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> ) The Canadian Statesman, Bowmanville, March 20,1991 13 I'm One-Year-Old Hi, my name is Ryan Eliot Thiessen and I celebrated celebrated my 1st birthday on February 7, 1991. My proud parents are Lori and Wayne Thiessen of Whitby. My grandparents are Helen and Allan Thiessen of Bowmanville Bowmanville and Marilyn and Chester Lukasik of St. Catharines. My great-grandparents are Muriel Hall of. Bowmanville and Janet and George Bennett of St. Catharines. Happy First Birthday Hi! My name's Mathew Carter and 1 celebrated my first birthday on December 2nd, 1990, at my home in Bowmanville, with my Daddy and Mommy, Dave and Sue. My Gramma and Grampa Hartley, Nana and Grandad Carter, Uncle Jeff, Aunt Kathi, Uncle Steve, and Annette, all from Scarboro, along with my Uncle Kevin and Auntie Trish from Ajax, also helped me celebrate celebrate my 1st Birthday. Thank you all very much for spoiling me and for celebrating with me. A special thanks to my Cousin Dawn and my little friend Lisa for helping me open all my gifts. CRIME doesn't pay if you've had an ... OSHAWA SECURITY SYSTEM installed! $ RESIDENTIAL and COMMERCIAL ,. . , t ALARM (Limited Time Offer) . (Basement ceiling must be unfinished) Price Includes Motion and Fire Protection 799 * Free Estimates * No Obligations ' Workmanship (a-\ fi) Guaranteed ' 725-1041 FIRE, POLICE and AMBULANCE Monitoring Available on Request. Rotary Learns About Ma Bell by Lorna Miller "Mark Twain wished everybody everybody a place in heaven, except except the inventor of the telephone," telephone," said Bob Pocock in his classification speech to the Bowmanville Rotary Club last week. Bob__has worked for Ma Bell for over 17 years and has seen many technological advances in the industiy in this time. Blackstock Families Go On Ski Trip BY JOYCE KELLY A group of area families enjoyed the Spring Break skiing at Vermont. Those who spent the week in this beautiful area were Joan and Ralph Swain and Brett, Roy and Linda Bradbum. Mat and Amanda, Don ana Louise Swain, Stacey and Scott, Marg and Ted Kemp, Jeff and David, Sharon and George Wilson, Andrew and Josh, Carolyn and Brian Morton, Michelle and Bradley. Bradley. Glad to see that all came home safely. Last Friday guests of Mrs. Margaret VanCamp were her two nieces Sylvia Purdy, Toronto and Sonia Galligher, Ajax. On Sunday, March 24 at 2 p.m. the public is invited to attend the year end Carnival Carnival "Galaxy on Ice" at the Blackstock Arena. This special special production will bring to a close a very busy and successful successful year for the Black- stock Figure Skating Club. On Sunday afternoon a group of friends and relatives relatives surprised Karen Drap- er with a baby shower for baby Eric who recently arrived arrived weighing the amazing 10 lb. 7 1/2 ozs. Karen received received many lovely gifts after after which a delicious buffet lunch was enjoyed. This shower held at Karen's home was hosted Brenda Hellingman. There were 13 tables at the weekly card party with the following winners - Doreen Doreen Ferguson, Laurrena Bright, Verna Slute, Grant Bright, Nerta Masters, Bruce Bright and Teresa Berkers, low. Draws were won by Dorothy Edwards, Betsy Staniland, Grant Bright, Kay Beggs and Laurrena Laurrena Bright. Gerald and Joyce Kelly enjoyed a visit with Rev. Doreen Doreen VanCamp at Val Te- rese near Sudbury last week. Sympathy is extended to Brian and Morag Hamilton of Blackstock, Harold and Josie Hamilton of Port Perry and their sister Shirley of Kingston on the passing of their mother Mrs. John Hamilton, long time resident resident of Blackstock. Phyllis was very well known in craft circles for her beautiful work in many media. The funeral funeral was held Monday at St. John's Anglican Church. Sympathy also to Yvonne Christie on the passing of her husband John, after a lengthy illness. Craig Larmer will be leaving soon for his trip to China through the Advanced Advanced Agricultural Leadership Leadership programme. Best wishes wishes to both of you on these opportunities. The local Garden Club enjoyed a bus tour to the Flower and Garden Show - a real taste of spring. Along with the return of robins, things are certainly pointing to spring. As noted in the Port Perry paper recently, there has been problems regarding regarding space and each week news items have had to be omitted from this column by the staff of the paper. My apologies to those who are disappointed that these items have not appeared. We hope that the problem will be solved soon when more advertising is sold. "Now we have a system which does everything. You get computers talking to computers on co-axial cables harnessed by laser beams to