At G hospital The Acton Fret Pre Wed December 1 1976 B7 LAURIE RYAN was just a little too late to buy this scrumptious twolayer chocolate cake Saturday at the Arts and Crafts Sale Someone had already bought it PEEKING INTO THE Christmas stockings to see if Santa Claus came early are Vanessa Thomson and Jennifer Thomson from near Silvercreek and Rhonda Case 9 from Limehouse The girls t really too disap pointed to find them empty The stockings and many other handicrafts and baking were on sale at the Limehouse Arts and Crafts sale Saturday ADAPT extended to include Halton Hills Space is being provided at Georgetown and District Memorial Hospital for the Alcoholism and Drug Addic Program ADAPT which has been underway in Region since 1975 and extendi into Hills December this year Mrs Norma program will be Georgetown hospital on a halfday basis on alternate Wednesdays Fred Morris hospital administrator says the hospital is pleased to be able to assist in providing this service to the community The Alcoholism and Drug Addiction Project ADAPT was started at Joseph Brant Hospital Burlington in February Sarah Saunders Medical Consul Addiction Research and the staff of Mail box stands since Victorian the Region Centre Addiction Research Founda tion were consul tant facilitators to the Department of this program for the management of alcohol and drug dependency Public health nurses from the Region of public health services have played a vital role in the project through case coordination and follow up under the direction of Miss Dorothy Craig and the supervision of Mrs Florence Hesson of Burlington and Mrs Phyllis Washburn of ADAPT arose from the recognition of the need In for assessment and treatment services for patients with problems related to alcohol and drug dependency Major goal of the project is the integration of community resources to provide a supportive treat network lor the dependent person This will assist the client to become independent and functional to be able to handle his or her own life effectively and to alter drinking or drug pattern so it does not create dependency and interfere with normal life times When Mrs Margaret Peel St made a visit back to England recently she look this photograph of an appealing old post box It has been there since Victorian days as proved by the letters The red painted mailbox stands outside the home of her parents Mr and Mrs Ernest Bridges at Clutton Hills Cutton near Bristol and Margaret Cohen and their family lived nearby before coming to Canada Mrs Cohen was last back visiting her parents in Sep tember In a world of constant change the Cohens are pleased to see the traditional old box remain i zed LESLEY JOHNSTON tries her hand at crocheting at the night courses held at the high school sponsored by the Board of Education VICTORIAN post box in this wall in England greets Mr and Mrs David Cohen each time they return to visit Dinner The members of the Golden Age Club were guest of the Rotary club and Legion at their annual Christmas dinner Tuesday Pictures in next week Free Press KOBES HOOK A kM Downtown Georgetc M Iton Mali Guelph graduate Shern Lynn received in French at the Fall Convocation University of Guelph Friday October She Is now employed in the language lab in of Languages at University of Sherri Is the daughter of Mr and Mrs R Akitt of Burlington and is the grand daughter of Mr and Mrs J Greer Poplar Ave Acton No meeting There was no meeUng of council Monday evening as councillors were attending Meet the Candi dates night in Georgetown Start the New Year with Colonel Sanders 977CAli Mun Commit MILTON 87B4171 r r r I r in sc if rHirrelirtnti Itk n rilClttkui Diet mires Minder I Mttrt rtipt illytirl Sinclers boys and g rls make I good chickenVxCCcL Si Grtrgtloxm functioning Mrs Norma the program does an initial assessment Interview of the clients and makes referrals to the appro priate community agencies Saunders is available on a one day a week basis to assist the with specific medical or psychiatric crises and to act as one of the Hal sons between ADAPT and the local hospitals and com agencies Dr Saunders and the program meet weekly with the public health nurses so the progress of patients can be evaluated A group session is conducted weekly at the Joseph Brant Hospital in Burlington for a group of clients by one of the public health nurses and the program Referrals of the clients to the project are accepted from patients themselves area hospitals community physicians and the public health nurses Referrals are also accepted from such com agencies as Family Court social services police departments and from churches local Industries and through Addiction Research Foundation staff the coordlnator and client design an individualized treatment program for him her Clients may be referred to their family for Antabuse therapy to A A or to individual or marital counselling to group therapy in patient alcohol ism programs or to other agencies In most cases the public health nurses make frequent visits lo the home of the client and act is case co ordinators and refer clients back to the program for further assess The usual outcome of this relationship is the patient becomes more interested in and committed to further treatment and request refer ra Is to other agencies The co ordinator maintains ongoing contact with community agencies and resources through attendance at confer advisory board meet ings interagency meetings etc There is a built In component to ADAPT to assist in project develop ment Data is gathered from the client initial interview from studying his records by interviewing the com munity agencies at six month intervals The client Is also interviewed at yeir in tervals to if problems became less problematic over a year to 18 month period Increasing numbers of referrals to ADAPT together with their distribution throughout Halton led to the suggestion the program be regionalized to offer services in locations throughout the region Project development is proceeding with the full knowledge and approval of all the general hospitals and medical associations within together with health and social agencies At present the ADAPT office is located at 323 Kerr Street Oakville The Addic tion Research Foundation has pre seed funding of the program on an interim basis from June to March LAKEVIEW CENTRE tot pel Fhorh On Staff Wo nature from CELANESE BIGELOW VENTURE CALLAWAY ARMSTRONG AND Lakeview Centre IllMslflSI ACTON ERIN TOWNSHIP COUNCIL Vote Jo Schneider Monday Dec 6 8 SCHNEIDER JO ELECT NICK HUNSLEY area councillor WARD ESQUESING for A PERSON WHO CARES TOWNSHIP ROCKWOOD EDEN MILLS REELECT WILLIAM H ADSETT for REEVE Be Assured of Continued Safe Effective Leadership founded on 9 years Current Municipal Experience guidance of professionals and adherence to the Municipal Act REELECT for Reeve WILLIAM H ADSETT Dec 6