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Murielle Sandburg came one step closer to her dream of living near her family in a group home when she was transferred by air ambulance from Tranquille Institute to this central British Columbia city this week. The 52-year-old physically handicapped woman is stay ing at the ded care unit placed on a 55-name list scheduled for Glendale Lodge in Victoria. The provincial government is closing Tran- quille Institute in Kamloops at the end of the year and moving its residents to other facilities. Sandburg was dated to be transferred to Glendale Sept. 30, but intervening meetings Aim Fi is at Prince George regional hospital. A group home run by Aim Hi, the Association for In- dividuals with Mental Han- dicaps, was renovated for her at a cost of $15,000 to provide a special bedroom suite con- taining a bathroom with raised fixtures for easier handling of Sandburg, who is unable to move without as- sistance. However, a month ago the preparations for her return seemed in vain when Aim Hi officials said plans for her had been changed by a reassess- ment. She and two other Prince George patients were as sessed as medically fragile by government officials and Board turns downs TF parent's By CasNews Staff Castlegar school board turned down a request from a parent Monday for a donation to help pay expenses for a two-day conference in Van couver hosted by the B.C. Teachers’ Federation According to a letter from the parent, the conference to be held Nov. 2 and 3 — will be an opportunity for parents and teachers to discuss “much needed changes” in the education system. “The ultimate goal will be to form a society that will lobby the government and keep the public aware of conditions in our schools,” says the letter from Joanne Baker, chairman of the Woodland Park parent-tea cher group Baker says $200 of a need ed $400 has been collected in donations from parent Doug Walls, Ministry of Health and Ministry of officials He? said he believes the only thing keeping her out of the gtoup home now is a sec- tior#in the regulations of the Community Care Licensing Aet which deals with non- ambulatory people. the case of Tranquille patients, the sole criteria of the section was whether or not they could transfer them- Such et of pi he for personal cour in today’s tough econoniie, times. — feels “panicky ‘and d,” Glock, . C ‘Bervices* counsellor and co-ordinator, “He's stuck,” iealy- Ry aah wy gaa He doesn’t have any money to look fot'a job. “They ¢ome to the and we discuss how they feel about it — what they can.do, so they can take respon- UNITED WAY FEATURE sibility back and feel they have some power over their x People, from Castlegar and the surrounding area who come. for counselling are “usually at their wits end,” said Glock. More than half her clients seek help with marital problems which she says are often intensified by the economic climate. Others have lost jobs, have recently become single ‘A persiailn this situation —— SeceecBicpesrs agli : SALLY GLOCK . . Liaison and reterral service the process of revising and printing an area resource The Castlegar and District C Services — one of 22 local organizations funded by the United Way — also: operates a crisis line. Although the line is open 24-hours-a-day with the help of an answering service, it's actually manned oily six-hours-e-day, Monday to Friday, said Glock. : This is because Community Services works “on a bare-bones budget” with only two employees: a secretary/receptionist who works two days & week, and Glock, who has a “three-quarters” position. The triéis line is used by everyone from those undergoing minor emotional upheavals to people suicide. selves from to bed to toilet, he said. Walls said he is optimistic Sandburg will be moved to the group home within the next few months. request groups, the Castlegar and District Teacher's Associa. tion “and others.” « While use of the crisis line varies, Glock said it‘tends to get busy during holidays “because it intensifies the problems and feelings about what's happening to them.” For a social service agency run ons shoestring budget‘of less than $20,000-a-year (the bulk of which goes to pay Glock’s salary) Community Services