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The IFP - Halton Hills | Thursday, August 12, 2021 | 10 theifp.ca By Cory Soal WHAT SHOULD YOU EXPECT FROM HEARING INSTRUMENTS! Part 2 * Understanding speech is a brain function and although the hearing instruments will give your brain the tools it needs to understand speech, it takes training and patience to improve your ability to understan: * Different listening situations will offer different abilities to understanding, Noisy situations are harder to hear conversation even for ni should improve your ability, but wi normal hearing individual ~ Many sounds that you hear will sound differen, or more distinct, to you. This is because your diminished hearing over a long period of ime has treined your brain to accept the sight ferences in the sounds you normally hear. Wearing heat instruments will bring back the ‘original sounds as they should be heard, although different to you. With time your brain will accept the new changes to these sounds. * Hearing instruments should allow you to understand speech better in most situations than without your hearing instruments. The Georgetown HEARING CLINIC We care about your Paula Professional Arts Buildin 99 Sinclair Ave., Suite 210, ‘Georgetown 905-873-6642 HP OPINION ACTIVITY PICKING UP AT HILLSVIEW MORE PROGRAMS RETURNING AND EVENTS BEING PLANNED, WRITES FLORENCE RIEHL FLORENCE RIEHL Column Weare stillina cautious opening sequence at view Active Living conte in George' Carpet bowling has re- sumed and is now added to the other programs already back and running. Carpet bowling runs Monday and Friday, 9 to 1la.m. Due to the number re- strictions for each pro- gram, Iremind you that you need to phone the centre, 905-877-6444, to register to attend a program. On Tuesdays, ng Every- thing Cr: meets from 9 to 11 a.m. They wel- come new members, so why not bundle up your particu- lar project and join them while you share your craft and conversation? Some- times more chatter than raft gets done. Food bags are still avail- able for free on Tuesdays and Fridays after 11 a.m.,on afirst stcome,f rst served ba- re basically filed w with the | same items. Frozen bread and meat is often available of Fridays. Again I advise you phone ahead. acces those deli- cious Krispy ugh: nuts? Wellafter sucha: great response to this Kreme fundrai: coming back. Orders are be- ing accepted now with pay- ment (cash only) due by Fri- Do dozen, with 50 per cent of the proceeds coming back to Hillsview serviced in between sign outs. Please contact ba centre for further informa- tion. For those requiring Acti- Van tickets or Taxi Scripts, please call ahead to the cen- tre to ay with credit card and staff will facilitate. Pickup is still i i the Please note Krispy Kreme donuts can be frozen and taste delicious after thaw- ins Last time we sold 200 dozen. Let's double that this time. A drive-thru pickup will be on Wednesday, Oct. 6 after 12 noon. WiFi-to-Go Sets are still available. Hillsview Active Living Centre members in Georgetown are eligible to borrow iPad Pro and WiFi- to-Go sets. They can be bor- rowed for three weeks, but we adhere you to a set ‘units to be Experience Ontario \ » all over again. There From e cities and local businesses. so much Let’s get back to exploring Ontario. Get started today at destinationontario.com £) to rediscover in Ontario. dless parks and trails to bustling inthe double set of doors e region's medical of- foo of health strongly en- ram par- ticipants, staff and volun- teers to be fully vaccinated, and masks are still re- quired, whenever physical daansing cannot be main- ined. Be wise. Be safe. Florence Riehl is an active member of the Hills- reached at freeflo@sympat- ico.ca.