Home & Country Newsletters (Stoney Creek, ON), July, August, September 1986, p. 12

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v.â€" â€". a . t -.-~ 1.: f, r i '7 1&3. ix -« (3 ‘ 'Li a. For the past two years, Home& Country magazine has been packaged and mailed by ARC (Adult Rehabilitation Centre) Industries of Guelph. As you can Imagine. it is a big job It) enunt. label. package and post over 27.000 magazines. Then photographs help to tell the story of how the magainc i‘ handled by ARC and how many peeple the job involve; In the top. left corner is Sheila Harrington. Sheila helps in Cllunl and stack the magazines, ready for bundling in warm“ quantities. In the top. middle of "12 Page is Mary Grice. \i this table. the magazines are ready to be put in a bundle wt. a label (1“ the top magazine. The labels come from the cum.“ \uricuhure Centre and each branch label has a number rm Il indicating how many magazines are required. ARC persun- ,: put the labels on single magazines. count slacks of tour in V . with the lahelled magazine and slacks of five to accompn... the former. For e\ample, if a branch asks for 35 magann their socrclnl’)‘; label goes on one magazine. A bundle at t. is added, for a tntal of five. and then six slacks of five are adv .- tu tidal 35. L'sually. all the 35's are done together. and like“ with the other quantities. in the tup, right corner Aldo Stradiotto mans the cart “h iltli(i\ prepared bundles. It is his job to hand these hundlw the person operating the heat seal machine. Barr) ('ripps. in the lower. left corner is one of the heat machine operators. He is pictured with a bundle of magan in plaslit’ wrap. it is Barry‘s job to heat seal the plastic arm the magazines. He does this by pressing down the bar he his hand on. Once the magazines are sealed, Sandra Spean p the bundles into a machine which shrinks the wrap around tntlgalincs. (in some of the larger bundles of magazine“. t layers at wrap are used. (iuil James catches the bundles as they come out of the \Itr “nipping machine and makes sure every bundle is prop: wall-d. She then places them on a cart to be taken to the pew Imlt'hint'. Kathleen Tye. lower, right corner, weighs each ban and all'iws a metered postage slicker. Once this has been [in the bundles are ready to go to the post office. the Hum;- it’- (‘rmnlry job uses the services of the Pin and Mailing Division and the Packaging Division at AR lhanlu' to m enune involved. the magazine arrives at t tmnu- nt‘ uver thlt) Wl secretaries across Ontario! (Phnlru t tu'nl \Ilt‘ll'tlrl‘hi'rikh_l'[ ',

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