installations all around the world," he said. This is. a far cry from the old operator-operated system system wnich hooked two people people together for a conversation conversation in the infancy of the telephone. "Now 350 million phones making 350 calls per second are handled by a sophisticated sophisticated system including fibre- optics and lasers located above ground and under oceans." The first operators were men, but the company soon found that men were too rude to customers and employed employed women who were more polite and understanding. understanding. Tom S. J. daSilva, Branch Manager of the Bowmanville Bowmanville Branch of National Trust, presented Paul Morris with a $4,000 cheque for Skate '88 at the recent^ Rotary Rotary Club meeting hi ' ' ~ leld at the Flying Dutchman Hotel in Bowmanville. Mr. Morris (right), a Skate '88 fundraiser, fundraiser, accepted the donation on behalf of Skate '88. OBITUARY- JAMES HUGH CARSON HOUSTON The sudden death of James Hugh Carson Houston, Houston, aged 48, occurred in Memorial Memorial Hospital, Bowmanville, Bowmanville, on Thursday, January 3,1991. Born in Orangeville and educated in Whitby Public and High Schools, he was the son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Houston. He was married in 1964 to Linda Colwell. A resident at 15 Little Avenue for 27 years, he had previously resided in Whit- He was an employee of General Motors ana a member member of Trinity United Church, the U.A.W., the G.M. 25 Year Club and the Bowmanville Legion Branch 178. He also coached and Today, the role of the operator operator has been reduced to emergency help only. "Canada is the phone- talkingest nation, witn 97% of homes connected to the phone system," Mr. Pocock said. This may explain why our teenagers are constantly yakking to somebody on the instrument. Although Bell is now handling handling more calls than ever, the system is being revised constantly to meet the demands demands of an ever-increasing business population. "By the year 2000," he said, The phone system must be capable of handling 1000 calls per second." The media uses the system system every day, not only to send stones but.photos, too. The police, fire and ambulance ambulance departments depend depend upon the phone system to aid them in their work. "The phone, with all its inherent problems, expenses and quirks is here to stay. It is an idea which has caught on," he summed up. ' Ernie Harvey introduced Mr. Pocock and Dal Dalrym- ple thanked him. Guests of Rotary included representatives from Co- bourg, Oshawa, Peterborough Peterborough and Sudbury. Nancy Locke was the guest of her father, Jack, and was presented with her travel voucher and money as the final Trip of the Month winner. John Brown reminded us to fulfill those pledges to Easter Seals. A1 Strike was given a fur- lined golf bag by the Oshawa Club in anticipation of his trip to Scotland. President Bill closed the meeting with the comforting thought: The money you pay back on a loan is not worth as much as when you borrowed borrowed it." Dr. Joe Pinto, environmentally environmentally speaking, reminds everyone to start a compost heap for summer garden fertilizer fertilizer and he urged members members to remember to ask for " paper bags at the supermarket supermarket check-out counter. That's all for the Rotary Club for this week. Common Sense Attitude When Helping the Blind by Lorna Miller What does one do when confronted by a blind person needing assistance? This was the question posed to the Lions Club at their recent meeting held at the Lions Centre on Beech Avenue. Diane Willis, family and children's counsellor with the Canadian National Institute Institute for the Blind, Durham Durham Region Service Centre, Oshawa, provided the answer answer with an amusing and informative video about Phil and Jim. In the video, Phil is the "hero" who undertakes to help blind Jim across the street. But he proves unequal unequal to the task - until he learns to adopt a more common-sense common-sense attitude to the whole proposition. Phil approaches the situation situation by over-compensating for his lack of knowledge by grabbing, shoving and shouting at Jim as though dealing with a piece of stubborn stubborn luggage. Lions International has helped the blind cope with the world and now is spearheading spearheading a Sightfirst Drive to prevent and eliminate curable curable blindness. But dealing with the sightless on a one- to-one basis presents problems. problems. They are the sort of problems most of us can't even begin to cope with. The video illustrates these problems by showing Phil going through the conspicuous conspicuous agonies of a sighted sighted person dealing with