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Times-Advocate, 1988-10-26, Page 6Times -Advocate October 26 1988 INTERESTING SALE ITEMS - Dean Smith, Beryl Elgie and Helen Frayne check over some valuable items at Thursday's rummage sale sponsored by the South Huron Hospital Auxiliary. Integrating the handicapped EXETER - In the spring of 1987 • the document entitled "Challenges and Opportunities" was introduced by the Ministry of C'onpnunity and . Social Services, This document promised to have a great impact on the lives of all people who have been- labelled as Developmentally halydicapped. It called for the closure of institutions, thc reduction of sheltered workshop placements and placed a whole hearted emphasis on . community • integration for pcopic• who have been labelled. This docu- ment clearly indicated that all alter- natives would be explored and de- veloped to.support labelled people and stated that institutionalization of children would be an option of the last resort. - Pte'sently'approximately three and •a half million dollars per year conics into Huron County to pro- vu1e services to people who have • been labelled as Developmentally I landicapped. "Those funds. are. - manly administered by tic three lo-.. cal associations for Community Living (lornierly as -striations for the Nieman y Handicapped). These funds are used to provide services .ranging from in-hotnc support for labelled children to fully integrated supported ern ploy mint.. - To conform with the- philosophy of Challenges and Opportunitics•thc • Ministry of Community and Social Services has directed that county- wide Planning committees be !tinned. The Planning Committees will be charged with the task of pri- orizing the allocation of funds com- ing into the county to provide ser- vices for labeled people. In particular, this group will be con- cerned with seeing- that any. new programs developed. in Huron County -address needs -which have been identified as a concern by the whole arca. • • - To allow this committee to accu- rately reflect the concerns of la- - belled people in tic county_ it must be consumer driven and its member- ship must include. consumers and f-aniilies of consumers. This 12 per son cotnrnittec will he comprised of one Board member from each of the Community Living Associations, one.representative from each of the county s three people First Groups, and tic three Executive Directors of the Associations for Community Living..A••priority now is,10-find presentation from the parents of la- tidied-people-from a- bel1d peoplcfrom cacti of the three arcus in the county. To this end, meetings will be held in Exeter, Godcrich, and Wing - ham for parents to meet, air their concerns and appoint a representa- tive from each area to sit on the Planning Committee. Notification of the meeting, times -and locations will appear in this and other local newspapers. A contact number for each arca is provided and parents.of labelled people are urged to attend. HURON COUNTY PLANNING COMMITTEE Parents Meeting Date: November 3, 1988 Location: Old Town Hall, Exeter Time: 7:30 p.m. Contact: John Gray 237-3637 To Discuss the County Planning Format and To Elect Parent Representatives to Committee (See press release) CRAFTS AT CREDITON BAZAAR - Evelyn Pickering and Doreen Lightfoot display some of the crafts on sale at Saturday's Fall Festival ba- zaar sponsored by the Crediton United Church {Homer. • —I - rime Stoppers 11111111 Although Crime Stoppers deal a with more critical crimi- nal occurrences, the following crime is serious toa seven-year old from Zurich. On Saturday August 27 a talking ALF doll (worth S125) was taken from the Dominion Tavern in Zu- rich. This doll was on loan to the owners of the tavern, David and. Marie Gelinas from their seven- year old son Matthew. TheGclinas were using ALF in a display where ALF was posed playing the drums. Matthew re- ceived the toy as a Christmas pres- ent from •his parents. To quote Matthew's mother,. -"He cannot figure out why someone would steal his ALF." This was a busy time in Zurich as the Bean. Festival was in full swing and many people from out of the .arca passed through. We believe that the theft of ALF started Out -as just a joke. it appears ills joke got out of hand. Crime Stop,ers is ask- ing for the safe return d ALF, no questions asked. He cat, either be dropped off at the Domiiion Tav- em at the Crime Stopper: office in the Clinton Police Stauot. • If you know the whereabouts of ALF call Crime Stopper;. Help Matthew understand that mistakes happen, but they can also be cor- rected. If you have information about his or any other crime call Crime Stop- pers toll-free at 1-800-265-1777. Call during business hours Monday to Friday 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. IT an arrest is made you will earn a cash reward. Crime Stoppers pays between $50 and S1,0(X). You will never be asked to reveal your iden- tity and you will never have to tes- tify in court. Remember crime doesn't pay, but