16 Poe 3 STATA P Seen EATEN EEPPENE SEM: bexset s the One man's opinion © ‘” By FRED MERRIMAN old folks y Let’s talk about the old folks who are walting to die.. What can | say? You can see them at evening meal with bibs about their necks being spoonfed by ‘practical nurses who must be dedicated, everyone, women who must now be tended as small babies. }» to serve full grown men and. Eighty years of age and required to have your diaper changed three times a day. Wanting to speak and the stroke will not:allow you to form:the words. You want to listen to words you cannot hear or see a warm smile that is hidden behind an uncertain vision. .- ‘Where now are all your dreams? What projects and: plans shall remain undone? What do you think of the élections, ‘old timer? Can you still remember the coal mines at Natal or knocking wheels for the railroad? hat are your plans for this'summer, or. next week for that matter? Are you blissfully unaware of ‘your, perlod of walting? ’. ‘ A Your visitors advise that. they leave youalone because you and. your » environment depresses. jhem. The ” as you are now. Do you:mind? E ~ Personally, you amuse me. The humor hi y would rather.remember you as you were, not 3 the sadness which requires Men and women to pass away in pieces. Each time losing a little more dignity and human potentlal. Wi at ridiculous things your visitors: say, You spoke haltingly of * jatting: ready.'’ You sald that everybody is wandering around getting ready and | sald . you are talking Ikea boy scout ‘‘to be prepared." Your fellow fraternity club, Member found It amusing. Hi wheelchair. All you said.was, ‘‘yes, tike'a boy scout.’’ looked like he was going to fall out of his You could:not see the color of my. sweater. and | am sure you cannot ° remember me or the time | raced had a pain In your chest. it must be unbelievably tonely living.tn tl you up Ymir Road and you complained that you _ " place with the dead and dying. You can't putter around.In the basement’ making cedar chests and things. Or dreaming of another Invention that-will make you rich some day. No more do you nod your head to the rhythm of that-oldtime fiddle music. Sad, I say. So sad It Is funny how.:you and your fellow outcasts sit there in your wheelchairs or lie abed day mountain peaks on the Prairie. y after. endless day without visitors as common as’ There’ are a few, very few who know of-your situation almost: akin to the felling lepers must have had In an earlier day. Who wants to sit around an old folks home and stare into faces which have no hope when the sun is shining outside? I di : on the outside. "t. My opinion is shared by those ~ I will not name those who care, steadily’ ind faithfully with and without pay: , because you know who you are. Thank-you, from the rest of us. $6.6 million poe allocation for summer youth employment In the summer of 1980 many university and high school students will be look- ing for jobs in this com- munity. In order to increase the number of jobs available to students the Employment Development Branch of the Canada Employment and Im- migration Commission ad- ministers a program called the Summer Youth Employ- ment Program. This program Consent cards available to adult donors Health minister K. Rafe Mair reminds British Colum- bians that special consent cards are available to any adult who wants to donate. vital organs after death. The health ministry's organ donor program started in April; 1978, and consent . ecards have since been sent out with new and renewed driver's licenses. Mair noted that some drivers may have been too young to sign the cards when they received their first li-- cense, *. “Some of these young people may since have turned 19, the age of consent, but it could be several more years before their licenses are due for renewal,” the minister said. “In the meantime, those who want to offer a legacy of continued life for a fellow human being can obtain donor consent cards from any public-health office.” 0, cover the wages and employee benefits for students, working on; community ened The projects must be sponsored by an established non-profit organization “or local government wishing to carry out activities. in ad- dition to their normal,. on- going responsibilities. The Projects must: be .of com- munity benefit and create a minimum of three jobs for a minimum period of six weeks aiid ‘a' maximum period’ of 18 weeks.” This year a federal location of $6.6 million create approximately °3,500 jobs for students throughout British Columbia. 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If your ‘organization wishes to put sonie students «to work this..summer, ap- plication forms and further details can be obtained at your nearest Canada Em- ployment Centre or by con- tacting Duncan MacRae through the Employment De- velopment Branch at No. 307 - 471 Queensway Avenue, Kelowna or telephone 763- 1181. rie The. ‘deadline ‘for, .’the Summer :Youth' Employment ~ Program is March 28...~ ‘Salmo Scouts hold: parent ‘son. banquet Viegisll Hartman, prest- dent of the’Scouting Group Committee, served’as chair- ‘man and . mistress; of | cer- *.emonies at the. annual ‘ban: quet and entertainment’ of the “Parents and Sons”, held ga B ceeded the Fathers and Sons gatherings of ‘preceding years, Altogether, there were . nearly 80 prosent, © t . “+ Béaver leaders: present. with their troops. were ‘April Hearne, Fran Troyan; Louise Robertson, and Hene New-:. ton; Cub’ leaders ‘with their troop, Brian - Blake, | Lyall Street, and Terry) Hearne, who also is: assistant district commissioner;; Scout leaders with their troop,’ Dale' Jack- man and ‘Arnie Anderson. «| Syecial: out-of-town | guests from Nelson were Bill, Ransden, regional ‘chairman; Lowena Ramsden,’ assistant : regional commissioner ‘for Beavers; Bob Hendrie, | dis- : trict commissioner, with his wife Nan Hendric; Jack Rod- dis, district’ chairman, with his ‘wife; Shirley’ Milne,, as- sistant district commissioner, with her husband, Brian; Bob Thompson, assistant: district, commissioner; Ian Hendrie, activity leader for South Slocan Cubs. y President Henry Stvast, with his . wife, represented © “ Salmo Royal Canadian, Le- gion. 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