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\ al THE OSHAWA TIMES, Thursdey, September 26, 1967 GRADE 1 READINESS CLASS PUPILS WITH TEACHER «-. Crippled Children's School, Treatment Centre CAMPAIGN ASSISTS 20 AGENCIES Community Chest Is Caring -- We Must Care "Community Chest is caring-- we must care' is the slogan used by the Greater Oshawa Community Chest as it kicks off its drive for $358,875 to as- sist the 20 public agencies sup- ported by it. "If we do not care there will be no community chest and if we do not care there may not be any com- munity," says the chest fact sheet. The goal may seem large from an individual viewpoint but when one considers that 20 agencies providing assistance to thousands in the community receive financial help from the fund, it can be seen that it is in reality stretched quite a bit to do what is asked. Some people feel that welfare should be the exclusive task of the government and thus be paid for with taxes but Com- munity Chest workers point out that this would require the payment of the hundreds of vol- unteer workers who now do- nate their time and thus the estimated cost would, be four times the amount being asked by the Community Chest. Donations to the Community Chest are deductible for in- come tax purposes. Some people argue that they contribute to other campaigns and other charity organizations and wonder why they should help the Community Chest. The Chest reply is that this is one and only annual oppor- tunity to help 20 organizations who do not have individual campaigns and is far more ec- onomical because the adminis- trative costs are cut to a min- imum with only one organiza- tion doing the collecting. More money and larger con- tributions are required because of the increasing costs, greater population, and additional fa- cilities of the expanding or- ganizations. A Chest budget committee, comprised of reput- able businessmen, screen the spending of every cent-and a public auditing firm checks the spending. Administrative costs of Osh- awa"s community chest are among the lowest in the country with only 5% cents on the dol- lar going into this aspect of the Chest. The directors of the Comm- unity Chest are not paid. They give of their time voluntarily and pay for incidental expen- ses as their way of making a financial contribution to the Chest. If people were not willing to support a Community Chest there would either be 20 dif- ferent organizations running costly and annoying campaigns for funds or the agencies would be deprived of funds and crip- pled children, retarded children, and other unfortunates would be left on their own. The fact is that most of the money collected by the Chest goes to develop the children of the community and make them healthier, stronger and better citizens. BLIND INSTITUTE The Oshawa Institute of the Blind is an agency of the Com- munity Chest. There 56 regis- tered blind in Oshawa and the Institute requires funds to help it provide' them with reading matter, other braille equip- ment, and recreational opportu- nities. CHRISTMAS CHEER The Community Chest works hand in hand with the organ- ization known as Help for the Needy at Christmas. In 1966 this group with the help of the Chest and the Oshawa Welfare Department distributed 580 ham- pers of food and toys at Christ- mas. MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS The dreaded killer disease multiple sclerosis is being fought by the local Multiple Sclerosis Society which is a member of the Community Chest. There is no known cure for the disease which is usually diagnosed between the ages of 20 and 40. The funds received NAVY CADETS LAUNCH BOAT ... Citizenship Stressed OFFICIAL 1967 TARGET $358,875 by the society help it in re- search aimed at finding a cure. The Society also works to make the lives of those affected by the disease as normal as possi- ble. JOHN HOWARD The Oshawa branch of the John Howard Society provides counselling and advice for pris- oners before and after release from prison, The local branch of the so- ciety helped 27 men in Oshawa during 1966. Their efforts at re- habilitation are definitely val- uable to society as they are helping to put many men back on the right track and in ad- dition their counselling and guidance saves the taxpayer the thousands of dollars which are required to guard and care for misguided unreformed pris- oners, The society estimates that on the average it costs the tax- payers the astounding sum of $50,000 for the arrest, trial, and imprisonment of each offender. REHABILITATION One name which was once widely known but which has disappeared is the March of Dimes. Since the development of the Salk vaccine which has virtually ended the polio threat, the group has changed its name to the Rehabilitation Foundation for the Disabled and has chang- ed its function to one of re- habilitating the disabled. This foundation starts in where the Society of Crippled Children leaves off. It serves a valuable function in providing assist- ance to the forgotten people. These are the disabled persons over 19 who cannot be helped by the Workmen's Compensa- tion Board or other government agencies. VON CARE Another member of the Com- munity Chest organization is the Victorian Order of Nurses better known as the VON. These nurses provide professional nursing care to those who don't require or can't be placed in a hospital. The home nursing is provided regardless of race or financial circumstances. The VON made over 6,000 visits to Oshawa and district homes in 1966. The ma- jority of visits are being made to people with chronic. condi- tions. They are largely the el- derly. Thirty-six people have been receiving regular VON aid for the past year and some for the past five years, EAST WHITBY The East Whitby Welfare Council is another agency re- ceiving assistance from the Chest. Most of the residents of the township work in Oshawa. The council provides emergency needs to its township residents whether the cause is fire, sick- ness, inability to work, or what- ever the cause. WHITE CROSS The White Cross Centre on Simcoe Street South, opened in 1962 plays an important role in the program of the Oshawa Mental Health scheme. The pro- gram of the centre is designed to assist those who no longer require hospital treatment for their mental illness but have no place to go upon release from hospital. SIMCOE HALL Simcoe Hall Settlement House at 387 Simcoe St. S., is the last but surely not the least interest- ing of the agencies holding open house programs, It. was estab- lished by the Women's Welfare League in 1934, and has since then provided social welfare services and programs for chil- dren from the' pre-school tod- diers to the high school set. As a neighborhood service an out- door play school is conducted by the settlement house from Mon- day to Friday during the sum- mer. Another important group in- volved at the settlement house is the Golden Age Club. The club, formed in 1949, gives Osh- awa senior citizens an oppor tunity to assist this club, ' {