The following text may have been generated by Optical Character Recognition, with varying degrees of accuracy. Reader beware!

Jan Gelderman Landscaping Jan Gelderman Landscaping‘s business is creating hot proâ€" : perties. We add beauty, function and value to * your home using the most durable and up to date materiâ€" _ als, to produce a * design that is _ / both unique and individually â€"HOT:â€"â€" PROPERTIES If you‘re ready to turn your yard into a hot property and would like a free estimate, call us today. (905) 681â€"8726 491 Karen Drive, Burlington, Ontario L7R 3J2 ENJOY THE BEAUTY AND WARMTH OF A NATURAL GAS FIREPLACE *Residential consumers only on approved credit. Offer ends November 12, 1994. Ask for details Nothing compares with the cosy warmth, beauty and economy of an energy efficient natural gas fireplace. For only pennies an hour, a natural gas fireplace provides EmerSmart savings and beauty, with no wood to buy, haul chop or store â€" ever! It‘s your best choice for wise and efficient energy use. 4 An EnerSmart Choice You Can Really Cosy Up To! Energy For You Call Union Gas Today! suited to your needs. As one of the area‘s most experienced landâ€" scaping contracâ€" tors we combine the highest qualiâ€" ty workmanship and materials, to create some of the finest landâ€" scaping around, and we guarantee everything we do. Deferrals, on the other hand, are also up, resulting with blood collecâ€" tions not keeping pace with the increase in attendance, 172 this year compared to 116 in 1993. "We have a higher rate of deferrals in Oakville, but we haven‘t noticed a "We have a number of donors not coming out (for various reasons) but when we contacted them, they wanted to have their names kept on our list," said Dunsdon. Reasons for people not attending clinics include medication, surgery, and other health situations. Blood donors more carefully screened (Continued from page 1) "We‘ll have to watch if there will be any dip at our next monthly clinic," said Brenda Dunsdon, coâ€"ordinator of volunteer resources for the Oakville Red Cross. "Thursday‘s clinic will be the important one to watch." In every crowd there is a young person aged 6 to 18 years, who is involved in worthwhile community service or a special individual who is contributing while living with physical or psychological limitaâ€" tion or perhaps a brave youth who has performed an act of heroism. You could honour this young perâ€" son, with the help of Bell Canada and the Ontario Community Newspapers Association by nominating them for an Ontario Junior Citizen of the Year Award. To nominate a young person in our community please contact this newspaper today. ~a@geo / ONTARIO JUNIOR CITIZEN OF THE YEAR AWARDS "One in every crowd" THE OAKVILLE BEAVER "In Oakville we are going to do our darndest to run active recruitment campaigns, incorporating our sponsorâ€" ships," said Frederick. Having exâ€" Calling that clinic an "outstanding success," OTMH, a firstâ€"time sponsor, recruited 90 new donors from among its staff, to help push that clinic over its goal â€" goals are set individually for each clinic depending on the need and availability of beds and clinic staff. That clinic was attended by 253 donors from whom 230 units were collected. It‘s goal was 225 units. Frederick believes more aggressive recruitment, such as that done by Oakville Trafalgar Memorial Hospital for last month‘s regular clinic, is "the only way we‘re going to increase our blood donations." "We‘re seeing more deferrals because the regulations are tighter, so there are more reasons why people are being deferred. This has caused us to have somewhat of a drop." "We‘re having more deferrals," commented Mary Ellen Frederick, executive director of the Oakville Red Cross. "If you have a cold, or if you had your ear pierced, you can‘t give blood." Nor can donors give if they‘re taking certain medications, skipped breakfast or lunch, and surgery. drop in blood donations here," said Dunsdon, who is responsible for reporting blood donor clinic activity to the Toronto Blood Centre. However, this regulation only covâ€" ers between 20% to 25% of the plasâ€" ma, that collected by apheresis (plasâ€" ma is removed from blood which is returned to the donor). It does not cover the remaining 75% to 80% of the plasma taken whom whole blood donations, plasma which is also sent to the US for processing because "We‘ve never had a license to ship plasma to the United States," explained Diana Benjamin, a public relations spokesperson for the Toronto Blood Centre. "We‘ve never needed it." Benjamin said the FDA changed its regulations requiring Canadian blood centres shipping plasma to the United States for fractionation into different blood products, such as those needed by hemophiliacs and