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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 2014-03-19, Page 1010 Lucknow Sentinel • Wednesday, March 19, 2014 New addictions centre eyed for Bruce -Grey in Paisley Garit Reid WI Agency Trust, respect, growth, and diversity is the motto of the Georgian Bay Treatment Cen- tre for Youth (GBTC) that is hoping to startup a 50 resident facility to help male/female youth ages 14 to 22 dealing with addiction. The site will be just outside of Paisley on Bruce Road 1 and will be committed to providing residential treatment for youth with addictions and/or con- current disorders using posi- tive reinforcements approaches. "Youth with addictions are fighting a disease, it is no less a disease than juvenile diabetes, leukemia or any other illness that affects our youth. The stigma attached to addictive behaviours is steeped in mis- understandings and miscon- ception," said Grafton Pin- Heiro president of the GBTC. "Canadian youth with addic- tions deserve our attention and compassion along with the opportunity to heal the same way as any other child in need:' PinHeiro said there are an estimated 30, 000 young peo- ple that require this type of care and support in Ontario alone. However, the province only has the capacity to treat 1,300 per year in 14 centres. With a waiting list of four to six months parents are often faced with the option to admit their loved ones to a hospital or adult facility, where the care is not orientated to the special needs of youth in distress. These youth are often exposed to other challenges they may not be equipped to deal with added PinHeiro. "GBTC combines traditional therapeutic models of treat- ment with integrated therapy models developed to promote emotional, physical, spiritual and intellectual healing and growth. GBTC works with each client to help them identify what they want to achieve in the present moment and in the future; we then provide them with the support and the tool set the achieve those goals," said PinHeiro. "Their unique holistic residential program also includes: art and music therapy, equine therapy, canine therapy and provides their clients with the physical and emotional advantages of participating in outdoor activi- ties such as hiking cross-coun- try skiing, and tending and nurturing gardens. They will benefit from the learned CHICK DAYS Preorder your pullets, broilers, turkeys or game birds NOW. 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"The $400,000 is to get the project off the ground with a possibility of 12 to 18 youth to start coming in for the first six months," said PinHeiro. "The treatment centre will eventu- ally get funding from Ontario Ministry of Health. After the two year mark of operation we are supposed to go back to the Local Health Integration Net- work (LHIN) and they are sup- posed to look over what we have done to date and make a decision as to if and when we can go for funding through the Ministry of Health:' Fundraising is one of the tools the Georgian Bay Treat- ment Centre board wants to utilize, which is why they are hosting the Seven Bridges Art and Show Gala April 25 at the Best Western Inn on the Bay in Owen Sound. Event co-ordi- nators Courtenay Murawsky and Jenny Posthumus are hoping to raise $50,000 and for all of the money raised to go directly to the treatment centre costs. "We were very interested when the board came to us to put together this event and my fellow event co-ordinator Courtney is an artist, so it was her idea to incorporate an art show aspect to the event. We also are going to raise money through a silent auction as well, plus many other things like donations and ticket sales to try and raise money," said Posthumus. "Ultimately we would like to have event spon- sors to pay for the wine, food and have the venue paid as well as the decor. We would like to have 100 per cent of the fundraised money to go to the Georgian Bay Treatment Centre Craig Chisholm who is part of the fundraising committee for the treatment centre and a former social worker said this facility is like no other and will be the perfect fit for youth in need of help in the Grey -Bruce region and beyond. "I have been working in the addictions world for 30 years and there isn't any program that's out there like this and the treatment centre is all about relapse prevention," said Chisholm. "This type of pro- gram I believe is the model that will really help people from relapse especially if they Garit Reid QMI Agency Trust, respect, growth, and diversity is the motto of the Georgian Bay Treatment Centre for Youth that is hoping to start up a 50 -resident facility near Paisley to help male/female youth ages 14-22 dealing with addiction. L -R: Craig Chisholm - Fundraising Committee, Jenny Posthumus - Event Coordinator, Courtenay Murawsky - Event Coordinator and Grafton PinHeiro - President of Georgian Bay Treatment Centre for Youth. can stay more than 30 or 60 days. Facilities that I have worked at all over Ontario they have kids there for 30 and 60 days and they are out the door. We want youth to come out of this program after 90 days or more with a clear vision of what they want to do for their future' PinHeiro said this is an opportunity for organizations to really make a difference for a Canadian youth, immedi- ately. The challenge right now is that many institutes and organizations choose to invest in charitable organizations that are already well established with the assumption that is the best use of their charitable donations added PinHeiro. "We would like to challenge that assumption and remind our potential patrons that every organization began as the grass roots level just as Georgian Bay Treatment Cen- tre for Youth is. In the words of Abraham Lincoln, that some achieve great success is proof to all that others can achieve it as well." For more information on the Georgian Bay Treatment Centre for Youth, visit www. gbtc.ca or call 519-538-5872. Wind working group wants turbine assessment changed Mary Golem Special to QMI Agency Members of the multi - municipal wind turbine working group (MMWTWG) want the base assessment value for wind turbines changed. The province's Ministry of Finance recently recommended adjustments to the assessment but no change in the actual base value of industrial wind tur- bines, Arran-Elderslie deputy mayor and chair of the MMWTWG Mark Davis told members of Arran-Elderslie council this week "The wind turbine group is writing a letter to Minister - TQW14 $141P F- A.J II S7-CcX#Mier. -NIONN.C61-1 The Township of Ashfield-Colborne-Wawanosh is receiving equipment rental rates for the upcoming 2014 season. Interested contractors may submit their rates until noon April 4, 2014 to: The Township of Ashfield-Colborne-Wawanosh Attention: Brian VanOsch, Public Works Superintendent 82133 Council Line R.R. #5 Goderich, Ontario N7A 3Y2 Fax: 519-524-1951 Email: pws@acwtownship.ca Charles Sousa expressing our dissatisfaction," Davis told council, saying the base assessment at $40,000 "is arti- ficially low and is nowhere close to true base costs." In a letter to Sousa, the MMWTWG says the cost of the foundation and tower for a 1.5 megawatt turbine is $800,000. "The base cost assessment should more closely reflect this reality," the letter states, adding "subse- quent indexing could then be introduced' "The existing artificially low base cost assessment has allowed successful industrial wind turbine proponents to have resources available to offer vibrancy funds to municipalities and/or funds to community groups," the letter continues. "These offer- ings come with many strings attached and put the devel- oper in a control position ... the Green Energy Act and this artificially low tax base assessment have jeopardized the ability of a municipality to raise property taxes to con- duct its business. The annual allocation of Ontario funding to each municipality is decreasing. A fairer tax reve- nue generation process is needed to offset this shortfall." Each municipality will pay $200 more this year to be a member of the multi -munici- pal wind turbine working group. At a recent meeting, mem- bers agreed to increase the annual fee from $500 to $700. The annual fee is used to fund administration costs. This year the fee was increased by $200 to cover the cost of an account received from a closed meet- ing investigator who was hired by one of the group's members, the Municipality of Huron -Kinloss, to investigate issues relating to a complaint about a closed meeting the group held last summer in Ripley.