Ontario Community Newspapers

Weston-York Times (1971), 26 Aug 1971, p. 2

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Leo Contracting Company Limited, Weston, has been awarded two contracts totalling $1,260,898.91 for the construction of a sanitary sewer in the South Peel Sewage System. This contract, awarded by the Ontario Water Resources Commission, calls for the construction of the north part of the Etobicoke Creek trunk sanitary sewer in The Weston Information and Referral Centre is located in the basement ( beside the Canadian Cancer 2â€"The 'mol'ork?-.-'l'hn‘hy. August 26, 1971 a 2 [Â¥ Cmm _ * i «hv€G ? 4. kssy ‘\ _ Th ~."> / i. ¢ » . ! . drA 3 / Mss ( Faten }"”»‘f*'. * \ 2 yA / ® ‘s "\\‘( y Â¥ yoarr" Ouk / nc CA The term Cool doesn‘t mean temperature but refers to people caring for people. Nothing could be cooler than being able to help people with some very simple questions to others more difficult to answer. by Alex Hunt Publicity Chairman WIRC â€" Weston Inforâ€" mation and Referral Centre â€" or â€" Where It‘s Really Cool! How do you negotiate a 12 by 3 foot cheque? Not without a little help from Royal Bank tellers Yvone Summers (foreâ€" ground) and Danielle Henault. That‘s what John P. MacBeth, a national director of the Canadian Cancer Society discovered in Toronto recently when he deposited a $52,623.53 contribution to the Society‘s account. The cheque, given by the Canadian Foresters Life Insurance Society, is one of the ~_ reesrer 0_ 1. "2/‘ _4 Daily Metro Delivery % 1 MARTIN‘S FINER FLOWER sERvicEPY" Mrs. . J. Wright, an Etobicoke mother of five, answers this question with a firm "no." Mrs. Wright and her husband now own their own home, but for several years, when the going was rougher, The question remains on word "project‘" a stigma," how successful Ontario she declared. Housing Corporation "This stigma will never apartments are. Granted change," said Mrs. Wright, they answer an acute need ‘"People lose all their pride for low rental accomodation, applying for help and being but do they provide an imâ€" placed in O.H.C. projects. provement in environmental Once the pride has gone, the living? incentive to improve goes Mrs. . J. Wright. an with it." By Dawne Moss they lived in an Ontario Bob Adams, an Inforâ€" Housing project. mation Services Officer for _ She resents the stigma the Ontario Housing Corâ€" attached to residents of the poration, explained last O.H.C. week that the Ontario "We lived in a project for Housing Corporation is years," she explained, starting a pilot program in ‘"Three of my five children conjunction with the federal were born there. Now that and provincial governments. my husband runs his own Under this new program, business, we have our own O.H.C. rents a certain home. But these changes percentage of suites from the haven‘t made us any difâ€" apartment building owners ferent. We are still the same for low rental families. The people we were when we names and suite numbers of lived in the housing project." the tenants under the rent "It‘s the snobbish attitudes supplement program are not of people that make it a disclosed. crime to be poor and the Anniversary Roses 1 doz. long stem ‘‘Forever Yours" Roses $12 Free Cymbidium Orchid Corsage with each order Contract to Weston firm New OHC policy causes new hope The successful story of WIRC ROMANELL! CONSTRUCTION CO. LTD <emowntowarve 166â€"2071 WETâ€"DAMPâ€"LEAKY c\ BASEMENTS Financed _ under _ the provincial plan the project is expected to be completed by July, 1972. ‘"No matter how beautiful the apartment building is to begin with, once the families move in, it‘s only a matter of a very short time before the building becomes run down because these people are The work consists of a sewer being built from Dundas Street where it connects to the metro trunk, northerly to Steeles Avenue and westerly from Derry Road to the Bramptonâ€" Chinguacousy sewage treatment plant. We have over one hundred trained volunteers and three temporary and very active volunteer coâ€"ordinators. The staff works on a rotating Society Office) in the Borough of York Building, 2000 Weston Road. Our telephone number is a simple one to remember, 244â€"2000 and if you can‘t get through on that one you can call 244â€"2020. Our hours of operation are as follows: Monday to Saturday: 9.30 am â€"3.30 pm; Wednesday to Friday: 7.30 pm â€" 9.30 pm. Expanding files "It‘s the snobbish attitudes of