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Whitby Senior Public held a career day last week with speakers representing a variety of trades and professions conducting in-class sessions with the students. Grade students Lori Melien and Coralee Carpenter are seen here with Wayne Andrews, an operations technician with the Durham Region Works Department and Gerry Harness, a maintenance engineer. Free Press Staff Photo AntMompaired program is ont [f you were thinking you can probably manage the drive home af ter indulging in a littie Christmas cheer at this year's office party you'd better think again. Star- ting this week both the OPP and the Durham Regional Police will be swinging into high gear in their bn-going battle with impaired driving. According to Superin- tendent- Dean West- brook with the Durham force, there will be of- ficers conducting spot- checks in each of the region's six. districts every Thursday through Saturday and throughout the week whenever they have the manpower available. "We're not in a position to have a program like they do in Metro where they put out crews that eat, drink and sleep spot-checks but we certainly en- courage every officer to keep an eye out for imi- paired driving," said Supt. Westbrook. The officer said they concentrate their program on the weekend because statistics indicate that that's where the problemn is most serlous. However spot-checks will be conducted on other nights during the week when cruisers are available. So far this year the number of impaired charges in Durham Region is down fromn last year and, Supt. Westbrook attributes the drop to increased public awareness. As of the end of October this year the force had laid 940 impaired driving charges. During the same period last year, ,045 drivers were charged. The OPP maintain an anti-impaired driving campaign year-round, according to Sgt. William Hanna, but starting this week the campaign is stepped-up for the duration of the holiday season. Because the OPP patrol the highways, Sgt. Hanna said it is dif- ficuit to set up conven- tional road site spot- checks. Rather, patrol cars keep on the move and pull cars over at random or where there is an indication that a driver may have been drinking. Ail OPP cars carry an ALERT machine for roadside testing and if the readings exceed the limit the driver is taken in to the station for a proper breath-lizer test. Public acceptance of the program has been very positive, said Sgt. Hanna, and, although some drivers may ap- pear irriated when first pulled over in a random check, he said, most are very supportive once they are made to under- stand that the officers are on the lookout for impaired drivers. "Public acceptance of the program bhas just been terrific. I think people are really begin- ning to understand that impaired driving is a serious problem," said Sgt. Hanna. For the remainder of the month, OPP officers on weekend duty are under instructions to put aside their ad- ministrative chores s0 they can be on patrol. .eWe want every available man on patrol and out on the road," said Sgt. Hanna. During the past week, OPP of- ficers have pulled over 210 vehicles, ap- proximately twice the norm added the Sgt. 0f those drivers checked, six were charged for alcohol related driving offences. Public awareness is a big part of the policemen's battle SEE PG. 12 FLORAL SHOPPES *w 2 s 4 igW 14Se co , 10DudsS.W WIIITBY FREE PRESS. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1985. PAGE 3 Thirteen injured in crash Thirteen people were injured last Wednesday when a tractor-trailer collided with a Voyageur bus on High- way 401 near Pickering. Sgt. William Hanna of the Whithv Detachment of the Ontario Provin- cial Police said the ac- cident occured about 9: 38 amn. when the east- bound tractor-trailer veered into the lane in which the bus, also eastbound, was travelling. The tractor- trailer, driven by Bruce Morgan Mac]Kay, 38, of Oshawa, struck the bus driving it into the steel mnedian strip dividing SEE PG.12 ATIL HE WALAPE ENRA A IO I RE PUA' 0.1* L ADliER I Tl IT M M W 4 I MO ST OTH 11 ! 1 NRH 73 IM ODL CONE JONS. I IENHYS2AD41 T àmàLW 6c -0 7 1 4 3 1 4 4 5 IOlUTDooR NN1 CAMPING & HIKING N *We did it, we have enlarged our store to serve you bette r! 1 NOW OP'ENIl * Quality Tents-Hiking Boots-Back Packs " Sleeping Bags-Heating & Cooking Stoves * Lanterns, Freeze Drled Foods " GORETEX CLOTHING*LIFA UNDERWEAR * HIKING BOOTS & SLEEPING BAGS * 2 DOOR FULL FLY BISON TENTS... ONLY $109.0" REG. 1139.0 305 Brook St. N. Whitby 668-044j rl J-E. Career Day m qpýý m 1