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Monday, June 12, 1972

DRAGON BOAT FESTIVAL

Gesture By Young Members Of Auxiliary Medical Service

Young members of the Auxiliary Medical Service will pay a social visit

to old people at the Cheshire Home in Chung Hom Kok on Dragon Boạt Day,

June 15, as a gesture to mark the Festival.

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"It's entirely voluntary, and deserves to be commended, says

Mr. G.F. Doggett, Medical Defence Staff Officer, Auxiliary Medical Service,

"because for the participants it means giving up a major portion of their

holiday."

The volunteers plan to stay two hours at the Home. They have

devised a programme designed to entertain the old folks with "a bit of the

old and a bit of the new.

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First of all, they plan to stage a Lion Dance, so pleasing the

traditionalists among the residents. In the forefront will be AMS

life savers, "cavorting on land for a change.'

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This will be followed by an Angel Dance, by AMS junior leaders.

Performers will present this classical routine in costumes loaned by

the Sacred Heart School in Caine Road.

The last item will reflect modern times, with the Combo Group of

the AMS Band taking the limelight in an album of "hit" tunes starring

"pop" singers.

There will be a distribution of light refreshment, interspersed

with friendly chatter between the visitors and the elderly folk.

The volunteers...