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PAGE S, WEDNESDAY, JULY 17, 19~85, WIIITBY FREE PRESS OSHAWA- WHITBY ~FAIR JULY 18,199209,21 Thursday *Op.ning Ceremonhes Juiy 18 @Demoiltion Derby 0 Bingo & more Friday e3 p.m. - Womens Building, Juiy 19 tl lowers, Midway *6:00 - Tractor Pull, Bingo, Concessions, Cake Auction, One man band, Midway, Antique tractors, Northern Ont. Musemoblie & more. Saturday 9.1 p.m. - Studio dancers Juiy 20 performing arts a 2 p.m. - Baby conteat 94:30 p.m. - Horse Pul *6:30 p.m. - Demoilon Derby Sunday Juiy 21 ALL DAY- Sheep show & shearing demonstration, Light horse show, saddie bred horses, Open pony & horse show, HoakIns musical ride, One man band, midway, Olde tyme fIddler's contest, Northern Ont. Musemobile Finit champlonship hat for Demo derby OpenIng Special - Midway - AIl Kids rides % prce f rom 6 p.m. on Sunday aftemoons 12 p.m. - 5 p.m. KIDS for $600 you con ride the midway as often et you want. HELD UNDER THE AUTHORITY 0F A SPECIAL OCCASION PERMIT Frlday & Sturday Evenlng * Don't Miss Th- * DAIRYQUEEN EATING COMPETITION Sponsored by Diry Ousen Simcoe St. S., Oshawa Dundas St., Whitby LOCATION - GARRARD RD. Just North of Conlin, Whitby iX ~ 4 T*lCALL 655-4287 or 6855-3962 FAIR WEEK 12,114 ont of wo rk in this area The number of clients registered for work at the Canada Em- ployment Centres in Ajax, Witby and Oshawa for the montb of June totalled 12,114 whicb compares to 12,632 registrations during May, 1985 and 17,854 registrations during June, 1984. Placements in the three offices totalled 532 for the month, wbich compares to a total of 602 placements during May, 1985 and 384 placements during June, 1984. During June, the greatest employment opportunities existed in personal and household services; food and beverage; retail trade; special trade contrac- ting; and motor vehicle manufacture. At the end of June, there were 173 students in the skill courses sponsored by the Canada Employment Centre and 55 people receiving academic upgrading at Durham College. h IIMERC 4.5 Lis about a gallon. Jerry's Drug Warehouse opens Downtown Whitby's newest business enterprise was officially opened and welcomed to the town last Thursday evening by Mayor Bob Attersley (second from ieft). Jerry's, The Drug Warehouse officially opened its doors at 311 Brock St. N. during a brief ceremony when Attersley presented a Town of Whitby keychain to president Jerry Peiz (second fromn rigbt). Looking on are Bob Beattie, the firm's junior partner; Jerry Panet, general manager (at left); and, East Ward Coun. Joe Drumnm (right). The 8,000-square foot facility carnies a wide range of health and beauty products including a fully staf- fed pharmacy. The new store already employs about 25 people on both a full and part-time basis. Free Press Staff Photo The joys of beingr a new father CONT'D FROM PG. 5 hand and squeezed and watched our daughter emerge into the world, suspended head-down for the longest moment in bistory. Then she - Erin Kathleen - took ber first lungful and cried. Friends have attempted to describe the emotions of the moment before me and failed. Sbould 1 try to do so for you, 1, too, would fail. But followed then a strange twist. The mother, baving delivered without intervention, now required emergency repairs. She was whisked off to the delivery room (the 'birthing' room is flot equip- ped for operations> and this new father found bîm- self alone witb an infant minutes old. Which is how I came to be pacing for the birtb of this child: not alone in a smoke-filled lounge, but together with my newest family member. I held her, talked to her, while she gazed up with ber soon- to-be-brown eyes, holding eye contact with me al the while. 1 told ber about ber brothers and sisters, about grandparents and aunts and uncles, and about the confused trouble world she was entering, which is full of joys nevertheless. Family-centred childbirth, in whatever form, may be the sanest idea in medicine in years. It bas changed father from the bumbiing buffoon into a sharing partner. In our Lamaze class, one father showed distinct lack of interest in the first few sessions. He admit- ted he had been dragged there. This couples baby girl was born the same day as was Erin Kathleen. I saw the father shortly after. He had stayed with bis wife the wbole time, had followed the Lamaze instructions, the coaching, the help, tbrough a long and difficult delîvery. 'Could you imagine, " he said to me, bis face alive with young-father pride, "going through that alone? " It doesn't end witb delivery. 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