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The En Wed October BUICK REGAL IS EVERYTHING ITS NAME IMPLIES See it at SLESSOR MOTORS LTD NEWMARKET AND BE SURE TO SEE ALL THE GREAT NEW PONTIACS BUICKS CADILLACS GMC TRUCKS big SAVINGS ON OUR Councillors should hold majority on police commissions York Elected regional court- the York Regional should be in the Ice Commission majority on regional pel- pointed by Blindness just nuisance to Yorks new CNIB district administrator MANS 2495 1972 1971 1495 1969 DATSUN STATION WAGON FOR ONLY 1972 PONTIAC only BUICK SKYLARK REELECT JOHN ROBERTS Liberal YorkSimcoe CATALINA on 1972 GRAND PRIX Come out today and Test Drive our Demos or Brand New car Were Sold on Service LESSOR LIMITED See TODAY NEWMARKET 8952351 He Works For Yoo Sponsored by the Liberal As accomplished difficult to tragic interview unnecessary accidents said Mr Clements who had boon a Newmarket high school student at Hie lime One half of all blindness neednt happen Someone was fooling around with a shotgun and didnt know it was loaded The gun went off hitting him in the head frankly about his tragedy how it plunged him Into lite depths despair and of his long slow journey back through rehabilitation lo a useful mid fulfilling life Today he is the man In the field covering the Region of York the County of District of Parry Sound the District of and Palls His case list totals And in the Regional Municipality of York alone there are blind people lies been doing this work for the past posted first to Sudbury then to London Ontario The CNIB has two objectives he told The Era One is dealing with the blind people them teaching them to be independent and to navigate on their own and two the prevention of blindness wherever possible Blindness is no respector of age ho pointed out An of six Canadians go blind every day And we spend 165 great deal of l groups and informing the public WORKS IN SCHOOLS A lot of our time is spent in schools he continued What bettor place to vvirn snow bills spitballs bow and arrows all the hazards to our eyes which come up during innocent horseplay There are blind people In Canada Mr Clements told The Era One half of them didnt need to be blind and Im one of them Its better lo spend a few bucks preventing blindness he stressed than to rehabilitate a blind person The CNIB he went on lo explain is desperately in need of financial support This private nonprofit organization is faced with rising costs costs beginning to exceed its income Wo must seek out new sources of income he told The Era and were looking to improve our income in the Region of York To function CNIB needs the support of the community morally and financially PEOPLE CAN HELP People can help so much by offering their services said Mr Clements For example they can join advisory boards as volunteer members Recreation he continued is very important Recalling his own first indescribably painful days of darkness he said the turning point for him came when he was asked to join a square dance group run by volunteers Our whole program is geared to making a person self- arrived finally Thats why I can serve my blind people he told The Era Because Ive been through all this horror ACCEPTANCE TOOK TWO YEARS After the accident il was a couple of years before I would i be blindness Id up with lltosc silly hopes that tomorrow Id be able to see After Mr Clements job in industry ran out he began to realize the importance of education While the Ontario School for the Blind in he met his wife who was teaching Grade throe nearby They were married in in Burlington One small incident summed up the whole picture for me was during the Clements trip when they slopped for a soft drink 1 messages i the Clem holding up the had laughed but I Inquest adjourned VANDOHP Ex- Testimony revealed mini He said the peo- ivilnessos will test- opinions on pic excited and out iet week at an in- ihe number persons of control and would not ii in ho lake it the time Rive ground even when Village favors proposal the voted for whether to proceed his aid in constructing against and were not not He said if the sewers and contacted divider now receives Under the scheme Out of a total village and provincial a sewage would be treated assessment of 2865612 for his by as yet experiment- said treasurer a formal petition will land spray system Jack Hopkins gathered in the