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Tho Acton Free Press Wednesday May 13 ir J W Personal view of terminal Illness discuss at May meeting Don Pearson of the Georgetown Kinsmen presents a cheque to Laura of High School for the LifeCystic Fibrosis program He also gave Acton High School teacher Bill Taylor a plaque In recognition of his organizational work with the fund High School students will Bump- for life May Acton is refuge for souths foster child Acton absorbs by pro portion more foster children than all other Hal ton towns In Acton we some of the best soil for transplanting children Hnton Children Aid Society director Ran Coupland told the Z Bennett Home- School Association meet big Thursday This town produces two to three times as many foster families by pro portionthan indicated Coupland And like old fashioned families the families with foster children take care of each other Foster parents In work in a hospitable way said the CAS director They will back each other up like old ex tended families Bennett Home- School Association in vlted Coupland to discuss the role of the CAS with schools as part of Education Week is somewhere In between what described as an open community with small families lack of solid church role and absence of local government and the closed community which has characteristic ally larger families local town council and the church as the centre of the community The open community seems to be more common In the rest of the region Coupland indicated that the Hniton CAS has more success in placing foster children in Acton than elsewhere in the region Other pictures emerged from Coup- Obituar Ethel Ritchie A resident of for years Ethel Gertrude Ritchie died April her home at 139 Crescent Street She was In her year Born December daughter of Joseph and Isabel Andrews Mr Ritchie married Herbert Lewis Ritchie June 19 at Grace Anglican Church In Milton She attended Public and Milton Con Imitation schools graduating from Guclph General Hospital as a nurse In She was affiliated with the Milton Gospel Hall Mrs Ritchie Is by her husband daughters Isabella Mrs Don Heaven of Mlnden Beth Mrs Earl of and Laurie Mrs David Johnson of Milton sister Hazel Andrews of Milton and six grandchildren She was predeceased by brothers Henry and Joseph and sister Isabel Marsh Funeral service was held April Shoemaker Funeral Home Rev Robertson of Knox Presbyterian Church and Mr Murray Regis of Milton Gospel Hall officiated Interment was at Fobview Cemetery Pallbearers were grandchildren Douglas Robert and Jim Johnson Paul and Carmen Bream and nephew Keith Andrews Hon land talk Acton is In step with the rest of the region in single parent families There been a per cent growth in the number of single parent families M Bennett school principal Doug Magwood estimated ten per cent of the children In the school are from single family while about four years ago the per cento was just over six often spoke In terms of trends What statistics indicate Is go ing oil The family of the future Answer is The Blended Family Us the most rapidly grow log That one where the woman has some children the man has some children and they put together a family Coupland painted a bleak picture of the fate of some children In contemporary society Child abuse Is rising tide as the family shrinks The CAS director was optimistic though The one institution which remains important In the open community is the school according to For a new comer to best meet the community It is through the school The CAS is another important institution Where families fall apart in open communities the CAS has authority to step in a place a child in another home We have about children In our care at any one time estimated that about threequarters of that figure are cases of life and limb The law we work with determines the welfare of the child In two steps said Coupland The child may become a CAS ward for two years when efforts are made to place him back In the family or he becomes a ward of the state and may be adopted The school has a critical role The child must make the ad in the family and the school Often the foster child will feci he is a second hand child It not good feeling So It s Important to have good environment Coupland urged the homeschool association to join he school in helping it join the community The next meeting of the North Pallia live Hospice Caro Interest Group will be held at Acton District High School on May at This is the third meeting In a scries of four that are planned for this season The guest speaker will be Karen RN who has been diagnosed as having a potentially terminal illness Mrs will discuss her own feelings and tlons to the disease and her personal experiences in a hospital setting as a patient with a nurses understanding In his series of meetings there Is a focus on the needs and ex of the dying and their families with he hope of stimulating community interest and involvement In Palliative Hospice Care Karen Ferguson of Glen Williams Morguarlte Knechtcl of Milton and Eva Sansom of Acton arrange public presentations and distribute information to interested persons The organizers are looking for support from com unity groups and ore available to speak at group meetings At the last meeting in Milton the topic of Bereavement was discussed The Reverend of Toronto ferentiated between an Individual and a person In the following ways 1 Individualism suggests independence living lives separate from the group This may isolate and lead to loneliness and estrangements Suffering is done alone because one ends to respond to suffering with the idea of being vulnerable and thus one withdraws from the community 2 To be a person is to cooperate Interdependent and to live in community with our ftllowmen It is to enter into the journey of life with others and together face hopes struggles death The concept of Hospice is based on the idea of personal rather than individual contact Getting involved is sharing one life and in caring Tor the dying on this basis requires the statement I willing to experience this pain for each time another person dies a part of us dies with them Although this pain docs not get easier with every con tact the other side of this coin is that every per sonal contact the other side of this coin is that every personal contact between two persons enriches both lives measurably It takes a great deal of emotional energy to protect others and oneself from the Idea of death and to carry out the pretense and denial This applies equally to the dying and to their families and friends What Is left then for sharing and living Where is the dignity In a lonely life no matter how close to death Because of the emotionally taxing ex perience of sharing in a death Hospice Care takes Into consideration Ihc needs of the survivors and Ihus can provide measures of support and relief that help to rein te grate the bereaved gently back into the community It is important for example to understand grief takes a long to work through for if rushed it may create physical as well as emotional problems Grief may lake several forms and although the use of formulas when dealing with people strongly discouraged three general phases may be identified These phases may also be similar to the grief ex perlcnced by a patient Informed of her terminal Illness 1 Numbness and shock The person seeks to protect self from the loss and needs emotional distance to lick the wounds He or she Is able to moke every day decisions but not com ones The feeling is of isolation being totally lost suspended animation something like holding one s breath As Ihe numbness wears off anger and or guilt may surface but as these cm lions break through so do other emotions and one is able to breathing again 2 Disorganization As Hie numbness subsides there Is the feeling of overwhelming loneliness and sadness This may include self pity weeping sleep problems In contrast to the initial withdrawal the need here is for personal in sensitive caring to facilitate the ven Illation of reelings The person needs to acknowledge the impact of the loss to talk about loved one about death and often since It may not occur until several weeks or months after the Initial shock and by then relatives and friends have lost the continuous contact with the grieving person They may unknowingly the expectation that grieving should be ended and may not be willing to listen lo reminiscences about the life as it was or accounts of pain endured Reorganization If the grieving Is allowed to take its course without rushing to get It over with the bereaved slowly begins to ex perience more and frequent peaceful periods a lessening In the intensity of sadness and a willingness to renew participation In life At this time the person needs to make sense of what has hap pened and to accept control for Ihe further development of his her life Neither living nor dying Is easy Helo Is needed to be born one cannot journey through life In Isolation and help Is needed for dying The word Hospice means a community for travellers along the way a place for replenishing refresh ment and care Any feeling of community cannot but enhance the welfare of all involved thus everyone benefits The whole idea behind Hospice can only be achieved there Is time to listen to understand and to care This idea Is as Important to the terminal patient as it la to the survivors People tend to forget a dying person is still alive growing and can still contribute to life so these opportunities are removed from his or her control then the living are frightened to think they can be so disregarded when their turn comes Hospice Palliative care seeks to correct these mistakes so that everyone may live with dignity until they die and in this way the legacy that Is left behind will make the grieving easier to bear Doug principal at M Z Bennett school and chairman of North Music Festival a cheque worth to Betsy head librarian of Halton Hills The money was leftover In the Festival 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