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The Goderich Signal-Star, 1978-11-02, Page 19.1 el Holmesville,.. • from page 6 Frank Thompson and William Norman collected the offering. The Holmesville UCW bazaar and bake sale will be held on Wednesday, November 8 at 2:30 p.m. at the White Carnation. WI events The township WI will be holding their card parties again this fall. The first one IS, sahEduled, Ter Thursday, Novembell at p.m. in the public sch001. The adrnission fee is $1 and ladies are asked to bring lunch. School activities Interview is set for Wednesday, November 29. The Christmas con- cert dates have been set. There will be one showing Monday, December 18 at 1:16 p and on Tuesday, December 19 at 8 p.m. They. Can he seen by ticket purchasennly; From November la to November 17 Otani week has been set, prior to the Christmas report. It is time for the students to start preparing for the examinations. In the soccer tour- nament held on .October 11 the boys' and girls' teams travelled tO Hwon Centennial School near The Holw,sville girls finished second And the boys came fifth. ,The cross country meet was held Hullett-Kinburn •swamp this year. The meet was held on October 24. There were four different running groups that participated from each school. The results were: senior boys, Shane E Weft, placed first against 34 atThigi petitors and . Tim Rooseinalon came. 1041; intermediate 'boys Doug' S tephengen placed:. seventh tfind Scott Harris placed, 1tJi junior boys, Chris Lobb came 10th; Midget boys, Gary Stephenson, fifth while Shelley Surridge of the midget girls came ninth. Congratulations to all the students who placed and to all. who par- ticipated in the meet. Personais Last year Gocierich IV.1004illk.:Ares'S was in- tr9clUced. There are- stifl some left and tbesee,,cests niakeh great ':stocking 'Stuffers. • If you would like OnC" or more of these crests, Pl_e_a,s_e__s_enci $2 for -owl'•to the Goderich Township Recreation Committee or call Hazel 21cCreath at 524 -743C - County grant keeps homemaker service operating another year BY JEFF SEDDON Huron County Council agreed Friday to pick up a $5,100 tab to keep a county homemaker service operating for famtlishrthe c ountY need off domestic assistance because of illness, old a-ge-or han- dicaps. The• service has been operating for almost a year under a Canada Works grant but to continue operating the service must be self- supporting by January 1, 1979 and needs county help to meet that ob- jective. Jean Young, ad- ministrator of the ser- vice, appealed to council Friday explaining ' that the service is $5,099 away from being self sup- porting with the clients it . now serves. She said the budget for the homemaker service has .A.p.oheen,„--drawn:+,up-for--1,9.75,, much short of paying for itself. She said the ser- vice needed assurance that the funds would be made available' to plan Operation in the coming year adding that any fund raising held in 1979 would earn funds that could be used for clients that qualify for assistance by the homemakers but are being 'turned away AXIS the focal point of a room by Carolyn Porter our on -staff in- terior design con- sultant. A good axis is essential to a well balanced room. This is an imaginary line that your eye follows from the floor and as close as possible to the ceiling. This is the focal point of the room. This axis could be a fireplace, a sofa, or a \, tall important piece of furniture. Ball & Mutch Ltd. Home Furnishings CLINTON 482-9505 because of a shortage of money. Young told council that the reaction to the homemakers service when it heg an operation provedhat there was a need for the service in Huron County. She said -home-ftfake-f 1146n -in the - county were going unanswered and that homemakers were unemployed. The administrator said she and Betty Cardno, nursing administrator for the county health unit, applied for start up funds from Canad4 Works a year ago and began to organize a homemaker service. She said the service was designed to co-ordinate a homemaking service for the elderly, chronically ill, disabled, handicapped and for single parent families . with chj1�j-e»,.. time, overnight and live- in homemaking service. The Canada Works grant enabled the homemaking ,serVice to establish itself and plans were made to make the agency self-supporting selling its service on a fee for service basis