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% LookFabulous T h isFall! Just as the temperature drops, so do the prices at By Consignment. We have all the hottest looks for Fall, at a fraction of their retail prices. A large selection of items now a further 25% OFF Shop Smart Shop Sa.ivy, Shop Now! CREMATION By Consignment Upscale Resale Ladies Wear · Open 7 davs a week 1oTirafalgar Rd. . 338-.VT4 % FOCUS J r W EDNESDAY. O C T O B E R 2:i. 2 ( X)2 · 1T\GK C l bet the tacts, rind out about jjj the choices it provides." Glen Oaks Memorial Gardens 3164 9th Line, Oakville Call 257-1100 Offidal Soonsor Official Media Sponsor Editor: Wilma Blokhuis Phone: 905-845-3824 (ext. 250) Fax: 905-337-5567 e-mail: blokhuis@haltonsearch.com Agency hires fundraising co-ordinator Community Living Oakville hopes to erase $100,000 shortfall By Wilma Blokhuis OAKVILLE BEAVER STAFF C ommunity Living Oakville has hired a fundraising co ordinator in hopes o f erasing a $ 100,000 shortfall. T hat's the amount Flavia Girouard hopes to raise this year. Girouard, who speaks three languages - English, French and Spanish, and has 10 years experience in the event co ordination business including five years with an economic development co-operative in Paris, France - was hired on a contract basis about a month ago. Community Living Oakville (CLO), which looks after the local needs o f the intellectually disabled living in the com m u nity, has been running at an annual deficit. Executive Director Andy Rotsma said Girouard was hired because "it is impossible for the agency to meet the needs of the people we support, deal with the escalating cost o f utili ties, vehicles, staff health benefits, and so on, with the fund ing that is allocated from the Ministry o f Community, Family and Children's Services." Rotsma explained the CLO board has approved running the agency at a."deficit on a yearly basis because our other option is reducing service and we want to do everything pos sible to avoid this from happening. "O ur hope is that by hiring a fundraiser, we will be able to raise the additional $100,000 yearly. "We know that Oakville is a generous community and we hope the citizens, businesses and corporations understand the value of the service we provide for individuals with an intel lectual disability," Rotsma continued. "W ithout the support o f the community, our services will suffer. "Our hope is that by hiring a fundraiser, we will be able to raise the additional $ 1 0 0 ,0 0 0 yearly." · Andy Rotsma, Executive Director, Community Living Oakville "W hile our board of directors and some staff have taken on the additional responsibility o f fundraising, without having a dedicated person whose sole job is to raise funds, the level o f funding required simply will not be achieved." Rotsma said the agency receives 80 per cent o f its funding from the provincial government, but "the dollars just are not going as far as they did 10 years ago." · CLO receives about $4 million annually from the provin cial government "and our budget com es in just under $5 mil lion," said Rotsma. The difference, except for the $100,000 that needs to be fundraised, com es from Halton Region, United Way of O akville, contract sales, memberships and donations, according to C L O 's annual report. The agency is consolidating its operations to a 46,000-sq.ft. building purchased about two years ago for $1.6 million at 301 Wyecroft Rd., in hopes o f saving $75,000 annually, said Rotsma. Its 19.000-sq.-ft. building at 1108 Speers Rd. was sold in May for $1 million, said Rotsma. adding an agreement had been reached with the new ow ner to remain there while reno vation work continues at the new Wyecroft Road location. Speers Place Industries and a pre-vocational day program, currently operating at Speers Road, will move to the new Wyecroft Road location on Nov. 1. Speers Place Industries is a non-profit "fully-integrated sheltered workshop paying better than minimum wage so people can come off disability (benefits)," said Rotsma. "W e'll be holding a contest to select a new name for Speers Place Industries, as w e'll no longer be on Speers Road," said Rotsma. About 85 clients - about 50 at Speers Place and 35 in the pre-vocational day program - will be joining 54 people - 24 in a day program and 30 at Best Pack - at W yecroft Road. Best Pack is a packaging, light assembly, heat sealing, shipping, bundling, collating, electronic counting, silk flower arranging and wood assembly operation established by CLO in 1976." The agency will continue to operate a day program called Alternatives at 147 Church St., which has about 25 clients. CL O 's administration office will remain at Speers Road until July 1, 2003. `T h a t will be the final renovation," said Rotsma. "We will have spent $300,000 in renovations once all of the work is done." The administration includes Supported Independent Living for about 100 clients equally divided between those living on their own and clients in CLO residences, and Supported Employment which serves about 30 clients. G irouard's main function will be to organize fundraising events for CLO, to add to the more than $21,000 being raised, from its annual golf tournament held at Saw-W het G olf Club. "This tournament has been running for 16 years on the last Tuesday in May and for the past three years w e've raised more than $ 2 1.000." said Rotsma. He added Saw-Whet donates the use o f its facilities to CLO. Girouard looks forward to the challenge. "It is very rewarding to see my work will help others less privileged than myself." she said. "If we all did a little for those in need, we would see the difference in their lives and feel better about ourselves." She will be organizing fundraising events year 'round and soliciting donations from local businesses, has already organ ized two events, a wine tour and dinner theatre. The wine tour on Nov. 2 will take participants via a luxury coach to three wineries in Niagara-on-the-Lake and to a buf fet dinner at a Chinese restaurant. Pick up will be at Oakville Place at the Shoppers Drug M art entrance at 12:30 p.m. The cost of this trip is $60 each. Tickets can be purchased at the Wine Rack in Longo's at Dundas Street and Trafalgar Road, or at CLO, 1108 Speers Rd., call 905-844-0146. The dinner theatre on Nov. 13 will be at the Port Mansion Theatre in the Port Dalhousie area of St. Catharines. Dinner at 5:30 p.m. will be followed by a play at 8 p.m., titled Greetings about the Gorski family. One son is about to marry somebody who will never fit in with the family, and the other son is a "loving, mentally handicapped man who touches everyone with his profound wisdom," said Girouard. Tickets cost $57 each and can be purchased from CLO. In approaching local businesses, she said, "the key is find Tyler Anderson · Special to the B eaver ing people who have children or relatives, or know somebody F lavia G irouard, recently hired as fundraising co-ordinator for C om m unity with intellectual disabilities" who are in positions to make L iv in g O a k v ille, is w elco m ed by A nd y R otsm a, C o m m u n ity L iv in g com pany donations. "Only a small percentage o f people, less than five per cent O ak ville's executive director. She will be in charge o f organizing fun drais o f the population, has an intellectual disability." ing events such as an u pcom ing theatre night, and w ine tour. SFABE BouCioir HURRY! HURRY! 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