Menta lly ilare also God's, children CONT'D FROM PG. ducted at St. John's Cburcn in1920o. The agreement that was' flnally reached* was that if' the patient or his familyhad a church and a,,paster, they would assume the respon- sibllity for the burial. If this was not the case, it would 'be..the hospital's, responslbillty to, see that the body received a propèr burlal and one of the mem- bers Of the, ministrial was contacted.' .But the group, accordig to, .Schwartzthat flnally hroM*t the pastoral ser- vices, departmà ent,-a t the hospital ito belng was the Mental Patients Welfare Association. This group, niadeup of mental patients, former patients- and members of their familles knew moot about wbat a patient needed, and one. tblng -tbey needed was a-chaplain. Because of the efforts of the group, the pastoral ser- vicS department came ito being i1949. Because of the pressure that the group brought te bear, tde Ontario Minister of Heaith, Russell Kelly ap- polnted the fi'st full time chaplains to hospitals around the province. TRAINIG Clergymen wbo desire to, be ebaplain i a bospital, bave te take special training, after they bave become mainisters. Schwartz says that the program may take as little as 18 montbs, althougb this la not normally the case. The program called supervised pastoral education is given under the auspices of the Canadian AssocJation for Pastoral Education. The training covers all aspects of the job. . Candidateâ are trained i the basicb of mental bealtb and the spiritual problems of I che mentally ill. It is essentially, on. the Job' traiing with the student working as a pastor in a hospital under the super- vision of an accredited supervisor. The traiig is not easy, Schwartz and inay take some years for a hopefx4t,t complete it. THE CHURCH A ND MEN- TAL ILLNESS 1The cburch's ivolvement with psychiatric bospitals as been successful and beneficial to the patients for' the last 30 years, many hope thà t'it will continue te be s'O for another 30,, .Wh»etber, ,,or - not Émany people even' tblnk about It, the mentally M I are.1 God's' children as weIl.. l-,jýýý. WHITBY FREE PRESS, WEDNESDfAy, OCTOBER 31,1979, PAGE 9 Cumns on, cable s oon ru ie idcge Cable TV, was on hand to officially which serves 35,o00 sub- open the new service on scribers lni Osbawa, Whitby, Thursday, October leth, at Bowmnanvile, Brooklin and the head end site in Courtice. Newcastle ,-' recently Via the new microwave achleved another "first" system, Pine Ridge Cable with the completion of th eir began "live" gavel to, gavel new ýnucrowave grid tower coverage of the daily and réeever. proceedings of the House of -Mayor James Potticary Commons in Ottawa. This New ConunAMunityI Care chai'frman coverage is currently being distributed on Channel "W' (Visucomm) on the cable TV converter service. In Ottawa, the signal is transi..&LLed to a com- munication satellite and then relayed to an earth receiving station in Toronto. From a transmitter atop the Bank of Montreal at Firat Canadian Place i Toronto, the signal is sent te the Pine Ridge receiver for distribution through the cablesystem. Pine Ridge Cable is the first suburban cablesystem to implement this service. The 34 mile microwave link between Toronto 'and Oshawa is-one of the longest of itsklnd in Canada. Live parliamentary coverage is the first of many new services soon to be im- plemented by Pine Ridge CableTV. Others include a Canadian ChlldrenVs Chan- nel, Programs for the Deaf, French for Canadians, a Multicultural Repeats Channel, and a government services channel An ap- plication for permission to carry, these services is currently pendig CRTC ap- proval. Pay TV, should its in- troduction in Canada be ap- proved, would be one of the premier services to be distributed* via the microwave grid system. pointed. chairinan Of Durham Region Comnwnity Care, replacmng Rev.- Robert Zmmerman 'I0f Ajax- Pickering. Higginson,' a graduate of the family studies programme at the Univer- sity of Guelph, is past chairman of Newcaslte Community Car e, one'of the local Community Care' of- fices ithe region. Since moving to Bowman- ville i1968, Higginson bas been lnvolved on a voluntary basis in m any organizations including Meals' on- Wheels, Newcastle Social' Planning Coundil,. Big Brothers Association, as well as-the Social Planning Advisory Group of Durbam Re;tgion and thé District Health Council 0f Durham Region. Community Care nowhas about 860 volunteers and Hfigginson says that- "our volunteers receive a great deal of satisfaction in helping others, and this is oneofour real strngths."1 Althougb Higginson says she is pleased with the enormous growth of Com- munity Care, she does see challenges ahead. >"Communlty. Care will have te work bard at main-,. talnlngthé -enthusiasm and' energy that bas cbarac-. terized this -project as oue:' ,exltence,"*beconie hi- ,creslngy taken for granted' an.i the number of clients continues to grow.!' ANNOUNCING- Did you know that proper decorating can'tower fuel costs, brigbten your spirits, orhbelp you relax? Instead of moving did you know. that your outgrown bouse can appear & function as if it is more spacious?ý« Did you know that flexibiity'can be.buiItito, your scheme to allow room to adapt to your famlly's ever changing needs. 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