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THE BRUSSELS POST., AUGUST 11, 1976.
THE GOAT DIDN'T HELP --Ritchie's Rockets, the Brussels ball team who played
in last week's invitational men's baseball tournament had the services of a mascot,
the goat above, for the occasion. Steven Wheeler, Gary Pipe and Sandra Heuther
pose with the goat who watered the baseball field, but didn't help the Rockets win
the tournament. (Photo by Langlois)
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by Shirley J. Keller
Castle project-Children's Aid
Society Teen Living Experience-
put down roots last • Thursday
evening as members of Huron
County Council, at a special
summer session, agreed to pur-
chase a house in Goderich to
provide an independence home
for a group of teenage girls.
The girls-ranging in age from
15to 18-have been living together,
in rented accommodation in God-
erich for the last few months. The
[only supervision in the home is a.
"model" who is a young woman
employed at the CAS office in
Goderich. The "model" does" not
actually supervise, either. -She
only provides an example of the
kind of orderly life expected of the
girls in the home-working, run-
ning a household, budgeting
money, general appearance, nor-
mal behaviour.
CAS director Bruce Heath
claims simply, "It has worked."
When the owner of the present
Castle accommodation decided to
sell the property, Mr. Heath said,
CAS workers immediately began
to look for another location for the
project. The search ended laSt
Thursday evening when county
council agreed to purch'ase a
large home at the corner of
Nelson Street and Cambria Road
in Goderich for $40,000;
The CAS director views' the
county's decision as "a business arrangement". The initial money
for the property will be provided
by the county, but the costs will
be amortized over a .20-year
period at 12 per cent, resulting in
annual payments by CAS to the
county of $5,355,15. As well, the
CAS will pay the takes on the
property, as well as maintain and repair the house and adjoining land.
No Homes
Castle project first came into
being. When CAS could no longer
Orovide foster homes' for the
gowing number 4of teenagers
coming into tate:. Of the 72
children presently under the Cate
of CAS, 42 are teenagetS,
Mr. Heath explained quite
candidly that over the last three
years, CAS has "bumbled from
one situation to the other" when
it came to teenagers. He said
foster parents suited for dealing
with the problems of adolescents
were difficult to find. Still, the
teenagers kept coming into care-
• from all over the county.
"We didn't know where to
place the kids," stated Mr.
Heath.
Castle project has been a kind
of pilot project, the director
admitte. He said there have been
anxious moments,, with some
youngsters actually evicted from
the house for various reasons.
"But we now have the nucleus
of a real good group ," said Mr.
Heath proudly. "Castle project is
working." •
One of the features of project
Castle is the amount of respon-
sibility turned over the young
women. Although all the res-
idents enter into a written con-
tract with CAS before entering
project Castle, the emphasis is on
independence for those in the
program. The residents of the
home are responsible for every-
thing-including paying for food,
rent, utilities out of the expense
money provided by CAS,
"At first they 'didn't manage
too well," claimed Mr. Heath.
"But there was no sugar dadday
to bail them out. They learned to
Make the food money last for the
month."-
Even the furnishings in the
home are "niggardly" said Mr.
Heath, who hastened to point out
this was done purposely. He said
the residents of the house 'now
have begun to take a real interest
in the home, and much of the
furnishings have been "begged,
borrowed arid recruited" by the
Young people theinselVeS.
Ultimate Goal
. CAS workers feel there is
reason ' hope that similar
projects could be useful in dealing
with the problem of other teen-
agers in care. The Ultimate goal
is, of course fto!: return the young
people to their homes and their
families in due course. In the
meantime, however, methods
must be found to help teenagers
and their parents over what have
become intolerable circum-
stances. Castle project is one such
method.
Some county councillors
expressed concern about "flack"
from those in the neighborhoOd
around Castle project.
"No matter where we go some
eyebrows will be raised initially,"
asserted Mr. Heath.
When the vote was taken
concerning the purchase of the'
property, it was approved easily.
Some councillors even expressed
their satisfaction with the success
of the Castle project to date.
Routine reports were submitted
to council from the Executive
Committee, the Special
Committee, the Committee of
Management of Huronview and
the Board of Health.
Former warden. Anson
McKinley, reeve of Stanley
Township, gave a brief report of
the meeting of the Commission on
the Reform of Property Taxation
in Ontario, held in Goderich
recently.
Some Concerns
The county had expressed
some of its concerns to the
Commission, including a feeling
that there would be ' no real
incentive for rural townships with
little urban development to
maintain a reasonable level of
taxes with the province paying a
large, portion of the total taxes to
the mun icipality; a hidden
control of the sale of farm land
because of taxes having to be paid
back to the province if sold for
purposes other than farming; and
the administrative nightmare
caused in small rural municipali-
ties by the necessity of making
application to the treasurer of the
municipality fpr p ayment of the
taxes by the Orovirice.
It was decided to appoint a
committee to negotiate all
salatieS of county enriployees.
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