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PAGE 16, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 13, 1979, WIITBY FREE PRESS Students gain expe rience working at local hospital Fifty-eight students from the Whitby area will be employed this pummer at the Whitby Psychiatrie Hospital. Eighteen hîgh school and university students are en- rolled in the Experience '79 program whlch will give them an opportunity to work in a variety of departments of the hospital, while 40 students will be working in a task hase program, giving them experience in specific departments doing specific tasks. The task base students, from high school and univer- sity, will be working in the transportation, housekeep- ing, social work, nursing, and grounds and garden dep- artmnent, mainly to fMI in gaps created by regular staff going on vacation. Most of the students are local resiclents; althýough. there are some psychology students from York Univer- sity participating under an agreement on course train- ing. The majority of these stu- dents have worked for the hospital before, and there are five to 10 applications coming in for every pôsliiôin open, according-to hospitaT officials. The Experience i79 stud- ents are hired to wFζ in as many areas of the hospital as possible, working in the ger- iatric wards, workshops, canteen, physiotherapy, pub- lic relations, laundry. house- keeping, grounds and gard- en, volunteer department, recreation and nursing. They work with ail age groups on a varicty of wards. Each day of the week they are assigned to a different department, with variety stressed- to enable them to choose the careers they want when they graduate. Eight university students started May 22, five Grade 13 students start June 18 and five high school students start July 3. The university students are usually in .child care, social work, art therapy, music, and psychology cour- ses. The high school students are interested in mental heaith fields. Susan Sherwood, program co-ordinator held interviews a couple of months ago, for this program, which is in its fourth year. In past years the 'program has been very suc- cessful, she said, with some students going into nursing and the mental health field as a result. Joan Foote, of Whitby, one o.f the Experience 179 stu- dents, says she likes getting to see the hospital run as a whole and not just one part of it. She likes working in the sncial rehabilitation unit, feeding' and talking to the geriatric patients. She is in a social services course at Ryerson Polytechnical Institute. Another student, Brenda, Alain, aiso of Whitby, likes psychotherapy best, where she works in speech therapy and conduets exercises for older people. She is a child care student at St. Lawrence College in Kingston. Humane Society report The Council at its regular meeting received a report ,or the month of April from the Ontario Humain Society. 'In the report it states that there were 43 dogs impoun- ded and il dogs destroyed during the months of April. There were also 10 cats destroyed and il miscella- neous animais sheltered dur- ing the month. The Humain Society rep- orts that they answered two emergency after five p.m. calls. Pmne... beautiful & distinctive. ..an echo from the past - a heritage for the future., 11 uds tetCHEYNI~E' S Jim Cheyne prop. - 10 Dnda SteetEast, Whitby - 3 blocks south 'of Dundas 1 block east of Brock 10Oto 6 Monday to Thursday and Saturday @ Friday 10 (o9 # 668-5548A } Sept* <29 Experience '79 students Brenda Allain, and Joan Foote, join co-ordinator Susan*Sherwood (centre) in preparing Bingo cards for a recreation program at the Whitby Psyciatric Hospital. The students are two.'of 18 high school and university students who will be working in different parts of the'hospital this summer as part of a, government summer student employment., Office. building Plan deferre d Vince'lantomasi wants to tear- down a single family residence and put up a 4,266 sqare-foot building. The committee wanted a policy statement on whether an architector or the developer should, design the building. A proposai for a two-storey office building on Ash Street forth of Dundas Street has been delayed by the Admini- strative Committee of Coun- cil until a ruling is made on who should design the build- ing. DENTURE THERAPY, CLINIC 111 DIJNDAS STREET WEST WHITBY 668-1464 Whitby CommunityBng e Jaycee e Kiwanis* e Kinsmen $ràÉ * 0Optimists is King St. reunion The Council at its regular meetinig passed a. resolution declaring September 29, 1979 as a special day. The Council had received the request from G. Çoates, Principal of the King Street Public School, on the behaîf of the 125th Anniversary Committee of the School. They asked that "Satur- day, September 29, 1979 be declared a Special Day in recognition of 125 years of continuous education on the site of King Street Public School. Councillor Bob Attersley asked that a letter be sent to the School Board acknowled- ging the request for a Special Day in Sep tember. He also asked Mayor Jim Gartshore to declare the Septemnber date as a "Special Day". Mayor Gartshore replied, "lit 2 - JVV JACKPOTS !VERY MONDAY NIGHT Monday, June 18, 1979 FIRST ACKPOLic.50No. 23548 FECRSI JACKPOT AT 5 NUMBERS 7:15 pa.. No chuidren under 16 adifitted. NO ADMISSION CHARGE! HEYDENSHORE -PAVILlON (Corner Water St. & Dunlop Dr., Whitby) I I .e - "J SUPER HOT 1 mmmmm@ý ..00 Free Press Photo lice No.. 235481