and seeking support from community service clubs and municipal govern- ments in the county. Yoong said the fee for service enables the agency to sell its services to Children's Aid, the cancer society- and 40 private individuals. She said the fees are established on an ability to pay basis meaning that a client's income is determined and based on that income the fee they will be charged is determined. She told council that the homemaking service has been instrumental in allowing many people in the county to leave in- stitutions and return to their homes to live with the assistance of a homemaker. She said the cost to taxpayers is dramatically less if a service is offered in the home rather than in an institution such as a hospital or senior citizens home. She explained that clients in the past year had purchased $71,135 worth of services from the homemaker agency and that if those people had been in nursing homes the cost would have been $102,755 and if they had been in hospital it would havetotalled $569,487. "The difference in tax dollars saved is $596,107,'' she said, '"As you can see PRE -OWNED LUXURY 1976 265 VOLVO STATION WAGON • A Lincury Station rayon equipped with V6. 4 speed transmission with overdrive, power steering, power brakell, air cOnditioning, AM/FM Stereo tope unit, kitchen') radial, tires, xpcicial headlights, roof rack. Ditty it,000 miles. -Finished in fire mist Bronze metallic. L10804410ci. KVV 712. AW MOTORa V0IroAnzda SALES & SERVICE IM gAit SUM, GODERICH 924-7212 we are not only a vital employment agency throughout Huron County but an economical member of the whole „health -service team„!..'... - Young said the service has 71 people on staff and has sold 10,229 hours of service to 100 different private clients. She said the rate charged health and social agencies is $4.20 in a town and $4.60 for out of town clients. She added that live in and overnight rates differ according to qualifications of the worker and th,e work required by the client. She told council that 14 percent of the population of Huron County is over 65 and that very. few -of - those peop1 need to be in institutions. She said government and private concerns are strongly suggesting that home based services be established to help people of all economic backgrounds remain in their home and out of costly facilities such as hospitals. She pointed out that some of the direct benefits of the Paul Steckle, Stanley homemaker agency ,is township deputy -reeve, that it permits single said he was surprised parent families to stay senior levels of gover- together freeing the nment' were not giving parent to go out to 'work- this type -of- service -more - and enabling the children consideration. He said to, continue their the "tax savings were schooling. It eliminates staggering .and -if --they - the psychological problems of people- about to enter institutions and frees needed hospital beds for the acutely ill and is a source of em- ployment for thousands of educationally disadvantaged men and women. At an annual meeting attended by about 250 at Pineridge Chalet Friday night, the Huron Federation of Agriculture elected a new executive. Centre is new president, Merle Gunby of Ashfield, flanked by newly elected director Lyle Haney of Tuckersmith, left, 2nd vice president Bev Brown of Turnberry, first vice president Gerry Fortune of Howick and director Gordon Blanchard of McKillop. A third new director at large, Louise Marritt was not at the meeting. (Expositor photo) Jack Stafford, right, deputy reeve of Howick and a former Huron F of A president, received that organization's highest honour, the Huron ,County award Friday night for his outstanding contributions to agriculture: Gerry Fortune, left, presented the award to Mr. Stafford and his wife Betty, centre. (Expositor photo) Perso a SEE OUR COMPLETE SELECTION OF as Cards . . AS WARM, AS SINCERE, AND AS FRIENDLY AS A HANDSHAKi SEE THE INTERNATIONAL LINE 6 w Gderich SIGNAL—STAR Hwy. No. 21 south, Oaderich 524-8331 were indicative of fact government should show more interest in this type of service rather than institutions that were so costly." Betty Cardno advised council that con- sideration was being given homemaker agencies to expand them. - She said governments were concerned about possible abuse of the service on a provincial basis and 'wanted to tighten up administration of it before