But to many residents it's a blight on the neighborhood, “a threat to the community” reputation of civility and old mental patients plopped down on their street. hearing to discuss the group home. “Why me?” he asked city planners. “Will you do any- thing for my (property) as sessment? It's like sticking a knife in my back and saying, “Let's talk about it.’ ” The Rosedale fight is the latest in a series of neigh- borhood that start- expressi! the potentially frightening behavior” of their future neighbors. “At anytime, these pati tients may choose to remove their clothing, urinate, de- fecate, make unusual terrify- ing sounds and even become violent,” their brief said. Dr. Gilbert Heseltine, a London, Ont. psychiatrist, was furious when he heard about the doctors’ brief. He rounded up four of his eol- leagues to back a strongly. worded letter to the Health Ministry. “The information in the ex-psychiatric leoholics, unwed tethers ex-offenders and le doctors’) is so blatantly incorrect and of such an anachronistic atti- tude that we can only hope that it was written in ignor- ance of the present situa- tion,” he wrote. IS RARELY SEEN “The authors of the report appear to have become over. with (the novel ed to escalate in the early 1970s with the Ontario gov- ernment's move to shut down some of its big institutions. BRINGS CHANGES This meant sending back to the community thobsands of psychiatric patients, juvenile delinquents, adult offenders, alcohol and drug addicts and, more recently, mentally re- tarded people. The idea of former psychi- atric patients — 10 men and women — in their midst hasn't sat well with five MAR. ond MRS. 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Such be- havior as discussed in the letter ig rarely seen even in the provincial psychiatric hospitals today.” Christopher Higgins, ex- ecutive director of the Rose- dale group home, known as Craigleigh House, said the neighborhood doctors couldn't know what kind of residents they would be get- ting. “They are not at all psy- chotic,” Higgins said. “As for the predictions of their beha- vior, we wouldn't accept anyone remotely resembling what they; have described. It's almost defamation of character for these doctors to be saying those kinds of things.” Brian Milne, one of the city yeu the ojbections that surface nearly every time a group home opens, one thing would appear certain — the city of Toronto, Metro and the Ontario oer aren't ii d h bg Qagiianen sencsistlbomntte anttie Aidt de Brian L. Brown Certified General Accountant 270 Columbia Ave. Castlegar Ph. 365-2151 MOROSO, MARKIN & BLAIN Certified General Accountants 241 Columbia Ave. Cast! their policies on he homes. But few people ask the opinions of the people most intimately involved — such as former psychiatric pati Ph. 365-7287 ents. “When you go to the hos- pital and have a heart opera- tion, everyone is so sympa- thetic,” said a 30-year-old woman who spent five months in a p: ic ward. Soligo, Koide & John Chartered Accountants bi. “They send you flowers and everything. But with mental illness there are no flowers. You are stigmatized and people don't know how to deal with your afterwards.” The woman is a member of Houselink Community Homes for chronic psychia- trie patients. Houselink is a co-operative agency that helps former psychiatric pa- tients find a place to live to- gether with others in Tor- onto who have suffered from mental disorders. Computer club looks at discs The Castlegar Commodore Computer Club held its monthly meeting on March 1. Four more discs of the month have been ordered from TPUG, and a motion to order a subscription to Compute Magazine was passed. The club will also receive disks of the month from this source. Tutorials available for the use of the Commodore com- puter were discussed and will be examined further at fu- ture meetings. A company in Vancouver has been located Methods of using both sides of disks were discussed and found to be generally successful. Two main presentations were given. Dick Wolff gave a demonstration of his Script 64 word processing program, which includes a spelling dic- tionary. Bob Tchir gave an idea of how many educational pro- grams are available for Com modore computers, and dem- onstrated many of the pro- grams for all age groups. The mere meeting of the that will repair C A Club computer equipment very quickly, — of where it was p SAVING YOU $$ on your NEW HOME OR RENOVATION Stop or mail us your lumber list for your free quote. will be ie April 5. New members are welcome. For information contact 365-8606. 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