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THE HERALD Wednesday March le Constructed one year the Residence lor menially retarded adults on Trafalgar Road the first of its kind in Hills The residence has a capacity Everyone there is over IB and works at the Adult Rehabilitation Centre ARC Bill presidential services director said The staff regard the residence as the adults own home The adults are on basic lifeskills program to make as independent as possible but the progr is setup infor Countryside gives lifeskills training Families get Invited to the residence for dinner and can drop in at any lime The adults are selfsufficient they do their own laundry clean ihcir rooms and change the bed ding The residence resembles home A double fire place faces the main dining area which holds people and the other side of the living room has a lower to sit and watch television Off the main corridor arc bedrooms one single and double room with a bath room centred between thelwo rooms Thiro 10 bath rooms In the harm Each small corridor is sectioned for girl- only or for Then Is eupboard space in the kitchen where Tim Van helps the with he cooking program She is trained to work the community jnd well Mr said Downstairs is the laundry room another television and aping pong table Mjb of are hockey hulls and with two TV sets there Is less between the sexes over programs to watch A self contained apartment with kitchen a both dining and living room ire is being used to four retarded women to live on their own Hit North llalton lion for the Mentally plans to open an auxiliary in the community for these our girls to Inler Wilt into normal Tin s do thilr own COUNTRYSIDE CHARGERS ARC Industries Hornby celebrates 1 1 years service The Adult Centre ARC in Hornby will be open for its eleventh year in April Winifred director of ARC has seen many changes in the past The workshop first started in her home Her husband now deceased donated webbing used to fix broken lawn chairs from his job for the workshop Mrs taught retarded children how to the Their reputation grew and she started looking for a building providing necessary space The is a 110year old bought from the board of education Several service clubs in Hal ton Hills helped renovate the existing rooms and an addition which was added at the back the The addition is used for mentally retarded adults being trained on assembly line work Mentally retarded children rece more attention than the adults from the com mumty but children do grow up she said The adults are being trained or assembly line work kit chen duties and housework the workshon Some of the adults arc being trained to work outside in the community which is so encouraging when they arc hired Some however will always need a sheltered workshop Mrs Rogers the instructor is proud the crafts produced Members of the board of education toured the workshop one day ARC men fir work w rkihip is open Downs shelves full of different lurid nibbing for lawn hits the walls from the mpanj her from fro chairs nidi r their hush inds or st found t jo to finish Thethildrtn do in job nlj the beautiful display of especially the Call Cabes produces it did i din is tie only wlmli rtwebbs chairs Mrs Charles and ARC employee pours three moulds a diy under the supervision of Mrs Rogers The ceramic workshop contains two kilns donated by Milton and Georgetown auxiliaries which are used daily Four retarded adults glaze the handicrafts The adult from from the ir norms I up from idults n m returned p m his u I lunch I prtpirtd tin idiills Most if the in mi si for the I BRAMALEA CITYCENTRE MHO Time 16 1 HOML OF I food city Open 9 30 Sat a m HIGHWAY 7 DIXIE ROAD ping then plan ant cook meal for four people have to learn to their accommodations with each Mr lies the programs being taught In with tht pn Brums they irri from Mrs at Adult lion Centre lit Is i public nurse has Hup w tight program for Shi tin girls an I anyone who Shi It it his hygiene while Mr in Tin hi me la runiilin smoothly inks to in from tin f litre lime no with the staff occurs whin they overhear an adult refer to the residence as their home To keep their home running smoothly the adults hold gripes they have it arise Hit week The staff Is present only to super II input Is by and usually within in hour all problems arc re A sheet is kept and wlin roliltm arises It is down by person who is a wipe lhtbi people have with dil and dislikes Mr hi is enrolled In collide for tht and with 1 lis once week They became a very Important part of his life He left the priesthood to get married and became involved full time with the retarded These people show a basic of human nature that normal people tend to forget Their personality Is so totally honest and so basically human they make up for what a lot of people hick I wouldn I feel I was doing anything worthwile in other type of employ mint he said At night different recreation progrims art underway Willi boys floor hockey night and girls swimming night at high school Sev are learning to crochet and a yoga instructress teach a program every week Room and board is paid by family benefits cheques but is each month or Funding for the residence is paid BO per cent by ministry of community and social services and per cent by local auxiliaries of the adults have come from institutions and living in reudence would want to the adults first entered go for i w ilk she rest periods or remits there is a spire ltd Workers in ill IH fori they st working and from Sunshine where hildrtn re integrated with nornnl ehlltlrtJi To of the go to rinkcrbcll in morning tominf to the rkshop tin idults ire and ire all rt in Hilton by mil Burlington for Ihosi who ire not to it or woikship stiff hope to ttl more rilard pt working in the flu workshop his grown in Ihe Mrs hopes to expand in the future She is hoping the ministry of Mil The three ladles auxiliaries the home it took a bit of In Georgetown Milton and adjusting but now it seems Acton have donated linen like one fmuly Mr electrical appliances and s assist as voluntary drivers Mr feels plating Parents are kept aware of retarded in schools what is happening made workshops risidtnte is aware any vacancies in the beneficial to rents and the home The North wants to keep the enpa city to in adults Students are picked up by bus and taken to the Adult Rehabilitation Centre for work each day Those that are cap able are dropped off for shop ping The residence members and retarded adults are invited to diffemt centres In Oakvillc and Brampton for parties rec Hies to liitr m parents Hit child or Wirw These sine net he tin it flltmein just wr imt Mr si up only Suede Casuals Men s sizes to 11 Regular Kinney Price 19 Now only I Youth Regular Kinney Price 0OO Wednesday March 16th to Saturday March Suede Casuals Now only Boys even sizes 1 Regular Kim P 00 Ladies 12 lo 10 Regular toy men and children With two eye tie suede leather moccasin toe uppers and natural crepe soles Available in and men dark brown and beige for boys and 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