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Smyth to retire from Health Unit after years IBhour train ride that wound up it the Missionary Hospital In South Porcupine and Vena Smyth glad to have a position though he boarded South Porcupine months the recalls and the train I On June 30 years later Verna Smyth will retire York Region a director of community health nurses And last night her associates from the r shea VERNA SMYTH Miss Smyth helped start Yorks first mental She sees mental illness in its varying forms as an Increasing problem and It occupies more and more her ataris time Miss Smyth has been encouraged by the growth family life and day care centres as well as mental health clinics and such services as Blue Hills Academy for emotionally disturbed children for they reflect societys increasing awareness of the need to deal with problems that cant be cured by a pill or a splint They also province responsible agencies for from her community health nurses But perhaps the biggest change in the nurs ing programs scope Is its new stress on the family as part of revamping our program and tailoring it to the needs of the people Community health nurses have begun hold small group sessions with mothers to discuss the often puzzling and agonizing problems of growth development and behavioral patterns Sometimes the nurse counsels with mothers only other times the youngsters arc present as well Pre natal classes in Newmarket and Rich mond Hill have more than doubled since their inception In I960 and preschool clinics for four- Fireworks banned in King Township KING TOWNSHIP and discharge of fire- Dont expect any fire worts within the town ship at least not unless they are part of a pub reading of a petition lic display for which a permit has been obtain thc Schomberg Home ed and School Association Council passed a re- staffs of both the pare a bylaw to this el St Patricks Separate Registration on Monday for Yorks new day care centre Through it all Hiss Smyth has amazed her colleagues with an unending propensity for a determination to keep a step ahead of the times and an ability to provide a health gram that will change and expand along with societys needs I Personalty I think I would have been lost for rslnj her her r of health and social the past during some of the rough times at the health unit Verna has been the mainstay he said The amazing thing about her although the has reached retirement age Is that she has always been uptodate In her thinking and her programs She has remained flexible and re sisted becoming hidebound When Miss Smyth came to Newmarket the Health Unit didnt serve alt of York Shortly thereafter the townships of King Vaughan probably oriented Calgary and worked at Fort Nelson on the Alaska Highway before her discharge In she took her public health nursing j degree program at the University of Western Ontario then spent two years at the County Health Unit as public health nurse before completing her nursing administration I course at University Since arriving here In she NEWMARKET Church to the new day York Regions new New- care centre The section market and District Day for retarded children her masters Care Centre slated for will accommodate from Tufts opening July will youngsters aged stty in hold registrations next Under the this month She has tal Monday at the regional Ion of Williams en courses and done tot Health Unit on Tom Thumb now serves a research a St children three half- the Harvard University Registrations will be days a week At the new Child Cure Centre In not The children be Involved in a tie finite program of play ing and learning activit ies and will go on vari ous outings and field trips when possible the lcccpted expected program will expand I Originally the open- they Mothers on Income who may apply think the day Ire is simply and go Ill miss this associations she says i to spend her retirement resting brushing up on her golf St home A member of a multitude of volunteer groups she doesnt figure to be at a loss far work She also hopes to travel Nancy delays forced the later date Mr Stokes at project which In- Mi cully its July 1 Aurora OKs work on creek banks 100 per cent provincial construction grant Is to on the old York Manor Yon go and Eagle The centre will schoolers Pecs arc week for t child child Harris town last week gave the light to a retaign- of Tannery Creek am Aurora Heights Dr St I still feel the creek should be left In its state and Just tid ied up a bit modifit Authority to begin on the tie BOO pro- Mid its primarily signed for working mo Mrs Stokes stall Intituling a super visor already hine hired and will In iiiilnii on tin teacher at Alex- This is Millbank believe its the best cigarette we ever made Imperial Tobacco Products Ltd which is i Grey Coach terminal at St and Davis Dr For more informa tion Mrs Stokes can be reached at he Health the only wagon that can carry all these features HJ PFAFF MOTORS LTD 315 SI TELEPHONE 8952366 Sl FA 227 Main Street 8958142