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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1974-10-24, Page 110. u rpT A Tr 'NW HST.3 Children's tORIE , .11111110L. .�.• �iN81® � _ _ _ 4. REAL ESTATE FOR SALE WANTED TO BU- t-- 300-500 acre farm with good agriculture land suitable for corn. Will pay cash. Musthave immediate response, as buyer is" impatient. -Please call "pr write Ron MBLean,representing M. L. Roth Real Estate Ltd., Fall 1- 576-2070 or write Box '677, Waterloo, Ont, -,-43,44 r, .11ardtman Strack Ltd:: Waterloo'soldest and most ex- perionced 'mortgage firm - first. and second mortgages - refinan- cing a specialty, debt - con- solidation, no embarrassing credit Investigation. • 1-884-6030 0111111111111011111.1111111111.1... v Farm property for sale Colborne Township. 100 acre beef farm. 8 room frame house, barn 56 x 56, silo. 150 acre dal land. � n'[ � Silo witollQ bulk coo r. • rm, vel tiled rise! barn. er, tab a cleaner, I, r. 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One floor frame home in Clinton, one bedrpom gas heating, nice treed lot. Four plex in Clinton, good term:; available. New three bedrobrri brick home in Clinton, broadloom throughout, newly landscaped, Ideal fam' to schoo . t( sided, sev roo "n s, inton, close aluminum r bedrooms, Two hundred acre modern dairy- farm aimfarm in Ashfield Township, cows and quota included in purchase price. Vanastra home, one a a half storey, five'Toorns, newly decorated. FOOD FOR THOUGHT "The greatest of all faults -is til be - conscious of •none." MOBILE. H0111E •LQTi T4 LEASE Check • and compare what Huron Haven Village Mobile Home Park has, to offer ydu in Mobile Home Park facilities. Located just 21 2 mites north of Goderich on' No. 21 Phone for mare information 524-6384 of -524-8059 We offer acres and acres of space. Country Estate living at down to earth. prices. 43h • Improveyour beef operation A practical conference, designed especially for' On- tario's„ beef cow -calf producers, is to be held on December 17 and 18 at• the Skyline Hotel in Toronto. Organized by the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food, the Ontario Beef Im- provement Association and the University of Guelph, the two- day conference will feature discussions on breeding, nutritional requirements and Pee d i n gyp'Sys tem s; •'lle r d'-• h e alt h and money management. :There will be ample opportunity for participants to talk over ideas and problems with speakers ,SOY SCOUT APPLE 'DAY Friday evening & Saturday Oct.' 25; & 26 " (a01•WRICf SI NAL -'TAW THURSDAY, .00TQBZI 24, 1974T -MME 11 Family Services increase in Huron. County , The nub ber of families receiving . counselling from Children's Aid Societies in On= tario continued Man increase,, which began in 1970. There has .been a- 12 per cent increase :since 1970, and at the end of ,1973 for the year was .31,203 ' families involving 82,318•° children in their own homes. . .-- Locally, --Locally, the increase in Family Services in the County's Children's' Aid Society has been higher. In 1970,.an" average of 105 families were receiving counselling services and by the Spring of 1974, this figure had riseh to 154 fa ?ilies'involving 359 children. "This is din, encouraging trend," noted Local •Director,, B.R. Heath, "particularly when we can identify a simultaneous decrease in children in care. More importantly, family and ,. marital problems can be , ; worked on at a point in time before the situation becomes in- /�tolerable and irreparable. fir/rbor damage done to the 'children. Even when parental differences are irreconcilable,', and retseparation and divorce do oc- p cur, appropriate counselling and direction can be given to September 28 the Pointe lessen the emotional impact on Noire arrived light from the children." Hamilton for salt. •" "Presently we are exploring October 2 the Helen Evans the possibility- of establishing a arrived light for salt. - 'conciliation service' in liasion October 5 the Agawa Canyon with the Family Court due to arrived light from Sarnia for the increase in hearings and; salt. referrals affecting marriages October 16 the Heron .Bay' and children before the arrived light from- PO,tt courts," he ,,said. Colborne for grain. , "There continues, however, . October 16. the• Algoway\ to be a .hesitation onthepart of arrived . light from Kingsville . m ny people in the community for salt. , to report immediately October . 