Times-Advocate, 1979-02-28, Page 7New Stephen resource centre provides activities for all ages
Times-Advpcah, February 28, 1979
The Stephen Neighbour
hood Resource Centre is
now open at Huron Park to
serve the surrounding com
munity.
The Resource Centre is
operating as a job creation
project of a Canada Works
program until January 8,
1980 and is sponsored by the
Family and Social Services
of Huron County.
Three persons are
employed fulltime on the
program. They are Liz Beat
ty who is a social worker,
recreation director Lynne
Farquhar and Nola Bradley
director of the Co-op
Nursery School.
A questionnaire is
currently being circulated to
residents of Huron Park and
area to determine various
programs which could be es
tablished during the coming
year.
Mrs. Beatty told the T-A
this week, “We are anxious
to get this survey com
pleted. We would ask
everyone to return the com
pleted form as soon as possi
ble. If you can’t deliver it to
the office we will be glad to
come and pick it up.”
The Resource Centre of
fice is located directly
behind the Huron Park Post
Office in the building
previously occupied by
Canada Manpower. The
telephone number is 228-
6302. Information is
available by telephone or by
a visit from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30
p.m. Mondays through
Fridays.
The co-op nursery school
which is in its third week of
operation in rooms 16 and 17
of J.A.D. McCurdy School
has an enrolment of 30 boys
and girls.
The cost is $2 per day with
a second child costing 50c.
Anyone sending three pre
schoolers can send the third
child free. For information
call 228-6373 (mornings only)
or call the Stephen Resource
Centre at 228-6302.
Registrations are still being
accepted.
Nola Bradley is in charge
of classes each weekday
morning from 9:15 to 11:30
a.m. Afternoon classes will
be organized if the need
arises.
Donations of a variety of
articles are needed for the
nursery school. Queries can
be made to Mrs. Bradley at
228-6373 during the morning
or the resource centre in the
afternoon.
Lynne Farquhar who will
be co-ordinating a variety of
recreational programs
throughout the year said
application has been made
for a Young Canada Works
grant to operate a summer
playground for youngsters of
Huron Park, Centralia and
Crediton and surrounding
neighbourhoods.
The recreation program
will include crafts, sports,
physical fitness, etc. and
will complement and supple
ment any other programs
being offered by other clubs
or organizations,
Director Liz Beatty said in
addition to the book ex
change donations of books,
toys, paint, wood scraps and
numerous materials would
be very helpful.
Included in the social ser
vices available are debt, in-
dividual and family
counselling. Mrs. Beatty
added, “We are a referral
service for all agencies and
will be glad to provide infor
mation for any community
need. If we don’t have the
answer for you, we will get
in very quickly.”
A Block Parent organiza
tion is now in the process of
being formulated at Huron
Park.
The centre workers are
planning on submitting a
weekly column to the T-A in
forming interested residents
of the activities available.
The following recreation
programs are available at
present in Huron Park. A
teen town club runs every
other Friday night from 7-12
p.m. at the Huron Park
annex. The group is run and
sponsored by the Optimists
Club.
The Optimists also run a
boys sports program. Boys
ages 13-18 have the McCurdy
School gym every Tuesday
night from 7-8:30 p.m. and
the program runs for boys
under 13 every Friday from
7-8:30 p.m.
Free bowling is available
for youth aged 5-9 every
Saturday morning at 9 a.m.
at the Huron Park lanes.
Thanks again to the
Optimists.
A girls sports program run
by the Opti-mrs is available
for females aged 9-18 every
Monday night from 7-8:30 at
the McCurdv school.
For ladies who are wat
ching their waist lines, two
calorie counter groups are
running. Both groups charge
$13 for the year with an
additional cost of 35c per
meeting and 25c per pound
gained.
Ladies are welcome to
attend the first meeting for
free to see if they are in
terested in the program but
must join after that. One
group runs out of the
McCurdy School, Room No.
10 in Huron Park.
For information call Linda
Morley at 228-6794. The other <
group runs out of Centralia. '
For information on that <
group call May Inson at 228- <
6407. <
A paperback book ex- ]
change library has been set <
up at the Resource Centre '
behind the post office in !
Huron Park. Just bring in a <
paper back and take out any '
book from our library. The <
library is available to the <
public weekdays from 9:30- '
4:30. '
OPENING
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LEADERS LEARN NEEDLEWORK — Leaders of a wide variety of womens and community
groups gathered at Exeter United Church Friday for needlepoint lessons. As Lois Wilson, Cen
tralia, Dorothy Dietrich, Dashwood, Nola Taylor, Grand Bend and Linda Wilhelm work away,
instructors for the course, Huron County Home Economists Bea McClenaghan and Grace Bird
look on. T-A photo
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STEPHEN RESOURCE CENTRE — The Stephen Neighbourhood Resource Centre is now
operating at Huron Park in the former Canada Manpower office, behind the Post Office.
Shown here are recreation director Lynne Farquhar, project manager Liz Beatty and nursery
school supervisor Nola Bradley. T-A photo
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