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PAGE 8, ýWHITDY FREE PRE8,Iý, WEDNESDAY, DF4CEMBER,21, 1988 Organizaetions receive funding to help ho meless Pive organizations in Durham Region will receive provincial funding totalling $222,300 to assist homneless people. The Social Development Coun- cil will receive $76,300 to provide a data base on both housing and housing-related issues and help people find accommodation; New ,ilo.,pe Housing will get $14,000 foi' a pýart-timne coordnator to work with the Oshawa church community to determine the needs of homeless people, parti- cularly those aged 50 to 60; Big Sisters Shelter for Youth Comn- înittee will get $43,000 to help young people find affordable accommodation; YWCA will receive $43 000, to help' locate permanent housiing for women residents; John Howard Society will receive $46,000 to assist homeless people and recruit volunteers to provide more advo- cacy and support. Fýunding applications for the flive group s were made by the Durham Region Housing Com- mittee. Eighty per cent of the funding is provided by the Minis- try of Community and Social Services and 20 per cent by the municipality. X>)-amI r 1-A ]Bm av&, ff t Progressive Conservative Association Special General Meeting Acres Restaurant Taunton Rd. East of Liberty St. Tuesday January lOth, 1989 8:00 p.m. Delegrates. will be selected, from the membership, for a special general meeting of the Ontario P.C. Association, to be held iný Toronto, to debate Constitutional Amendments. Pres. Eleanor Colwell Secretary, Fred Gardiner1 MICHAEL. WYNISTORF9 4 (second Oshawa Garden Gallery last Satur- from left) and Jeffrey Wynistorf, 7, day. Standing in -the~ background is can't wait for Dwight Swerdfeger to Rotary member John Nickson. nifake the m a pancake at the Rotary About 200 attended the breakfast. CIub's pancake breakfast>held at the Frc Press photo 01101TFdsS.E Witb 68-84 THE THIRE winners of the Christ- mas Tree competition held by the Whitby Free Press and the Garden Mart had a bit of difficulty picking out a Christmas tree front the many available at the Garden Mart Satur- day. The three successfully assem- bled the three parts of a Christmas tree placed throughout recent issues of T eFree Press. The winners, 3-year-old Kristy Clancy (left) , Pain Scott (second from right) and Heather Pitre (right) pose with Gar- den Mart employee Lisa MacMillan (second from left). Frec Proe photo Theft at O'DONUTS modellhome r'ic ci. * *Pictures, posters and artificial and a.plant valued at $3,000 were stolen from a number of Merrick W HO LEmodel homes on Fallingbrook Dr. recently. LOT 'TTara Pinting'. & Office Supplies Super Special ffljûg*l -A Business Cards X Invoices e Flyers Office Supplies Sat super Special Prices. 201 Crown Oit. Unit 23 Whitby, Ont.. 430-6117 ~432-3877 1 m