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From Sunshine School to ARC Industries NHAMR celebrates 25 years of assisting the retarded Learning pour himself drink without spilling a drop can be a small triumph for a child at Nursery the nursery run by the North Association for the Mentally He larded Motor skills just one part of the program at the nursery which went Into operation In Herald photo By TAYLOR Herald Staff Writer The North Hon for the Mentally Retarded will be celebrating its anniversary this Saturday night with a gala dinner at Milton Hot The association has come a long way since it began in as the Milton and District Association for Retarded The group name Bed in I960 to the North Association for Retarded Chi dren and In 1970 it changed again to the present name The first service offered by the organization involved the Sunshine School opened in one room of the old town hall in Millon The school later moved to Emmanuel Baptist Church from there to a converted garage and then to its present quarters in Hornby The board of education bought the school from the association in for and has taken over the expense of running From 1969 on the Sunshine School has expanded The younger children are attending Park Public School in Georgetown where they are integrated with the rest of the community The secondary school aged students will be attending Milton C Dniry Secondary School Mike Evans president or the association told The Herald this week that the role now that the board of education has taken over programming for the school has become one of an advo- keep an eye on the programs lo make sure the retarded children lack ing anything he said The program for the child includes alphabet and skills gym mus and art much the normal curriculum but geared to their level Mr Evans said The Nursery one of the more recent projects of the association is for pre school children The nursery which was In by Acton Jenny teaches speech and motor skills and provides playroom activities The children also receive toilet training The program requires that the children have attention Mr Evans said and most of the counsellors are volunteers Each child goes to in assessment and a full program is up for the child based on his lar needs The volunteers work on an on going basis with one child so they arc familiar with that child Mr has been very helpful In helping out with outings where more adult sup ervisors ore needed such as swimming The business community has also helped out Mr Evans said Bell Canada has donated a doll through which the can talk to the child instead of trying to reach the child with direct lion A of the program help bring the child to his full potential Mr said Tinkcrbell has a home pro gram where the counsellor visits the child s home once a week to help the parents rein force what the child is learning at the nursery Children from Nursery can go to thr differ places regular classes classes for the trainable men tally handicapped and to the developmental centre for the severely retarded The Developmental Centre opened in 1976 at E C School in Milton There from and Burlington as well as north Halton The developmental centre is for more severely retarded child mho can attend special classes The main problem we have down there is getting Mr Evans said Of ten we find getting volunteers for the nursery is a lot easier than for older children I guess people find it more difficult to relate to these people Often these children will be confined to wheelchairs and severely handicapped You need a lot of patience I think the key to most of the volunteers at and the developmental centre Is patience because the smallest improvement is really a triumph ADULT The association is now hop ing to start an adult develop mental centre which it would fund until the program is organized and off the ground Mr Evans said The would then apply lo the provincial ministry of com rnunily social services to help fund the program on a continuing basis Depending on the agreement the ministry tic association might end up paying W per cent of the cost of running the The adult developmental Continued on page 13 8775213- I FOBERT EXCELLENCE AWARD IN CUSTOMER RELATIONS I Home Newspaper of Halton Hills WEDNESDAY APRIL mo big piper with tha big circulation Covering Georgetown Acton a Surrounding Seed House subdivision advised by consultants Dominion Seed House vast nursery holdings along Street in Georgetown should be zoned for highdensity reside n use rather than parkland if any development is to take place there according to a report on the Highway corn dor commissioned town Released at last Tucsdiy planning board meeting the J Diamond Ltd prepared in collaboration with Barton Ltd examined the Seed House lands for future potential in the event that property tax rcvi force the company re location TRAFFIC FATALITY A resident is dead following a collision between a car and a truck early Friday morning in William Booker of Campbell ville was pronounced dead at the scene of the accident shortly after midnight Thursday The drivers of the two cars and the other four passengers suffered injuries ranging from broken bones to internal Injuries The truck driven by Peter Laird Norval was on Highway 7 while the other vehicle driven by Wayne Young of Glen Williams was eastbound An offduty Peel police officer reported that the truck had been driving in an erratic for some lime before the accident Wayne Young was taken to Georgetown and District Memorial Hospital where he was treated an J released Trevor Window of Georgetown was taken to George town hospital and later transferred to Toronto Western Hospital where he is in critical condition of Georgetown Is In fair condition in Georgetown hospital IS of Georgetown is being treated for several broken bones in Peel Memorial Hospital Charles Clark of Georgetown Is listed as being In fair condition at Peel Memorial Hospital Several major em in the disci be tween board me and consultants on the mi 1 eased study The