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HI AMBULANCE SERV ********* **** BY 3 X WOMEN ** *** ***** SEELEY'S BAY - WOMEN POWER HAS HELPED SOLVE AN ACUTE VOLUNTEER "MANPOHER" SHORTAGE AT THE EMERGENCY AMBULANCE SERVICE HERE. Six OF EIGHTEEN RECRUITS ARE FEMALE VOLUNTEERS WHO HAVE BEE: ENLISTED FOLLONINS \IIIDESPREAD CONCERNS ABOUT THE SERVICE. THE VOLUNTEERS HAVE GIVEN A MUCH NEEDED BOOST. MANY OF THE HOMEN ARE AT HOME AND CAN BE ON CALL DURING THE DAY, NHILE MANY OF THE MEN ARE NORKING OUT OF TONN. THE NEH FORCE IS IN ITS FIRST MONTH OF OPERATION, AND THINGS ARE GOING SMOOTHLY. THE NUMBER OF VOLUNTEERS HAD DECLINES IN RECENT YEARS. SOME PEOPLE HAD MOVED AHAY, OTHERS WERE GETTING OLD AND WERE TIRED OF BEING ON CALL. MANY VOLUNTEERS HAD JOBS OUT OF TOHN AND HAD TO ARRANCE FOR SOMEONE ELSE TO COVER THEM HHILE THEY HERE AT NORK. WHEN THE NUMBER OF VOLUNTEERS DHINDLED TO EIGHT, THE SITuâ€" ATION BECAME ACUTE. IT BE- CAME IMPOSSIDLE TO SCHEDULE SHIFTS OF THO PEOPLE EACH. EVERYONE IN THE COMMUNITY SEEMED TO AGREE THAT THE AMBULANCE SERVICE HAS DESPER- ATELY NEEDED, ACCORDINC TO DR. 3. UEBR, ITS DIRECTOR. THEY RECEIVED ABOUT 230 CAMS PER YEAR AND ARE THE OLLY SERVICE ON HIGHHAY l5 DETHEEN SMITHS FALLS AND KINOSTUH,IN AN AREA HHERE THERE ARE NUMâ€" EROUS AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENTS. LARRY GIBSON, PROPRIETOR OF THE CARVETH NURSING HOME, CXPLAINEO THAT LETTERS HERE SENT TO APPROXIMATELY 40 LmML RESIDENTS IN AN ATTEMPT To STIMULATE THOSE CONCERNED TO ACT. AN EFFORT HAS MADE To RECRUITE HOMER NHO HAD NOT PREVIOUSLY FARTICIPATED IN RE AMBULANCE SERVICE. WHEN A GROUP OF INTERESTED PEOPLE WAS COLLECTED. DR. WEE REQuESTED THAT THE ST. JOHN AMBULANCE SERVICE GIVE THEM A COURSE. TED SLOAMER, FROM KINGSTON'S HOTEL DIEU GAVETHT COURSE FOR SIX HORN 3G3. DR. HESS, HHO HAD PREVIOUSLY CONDUCTED THESE COURSEs.NAS THE EXAMINER. HO DEMAND MAS MADE OF THOSE TAKING THE COURSE THAT THEY ENLIST, BUT OUT OF 23 TAKING THE COURSE 18 HAVE HEN SECON: VOLUNTEERS. THEY ARE: LARRY GIBSON, DAVE SIMPSON, JOYCE SASELEY, PAT THOMPSON, LALPIT LAHOILLE, BRYAN BURTON, ANNE LAVIOLETR; ALLAN ROANTREE, GORD KENNY, LARILYN HARTLEY, KERRY ARMOUR, LARIAN OASELEY, HARRY VORPIS, VARY GERRY, CD RDAIR, DON GRAY, PENNY HCFARDE: AND GEORGE PACE. THE DEADLINE FOR MATERIAL FOR THE JUNE ISSUE IS MAY ]6