HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1976-08-12, Page 3CASTLE " ,p a ject .arnortized over- : a 20 -Year.
Children's Aid .Society Teen .period at 12 -percent, resulting
Living Experience.- put:down in annual payments by CAS -to
roots last. Thursday evening the County of $5,355.15, As
•.-.w-a•s-members.. of Huron County well, the CAS will pay the
Council, at.a special summer taxes on the property, aS well
session, agreed'to purchase:a as maintain and repair the
house in Goderich to, provide house and adioiningland,
an independence home for' a CASTLE project first came
group of teenage girls, into being when CAS could ne
The girls - ranging in age longer provide foster homes
from 15 to 18 have been , for the growing: number of
living together in rentedteenagers coming into care
-accommodation in Goderi¢h..Of the 72 children presently
for, the last few months. The- under the care of: CAS; 42 are
only su Yervision:in the hoprie ;teenagers: ..... _ wA •
is a - model "Who is a young Mr. Heath explained quite
woman employed at the CAS candidly that over the last
• office in Goderich... The -three ,years; CAS has
"model" .doesnot actually "bumbled from one situation;
'supervise, either. Sher only to the other'' when it carne`to
provides an . -example -of:-the •• teenagers.._. He -said foster..
kind of orderly life expected parents suited for dealing
of the "'girls In the. home .- with the ;:problems : of
working, running, a 'adolescents were difficult to
iioi ehnlci, ; till herteenagers.kept--
general appearance, normal comieg into care from all
behavioue.„ over the
CAS director Bruce Heath 'tWe ,didn't know where -to
claimsimply, ' "It has place' the kids;" stated Mr.
worked." . , ' • Heath,
----When—the—owner - of- the C"ASTL-E-projectitas-been-a
present CASTLE ` ac -i kind of, pilot • project, . the
comi'r►,odation decided to sell ; director admitted. He' :said
th'e property, Mr. Heath -said; -there , have been anxious
CAS ` workers immediatelty. moments, with some
began to look for another youngsters actually evicted
location far the project. The. ra .from the hous.e4.or.•;various
search ended last Thursday --reasons.-
evening when ctiunty'•council "But we now have .the
agreed to purchase a large • nucleus of a real good group,"
homemat the corner of Nelson _ said Mr. -Heath proudly...
Street and Cambria Road in "CASTLE project is
Goderich for $40,;010. .: working:"
The CAS director views the One ° of the . features of
county's decision as "a project CASTLE is • the.
business arrangement"'. The amount of _ responsibility
initial= money for the property ,. turned over to the young
will be provided by,, the women. Although ' all the
county, but the costs . will be residents enter into, a written
cpntreet with CAS before
entering project CASTLE, the
,emphasis is on independence
for those, in the program. The
residents of the borne are
• responsible for everything -
including paying foe:. fogd,
rent, utilities*Out of the ex=
•pense money provided by
-CAS. ' • • .,
"At first they didn't.
manage too: well, claimed
Mr. Heath: "But there was no
sugar daddy, to bail thein out;,
They learned to. make the
food money last for- the,
month.
. Even; the furnishings in the
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8IueW a ter C�:bi� TV
:flooded vitt letters
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home are nigger ly sa
.Mr.Heatli, •whc hastened to
point out this was• done
purposely; He said the;
residents of the house novp
have begun totake a real
interest in the 'home, and
much of the furnishings have
been "begged, borrowed and
recruited" by • the' young
people themselves:
CAS workers feel •thereis
reason. to hope that similar
projects could be useful in
dealing with .the 'problemof
other teenagers in care. The
ultimate goal
ether
is,
:bf course,
the return the young people,to
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their .,homes' and:their .
families in clue 'course. In the
meantime, however, methods
►nust be„;, f ii.]j$1 to ; help
teenagers ar thei-r parents
over what -have become in-
tojerable circumstances.
CASTLE project, is• one such • -
•method.
Some county • councillors
expressed concern 'about
"flack” from : those In the •
neighborhood around
CASTLE project.
`•;1\10 matter where weg o:i
some e'ebrowswiil be raised
initially,'' asserted -'Mr.
Heath.
When thevote was. taken) .- mission: en. the Reforni of
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concerni n :the a .of
gpurchase
the pro property, it was approved .► held in Goderich _recently.