people that make it a crime to be poor and the word "project‘" a stigma," she declared. southern Peel county We lived in a project for years," she explained, ‘‘Three of my five children were born there. Now that my husband runs his own business, we have our own home. But these changes haven‘t made us any difâ€" ferent. We are still the same people we were when we lived in the housing project." mADE DAY PERMANENTLY It‘s too early to determine the social implications of the program. O.H.C. residents however, seem to think that this could be the one method that might work. "I fully support a program allowing low rental families into private buildings," said Mrs.: Wright, "Let‘s give these people a chance to merge into the community instead of living in what soon become ghettos." trying to live â€" not to imâ€" prove." ‘‘People resent our moving into private apartments because our children might teach their children bad habits," said another mother and O.H.C. tenant, ‘"Why don‘t these people stop and think that the same reasoning might work in reverse?" However, under the new pilot project Ontario Housing authorities have obtained 500 suites for rent supplement program in Toronto and another 600 in other parts of the province. ‘"Children learn what they are taught from the time they are born," said a young mother of three, "It‘s very difficult to teach my children one set of rules when they constantly see other children breaking the very same rules." The majority of project residents are grateful for a place to live. Statements such as ‘Thank God for O.H.C.‘ and ‘We would be out on the street if it weren‘t for O.H.C.‘ are plentiful. But as the talk turns to the subject of residents‘ children, hidden fears are revealed. > largest single donations ever received by the Cancer Society. Physically, it‘s also the largest cheque that the Royal‘s main Toronto branch has ever been asked to handle. The two resourceful tellers produced a paintbrush for Mr. MacBeth to make the endorsement when an ordinary pen and ink signature "just disappeared into the background". Our information â€" and resource files are rapidly expanding, because they are being continually updated to ensure the information and referrals we make are from the latest facts. Our cardex file system begins at C â€" Churches â€" and extends down through many drawers to V â€" Vacations. basis doing an average of two hours at the Centre, every two weeks. No question is too trivial for our staff to answer. It makes us happy to think that we can be of help in some way. 782â€"5110 782â€"9032 CLIVE L. MUSSELL _ BRIAN BRIDGES Members of DENTURIST SOCIETY OF ONTARIO DENTURE CLINIC York‘s foremost (at Caledonia ) Our enquiries come in a variety of topics: Comâ€" merce, Recreation, Government, Family and Personal, Legal, Health and Medicine, _ Employment, We are continuing with inâ€" service training sessions every month for our regular volunteers and new volunâ€" teers. If you feel you would like to become a volunteer, give the Centre a call and leave your name and telephone number with one of our volunteers and one of our coâ€"ordinators will be in touch with you soon. You will be given an inâ€"service training programme, and before you realise it, you will be part of the action where people care for people. We have set 18 years of age as the minimum age for anâ€" swering the telephone at the Centre. We have a few of our staff below this age who are very active at the centre, involved in other phases of our operation. Some of the Problems Since the creation of WIRC we have had four volunteer training courses, each course was comprised of four, two hour sessions. The content of each course consisted of an excellent film describing similar centres, general referral principles and ethics, office procedure, role playing and discussions with various social agency personnel. We are indeed indebted to the various social agencies for the time and help they have given to us the past few months, and for their continual help and guidance as we build our information and data files. We are presently, temâ€" porarily financed by the Borough, the Rotoary Club of Weston, and local churches. We are extremely grateful to our financial supporters and without their help, we would not be where we are today. Later in the year we will be havingo a fund raising campaign if we are to keep this selfâ€"supporting centre open in 1972. We hope