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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1977-10-20, Page 22PAGE 2A—CLINTON NEWS -RECORD, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1977 New supervisor excited about jo Richard Boonstra is excited about his new job. His new job is supervisor with Family and Children's Services of Huron County (formerly the Children's Aid Society). His excitement stems from the fact that he can play a vital part in a change in the agency's role in family life in Huron County. The agency is attempting to become a household word in Huron County helping people to deal' with social problems related to the family unit. "We offer services here that people just aren't aware of," said agency director John Penn. "We're trying to get into prey ntative work here that will change our role from!? drastic, 'last minute decisions to helping with problems before they become serious." Penn said the agency even changed its name in keeping with the change. He said he, his staff and agency board agree that the change is for the better and are working to inform the public of services offered by the agency. He added that the addition of Boonstra as a supervisor brings the- agency another step closer to its goal. Boonstra will fill a badly needed gap in supervisory duties for the agency. He will also use his experience and knowledge in dealing with the problems of teenagers to expand the agency's services. The new supervisor dame to Huron County from Toronto where. he worked with 'Child Welfare., His last position ' was Youth ',Coor- dinator where he was responsible for creating and implementing a supportive treatment system for adolescents and their families. He has organized and handled special group sessions with teenagers setting up the groups with just the teenagers and with the teenagers and their families. Boonstra said his ex- periences in dealing with teenagers' problems are usually related to emotions. He said the catch all for the problems usually is the generation gap adding that the gap can be closed with an honest effort by both parent and child. The problem usually arises when no one seems to know, be aware of or identify the nE .ed for counselling in the family. He said he hopes, to get involved with schools., physicians and , other areas with which the family has fairly consistent association and try to identify the problems before they are critical. He said the drastic steps the agency has to take in dealing with problems in families usually have to be taken because the agency doesn't find out about them until its too late. The agency workers become involved with the situation at the crisis stage and sometimes have to face major decisions like Hensall wants housing Hensall should either have its own geared -to -income housing for senior citizens or have access to that existing in the county, Reeve Harold Knight said at last week's council meeting. "Hensall should have a right somewhere", he said. The written agreement with Exeter had proved of little help in a pinch, since units there were filled. He had talked with the Huron County Housing Authority about ac- commodation for an elderly Hensall couple and had suggested the new Seniors' apartments in Zurich. He had been told that permission had to be obtained from Zurich to' rent to people outside the community. While he ex- pected that the couple in question would likely obtain an apartment in the Zurich building,he thought some better arrangement should exist for Hensall. Attempts at getting its own senior citizens' apartmerCts had been unsuccessful. Plans for Hensall's new fire hall are still' in progress. A council delegation inspected fire halls in Lucan and Arva recently and gathered in- formation about costs. A meeting .was scheduled for Wednesday night to hear this report. Amish farmers are ex- pected to arrive in the next week or two to tear down the frame of Hensall's -old arena. (A new one is under con- struction next door.) An auction of used building materials will be held after demolition. At the same time, some- old chairs and equip- ment owned by the village will be sold, too. - } Council may close the village public washroom for men. It has been vandalized repeatedly. . Rather than replace the wash basin, as recommended by the County Health Unit, the village may board up the washroom. No date has been set yet for the hearing about Hay Township's Black Creek-, Mousseau drainage works, which was halted because of an objection by the Ministry of Natural Resources. The Creek runs through a con- servation area. Beaver have built dams on it, causing flooding. Farmers object tb the flooding. The ministry wants , to preserve the animals and their habitat, so is opposed to straightening the water course and deepening it. Without the drainage works, Hensall cannot proceed with a municipal storm sewer at its west end along highway 84, following the present water course. Works superintendent Gary Maxwell reported trouble at the municipal dump. Chains and posts at the entrance had been knocked over and locks taken away. Council em- powered him to inform those using