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6 The Canadian Statesman, Bowmanville, April 12, 1978 Dur ing Month of March Night School Offers Life-Saving Skills Concentration. Students in the basic life support course take their final written test at the end of a 10 week class. Organizers of the course say residents of the Bowmanville area have been enthusiastic over the cardiopulmonary resuscitation classes. About 85 members of the general public will have received certificates by the time this year's courses are over. Students from a night school course in Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation practice a two-man rescue technique on a plastic dummy. Harry Cooke gets ready to provide artificial circulation by compressing the chest while Ann Cameron prepares to apply mouth to mouth resuscitation. In the centre is Vera King, an instructor in the course offered this year at the Bowmanville High School. Graduates of a night school class held in the Bowmanville High School during the last 10 weeks hope they will never have to use the skills they learned. But the 13 students who finished a basic life support course at the high school last week have been following instructions and doing their homework as if someone's life depended on it. Perhaps some day, it will. A 20 hour course teaching cardiopulmonary resuscita-_ tion ended last week with about a dozen niembers of the general public learning basic life saving techniques that could rescue victims of accidents, drowning, heart attacks and electrical shocks. Cardiopulmonary resuscita- tion is intended to keep a victim's heart beating and lungs breathing until further medical attention is available. Good Response The Bowmanville course is the only program offered locally where these techniques can be learned by the general publié. The response to the classes offered by the North- umberland Newcastle Board of Education with assistance from the Bowmanville Hospital has been good. 1 "There's been no problems getting enough people", said Night School Principal, Gary Milovick last week in an interview with the Statesman. They come looking for us." Teach 85 Beth Morton, one of two instructors in the program, estimates that about 85 persons will have been certified in basic life support techniques as a result of the courses offered this year. The goal is to make the program available for as many persons in the community as are interested. Those who completed last week's course incudedpeople, from all walks of ife. There were housewives, a fireman and the manager of Bowman- ville's Public Utilities Com- mission in attendance at the training sessions. "The enthusiasm, initiative and interest among these people is beyond our expecta- tions," Mrs. Morton said last week. The Canadian Heart Foundation, which sponsors the program, reports that about 40 per cent of students do not complete the program. But Bowmanville's student have a better track record, Mrs. Morton said. She added that many students spent two or three hours each week practicing their skills using the life-sized plastic patients available at the hospital. Dummies The classroom instruction also makes use of these plastic dummies which are named Resusci-Anne. Inside the dummy is electronic equipment which can show whether or not a student is properly keeping a patient's heart and lungs working correctly. The equipment produces a strip of paper measuring a In addition to learning cardiopulmonary resuscita- tion, those who take the course learn all about riskfactors in heart attacks and the warning signs of a heart attack. This in itself is well worth the effort of attending a course, Mrs. Morton said. One more round of class- room instruction will be offered during the remainder of the year however that final class is already booked. Church services were held as usual. We had Rev. Herb. Linstead with us. The choir sang an anthem. Rev. Linstead took as his text, 'What is the Church for.' Don't forget the general meeting on April 18th at Garden Hill of the United Church Women. Unit 2 plans to have a bake sale at the meeting. On Tuesday, the Women's Institute held a pot luck supper at the basement for our annual meeting and election of officers. The president, Mrs. B. Wheeler opened the meeting with the Ode and Mary Stewart Collect. The minutes were read and approved. Plans were made to attend the dinner at Millbrook by the district. We are to take a bazaar item. Mrs. Ross Beatty, our district president conducted the election of officers and installed them. Elected were: Past Presi- dent, Mrs. H. Thickson, President Mrs. B. Wheeler, lst Vice President Mrs. H. Quantrill, Second Vice Presi- dent Mrs. C. Mercer, Secre- tary Treasurer Mrs. H. Thick- son, District Director Mrs. M. McAllister, Alternate Mrs. H. Quantrill, Pianist Mrs. C. Mercer, Assistant Pianist Mrs. J. Barkwell. Public Relations Mrs. R. Beatty, Auditors Mrs. R. Beatty, Mrs. H. Muldrew, Resolution Convenor Mrs. G. Morris, Tweedsmuir History Mrs. H. Quantrill, Mrs. G. Morris, Mrs. W. Longyear, Mrs. H. White, Card Convenor Mrs. E.J. Morris, Agriculture and Canadian Industries Mrs. C. Mercer, Citizenship and World Affairs Mrs. C.E. Elliott, Education and Cultural Activities Mrs. H. Quantrill, Family and Con- sumer Affairs, Mrs. H. Muldrew. A fashion show was dis- cussed for later. The meeting closed with the Queen. Mrs. H. Quantrill attended the Cobourg Presbytery meeting held at Welcome, April 4th. Mr .nel Mrs- W Mtqaran spent a few days visiting her mother Mrs. B. Muldrew and the Gilmore's in Port Hope as well as friends at Newtonville. Mrs. S. Bartlet (Hazel) was also home for a few days recently. Mr. and Mrs. C. Mercer were at Mr. and Mrs. R. Crombies, Bowmanville when they took the boys home on the weekend. Mr. and Mrs. John DeKoker, Sunderland, spent Saturday with Mr. and Mrs. H. Thickson's. Mr. and Mrs. W. Lewko have returned from their daughter's Mrs. N. Long at Rochester where the% attended the wedding recep.. tion of their granddaughter Kathy. Mr. and Mrs. H. Hodgins were at the Home Show in Toronto on Saturday and also visited his brother at Stayner on Sunday. Mrs. Alvin Trew is with Mr and Mrs. Ken Trew and they visited Mr. A. Trew at Peterborough Hospital most days. He is about the same. Mrs. C. Mercer spent the past week in Bowmanville with her grandsons while their parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. Crombie were on a holiday. Mr. and Mrs. O. Mercer had tea with Mr. and Mrs. J. Fajt, Pontypool on Sunday. 50,000 Vehicles General Motors dealers' March deliveries in Canada of 49,820 passenger cars and trucks were higher than last March, and within 33 units of the all-time record for the month set in 1973, Richard M. Colcomb, Vice President and General Sales Manager, announced today. Passenger car deliveries of 35,589 exceeded last year's 35,396 by .5 per cent despite one less selling day in March this year compared with a year ago. Truck deliveries totalled 14,231 and were within 130 units of the record March level of 14,361 established in 1977. "March deliveries reflect a continuation of the strong momentum that began building in February during one of the worst winters li history," Mr. Colcomb said. "Dealers report a sharp upturn in showroom traffic with the return of more seasonable weather, and, as March sales indicate, this traffic includes a high propor- tion of buyers. We expect th' sale momentimto m nîn_ý