that you will support whatever project we feel necessary to build our funds up for Centre work. Volunteers The Centre is adâ€" ministered by a twelve man Board. These twelve people are ministers, doctors, engineers, social workers, business men and housewives from the comâ€" munity. fie Board was elected atka‘ public meeting last Spring. Even though weather conditions were the worst possible, some 387 Canadians in the Boy Scout movement â€" including 17 boys and three leaders from the greater Toronto area â€" managed to bring home memories other than the typhoon which hit their campsite. Alan D. Hartrick, of the Borough of York, one of the leaders makin%vthe journey to the 13th World Scout Jamboree at Japan, reports that the rains were unâ€" believable. ‘"We had 19 inches of rain in one 24 hour period, winds roaring conâ€" stantly at about 60 â€" 65 miles per hour and, at one point, there was a three foot deep pool of water in the centre of our sub camp. We had to evacuate the campsite," he continued, ‘"and move into army barracks, schools and any large buildings. But the rains didn‘t seem to dampen the spirit of the 23,707 boys attending the jamboree from all over the globe. Nor the Japanese people who turned out in droves to visit the campsites To show that we haven‘t been slacking since Mayor White opened the Centre on May 3, 1971, here are a few statistics about us: From May 3, until July 30, we have had 563 enquiries, 351 of these were by telephone calls and 212 were people dropping into the Centre. Sometimes the caller or visitor had more than one question, so you can see how our information files could expand with all this activity. Our furthest call has come from London, Ontario. We get a great many people who leave Highway 401 at the Weston Road Interchange who get lost and come into the Centre for directions. Community Spirit So, if you‘re in the neighâ€" bourhood, why not drop in just to see how we operate, meet some of our friendly volunteer staff and if you stay long enough they will probably make you a cup of coffee, courtesy of WIRC. If you prefer, give us a call, we don‘t want to know your name unless you wish to give it. The only thing you have to remember is our telephone number and most of all â€" WE CARE. The Centre has already created _ a _ spirit _ of togetherness, it has brought the local churches and social agencies closer together. The people working at the Centre are gaining new friends by working together and making Weston and its surrounding area a better place to live. By doing this ‘"bringing together" we are achieving the goal we set out to do. We, the workers at the Centre feel that there is a need for the Centre in our Community and I‘m sure the people who have been aided by the Centre feel it serves a useful purpose. Property and Tenancy, Directions and many more that fall into categories of their own. Just a few weeks ago we got a call from a lady whose snake had a bleeding nose and wanted to know what to do or who to go to. Unfortunately the girl on staff that day was not completely familiar with a situation of this type and referred her to a local veterinarian. We have had many other people call up just to say that they are glad we were there just to be able to talk to someone. CAMPERS 889 â€"1145 NOTICE ‘CuperiO® for the convenience.of MOBILE HOMES and owners of all 3 PROPANE LTD 2470 KEELE 8T. N Rains, winds, dampen _â€"__ Japanese trip > This was only 31 more fires than during the same period last year but considerably higher than the 10â€"year average of 1,798. Total forest area affected in July was 1,190,000 acres, more than double the 10â€"year average of 587,000 acres. The jamboree was from August 2â€"10 and most of the Scouts began arriving on the first and left on the 11th. The typhoon roared through the site for three of those days disrupting a g« many of the events during «. . after its appearance. But many of the scouters have expressed a desire to reâ€"visit the country at a later date and, perhaps, during their spring or fall season to avoid the typhoons. The Wednesday Senior Citizens Club of the Borough of York will start their fall The total number of forest fires in Canada this year to July 31 was 6,938 over a total area of 2,246,000 acres. ‘‘The busses were great," he continued. They‘re all air conditioned and staffed by attractive young girls who sing and entertain all along the way. The girls are