Quyon groups receive New Horizon grant: Thomas H. Lefebvre, M.P. for Pontiac, is pleased to announce that a project submitted under the New Horizons Program has received a grant from the Department of National Health and Welfare, in the amount of $5,880.
The approved project is for Quyon and District Senior Citizens Drop-in Centre. The Project officers are Mrs William Reynolds, Mrs Walter Clark and Mrs Muriel Bronson.
The Quyon and district Senior Citizens’ Group has received this grant which will assist them in renovating a large hall in a building that has been provided, without charge for 2 afternoons and one evening a week by the Quyon Women’s Institute. The group will initiate a social, recreational and crafts program for the senior residents of Quyon, North and South Onslow. The proposed activities will include social gatherings, evening entertainment, sewing, woodworking, and various games.
School needs nurse and better lunches: The usual monthly meeting of the Dr S.E. McDowell School Committee was fraught with the usual frustrations. The school lunch program, in particular, is a problem we have been chewing over for several months now, with absolutely nothing accomplished to date. There seems to be an enormous reluctance to change what is scarcely an ideal diet: alternating lunches of hamburgers and hot dogs, served with chips every day. At this stage, a 3-week pilot project has been designed by Mrs. McTiernan which hopefully will be implemented immediately . . . it provides a varied menu and better balanced diet. The biggest stumbling block appears, as usual, to be money. The school is very reluctant to raise the price of lunches for students above the current 75 cents but can do very little within the confines of that income.
Lack of money plagues another problem: the absence of a full-time nurse to deal with the inevitable day-to-day problems that are part of a school population over 500 children. At the moment, there really is no one at the school qualified to assess injuries, and the burden of small patching and comfortings apparently falls on the administration. It seems that the hiring of someone to fill this most necessary post is “monetarily inadmissable” in a school budget.