Crime Stoppers does. CONVENERS READY FOR HALLOWEEN - The co -conveners of Thursday's South 'Huron Hospital Auxi- 'iary rummage sale show off some of the Halloween costumes. which were donated. From the left are -Marion Skin- ner, Audrey MacGregor, Vera Armstrong, Audrey Bentley and Verna Bower. Bell gears up for backlog KITCHENER - Bell Canada is gearing up for a return to normal levels of operation, now that the 17 -week strike by its technicians and operators is over. Throughout Ontario and Quchec, plans arc being set up to start work- ing on the backlog of orders that has accumulated during the sum- mer. "We need to tackle the orders we've had on file for some time as well as the requests for new service that come in daily," says Debbi. Silvcrthornc, Business Office sec tion manager for thc Kitchener - Stratford areas.. "Within the next scvcral days we will contact all customers who asked for service during the strike. If a customer has an installation or repair request on file, we ask that they wait for us to call them to set up a date for the work to be done." Clearing up the backlog for basic scrvicc is expected to take scvcral weeks. Clearing up the backlog of iniscellaneous requests will take scvcral months. During the strike, Bell provided basic scrvicc as quickly as possible NATIONAL TR US T OC TOBEP 1981r -_.. I N VESTI NG ? (TET SECURITY AND HIGH YIELD IN PERFECT BALANCE WITH OI1R (GUARANTEED INVESTMENTS. 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With our Horne Equity • Mote borrowing 1 Inc oft Credit. you get pimer tar main' 'tents • Preterm, interest rites to save you money / • Payments tailored to suit vont budget / • No w.iitmg for / • approvals /)`„5-• / F� `;e xeo/ / OcJ� I1 NATIONAL TRUST EXETER 425 Main St. 235-0530 TSS.II . #s / 3cs, /\kl' / C:,•:'� / Y' O4.:, 4Cr • e-' ` itrof 0/4 and ensured that repairs tyere: dome •on phones that were completely out of service. Orders were kept on tile fitr the additional installation and re- pair work customers -wanted. • \\'c appreciate the patience our customers have shown and hope they -ll bear with us -a little longer as we get caught up," Silvcrthornc - says. Seniors meet at Lucan LUCAN - Mary Kooy was at the piano for the national anticrn as we opened our meeting on Thursday. We were *lighted to sec the largest attendance for many months. Arnold Damen was our only birthday celebrant. Mona Nlaybrury was welcomed. President Jini Davis announced an invitation to the mini Hall at St. Patricks; Lucan, Thurs- day'evcning. We were reminded of the regular Senior euchre at Park- hill. Next Thursday is Games Day when the seniors enjoy the games -of their choice. There will be no prizes, we just play for tie pleasure of it. It was suggested.that we wear a mask and dress up next 11 ursday as. - it's so close to I lallowe'cn. Lunch next week will be provided by Chris Hesse), Lula Culbcr; and Lill Dobbs. Marion Noels read a poem on "Mother" and Verna ibbitson read a couple of poems and played an old song entitled "Your Own Back Yard" on her tape recorder. She asked if anyone was familiar with it, she had many happy mem- ories of the song, as her mother sang it for her when. she was a little girl. Things always look greener in-. the other fellow's wallet y.w.,d.n r... TOWNSHIP OF STEPHEN MUNICIPAL ELECTION NOTICE is hereby given to the Municipal Electors -of the Township of Stephen in the County of Hu- ron that in compliance with the Municipal Elections Act, RSO 1980, Chapter 308, and amendments, a Ballot will be held for the Offices of: REEVE COUNCILLORS Three candidates to be elected Polis will be open as designated below on - Monday, November 14, 1988 from 10:00 o'clock in forenoon to 8:00 o'clock in the afternoon at the following places with the un- dermentioned officers in charge: POLL POLLING N O. BOOTHS 1. Centralia Community Centre, Centralia 2. Parks Board Room Crediton 3. Stephen Twp. Community Centre, Crediton 4. Stephen Central School Lot 11, Conc. 10 5. Community Hall Dashwood 6.. Communiiy Shipka '. 7. a) Grand Cove Estates b) Recreation Centre , Grand Bend . 8. a) McCurdy Public School b) Huron Park DEPUTY POLL RETURNING CLERK OFFICER Elmer Powe Gerald Schenk Louise Wein Helene Regier Melvin Stade Janet Hicks Pauline Finkbeiner Jeannette Lippert Theresa McCann Ethel Desjardine ;.'" ;;;Doreen. Finkbeiner A.Ofirie' Ratz Doris Bestard Mildred Desjardine June Rheubottom Muriel Struckett Sharon Bruls Herrald Walsh Shirley Glanville Mary Lou Becker ADVANCE POLLS will be open in the Clerk's office of the Municipality of the Township of Stephen, Crediton on the following dates. Saturday, November 5, 1988 Thursday, November 10, 1988 from 10:00 o'clock in the forenoon to 8:00 o'clock in the afternoon for the purpose of receiving votes of electors who expect to be unable to vote on the regular polling day. The last time for applying for certificate to vote by proxy from the Clerk is 5 o'clock in the afternoon of November 14, 1988. 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