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Weston-York Times (1971), 7 Dec 1972, p. 7

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a Thought provoking ideas The program will include a play, presented by club members, carol singing, led by Miss Mary Fanning and her piano accompanist Mrs. Ethel Mehi. Donations for the I.F.U.W. fund will be collected at this time. Over a third of a million Canadians enter hospital each year for treatment of respiratory disease. It's estimated that ten per cent of the population has respiratory disease, more than double the 1958 figure of 4.8 per cent. The dishear- tening part is these are largely man-made diseases and thus preventable. The major culprits are cigarette smoking and air pollution. The incidence of respiratory disease continue to climb at an alarming rate. According to the latest available figures, 3,065 Canadian died from bron- chitis and emphysema in 1970, while just two years earlier, the mortality figure was just over half that number at 1,598. Please place your donations in cartons and drop them at the service door of the hospital any Monday or Thursday from 9:30 a.m.-noon from now until April. +++ The University Women's Club of Weston and District will hold its annual Christ- mas Party Wednesday, December 13, at 8 p.m. at the home of Mrs. Virginia Mahaffy, 224 Queens Drive. items ineludiiig furniture and appliances, books, or- naments etc. are needed. Auxiliary's' flea market which will be held Saturday April 14. A long time off? Yes but to make the market interesting and successful, preparations need to begin handbags, shoaoswetierr, gmall 'Pl 1rge household portunity to pick' up moi: last minute We“ and gifts. -e Commencing Monday, December 11 and Thursday, Decefnber M, you are invited ‘. I I I , mini)" Memorial mum. all my among day curl-nun you 1:011.cha fpattt WWW. Docent-r ohmn, pa pro: Bt, 15 from " In. tllattl'l 'gst*otoemmtterioetttt.ntti tttearintttemeitt _ of 1iamlutttmrtrittstretmt Humber Hoqttalonatnrett Information: and Mom! Street. Centre; " University Itetttaidamttto-not sold at their handgun in Noyelqbef. , .trreat_otr. At the club's November 25 Go/td clothing, milligery, " ttU Minced “In " lb: " lbl Anorud rout pack , bott 6 lbs Sulom net): 6 lb. Wing Illtk S “III 6 "" Porlerhouu "all I [ll 6 In Beet liver .t.ak , be: " Ibo Chicken barb-cu. 'pach " " " "" ' pork pct " [51 " lb- Port they puck aoo 6 lb. Hunted port , pm " lb. Ilady to all In. of nun [0-H lb. Turk-y " tine ll lb. Burn. vamp" Ibo- 6 lb- Potk nun..u l I". 5 lb. .Cod fill“. , j." 5 lbl Haddock tittet. t ha " In Anorlod vopubl- pack " lb. Auorlcd Iron-n fruit well pr " “no Vunoly utm- Juin puck , un- " lb. lunar I HIGH: In noun , mu ANYTIME SHAMROCK FOOD SERVICE 2 RIDELLE AVENUE, 402 TORONTO I9, ONT. Freezer Food Order and Freezer FOR FAMILY (7 ADULTS) FREE Set of Dishes with each Freezer Purchase! $26.95 The fight has iust begun RU2-7686 She covered subjects such as consumer laws; the textile jungle and the label jungle. She noted that the woman is the purchasing agent of the family cor- poration - not recognized by most men. It was interesting to hear that, according to statistics, North America conducts the most rummage sales in the world and eight new products are produced every hour on this continent. +++ Mothers, if you youngster is looking tor something to do during the Christmas holiday aside from a southern trip - the parks and recreation department of the borough of York is offering a daily program at The chairman of the British Royal College of Physicians committee on smoking, Dr. Charles Fletcher, told a Canadian audience that "cigarette caused disease has reached the death scale of tuber- culosis and cholera at their heights. And," he added, "in the M to 64 age group it is causing about a third of all the deaths in Britain," I understand it is much the same here." The Christmas seal organization has taken on these long term disabling lung diseases and has ex- panded its tuberculosis program to include rep- siratory disease. Respiratory diseases are not generally swift killers; they linger on for years Betty outlined the history and present program ot W.l.R.C. Mrs. Norma Carrier, of consumer relations department for General Foods, was guest speaker ...her toric was' con- sumerism. Women's Club (Weston) members are volunteers with W.I.R.C. $21 .95 $26.95 Weston -- andenngs Tam Iona-i _ 24+I9ZL [ , Jan Bice. t ha Polk bison 1 pr York P butter " lb.) , ("ll Delmom- but! :ocklnl (I. or) , (In. bbby'l Illtod parapple " lbl Tia. deluge!“ I haul-I Thnll liquid hurl-n! no on) 3 (in. Apt Clo-nlor (I. on) I gat Java: blotch! H! on) , box.