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fEiiEEEiiiEE Former students, staff wanted for W.J. Wood reunion W.J. Wood Secondary School in' Port Credit is closing in June, 1986. The school began its educational career as Port Credit Secondary School in 1930. It sur- vived a disastrous fire in 1953 and continued to serve the students of Port Credit until 1963 when it became a vocational school. renamed South Peel Secondary School. In 1980 it was given its Our hands are used in a countless number of ways each day. Just ask someone minus a hand or even one finger, the tremendous functions our hands play daily. - A With computers expanding not only in the business market, but in the educa- tional system and in our homes, mil- lions of hands rest on the keyboard bar, and millions more fingers do the keyboard functions. For many people who operate a computer keyboard, the common com- plaint is the rigor mortis effect the hands go through after working for great lengths of time. The fingers seize up and the hand becomes stiff while sharp pains shoot up the back of the hand from the wrist to the fingertips. These unpleasant side effects make simple functions impossible, impeding the work process. I can testify to the amount of stress put on fingers when moved continuously for great durations. 7 While in college years as a Journal- ism student, 1 was required to type a great deal. Typing was new to me and to my hands and fingers, and pounding on a non-electric typewriter each day caused a ganglion (cyst) to develop on the top of my right hand. After the ganglion was surgically removed to stop pain, I was promised the ganglion was gone for good. I continued typing and the ganglion or another one continued to grow. I returned again to the surgeon and once again had it removed. I avoided typing for prolonged periods for years, but recently howev- er, the typewriter and word processor have become daily chores once again. And again I note the pain returning to feedback " r ‘ i, l? '1'i?re . J' , E "r'i'ii?_rs"tl' , . rl, I E ._ a " - cn q p u - ili ' " A " we . 3 t [l, I Q _ . ..~(; A Ci) ih B' iM ' I ' V T ' I)))";!! N ' , _ , , l l T I t ' , " "I'll pay a little bit more ln taxes, but everybody must pay to reduce the deficit. It will help." Marie Vejvoda Waterloo Fitness Forum Kathy Hammond Fitness Instructor the top of my hand after sitting for an hour or so in front of the keyboard. ' Many people spend not just one hour at a computer or typewriter, but their entire day, five days a week. Either the pains many develop in their hands are ignored or they force the people to quit their jobs. The solution short of quitting is to rest your hand often. If this is not possible due to the pressure to get work completed quickly, you will have to strengthen the muscles in your hands to build endurance, hopefully eliminating or controlling painful seizures. For the first exercise you should put your fingertips on a flat surface with the rest of your hand arched up. Lift one finger at a time, getting it as high as possible. If you are like most of us, you’ll have trouble lifting the ring finger. Make sure you include the thumb and repeat with each hand and fingers at least three times each during the course of keyboard activity. To improve the blood flow which is needed while working your fingers, just as it is needed while any other part of your body is working out, shake your hands vigorously. To work the muscles after shaking, make a tight fist and pump your hand open and closed several times. present name of W.J. Wood Secondary School. Another exercise uses your own strength against itself. Putting finger- tips of one hand against the fingertips of the other hand, push with all your might. This will build strength not Only in the fingers but in the hand and wrist as well. Remember to change the positioning of your body if typing for a long time, paying particular attention to how your arms are positioned. To celebrate these 56 years of education- al excellence, we are planning a reunion for all former students, staff, friends and anyone who has been associated with or had any interest in the school since its beginning in 1930. The reunion will be held on April 25 and 26. Further information is available by contacting the so ol at 278-6118. Donna Gracey Sharon Kaslauskas WU. Wood School reunion committee "It'll affect us by a few bucks, They have a lot of fancy figures,“ Jim Muldoon Waterloo How will the new federal budget affect you? A spouse to go? Has council lost its integrity completely? It is certainly losing its brains if it thinks the taxpayers continue to be bamboozled by explanations of a policy as "very enlightened manage- ment technique." A phrase like that must have been picked up at the Toronto conference recently! If this policy is approved the next step should be to take Proposal an example of petty greed Asked at Westmount Place The Mile Circle is 52 acres of meadowland on the Ottawa River, bounded by Rockcliffe Park, Manor Park and an RCMP training centre. It is owned by the National Capital Commission. and part of the NCC's river parkway system runs through it. It is a place for Sunday drivers, Joggers, couples, dog owners, and is popular in the Summer, for picnics and kite-flying. Now, unlikely as it may seem, that gentle parkland could tall victim to international terrorism. There has not yet been a firm decision. but the NCC may well recom- mend to the government within the next couple of months that about 10 acres of the Mile Circle be turned over to the American government for an embassy office building. The Americans began to outgrow their present quarters, on the south side of Wellington across from the Peace Tower, in 1969. In 1973, the Canadian government expropriated the US. embassy and just about everything else on that side of Wellington for the use of Parliament. The Americans rejected one site on Elgin Street, and tentatively accepted another on Sussex" Drive near the Chateau Laurier. And then the reverberations of a bomb blast in Beirut finally reached this sleepy little capital, and the Americans backed out. The security requirements for US. missions and embassies, world-wide, changed dramatically overnight. What that meant, in effect, was that even in Ottawa, conventional, downtown it doesn't bother me at ttll." Linda Tuck" St. Agatha Other than taxes going up Letters welcome WATERLOO CHRONICLE. WEDNESDAY. MARCH 5, 1986 - PAGE 9 Guest column Peter Trueman highrises were out. What the Americans needed was six to ten acres. to allow a buffer zone against terrorism. The requirements began to resemble those of a garrison more than an office building. At one point, the Americans were bickering with the City of Ottawa for Green Island, on which City Hall now stands. The island is not only next door to External Affairs, on Sussex Drive; the Rideau River flows on both sides of it, so Green Island has its own moat. the kids along. So good for their education. Anyway, with Mom and Dad at the conferences, the kids couldn't be left behind and babysitters cost money. Then why not take Grandma? She would enjoy a little trip and it would give her pension a boost. The city finally decided last June they'd stay where they were. Since last Summer, the NCC has discussed 16 possible sites with the Americans, and although nothing has been settled, the US. has indicated that the Mile Circle would be acceptable. The Americans, quite unfairly, are being cast as the heavies in all of this, as the despoilers of parks, and residential neighbourhoods. But while I was working on this comment, there was a car bomb attack on the American embassy in Portugal, on the outskirts of Lisbon. It has been increasingly obvious for some time that voters feel those in power keep grasping for more benefits for themselves. This time they will wipe out all the respect they have earned. There is nothing meaner than petty greed. Dorothy Wynne, 329 Erh Street W., Waterloo, Ont. N2L 1W4 U.S. fears are legitimate, and so are the fears of other diplomats here. There was a touch of irony in the Portuguese incident. The Lisbon embassy took four years to build and was opened only recently. It replaced a downtown apart- ment building that was considered to be a security risk. Perhaps what Ottawa should consider, for all embassies which might need it, is a diplomatic office compound downtown somewhere, walled off and terror-proofed. “I guess it will affect me largely because of taxes taken off dividends. I'm not vehemently opposed to the budget overall." Mrs. Pat Scherre Elmira