the, dump that, unless they locked the gate before and after themselves and conformed to regulations in general, they would be charged for sending a man out to supervise their dum- ping. Advertisements will be placed in the Zurich and Exeter newspapers con- cerning the new home sup- port program for the elderly offered through the county's social services department. It provides free labour to eligible people for certain repairs, transportation, gardening, snow removal and so on. London's Humane Society will be asked to send a representative to council's next meeting, outling ser- vices and costs. In Hensall, dogs "are just , as con- troversial as capital punish- ment," observed Reeve Knight. "Nothing takes up more time on this council." Council supported a resolution from Charlot- tenburgh Township in Glengarry County, calling for a national referendum on capital punishment. It was felt that parliamentarians had been voting in ac- cordance with conscience rather than constituents' wishes. A resolution from McNab Township dealing with assessment of unoccupied new housing units went un- supported. Hensall has agreements with developers, requiring them to install services , while the town provides maintenance, so does not have a problem with uncollected building taxes. The contractor responsible will be given a list of deficiences to correct in the local sewage system. The list was compiled when the recent final inspection was made. Council heard that the Bendix- Recreation Vehicle plant wanted an additional sewer outlet' 'on Richmond Street. It decided to•wait(or a request in writing and more information. Commenting onthe province's cuts in municipal grants, Reeve 'Knight said Hensall would likely be "pretty well off." Trouble could arise if education costs exceeded budget limits, he added. Copies of Exeter's by-law relating to privately owned outdoor, swimming pools will be sent to councillors. Council will discuss this at a later meeting. whether or not to leave the children at home. These decisions are what causes people to get the wrongim- pression of Family Services he added. "We end up dealing with crises all the time and that's a very bad time to become involved, said Boonstra. "We can only take physical steps and manipulate the family taking a child out of the home or something so we can deal with the problem to prevent a recurr9nce." "We get the image of a heavy coming in to take the children," he added. He suggested that if the agency can get involved with these situations before they come to a crisis stage we can prevent a lot of needless sorrow by parents and teenage children. Richard Boonstra Brussels swine breeder has top boar Wm. J. Turnbull, Brussels, had the top indexing Yorkshire board among the 75 "graduates" which recently completed test at the Ontario Swine Test Station near New Hamburg, This top Yorkshire, with a performance index of 135, -combined' low back -fat . thickness of 12.5 mm (.49 inches•), average daily gain on test of .87 kg. (1.88 pounds) per d ,y and good- feed con- version of 2.39 kg feed per kg gain. High indexing boar in the entire group was a Duroc from the herd of Jim & Mary Field, Port Dover, with an index of 137. Also among the six top indexing boars were two Yorkshires from the herd of Murray Bancroft, Newton and two Durocs .from Lloyd Skinner, Bowmanville, all with performances indices of between 133 and 126. The performance - index used at the Test Station evaluates the overall per- formance of each boar and rnmhinec the important Hullett Happenings Thanksgiving dinner On Friday, October 7, the grade 1 class, dressed as Indians, invited the grade 2 class, .dressed as pilgrims; to a Thanksgiving Dinner. Mrs. Jamieson cooked the turkey and the students brought in various vegetables. The classes in- vited Mr. MacLennan and the dinner was enjoyed by everyone. Grade 3 trip On Thursday, October 13, the grade 3 class went to Doon Pioneer Village in Kitchener. The class took a tour around the area and saw many different things, such as school houses,. old stores and houses. The trip was greatly en- joyed by all. Grade 1 trip On October 14, Miss Querengesser's and Mrs., Walter's grade one classes went on a trip to the Blyth Fire Department in con- nection with the fire safety assembly on Friday; While they were there they toured the station. economic traits of backfat thickness, average daily gain and feed conversion into one composite index with the group average always 100 index. Twenty-nine of the top test station "graduates" in the October group, including the top indexing ones mentioned above, will be sold at the Test Station on October 27th at 7:30 p.m. Only those boars which index above average and are approved by a committee for physical soundness are of- fered for sale in these mon- thly station tested boar sales. As all boars at the Test Station are led and handled under uniform conditions, buyers can be sure that superior performance is due to true genetic superiority for low backfat, fast gains and good feed conversion which will be passed on to -the pigs they sire. 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