- Jet'. not, pad. (II'I) " Nu Collu- mm - " lb: Margarine MO Howard“. ta& , jun per week (II on) A whole new program involving research and health education programs has been launched by Christmas Seal dollars to combat these lung diseases. The TB RD Association is directing much of its efforts to educating the public to an awareness of respiratory disease; it is working with other concerned health agencies to obtain legislative means to ban cigarette advertising through the Cigarette Products Act; it is involved in education +++ Each of us, I'm sure, have a pet source we use to acquire knowledge; be it encyclopedia, physiology or law books. Mine is children age b6. Each morning for 10 minutes I sit in a com- fortable rocking chair and listen to my 32 kindergarten youngsters converse with each other. This past week, with Christmas being uppermost in their minds, some very thought provoking ideas have been expressed . . . "I think God and Santa Clause are nearly the same, they're both magic . . . they love everybody too . . . God always was . . . so was Santa . . . he wasn't horned, he was always there for all the kids too. . . If you don't believe in God and Santa it wouldn't be any fun to live ..." Are these parallels mythical? Warped? Think about them ...they all add up to the meaning of Christmas that we as adults tend to forget . . . l-o-v-e. producing cough, sputum and breathlessness. Its victims and the community lose heavily financially with lost working days, sickness payments and medical expenses at hospital and at home. There is no be. This are trom W.30 mum-noon and from var a.m.4 p.m. Data are Docunber " Age: 5 16 years. For more in- formation can 553.2700. +++ The UNICEF and Grants“ Mission Chi-lumen Cards may be purchased at Central United Church, King Street. The YW_CA, will be selling these cards for the next in; weeks on Wednesdays from 9:33-11:30 FP.;, Thursdays ttt"hrtt-tiaiBttihthrtg,- WAqut. mm.- ittettaU cm, " p.m and Fridays 10 a.ni.. and deliver ht my home along with my FREE GIFT MESS CLO, "on" to" In more about oertting "In part-Oil" " iuot )bonoH )awnaFre‘ozcr Full SIMPLIFIED COOKING u PIECE " In“ car-tu Ioup assorted (ID on , bonin- Lmhy- Ilkhup m o!) I pr Krnh Mirncu Whip [It 0|) t " rcnzh'o mun-rd (It ox) I name yly [In-l than. - 100'- Cuu tooth pane - largo-t economy Inc , . Kollug'l can "In" (H- on.) ellog'u PIKQ Irllplel (I) at) tr u can! "up (5. Ill 0!.) Uncle Ben'. Run (2!! ort' " Gun-Aland - Ito Ila) 2 My “we to... flour Ito lb.) t he... loaned all " lb.) " roll. hulk bathroom lllIuO l bun Rap-kin n- paper - 10')“ 2 rolls Alcan loll _ 15' ions ll“ n-d. FM heuinb of prepared meals, tries and dishes. tuck [MB NO PLACE LIKE HOME And there's no place like home for Christmas fire hazards. Keep that tree butt immersed in water . . . check those strings of lights for frayed insulation and possible short circuits Pr. And finally, it has developed a medical arm, the Canadian Thoracic Society, a scientific, medical society for doctors to meet, discuss and learn about respiratory disease. programs for doctors, nurses, other health workers and the general public; it directs funds to Canadian universities for research into respiratory disease problems, and provides scholarship programs for the advanced training of young specialists; it provides specific programs such as asthma reconditioning and training programs, and stop smoking clinics to help youngsters refrain from taking up the cigarette habit, and adults to stop. fileittP_iy'i,i'sestls Give more to HON? IIPNVIIIA, TUIIICULOSIS. All POLLUTION Polaroid makes it easy for you this Christmas. (Fr0m$l4.95 ) Put a little zip into someone's Christmas' this If you want to make someone's Christmas even year. 1 more colorful, Square Shooter 2 will do it in 60 seconds. Instant black-and-white pictures for $14.95.' And how it does it for $34.95' is even more amazing. So simple, anyone can take them. With an automatic electronic exposure system. Just shoot, pull out the film packet and zip, a beau- Three element lens. Built-in flash. An ingenious view- tifully developed picture in 30 seconds. I flnder. And Zip titufuses our least expensive square fllm. So Zip stays inexpensive all year round. "o-A- " wow you“... ”1 burrow" an... a“... The Good Time Cameras fromPolaroid. $14.95 , i s34.95 Zip.0ur30-second usareshoot2', 2.Our60-, black-and-white camera. color camera. “may“ m1 one. "Poi-mod" n . non-nu «ml on ma W. m. Mm. all. are benefiting from thla world recognized tooth decay m, than are still " million Canadian- who culihave fluoridated water but don’t receive it. Theee are people who are on piped drinking water systems which could be treated. The growth in fluoridation last year was - t per cent higher due to Canada’s population growth. (Now - 35.4 percent ot total population at Canada). The ligurea appear in the lateat edition of Fluoridation in panda, publlahed annually supplies are the people living in Chiiteauguiy and Noranda. Qué. and in Chinguacotmy Township and the Sarnia area of Ontario. Canadian Dental Association ' I baby-rm. BtttrrttiiotoeeCtmdiart. There are some " million Canadians who are not on piped water systems and whose water is not naturally fluoridated, so fluoridated supplies account for 45 per cent of the possible total. Some significant additions last year to those benefiting froni fluoridated water by the Canadian Dental About " all!” will. nu drtt*irtg On water Square Shooter 2 only uses our square color film. So the price is always low. Loom on quality M u. 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