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And best wishes to all our readers in TALKRADI0 Paul RICHARDS Home Newspaper of Halton Hills WEDNESDAY 117 THANKS SANTA Four and half yearold Heather Cunningham Thanks Santa to kiss the good Did man Heather caught her Santa during a Christmas Home with a difference the key is communication Arena to open this Thursday Georgetown Memorial Anna will illy reopen its doors Thursday following almost year closing The tus recti a facelift to lis roof mam area an the first ind second floors A full lay of festivities halt with the event These will include figure skating broom ball and lockcj well as in olden ing ceremony il centre icl m Mayor Tom E 1 J J is expected to declare the facihlj open he Is presented with a GOAL IN SIGHT BANKS DONATE 500 EACH Nation treasurer It ay Kins reports more than ha been raised for the re con true Hon the Georgetown Memorial Downtown merchants and three charter banks have donated a total of I he said The Tor onto- Do mini on Bank Hank and Canadian Imperial Hank of Commerce each donated Tbc goal of more than will be reallird but Mr King would not speculate on whether proceeds from the opening Thursday will push the total over the top Hills has received approval for from to cover the coit of repairs Any proceeds from the official opening night will be placed In the fund and will assist In merlin the over all goal he said Public participation will be the key to success surface by the Georgetown Girls Pipe Band for the official opening at A plaque the role of the public and business community has not been recleved has been substituted Theplaque which will be mounted at the arena Is expected shortly into the new year Georgetown NHL star Bob Goldham will drop the puck start the highlight of the evening an exhibition game between the A Raiders the Junior By Karen Hard Foster homes have become a necessity In our society helping families cope with severe problems Problems which stem from lack of communication between parents and children Don and Dons MocKHlop run a d fferenl kind of foster home in Georgetown geared towards families with a special type of communication problem The invisible problem of deafness This couple understands the difficulties well for they are both deaf The MacKillop home a warm and loving atmosphere which new arrivals quickly sense Children come from varied bewildered with their backgrounds new Deafness is disabilities by of most neglected els of government social agencies because of a lock of knowledge Children were previously placed in mental hospitals Institutions for the mentally relardcdnndevcn homes like the now offer on alternative The couple teach children sign language which they use constantly The MacKillop a also have three hearing children of their own Only one baby born Christmas Michael William Morris was the only born Christmas Day at Georgetown and District Memorial Hospital He arrived weighing eight pounds ounces at am Michael councillorelect and Mrs Peter Morris of Wilson Court Doris noticed soon after their birth the children were startled by noise She said very few deaf parents conceive deaf children The foster children range from ages five to middle teens and attend Ernest C School in Milton Parents visit their children are taught sign language Although the hearing children do have an advantage Doris explained other sense become sharper lo compensate Deaf people rely on sight and arc usually very When deaf person is gently tapped on the shoulder tonttract their attention they notice right away while a hearing person sometimes needs a good punch Deaf people feel vibrations the same vibrations hearing people feel if their ears are plugged Don and Dons rely on their eyes to on the telephone A lamp lights up when the phone rings he oh me Is hooked into a typewriter and deaf people nil over North America with these machines can send messages bock and forth It is real blessing to deaf people Don Soys Don was born deaf but Doris became deaf at age three when she had spinal men Don Is the supervising counsellor of senior boys at the Ernest C School works with church groups for the deaf Is a director for the Ontario Camp for the Deaf in Parry Sound They have been foster parents for three years and feel heir life has never been so meaningful Don and Doris learned to speak In a school In Halifax by feeling the teacher throat and nose Doris finds S hard lo pronounce and AND make no noise so have to be learned by holding a piece of paper saying the letter over and over be roll honoring the efforts of the Hills in raising funds for a gnnl application which will pay the entire cost of the rcpiirs Approval has been given for I 1 Hotkey games between and Including girls learns will How from to m T will dose until 3D in to allow tleoning ird nance facilities sold between the George reopening town Volunteer Ambulance Service and the I Club will start the evening festivities in I will be followed at 1j p m by demonstration by members of the Georgetown Skating dub who will tike part in the Centnl Ontario Sectional figure Skating Competitions next month grant committee membtrs master Ernie Sykes and Major Tom Hill will be piped onto the ice Pause to reflect The Georgetown Memorial Arena woi closed in the spring following an engineering report which showed It did not conform to standards set by the provincial ministry of was actionpacked With the 1976 final Issue of The Herald put to bed there been time for a quick tour of the year a headlines and stories that made front page news Inside news too When the new year got underway town council tried again to get some control over the education budget Ontario Hydro was closing in on Hills and Fine Papers Ltd and Provincial Papers Ltd made front page stories Also In January grocery stores over 2 square feet were closed on Sundays the Mealson Wheels program started rolling In The Herald shop foreman Garfield Mac McGllvroy retired after years service The Region decided It million headquarters to govern In The Herald tilt the headlines twice la February The first was when It announced that after III years of paid subscription It was going free to over ll homes In HaltoO Hills Following this achievement The Herald learned It had been Judged to be providing the best news and feature stories best composition and layout and best editorial page by the Ontario Weekly Newspapers Association for Its circulation class in 1975 and achieved third overall standing Continued 2 The home is used a church once month for deaf In Brampton and ind Milton area Bob conducts the service and his wife daughters teach Sunday school for the children downstairs founded camp for the deafinl Sound in 1J60 designed to meet the needs of young old deaf children A outgrowth of the camp was the development of the foster home program and group homes He is in charge of matching children with suitable homes Don and Doris find giving a child up hard it as being part of the role of foster parent Doris is glod they hove never token In a baby for she Is afraid she would not wont to give the child up There arc three other homes a pilot project was started In Milton called the Ontario farm Home for Deaf Children managed by Anne This couple has three deaf children of their own A Youth Hostel In Toronto was founded for young deaf adults who were In need of Ircntmcnt and training In a supervised This residence Is run by deaf couple under the direction of Joy Potts The third project Is a Group Home for school aged children in Paula and Jim Hardy a deaf couple provide an atmosphere of Icirning growing for these The gencrouslty of the lions Club has mode these homes possible Deaf children at dndultsarcnow leading happy normal and meaningful will continue lo do so ACTON HIGH SCHOOL DANCERS WIN 2000 Acton school students who Bumped for the Acton dancers win out over 17 other high schools In Lite dance to ereh tods or cystic soullKentrnl Ontario Nov Sponsor I by the club their citato The raised MO anucragootaboutRpcr Audrey accepting a cheque Seer That high pledge ratio enough for Elliott treasurer Kinsmen Club In