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Whltby Free Press, Wechiesday, Deoember 28, 1994,Page 7 Home builders' sec good ear aea CENTRAL LAKE ONTARIO Conservation Authority (CLOCA) chair krv Harreli (Ieft) and Harold Tohana of Sun Lite Assurance Co. inspeot one of the 5,000 trees planted at Lynde Shores Conservation Area. Sun Lite employees and Trees Ontario sponsored the planting. CLOCA is urging otCher companies or groups to consider sponsoring plantings. Cail Rick CIow at 579-0411 for more information. Photo by Mark Reesor, Whltby Fre Press 'Workforce Survey' presenited The Durham Region Employment. Equity Network (DREEN) will meet on Jan. 10. DREEN, a network for Durham Region human reSource professionals and employment equity practitioners, wll offer the p resentation, 'Conducting Your Workforce Survey.' Guest speaker will ho Dr. Phebe Jane Poole of P.J. Poole & Associates. She has more than 10 years of experience helping organizations meet workplace challenges in the areas of employment equity, workplace harassment sud huanrights. Her book, 'The Employment EqiyAdvantage: A Practical .ude, published in 1994, outlines tho Ontario legislative reiements sud provides a seisof "best practices" for ognzations to undertake. ole Ontario Employment Equity Act requires organizations te develop quantitative goals and timetables. For further information, contact Cathy Lloyd at the City of Oshawa (436-5663) or Jennifer Collins at Totten Sims Hubicki Associates (668-9363, ext. 247). For registration, contact Lloyd. Cost is $25 par parson. The meeting wil ho held at the Oshawa Holiday Inn, froin 11:45 a.m. untl 2 p.m. A mgjority of home builders across the province expect sales to increase next year, according to a sur vey by the. Ontario Home Builder's Association. Twenty-one per cent believe a lasting and substantial improvement in new home sales has already begun, while another 55 per cent believe this will happen next year. Only eight par cent believe that home sales will go down next year, compared with a whopping 64 par cent who were passimistic in 1990. The optimiste have climbed from eight per cent ini 1990 to 59 par cent this year. 'We are very encouraged by the survey results," says Ward Campbel], a Haniliton home buildr who is president of the OIHBA. Ho says the survey substantiates OHIBA's own forecast of a four par cent increase in Ontario housing starts in 1995 to 50,000, and for starta te romain in the 45,000 to 55,000 range for the next few years. Campbell says OntarioE Fnance Mfinister Floyd Laughren's forecast of a 12 par cent jump te 54,000 starts in 1995, folowdby a 25 par cent increase in 1996, with starts averaging 74,000 in 1996-1998, is somewhat optixistic. It would *ho nice to see those numbers, but I don't believe they are realistic,' says Camipbell. Hoewarn that even with OHBA!s more conservative forecast, there will betremùendous pressure on builders to increase prces. "Municipal levies, including education development charges, are increasing, lumber prices are rising and the coeta of other components in new homes are gong Up." Stephen Kassinger, president of the Oshawa-Durham Home Builders' Association, is similarly encouraged by the provincial survey resuits and anticipates increased new home sales in 1995. Campbell says the builders9 association and its memibers will ho getting a more detailed analysis of their economic future at the OH.BA' firet annual Economic Focus Ontario on Jan. 10, when a panel of experts will give their views. The Economie Focus will bo immediately followed by the two-day Ontario Bufider Forum where there will ho sessions for builders, ranging from futuristie construction methods and materials to preserving heritage buildings. Blow-Out raises $4,OOO for United Way Local home builders' firat annual 'Builders Blow-Out Yard Sale last month raised more than $4,000 for the United Way of Oshawa-VWtby-Clarington. Sale items consisted of doors, cabinets, windows, flxtures, flooring, sud other objecta that were overstocked, scratched or wrong colour-ordered objecta. Recause of overwhelming demand, builders are already planning a bigger sale next year. About $2.95 million has been raised for the United Way campaign. The goal is $3.25 million. Peggy Brown of the Mortgage Insurance Company of Canada (MICO) sud a United Way volunteer took the idea from blueprint to construction. She is chair of the builders sud developers section of the cama su ad parsuaded the Durham Home Builders Association te embrace the project. Stephen Kassinger, president of the Oshawa-Durham Home Builders' Association, was a p articipant in the event at the Kasinger Built Homes model in Highland Gardons. The K.assingers, along with co-spansors of Millwork, New Way Plumbing sud Parkwood llooring helpad raise $1,642, the biggest return of the day. Other participating builders included Melody, City, Woodland, Veltri sud Durham Homes. Massage for Santa DR. DAVID Macaskill gives Santa a massage before his Christmas sleigh-ride. Santa attended a Vule celebration at Macaskill's Whitby chiropractic clinlic. Photo by Jeremy Dresar, Whltby Free Pres ïï Have a joyful Clu L".1 ýMI Season. New Year9s Resolution...Financial Peace ofINde Call to set up your free meeting. Financial Serving Whitby and Oshawa Since 1986 GSic t DEREK DUTKA 579-7777 Group. 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