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Orao Skater skating ini Cranston show rooWeekl[y Ti mes, Wednrlelda, Novemher 10, 1982, 3 UniT ted Way reaches 61 percent of goal Scott Maybee, a member h ails from Cobourg skates in. to skate with the Cianston of the Orono Figure Skating Orono and Toronto and is Show and his many friends Club wiil be a part of the presently competing at the and fellow skaters from this Toiler Cranston Show in Junior Level in Canadian area are pleased to sec bis Cobourg, on Sunday, Competition. It is indeed an' skating talent recognized in November l4th. Scott, who honour for Scott to be invited this way. The Oshawa-Whitb y- Newcastle United, Way cam- paign has now reached 61 percent of its objective of $1.5 million, with $911,808 received to date. Hugh Holland, Campaign Chairman, said that although many groups are showing good returns, there are several areas, which have shown littie or no progress --and that these must respond if the objective is to be achieved. He appealed to both canvassers and donors in these areas of concern to complete their collections as soon as possible to maintain the momentumn of the cam- paign. Mr. Hol land stressed that aIl aneas need to pull their weight if the United Way agenciesare to obtain the necessary community funding, which is even more necessary duning thîs difficult economic period. Groups singled out for their excellent contributions were: GM employees, who have achieved 70 percent of their goal, with $555,313 donated to date; the agencies, who have raised $10,300, 89 percent of their objective; Oshawa North East and Non- thwest in the commercial sec- tor, with 79 percent ($1,103) and 82 percent ($1,978) respectively; and the Dental Profession, which has con- tributed $2,365, which is 70 percent of its objective. VOTERS WARD 111 Thank You For Your Comments And Support LORRAINE LOVER 'A r ountd Home Dy: Roy Forrester NOW IN FULL SUPPORT 0F SEAT BELTS How often have you thought or said, "That could neyer happen to me. " I suppose we expect to go through life with a limited number of adverse experiences and possibly it is one reason we do flot Itake those precau- -tions to protect ourselves in long-odds incidents. Fasten- ing your car seat beit could be one of those incidents and too often we travel around in the family car without the full protection that is now provided. Over the past week w.e have-learned to respect the seat belt and are well aware of the protection it does provide even though it mnay be somnewhat unorthadox in this par- ticular case. Our lesson in the benefits of the seat belt started last Tuesday evening when we pîcked up Donna for a quîck trip into Bowmanvile. Now Donna always buckles up when I'm driving whether its fromi my ability at the wheel or her lack of confidence in her instructions 1 ar n ot sure. This really doesn't matter because she was safely buckled in last Tuesday for one reason or another. Before going to Bowmanv;ile I did have a caîl to make at Ted Woodyards which I expected would only take a minute or two and 1 left the motor running. It was, a damp night with a slight drizzle and the one or two minutes ran into four or five. With Ted and I in the kitchen going over some-copy for the election Agnes came In from the, front living roomn reporting an explosion and something flying by the living roomn window. With that I made mny departure to first look up and down the street whjei ail Iooked normal as did the car parked at the curbside. Opening the car door there sat Donna, chalk whiite and fumoblinig to find the seatbelt release. "You look as if you heard the explosion, what hap- pened?" "You were more than your one or two minutes so 1 reached over to turn the key off but the motor kept go- ing and although 1 tried týo get out 1I couldn't find the belt release and sat through an explosion." Now this car does have ahhabit of blowing up a storm in damp weather and forced mne over to the side of the road comning down Enterprise ilil last spring in a driv- ing wet snowstormr, h unnerved me enough to leaye the thing at the side cf the road to mnake my wAay to the Oasis for a cup of coffee befor e en.deavouring to start it and make my way home. The explosion last Tuesday did rip the muffler fromi Dne end to thie other and when Mïangar l)ook-ed at it hie Memorilal Hospital gets welcomed financial Ift Announcement was recent- ly made in which the govern- ment of Ontario has granted 'Memorial Hospital in Bowmanville with an addi- tion funding amounting to $174,500. This funding bas ruled out any possible cuts in services at the Hospital in the 1982-83 year. The funds to Memorial are part of $110 million which the province has provided throughout Ontario Hospitals. The monies to Bowmanville wvill cover a $157,000 deficit from opera- tion in 1981-82 and sets a newv base for Memorial Annual budget. Grossman, Minister of Health bas stated that the province will not again bail out local hospitals and that., they must operate within their new extended budget. Without the additional funding Memorial was planin- ing to have to make cuts in the numnber of beds in the 89 Crime rate Durrham Regi...on GeneraL' Crime rate in Durham Region has dropped slightly over the past nine months and has Regional Police somewhat baffled. Statistics show that general crime have dropped by six percent over the nine month period and Chief Jon Jenkins bed hospital, cut patient ac- tivities and elective programs. The hospital bas a budget of $6.5 million this year. Memiorial Hospital is however still awaiting word fromn the province as to monies for a planned $1 .3 million expansion at Bowmanville. The hospital wishes to expand facilities to 100 beds to accommodate a 15 percent increase in services over the past few years and as well mnake nenovations to a section of the hospital destroyed by fire in 1980. The hospital is asking $500,000 fromi the province for the project and will fund the rernainder from mionies fromi insurance due to the- fine., Originally Memorial \vas considening a new wing at the hospital an estimated cost $4 million. The province did say that they would be uinable to assist in such a plan. states hie is unable to explain why such bas taken place. Tomi Jermyn, commission chairman, states that penhaps the common belief that crime rises in bad times is just flot the case. Jenkins said there was no increase in crime against per- sons, a nine percent drop in crimes against property and a four percent decrease in the number of accidents. The chief said he hopes the trend continues throughout the rest of the year. said 1 had destroyed a perfectly good muffler and it had taken more than a simple back fire to rip the muffler. Now it is a fact that seatbelts do reduce the incidents of bodily injury to those that might have gone through, the windshield ini the case of an accident. This was flot the case last Tuesday but then Donna could have gone th'rouigh the roof of the car if she had flot been buckled in and that would have required repairi'o the carand no doubt te Donna. The whole thing has restored my faith in seatbelts and fromi now 1 shall always buckle up for 1 know it can happen to me. SUIC K50 E KlSTEN RsuoWear Rêduces 011 Coflaumptlon improves LubricaU"u = =«mffomm GUARANTEED IMPROVED PERFORMNC or YOur Uo.yuyak ONE TIME INVESTMENT contac DARREL E. DEVOLI M o. TENDER FOR LEASED VEHICLES HALF TON PICKUPS The Ganaraska Region Conservation Authority requires four (4) haif ton pickups on a 36 month lease basis beginning in 1983. Specificlations and Bld Forms are available f rom: Mr. D.H. Palmer, Secretary-Mnge Ganaraska Regiori Conservation Authority P.O. Box 328 Port Hope, Ontario LiA 3WV4 New Location Junction of Highways 401 & 28 Closing date for Bids is December 6, 1982. . .. .. .. .. . . . . .. The followîng facilities wîiI be closed on Remembrance Day, Thursday, November 11, 1982. Newcastle Fitness Centre Bowmanville Memorial Arena Darlington Sports Centre 4 T.A. Fanniing, R.D.M.R. * . . .Director of Comnmunity Services