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VULNERABLE PERSONS REGISTRY
Do you know someone living with dementia?
3 out of 5 people living
with dementia will go
missing at some point, a
frightening experience,
and a dangerous one.
That’s why the Alzheimer
Society of Sarnia-Lambton
is partnering with The
Sarnia Police Services and
OPP to provide an
opportunity for individuals living with dementia to be registered as someone
at risk of going missing. Critical information collected provides searchers with
quick access to key information to assist in locating the individual and
returning them home safely.
Registration
is easy!
Let’s all do our part to help individuals with
dementia live safely in our community.
Simply call Alzheimer Society Sarnia-Lambton
at 519 332 4444 to learn how.
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Here in the Hundred Acre Wood
By Corrina Austin, St. Thomas • from Daytripping Nov-Dec 2005
In these lines, I am going to share
a personality test that I designed
over the years. Of course, I will first
need to acknowledge A. A. Milne, the
author of the Winnie the Pooh stories,
for without him, I would have had to
base my “astute” observations on the
work of some other famous children’s
author.
I started to notice, after reading the
Winnie the Pooh books to my own four
children and the children at school (I
am a teacher), that most of the people
I knew could be characterized by one
of Milne’s characters. This may sound
ludicrous when you first consider it,
but believe me, this will make more
sense to you as you think about it at
greater depth. Let me break it down.
The person who is always cheerful,
focused on life’s simple pleasures,
enjoys his or her meals with profound
gusto, and accepts whatever
comes his or her way
with infinite optimism
is a Winnie the Pooh.
This person has many
friends and is
an unconditional
support to all of them.
Getting stuck in holes
and waiting patiently
to lose enough weight to
squeeze out again. Taking
whatever comes along,
rolling with the punches. Winnie.
The person who is morose, gloomy,
pessimistic and resigned is an Eeyore.
Forever losing his tail and sighing,
rather than taking any action to recover
it. Eating thistles and never trying
anything else. Face drooping, never
expecting to be happy and therefore
fully meeting his expectations. Eeyore.
The workaholic, forever serious,
worried about messes and catastrophes
every waking moment of his or her life
is a Rabbit. He puts his carrot patch
above people. He is angry and resentful
all the time, although underneath it all,
he is kind-hearted and comes through
for you in the end. Rabbit.
The worrier, the one who fusses, the
one who hides his head under pillows
during thunderstorms, is a Piglet. He
is afraid of most things. He hesitates.
He is a follower. He picks someone he
trusts to shadow, and then does so,
without question. The person wringing
his hands and whimpering, “Oh dear,
oh dear,” that’s him. Piglet.
The tender-hearted, gentle soul,
the nurturer, that is a Kanga. Focuses
on nothing else but her children.
Everything revolves around that little
baby in her pocket. She is indiscernible
without her offspring. She has little
identity aside from Roo. Kanga.
The hyper one, spontaneous and
annoying, is a Tigger. Very self-centred,
thinking of little more than where the
next thrill is coming from. You are
lucky if you can get one coherent and
logical thought out of him.
When you press him for
information, all he
will tell you is that he
likes bouncing best.
Which would be
fine if he would just
bounce somewhere
else. But he happens
to like bouncing
where he will be
most noticed, which is
often right in your face.
When he is not bouncing, he
harbours some irrational fears about
Heffalumps. There’s no talking it out of
him, because he would have to listen
to you first. Tigger.
And then, there is the voice of
reason, the one you run to when
everything falls apart. The one who will
pick you up and hug you, call you silly
with great and unalterable affection
and invite you to a tea party. His socks
are always pulled up. Everything he
says is right. You would trust him with
your life. Christopher Robin.
Which one are you? My guess is that
you are one of them!
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Mother Nature
Mother nature has I've found,
A tendency to make things round.
While works of man I've noticed there,
A tendency to make things square.
If she had only made square trees,
Construction could have been a breeze.
By
Gord Lane
1919-2008
P A G E 26 “What we’ve got here is failure to communicate.” -Cool Hand Luke, 1967