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The Free Press Wednesday Nov Grateful family returns crib monitor Jlio She down know how or why but Nancy Howard sensed and moved with out question into the living room of her Milton home to find ber young son had simply stopped breathing Nicholas Howard then only a leu weeks old had Mien victim to a deadly syndrome known by the catchall name of crib death Although there has been much re search and many theories crib death remains a pt enomenon barely under stood But Nancy Howard had been over taken by a feeling her son was going to die It was a feeling so overwhelming she simply walked away from helping her husband Rick put up a shower rod in the bathroom I can t explain it A sort of thing came over me Itwpsafeeling so funny she said Did she know her son was In the death sleep of crib death Yes I knew that if I t do some thing immediately he was going to die Mrs Howard said What she did was start shaking the child violently hoping to bring him back to consciousness somehow Later she would find out this is the best method known for saving the life of a crib death afflicted child as it keeps the blood circulating The baby was rushed to Milton Hospital and then taken to McMaster where he was given over to specialists who revived him This Nicky Howard with the Apnea Monitor In bis crib But there was a problem Nicholas would have to stay at McMaster until the oneyear danger period had passed He would be kept in a crib with an Apnea Monitor This device senses when a child stops breathing and sets off a loud pulsing beep not unlike the noise of a smoke detector The monitors are fairly new and also cost more than each Be cause they are only sold to hospitals the Howards faced the unhappy reality of ihelr child to a hospital for a year Dr I an Hunter of Milton Is the family phys clan and a director of the Halloa Lung Association He started to telephone other members with the idea of using some of the funds raised In the annual Christ mas Seal Campaign to buy an Apnea Monitor for the Howards Cec president of the association said those calls got the ball rolling and after encountering an ob stacle or two the Howards received their monitor In February of this year Well that b what the money for Mr McFadden said it shows we are benefitting the members of our com munity If that machine helped to save Just one life then the amount spent to pay for it was more than worth it Mrs Howard said the machine has alerted her and Rick many times in the past year You see what they call crib death and I don like the term is like a deep sleep It a sleep so deep that the child just forgets to breathe at least that the way It has been explained to me she said She was always with the aid of the monitor able to get to little Nicky In time to revive him berore he was too far gone Saturday marked the point when Nicholas now 18 months old has passed the danger point when crib death strikes youngsters Mr Howard said with this point passed he started thinking about the monitor and what It could do for other families We have used it and without it we might have lost our eon Now the danger point is over I got thinking about perhaps giving it to another family in he said The machine has now been returned to the association and Mr said the group will hold it in storage until it can be used again We will give this unit to any family who has a child who may die due to crib death he said Anyone who could use the monitor can call the Oakville office of the Halton Lung Association at Mr McFadden said the machine is just one way the association is trying to prevent lung disease in By buying Christmas Seals the people of Halton made it possible for us to buy the machine for the Howard family the kind of thing we are trying to do he said The Christmas Seal fund campaign is now in full swing Mr McFadden said of the target has been reached and letters to households in the region should be going out this week I hope Mr Howard said every one will help In this campaign I can never thank all those people who were so helpful to us in Nicky But I can understand from our personal experience how the money people give towards Christmas Seals is paying off A squeeze from Santa Clara and Maggie DeForest get a big Christmas hug from Santa Ian Tuesday at the annua Golden Age Christmas banquet put on by the Acton Rotary and the Legion Adrlenne Kovact was I be top girl a list In a recent Fire Prevention Week contest Fire Prevention officer Brassard made a special presentation of a calculator to the winner at Smith on Teacher John Murphy Acton student wins mention Winners of the fire prevention poster contest were named today by the sponsoring Region Fire Prevention Committee and Burlington girl and a Milton boy have been chosen first prize win Cynthia Stoffela a student of John Calvin School in Burlington was the top girl poster artist in the contest First prize boy was Michael of Burlington The fire prevention committee selected the winners from area winners named in each town in Theme the poster contest was McConnell a student of Holy Rosary School in Milton Honorable mention prizes were also awarded to Kate Hartnett of Oak vllle Adrlenne Kovacs of Acton Gerald of and Paul Fire Prevention in The Home and only students of Grade Five age were allowed to enter The six winners will be presented with trophies at a meeting of Halton Reg Council early in December The two first prize posters 11 be entered in an all Ontario competition Captain Peter Camp bell a fire prevention officer v th li Oakville Fire is CI of the Fire Prevention Committee In this year The group fire prove personnel from four fire departments who meet monthly to plan regional prevent on cam On the Seems there a patriotic tl ief around town The flag at the Chicken and Spot was reported stolen this and apparent it s not the first time One would think anyone who loves his try lo want a flag would be a good enough person lo buy 1 s own While on Ihe topic of flags there are a few around town that if stolen have enough material to diaper a new born baby some places nice bright new flags blowing in the wind others I the tattered of what used to a symbol of our country mentioned but I don even have to look far to si e war lorn Is Santas low stirred up CI r sin as ten Saturday He I soon all letters he I as rccc ved from Acton and girls wl Her relun address on their letters McLeans of Acton father Lloyd and son Ross came up w at tl e Fa r last week Tw of II r roadsters placed fifth nllchkestakc lean over and sixth in the buggy stake ut a eld of about ACTON COMMUNITY SERVICES CENTRE Mill SI SERVICES In ion ItjtlCHc Coming Width County v4 Strum Private and Confidential 8533310 The FantBStJcVW RABBIT and Automatic OPEN SATURDAYS BAZ MOTORS Were slobs Information night at Sunshine School Continued from Page mannered or inhibited your choice era could not bring myself to use And the language of today students from Grade one to Grade whatever would curl the hair 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