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CASTLE project amortized.(Wet' a n -year contract with CAS before - hOnfe are "niggardly said their homes and, , their
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Children's Aid SoeititY Teen period at 12 percent, resulting entering proj.ect, CASTLE , the Mr,Heath, who hastened to families in due course, In the
Living Experience - put down in annual payments by CAS to ernphagis is- on independence point Out this was. done mearktrnie, however, methods
as mernbers of Huron County well, the CAS PO' thp reSidents of the home are residents of the honse noW teenagers. and their parents
roots last Thursda'Y'' eifening 'the Count), Of $5,355:115.:"As • • for those in the program. The purposelY% He said t 0 must be found to help
Coencil, at a spedial summer taxes on the propertY, as well responsible for everything - have begun .to take g rea over what: have become in -
session; agreed to purchase a as maintain and repair the including paying for foOd, interest in the home, an toleratik..., circumstances.
house in Goderich to provide hou-se and aclioiniegland. rent, utilities but of the ex- much of the furnishings have CASTLE project is one such
an independence -home for a CASTLE prd-ject first came pense money provided by been "begged, borrowed and rriethod.
inth being When CAS could no CAS: 4 recruited': by the young Some county councillors
group of teenage girls.
The girls - ranging in age longer provide foster- homes "At first they didn't people themselves.. • „ expressed concerti about
frcim 15, to. 18 - have been for the ,growing number of manaee too well," elaitned CAS workers,Ifeel there is "flack" from those in the
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accommodation Goderich Of th0 children PresentlY sugar daddy to bail them (JUL, projects Could be.. usefuLin. ILASTLE project. ,
living together in rented- teenagers comirig into care. Mr. Heath. "But there was no reason to. hope that sirni g borho d around
. • fOr the last" few months, The under the care of CASs,. 42 are:°.TheY 10arned. tO make the dealing with tlie, problem Of. "Nd matter where we go
only superVision in the home teenagers, food money last for the other •thenegers,•in care. The. same eyehrows will be raised
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. is a "model" who is a young 1VIi. Heath eXplainecl 'quite month. ' , • • : ultimate- goal is, of Ceurs , initially, asserted Mr.
- • woman employed at the CAS , candidly that.. over the -last - Even the filrniShings in the the ret yoUng.people to Heath.
office '' in •Goderich: The three years, . CAS has
"model" does '• not -alciyally 'tumbled from one situation
supervise, either. , She :only tothe other" when it came to
—provides a--exa ple-ef-the -- teenagers. He -said - fester _
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kind 4,of orderly - expected. • parents suited kir dealing
dr the girls in he homwith thproblems of
working, running a adolescentwere difficult to
honsehold, budgeting money, • find. Still, the teenagers kept'.
genera -1 aPPeafance, normal—corning-Inttroare--; fruin a.11 -7, --
behaviour. --• over the ColInty..,,•
CAS director •Bruce ,Heith . . '."We didn't know whereto_
• --_ _ claims _siniply,1t_hasplane the kids;" stated Mr
.Worked." r, ' ' Heath: .
• When -'the owner orrthe CASTLT.E-p-Voreerh-arheeira-
present CASTLE ac- kind . cif pilot project, •the
commodation decided to sell ,director admitted. He said
•the property, Mr. Heath said, there have been anxious'
CAS workers' immediately motnents, with ° some
,, began' to look for another youngsters actually evicted
, location for the project.. The from. the house for various
search ended •last Thuraday reason. .• ' -. ' •
evening when county council "Bin we now •have the
agreed -to purchase a large '"nucleus of arealgood group,"
. • borne at the corner of Nelson . said Mr. Heath Proudly.
. „ • . Street and Cambria Road in "CASTLE , project • is
• ••• ,' Goderich for $40,000. working."
• The GAS director views the ''" One of the eatures of
' county's decision as "a project CASTLE . is the
business arrangement". The amount ef 'responsibility
initial money for the property turned over to the :young
Will •.be provided by :the wonien. Although - all the.
• coenty, .but the costs will be • .residents enter.into a written •
When the vote wali taken
concerning the purchase.otf
the property I was a •eri.:
easily. SomeYuncillors tven
expressed their satisfaction
with the. success of the
CASTLE project to date.