implementing any programs. ,CaLc1329Mlakkg-4,..tbL., • GOQER ICH SIGNAL -STAR, THURSDAY, NOVg114BER 1 , 1978—PAGE 19 It is good to hear Ion • . Wyatt is borne from hospital. owns lip Mr. and lgraL, Icon Ifar0s, tiqathie, Orend4 and; :pat enjoyed Sunday Vot ers supper at the 'White Carnation on the occasion of Pat's birthday. Mr. and. Mrs. Ray Ducharme and family -spent -a -few -days -recently - at North Bay... Get well wishes- go to Mrs. Effie Yeo. She has been a patient in hosptal. Frayne says... • from page 10 program in effect, decisions will have to be made that won't be popular with the ratepayer observed Frayne. It is a possibility that one of the five county high ..schools may _ close and the county will have to get along with four. . Frayne said _he- is_ on a committee considering the replacement of equipment in the schools. He said technical equipment was highly subsidized when it was brought into the schools ten years ago but replacement has deteriorated. Some equipment is in bad shape and some is obsolete he said adding that teachers no longer have the money to use to provide classroom materials and students are being asked to bring materials to school to work with. '—"IThom-einalming-a-gency provides only 80 hours of service using govern- ment funds and then the client receiving the service must pay for any additional time. She said one of the concerns of government was that doctors may recommend that a patient receive homemaker services rather than have that patient placed in an in- stitution. She said at present the doctors' recommendation may mean the service would be paid for by govern- ment and that type of possibility had to be removed before gover- nment would sanction the service. e .--Pcorn-nrittee-- learned it will take $40,000. to replace out- dated and rundown equipment but the board's budget com- mittee cut that figure down to $6,000 according to Frayne. The com- mittee will have to present their findings to the budget committee again and this time "will have to do a better selling job" said Frayne. He said it was an education to "find out what is going on in our schools". He added that teachers of the trainable retarded are "something else',' and that he had never seen such dedication. • from page 1 claimed as Ashfield's deputy -reeve and councillors Grant Farrish and Allan Gibson, bothincumberitt, andiewcomer Grant Curran, were acclaimed to council. Marian Zinn was acclaimed to another term as board of education trustee for Ashfield while William Kinanhan will represent separate school supporters on the separate school board and Eugene Frayne will represent separate supporters at the county board. EAST WAWANOSH East Wawanosh council was acclaimed when nominations closed with Simon Hallahan back as reeve of the -township. Ralph Campbell, John Currie, Donald Dow and Neil Vincent were acclaimed to council. John Elliott, incumbent board of education trustee for the township and board of education chairman, will be opposed by Lloyd Barth, who headed the move to have some English text- books removed from the approved list of books for county high schools. WEST WAWANOSH • West Wawanosh reeve Robert Lyons resigned his post this year because of a move out of the township and his vacancy wasfilled by former councillor Leo Foran who was ac- claimed to the post. Incumbents Marybelle Caranston, Joe Hickey and Jim Aitchison face an election for council from newcomer Carl Sedger and J.D. Durnin who unsuccessfully opposed -Lyons for the reeve's job in 1974 and after the loss stayed away from municipal politics. The police village of Auburn will be represented by trustees Warner Andrews, Kenn S.cott and Jim Glousher, all acclaimed to the post. Glousher is a newcomer as trustee while Scott and Andrews are incumbents. 4 40th Wedding Anniversary Mr. and Mrs. W.P. Miller will be at their home on Sun- day November 5, 1978 in Seaforth between the hours of 3 and 7 mm. to receive their friends, neighbours and relatives in the celebration of their 40th wedding an- niversary. k, KeliviintattcoAr• v7'4 1011, • fl SWEET DffIL We have a large stock of • Kelvinator Ranges and Refrigerators at SPECIAL LOW PRICES PR-UDTC SELL - PLEASED TO SERVICE MAYTAG - KELVINATOR - ADMIRAL - WOODS & MAYTAG APPLIANCES HOOVER EUREKA Vacutim Cleaners 308 HURON ROAD MUFFIT appliances & television GODERICH RCA & SANYO Telovisloris 524-4301