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8 Thu Canadian Statesman. Bowmanvillc, August 3, 1988 Marnwood House Residents Benefit from Generous Donation Marnwood House was happy to accept a donation of two wheelchairs from the family of the late Ernestine Leavens of Oshawa who had been a resident of Marnwood House for the past 2 1/2 years. Linda Red- ner-Hunter (left), the administrator of the house, formally formally thanked the family (represented by Helen Sturrock, Mrs. Leaven's daughter) on Thursday af ternoon for their generosity. Missing from the photo is Ermal Holland, also a daughter of Mrs. Leavens. Sitting in the new chairs are Mrs. Audrey Wray and Miss Rowena Bragg, both of Marnwood House. Staff members and residents gathered to accept the gifts which each include a plaque in memory of Mrs. Leavens. Distress Centre Needs Volunteers "There is a definite need for volunteers at the Newcastle office of the Durham Distress Centre," says Marg Arnold, the new executive director of the Durham Distress Centre. The Newcastle office has now been open in Bowman ville for four months and there is a need to increase its seven-volunteer staff. Volunteers are required to give about four hours of their time weekly, answering the phone lines at the Distress Centre. "Volunteers are not councillors, but solvers," Ms. Arnold pointed out. "They learn to help people solve their own problems through active listening skills." Potential volunteers should fill out an application at the Durham Distress Centre's central office in Oshawa (723-4461). They will be given five evening training sessions if they pass an initial screening interview; the trainer will then decide if volunteers are ready to go on to the phones. If they are, there is office orientation, and several hours of supervised phone answering. All in all, there are always 20 to 25 hours of training behind each volunteer. "The training focuses on active listening skills," Marg Arnold explained. "However, one whole training session is devoted to suicide crisis intervention. i There is a whole different approach when it becomes that urgent." Volunteers keep up their iep ■ skills by attending four ongoing training sessions per year. These sessions focus on relevant problems and on community awareness. . "We're here to put a friendly face on the community," said Ms. Arnold, "the center is a place to which people from all walks of life can turn." In May, 18 per cent of the entire Durham Distress Centre's calls were from the Newcastle satellite. However, most of the calls to the Newcastle office were relayed on from Oshawa. Marg Arnold, who supervises all three offices of the Durham Distress Centre (Oshawa, Ajax/Pickering, and Newcastle), said that it takes at least two years before a complete trusting rapport is built up between a centre and the community it hopes to serve. 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For children under 14, there is KIDSLINE, at the same number as YOUTHLINE. Children may call at any time because they're , alone after school, concerned about their grades, upset about their social life or having trouble with their parents. A six month profile on. KIDSLINE showed that 79.2% of callers were girls with the main problems Retired F armer Seeking Scugog Mayor's Office knocking, Stanley Taylor's campaign will focus on no increases in salaries paid to members of Township Council. Stanley Taylor, a retired farmer living in Blackstock, has recently joined councillor councillor Harvey Graham and former former councillor John Wolters in running for the office of Mayor of Scugog Township. The municipal elections are in November. Mr. Taylor is a great grandson of the late William Taylor who came to Cartwright Cartwright Township in the early early 1840's. Shortly after he homesteaded there he was elected as a councillor between between 1850 to 1860 when he entered the Post of Reeve in 1860. Mr. Taylor himself has been a life-long resident of the Cartwright area. The 67-year-old bachelor was a member of the Durham Durham County Beef Calf Club in 1940. He had first place in this club among 15 boys who attended, winning first prize as a judge and showman. Along with another member they represented Durham County at the Provincial finals finals at Guelph that year. As a seed judge, the late Mr. E. A. Summers, agriculture agriculture representative, took 10 young men from Durham County to the Bay of Quinte winter seed fair held at Pic- ton in 1943. Here, Stanley Taylor was one of the top three on the winning team from Durham County. This was a regional show with, competitors from Durham, "Taxes in Scugog are high enough," he said "and the councillors' salaries are high enough, too." 77/7 M pamicipacnan r- Driveway Irks Wilmot Creek Resident 50th Wedding Anniversary Lawrence and Grace Gaines celebrated their i 50th Wedding Anniversary on May 28th, 1988, at St. George's Parish Hall, Newcastle. Congratulatory Congratulatory messages were received from all levels of government. government. Relatives and friends attended the afternoon afternoon tea and a wonderful day was had. Uxbridge Resident Named To Board of College being about loneliness, parents, relations, child abuse and recreation. Boys called in with problems concerning loneliness,' emotions, parents and relations. Be it children, youth, or adults, Ms. Arnold explained that the Distress Center acts mainly as a sounding board for people who need, some help in solving their problems. "The focus is on thè person's own problems and how they can help themselves, she said. The Centre has been operating for 18 years in Oshawa with the Newcastle and Ajax/Pickering offices just new this year. The Durham Distress Centre is especially involved in high school co-op programs helping students learn as the. students help others. The Newcastle Distress Line in Bowmanville is 623-8844. The line helps those who need to talk.about their own problems in anonymity and discretion. H.'Tvan Bell of Uxbridge has 'been appointed to the Durham College Board of Governors by the Ontario Alternate Route To Hwy. 401 V Investigated A consultant has been hired to look into the possibility possibility of a second major transportation transportation corridor north of Highway 401. The 407 Highway investigation investigation is being conducted by Proctor and Redfern Group at the request of the Ministry of Transportation. The Durham Region's director director of planning added that the purpose of the study is to determine the rationale and need for the thoroughfare thoroughfare between Highway 48 and Highway 115/35 as well as additional north/south collectors between Highway 407 and Highway 401. "Due to the importance of this study to the Region, staff from the planning department department will be actively involved involved in the study through participation on the study team," said Dr. Mofeed Michael Michael in a written report to regional council. Terms of reference for the work would go beyond a narrow assessment of a highway through a single corridor, Dr. Michael said. The study would encompass such initiatives as improved GO Transit services, local transit improvements, and highway widening alternatives. alternatives. 