burn vicâ€" tims, to meet its regulations and obtain a US license. For the past year, the Red Cross has been fighting negative publicity, firstly with its HIV scare, because hemophiliacs reported having conâ€" tracted AIDS caused by transfusions of HIV tainted blood during the early to mid 1980s; and more recently, failâ€" ing to meet Federal ‘Drug Administration regulations for sendâ€" ing plasma to the United States for processing. Argo Dan Ferrone as new blood donor chair for the Oakville Red Cross should fuel this recruitment, said Frederick. The primary response zone for Station #6 â€" which opened in August 1993 â€" is the area of Oakville north of the QEW and west of the Sixteen Mile Creek. The hall fulfills a douâ€" ble role: the first floor is an operaâ€" tional fire station while the second floor is occupied by the departâ€" ment‘s Training Division. The decision to compromise wit} {the 13 was a direct result of cut jbacks forced by the Town‘s $1.% ; million obligation under provincia . government‘s Social Contract legisâ€" lation. Last year, Council resolved t« refer the hiring of eight more fire fighters for the station to the 199« Budget Committee (which in May postponed hiring until Nov. 1st) anc the minimum threeâ€"mar «crews for the rest of the year. Bott «decisions were basically a formality after Council in July 1993 elected tc | hire 13 firefighters â€" not the 21 origâ€" jinally recommended in the 1993 |Budget â€" for Station #6. Behrens said full staffing puts the} Fire Department in a better position to combat potential house fires which arise around the holidays because of Christmas trees, candles etc. This would also allow Station #6 to act as backâ€"up for emergencies south of the QEW. "In discussing this possibility] with the Fire Chief, I am informed| that the additional time will provide time for training during more favorâ€" able weather conditions that would otherwise have to wait," said Behrens in her report to Council. "It also puts the department in a better| position to respond to staffing needs that will arise during the holiday season in December which is a high demand vacation time." The money to pay for th advanced hiring â€" only abou $20,000 â€" became available afte Deputy Town Manager Ron Foy! took over the Building Service Department and his old position was eliminated. (Continued from page 1) Town‘s recent reorganization 0 upper management. * $74,000 to Ecole Sainteâ€"Marie in Oakville for upgrading of existing classrooms. Fire station to be fully staffed Although the program is a three way deal with the federal government provincial government, and schoo board sharing oneâ€"third of the cost Superintendent of Finance Joe Biret said that as a result of a ministry for mula which favors boards in area with low commercial and industrial assessment, the Halton Catholic boar will have to pay only oneâ€"quarter. Th ministry will pick up the other eigh per cent. Local projects include: * $741,000 to St. Joseph‘s school i Oakville for construction of a gymna sium and school entrance; Torsney said it‘s possible Haltor could receive more money if othe parts of the province do not use up al their allotments under the program. The board is to receive close to $7â€" million from the Ministry 0o: Education and Training for JK Renovations will be made in nmé more schools next summer. Lou Piovesan â€" superintendent 0 education â€" said the board alsc received funding for junior kinder garten, which it had not received wher JK was introduced in Halton Catholic schools in 1989. The JK implementaâ€" tion money was combined with the Canada Works funding so that th infrastructure work and junior kinde: garten renovations were done at the same time this summer. The work was outlined Monda during a press conference attended b Burlington MP Paddy Torsney an Halton North MPP Noel Duignan. Six schools in the Halton Romar Catholic school system have bee: undergoing renovations this summe with the aid of $1,760,671 funding from the Canada/Ontaric Infrastructure Works program. By DENIS GIBBONS Special to the Beaver Separate Board gets infrastructure funds The Red Cross has applied for th US license and anticipates no compli cations, said Benjamm The license requires a miniâ€"physical for donors and different labeling, among the 1« problems and safety procedures iden tified by the FDA. ‘"The issue was never the safety 0 our blood supply." "This had been done by specia agreement for years. A license wa never needed," she added. Th Canadian Red Cross was licensed b the Health Protection Branch o Health Canada for plasmapheresis i 1978. Canada does not have its own frac tionation facilities. "The blood, afte it‘s been fractionated, is returned t Canada," said Benjamin. September 21, 199