The Goderich Signal-Star, 1983-10-19, Page 21'
A new adultworkshop on thc•Suneoa$
Drive extension will be operational' by
mid-November and perhaps sooner a.
director of the Goderich and District
Association for the Mentally Retarded told
council.
Appearing before council at its regular
meeting Monday, Executive director of
the Goderich and District • Association
Helen Watson, said the 25 adults employed
at the association's workshop in the
Kinsmen Centre on South Street will soon
move to new quarters,
The new facility will allow the
association to actively solicit new and
varied contracts for the employees with a
goal of self sufficiency in the future.
"We hope many years down the road
that the workshop may become self-
sutfclent,' , W arson sato.
Watson•ezplained the role of the local
haassociation to council members, a role that
s been intensified with the announced
closure of the Bluewater -Centre for the
Developmentally - handicapped and the
implementation of the provincial gover-
nment's five-year deinstitutionalization
plan.
"We are basically a volunteer agency,"
Watson explained. "Our goal is to see that
the mentally retarded of the community •
live in dignity and become active par-
ticipants in the community."
The Goderich Association has been"
active m its role of providing services for
retarded adults. The Keays Street home
for adults has been a major undertaking
and success and five adults have been
placed in the new apartment living
program.
The town of Clinton _ Will take the
initiative and open .a group home .to. se.
commodate six adults and Watson said
there were no plan$ :for a.group home Ln
Goderich in the near' future;
Supported in part by the Ministry of
Community and Social Services, the
t Goderich and District Association is faced
with the task of raising some of its own
funds and recruiting volunteers to assist
with programs. More volunteers are
desperately needed by the association.
Recently the association received a
$40,000 grant from the ministry to intitiate
its life skills program. That program is
well underway now in the former Huron
County Library location on Lighthouse
Street.
Board submits $1.5 million proposal
The Huron -Perth Separate School Board
will submit its $1.5 million building pro-
posal to the Canada Works program.
While the board approved applying for
$700,000 in grants for additions to five
chools within the system at its Oct. 11
eeting, trustees agreed they would ac-
cept approval of less than the full five pro-
jects.
The projects involve the addition of
small gymnasiums at Precious Blood
School in Exeter, St. Joseph's School in
Clinton, St. Boniface School in Zurich,
Sacred Heart School, Wingham and St.
Ambrose in Stratford.
The board will be submitting the pro-
pos l
ro-
posal to the newly established Canada
Works Program sponsored by the Employ-
ment Development Branch of the federal
Ministry of Employment and Immigra-
tion.
In other business, the board officially ap-
proved the use of the logo which has been
unofficially used by the system for a
number of years.
The fuel contract was awarded to Sun Oil
for the period from Oct. 1 to Sept. 30, 1984.
The furnace oil for all schools in the
system will be supplied at 25.05 cents per
litre and the gasoline for school buses at
St. Mary's School in Hesson will be sup-
plied at 41.2 cents per litre.
Christian view of media is
theme of professional day
"Viewing the media from a Christian
Catholic point of view" is the theme of the
Huron -Perth Separate School Board's pro-
fessional development day to be held Oct. 28
at St. Boniface School in Zurich.
Television, movies, magazines and other
ways information is made available will be
focussed on by two keynote speakers at the
professional development day.
Joan Bolt, resource co-ordinator of the
London -Middlesex Separate School Board
will speak in the morning session on "Who
will win our children". Rev. James F.
Hawker, director of religious education for
the Archdiocese of Boston, will give a
presentation on how the media is moulding
people.
The day will conclude with workshops on
how teachers can teach about the media in
the classroom.
The public is invited to attend the day
which runs from 9 a.m. to 3:45 p.m.
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The intersection of Bayfield Road and Bennett Street is a busy one
for both pedestrians and motorists at certain times of the day.
Council is awaiting the results of a traffic study before making a
decision on the installation of traffic lights at some point on
Bayfield Road. Council received a petition from area residents
asking that lights be erected at the intersection. (Photo by Dave
Sykes)
Group wants traffic light installed
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"Were pedestrian flows considered in
the study? the peak vehicular and
pedestrian flows coincide at the in-
tersection," he said. "It is the only
reasonable place for a traffic light.
"The Ministry of Transportation and
Communication is concerned with the flow
off goods and services. The town has a
greater responsibility and a crossing
guard is only a minimal provision. In fact
the crossing guard was almost hit last
week.
"Lack of activity suggests council is
sitting on the fence. It has been almost a
year and no action has been taken."
Claiming that traffic counts were taken
in October 1982 and August 1983, McDade
pointed out that the traffic count was not
taken at the interesection and that the
latest study was conducted in August when
school was out for the summer and em=.
ployees of Champion Road Machinery
were on vacation. The spokesman further
added that sight restrictions existed at the
intersection making it difficult to complete
a left-hand turn from Bennett Street onto
Bayfield Road:
The petitioners urged council to install a
traffic light at the intersection im-
mediately.
Commissioner of Works Ken Hunter
advised council that while the ministry
would not subsidize the lights, the in-
stallation was still subject to the
ministry's approval because Bayfield
Road is a provincial highway.
"We would have to draw up proper plans
and submit them toy the MTC for ap-
proval," he said. "Even if we acted right
now, it would be spring before any work
could be done."
Councillor Searls said the residents in
the neighbourhood should have been
contacted about the traffic study adding
that ministry is only concerned about
vehicular traffic and not pedestrian. He
added that money was not a concern in the
matter.
The traffic study committee's report will
be reviewed October 27 before being
presented to council for consideration. The
next meeting of council is Monday,
November 7.
Township Council issues five permits
Goderich Township Council approved
accounts totalling more than $26,000 when it
met in regular session October 3. Of this
°amount, over $11,000 was for tile debentures
and $10,000 was for road superintendent
payroll.
Building permits were issued to the
Salvation Army for a building addition on lot
37, concession 1; to David Hemingway to
demolish a kitchen and to build living
quarters on lot 28, concession 7; to. F. Brall
to build a greenhouse on=lot 27, concession 8;
and to J. Hindmarsh to build an office on lot
18, concession 2.
A building permit requested by Al
Breange to build a house on Plan 25 was held
for septic tank approval.
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By-law no. 9-1983, a by-law to establish a
tile drain debenture on four owners, was
given three readings and passed.
A tile drain loan requested by Barry
Taylor for a total of $9,825 on lot 60, Base
Line, was approved, subject to the
availability of funds.
The meeting then adjourned until October
24at8:30p.m.
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