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Tho Acton Press Worirwuliy Mm I JENNIFER BARF Mario has been nursing nil ltd from time she look her training ami nerved during World War II In London to lt past years as a Saint John Despite a great many health problems of her own she always has time to help others and her husband George also a member of John Ambulance service worked round the clock assisting hospital evacuees in rceent train disaster You just t gooff duty As a young girl in war torn London and a new nursing recruit Mrs sow a great dial of the seamy side war Stories of the problems of for post operative patients during raids are made even more incredible by talcs of the extreme discipline forced on young nurses this time Twelve hour shifts were the norm for all nurses who were expected to live in hospital However they frequently worked around the clock without complaint You were so consumed with duty you Just Mrs explains If she did have time off at home rare Mr says she slept most of the time in the air raid shelter in the bottom of just grabbed your supper did your hour shift looking for fires incendiary fire bombs dropped on roofs and went out to the shelter at mi get through It I don think now In lit limca nurses would pin postopt patients place pnilwIKo puns on top and mnko everybody Wo got a In of a lot of ixpcrtenco wo had to do no ono taught you to In IIioms days seemed to have been us lltt lo moro than servants Makeup was A 10 nightly curfew was Imposed I hose hour ward consisted of total care of W patients under watchful eye of matron at floor desk If tho washing cleaning and gtnernl patient care was finished nurses washed tho walls floors did the mending anything that needed doing nllnwed to liavo that ward until the shift I an Mrs spent nine well remembered months on tho ward and nurses in this irtmcnt were responsible for cooking the other nurses meals as well as washing every of ward limn before it went to the laundry You send a thing to the laundry with a stain on It In addition to these strains war time nurses hid to cope with severe rationing and onions three times a day for three days in a row and a strict seniority system that amounted to an organized pecking order Mrs remembers was quite a rtbcl and nearly got kicked out for giggling In an operation The tension had to be relieved some how and Mrs Horbravc found herself chuckling at the spectacle of a surgeon trying to stuff In testifies back Into incised abdomen while the intestines had a mind of their own and kept pop ping out sounds like a laugh in sequence Is it any wonder that with this background Mrs readily puts up with long shifts with the Saint John Ambulance sitting through hockey tournaments horse shows car races Her many activities include newly Acton division of thi Eastern Star years as a dressmaker and needlework instructor bant John instructor as well trainer for itaint John cadets Sunday school teacher or the Acton Women Institute and bringing up a second generation of youngsters Evcn though she and turn seen their three children launched in the world they have undertaken he job of raising their 12 old grandson David as well as bung close grand parents to their other two small granddaughters Marie has given a great deal lo the Acton community it great to know some good things came out of World War Study limits to growth Another will likely be carried out to how mind sewage what the limits then an In and town Million tin riiion llie Ontario Ministry of tin mild in cost of III Hill nil iommlt by oik volt with flirty and Mori lay approved I h In hi hi to do discussion of Hie Name mediator in teacher talks Grant for Community Services Centre The of House The group Hilton home for got agencies have been year and was put into jeopard the firl part of grant licinnes hi Id last One of Ilk groups is the ices Centre got its requested This 1 percent received in 199 was due ihe the provides rent free space to the region It is considered to go out rent new offices would have cost mire linn increase sought pleas from people like Wright man of the Burlington Branch if the Canadian Red Cross to see guide lines From the heart stuck rigid lo allowing no more than in eiglil per cent in in funds over that Tinted in 1079 In some requests Tor even though funding was given list denfed such as local of the heart fund and Canadian Mental Health were cut iff groups also raise money on a national scale The rationale wis that funds in for these campaigns should be returned to the local municipality Willi few exceptions the applicants for Regional funding were all well in excess of the eight per eenl funding guidelines This figure was chosen from the out set as it is the allow increase pegged for the 19MJ Regional budget Many of the increases ire due cutbacks in otberareis Some groups the Ontario government is only going increase its funding by per cent Mile most of these will probably only increase by per cent Hie question of the future of Women s Place is hi Iriekiest one the councillors will have to Inndlc is asking lor 20 l cover the shortfall between the funds it has and the amount needed to arrive at a balanced budget The group hoi found the Central Mortgage and Housing Corporation and a private lender both are firm lliat the balance of the budget musl show no deficit before a mortgage to buy the dwelling In Milton will be allowed Well I thought we had sclllcd everything slid committee chairman Walter Mulkcwlch as Mrs Peggy before the committee Thursday The decision on the request plus the ad question of a letter of intent from region lo cover the 1981 loss of was to have been the first topic of discussion Tuesday While most groups were cut back there was some good news par for Itc- on 100 Recovery per cent increase this House has lost provincial funding andwlufe there are some hopes for vute the future looked dim that is until lommittce agreed the oof re quest provincial lion Relations Commis Martin Tuplltsky as mediator in the contract dispute between the Board of lion I of Secondary School Tea hers meeting elites have been set for Thursday and the week end helped bring the high school leathers and the board to in agreement once before Both sides in the current negotiations tided to make a joint for mediation following a seven hour bargaining session Thursday in Burlington Several minor issues were settled during the meeting Two weeks ago such is ply benefits retirement staffing ml wrrkinf conditions panted the I wo sides In a recent supervised vote ail but le idlers rejected the board non retro offer There ire over high school teachers in To ichors lor he in a row started he school ye working without a con tract Ihe iketrie lighted sijii in Acton is ihe Store Move futon Store lint J lie went up around Mi hot irif of The town bud been w if lengthy I itllc he own facts Hit of it was expand tin sludv include well George fowl if slud of si v pint mil limit lo frowlh tin Out Hoard mrflit proceed and i- contentious sub divisions and tin 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