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Newspaper
Medicine Hat News
Location
Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada
Date
Jun 19, 1978
Page
6
Laurie Sharland urged residents to enter the annual Stampede events with hats boots and jeans. The queen competition follows last year format with July 15 deadline for entries and a July 19 get acquainted luncheon and July 20 Legion finale. Major prizes await winners and smaller prizes for all contestants.
Riverside Book Club celebrates its 50th anniversary with a June 21 gala at Travelodge Motor Inn at 6 p.m. featuring memories, member roll call and guest arrivals. Contacts are Netta Drever and Caroline Flaig.
An experimental Prenatal Classes for Unwed Mothers program begun in January 1977 in Medicine Hat shows progress into its second year. Led by Joan Wagner, BSc of Nursing, the program educates single mothers on conception pregnancy childbirth and child rearing with family support emphasized. Twenty four participants aged 14 to 35 registered in 1977, a figure under half of local single mothers carrying to term, with most referrals from doctors social workers and nurses. Wagner notes strong community interest and aims to destigmatize pregnancy while offering postnatal home visits via the Community Health Nurse.
A NYT brief visits Forest Mere in Liphook England a health hydro promoting rest and diet with five diet plans most guests aim for under 1 000 calories daily. The facility features physiotherapy beauty and exercise options a coed social scene and a mix of camp and country house ambiance.
In Picton Ontario the Prince Edward County Museum showcases a private collection of 175 antique dolls. The anonymous owner notes the dolls are old and valuable with many heads created by seamstresses rather than factory machines. She criticizes inflated prices and artificial demand for antiques.
In Kitchener Ontario Linda Schaefer sells water transfer tattoos at her beauty salon. The fad, with patterns such as roses daisies stars cherries hearts and bees, can be worn anywhere on the body and removed with soap and water or baby oil.
The club holds its June business meeting Tuesday at 8 p.m. at Red Cross House with members to bring their copy of international by laws and Chicago convention delegate instructions. Canadian Calorie Counters also meet every Tuesday at Salvation Army Citadel with weight in at 7 p.m. and meeting at 7:30.
A still-bristled toothbrush can remove softened paint or varnish from cracks and irregular surfaces, helping cleaners reach tight areas with a simple household tool.
Carol Boudreau of the Canadian Red Cross oversees Friendly Visiting Service efforts in New Brunswick. The program staff recruit volunteers to visit isolated elderly residents weekly, aiming to benefit both seniors and volunteers, with grants supporting centers in Edmundston Woodstock Bathurst Newcastle and Chatham.
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