Ontario Community Newspapers

The Era (Newmarket, Ontario), September 21, 1977, A10

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ii 0iWrf V a v A TO y r a IPS j ft f ft J Ml i J J v rfK see I bat in Nemartf Paul iogln more little in the groups up coming production of Ike Sfcikttpirtan classk We are sure that those to aUer4MpMilaISHyihg but tome to an NTT this week The play will open In the old town hall auditorium St Oct and will run Oct 8 15 and is at pm Tickets for individual productions can tip purchased the door or at Info place Upper Canada Mall Seasons tickets are available from Rourke ancers GwlHlmbury names ew season at- According to Harvey Society competitions in and senior Country who operates Toronto or the societys cost cents per evening are moving the group along with his social dances with the money going he group which wife Vida classes are Also over the past few into a fund to purchase every Tuesday taught from to books years dancers have been supplies for the club The take up of Scottish dancing and entertaining in the at the Aurora the objective is fun Aurora area for special Public Schoolon who show a events and citizens oh St for the strong interest can either groups season which graduate to Royal Classes which are na Scotlish Country Dancing divided into novice run from to pm Anyone interested can simply attend the first session Oct or call Mr Jamieson at committee SHARON Stewart Blizzard and Russell Pollock were reappointed members of the East Gwlllimbury property standards committee by town council recently and Angus McGregor was appointed for his first term on the committee BELHAVEN Branch 556 Royal Canadian Legion have been planning a new addition for five years Recently they have been watching their dreams take shape The 60 foot two- storey building will contain a mens club room downstairs washrooms kitchen and dance hall upstairs the dance hall when completed will ac commodate ap proximately people and will be available for weddings etc Construction began Aug and already 100- 150 tons of earth has been removed and pinions and foundation laid Work is speeding along President Dick si mm ys v i if 1 I r I I vv a taste Among contemporary smokers mildness is the word What are looking at is a new answer to that quest for mildness Maurier Special Mild Its not the mildest cigarette you can Available in King Size and smoke What we have produced is a cigarette with all the quality and style of du only milder If you have a taste for something milder pick up our elegant silver pack today j if ll v Si V Warning Health and Welfare Canada advises that danger to health increases with amount per cigarette 100 mm 14 nicotine King Siie tar 09 nicotine a Stockdale said they hope to hold a Halloween dance in the new hall The building com mittee for the project Is Tom building chairman Jim Sum mers finance Moe Carpenter field super visor Dick Stockdale president Bill treasurer and Sam 1st vice- president Debentures of each at per cent over five years are being made available to members and general public at the Bank of Commerce In town and will help the legion continue the im portant project The legion is primarily a charitable organization for veterans and their families with a small number of associate members While the main function of the organization is to assist veterans when the need arises they also sponsor ball cubs for local boys and girls Money received on poppy day goes directly into a poppy fund and is used for one purpose to help veterans In need Symphony director forms choral group RICHMOND HILL A new choir is to be formed under the direction of Clifford Poole music director and conductor of the York Symphony Orchestra which will function in dependently but in co operation with the York Symphony Mr Poole teaches music at the Royal Conservator of Music in Toronto and has also taught at Pickering College in Newmarket at University of Toronto and was head of Music at the University of Western Ontario He will be starting rehearsals on the Mozart Requiem Mass and Handels Messiah Sept Anyone interested In singing is invited to join will be held in Public School in Richmond Hill at 8 pm A new distinctive logo Identifies the brochures posters of York Regions community orchestra the York Symphony Orchestra Local artist has charac terized the initials YSO with the horn the lyre and the drum to represent the main sections of the orchestra the winds the strings and the per cussion Dr who Is a physicist by profession has received awards for his artistic work His particular specialty Is ink drawings Novice dog trainer scores out of WILLOW BEACH Frank of Willow Beach had never seen or been to a dog show before this year He trained German Wired Haired Pointer Heidi under the direction of the Dog Training School Heidi entered competition this August during a big obedience trial held in Oshawa Out of three show trials she came home with a score of out of Thats not bad at all considering that Heidi is under a year old and others competing are between three and four years of age n Friends invention provides for legless man NEWMARKET When the gets lough tough get going Thats the way is with and his friend Herb Galbraith anyway whose battered Irish face has been wellknown around this town for many years recently lost his second leg to a surgeons scalpel at York County Hospital He lost the other leg about a year ago Both had to be amputated as part of his con tinuing battle with diabetes the one last year below the knee he more recent amputation above it But that wont keep Hugh down Not for long at least With the help of a ropeandpulley In vention built for him by his friend Herb of Davis Dr which Herb in stalled in Vincent St home before he was released from hospital Hugh is selfpropelled The machine consists of a monorail installed from Mr bedside through a hole cut in the wall to his bathroom A sling like a parachute harness is suspended from it on a allowing Hugh hoist himself up pull himself along the rail and tower himself onto the toilet s- In a similar manner he can lower himself into his wheelchair or onto a trolley cart and move around his home using ramps previously installed for him He can even get down to his workbench in the garage said Mr Galbraith The system which was both designed and built by Herb Galbraith is made up of parts stripped from a used Volkswagen an automobile seat belt harness and a barn door track Mr Galbraith who is a machinist a radio and electronics expert and has owned a garage was par ticularly interested in helping his friend of years because know what help means at a time this Involved in an automobile accident several years ago I was pretty badly smashed up and picked up for dead at the scene he ex plains Installation of the track created the biggest problem for the inventor The Vicent St house was built by Mr during World War when building materials were scarce As many people in Newmarket did during that period he and used aircraft packing cases Ill bet there Isnt a twobyfour in the whole house over four feet long said Herb and some of the ceiling rafters were found to be almost inches thick He drilled at 20- inch centres and needed hanger bolls 20 inches long for the track m He told The Era that before Mr could use the machine his doctors had to approve it and his therapist who helped design the sling gave her blessing too Herb not going to stop with one successful in vention While visiting at the hospital a couple of weeks ago he saw a motorized wheelchair sitting in Ihe hall just what needed but a way beyond his budget Herb asked permission to try out and after reading the operating manual was soon scooting around the halls Now hes quite sure he can motorize handoperated model Then it will be on to his car When Hugh is ready to drlye -mechanic- sure he can equip his car with con trols to make possible a 1 I a

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