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Mary Anne Alton of RR2 Lucknow, the Junior Farmer .emppoyed nn the
Bluewater Centre Garden Project this summer, sold produce from the one
acre vegetable garden which she and several residents planted and looked
after at the Centre's first annual Antique Show and Sale held on August 11
and 12. (Photo by Joanne Walters)
Benefit reaped fro
BY JOANNE WALTERS
Back in May of this
year a very special
garden was planted at the
Bluewater Centre south
of here_ It was a garden
which would reap
benefits for all those
concerned _
Throughout the
growing season this
garden has . provided „
summer employment and
valuable experience for
at least one student and
hours of pleasure _ and
training for some of the
handicapped residents at
the Centre.
The Bluewater Centre
Garden Project was
started as n joint venture
between the Centre and
the Huron County Junior
Farmers_ Wm_ Gregg,
facility director, ap-
proached the Junior
Farmers' group earlier
on in the year to tap them
for ideas on what to do
with some of the land at
the Centre. Mr_ Gregg,
along with Jim Phelan, a
provincial director of
Junior Farmers and
Doug Cameron, .a
member of the Junior
Farmers, initiated the
idea of hiring a student
for the summer to plant a
one acre vegetable
garden with the help of
some of the residents and
to sell the produce to
provide the funds for the
hiring of at least one or
two students next year
and to buy new garden
equipment too.
There were actually
five reasons for starting
the project, says Mary
Anne Alton of RR 2
Lucknow, the Junior
Farmer who was the
student hired to work on
the garden_ It would
mean increased training
for the residents in ad-
dition -to the many other
workshops they are in-
volved in at the Centre
and would get them
working outside close to
the earth; it was an
employment opportunity
for students, preferably
Jnnior Farmers; it was
an addition to the farm
which already exists at
the Centre and a chance
for more rural in-
volvement on the Part of
the residents; it was to•
educate the community
on the personal worth of
tele mentally han-
dicapped; and it was a
pilot or test project to
involve the Junior
Farmers, the Centre and
the community in a
working relationship and
. one which would continue
annually if successful_
NERVOUS START
Mary me says she
was quite nervous when
she undertook the garden
job in May. She knew
little about gardening
except for working on the
one at her parents' farm
and she had never had
any contact with han-
dicapped people before so
she wasn't exactly sure
how well she could work
with them. She was
discouraged too because
it was still snowing when
she started the job and
she had to wait for the
land to be ploughed so she
could get started.
However with this
somewhat discouraging
start now behind her, she
can reflect on an ex-
tremely worthwhile and
rewarding summer_ It
was great being outdoors
she says and she became
so fond of some of the
residents whom she
worked with that she
thinks she will really
miss them.
"Sometimes I'd get
discouraged because I
couldn't get them to
understand what I
wanted them to do or else
they'd just learn and tiaen
they'd be transferred to
another workshop- .,But
they would always try- to
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Frances Papernick and Earl S ) are two residents who have
worked in the Bluewater Centres garden all summer. They were very
helpful says Mary Anne Alton, the Jor Farmer who headed the garden
wojert which involved mowing vegetables and selling them for a profit to
buy more garden equipment and fie two more students next year to work in
the garden with the residents, (Photo by Joanne Walters)
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