SUNDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1983
NEW HOME FOR EX-MENTAL PATIENTS
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A NEW HOME FOR 40 FORMER MENTAL PATIENTS WAS OPENED TODAY BY THE SECRETARY FOR DISTRICT ADMINISTRATION, MR DAVID AKERS-JONES,
BEFORE COMPLETION OF THE TWO-STOREY ROTARY HALL, AT THE NEW LIFE PSYCHIATRIC REHABILITATION ASSOCIATION'S NEW LIFE FARM IN TUEN MUN, THE RESIDENTS WERE HOUSED IN TWO SMALL BUNGALOWS NEARBY.
THE BUILDING COST A TOTAL OF $340 000 DONATED BY 18 ROTARY CLUBS IN HONG KONG.
SPEAKING AT THE OPENING CEREMONY, MR AKERS-JONES SAID THE ROTARY HALL WAS YET ANOTHER SUCCESSFUL PROJECT BROUGHT ABOUT THROUGH THE COMMITMENT AND DEDICATION OF MEMBERS OF THE ASSOCIATION, AND THE COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT AND GENEROSITY OF THE ROTARY CLUB ́MEMBERS.
+THE COMPLETION OF THIS NEW TWO-STOREY HOUSE WILL INCREASE THE RESIDENTIAL CAPACITY AS WELL AS PROVIDE IMPROVED LIVING ENVIRONMENT FOR RESIDENTS.
+THE NEW LIFE FARM WILL BE BETTER-EQUIPPED IN FULFILLING ITS TRIPLE FUNCTION AS A SHELTERED-WORKSHOP, A HALF-WAY HOUSE AND A PERMANENT HOME.+
MR AKERS-JONES ALSO PAID TRIBUTE TO THE NEW LIFE ASSOCIATION, A VOLUNTARY ORGANISATION PROVIDING CARE FOR MENTAL PATIENTS IN NEED OF SUPPORT AND ASSISTANCE.
+ THE ASSOCIATION HAS SET UP A VARIETY OF FACILITIES AND SERVICES TO SUPPLEMENT GOVERNMENT'S EFFORTS IN SERVING THE MENTALLY-ILL, HE SAID.
MR AKERS-JONES THEN UNVEILED A COMMEMORATIVE PLAQUE.
LATER, A KEY WAS PRESENTED BY THE DISTRICT 345 GOVERNOR OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL, MR PHILIP LAI, TO THE PRESIDENT OF NEW LIFE ASSOCIATION. MR HO SAI-CHU.
CULTURAL ACTIVITIES FOR TSUEN WAN RESIDENTS
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THE ANNUAL SPORTS AND ARTS FESTIVALS IN TSUEN WAN ARE TO PROVIDE RESIDENTS WITH HIGH STANDARD OF SPORTING AND CULTURAL ACTIVITIES AND BUILD UP THEIR SENSE OF BELONGING TO THE DISTRICT, THE DISTRICT COMMISSIONER, MR ADOLF HSU SAID TODAY (SUNDAY).
SPEAKING AT THE OPENING CEREMONY OF THE YAN CHAI DIRECTORS CUP BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT, MR HSU SAID TSUEN WAN WAS A RAPIDLY DEVELOPING NEW TOWN, AND THE DISTRICT BOARD ATTACHED GREAT IMPORTANCE TO PROVIDING RESIDENTS WITH RECREATION AND CULTURAL ACTIVITIES.
TODAY'S BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT WAS JOINTLY ORGANISED BY THE YAN CHAI HOSPITAL BOARD OF DIRECTORS AND VARIOUS GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENTS IN THE DISTRICT.
MR HSU NOTED THAT THE YAN CHAI BOARD OF DIRECTORS HAD, THROUGH THE YEARS, BEEN DOING A LOT OF COMMUNITY WORK.
7+THESE INCLUDE