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The Candy Stripers for South
Huron Hospital will start their
summer program the first. of
July.
The Committee consisting of
Alma Godbolt , Helen Fraynei Lois
Snell and Barb Harrison. are
pleased to report that the
program which has been
operating for over a year now, is
going well.
There are two new girls,
Helen Finkbeiner and Nancy
Read joining the program this
week.
Over the summer months with
so many of the girls having
summer jobs and going on
vacation we are fortunate to have
a working program.
We have to date. five girls with
over 130 hours and with the ad-
dition of Kathy Steckle who
received her 100 hour charm this
week we now have eight girls
with over 100 hours. In total the
girls have reached 2,208 volun-
teer hours.
In the fall most of the girls who
have summer jobs and other
commitments have indicated
they will return.
We feel that this commitment
of time and effort by these young
people should be highly com-
mended.
Since it is acknowledged that
every human being needs to feel
needed, it would be unforgiveable
if we did not recognize the work
of these young people.
Teenage volunteers are our
future medical staff, nurses and
hospital personnel. Our hospital
has a bright future in the hands of
such young people.
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Something relatively new is
being tried at ARC Industries
Workshop in Dashwood these
days — outside placements for
the trainees.
ARC, as many people know, is
a sheltered workshop for the
mentally retarded, and to a
certain extent, th9 physically
disabled.
The new program is in the
experimental stage at the
moment, involving four of ARC's
trainees. Although ARC has
always had a policy to place
capable trainees in outside jobs,
the new program is aimed at
providing an employment at-
mosphere even before the trainee
has "graduated" from the
workshop. m an attempt to give
trainees a feel for the outside
work environment and at the
same time provide the placement
officer with a better idea of an
individual's preparedness for
that environment.
Through the efforts of ARC
director, Don Campbell, and
RollieMcCaffrey,owner of Exeter
Furniture Factory, an ARC
trainee, Les East has been placed
at the factory and seems to be
doing well. He has been on the job
since June 7 and if his favorable
work record continues, his
placement could turn into a full-
time position with the company.
Three other trainees are being
employed by the Village Inn
Retreat Centre in Grand Bend.
Although their jobs will only last
for the summer, the experience
which they gain there could take
them to full-time outside em-
ployment in the near future.
Campbell says that placement
of the trainees has to. be un-
dertaken with caution, not only
because it would be a mistake to
place a trainee in a position
which was beyond his training or
capability but also because it can
affect pensions from the Ministry
of Social and Family Services.
Under the pension scheme, once
a pensioner takes on a full-time
job he is cut off from the pension
and it can take between three to
'six months to get pack on pension
if the job does not work out. For
these reasons, Campbell is
careful about placing trainees
and welcomes the new program
which allows them to gain outside
work experience while
technically remaining on the
ARC payroll. As in Les East's
case, once a trainee has proved
himself, in an outside job
situation, placement becomes an
easier task with fewer risks in-
volved.
"The people who employ our
trainees are not after cheap
labor", Campbell says. "They're
looking for dependable workers
who can turn out quality work-
manship and some of our people
can fulfill that need."
Two other ARC trainees have
returned from a successful three-
week job experience with the
Roder Poultry Plant in Ark ona
'"l'hev did very very well",
Campbell comments.
In addition to these placements,
ARC has contracted with several
local businesses to provide
outside maintenance jobs for the
summer. Trainees will be cutting
lawns, trimming hedges, and
caring for the grounds
throughout the village.
Campbell feels that it is im-
portant for the trainees, who he
prefers to call employees, to gain
as much outisde contact in the
community as possible. The
experience is not only valuable
for the ARC people, but enables
the citizens of a community to
become acquainted with han-
dicapped persons, perhaps
realizing that what they have in
common with these people out-
weighs any differences.
-There are a great many op-
portunities within a rural set-
ting", Campbell observes. He is
new to the director's position in
Dashwood, working previously as
a consultant with the ARC
Workshop in Sarnia.
He believes that a small town
atmosphere is beneficial to
trainees of the workshop because
there are less dangers and ob-
stacles than in the city and the
faces of store clerks and
residents soon become familiar.
While the outside placement
concept will probably play an
even more prominent role in the
future, the majority of the 44
persons at the ARC Workshop in
Dashwood receive their training
within that facility.
The building is divided into
several different areas which
correspond to programs which
are offered. Everyone has a job
to do and often more than one. In
the course of a year's time, ARC
employees will have gained
knowledge and skills in several
different fields.
In the kitchen, employees
prepare the noon-day meal as
well as snacks for coffee breaks
and dinners for special occasions.
The workshop, itself, provides
an opportunity for trainees to
take up woodworking and
assembly experience. ARC
employees are responsible for
maintaining the building in an
efficient manner and sparkling
walls and floors attest to their
diligence.
ARC's office is not unlike of-
fices in most business operations
and Campbell says that every
attempt is made to provide a
business-like atmosphere. A
filing system is maintained by
ARC employees who also answer
the phone and handle initial office
contacts,
In another area of the building,
a crafts room is equipped with a
variety of materials and tools to
allow the trainees a chance to try
numerous art forms. Several
ARC people can be found there at
any given time hooking rugs,
doing string art or perhaps
macrame.
Outside the building, em-
ployees are engaged in keeping
the grounds trim and clean.
There is one similarity which
seems to go with all of the work
activities and it's called hap-
piness. While the working en-
vironment at ARC is disciplined,
providing the business-like at-
mosphere that Campbell wants,
people are friendly and their
enthusiasm pervades not only
relationships with fellow em-
ployees, but work activities as
\vol. Whether washing windows
or concentrati»g on a difficult
pattern in a rug, the employees
have an exuberance seldom.
found in most office situations,
"Our programs and office
routine are designed to benefit
our people", Campbell stresses.
Turning again to the concept of
contact with the community,
camphell stales, "Acceptance is
what we strive for. Within a
smaller community like Dash-
wood, residents become familiar
with the handicapped who are
often out making purchases or
running errands. As they become
more fmniliar with our people,
fears and blockages come down
and residents begin to know them
On a first name basis."
LAURIE J. RICHARD
Laurie J. Richard daughter of Mr-
js. Gretta Richard and the late
Allan Richard graduated from
Fanshawe College recently as a
Legal Secretary. Laurie is also an
honours graduate of South Huron
District High School.
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