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BY DONNA SCHAEFF OF THE LAINSMANN MILLER — Placing a case worker to work with develop mentally disabled residents could ease the tax burden in Hand County, the county’s men tal health representative said. Bob Blachford has a S6 men disabled child who benefit me is in Miller, he told the Tanaty Com mission last Tuesday. “We know how important it is to bring services to the disabled rather than taking the disabled out of their homes to them the training they for suc cessful living,” he said. Commissioners gave unani mous approval to Blachford’s recommendation that the county consider a caseworker in Miller. “We have a unique situation in this county,” he said. “Officials have identified 24 developmen tally disabled residents in Hand County and, at this time, a case ron’s Adjustment Training Cen ce 12 of these peo ple. “This would be a pilot project and we'd be watching it Closely,” Blachford said. “But if we could show that keeping de velopmentally disabled people within their own community is a benefit to the community as well as to the clients themselves, I think we could save taxpayers a bundle of money. “This concept has the tal of making the disabled taxpay ers rather than tax burdens,” he said. “It’s a win-win situation.” In other ee Emergency Management drew Canham sor An d he expects flood damage estimates to be high. “Many roads were washed out or washed over with this spring’s flooding, and culverts are cavs in all across the county,” he tol commissioners. Also, the board LEARNED that Doug DeBoer has been hired as deputy sheriff from among 13 candidates. De Boer of Miller succeeds Lee McPeek, who resigned last month to join the Watertown Po lice Department. AGREED to install two addi tional culverts near the Merle Bertsch farm to correct a drain age problem. APPROVED an application for federal bridge replacement funds for an aging structure west of Lake Louise. HEARD a request from Wess ington Ambulance Service repre sentative Tom Lichty for finan cial support to purchase a new ambulance.
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Huron Plainsman
Huron, South Dakota, US
Sun, Apr 10, 1994
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