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SECTION A THE HERALD 18 Along with and skills mentallyhandicapped client at Arc Induilrfe la Hornby Job skill a well While Arc would like to get Into tome primary manufacturing facllltl are now geared to putting products together for other Rainmaker sprinklers by Lido Industrial Product Ltd of Toronto li one product Arc readies for shipment Virus uses a drill press In one the first steps In putting together a lawn sprinkler Theyre us clients want to be part of community Training for life aboard the Arc You may owe the green ijess your front lawn and the succulence of backyard tomatoes to a sprinkler put together by Hulls at Arc Industries in Hornby the busy daily hum of the Sleeles Avenue work shop he Rainmaker a topseller for Lido Indu strial Products Ltd of Toronto Is one of many things clients are fitting Arc will celebrate Its 20th anniversary next first workshop opened the home of Harry and Isham and served three adults at the time An expansion in the fourth since the work first opened room for about adults of them are now In vocational training and In the adult deve lopment program learn life and social skills This is not Just sheltered workshop Menary Arc a vocational director stressed In a recent inter view We teach basic skills needed to function many Industrial setting learn attributes anyone would need in any workplace shop will learn enough to Hove into Jobs alongside en tally handicapp ed workers PACED DEVELOPMENT A peek around the workshop on any given will see clients work Jng at a variety of dlffe- Ant projects Some may putting together sprinklers others packaging screws still snapping special paps together for oil and and a couple gentle men restoring damaged furniture But each member Mr explained Is working at a Job matched lb his or her skill level As training progresses and The client learns more he on to another rJlore complex task Clients may continue Jumping from step to step over a period of its determined that are ready leave workshop for a Job In the regular industrial lot more work to make sure the client has the Job and social skills down pot to cope on his own Those social skills are just as Important at Arc Industries as the job skills Mr Menary said Without good habits cleanliness and good job attitude for example you can run pro duction line Training clients at Arc because there are so many Integral areas to be looked after is like handling six horses all once Mr Menary Joked adding that Arc always pays attention to what each client needs the of a year Arc may handle about Mstcady contracts as well several smaller jobs Clients put together such large Items as elevator parts as well as such things as screws for Georgetown s Robertson Other clients include Xerox Canada Ltd and Swift Chemicals A team of Arc Indu stries workers can even your lawn chairs Were proud of our Mr Menary said We have companies consistently nlng back to us Herald Writer As president of the North Ass for the Mentally Retarded for about two and one- half years Bert Arnold has reached a conclusion residents might keep In mind the Association continues fund raising In Hills this week It not them you ro helping It us he told The Herald recently The mentally capped have a tight to and can participate In the community along with handicapped rcsl dents That to say they dont have special problems which the Association Is helping I hem cope with Mr old said Looking at the support the Asocial ion receives from the community Mr Arnold a Georgetown lawyer is inclined to believe that others share his point of Community involve men In the Association la fantastic he said Every time you turn around people are lnvol ved In some aspect of it In addition to the volun who help with the Associations life and Job skills training and who work with youngsters at Tinker Bell nursery school in Mlllon Associa members arc active on the board of education and separate school board He presides over a board of directors who arc all volunteers and not all of them have mental ly handicapped children The board is the policy making body of the Assoc goals it wants to lish in a year Those goals fall under the general mandate of the Association to repre sent the interests of men tally retarded people and their families anywhere ARNOLD but especially In North PUBLIC AWARENESS It does this by providing training programs and other services for the mentally handicapped However ever since the Association took root in the area about years ago part of the program has been responsible for educating the public about what It means to be mentally handicapped Public education is ex important as the Association tries over come prejudices which hinder the mentally hand icapped who can lead a relatively normal life with the rest of the com unity At a housing conference last year sponsored by the North Halton Social Plan nlng Council Mr Arnold spoke on the need for group homes for mental ly handicapped adults like to see them reside in North In fact Countryside the Hornby residence for mentally handicapped adults Is up for sale and the Association would like to move the residents Into two group homes near North urban cen Ires SUPPORT NHAMR FUNDRAISERS Mark Is the NHAMR vocational director Working oat Arc Industries mentally handicapped adults learn life and Job which will help them lead more Independent lives Arc a bright future Mr Menary and Its exploring new marketa for the product clients put together Hera Id photo Keeping new ideas in mind Continued from page At annum fee Thats not counting an army of volunteers who while For this years fund raising campaign launched Monday the to raise from Hills alone Another type of campaign will be organ later In Milton To reach this goal about canvassers will go door to door In the urban areas of Plans for he future include moving more mentally handicapped adults into the North Halton urban areas from the Countryside residence Once In town they be closer to banks and stores learning We skills most of us take for granted The Association staff works hard make bene ficial changes changes which not only help Ihe mentally handicapped but also the capped community lude toward them There always room Tor Improvement Mr Williams commented At Countryside Mr Arnold explained oily handicapped adults learn skills which help them live more lives They may even learn those skills well enough to live on their But In the rural area Countryside is somewhat Isolated from banks shops laundromats and other services which the mentally handicapped need to know about and SOCIALIZING Although Countryside residents make frequent trips Into town living In group homes In an urban area will allow them every day access to community services and they I corn to socialite more with he commun he said Mr Arnold stressed that the group home con cept which the NHAMR envisions will be review by the public While the town official plan allows group homes by laws arc needed to have some planning over them like ensuring that they arc spaced well opart from each other In a given area Studies have shown Mr Arnold said that group homes for the taly handicapped are less initial concern for neighboring residents than I tie Initial response to other sorts of group Once group homes are in place and the neighbors have had a chance to get know each other the level of concern dlmin rapidly Mr Arnold said Initially group homes for the mentally capped tend to grouped In with types in the kind of family atmosphere group ho can provide mentally handicapped clients more opportunity to learn In the community Mr Arnold suggested A few have already left the Countryside residence to share apartments in Georgetown and Acton he said Landlords Mr Arnold said have found the handicapped to be good tenants If they show any reluctance at all to renting apartments to clients It soon lost he BULK sale Ruffled Eyelet OTZV Tape 33tfm TUB OH Glen Mil Set Sin ft film visjTSuri CRAFT CENTRE SAVE 8771351 To Place Your Ad 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