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Pag e >2. Whltby Free Pros, Wednecay, March 22, 1995 900 trees to be Planted at Poin t Earth Day will see 900 trees planted at Thickson's Point. On Saturday, April 22, the. trees wil be planted starting at 9 a.m. Town staff estimate approxmately 600 te 1,000 per- sons will show up to take part in the ceremony. Regional councillor Gerry Emm has been mnvoived with previous tree plantigs as the president of the Boy Scouts 9t semsslow when you fir-st start utting those things i, " he said .r.ng the Town operations commttee meeting Monda y evening. qIts a satis1fing thing» te sSe previous saplings qrow te a reasonable height, he sid. A gat of $10,640 has been p rovifZdby the. Tree Plan Canada orizanization for the trees. TIi. Town i. kicking in $1,400 for signs washrooms and overtime costa 1!or the.afternoon event. On site will be a display on native wildlife as well as tele- scopes te view local animaIs. These will beprovided by the Thickson's WoodGroup. Residents are advised te park on the south end of the Whitby Mail where a bus will shuttie passengers back and forth. ANNE KWAMIE (Ieft) shows an obviously impressed Karen Clarkçe a handmade craft, representing intimacy, exhibited at the Ghanadian International Society's imagin- ary flight to Ghana, held over March break in Whitby. There was also Ghanaian art, fashion, food, music, games and orna- ments. Photo by M"r Reesor, WhItby Free Press MF.'. Polonsky to make pi*tch for Durham unîversity centre By John Dujay Gary ,Polonsky has a dreain, andit ncudes, a future where I~~~mA m"~ I W W W W- WmW technolo~ has a big role in PRECIOUS PL ATES 'N THING ~A~III~J475 Westney Rd. N. 701 Rossland Rd. E. Ajax 686-7185 Whitby 668-1164 FRAME SALE PlateFrames A " Plate Rails " Doil Cases *Display Cases MARCH 25 -m APRIL 18 Dealer Member of the Bradford Exchange For blanket coverage of ALL the homes and/or Tg businesses in Whitby OR to selected areas only, cali the ci Whitby Free Press -668-6111. (S If you did flot get a flyer which is isted for full distribution, give us a cail. ât~ ~é "Home Is Where the Heart Is" 1 st ifl Sandra Kuck's Mother's Day Collection $ 45 $44.50 lhitby Urgent Care aII homes) )undas Centre/ ringle Creek xuardian Drugs ;elected homes) elehop ommunications seIected homes) teaching. As *rsdent of Durham Col- loge, Polnsky will be taking a proposaI of lus dream - a Dur- hamnUniversity Centre -- te the Ministry of Education this month. There will be a public informna- tion meetn about the proposed centre on March 29 7 p.m at the. Canadian Aute o Vrkershal at 1425 Phllip Murray Ave., Osh- awa. The. centre -- which would not be a new, chartered university, nor a conversion of the colle te a univorsity (Ontario can't aMord it, says Polonsky) -- would b. built on the site of the. existing collae campus in Oshawa, and would be operated i tandem with the collego system. At firet, it would employ the. co'lleesinrsrutrsuchsa admisson an residences, at an initiai estimated cost of about $2.8 million. Polonsky saya. this may seoni like a lot, b ut it is only a fraction of the. coat of a new university if it were built from the ground up. «W. don't have te spend big bue developing a bachlor of arts program. It'.afready there," he says. Other regions in the. country, such as Winnipeg and Saska- toon, have universities. And so should Durham Region, sas Polonsky, notig Durham will b on. of the. largoat regions in the curyby the yoar 2000. Aready there is a consortium of four institutions (Trent York, Ryerson and Durhami dollege) workirng on the. proposai. Last year, the province perovideda grant of $1R0000 te deveiop the proposai. 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The universities wili be able to help out the new centre by pro- viding ready-made prograrns to be put mnto place immediateiy. Polonsky says that if the provin- cial government approves the centre soon, they can have 30 to 50 students in a bachelor of arts or other similar program by Sep- tember 1995. Polonsky envisons a high-tech campus that stretches through- out the region. It would be linked on a computerized network. «Nowhere yet has someone built the educationai equivalent ofsy an auto plant" says Pàolonkynong the high-tech atmosphere will make the centre a' t kgetiarning place." He told a story of a recent demonstration held at the iBM centre in North Carolina. Poionsky says video imaging on a laptop computer was used to show Paris, France residents speaking. At thi touch of a button, the motion was slowed down, and split teit was added to the soeeen. "Ifs. a far more effective way of iearning conversationai French than when I-learned 35 years ago." A quick decision is needed, says Èýon. y. «W. are firet off the mark and it'. ours te lose." If it isn't done he Bays that Ontario's «paraâlisen wili b. further eroded. "W. can kiss our collective well' being goodbye." Without a new high. tâch learning centre, the province will be left behind in the rush te the future. Polonsky says there is a 50/50 chance of success, whereas two or three years ago, the chances were zero. ROTARY CAH CALBIAR$ Prizei4umberstrAacil 0552022 2580 2246 0064 1347 0176 ............ ................. ............ ............ BONUS ................. .. ............ ..................... ........ ...................... .......... . - -