Routine reports were -
submitted to council from the
Executive conitilittee, the
Special Committee, the
Committee of Management of
Huronview and the Board of
'Health.' •
Foriner warden Anson
McKinley: reeve of, Stanley
Township, ga-ve a brief report
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inissien on the Retch:hi,' of
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Praperty Taxation iu Ontario,
held in Goderich recently.
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The county had expressed
some of its Concerns to the
Commission., including a
• feeling that there would he no.
real incentive for rural,.
•towriships with little urban
development to • maintain •a
reasonable level of taxea `With
the province paying. a large
pottipe of the total takes to
the • nninicipalitY; a hidden
Control. .of . the sale,. offarm
land becauSe,or takes having
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to be paid back to the,
'Provit,ige sold forpurpoSet
otherfarming; and the ,
administrative nightmare • '
caused, in ' small rnrek . •
trkunilpalities the..
ne9e§ of -making
plication to the -treasurer of
. the municipality for payrrieht
of the taxes by the province. 1- • '
It was decided to appoint a..
negotiating committee ': to ' •
negotiate all. Aglaritas
county employees. Members •-
• of the. committee- Will he., the •
warden, the administrators
the• chai(rjkonatninoufetci9heilexpeaeguotloive
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Bluewater Cable TV
flilioded- with letters
• * . ' •1913 peopleAn_ Clinton,
HolnieiVille and • Goderibh.
were pleased to fincl.,Out that
the Bluewatet TY -Cable'
Limited was being set up in
Holniesville and that finally '•
American television stations
.and:FM radio station g could
* be tuned in.
However' in the 'event..of the '
Canadian Radickelevisien
Teleconiniiinications •
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• mission's •(CRTC) pian • to
push •Canaclian ,culturalism,
"foreig,n" Fadin_staos are
being taken. off the air and as •
• a result the Bluewater Cable
has been plagued with letterS
• and telephone Calls •frOrn
. ' some of their 3,500. sub-.
Scribers. -
While Ron McsIntosh Jr: of
the Bluewater Cable, and the
company ,are , fighting the
decision, in ..actualitV their
handS',are tied against what
, they refer to as outright
censorship of heir broad:
casting licen -. • '• :
Not only h ve 'American
radio station been banned •
froin. the cable system, but
algo CFCA-FM in Kitchener
and CJOM-FM in Windsor
have been taken Off the'air. It.
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Is • now -feared. by. Mr.
MeIritiialf and 'the' company
that soon A.merican television
station Coverage- mill be
denied aed ' its • place,
French •stations will be
brought in. - • • --- - •
"The CRTC is tlling
Canadian people' that they
aren't • Mature • enough to
•choose and .watth certain
channels ,•" - said , Mr.
McIntosh. He also said that
he feels that not only are,
Canadlae people having little
say in thegovernment, but
also being, told • what
television stations arid shows
they can watch.'
While the Bluewater Cable
received- some revenue from
the FM : stations; they are
more concerned with being •
severely restricted in what
they can- present and the
undemocratic way in which
the public is being treated.
• The cable company is
fighting.,the CRTC'S changes
but there is little they can do
except to pass en. the letters
and complaints tO•MP Robert
McKinley and the CRT -C -it-
self..
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ReaI Estate signs dot the front Iawns of,about
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BY JEFF SEDDON.
' Real estate in Goderich is
a "buyers' market" ac-
cording to a general polling of
the town's brokers whO claim
that the bityer-beware at-
titude prevalent a few months-
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*ago has disappeared. (The
brokers reason anything from
high mortgage rates to
"• sohisticated shopping by
people interested buying
a house as the cause- of• the
- change.
An obvious sloWdown jf
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for, mentallyretar
The Ministry of Community
and Social Services has ap-
proved a, grant application
„from , the, "Goderie Ir
• Recreation I- and Community
Centre Board for community.
7' programs for: the ' mentally
retarded. , • .•
The Ministry' 'awarded a 1.
grant of $15,000 'for' the'
Program-, more than half of
•, the $28,000 apPlied for by the
• Board. The Ministry is trying
• to establish an integration
prOgram for mentally
retarded .in centres outside
the .Pro-Vinee's metropolitan
areas. • •
The program will involve
the.hiring of a staff person to,
help the mentally retarded .
become involved in ongoing
Commenity. Cultural. and •
recreational programs. The
recreation board is hoping to
begin the program iii Sep-./
tember, following :the hiring‘
of a qualified staff person.
