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PAGE 14, WEDNESDAY, JINE 21,1978, WHITBY FREE PRESS. HENRY'S TIP-TOP DRIVERS Three students of Henry Street High School recently received plaques for the highest individual standing in the school's Driver Training Course. Standing with their plaques, left to right are: School principal Harry Thompson, Christine Wilson, BobSlobodian, Margaret Wilson, and Barb MacDuff of The Co-operators Insurance Association, who presented the plaques. Roger Brown, the course teacher, conducted three classes in driver training during the 1977-78 school term. Free Press Photo Fire losses decreased 61 per cent Whitby's fire losses decreased by 61 per cent in 1977, despite two large fires, Chief Ed Crouch said in his annual report to council. The chief's report states that fire losses in 1977 amounted to $242,230, a decrease of $377,390 over the 1976 total of $619,620. The two major fires of the year were the Whtiby Psychiatric Hospital barn and a maintenance shed at Stokely Van Camp. Fire fighters answered 578 alarms last year. Twelve fire fighters and eight members of the public injured, and there was one fire death attuibuted to care- less smoking. Alarms were up by 18 over 1976. The most fire calls were in 1974 but that year was the lowest for losses, the report said. Of 578 alarms in 1977 15 Invites YOU To Attend A FREE INFORMATION SESSION ON Government Assistance programmes IS THERE A FINANCIAL PROGRAMME OR SERVICE THAT COULD ASSIST YOUR BUSINESS? IT'S FREE ON JUNE 28TH, 1978 AT 7:00 P.M. AJAX PUBLIC LIBRARY RESERVE A PLACE CONTACT NOW were classified as check calls. Only seven false alarms were made, a reduct- ion from 22 in 1976. Firefighters discovered on home inspections in 1976 that only 347 homes were protect- ed by smoke detectors, which represents 13.5 për cent of Whitby houses. The fire department hade 2,574 inspections of homes last year, and could not get into 240 homes because it was inconvenient or occu- pants refused permission. Fire fighters found 2,174 people were not at home when the inspections were made. Recycling depots operating at Whitby and Oshawa sites In June 1976, two con- cerned people in the Oshawa area decided to do something aobut the enormous waste of tin, par ', and glass. They opened Oshawa's first RECYCLING DEPOT. They nared their organization S.T. ï.P. (Save The Environ- m( Please), and their depot ahs been in conti 'ious operation since that time. More than seventy citizens from the Oshawa-Whitby- Bowmanville area have volunteered to man it on Saturday mornings. hey are housewives, labourers, businessmen, teachers and students, and they are all appalled by the amount of waste produced in our society. The recycling depot operates from the south-east corner of the Oshawa Centre (near the Farmers' Market area) every Saturday morn- ini lrom 10am to 1 pm. None of the workers receives any money. T. Puckrin and Son have made it possible for it to operate by providing the bins, storing the materials, and transporting them to market. Each person in Canada discards an average of four pounds of garbage per day. Each year Canadians throw out five billion cans and three million bottles and jars. Seventeen treës are required to make one ton of paper and we thrown away millions of tons of paper. The Durham Region currently pays $7.30 per ton of waste taken to the landfill site. Every ton of paper, card- board, glass and tin collected for recycling is a saving of money, energy and resources. Your garbage can be reduced to half or better with a conscious effort to recycle. AR For Your Convenience New Evening Hours: Mon., Wed., Fri. 8 a.m. - 5 p.m Tues. and Thurs. 8 a.m -9 p.m. 815 KING ST. W. OSHAWA 576-1810 The depot accepts tin cans (clean, both ends removed, and flattened); pop cans (as is); bottles (clean, clear, green and brown, free of plastic and metal collars); newspapers, and magazines (tied in bundles)., Also, you have the opportunity to recycle glass and tin by taking these materials, properly pre- pared, to the Whitby Public Works yard on Taunton Rd. just east of Highway 12. There are 45-gallon drums there to accept glass and tin 24 hours a day. For further information about S.T.E.P. recycling depot, call Lynn Tomlinson or Cathy Reidt at 723-4322.$ Man flot allowed to build on flood plain lands May challenge ruling A Whitby businessman who was not allowed to build on floodplain land may challenge the provincial government over its recon- struction of Highway 401 in the same area. The Central Lake Ontario Conservation Authority earl- ier this year told J. Burce Davis, who owns a boating equipment company called Holiday World, that he could not build on floodplain near Pringle Creek in Port whitby. Now, Mr. Davis is considering challenging the Ontario Government in the Supreme Court for recon- structing Highway 401 through that same flood- plain. The provincial gov- ernment is exempt from the floodplain restrictions, he said, and he considers his legal rights are being abused because he as an individual is not exempt. Mr. Davis points out that he has been told the flood- plain restriction will be lifted after a culvert is installed under the CNR spur line. His solicitor has said that Mr. Davis is contemplating court action to stop con- struction on the highway, until the matter is resolved, and plans to obtain a writ forcing the town, Durham Region and the province to build the railway culvert. Already he has made his intentions known in letters to Ontario Premier William Davis, and the ministers of natural resources and trans- portation. "Sumr ier i thëtime tor hiking, s 'imnI ng and camp- ing and nt child should miss the opportunity to experi- ence the ihril of participat- ing in these at a summer camp. It is the philosophy of the Durham Region Family YMCA that no one should be denied access to any of its programs because of finan- cial limitations. Each year they receive a number of referals from Public Health Services and Social Service Departments to sponsor under priviledged amp ers children to our daycamps. The Camp Sponsorship fund has been set up as a result, to ask industries, clubs and individuals to offer their sup- port and send a child to camp who may not normally get there. Last year the Sponsorship Fund made the dream of camp a reality for fifty youngsters. Anyone interested in con- tributing to the Camp Spon- sorship Fund may call the Durham Region Family YMCA «*lt 668-686. Three Whitby men are arrested in drug raids during the past week Three Whitby residents were among 24 persons arrested and charged with drug offenses by the RCMP, Ontario Pro * icial Police and Durham ftegional Police last week. Charged with trafficking in and possession of cannabis resin is Brock Gregory Jordan, 23, of 909 Henry Street. Bradley James Arsenault, 19, of 101 Craydon Road, is charged with traf- ficking in PCP, and posses- sion of cannabis marijuana. Also charged with possession of marijuana is Brian Shannick, 21, of 101 Craydon Road. Ali are to appear in The arrests took place after six weeks of undercover work by the combined RCMP, OPP and Durham Regional police forces. Accrediting team visits The Whitby sychiatric Hospital is bh led for an accreditaton turvey in June. The survey is /carried out bymulti-disciplihary teams. The combindtion and numbers are determined by the Canadian Couneil on Hospital Accreditation executive staff,_depending nft 1~h Ki7p nA i _ ____ 'É- YMCA seeks sponsors for FIND OUT