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Till- Jan 3 KICK THE HABIT IT FEELS GOOD New Year s Day fell week and many made resolutions Ihey have vowed to keep throughout the coming year Perhaps some even vowed to give up the greatest crutch or all cigarettes Rather than lighting up this morning they reached for a candy or piece Rum However giving up cigarettes is not an easy task but It can be done and it has been done Wall a at Stedman Department Store did It three years ago and says she would never return HEALTH Mrs Wall who is now started smoking when she was 16 or 17 mainly because it was something to do Five years later she realized smoking was starting to effect her health We were d day and I I thought why should I bother I knew I wouldn even be able to finish t and that was it I quit And it sure wasn easy she adds But I knew if I had even one cigarette that would be It so I had to resist lighting that one However she adds the urge toqult has to come from within Nobody can tell you quit You really have to have the desire to give up cigarettes or you won be able to do it I had been told about how much damage cigarettes can do to you but it never had any effect on me But once I decided I lOycorsold and all my friends he says Not wanting to be fercnt guess I just lo try it and then kept on When Mr Gracs dec to quit last year he las smoking more than one potknge per day he rcihzed cigarettes lust t agreeing him I fell like a cigarette as soon I lit up I didn t want it anymore but felt smoke it anyway I decided cigarettes t doing me any good and made the move to quit ve been off since but it sure was difficult for about the first five months I haled be around who smoked and always wanted to have just one cigarette Mr Groves had quit for f months the previous vear like so many other smokers couldn stand it and started up again Now that he is off them he says he will never go back I don l even think about cigarettes anymore and it bother me to woleh smoke I guess It II Bob soys he now feels much healthier because of it I don Eh like I used to and it II feels good it I d lit CARUSO who owns a fruit market in Georgetown smoked for 40 years before being scored out of the habit The greatest improvement he noticed was the loss of a cough he had suffered most of his smoking In the three years she has been off he habit she has returned to its hold only once and that was for wo weeks TRIED IT When we were on last summer I decided to try smoking again I smoked far the duration of our holiday but when we came home stop Mrs Wall said she got headaches from smoking when she tried it again and says she will never light up another one for the rest of her life has just been this past decade the public have been made aware of the hazards of smoking with government regulations to force manufacturers to print war nings on packages and public campaigns to disclose the many hazards Documented evidence shows cigarette smoking to be a cause of heart and lung diseases such as emphysema a crippling Illness that fills the victim s lungs with a heavy fluid National surveys have shown a decrease in the number of smokers yet the sales of the burning tobacco sticks con to soar higher than ever PEER GROUP Many young persons arc introduced to the habit through peer group pressures in high school Bob Graves circulation manager at The Herald was one victim of this but has now kicked the habit Till- cashier at cigarettes three years ago Department and says she feels great for Store is pictured sirving a doing so Before working customer She up here was a cashier in a cigarette More and it wis a bit difficult to quit whin she wis selling them Neither Mr Graves nor Mrs Are you smoking right now trouble Just ask Then Bob or Wall had smoked for more than How does it taste Well you can Enrico They did it and feel five years but about the give it up without too much better for it now person who has smoked for twenty or tHIrty years Many of these people must feel it Is impassible to give up cigarettes after having them for so long YEARS Cnruso owner of Fruit Market smoked two or three packs a day for years and gave it up instantly about four years ago Mr Caruso said he was scared out of smoking and insists he will never touch another cigarette went to dentist and like what he said was mouth Mr Caruso explainer He sent me o specialist and he gave me two choices He if I continued smoking the problem would get worse but if I quit it would I walked out of bis office threw my cigarettes away and I haven touched them si net Mr found it a little trying rst said he had few problems in giving up his lifetime timpani on Mil I I stubborn sometimes i Ihal wis