called crickets," he told us. "They get this name because of a system of whistles the girls use to instruct their drivers on backing and turning in Japan‘s small and narrow streets. Each girl has a different tone to her whistle and they really sound like crickets when a bunch of them are all telling the drivers to back up, turn left, right, go ahead or stop with various tweets and toots." "Of particular interest was the big, modern busses. We didn‘t manage to get a trip on one of the famous trains of Japan but we did ride a subway â€" but not during their rush hours. The Canadian Forestry Service recorded 2,489 forest fires across Canada during the month of July. The rains did manage to cancel some of the projects including a climb up Mount Fuji. "But we did manage to tour one of the auto factories and a shrine," said Mr. Hartrick. and exchange gifts and trinkets with their visitors. "At least 1,000 Japanese people visited us every day â€" including the days it rained," said Mr. Hartrick. ‘"And almost everyone had business cards to give away, even the very young. They were beautifully printed and thermoâ€"engraved _ with English on one side and Japanese the reverse." Mr. Hartrick appeared to Forest fires up Senior citizens plans for fall There will be a church service at 8 p.m. Sunday, October 24 at the Salvation Army _ Temple (Mount Dennis). The color tour will be to Young‘s Point with a twoâ€" andâ€"aâ€"half hour boat ride then dinner at the United Church around 5 p.m. On Tuesday, October 24 the bus will leave from the door of the church at 9 a.m. season meetings on Sepâ€" tember 1. The meeting will be held at 1:30 p.m. at the lower hall of Central United Church, Weston (Weston Road entrance) and every Wednesday thereafter. Business meetings will take place the last meeting of each month. Metro Chairman Albert Campbell is annoyed about the recent announcement of the federal government that $250,000,000 will be spent to clean up the Great Lakes pollution. ) The chairman told metro executive committee last week that the federal government was spending the money of Metro and other municipalities. It seems the expenditure will come in the form of federal loans that must be paid back by the municipalities. "If the federal government is going to make agreements with other _ countries _ about spending our money the least they could do is invite us to any international meeting," Mr. Campbell said. steak was priced at seven or eight dollars. A good many Canadians on the journey took advantage of the local prices for cameras and watches, about a third of what they cost here. The boys and their leaders flew all the way to Japan but changed the pattern coming home. They flew from Japan to Vancouver and boarded a train east from there so that they could see a part of their own country as well during the journey. Pollution bill be impressed with the Japanese people in the use of every available piece of land for agriculture. "Plots are terraced out of various levels of hills and mountains," he explained, ‘"and farmers grow some sort of crop everywhere.‘‘ Mostly tea and Manderin oranges, he expected. Mr. Hartrick didn‘t find prices too high during his trip except for meats â€" Any Excepted Repairs $11.95 Covers â€" Labor â€" Pickups â€" Delivery :{JT:T:‘:f:':‘:':7:2:737:?:7:?:'.:T:f:?:':f:?:‘:‘:f:?:?:':f:'_:f:f:f:'Zf:':'Z'Z::t:::flji-:-:-:g:g:-:-:-;-;.;.:.:.:.:.:.:_& Students who have recently moved into the Borough of North York and who were not in attendance at a North York Elementary, Junior High or Senior Secondary School last June, are asked to register at the designated school in their attendance area August 30 to September 3, inclusive, from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Information regarding school attendance areas may be obtained from the North York Education Administration Centre, Student Services Department, D.L. Tough M.A. Lynn Trainor, B.A., M.A., Ph.D. Director of Education Chairman NORTHTOWN TOOLS LTD. BUY 500 36 GRIT NORTON METALIDE, ALUMINIUM OXIDE OPEN KOTE FIBRE DISCS AT $34.-00 PER 100 Keeps water in the tub not on the Floor 151 MILVAN DRIVE WESTON â€" 749â€"3522 Anp cEt a FREE SALESâ€"SERVICEâ€"RENTALS DEALER ENQUIRIES INVITED THE BOARD OF EDUCATION FOR THE BOROUGH OF NORTH YORK Registration Notice to Elementary School Junior High School and Senior Secondary School Students un

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