Page 8. Whitby Free Press, Wednesday, November 15, 1995 3 more units. uniderway at Inivar site Permits were issued by the Town of WWhy last month for three more units ini the Invar project neit te Home Depot in .outh Whitby. Sears Whole Home ($350,000 constrution cost), Future Shop ($310,000) and Mlchael's ($500000) are being built, joining Office Place and Sports Authority for which permits were îssued in September. Another commercial permit was issued for the $200,000 relocation of the Investoi Group office te 1614 Dundas St. E. *Construction of the new Durham Board of Education elementary school beside Anderson CVI also helped boost buildingactivity in Wbitby last month. The as yet unnamed school will cost .$5.3 million. Meanwhile, construction of the new gym at Traala Castle School will coat $1 Pmillion. Residential construction, mostly for 14 uingle faznily homes, accounts for anothor $2.6 million. Permits were issued last month for a total of $9.5-million worth of construction, bil*i this year's total to more thaFn $94 million, almost 25 per cent legs tlan for the same period last year. GUILD ESTABLISHED Stonemasonry training to be offlered EJDURHAM SERVICE TE IJ TM Communications $9.99 + tax IELEHUOP (Whitby) Ic wi 153 Brock St. N., (Whitby Lanes) Whitby 430-8031,or 430-8121 A stonemasonry training facility - the only one of its kcind in North America - will open in Whitby neit week. Established by Whitby stoemaonBobbyr Watt, the Guild ]Royal Bank- economist at symposium The chief economist for the Royal Bank of Canada will be one of the speakers at an economic development symposium tomorrow (Thursday), 7 te 9 p.m., at the Durham- Board of Education headquarters building in Whitby; John McCallum will present an econonic outlook for Canada and the impact on Durham Region. Futurit Peter Farrow will discus'Adapting to a New World of Work in the Year 2000.' The symposium lias been orgaized by the Durham Region Economic Development Advisory Comxittee. Space is limited. Call Karen at 723-0023. Education to be discussed T7he Durham Business and Professional Women's Club wil meet on Wednesday, Nov. 22, 6 p.m., at Cullen Gardens in Whitby. Dianne Dalton, director of education for the Victorian County' Board of Education, .will discuse changing trends in education. For dinner reservations cal Laura Nigro at- 416-752-2881 (business> or 905-839-1466 (home). Insitute of Stone and Restoration Masonry is at 108 Industrial Dr. SThe guild will train people to build ini stone and, to maintain existing masonry structures. The guild will offer instruction not only- in masonry techniques, but in the history of architecture and building technology, building mathematics, business and The . Durham College Productivity Improvement. Centre will establish a location in Dallas, Texas. The .Productivlty Improvement Centre, with the head office at the Durham College Skills Training Centre in Wbitby, b as. been providing consulting and traiuing services tu a wide variety of organizations in the United States and Canada. Services offered in the Dallas Productivity Imùprovement Centre will be public seminars, in-house traininglconsulting, networks and material sales. There are more than, four million people in the Dallas/Fort Worth area, sud 175,000 businesse, making the area one of the fasteast growing in America. Atlanta sud Philadelphia were also considered as possible locations for the new Productivity Improvement' Centre, but after studying the demographics, Dallas was made the choice. "It'9 an enormous opportunity, for us," said Jatcqui Sharpe, marketing manager of the Productivity Improvement Centre. philosophic-al . issues in conservation theory. Canada lias more than 200,000 historic'buildings needing work, but, only 150 qualified stopiemasons., An open house te mark the opening will be held on Friday, Nov. 24, at il a.m. 'There la nominal competition in our particular field. Alan Thzfly, diretor cf the productivity Improvement Centre in Whitby, says the start-up coot will be $20,000 for office leasing, computer purchasng and Étaff hiring, and the Dallas centre should generate approximately *250,000 by 1998. Flaheryat CAPIC meeting The Canadian Association for Production sud Inventory Control Durham Region chapter will hold a dinner meeing on Tuesday, Nov.' 21, at Earl of Durham, 227 Brock S9t. S., Whitby. JIm Flaherty, MPP will speak on 'Economic sud Industrial Development in Durham Region.' Cash bar 6 te 7 p.m., dirmner at 7 p.m. Presentations at 8 p.m. Cost is $20 (including GST). To register, caîl Pauline Bailey at (905) 721-3320. s. £ Intel 75MHz 4rocessor CDIffXC»- 590 Intel 90MHzprocessor CD1FX95- 5100 Intel 100OMHz processoi e .. 78 emn Durham'Coliadee establishes pductivity centre in Dallas