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The Herald Second Front THL lit RAID Wednesday August The fullsize paper reaching more than 12600 homes in Halton Hills Lei so way More picture on page 16 GVAS seeks volunteers lly GEORGE Herald writer A few years ago when Georgetown was much smaller and no one hod ever heard the name Hills there were over 100 men on the roster of the Georgetown Volunteer Ambulance Service GVASt Today the town stands on the brink of a population ex plosion which will begin when some politician pulls the plug or hits the switch to gel- the expanded sewage treatment plant going In the fall that roster Is down and the has discreet recruitment program un How s It been The John secretary of the 20yearold service The ore especially deslreous of recruit shift workers who could be on duty days Mon days to Fridays Got any takers sank a little deeper Into the couch in the comfortable basement of the GVAS new home the old fire station at Chapel Street and Guclph Street He pointed across to a reclining rocker where IB year old John Buchanan relaxed Buchanan a recruit with six days service Under his belt was riding d man that night with Doug a year veteran and Paul Bennett In a day or two or perhaps that very night there was a call he would suddenly be given the nod to go ahead while one of the other two stepped back Into third man a brutal introduction perhaps said later but certainly one for which Buchanan or any volunteer has been prepared Buchanan said he had been to a couple of accidents where he watched the GVAS in lion tie got interested and knowing the deputy chief Eric Stone was enough to tip the scales He had his application In on his eighteenth birthday In his first six turns at duty he To become a member of the service Buchanan or any volunteer for that matter needs lo hold or acquire by the end of this year a Class F driving permit said He also got to have a first aid certificate but If he hasn the GVAS have quail fled Instructors But those are Just the preliminaries What also needed Lightowler said Is enthusiasm A strong stomach helps he added then laughed but not realty Your mental state which under ordinary circumstances might be shocked or horrified at an accident scene turns off he said It becomes a Job dolt The messy things are few and far between he said and are overrated It Is also good to be in up standing citizen but the most important thing have is the ability lo be calm to think before you do he said All that needed to be work when your is going full bell and little light he lobb minutes r in the rn he Rather than e described feeling under quite frightening ran fear of the unknown is ambulance butai turned on a You v automatically You don get Involved in else joim around The volunteer be he drivir or attendant and the roles art reversible has total ton ccntration on the job at hand- trying get the vital signs of respiration pulse and blood pressure all going before he run to a hospital anywhere In radius If then is blood loss and volume of loss Is noted for the Information The more you can tell him lid Ihc belter 1 r inirigt of in Thcv I hi Mho till If rtobk quart of bunks hilt ttorkir if tin house is tin and in is bike rs bin i with them lliitn bed and off II drive tn I tiki iff from then iiimisi volunteer mi ints In It To the uninitiated there not difference between rol and skate board than they stand on skate while there is a roller skate on foot a kind of mini skateboard if you like But differences there arc and the major one is that roller nowadijs takes pldce a rolle rink where young and hold hands hilt the loud musin makes ition Impossible Any hill in Mils and Is right for skateboards settle the burning Hon Which is better roller skating or skateboard The visited Georgetown Memorial where there Is roller skiiing three nights weekly Skate boarding Is more fun said Slavin 10 If that how he feels then how roller lo try it he I don like And despite being rounded by stores of roller there were a surprising number who agreed with Dive Matthews likes boards better because fun he said You don t have to go I Fourteen year old Martin also prefers skate boarding because you can do tricks Skateboarding is belter it easier said Itob You don t have to put them it easier to stop But predictably there were many who preferred roller skating like Jodie McQuame 17 who his been roller We ill come every week she told The Herald However that she t tried kate boarding but for kids it Kartn Weatherall 14 said Holler skating Is Ihc best I don I even know how to skate thinks rol lir ski is better because It lot more fun as docs Ten terns 17 who prefers roller skating because I better at roller skating than at boarding Son a and come Ihc roller rink because hire no place near their hi use in the country to roller sk or skateboard Holler Is easier said Christ Her sister Sona ob served that skate boarding is for the Utile guys or They ve got lo try something But Sonja con eluded skateboarding takes more lalcnl tint IfjhlUV ill Id middle of last about hour Kid if ml Ihe than the them it I to be years John Buchanan who bai been a member of Georgetown Volunteer Ambulance Service for only two weeks washes down an ambulance Both ambulance have an extensive checklist the volunteer follow at the beginning of each lz hour shift Oftentimes it is quite a tint Hi chore to get on injured person Ins 1 1 to the ambulance for tin mil then hospital trip it they are at the bottom of a ravine other trapped in a car or In the am but penthouse of a high rise and Ijjitnwii that volunteers need to lc is be familiar with the assort is of crowbars fin axes chains ropes mil i rcsuscilallon equipment in Ihe wimn ambulance iii who