study was to be released to the public less than a month after being received by the planning board Our heads I screwed on enough to deal with the study yet board chairman Mike Armstrong commented Before we released it to the public we should set aside a date for another meeting a ourselves Mayor Pete asked that the study be sent to the town staff for review Clerk administrator Ken Richardson suggested that six weeks would be adequate time Mayor told the board he is very satisfied with the study but questions the town ability to implementits recommendations because of the cost involved It will cost millions to implement this plan and I don t think it can be borne by the taxpayers that are here now the mayor commented We ve got to see how we re Implement ing plan is going to entail some powerful politic decisions SOW FUNDING Consultant Jack Diamond suggested that the capital maintenance budget could pro vide funds for some of the study s recommendations If you accept the overall structure of the plan then you will have an overall principle Our Spring collection Hospital First Born page Actons White page Pay TV On The Way page Relatively Speaking page Guys and Dolls page tic weather has been perfect these few days for everyone to get outside and off the winter cobweb Paul and Carl Blight agree more they got fa some work on skateboards The next couple of days are expected to be just as nice be doing things piecemeal as you are now We realize that the Seed House properties are a sens live issue in tills town and the present owners are very con tent where they are However that may change if the proper ties ore taxed at their real market value rather than as agricultural land as they are now That may force them to move to another location 1 don think the Seed House properties can be taxed at real market value Mayor told The Herald Market assessment is essentially used for residential and land The Seed House properties have always been zoned as agriculture and as long as they produce products I can t see that changing Seed House owner Margaret Harding told The Herald that the firm has no intentions of moving Its operation Seed House general William Kay declined to comment en the study re commendation but termed the findings presumptuous I think the study is very good but there i3 no way you see those properties used for anything else Coun Arm strong asserted Other problems dealt In the study were the commun s present lack of industrial land and the development of areas along the highway LOOK SERIOUSLY You have to look seriously at the land zoned for Industrial and make sure that you don t let commercial things creep in Mr Diamond said The town at the moment is some 180 acres short of Industrial Overall Mr Diamond said he felt that the highway at the present time tends to dominate the scene due a shortage of landscaping along its and any future work done on the area surrounding it should be done an eye towards beautifying it Of major concern to the consultants was a town plan to consolidate all its civic tics in one area along the highway You have to be careful If you do this because in reality you are signalling that this is the town centre consultant Manly McKelvey told the board You could very well signal the end to your down town area and that would be very poor for the town as your downtown Is unique While most councillors ex pressed satisfaction with the study Roy Booth felt that much of what was recommen would be very costly Mr Diamond suggested that much of be beautifies lion could be done by business associations similar to that of the downtown merchants who pay an extra levy on their taxes The downtown merchants had to pay for their own study for Coun Booth said I wonder how they re going to reel about other organizations having this BOO study done for them at the taxpayer expense NATIVE DANCERS HAVE CENTRE JUMPING Heating through a tunnel of raised arms Ml better known Lyons brought his Indian dance troupe to the Cedarvate community centre night for a stirring display of native songs and dance Bom In Fort Francis Ontario and teacher at Thunder Bay a Initersily Mr I and his family demonstrated the of native ritual for a large and appreciative audience invited to the by the 1 1 Hit Public Library Hoard Mr Lyons persuaded many audience members to Join him for a dance routine that borrowed on his years experience with the traditional cultural art form Herald photo by Whew Halton Hills taxes increase least in region 8 By STJPHLN FROST Herald Staff Writer Compared lo their Milton neighbors who face tax in creases of up to30 per cent this year Hills taxpayers will hate a relatively easy Mill rate Georgetown Aclon and quesing will be per cent 7 per cent and per cent respectively These figures released day by Major Pete am town treasurer Ray King take Into account all pal regional and education taxes The increases are not final however according to Mr King On Friday received a lelterfrom the province saying there be a change in format for assessing our re gional levy he explained They arc currently looking at other equalization factors that would affect the final levy They won but there is a chance the mill rate will go down slightly It all very well and fine to talk about percentages and the mill rate Mayor Pomeroy said but what the average citizen wants to know Is how much extra he is going to pay in dollars and cents A general breakdown for Georgetown is as follows bas on an average home assess men of For general town purposes and urban area services taxes will amount lo an in crease I per cent over the COO paid in 1979 The regional levy win rise this year by lo for a rise of per cent over 1979 However this does not include a conservation levy for capital projects such as the paper mill dam sluice gales and dredging in the Credit River Thatcouldaddosmuch to the average tax bill EDUCATION UP Total education costs for the year will rise In from last year a Jump of Continued on 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