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Whitby Free Press, 10 Apr 1996, p. 8

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Page 8. Whitby Free Press, Wednesday, Aprit 10, 1996 New store to give ~pz software to ACVI4: ýîIiI As part of the opening of its fifth store in Ontario, Bexworld will donate thousanda of dollars worth of computer software to Anderson CVI T[hursday. Bexworld which selis a wide selection oe PC- and Macintosh CD-Romn software, is opening at 6:15 p.m. at the KendalWood (K-Mart) plaza in Whitby. The software donation con- tinues a practice that began with the recent opening- of a Bexworld store in Newmarket. ]Bexworld worked with CD- Rom publishers, including Corel, Prentice-Hal and Crapo, to fath-er the software for the dona- tion to be made to Anderson vrincipal Sally Mcflveen. Maxi Rempel of Whitby owns the newest franchise of Box- world, a Canadian-owned chain whose parent com any is Toronto-basod Spoktra -Multime- dia Inc. The 2,000-square-foot Whitby store han oight interactive CD- Rom dig la stations. The stores carry CDb-Rom and application software for [BM, Macintosh, AmiÏga and Linux systerne with an inventory of 2,000-3,000 titles in each store. Homebulders' national presideta eeting Tho Canadian Home Builders' Association president will speak at next week's meeting of th e local home builders'association. Qffering ail insolvency services including personal & corporate bankruptcies OSHAWA 122 Albert St. 721-7506 AJAX: 50 Commercial Ave. 619-1473 COBOURG: 72 King St. W. 372-4744 Saturday & evening appointments available. FREE initial consultation. Bestbe ComputerPerorm n ei 25 Thickson Road North (Near K.F.C.) *b Tel: 905-725-7454 e Fax: 905-725-7732 Hours: Mon., Tues. 10-7, Wed-Fri. 10-9, Sat. 10-6, Sun. 11-4 ~iee PERSONAL COMPUTERS Gerry Roehr will address the Oshawa-Durham members at General Sikorski Hall, Stevenson Road North in Oshawa, on Tues- day, April 16, starting at 8 p. m. Roh r, who headi a custom hombIldin firmin Winnipeg, is resingtýe Ifderai govern- ment to take action to boost consumer confidence in the home building industry. VOLUNTEERSNEEDED Volunteer are needed for the Durham Supervised Access Program in wbich cbildren of divorced or separated parents visit with their non-custodial parent ini a sale and supervised settng. For more information, cal Sonia Klmball at the YMCA at 66884868. JAMES R. YANCH Florida -bound CATHARINE NORMANDIN of Whitby f(nght) wvill get a holiay in Florida as the winner of a North American-wide contest held by Pesteil Pet Produots. Pesteli marketing andi developing manager Jennifer Whelan made the prize presentation at the Pet Value store in the Loblaws plaza in Whitby. PhoM by Jemy Drosar, Whlly F»e Prima Co generation projeet begins Construction, is underway on the co-generation facility at 1550 Wentworth St., The 23 200-square-foot facility will cost Ï1.5 million. Westcoast Power Inc., a subsidiary of Westcoast Energy Inc. of Vancouver and Atlantic Packaging Ltd., will be co- developers of the $65-millà*on, 50- megaiwatt cogeneration plant in Whitby. The plant,, located on a site south of Atlantic Packaging, will consist of a turbine generator fuelled by natural gas supplied by Sheli Canada and transported by pipelines owned by Nova, TransCanada Pipelines and Consumer. Oas. It is desrigned te seli electric power te OntarioHydro through a connection te the Ontario Hydro grid on the lino supplying Co-Steel Lasco. The hot exhaust from the g as turbine will pass through a broiler te raise steam which-will be sold te Atlantic Packcaging for proces. use in the nilîl.J The power plant is a state-of- the-art concept that will produce and recycle steam used in the paper-making process. The cogeneration plant will create 16 te 18 permanent jobs and AC Coptr, Colour Monitor and Cofour Printer for the pice of someone else' s comptr -Stadroito *75MHz Intel Pentium Processor *8 MB RAM a Intel 82430FX chip set *1.0GB hard drive a*1.44 floppy MPEG full motion vldeo, * 1 MB PCI SVGA video . * Windows 95 kyor * Windows 95 oelae -includes manuals & 2-CD tutorial "Eght icrosoft software titlest tmw EcM96& CD, - Wadis95 - CD. 1 Money-CD * agesCrealurus- CD, - GaWI - CD. Eu1eflanerd Pacc1, 5'. ~?piusne»Gaines Samrple "*Mouse & mouse pad *3year parts &labour warranty *First year on-site service Multknodl.hardware *Quad Speed CD ROM drive *16-bit stereo sound card *FM radio tuner* * Seakrtine /voce ail& telephone mdoncto30y softwarei * ~ ~ ' _mplflemexemalspeker eW mnitor Includodçt». AC » aim uwammuim dadm k eâumd à % buykè&m. - Siut 99*0 adtag.Pm"»de ud tdNuOe4*. PoekawkIeh e»M tu T à#@&mAd P= meuh eoeud. iMloeffidb uihuleiyDaUsuikididâkd uaoi8rPUi A Colour Canon Pentium 1 00,t120 and 133 MHz models also available. will provide in tne order of 180 construction jobs at its peak. The Town, of Whitby also issuod a permit for a 7,350- square-foot waste buildint cost $350t000, at Atlantic PaCk- aging. The two industrial pormits alongl with 32 pormits for single faznily homes accounted for much of the $5-million worth of con- struction bogun i March in ,Whitby A $351000 Tim Horton Do nut Shon Wi be built at 516 Brock For the fret three montha of 1996, permits have been issued for $10.2-million worth of con- struction. That compares te, almost $42 million for the first three months last year -- but about $38 million of that was for the new psychi- atrie hospital stili under con- struction.

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