The Lucknow Sentinel, 1980-02-06, Page 5.0)
Cattotyrkterfases
industrial
Huron C'ounty Council' decided thursday
.tci increase their industrial advertiSing
,biniget to. $1$,000 because a the ettcoUre
agitig-tesponse-tartheir-first:adVertisink
campaign last year ,
A single: • 'advertisement placed in, an
industrial. Magazine in November:generated
interest from 10 ,Canaclian 'and 20 Altiericall
coinpanies. Development officer Spence
Cummings told council he was "amazed", at
the number- of replies. T .
The ad which cost $758 was the first major
advertising-done-.by-the development • corn
mittee which had a budget for advertisingOf
$3,000 last year. '
The magazine, Area Development Sites
and Facility,Planning, is specifically printed
for companies wishing ,b0 relocate said
Cummings: •
• "If one ad can draw these; inquiries from
industrY interested in relocating, there is
now doubt that specialty advertising will pay
off;". Cummings told. council,''
"If Huron can pick up one.industry frqm
these ads, it should prove• this kind of -advertising is the;7 type-to-vvhich -Huron
County should adhere,"
Council asked CUmmings to follow up the
tfiries with letters in an effort to, bring the
industries to the connty. Cummings said he
could not release details or the names of the
industries which inquired because this
information must, remain confidential While
he persues diseussions with them.
Goderich, reeve Eileen Palmer asked if the
narries-of the -companies-who-indicated-an -
interest in the county would be made known
to the inuniciPalities;. She said Goderich
would be interested in Perstiing contact With
the incliistriesif the.county'S efforts were not •
successful in attracting them to Huron.
Wforris reeve Bill Elston told council he
, wanted the industrieS to be invited to come
to the county to look at what is available for
an industrY interested in relocating here.
Group hame'program...,
*from page 2
The CASTLE program, which was cancel=
led, served older teenage girls who lived -
with a single social worker, who worked
outside the home.. She acted as a role model
for the girls living at the home who were
focusing on becoming independent., The
program operated for four year and on 'an
average, three to four teenagers were living
at the home.
The girls were either wards of FCS or
teenagers from the community who had left
home. The program was initiated through
the Children's Aid Society Which approached
behavionr at the home. He said he has heard
vague comments about the CASTLE pro-
gram but he has never had a complaint
officially. .
He said CASTLE was terminated .to make
way fora program Which will sprite a wider
range of probletris . in the ,county.
There was only one resident at the 'home
when CASTLE, was cancelled in November
and she has been placed in anOther home in
FCS Care.
The property committee of county, council
toured the house recently and county' council
apProved $2,000 in its property budget for
maintenance and repairs to .the house in its,
1980 budget. The living room will be
redecorated and plaster will be repaired and
wallpapering done in three hedrooms.
The county will continue to' rent the hoUse
to FCS fm thr. group home_program. John
'Finney, reeve of Hay Township and vice-
chairman of the 'property committee, told
council he did not want to see the house'fall
into disrepair-while a new use for the house
is being initiated.
county council who Purchased the heuse.
The, agency. then rented the house from the
county and the agency and the county shared
the funding of the program.
The program was terminated in favour of
the new program which there is a greater
need for in the county at this time. Penn said
he supposes it is inevitable in a 'small
community like Goderich that .people Would
not understand the CASTLE program and
there has been talk about promiscuous
• Andy Ritchie enjoys a conversation with HurOn-Bruce PC efindidOte, Murray .Cardiff When
the Cardiff campaign Opened their committee rooms hi' Lucknow Monday morning. .About 35
people attended the opening to meet with Mr. Cardiff and diScuss:the issues they feel are
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