19 the • Westdale situs ions affecting children arrived with a load of grain which demand authoritative or from Thunder Bay. supervisory action Ay the October 20, the Roy A..Jodrey Children's Aid Society to effect arrived light from Sarnia for protective services to children." salt. Mr., Heath noted. • , • "We would be naive to. think and panel members.that some children,do not have Specific program - details will to be removed temporarily- or be 'available soon. •Regist.raticin even permanently from parents, •costa,, including ` meals, will because of -the par'erital .range from $40 per. person, but inability to cope with, or fees will be slightly higher for• provide •for their children", he those registering after Decem- added: -`It urch ci rcumstances, .ter-"97"---ratfy--willare exterrnely depenleh on he available ••at county or the community at large 'to district offices of the Ontario report situations which can be ure and described as neglect of children,-. -and to be willing to come 'for- ward with hack-rp evidenceif a • court` hearing is necessitated. Not wanting 'to 'get involved' is a lame excuse where children are invojveci, and particularly when many such situations'can he ameliorated if the referral is made early' enough." The number of children coming into Children's Aid care provincially has•seen also ''a• noticeable decrease; eighteen percent between '1969 and 1972, down from 18,430 to 15, 110 in •the time period. At the' end of 1973 a slight increase to 15, 144 was recorded. Locally, Huron Children's Aid Society 'peaked' with children in -care at 120 in the summer of 1970 and has seen an initial decline, and then levelling_ off 'to the Spring -of. this year when 88 c'hi•fdren remained in care. This decrease relates to the overall 'trend to return more children to their homes, 2[s soon as possible, and avoid placement in the -first in- ' stance wherever possible.' if alternate carf or services can be utilize& A - ' such as homemaking ' services,. County Home care where appropriate, foster day care, or referral to County Social Services• or provincial assistance program- mes where the expenditure of some additional funds will' . eliminate 'separation of children from their parents. • As with the rest cif the province, the number of infants being surrendered for adoption. has affected •child care statistic. Provincially hetw.eee the pe,k ,years of, 1969 when 9,748 single- mothers asked far service, and 1973 when, 4,904 new cases were'recorded, ' this service has declined by 53 per 'cent, and th'e number of children relinquished for adop- tion declined to 2,041. The total number of children on adoption, •probation con- tinued to decline from 8,985 in 190 to 4,864 in 1973, a decrease of 46 per cent. Adop- tion applications 0 have' also decreased in the same period by a .third. The difference between the 2,047 infants relinquished for adoption and the 4,864 children on adoption placement' represents' the impact of a decided emphasis on non -infant adoption. I;n the period l968 to 1970 up `to thirty babies were on adoption probation in Ministry Food of Agricult ConIest - winner Troy Falconer, 6, of 219 Mary St„ Clinton, proudly sits atop anew Honda Z-50 mini trail bike hk Snacks mini -bike contest. On hand for the presentation were (left) Dave StWon in theaJac s, ; Doug Smith, area manager; and Gord Crawford of Gord's Stark, a local distributor for Jacks, bels from Jack's potato chips is only 'o'ndof 26� Cycle and Sports. Troy, who sent in three la winners in the 13 week contest. Huron County at any one time. Today, there are 19 children on adoption placement and all of these but six are over three years of age. ` "This Is an encouraging and, dramatic change in adoption. emphasis, and highlights the primary philosophy of :C.A.S. adoption service of providing homes for every child "who is legally adoptable, a swing away from, the former apparent prac- tise of finding infants for ;families", said the' Huron Director.—Locally, the Board of Directors found it necessary to amend its adoption policy and procedures in the Spring to defer the complete processing of applications for, infants. All ap- plicants are personally seen; however, so that the situation can he fully explained, and Assistance needed alternatives chosen where ap- care resources to meet the propriate."' demand" he continued. •, "Where we have seen the "Presently we would want to decrease of younger children in recruit one or two homes in the _care, and infants on adoption," ---County who would be noted Heath, "the proportions developed.. into small group set - of teenagers in'care, compared tings of up. ,to four teenagers with all other age groups' has • each," he said. Our immediate continued to rise to close to 50 need is for, a home for teenage percent up -from a thirty per; girls. Such a small group 'set - cent average In 1969." ° ting is often the -only answer for "Unfortunately, I (know of no youngsters who cannot accept Children's Aid Society in the the resentment they feel in ex-, province, including our own, . changing their own parents for which has the resources foster parents. Such ,:children available to cope with the often reject both the values and 'demands placed on the Society kindness of traditional foster and its traditional foster care parents. Their anger, with their resources. Fortunately most of own' parents. for. 