I]Rotary Club needs wheelchairs _By MARION iRWIN Once again Whitby Rotarians are helping with another World Community Service Project. This time it's not a $320,000 program to provide leg braces for children crippled from i polio. Instead two local Rotarians, Joe South- weli and Bill Iriwn, are J looking for welhis Initially they would like to secure twelve. When these two men were in Morocco last February accom- panying the first ship- ment of ieg braces from Rotarians here, they visited the Rotary Club of Meknes. The president of that club made them aware of the urgent, need that their local hospital had for wheelchairs. Consequently, Whitby Rotarians Southwell and Irwin are looking for donations of wheelchairs from in- dividuals or groups. The chairs can be new or used and either Rotarian will be happy U to pick up any such donations. As with the polio, braces, the wheelchairs will be transported free of charge by the Canadian Armed Forces on one of their training flights, early in January of 1985. .The project is actually being undertaken on a district basis. The Whit- by Rotary Club is part ofa what is known as District 707 which com- prises the region from T Belleville to Guelph and north to the Alliston a: Pain Holley (centre) is seen here getting a big kiss from Joe Soutbwell and Bill Irwîn. of the Whitby Rotary Club after she donated ber wheelchair to the club's drive to find such devises for its sister club in Morrocco.1 Holley, 16, who suffers from spina bifida bas outgrown the chair and needs a new one. So, instead of tbrowing it away she gave it to the club which bopes to find il more before Cbristmas. area. In ail tiiere are 66 clubs in the district in- cluding some 30 in the T'oronto area. In the district setup, are several committees, Speaking to You By SCOTT FENNELL (PC- Ontario) Fiora MacDonald, the Minister of Employment and Immigration, recently announced that begin- ning early in the new year ail Canada Employment Centres will offer enhanced services to small business. The changes are part of a major reorien- tation to be implemýented over the next two years in empioyment services provided by Canada Em- pioyment Centres.4 These particular changes are being acceierated because of the priority which the P.C. Government attaches to smali business. We have known for quite some time that the smaii business sector has been the major source of job creation over the past few years. Now, the Canadian Federation of Independent Business has estimated that as many as 170,000 are currently unfiiled in the smail business'sector. Their problemi is that small businesses often have great difficulty in getting the workers they need. They do flot have elaborate per- sonnel ctepartments to search for and to sereen workers. When the new arrangements are in place in Canada Employment Centres, smali business wiii have a designated officiai as a contact point, a streamlined placing of job orders, more intensive screening of workers and a 24-hour foilow-up on al referrals. MacDonald has noted that arrangements will vary somewhat from place to place according to the nature of the local labour market, and each Canada Ernpioyment Centre manager wii be consulting with smail business over the next few weeks to put ini place the most appropriate local arrangements. There will fot be a rigid definition of a "«smal business", but it is exp'ected that most of the emi- ployers using the enhar,ýed services would have 100 or fewer employees. The aim of the enhaned aprvices, which are to be implemented within ey'sting resources, wii be to ensure that employers i eceive a prompt referral of quallfied workers who ineet the basic occupational re:quirements of t O0f course, this will also hp umpi5yedwokesfind thejobs .theyrequixe. one of which is the Should you or your World Community Ser- organization have one vice Committee. This is or more. that you are made up of 25 members willing to contribute to from ail over the this Rotary project, district, and it is these please caîl either Bill men who are searching Irwin at 668-:3433 or 666- out wheelchairs to send 4339 or Joe Southweil at to Morocco. 668-4247. Polic-e tear down pyramid Two Whitby residents have been charged along with eight other Oshawa and Toronto area men after mem- bers of the Durham Regionai Police Force raided an Oshawa home to break-up a pyramid scheme. A spokesman for the, force described the alleged scbeme as being one where seven men allegedly enticed others to join the scbeme for about $1,000. After each man enticed two others to join, the man at the top of the pyramid would receive $8,ooo and leave the pyramid. Cbarged-with being a party to a lottery scheme are Jeremy Beaumiont Blaker, 26, of Athol St. and Andy Hor- th, 26, also of Whitby. Both men will appear in Oshawa Provincial --:b - ->(-Z - court this. - rida. -,< NtEatyAs ShownN r 'il k ~ £ASYAVAILABLI [PRE-wRIsîmns $flUlflO$ MEN'S SU EDE & TWEED SPORT JACKET SPECIAL NOW ,108-o0.116.00,1 NEW ARRI VALS JUST IN' -*TIME FOR XMAS * LADIES* DRESSES. 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