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Manor celebrates silver anniversary Sunday IIFRAID Wednesday July By GEORGE Herald staff writer Halton Centennial Manor In Milton will celebrate its Anniversary Sunday with a parade rededicatlon cere mooy and a lawn party The public Is invited to Join Manor residents and staff and officials from the region and province for the ceremonies and a tour of the complex Morrow region chairman Waller Mulkewich a Burlington councillor who is chairman of the Manor com of management and Lawrence Crawford director of the senior citiien branch and office on aging for the ministry community and social services will be official at the ceremony Also taking part at the re- dedication ceremonies will be Dick the first chairman of the commit tee of management Dr Carl Martin chairman in and who will represent the Chairman since and Stanley A Allen Manor administrator since The parade gets underway 15pm at Victoria Park In Hilton Marching In it will be the Milton Pipe Band The Georgetown Legion Pipe Band the Burlington Teen Tour Band plus ZOO majorettes After marching down Main Street to the Milton shopping the parade will pick up Manor resident and the dlgnl for the last leg to the Manor ceremonies will start at and win Lived jaillike in home Time has not stood still In homes for the aged in Ontario Back in 1930 a booklet of rules and regulations which were in force for over 15 yean was printed for the forerunner to the Centennial Mao or the Home of Refuge and Farm of the Counties of Peel and Halton located In Brampton In fact in Jail have an easier time than those persons then mainly the poor the indigent those without moans of supporting them selves and the feeble mLid who were admitted to the homes The homes were ad ministered by the provincial department of welfare Persons possessed of mon ey or property says the old rule book or those receiving an old age pension could be admitted at the discretion of the board of management but had to pay per week for their maintenance Pregnant women usually were not admitted but If they were they had to leave within a year If a woman Inmate gave birth to a child the child was to be turned over the Children Aid Society before reaching age two When a person was accepted Into the home the or matron had to ensure the new inmate was cleansed thoroughly Men had to have their hair cut closely The sick excepted everyone was expected to work each day but Sunday Tasks on the farm or in the house were assigned and loitering was not permit ted Like some prisons the house operated on a bell system Says the rule book At the ringing of the morning bell every inmate the sick except must rise wash and be In readiness to proceed to the duties of the day It goes on The bell ring en minutes before each meal when all will leave their work and be In readiness with clean hands and faces for the ringing of the second bell when they will repair to the dining room and take such scats at the tables as are assigned to them by those in charge where they must ob serve silence decency and Trie residents retired at at the ringing of the retiring bell Discipline me led to to those who broke the rules The most severe discipline was solitary confinement or not more than hours except by direction or permission of the No one allowed to leave the ground without permission from the superintendent Strict rules prohibited in males from trading articles or clothing with other inmates or visitors or begging of per sons who visited the House of Refuge and farm Visit on were allowed every Thursday cither for two hours in the morning or two in the afternoon They probably not the cleanliness of the house and its Inmates for the rules also stipulated that Every be completely bathed at least once Annual toll Each year over a thousand Canadians die in water Most arc caused negligence Most con be pre vented Red In swimming or small craft safely this summer be one of this years drowning statistics followed tours of the comp lex and refreshments served on the Manor grounds For the residents however the celebrations begin Satur day afternoon when they will be entertained for three hours starting at 1 by the Ray Osborne Duo the Acton oilers and the Oakville liar The theme of the is years of Caring The roots of Halton Centen nial Manor go back to April when County council appointed a special committee to a Home for the Aged Before then Halton and Peel counties shared a and Farm in Brampton but rapid postwar growth in Ontario soon out stripped the home facilities The committee reported to council in September the purchase of acres of land on Ontario Street in Mltton was approved for the sum of A home costing was opened July by the Honourable W A Good fellow then Minister of Wei fare In 1950 a staff residence was freeing about 10 beds In the residence which was then almost Tilled to capacity By IS58 it was apparent that expansion was necessary to accommodate a growing de mand for senior care and an addition built at a cost of was opened Sept ember by the Honourable Louis then Minister This home was called House after Mary of Georgetown In 1903 a need study for a new In was and because of the foresight in the 1949 council in buying acres a new home could be built or run by the same admin is The new home con laming 150 beds for bed residents was opened 1907 and named Martin house after the founding am of Milton Opened by Nobel Drew Ontario Director of Homes for the Aged Martin house was designed so that another beds could be added later designed especially for Martin House carry the food to each resident and provide a choice of The food staff service staff also pre pares the for Milton and District Meals on Whtels program The married quart that married coup les enuring the home can continue to live their lives logetlcr There also have been married couples who first met married There is a busy beauty pari or looking liter the needs of women five days a week but the barbershop for Is open only on Morula on special Most of the residential bed designed to commodate two persons hut there are a number of single bedrooms for those who re quire private accomodation There arc several four bed accommodations The age at the mini is is years higher linn when It first start Stan Allen Manor told reporters on a recent tour of complex Since Its inception II residents have come and gone public address systems pew cushions for the chapel and special chairs and lifts for handicapped residents It lias about members and Mabel Cols on or Mil tun is its third president Lillian the second president SUMMER SALE Continues on All These Items