The 'staff_ person would-be
responsible for introducing
the retarded into existing
community recreation
pragrams and ' developing
further programs as
required. This involvement
could subsequently' peornote
community integration for
the retarded and create
permanent community
programs.
The recreation board hopes
to have a staff person lilted
before September so that
ejtiatie.g. comm -unity
programs may be eXarnin.ed
to determine the approach to
the introductory process of
integration. -04
'25,000 ,• .'$0,000 575000 . 4100,000
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house' buying canbe wit-
neased by the number Of For
Sale signs on front lawnsof.
houses in Goderich and the
, condition of some of.those
;sigris,A rough estimate based
on the number of listings the
larger real estate businesses
. in tdwn have_ on file now puts
the number of houses for' sale
at between 100 'and 150. Most
agents claim that the last
° time that ,.many--.• were
avairihle at once was in 'the
• -early 60's and certainly never
in this -decade.
The large number Of
listings combined 'With the
length of time the house s are
on the-markef shows a sharp
decline in the past month in a
certain -type' of housing. As
one agent pointed out,- the
` fading signs on -the: fronts of
some of the places indicates
that the normal 60 -day listing"
period has been doubled with
still no success. - "
The -reason cited hy iciest
brokers costs. They agree
that most•hoe'ses between the
• $30,000 :and r$40;000 and in
some iiistapces $50,000 'sell
• fast. But houses with price
.tags over that' are usually
passed up due to the
• sophistication the buyefa are
showing
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Trerxd sterns to indicate
that people are hot as. quick
now to take on the husky
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rnoricil Arena
rnertgage .rates. The rates
climbed to -nearly 14 percent
recently and that problem
was 'compounded by the fact
that money was tight last
winter. The rates have since •
dropped to 11-3 f' 4 percent but
according to one broker the
anti-inflation program has
had its affect on house buying
trends. ' .
• 14e• pointed out that people
:in many cases buy and sell ••
-their Way- into-tFe type of
house they want but the Anti
Inflation Board - has 'made
that practice difficult. The
buy and sell ume besgins•with
a low priced haridyrean's
special, that the family buys
and sinks. some. money into
fixing and redecorating.
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5 houses in -town
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About a year -later the house
is sold at a ,srnall profit arid
the extra cash used to buy g
placeaTtittle more valuable.
Four or five years later the
family may have something_
with which'they are content.
The AIB, however, 'May
have throWn. a wrench into .
-that practice. Thefamily
may have reasoned 'that the
father's wage. increase this
year could make itpossible to
buy a± holfieai*iiiii-ifie
corner but the AIB rules kept
the raise out Of •the
The result is that the family
Stays Niniere they are -for at •
least another year.
',One broker suggested that
values -of • houses ,have been
inflated ovet, the past few
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peaked. He pc.
recent dernan
and a con -Tarrson b.
with larger- centres in the7
province -drove asking prices
up. Added to that were claims
by
some agents •that the
people could easily get their
asking price on the market
and automatically a -larger
margin of profit has been
added to the selling price.
Another suggestion blamed
a decrease in housing starts
last winter for the high prices
demanded now. Bad weather
last: winter halted con,
struction of rieW homes_ for a
few months and the result
seemed to be an escalation of
prices of existing property-..
e •Cost of servicing riew
Gaderieli has alai) had
,xe affect on housing
At the beginning of the
...Lcatle •lot • prices in town •
ranged from three -to five .
thousand dollars ISM that
figure has since: jumped to*
$12,5110 or $13,000.- That figure
pins the cost of the house built •
seems to be putting the
dwellings out of the debt ratio
of the average -income in
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• One -broker suggested that
the lack of sales may be
evil:feet in the sales of "
building materials. He said
he felt more people were
staying where they were and • •
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adding, to their present house
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Goderich Arena last week and smashed one against the completed the demi:410On of the roof. (staff photo) • .
Winds wreaked havocwith"rernov. alo(tiTetrusses from the seuth„eagt section' of the bui ng. nrk crews have new
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