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Heartfelt sympathy extended The members of Branch ISO ex tend their heartfelt sympathy to our comrade Terry and wife Manna and their children in the re cent loss of a beloved son and brother SICK CHAHtMANS REPORT CHARLES TUTTY 8770618 The latest visitations included comrades Duke Wilson and Bill Glbbs at the Bennett Centre Ray and Jim Collier both at home I am pleased to report Ray and Jim are improving thanks to care and attention of their families Dropped into the Bennett Centre to visit Bill and Duke Bill was in fine fettle inquiring of com rades Hennessey and English I was happy to report to him both Matt and George were in excellent health Duke was resting during my visit I did not wish to disturb him but I will see him again at a later date I wish to inform the many friends of Sidney Irvine I was in contact with his wife Alice in San Cove Acres and she informed me that he was back in hospital in and in failing health Alec Goldie or should I say King of the Bars is continuing his exercise routine and according to Legion Lines MG TUTTY Branch 120 PRO his wife Sheena is doing well but not quite ready to set any records Alec had been in touch with many of his friends since our last report Keep up the good work Alec Recent visitors to our Branch were Jill Lefebvre home Branch 255 Windsor Les and Horner and J and Elsie Mossop home Branch 66 Minolta Manitoba home Branch no We wish you all a safe journey home Plymouth Committee Meeting On Monday August at 8 pm in the lounge at the Branch All members of the Branch are more than welcome to attend Reminder for Warriors Day Parade August 1990 The distribution of the free family ad mission tickets to the C N E on Warriors Day will be by mail In dividual veterans must write re questing tickets and enclose a stamped self addressed envelope to Warriors Day Tickets Box Station Toronto M4P They must give proof of their military service Personnel Number and name of their unit For further information see branch bulletin board Car Club Draw August 2 no Jerry Bell no Clark Gibson no 222 Max Stafford no Ross Walters no Carrie McFarlane no 363 BUI Weir Friday Night Euchre Ladies 1st Floss Tracy 2nd Mae Tost Most Lone Hands Beatrice Har rison Mens 1st Vi Hewitt 2nd Bob Darling Most Lone Hands Charles Sheppard Meat Draw Saturday Aug C C Watson H Allen P B Porter W B Dunn A Ford Steven son Yates Stevenson The steaks were won by Kerby Con gratutations to all of the above lucky winners Thoughts We do not inherit our time on this earth from our parents We borrow our time on this earth from our children Videotape can be both a blessing and a curse By GIL HARDY Ottawa Bureau Thomson News Service OTTAWA For film archivists like Vosikovska videotape is both a blessing and a curse On one hand videotape is ideal for showing rare archival footage too fragile to be exhibited in its original form But original material on videotape quickly becomes inaccessible as changes render for mats and viewing equipment ob solete Even things which are being produced now you know that in five years maybe 10 if you are op timistic you can play it unless you keep the playback equip ment says Vosikovska acting director of Canadas Moving Im age and Sound Archives The videotape dilemma along with film deterioration and the handling of dangerous nitrate film stock are just some of the every day problems facing the archive In a time of government restraint the national repository for Canadas visual and audio history has to be increasingly selective when it adds to its collections Vosikovska who came to Canada from Czechoslovakia in has about 2 million to spend this year on acquisitions and service to the public Budget in creases over the last five years have not kept pace with inflation Its a problem which all ar chives are trymg to resolve There is just so much matenal to sort out and decide what you can keep and look after We just can t take everything in and let it rot on the shelves she says Gil Hardy Kf Ottawa Bureau Tliwnu M Once a film is restored it still must be checked regularly for shrinkage or rewashed to prevent deterioration The collection is housed in six climatecontrolled vaults the National Archives Building a short walk from Parliament Hill There are more than film radio and television and assorted sound recordings with a total run time of 180 hours NITRATE STOCK Film footage on old and highly flammable nitrate stock is stored elsewhere in Ottawa until it can be transferred onto modern safety film It was a disaster involving nitrate films that led to the crea of the archives In a fire destroyed millions of feet of nitrate film stored by the National Film board in an old airplane hangar at Beaconsfield Que The fire followed years of government inaction in which more than half the films produced here between and were lost through deterioration In the fires aftermath Ottawa authorized the National Archives to collect unstable nitrate films SHOP LOCALLY WIN LUCKY LICENCE NUMBER HERES HOW TO WIN Each week The Herald will select a licence number from the parking lot of a different Halton Hills retailer and publish that num ber in this feature the owner of that vehicle then has seven days to claim his her prize of a FREE Lube Lube Oil and Filter PLAY THE GAME WIN A LUBE OIL FILTER FROM THIS WEEKS NUMBER Prize Includes the HERALD Hilton lit Etlabllihed UP TO 5 LITRES OF10W30OIL OIL FILTER LUBE If and transfer them to safety film A separate division of the National Archives devoted to film became official by Last year the film archives fielded more than inquiries from film TV and radio producers educators and researchers says the number of in levelled off about five years ago That was about the time we became completely saturated we couldn do any more Lack of funds has prohibited hir the staff needed to research and catalogue and serve the public Anyone wishing to view archival footage faces a twoweek wait and that if the material has already been copied The material itself pours in from the NFB TV networks govern ments film producers private collections and companies Last year some 15 hours were ac quired down from 26 000 in the previous year Among the finds was footage showing Eldorado Mines operations in the Arctic and the Calgary Stampede a large from Aluminum and footage of the Charles Bedeaux expedition across nor them British Columbia using Citroen tractors EDISON SHORTS Some of the earliest films shot in Canada are preserved in the col lection Made by the Edison Com pany in 1897 the silent black and white images of our past show bag gage and horses being loaded on a train bound for the Klondike Off to Grandmas Baby and bear both snooze during a Guelph Street stroll Five- month old Marie Graham and mother Stacey enjoyed the fine and took a stroll on Guciph Street on their way to grand mas house recently Herald photo New nursing home beds for multicultural use beds to the three cultural com munities whose bed proposals were rated the highest and where need was clearly demonstrated The health minister offered an extra 20 beds to Metros Chinese Greek and Ukrainian com munities Each has three months to respond to this offer Health Minister Elinor Caplan has announced the licensing of new nursing home beds dedicated to multicultural use Mrs Caplan said annual operating funds of approximately million bad been set aside to support the additional beds The allocation meets a commit ment made by Premier David Peterson to invite proposals from profit groups to establish nursing beds specifically tailored to meet the needs of Ontario s diverse cultural communities We wanted nursing home that were linked to their communities programs for the elderly Mrs Caplan said in settings that felt to their residents as much like home as possible In addition to the beds Mrs said her ministry is also ac ting on a commitment to license more nursing home beds in Metro Toronto by allocating a further 60 Passive Reducing Exclusive Ladies Salon SUNTANBEDS 00 per 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