'letting them our foster homes have 'stuck with us' during the time .period when older children have been corning into care, but there has FPPn nn of foster down' affects -a4 their relation- ships with adults. In practise, many of our twat ge placements are also short-term in nature, and gives t.he,staff an opportunity to assess th 9 situation, allow a beginning in working ',through the problems. and relationships• with precipitated placement, and then return 'home - hopefully with the. parents and youngsters willing to tackle the home situation with more in- sight and cotnmittment to 'change." Highlight of Children's Aid Week locally i°s. its annual -, banquet, this year being held in Brussels with Mr. H.H.' "Scotty" Dymond, Executive Director of the Ontario - Association pf Children's Aid Societies as guest speaker. • Several foster parents with five or more years service with the Society will also' be honored. C�mmitte�'forined for Celebration '75 - The Celebration '75 commit- tee met with limited success at a public meeting held this week to discuss the feasibility of proposals drawn up for the celebration. The committee planned five special weeks of activity to mark the 125th anniversary of the Corporation of the Town of Goderich. The committee • is chaired by Brian Markson and "incluc`'es Reg Bell, Mike. Dymond, Leroy Harrison, Eileen Palmer,, Beth Markson and Nanette Quellette. The group has been allotted a $500 budget by the town to discuss the feasibility of Celebration '75 projects and get them underway. The proposed five separate events packages would take place during the course of the year. The first was a New Year's -Eve celebrationich. would gnt,,j,l such. events a bon<•fire-Of old Christmas -trees, ,a snowmobile torchlight parade, fireworks and con=' cessions. The event Was•'ten- tatively scheduled for New Year's Eve butthe committee is considering staging it a -week or 'two- later. The second •proposal was a children's•week to be conducted in mid-June. The week would feature- inter -school sports and swim meets, school projects displays and • stage presen- tations. The third proposal was a car- nival week scheduled for 'the third week in July. The com- mittee_. intencls to_ secure a_ sizeable , midway. and sideshows. Other features would include puppet shows, dances, church suppers; special matinees and a beer tent. The feasibility of charging a nominal fee to the attractions within the town, a sort of package • deal, was also discussed, The fourth attraction plan- ned is an art week during the fourth week in July. The group hopes to feature :displays of professional and amateur classes as well as child,. art, Photography, hobby art and theatre art such as the Huron Country Playhouse. • The filial attraction und'er consideration is an industrial and farm show during the third week in August. The show C�nservu ncy group holds first meeNiiu! The first meeting . of the Huron County . Branch of the Architectural Conservancy of Ontario was held in the Gover- nor's House at the Huron Historic jail on Wednesday evening, October 16. • After a report was given of thesuccessful summer at, the• Jail, during which Mord than 8,000 visitors had toured it, the president, .Joan Van Den Br'oeck, informed the meeting that a letter of support pfor the Van Egmond Foundation con- cerning application for a grant .to help with- its restoration project had been sent. A discussion, of plans for the coming year resulted in a decisio.n to hold four meetings, each in a different centre ie the Kentutkt site county, and to send out «`series of newsletters containing items of interest to conservationists. The members were urged to send to the secretary, Mrs.J.W. Wallace, all material on con- servancy' projects both within'• and without the county which they could gather. Mr. James Doig iii Seaforth was the speaker of the evening. He told the meeting 'of the progress and plans of the Van Egmond'oundation in its ef- fortto restore the home of Col. Van Egmond's son, Constant, as nearly as possible to its original architecture and fur- nishings. The next meeting of the Branch is planned for January. would : attempt to encompass the industry and .farming of•the area through industrial _displays and a farmers produce market in the square. A tractor pull and -equestrian events were .also tabled as legitimate attrac- tions during the week. The committee also took into 'consideration—the feasibility of sttaging such events as cycle races; car •rallies; regattas, canoe and kayak races, local 'homes tour,'an -air fly in and a steam train as well as providing such services as an accommodations bureau and babysitting if the crowds warranted such services. The events listed by the,c m= mittee were simply ideas and proposals for the upcoming Dominion Roads expand Mr. B.A. Sully, president of Dominion Road