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Whitby Free Press, 27 Aug 1980, p. 7

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BAPTIST CHURCH The Pioneer Girls of Meadowcrest Baptist Church wll be having their promotion and registration night on Tuesday, September 9 from 8:30 to 8: 00 p. m. The groupe formeriy have involved grades 2 to B. This year grade 1 will be included. Any girls from grades 1 through 8 are welcome to join. Please contact Kathleen Owens 655-4217 or Sharon Gaggio 655-4015 for more information. GUIDES & BROWNIES Beginning the week of September 8, Brooklin Brownies and Guides wil start their new year. The girls need some interested leaders to guide them, sing with them, and play with them. If you like working with girls between the ages of 6 and 15, think about becoming a leader for Brownies, Guides or Pathfinders. Then caîl Audrey Parker at 655-4523 after 5 p.m. SUNDAY SCHOOL Brooklin United Church Sunday Schooi will begin Sunday, September 7 at 10: 00 a.m. Please corne with your children to the promotion excercises. The church service will begin at il1:00 a.m. Nursery facilities are provided. NOTE: My phone number will be changed soon, so please watch for the new number in future columns. Thank you. Susan Smith 655-3932 Brown's Foodmaster (before noon Saturday) In case of a holidlay Monday, please have items in by 9:00 a.m. Friday. BHS meeting WHITBY FREE PRESS, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 27, 1980, PAGE 7 Potticary's scheme shot down.... AMOrejeets work-for-welfare The association of Municipaliies of Ontario has rejected Oshawa Mayor Jim Potticary's proposai of Ambulance Cails For the week of August 15 to 21, the Whitby Ambulance Service responded to 93 cails for service. The service responded to 42 routine calîs and 24 stan- dby calîs for other ambulan- ce services in Oshawa and Ajax. During the week, the ser- vice handled 27 emergency calîs inciuding three motor vehicle accidenta. .Story hotur at service battalions for enem- ployed weifare recipients. The work for welfare scheme recently received the guarded support of Durham Regionai Council who sent it to the AMO for their endorsemnent. The AMO is made up of nearly every municipality in the province. Potticary suggested that the idea wiil eventualiy gain wide spread support and that politicians turned it down because this is an eiec- tion year and they feared bad reaction at the poils. Potticary proposed that the service battalions be PINE L URITR made up of welfare recipien- ta who are between the ages of 18 and 30 who are able bodied and available for work. They wouid be empioyed on community service projects such as the main- taining of parks. Potticary said that "'I1t's a kind of a new phiiosophy that we're throwing at these people."J Durham was aiso unsuc- cessful in another proposai at the AMO's annuai conven- tion. The suggestion was the Wintario grants be used for some social services projec- ta such as the construction of new homes for the aged. library The Whitby Public Library wili hold story hours for children aged six years and older every Saturday morning in September from 10: 30 to 11: 30 a. m. On September 6, films will be shown. For more information in the story hour contact the library at 668-6531. r0e The Brooklin Hor- ticulturai Society's next meeting wiil take place at 8 p.m. on August 27 at the Brooklin United Church. The topic for the evening wiil be the storing and freezing of vegetables in a discussion to be lead by Lin- da Cardwell of the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food. An annuais show wiil also be held that evening. Ail are welcome. mu I I I I I I r I I I JO AN N ES Io wet.4 &941-4 10% Discou nt With This Ad Valid Until September 30, 1980. * * Good Selection of Wicker & Ceramnics * Specializing in Silk Flowers for Weddings * Gifts and Floral Arrangements for Ail Occasions * * Naturai Sea Coral I Bond Towors Mail (Do wnstalrs). I 44 Bond Street West ------------------------ m m mmmm mmm mm m--m m mm mmmis ON IOAOO l&ETCRM FREEREPLCEMNT FLM O KOACOLR I FO YU NIRS LOCAION ALL668m 55 W IT THI AD ECEIE 15 OFFYOI NEXIrPURCASE O FIL mmm mm m- m mm - mm mm mm -I I I I I I -J

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