Properxy.I'axation in piatario,L
easily. Soine councillors even .
expressed their satisfaction The county had expressed
With the success of, the some of its concerns to the..
CA$TLE.,projectto(late. Commission, including. a
Routine reports . mere feeling that there would be no
submitted to eotincil from the real incentive for rural
Executive Committee, 'the, townships with little ..ur'ban
Special -Committee, the. 'development to maintain. a
Committee of'Menagen3entof, . reasonable levelof taxes with
Huronview and the Board of the province paying a large
Health; portion of the total taxes to
Fortner warden Ansoji;,the municipality a bidden
MvKin);ey,-_reeve __of_ Stanley' .control of the sale of farm
Township, gave a brief re ort, land because of taxes having
of repOrt.
bepaid back tothe'
of the meeting _the. Com- .... ..
pro'vinee if sold forpttrprs
other. than:farming; and tilt?
administrative. _ nightmare
caused - in. small rural
municipalities b+ the'
necessity of, making a:p-
• plication to the treasurer Of
the.municipality for payment
of the taxesegotiating by thie province..
It was decided• to appoint a
ncommittee to
negotiate all salaries.
county employees. Members
' of the committee will be:tie
warden, the administrator, '
the:chairman of:the executive
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tin 1973,. people in Clinton, is ,n,ow feared by Mr. _ _
Illolmesville 7 and u``Goder�ich•-Goderiche=-=
and-A4ioe ripany-
were pleased to find out .that that soon Arne• n television
the : Bluewater TV Cable station cove..ge.. will be ,
Limited was being: set up in denied ,and in its place,
.1-1o1mesvil•le ;and that finally -..-French: stations will he
American television stations brought in. - - •
and FM radio stations could r `'The . CRTC is 'telling•
be tuned in. " .- •Canadian people„ that they
However in the event of the .. aren't mature - enough to
Canadian Radio -television choose' and watch certain
Telecommunications COO.- `channels," said Mr.
Mission's' • '(CRTC): plan. ,.to •-•Me•Intosh. He also;said that
push Canadian' cultur.alism, " he feels that not only are„.
"foreign"' radio''stations are • Canadian people having. little .,
' being taken off the air and as say in' the :goverri"ment, but
a result the Bluewater Cable ,.also • being told what
hasbeen plagued -with letters ' television stations and shows
and telephone calls from they can watch.
some of • their. 3,500 sub- While the Bluewater .Cable
scribers.. '""'"" ..w -received some revenue from
While Ron. McIntosh.Jr. of the FM ,stations, they are Real estate in Goderich is nessed by the number. of For
the Bluewater Cable; and the more . concerned 'with bein a "buyers' market" ac; Sale signs on front lawns of
company are `fighting the., severely restricted in what cording to a general polling of houses in Goderich and .the
s a the town's brokers who.claim .,
decision; in actuality •their'- .mey can present ; and the condition. of some of those.
hands are tied against -what undemocratic wa•y° in which that the .buyer -beware at signs. A rough estimate based
they refer to as outright the• public is bein treated. titudeprevalent a: few. months . on the number of listings the
censorship, of their. broad- .g. • ago • has disappeared.. The 'larger: real estate businesses*
casting license,: The cable: company is: brokers reason anything froth -in.townhaveon:file now Puts
Not only have American 'fighting the a CRTC'Schanges high Mortgage . -rates tothe number of houses for .sale.
radio stations beeti .banned' but there is little they can do sohisticate:d shopping by at between 100 and 150. Most
•' . except to ass' on the letters i
from the cable system', vbut P. P, people interested .in. buying , agents •-claim that the -las �'
also,.CFCA-FM in Kitchener , and complaints to MP. Robert a house• as the cause, of the time that' ninny in
and CJOM FM • in Windsor McKinley and the CRTC it- :change. <' available at .once was in the
have been taken off. the air. It self. . •An obvious slowdown in `early 60's and certainly never
..., in this decade: -
The large . number of
ted with'' the
'inbin
'• listing co
s
length th of time -
the houses.are
n
ot the market shows a sharp
declinein'the past Month in a�
certain type of housing. As
,,One agent pointed out, { the
fading signs on the fronts of,.
