was some dis sension within the budget committee One member Bill told Herd There no place in that budget where we could find the million Another committee member Crosier challenged the ad ministration to f nd the money I m sure they can find two per cent amongst the various items Crosier also Indicated he has no lock of confidence in the committee Board deputy chair man Elaine des cribed Herd s am men dm en I to the budget as well intended but mischievous Herd denied accusation that his amendment is a vote of nonconfidence In the budget committee Herd said taxpayers don ex increases In cost in program in a system with a declining enrolment AHS pair safe location not revealed Two Acton High School students who das appeared recently were seen by police some where in western Canada late last week and are sound Pol are not divulg ng where Smith Rosemary and Ross Churchill Rd North were spotted The pair who are engaged were last seen on March On March a car they had been driv belonging to parents was found at Conservation Area A team of OPP officers with Regional Pol on the scene combed the park as well as checking the iced in water areas for some of the pair Ms 1th is IB and is Were doing it now Were stopping the leak with the UI Report on Hirings This program stops abuse Not everyone who continues to receive i unemployment insurance after starting a M They may still be tied to some benefits Or sometimes they vc made an honest mistake Unfortunately a great deal of money has been wrongly paid out in the past to people who don report a new job Now our Report on Hirings program is putting an effective halt to this I thanks to employers who participate Soon people getting will know they must tell si5 us that they vc found work and report all the earnings J Big and small companies are helping us succeed Together the Canada Employment and Immigration Commission and employers are detecting potential overpayments With Report on Hirings employers give us the starting date and Social Insurance Number for each new employee or send extracts from computer payroll tapes We cross check this information with the Social Insurance Numbers of people getting UI When the system detects people wrongly collecting benefits we investigate and a penalty or prosecution may follow But our job is not to penalize or prosecute the people It to pay benefits to people who should get them- no more ana no less and a t mm onCnM mm I Report on Hirings It s simply successful Canada