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THE ERA Serving York County Since DAVID R HASKELL TERRY CARTER which Include the New Ad- J ALLAN MARTIN ssM JOHN LOTT Phone Newmarket 8952331 Charles St Phone Aurora Nursing homes need volunteers Volunteer organizations in central and north York Region have established an enviable reputation for service to their communities Auxiliary groups perform many important functions at York County Hospital York Manor Greenacres Home for the Aged and in many other community organizations However there is one area of service which for some unknown reason has been neglected The Private nursing homes homes for the aged and homes for special care are finding it virtually impossible to attract citizen volunteers according to Mrs Phyllis Level the director of the largest nursing home in Newmarket There are over elderly patients in the three major nursing homes in Newmarket alone Tender Loving Care and Newmarket nursing homes according to Mrs Love I No auxiliary organization for the nursing homes exists because there have not been enough volunteers available to form one Mrs Lovell who is director at the Newmarket Nursing Home on Davis Dr People are needed for jobs such as serving coffee or operating the twicea week tuck wagons seemingly small chores but ones which produce enormous dividends in terms of the pleasure they bring to the shutins When you are confined for a long period a coffee party or tuck wagon can become the highlight of your People are needed to help with birthday parties run a euchre club help with oc cupational therapy classes crafts and do all the other tiny timeconsuming things that patients Last week the road next week the river Could it be the power of the press The week before Inst we published an editorial critical of Canadian National on two counts for its refusal to cooperate with Newmarket in its river valley improvement and flood control scheme and for the lousy job the railroad did in repairing the Davis Dr level By CAROL We must use dollarpower likeaclub Letters to the editor letting for Remember those who served and returned writer urges There is no easy solution to the problem of violence in society By ROY GREEN upset about violence Violence in the media violence the streets and even violence on lh hockey rinks People it seems are punching ini king others at a rate unheard of to tins u and people some of them the unlucky recipients arc concerned A quick look at last weeks and discovered a veritable feast of incidents citing inhumanity lo his fellow man Right front page was a story about a guy who broke cops jaw According the The story the a fan of aging cowboy star Roy Rogers wnership of the sacked the cop in On the same page we learned that another man jumped into his truck dressed only in jockey shorts and aimed the truck at some kids who had apparently insulted him He ran the truck into a waterfilled ditch ami according to witnesses left it in a hurry with green slime clinging to his gentleman might have one of violence Other Era stories last incidents which cant One man apparently ai c the face with a door binge And in another cast a convicted of two charge- of saulted was man And if there is such a ml we have the instance of a youjj pie into the fact of a at Newmarkets Upper Canada Ma Judy is vestigation into violence in Uit auspices of provincial though Mr Davis television ifln i Ilk- rail Mi- lilli red Jiily ill Win 1 Hill Tin in lmi changes so quickly icMujIry are Columnist Jimmy once commented an actually be thai tin word is redundant because of tin Detroit lifestyles change every eight minutes When al court some rte trouble coping we react angrily of a movie Someone gets punched kicked or run over conventional P Ihc rim of society and kill a pile of rPe are led quietly away to a I Ringing in is mild rubber room not even knowing why they did thai already far ingrained what the Roy the had wait less thai professional hockey following a Urn malt lead dieses and else are of quality it fftt enough for the l people down punch their mothers generally conduct themselves pounder warning of and hums lor them It frightens me so much I want to coo it film is punch someone in the face And that par utu little pieces answer People are having that coping with life what is responsible If it were that in down wed have done and have the olved No it just aint that easy No or thing is responsible Its just a fact day are rubber people That way society does us in And wont Weed Short of that I cant better answer cheerful next