just one of Hose Hints Besides doc tors really had nit sored and hire was no I is going does not remember how he king he does know be wis quite surmises it was because of peer pressures lit ex pencilled from it wns a sudden weight gain brought on by food consumption to fill the gap opened not smoking A pouluc I not ted v is lie loss i I used to cough terribly while I bul ih has left me now ind it good let me till HUB GIlWIS circulation and says now he doesn miss at The Herald it all Laic up cigarettes last year Children Raise Money Several children living on Met Crtseent spent singing carols lo raise money for the children at Georgetown District Memorial Hospital They went to house on Ihtir street singing carols and raised a of They were by Mrs Perkins The children were Bonnie Connie and Robert Van Horn Kim Sherry and Jamie Perkins Dime Pauline Terry and Tim and Mark Hornby They out big thanks to all who listened to them sing demited money New Years Means Many Resolutions But Just How Many Will Be Kept The new year again past were always broken very this week and with it the soon after She has only tradition of making resolutions smoked for two years but still Some may have decided to feels it will be fairly difficult throw away their cigarettes others might have decided to be pleasant to their mother In law but no matter what It was it won be easy keep It seems that many are not so willing to face the pains that come with resolutions and thus will not make any But others have something hey want to dispose of and will put forth the effort in the form of a resolution 1NLIS Gene of Georgetown is a student Sheridan College in and his resolution is lo get higher marks in the coming term I guess that will have to be my resolution and that will mean Quite a bit more studying 1 really hope I II be able to keep it but I not sure if I If I make them 1 II break them so why bother I mode them other years and It never works It ends up so I feel guilty when I do break them so this way I don feel guilty JOHN McADAM John of Churchill Rood wants to lose weight and claims this is the year he will do it This will be my resolution and I will keep It he said la lively I know in the past my resolutions may have fallen by the wayside bul this one I intend to keep TOM Tom Eastman of Main Street he will not make any resolutions and claims that he never has and never will I like all my habits so why I I give something he stated There Is no use in stopping something if I don want to or If I like doing it He added that some of his friends will probably make resolutions but if It is like any other year they won t be able to keep them Mr Eastman works at a foundry in Guclph will His other resolution he says is a bit flippant but he hopes to moke more money and adds that he quite sure how he intends to do That one I really want to keep though JOHN John Cameron who is visiting in Acton from Athnta Georgia said he doesn t really want to make any resolutions either but says it is because he just ean I be bothered worrying about keeping it He phnncd to stay in Acton until alter new years day but said he would hen be going back without new resolutions JNIC Janice McClung a Kingham Road housewife says she never even thinks about making resolutions There no reason font she odds and she and her husband never bother In Georgetown resolutions are some as anywhere else Some people have them Some people don t Many people remarked that they were afraid of adopting a new year resolution for fear of breaking RON KNIGHT Ron Knight of Hit Georgetown said he didn hove any 1974 resolutions 1 never have my resolutions he said I think that Hey pre good things for someone who wants to quit something though II ATI Robin Halt a grade 12 student at Acton District High School does not share the same pessimism about resolutions and says she has one In mind I smoke far too much and I want to quit so I guess that will be my resolution she asserted I don know if I will be able to do It but I sure I cut down at least She says the only thing discouraging her Is the fact that resolutions she has made in the MRS JOHWNSON Mrs Robert of Main Street South says she should be more patient with her children and when she goes into the new year she hopes to be able to do It I should be more patient with them so I II try Also I would like to cut down on my smoking so I guess I II try two resolutions Will they be kept Who knows Mrs C 1 Acton never makes resolutions and says it is her policy not to do so I live each day by the golden rule so there Is no need to change just because is new years hope I can be nice all year so there would be no need for a resolution Mrs says this has been