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Whitby Free Press, 23 Dec 1980, p. 12

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PAGI' 12, TUESDAY, DECEMBISR 23, 1980, VIllTI3YF Is Your Life Going Nowhere? Are You Worried? Are You Havlng Bad Luck? Mhy -- There inHeIp. Start Being a Star AUIGN YOUR SELF WITH YOUR INNER POWERS. 1. Start Looking Better 2. Start Thinking Better 3. Start Dressing Better 4. Start Doing Better 5. Start Improuing Your Pay Check Astrologlcal ReedingeCmi RunUp Tu $200.00 and Order yorw Astro.iMiel Rhg. $13.96, Now ouly 87.96. SpediLlmlted Urneoniy. Send ck. or MO. for $7.96 tax, postage, bandllng included to ASTRO-WHEEL 6331 Hollywood SIvd. Suite 924 HllIywood, CA 90028 NAME ADDRESS ____________ CITY ________ZIP______ Roche voices disappro val Board question sehool fund-raiser Trustees of the Durham Region Roman Catholic Separate Sehool board voiced dissaproval of inter- natl and external fund raising ventures in their schools at last week's regular meeting. Whitb)y Trustee Chuck Roche raised the topie saying he disapproved of the Ontario Humane Society using students at St. Christopher's sehool to raise $60 for the society. Superintendant Ron Ste. Marie told inquiring trustees that the principal of the school had not acquired board permission to hold the fund raiser (a board policy in fund-raising) but that he did not think it contravened the policy. Education director Dr. Earl L.egroix said that many principals allowed such charities to raise funds through students because they did flot feel it went against current policy. He called the pohicy amn- biguous and hard to under- stand. It is schedulted for review to be headed by Legroix.* Trustee Joe Cory (Ostlawa) said that he is concerned with the peer pressure put on students to seil chocolate bars or can- dies for such fund-raising projects. Another representative, Oshawa, Ivan Wallace said more schools raîse money for general purposes in the sehool and that people in the neighbourhood are "pum- melled" for donations, When people are told that the school doesn't have enough funds s0 it's students are trying to raise money, the public relations of the board suifer, he said. Larry O'Leary said that constant fund-raising drives place a financial drain on farnilies and are too frequent. Board chairmnan Jim Brady said that fund-raising would be a top priority in a review. Board hires new inspector The Durham Regional Board of Health will start keeping a dloser watch on weekend activities such as fairs , summer camps, swimming pools and flea markets. To do this, the board will hire an addîtional public health inspector bringing the health unit's com- plement to 16. "We need someone to work the weekends, " the director of environmental health services, Dr. Ted Watt said. "We don't have enough staff and we have to pay out too much over- time. " Watt also said that he hoped the union involved understood the problem and would allow the new inspec- tor to work on weekends. "The way it stands now is that something could go wrong on a weekend but by the time we get there Mon- day, everythings is just beautiful," he told the board at its meeting last week. Watt said that the inspec- tor should be allowed "flexible" working hours to cover the region. The salary of the new in- spector will be $23,700 a Year. Watt said that the unit did not have enough staff mem- bers to check ail the vendors at the Sheridan Mail, Pickering flea market Iast summer. Earlier this year several children contracted a disease that was suspected of originating from applie cider being sold at the market. The exact cause of the disease, however, has yet to be determined. Sewer lobby Centre Ward councillor Barry Evans wants Whit- by's two regional councillors to lobby the region to make sure that sewers planned for Port Whitby are flot eut from the regional budget. A Port spokesman said lie had obtained information Iast week that the long awaited sewers would be postponed because of the regions tight financial situation. Regional councillor Gerry Emm denied these reports saying that there is "no reason why services for Por. th Whitby should be delayed." Evans asked Emm and Tom Edwards to "not only actively pursue it, but go back to the region and lobby to make sure it is not cut out. " Residents of Port Whitby say they need the sewer hookup, promised for 1982, to allow the area the same level of growth and services as the rest of Whitby. If the sewers are not brouglit in, a special study on the future of the Port could not be implemented.

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