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Eden Care opens three new homes for Valley View residents Randy Palmer - Moose Jaw Express
One of the major questions to come out of the Valley View Centre closure announcement in 2012 was just where exactly the 200-plus residents of the 24-hour personal care facility were going to go? That question was partially answered on Oct. 4, as a grand opening was held for three new group homes being run by Eden Care Communities of Regina. The three houses will be home to 14 people with intellectual disabilities, all from Valley View Centre, and will offer “person-directed care, to help the residents live their lives and give their lives purpose,” according to Eden Care CEO Alan Stephen.
“...it gives you that flexibility and normality of life while giving them the support they need.” -General Manager Jordan Varey
“If you go through what we did years ago in health and social services, back in those days having that sort of institution, that larger environment care was deemed to be the way to the day,” Stephen said. “We now know through evidence and communication that the smaller homes are better. “This is their home and we’re working in their home. It’s smaller and more intimate, they get to know each other and the community get to know them and I think that’s really important.”
Eden Care Communities resident Rodney Schearwood cuts the ribbon for the grand opening of one of three group homes with a bit of help from Eden Care director of integrated services Ryan Bahan, as Mayor Fraser Tolmie, Moose Jaw North MLA Warren Michelson, Moose Jaw Wakamow MLA Greg Lawrence , and Eden Care Communities CEO Alan Stephen look on. Eden Care Moose Jaw general manager Jordan Varey has been involved in the Valley View transition since the beginning with various organizations and is especially impressed with what he’s seen when it comes to the smaller group home model. “There’s a difference being in a small home setting, where you can all hop into a van and go out for supper
and it doesn’t have to be a planned event, you just go out and do it, just like a regular house,” he said. “That’s the big difference, it gives you that flexibility and normality of life while giving them the support they need.” Wakamow Valley MLA Greg Lawrence was among the dignitaries who spoke at the grand opening and mentioned running into a group of residents from a local assisted-living home during a recent bowling excursion. That kind of activity is exactly what Eden Care aims to promote and achieve. “It’s just one of those simple pleasures of life and a chance to be a part of the community,” Varey said. One of the most impressive parts of the transition in Varey’s eyes is how adaptable the former Valley View residents have been – after living in an institutional setting for so long, the concern was how some of the longer-term residents would react to such a major change in their living situation. “The people we support have impressed me at every turn with how adaptable they are and how they’ve just embraced some new freedoms and we’ve seen them do things people thought they’d never do... the home environment is really key, I think,” Varey said. The government of Saskatchewan is providing $1.5 million to support the three homes, which will provide group home support and day programming for 14 people as well as enhanced supports for three people. A total of 48 people currently reside at Valley View Centre, which is slated to close in December 2019.
Average home price staying around same as 2017
By Ron Walter - For Moose Jaw Express Nine months into the year average home In Regina, the market has fared worse with prices in Moose Jaw are about on par with a 5.1 per cent drop in average house prices year over year to $288,900. last year. The composite benchmark average, deter- MLS agents sold 455 homes compared mined by Multiple Listing Sales service, with 510 last year in the city. New sales was $220,900 in September — a reduction listings were 1,218 compared with 1,240 of .3 per cent from a year ago. last year. This average is 2.1 per cent less than five In September, 40 homes were sold, almost twice the 28 sold in September last year. years ago. Single family homes averaged $220,900 Eighty-four new listings came on the marbut one-storey dwellings sold for ket compared with 72 last year $216,600, a reduction of 5.4 per cent from Sales in Moose Jaw and region numbered 10 compared with 18 last September. one year ago. Two-storey homes averaged $227,300 for a 11.4 per cent price increase over one Ron Walter can be reached at ronjoy@ sasktel.net year.
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In spite of snow, wet weather harvest grinds on and on By Ron Walter For Agri-Mart Express
Harvest slowly progressed in Saskatchewan during a week that saw rain and snow preEXPRESS vent the operation in much of the province. By Oct. 8, 78 per cent was in the bin down from 84 per cent in the five year average, but well behind the 94 per cent completion rate last year. Heavy snowfall stalled harvest in the northwest with only 44 per cent combined. Farmers with grain dryers are taking off tough grain and drying it, creating a run on propane supplies. Just under two-thirds of the crop is off in the east-central region and the northeast. Seventy per cent is done in the west-central region. Ninety per cent of harvest is over in the southeast and southwest. Some grains have lots of acreage left to do, with 35 per cent of spring wheat, 39 per cent of canola and 30 per cent of oats left in the field. Wet weather continues to improve topsoil moisture and offer a better start to next year’s crops. Four per cent of cropland is rated surplus moisture with two-thirds adequate, 29 per cent short and nine per cent very short. Cattle producers indicate adequate hay straw and feed but shortages exist in some southern and central areas.
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