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HOMEMAKERS
CELEBRATE
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inst week John

T have lots of them, some many months old, but they are
all embryos and have no real existence until they are
written down. Furthermore with the Rotary newsletter
to be done today, the Zuckerberg Island 1985 Calendar to
be completed for the Chamber of Commerce by Friday, a
workshop on Saturday, a church service to prepare for
Sunday, an out-of-town school tour of the island for
Monday and a two-day heritage study with an official
from the B.C. Heritage for Tuesday and Wednesday, who
has time for thinking about columns over a week away? If
l ever go into business for mayself I'll be able to retire
within one year.”

John's voice again: “If that means no, how would you
like to do something on the Meals on Wheels program?
They have an anniversary coming up on that date.” Some
people are very single-minded.

“OK, let me have some data.”

The Meals on Wheels program, for the benefit of
those who are as ignorant about the matter as I was, is
the step-child of the larger support group known as the
Castlegar and District Home Support Service Associ
ation. It is this group that is celebrating its 10th birthday
this weekend.

‘The Meals on Wheels is « plan suggested by a public
health nurse and a member of a parent group, to ensure
that elderly and convalescent citizens are properly fed. It
is in its ninth year of operation.

From a Castlegar News article written by Linda
Hall some time ago on the Castlegar and District Home
Support Services Association, the association operates
within the boundaries of Castlegar School District and
has as its objective “help and service to seniors, shut-ins
and handicapped citizens so that they may remain

F “healthier and happier in their own familiar surroundings

Mrs. EM, Dinner, an original Meals on Wheels
member and RotoVilla resident.
— Casttows Photos by John Charters

This seems to me an eminently sensible concept,
adopted in essence, incidentally, by the equally sensible
Chinese countless centuries ago when they established
the practice of paying their doctors only as long as they
remained in good health.

It is obviously much too sensible for the Ministries of
Health and Human Resources since, while the operation
beeame more efficient and sophisticated and clients
increased rapidly jn-ember, the geoverament made.cuts
of 20. per-eent-im the hours of service in June i196) and
anothé? "13" per ‘Grit in December. t's because
according to the Alice-in-Wonderland theory of
the bureaucracy, it is cheaper to keep people in a hospital
extended care unit at $68.60 a day ($2,068 per month) or
$45.50 per day ($1,365 per month) at the lodge, than it is
to keep them at home with a homemaker at $100 per
month; to which may be added the non-financial mental
and physical health benefits that the client receives in the
inter-personal ionship with the in the
client's own home.

Unfortunately, under the dubious banner of restraint
and the Ministry of Health's cutbacks, the homemakers
have little time for anything but to move in, get as much
done in the time available and get out.

Such “frills” as human relationships are not cost
accountable and therefore cannot be considered; or to
phrase it in the lines of Goldsmith's poem “The Deserted
Village:

“Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a pray/Where
wealth aceumulates and men decay.”

The full-course meals which cost the clients the
princely sum of $2.26 are prepared in the hospital
kitehen, packed in insulated carriers and picked up by the
Meals on Wheels volunteers and delivered — if Al
Richards, Louise Gjennestad and Marg Foubister are any
indication — with a smile and cheery greeting,
right to the client’s table.

I counted 19 dinners on the carrier table which
means that 19 Castlegar citizens not only got a hot and
sustaining meal, but what is equally important, a
moment's cheery warm human contact as well.

to the hi

DISCOVERY
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THURSDAY

LEADING SERVICE...
The Christian Girls in
Training group led the
Castlegar United Church
service last Sunday. The
group — which includes
22 members — enjoyed a
special cake and cottee
with the congregation
after the service.

COUNCIL CLAIMS

Toys promote violence

OTTAWA (CP) — Toy manufacturers are increasingly

using violence to market

their products, says Julie

Creighton, vice-chairman of the Canadian Toy Testing
Couneil.

By selling toys with violence, the manufacturers, and
not the children, decide how the toys will be used, she said.

Violence “is

is promoted in that way. It’s better for ghe ehild to
determine how he wants to play with the toy rather than to
set up an environment beforehand and expect the child is
going to copy that.”

Creighton pointed to Tonka’s Machine Man, a gadget
which could be changed from a robot to a train or a

by the fi we

being pr
feel, more than it ought to he,” Creighton told a news
conference to publicize the cotncil’s 1985 Toy Report.
“The child will still enjoy the toy whether or not the toy

Group boycotts
sale of war toys

TORONTO (CP) — He may
be tough, ruthless —' and
more popular than ever —
but a group of Toronto pac-

the sales of war toys in 1963.
The main target is G.1l. Joe

products, but the group will
try to stop the purchase of

toy guns and games that
suggest killing and destruc-
tion.

Barrett said G.l. Joe toys

“A mercenary’s job is a
ruthless one. A soldier for
hire, like a pawn shop gun,”
reads Bludd’s message on the
back of his packaging.

An original accompanying
poem — discontinued by the
manufacturer but still sold on
some store shelves — urges
people to cure their blues by
taking up a submachine gun
to “make the suckers jump
and dance.”

Teacher to speak
on world religion

A religion teacher from
Surrey will speak to stu-
dents, parents and other
community members in

bers at 7:30 p.m. at Kinnaird

A grant from the Secre
tary of State and the support
of the B.C. Teachers’ Fed-
eration has allowed him to
visit scores of schools in the
past two months and speak
with hundreds of students.

, Last year the company sold it wihhout violent
overtones and ‘children who tested it enjoyed it, she said.

“Every kid thought it was neat. It was just lots of fun.”
But now both Tonka and Hasbro are selling more violent
versions of the same toy, she said.

“This year we just can't have a really neat little toy that
converts from a robot to a vehicle . . . what we have to do is
set up the good guys and the bad guys.”

TOY RENAMED

She said Tonka’s Motorcycle Man has been renamed
Cy-Kill. “That is pretty blatant. That is a marketing ploy
that is unnecessary.”

And the package for Hasbro's Transformers shows the
figures fighting a laser battle, Creighton said.

“There's another one we have not tested, a product by
Irwin, the advertising said ‘It's evil in motion.’ I don’t think
that's necessary. It's necessary to produce quality toys that
the children can enjoy, but not to carry it to that extreme.”

Spokesmen for the Canadian Toy Manufacturers
Association, Tonka Corp. of Canada Ltd. and Hasbro

Sheriff jam
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TORONTO (CP) — ‘wo
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are being recalled country-
wide after glass was found in

WIN

Industries of Canada Ltd. were not immediately available to
comment on Creighton’s claims.

Despite the problem with marketing, Creighton said
that in general the quality of toys has improved over the last
five to 10 years.

‘The 1985 Toy Report, which now is being distributed to
book stores, rates about 1.400 toys as highly recommended,

or not ded.

‘The council tested the toys with 200 families in the
Ottawa area. Ratings were based on how children reacted to
the toys over a six-to-12-week period

Toys were given a notrecommended rating for a
variety of reasons, Creighton said.

“It may be a functional problem, it may be a problem of
durability. And sometimes there are toys that the kids are
not interested in. It's jusr boring.”

Often a toy will be moved to the recommended list if a
simple problem is fixed, she said.

Some manufacturers do change their toy if the council
finds something wrong with it, Creighton said.

But the council does not know how its recommendations
have affected sales, she said.

“Unfortunately when you look through the discontinued
listings you find a great many discontinued toys that have
been highly recommended (by the council) as well as the
ones that have not been recommended.”

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