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Shelton Mason County Journal
Shelton, Washington
August 22, 1974     Shelton Mason County Journal
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Your money goes farther when you shop for a top quality used appliance. WASHERS DRYERS RANGES FREEZERS REFRIGERATORS We service what we sell! 217 Cota St. S-6 - Shelton-Mason County Journal - Thursday. August 22, 1974 IRENE JOBE instructs Exceptional Manor girls in ceramics. When Exceptional Manor opened its doors in 1972, the facility offered a lifestyle that spelled life itself to retarded girls. Thirty-eight women, most of them from Rainier School in Buckley, came to Exceptional Manor completely unskilled. They were accustomed to long, lonely and uneventful days broken only by meals and naps. Some watched television. More simply sat and stared sadly into infinity. Exceptional Manor, an extension of Exceptional Foresters, changed this way of living, if such an existence can be so described. Most residents were promptly programmed. Trained, dedicated and very patient personnel discovered in each and every newcomer some small ability to be developed. One might find her niche in the laundry, another in the kitchen, yet others in the dining room. Home-like bedrooms are kept neat, while arts and crafts encourage creative occupations. On Saturday the women of Excpetional Manor receive shampoos and hairsets in preparation for the social events of Sunday. Many salable items are made by the residents. Their patchwork quilts, jewelry, pillow-tops, Christmas decorations and giftware are much in demand. They have learned to work with ceramics in the Exceptional Foresters' Gateway House in classes conducted by Irene Jobe. Women of Exceptional Manor are sponsored by various Mason County clubs and individuals who visit, bring gifts and escort their proteges on outings and shopping trips. As they thrive and develop under personal attention, Exceptional Manor residents are learning to fill heretofore idle and listless days with u ful and pleasurable tasks. As they come to know the joys of meaningful lives, many may be integrated into the labor programs and the social struct tres of the community. Thursday, August 22, 1974 - Shelton-Mason County Journal. Page 5-27