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By DAPHNE HUTCHINSON
Rappahannock New* Staff Writer
For more than five years, tie’s left for work just like everybody else. His job in Remington doesn’t pay a lot; it’s piecework, sometimes assembling window sash locks for North American Die Casting and other times folding towels for Culpeper’s QB Enterprises. Maybe most folks wouldn’t want his job, but this man is retarded, and the sheltered employment offered by the Facility for Occupation and Rehabilitative Enterprise provides training that may some day enable him to find regular, unsubsidized work in the private sector. And even if that never comes to be, he still has a place, a normal routine, and a paycheck.
But this Rappahannock resident just lost his job.
In late May, FORE halted its transportation services to Rappahannock County, the action generally the result of a continuing budget crisis due to the Reagan administration’s cuts in federal aid and specifically due to Rappahannock County’s refusal to make up the deficit with local tax dollars, according to Butch Zindel, the county’s representative on FORE’s board of directors.
The van had been taking five county residents (three of them natives of Rappahannock) to and from the Remington workshop on weekdays. “Some of them had been coming for five years — maybe longer,” said Audry Pullen, FORE’s financial director. One of the Rappahannock clients was a machine operator, one did laundry work, and the rest did assembly-type work, Miss Pullen reported. “They switched around, depending on what was available.”
And once in Remington, several of the FORE clients were able to get transportation to the Community Services Board’s Family Guidance Center in Warrenton, some eight miles away, for counseling and other mental health services, according to Miss Pullen.
Like the other 21 people served at the workshop, FORE’s five Rappahannock clients are disabled: either brain damaged, physically handicapped, mentally retarded, or both retarded and physically handicapped.
This spring, FORE asked the counties it draws from for appropriations. Rappahannock’s Board of Supervisors was requested to allocate $12,500. “That figure was based on the number of peo
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