her policy for as long as she can remember and she doesn intend to change it MRS Mrs Van Dan Look says she t keep one if made one so she doesn bother anymore If I could keep them I would make them she explained But I can t I found out other vears so this year I will keep safe by not making any at all and then I won be able to them milium cot However Mr and Mrs Richard Acton have decided on their resolution and It will a effort The pair want to get back into shape togelher We are going Join a physical fitness ex plained Mrs Coe We re both in pretty bad condition that will help us get healthy again Mr too said todo it because it will prepare him for the approaching Rolf set JOE- SMITH Joe Smith of Dclrcx said he never made new year resolutions The only time I made resolutions was when I was nine or ten he said I vowed never drink to excess not to marry until I was thirty and not smoke Although Mr Smith started smoking cigars at the age of fifty he maintains he has kept all his resolutions The big thing he said is to In control of vourself Debbie of Young Street shares the same pessimism and says she will not make any resolutions either ItlXTIKf PRINTING FOR ALL YOUR NEEDS THE HERALD 8772201 LIMESTONE ALL SIZES GRAVEL FILL AND TOP SOIL BUD HAINES 3 DURHAM ST OR MRS JIM Im Mrs Marion Jumper of two resolutions for the year I wmt lose weight and I don want to nag my husband she said candidly Those are my new year resolutions To quit smoking is the new resolution of Joe Penney or Duncan Drive Georgetown I going to try to quit smoking he said and ve done it ii past Mr Icnney said he kept taking up smoking after he had quit and said he found new year s resolutions pretty hard things to keep George Traeey of Drive was quite forceful in I Is reason ng bill nd his ever making i resolutions I never make them he said When 1 say I want to do I like to keep mv word Otherwise 1 lose faith in invself Mrs Simpson of j2 look mailer of fnel viewpoint on new resolutions I don make them she aid I net or keep them Mrs Hi rlnra McQueen found that In eoulii utter make dull IIS I used lo I I anymore she said I break them too there you hive random sampling of new year s resolutions and the lack of Hills area how about you Do you make resolutions Or do just makt wishes Congratulations to tons daughter Mr and Mrs Clark Lyons of and Brian Robinson son of Mr and Mrs Norman Robinson of Brampton who were married United Church on evening December 28 I rcvious to her wedding was honored with veral showers Her cousin Mrs K and eight of Gayle high school friends visited her in llumbcr Memorial Hospital when she was a patient there where they held personal shower Mrs Edith aunt of the bride held a miscellaneous shower for the relatives at her home in Hamilton A cousin of bride Mrs Shelly was hostess for a kitchen shower the home of her mother Mrs John Lyons for the family relatives Mrs Hugh Webb was hostess far a pantry shower for neighbours and friends Mrs Brampton entertained friends and relatives of the groom and they presented the couple with mirror and a swag lamp Aunt of the bride Mrs Marie Brampton held a bathroom shower and Church Women held a miscellaneous shower Following the rehearsal Mrs Norman Robinson mother of he groom entertained the wedding parly at her home Mr and Mrs Robinson will reside in Pauls Church Sunday School enjoyed their annual Christmas concert and birthday party for the baby Jesus on Sunday afternoon December 16 The pupils of each class decided on what they were going to do for the program Mrs C of preschoolers acted out The Porode of The Wooden Soldiers to music Mrs faddy Drown s class of ft tear olds did Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer and Mrs s class of 10 vear olds acted in pantomime I Saw Mummy Kissing Santa Clous vhlle a few of the girls sing the song the program lunch was enjoyed with a cupcake com with lighted candle for each one representing the irlhdav of the baby Jesus into arrived gift ranges and candy were utcd Norvai Church Friendship held a gomes night recently at the home of Robert and Karen Carney and was enjoyed Euthre winners were Mrs Davis and Jim Davis second winners were Mrs Harold and Harold Reeed The enjoyable evening was planned by Elmer and Lillian Carney and ended with a pot luck lunch and a social time with a good number in at tendance Mrs Dorothy McLean BUSINESS DIRECTORY OPTOMETRIST L Brown R 0 OPTOMETRIST R R Hamilton RO I Mounts nv South For CHIROPRACTOR G Corbett DC MM Street Georgetown PHONE Chiropractic Clinic 130 Guclph Street ONTARIO LAND SURVEYOR Robert Clipsham Ltd ft Mo nv i BARRAGERS Dry Sh IB Ml St S Free 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