Machinery • Company, announced his com- pany's plan to develop a new multi-million dollar manufac- turing plant on a 40 acre site in Owensboro, Daviess County, Kentucky. Today DRMCo has •.bet'ome the only major manufacturer to specialize ' the design and manufacture of ,.motor graders and attachments. The decision to develop a new plant in the United States came as a result of acceptance and demand by both dealers and customers. To meet the new demand DRMCo has not only initiated plans for the new plant but has also established a sales organization made up of one hundred and two dealers from coast • to coast, Owensboro, Kentucky was chosen for the plant sire 'after• a site selection program was con - O celebration year. The meetings. was held to tietertnine the feasibility of thplans and,get some feedback and new ideas but the turnout was alarmingly .poor Committee chairman Brian Markson reiterated the fact that the events tabled by his committee are simply proposals subject to change but the group definitely' needs 'input and -, assistance to get the project up- derway. As a result of ° the last meeting theplans are not much farther ahead and the commit- tee may consider holding another public meeting although the budget for the• groups activities must he ap- proved by the present °council. dui'ted. Owensboro's labor market, central' location for suppliers and geographical situation for shipment of graders to American dealers were major factors in the selec- tion. The Kentucky Department of Commerce, the Owensboro, Daviess County,. Industrial Foundation Inc., the City of Owensboro and the Daviess County and Daniel Construc- tiot't. Company also assisted in the location decision. Initial plans call for -first phase building to begin in the spring of 1975. 1Construction and installation of rhachinery are scheduled for the latter part of the ;year. More than one hundred employees will be em- ployed, in the initial stages of operation «lith an increase of between four and fivi hundred within a five *year period. Couple live in Windsor MR. AND MRS. G.M.C. WILLIAMS Amidst yellow gladioli, Gail Reid, Hensall, friend of white mums and blue the bride. ; -variegated- carnations -was- the. They were dressed alike ' in 1 double -ring ceremony between , gowns , of, medium blue Debra Jean Riehl, Goderich, •polyester satin. Thelow square and Mr. Gary Michael. Charles necks were accented by the Williams, Windsor,' on Septem- three puffed sleeves with in - bar 14, 1974., serts of lace in ea•clfpuff. They Their` vows were heard by carried nosegays of yellow pom Rev• 'Lockhart Royal at 4;:00pom mums; blue variegated p.m. in Knox Presbyterian carnations and, white mums. Church, Goderich. Best man was _ .:Pon • ' The bride is the • only '.Hazlewood.. ' friend of the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. groom, Windsor. Ushers were James Riehl Goderich. Mr: and .John Adams London, friend of Mrs. Earl Williams .are the the-grhom; Ted. Williams, Kit- . parents of the groom. " the"ner, brother of the groom; Escorted down the aisle on and Jim Riehl, brother' of the the.arm of her father, the bride bride, Goderich, chose a white gown cif flocked The bride's mother received georgette. .The cummerbund her guests at The —White Car - midriff was 'accented_ with lace nation, Holmesville, wearing a flowers edged in teardrop, pc- long sleeved gown , of yellow arts. The midriff was raised floral in polyester sheer with high to meet the low V-neck. shades of -green, brown, and The leg of -mutton sleeves were gold. She wore tu white gar - fastened at the wrist with three '•denia corsage and accessories pearl buttons. The gown was- were also white. gathered at the waist to fall out The groom's mother chose a around a full stiff, crinoline. black sleeveless gown of Her ' three -tiered cathedral polyester, • crepe and white length veil was held in place by mauve, pink and yellow a headpiece of teardrop pearls. flowers. She wore silver ac- Each layer of the veil was trim= cessories and a corsage of pink med in matching lace, as wras variegated carnations, '''on the cummerbund. Around For . a 'honeymoon to Mon - her • neck she wore a pearl treal and Quebec City, the choker, a gift from the groom, _ bride changed to a red and • Her bouquet was shaped in a ..white' pantsuit with 'white ac- crescent form of yellow -roses, "' cessories, SFte took a blue blue variegated. 'carnations, variegated carnation out of her white pom • atom mums and bouquet. �� `s . (,The couple are now residing Matron babyofbreathhonor was Mrs. in Windsor, , �• ,Joanne Wain, .Bayfield, sister The bride was feted at many Kt' the groom. Bridesmaids were showers. They were given by Miss Susan Williams, sister of her, aunt, Mts. Greg the groom, Goderich; Mrs. Hildebrand, Miss Andrea Penny'McMastors, l urlingtnn,' Williams aped Mrs. Joanne cousin of the bride, 'a°nd Mrs. Wain.., •