=soree of the, places indicates'
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Teal Estate signs dot the 'front
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BY JEFF SEDDON • house buying • can be wit -
Board receives grant
for mentally retard�
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mortgage rates. The rates
climbed to nearly 14 percent
recently and that problem
was compounded bythe fact
,that money was tight last
'winter. The .rates have -since
dropped to 113 r; 4 percent but
according to one broker 'the.
a:pti-inflation program ,has
had its affect on' house buying •
trends. "
He .pointed out. -that people
in many cases buy and sell
their way into 'the type. of
house they want but the Anti
Inflation Board has 'made.
that practice difficult. The
buyand
sell se
begins with
a : lown
riced hand ma's
P y_ -
special that the family buys
and sinks sortie m:eney.into
fixingand redecorating.
The Ministry of Community ' the Province's ' metropolitan programs • and developing”' ''that fhe normal 60 -day listing
and Social Services` -has lap; areas. further . programs ° as period has been doubled with
proved a grant.application The' program will involve required. This involvement" still no success..
from the , Goderieh ",-=the hiring;of:laStaff-person to- could'-subsequently--pr-ornet •- •The reason cited by most
Recreation and Community,.. become invhelp the mentally retarded community integration'• for brokers. is costs. 'They .agree
Cenne card for-comniuriity �..-olved -in-ongoing .•the retarded'and. create : that mosthouses between the
=g°progr --Jfbr =€lie mentally community cultural and permanent community 830,000 and $40,400 and in
retardech recreational programs, •The .programs. " sem:e instances $50,000 'sell
The Ministry awarded a recreatioirbeard is hoping to r The recreation board hopes fast. But.•. houses with_ price
• grant of' $15;000 for the .' begin the program in 'Sep- ,. to.. have a -staff person hired tags over that are; usually
program, • more than half oftember, followinge hiring before September so thatpassed up . due , to : the
,A ti,' 828 000 applied' for by the of a qualified staff person. `.. e•at i s t i rig `. e m m u n i t y . sophisticationthe buyers are
Board. The•Ministry is trying The staff person would be programsmay be examined showing. '
to establish' an integration • responsible for• introducingto determine the approach to The trend seems to indicate
program . for mentally. the ,retarded ',into existing the introductory process of that people are' not as quick
retarded • in centres outside ' ,comm Unity recreation integration: :.p.r now to. take •on the husky . •.
$25,000
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'50,000
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675,000 • $100,000
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$125,000 =
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about 125 houses in town
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About a year later the house
is, sold at'a small profit and
the extra cash used :to buy a
place'a:little more valuable.
Four or five years later the •
family may_have•sotnething
with which they are content.
The AIB, however; may
have thrown a wrench into •
that practice. The .family_
may have reasoned that the
father's wage-' increase ;this
year could make itpossible to
buy that house around the-
corner
he corner but the AIB mules kept
the raise out of the picture.
_The result,is.that the family.
s
st.Ywhere they l are for at
stays
.least•ariotherYea
r.
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One broker suggested that,
values .of -houses have 'been -
inflated over the past •few
years • an4 the va lues . have •
peaked. He•pointedout that a.
recent. ,demand for housing'
and' a comparison O.f.prices
with. larger centres it the
province drove asking prices "-
up.
up. Added to'that.were claims
by. some agents . that the
people 'could easily get their -
asking. price .oh the market._
and automatically a large
margin of profit has been
added to the selling price.
' Another :suggestion blamed
a decrease :.in'housing starts
last winter for the highprices
demanded now. Bad weather
halted• Con- last ' winter
str
e'w'horn
es .for a
iucton of n
few months and ,:the result
seemed to be an.escalation ;of
prices. of existing property..
The ,cost of servicing• new
lots in Goderich has also had
at tell=tale -affect, on housing
sales. At 'the beginning of the
decade .lot prices in town 4.
ranged from three to °five
thousand 'dollars"- but ' that
figure has since jumped to 4,-
$12,500 or
$12,500or $13,000. That figure
plus the cost of the house built
seems' to be putting the
dwellings out of the debtratio
of the average income in
Goderich..
One broker suggested that
the lack of sales may be ..
evident in the sales .of •
building :materials.-- He, said -
he 1, P Pfe t more people were
staying where they were and
adding to their -present house
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Winds wreaked havoc with removal of the trusses from the
. Goderich Arena last week and smashed one against the
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sotith-earst section of the building. Work crews have now
• ` completed the demolitit n of the roof. (staff photo)