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Georgetown Herald (Georgetown, ON), November 12, 1982, p. 1

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Friday November tl IMZ Last chance to tour mill Area residents get final opportunity to tour the historic Beaumont Knitting Mill In Glen Williams this Sunday between 2 and The last open house affords a chance to see the 104year old mill In operation manufacturing work and sport socks before it moves to Hull Quebec Doug and Diane invite everyone to visit Beaumont one last time Tor a tour and a cup of coffee New film ready An Image Too Many the film by Georgetown aspiring director David Lowe will be ready for showing this month its director announced this week Right now sound effects ere being added and a musical soundtrack Filming was completed mid August and was followed by four weeks of editing BIA advance Ontario municipal affairs and housing minister Claude Bennett announced last week that Hills will soon receive an advance of representing twothirds of ihe province loan in aid of downtown revitalize Man Under the province a Main Street Program the downtown cores of both Acton and Georgetown will see new lighting road resurfacing landscaping and park ing Better than mudpies Let your youngsters explore the fun of moulding clay Nov and when Charts Pottery on Glen Williams Main Street holds its Fall Happening Proprietor Grace McKnight invites all ages to browse among the numerous Christmas gift ideas and enjoy mulled cider In the shop studio atmosphere The Happening takes each day from id a m to p Blood clinic tally Red Cross officials reported that donors attended the blood donor clinic Monday and donated ICO blood pa donations were rejected Tor reasons including medication and act he The Lions Club sponsored the clinic Riving with pater distribution and advertising The won the Kinsmen Club Bucket of Blood pro motion Tie next regular clinic for Georgetown will be not Sheila tells UWC about womens stru in politics MPP is breaking ground Diana Morrow above may be only nine but the know how to use The grade Hud used computer keyboard to set a mathe matical program In mot Ion With a keyboard very similar thai of a type writer except that has some mo the ma Ilea I com at well sludenU at For fie Kennedy School are learning to uie their fingers problems The TIIS and computers are Ihe moil commonly uicd computers for home small business and a Hon Celling practice on the in school library was Smith also 9 left I Herald photos by Anl Smooth sailing for Travelcraft thanks to Joan s generosity Herald Writer Joan Albert Is on the road a tot arms laden with craft books yarn fabric and needles The Georgetown wo man is a Travel crafts wilh the towns recreation department spending eight hours a week bringing the fun of creative crafts to the housebound For those for whom physical mobility is a problem and who are unable out or high school craft class Mrs Albert a one hour visits are a blessing Visiting both men and women Mrs Albert is teaching collage dried flowtr crafts driftwood Re merits decoup age quilting and knitting The program was started this September at the prompting of an lo rial therapist with the Home Care program Of course it belter to take a class with people You make new friends and see hat other people aredoing butifyoucant then this will give you some leisure activity than the television or books Mrs Albert said Dealing with a variety of phjsical disabilities she a leaning to cope with them In her teaching For suggestions on how get around some of them she has an ther to call on BEST USE It so challenge Mrs Albert said I working with gulsy people They re very lo make the best use of their lime and all their physical abilities She tries to get them doing crafts that require physical skills they have or else she does It for them Mrs Albert told of one woman who has only the use of one arm and Is unable lo use the scissors With her Mrs Albert does all the scissor work Right now there are six people registered In the program for the fall and any new registrants will be come for the winter ion To join call the recreation department a I 8775185 extension Mrs Albert Is looking for volunteers who can They don t have to be experts but should be famlllat with crafts The meeting limes are flexible to suit ihe timetables of the housebound and Ihe vol unteer she said One man in the prog ram is keen on learning Continued on Page By CHRIS Herald Writer As one of only six women in the provincial Hamilton Centre Sheila Copps has occasionally bucked gen related tow politicians The Queen Park arena Ms Copps told members of the George town University Women Club last Wednesday night boys club Despite derision from male chauvinists women are becoming Increasingly active in politics at the senior levels of govern men I and political parties are more sensitive to wo men among them treatment by the system of cases Ms herself Is a member of a special all party committee which has investigated wife battering In the province and Is expected lo submit a report to legislature shortly FIRST TIME Ms was elected to legislature for the first time in February 1381 defeating Incumbent member Mike Davison IShe lost lo Mr Davison by votes In the election This winter barely a year after her first elect ion victory Ms challenged five other con tenders for the leadership of the provincial Liberals She astounded just about everyone by finishing a close second behind vlclor David II I long after she assumed her teat in legislature when she was superficially wounded by a sexist arrow launched from the other side of house During one debate led by housing and municipal affairs minuter Claude Bennett a well pitched heckle by Ms slopped him abruptly In his tracks MINOR FUROR You re as had as your predecessor the housing minister fired back refer ring lo Liberal a only other woman MPP form member Margaret Campbell But as Ms Copps recall what initiated a minor furor in press was a rejoinder by a Conscrvat backbencher who told her to Go back lo kitchen The remark prompted the to call on the Tories to withdraw the remark Shortly afterward Ms concocted a suitable rebuttal She presented The Tories during quest ion period with a recipe book Including some selections of her fell Liberal members We not only want OUT women in the kitchen she said we want our men here too She dir ihe Conservatives an appropriate recipe for egg on face It wasn the last time the MPP would suffer abuse just because she as a woman somewhat a politic a oddity Since then she said she has received a Continued on Page POPULAR SHOW Local artists Grrtcaen Day and Reg have work featured In a large and exciting skew at the lawn a art gallery la centre The show sale will continue to Nov Art fan fat drove turned out for the opening Sunday

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