a sightless companion in a restaurant, restaurant, an art gallery, a taxi and other everyday situations. situations. Nevertheless, he and Jim forged a friendship in spite of the obstacles. Phil soon learned that the best way to help Jim across streets was to walk slightly ahead of him, holding holding his arm loosely, while guiding him by touch and voice. Viewers of the video were told to make the blind aware of imminent obstructions such as curbs, hydrants or steps. The blind person Diane Willis should be told which direction direction to také to avoid obstacles obstacles or climb them safety. Remember, when with a blind person, you cannot wander away on your own, leaving them to catch up. You must maintain voice contact if you want to check out something, showing them by touch and word, where to stand while waiting waiting for you. In the restaurant, Jim requires only the directions employed by pilots when sighting the enemy. For example, example, he might be told: "salt and pepper at 12 o'clock, Bread at nine and water at three." to deal successfully successfully with a meal. And, remember, Jim is blind, not deaf. The waiter may ask Jim directly what he wants to eat, he doesn't have to go through Phil to get answers to his questions. ngtc aiding the blind is to relax and use common sense. They will tell you where they want to go and what their needs are. Just be gentle, gentle, considerate and polite. The rest will work itself out. Diane told the Club that the Oshawa Branch of the CNIB provides services such as braille literature and the talking books to approximately approximately 763 people m the Durham Region. Of that number, 42 live in the Bowmanville Bowmanville area. The CNIB was formed 73 years ago by Colonel Baker, a veteran of World War One who was' blinded in battle. When he returned home, he found that there were no existing existing services to aid the blind. Under his guidance, the CNIB was born. "There are now 56 offices Canada-wide," said Diane. "Twenty-four of these are in Ontario." The Durham Region was serviced for 12 years from the Markham Office before the Oshawa office opened its doors. "As a counsellor," Diane said, "I provide counselling to not only the blind person, but the entire family. Usually Usually I only get to interview the person once, because the caseloads are crushing with so few counsellors. So we have to make the interview count. The CNIB provides I.D. and support canes, braille literature, talking book services, a course in matching clothing, personal hygiene, taking care of and cleaning the home as well as retraining and career evaluation evaluation services." The CNIB is at present in dire need of funds. It is a non-profit service which receives receives no government funding. funding. Birthdays were celebrated celebrated by Roy Turner and Ed Leslie. A delicious meal was prepared prepared and served by the Enniskillen Enniskillen U.C.W. That's the final roar from the Lions Club of Bowmanville Bowmanville for this week. FRANK REALTOR Paul Morris presented Nancy Locke with her travel voucher and travèl cheque at the Thursday, March 14, Bowmanville Rotary Club meeting. Nancy will use the trip for her honeymoon. The Bowmanville Rotary Club is about to launch a new Trip of the Month Draw, offering offering monthly cash and trips to those lucky enough to hold a winning ticket. managed many local hockey, baseball and soccer teams and was a past executive member of the B.M.H.A. Left to mourn his passing are his wife Linda, sons Shaughn and Michael and daughter Shannon. The Reverend Ted Colwell Colwell officiated at the funeral services held on Monday at the Morris Funeral Chapel, Bowmanville. Pallbearers were Messrs. Bill Hambly, Paul Stainton, Steve Jones, Glen German, Mike and Bruce Colwell. Floral tributes in his memory were received from General Motors, B.M.H.A., U.A.W., Orenco Canada, Valdi's, Checkers, G.M. 25 Year Club and Oshawa General General Hospital. Interment Bowmanville Cemetery. W. FRANK REAL ESTATE LIMITED 234 King Street E, Bowmanville Telephone 623-3393 [Tl Toronto Line686-1035 sssi LOTS OF YARD-$159,900. 3 bedrooms, 1 1/2 baths, fireplace in living room, walkout from dining room. Eat-in kitchen, fenced yard, Newcastle. Clean and pretty. Kellie McDonell, Sales Representative 987-5091 or '623-3393, WATERFRONT ÔÔTTAGE 3 bedrooms, fenced yard, 50' frontage. Can be used year round. 40 min. from Oshawa. $92,000. Carol Martin, Sales Representative, 705-324-9216 or 623- 3393. RANCH STYLE BUNGALOW Nestleton, 3 bedrooms, ensuite, spacious eat-in country kitchen, walkout to deck. Lot 75 x 200. Area of new homes. 25 min. to Oshawa. $189,900. 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