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Wed Flames leap from the paid off mor tgage the Newmarket and District Association for the Mentally Retarded Adult Training Centre as it is burned with great ceremony last week by Tom Taylor left an Association director and Bill Warden past president PHOTO BY KENT STOKHOLM Adult Training Centre burns mortgage to start Oth year In January years ago the Newmarket and District Association for the Mentally Retarded began to enrol its first six trainees in a program for retarded adults Today the stillgrowing program has 40 trainees who work in their own centre and produce and sell their own products Many times in difficulties particularly for accommodation over the decade the program aways found a solution within the community This is the story as told by the staff of those first years their frustrations and accomplishments Hi illy 1 il ii Willi mi lack mini and Mi- in ijinni if Ihe itl is did Mrs is Secretary- Million for Hie program This I II- Atom lor Ir n March in I filled I hi program now ami expanded lip needed in assistant mil was Ibr Mrs Hint I skills Hie I luolialinj ami ting ifiiilrnl which remain an Ir ail ItuHer pari 1 work as well as iMrnvittin fiamly service arlicolat for service ami social liils have gem runs rtcrs of our January saw Training Centre rlocalid in lai premises in Ihe Tehplume on SI In March Km Oakley was engaged to replace Mr Brooke who had rcsignid Sterling Drug had Joined group contracts lo Ihe Centre training courses for staff Oakley attended their first was waxing strong In the the trainees had been on a fishing pursuing a regular bowling program and a busmans holiday to Adult Training Hamilton Exchange visits of a working and were arranged between lite Newmarket Ihe I lilies Auxiliary Training 1 allow for any ill sup purl This ligishliiii was in Si ljr7 winch time 1 pi for a grant Alex Milton wlMr Oakley had resigned as supervisor ai the beginning I JJt During a uni ts of Dungs happened Mil services hi manlier 1 if trainees had risen really Mr left Mrs llnMnck Maine Adult i raise by Mrs Anne Mush Ihe school put Poplar Hanks Si up for sale and had Julius School mortgage was arranged the Ml Willi IIikImiii promised a individuals Cod Bless filled the gap flu Iliiir enthusiasm tide Mir fears In live with aiul families pre busy preparing llu in for tlielr next i mimy Miss Crowe was assisted by Mr Ma lint Ibis was of pvl Mr There are many Ihe Hoard of Hinttors meetings fin ililaleil In pi kinds of ruining for the wm lo I hi ninny kite hen anil look on a Hie time inly temporary however and I lie forced us into the giant building our own Adull Training Centre his coining and all our wall Barhira Milne received an offer to purchase a tidy profit These hi of course A Building supportive friends hail made Crowe a trainee ami Jack Malcolm hip of the Association Fund raising I IVople Have been generous population has with he joining of Oio liHvel from the Sutton and District area and wilh the program of Allium residents there irniuees These iKtcssiiaUil addition of staff and expanded Iraining begun la lie placed on llu original Ibus opening new of raining Iramees have begun to edpcTience Hie of producing their own jirodml ami seeing sold as opposed doing piece work which Is he nature of most industrial contracts Whenever possible Irniuees arc graduated to outside the Centre MOltTtiAfiRBUHNKD And so the first decade of Adult Services draws to a close burning of our Adult Training Centre mortgage the next decade we feel confident thai with the continued support of the ninny many friends of the retarded in tl residences will become a reality and that the sen for and the life style of the retarded citizen really enriched We have much be lhankfu for of land In that development We on our Fugle St lot at rather a tidy profit These things did not happen by the accomplishment of a long term e that this goal is only appropriate for him in a 11 fur tin Mentally mention to he fact that In the opening