4 BETTER DEM. 1st, 2nd nna 3rd MoMqanos • Open privileges Some day IfV service CALL NOW FOR IMMEDIATE ACTION WINDOW SHOPPING? For Your New Home or Renovation we II help you! Bring your plans to Dashwood! We offer a complete selection of windows, patio doors, entrance systems, garage doors and skylights. We'll help by installing your windows too! Quality Window and Door Products Since 1928 dBDASHWOOD WINDOW AND DOOR CENTRE 1200 Phillip Murray Avenue Oshawa 436-1344 Wilmot Creek resident Frank Hedges protested the insertion of a driveway on the lot next to his by sitting in the middle of the future driveway in order to obstruct obstruct workers. This occured on the afternoon of Tuesday, July 26. He and his wife Isabelle were under the understanding that the driveway for the lot on their west side would be as far west as possible when they leased their premium lot. When workers began putting in the driveway on the east side, they protested. When Frank and Isabelle Hedges, of 71 Cove Rd., Wilmot Wilmot Creek, suddenly realized that the driveway for the new home next door was going going to be right next to the lot that they are leasing, Mr. Hedges decided that for the moment, the only way that he could preventfthe driveway driveway from going in was to physically obstruct construction construction workers. Mr. Hedges set up a small stool right in the middip of the future driveway on Tuesday, July 26, delaying work for several hours. Mrs. Hedges explained: "When we leased this lot it was under the understanding understanding that the driveway of lot 554 (the lot immediately to their west) would be on the west side of that property. Now the plan has been changed. When we bought our home we wanted our driveway in a different spot but they (Rice Construction) said that they couldn't change the plan." Durham Regional Police were called to the scene and explained to the Hedges that they should get a lawyer and settle the matter in court. If they won, the driveway could always be moved. Eventually, police convinced convinced the Hedges to approach approach the matter in a different different manner. They are contacting their lawyer in order to resolve the problem. *We paid a $25,000 pre- College of Regents. His term is for three years, ending December December 1990. He was nominated nominated by the Regional Municipality Municipality of Durham. The newT3ovemor is a retired retired agricultural representative. representative. From 1970 to 1987, he was Agricultural Representative Representative for Durham West, and from i960 to 1970 served in the same capacity for Prince Edward County. Previously, he had served as Associate Agricultural Representative for Victoria County and as Assistant Agricultural Representative Representative for Haldimand County. Mr. Bell is a panel member member of the Federal Farm Debt Review Board; Director of the Pine Ridge Branch, Ontario Ontario Institute of Professional Agrologists; and First Vice- President of the Uxbridge Branch of the Red Cross. He has served as secretary for a number of farm organizations, organizations, including the local committee for the 1975 International International Plowing Match and World Plowing Contests. Contests. Mr. Bell is a past member of the Picton Rotary Club; Past Warden of St. Mary Magdalene Anglican Church, Picton; and St. Paul's Anglican Church, Uxbridge. Uxbridge. He is past President of the Quinte Branch, Ontario Ontario Institute of Professional Agrologists. A graduate of Ontario Agricultural College, Mr. Bell attended Bradford High School. Letter Writer Concerned About Nuclear Industry Entering Food Mr. C.G. Sheppard Chief, Manufactured Food Division Consumer Products Branch Department of Consumer and Corporate Affairs Place du Portage, Phase One, 16th Floor 50 Victoria Street Hull, Quebec K1A OC9 Dear Mr. Sheppard. It is most alarming to see how quickly and quietly the Nuclear Industry is slipping into our Food. I am an onion- farmer, former schoolteacher, schoolteacher, Mother and private citizen and from each point of view I am bothered by the fact that in Canada the Nuclear Nuclear Industry is something of a "sacred cow" - it can do no wrong. That sacred cow has now wandered into our groceries stores. The new Food Product regulations propose that all irradiated foods sold in Canada Canada display the international "Radura Logo" on the label or display panel, and one of the following statements "or a written statement that has the same meaning." The suggested suggested statements are: "treated "treated with radiation," "treated by irradiation", or "irradiated". "irradiated". One statement only should be chosen as the standard. standard. Allowing various statements statements that have " the same meaning" can over the years become an invitation to mislead consumers. This statement, like the RADURA LOGO should be large enough to be read at the glace - not in fine microscopic microscopic print. All ingredients of a food product, no matter how small the quantity, should be listed and if irradiation has been used, should be thus described. described. Irradiation apparently prolongs the shelf-life of some foods. But the date a product was irradiated should be included in the labelling labelling scheme to inform consumers about the age of the product. I am still very suspicious of this food additive which creates chemical byproducts byproducts in our food. However However if some Canadians decide decide that they want to eat irradiated irradiated food - let's at least display it well enough for a free choice. Yours truly, Maria Kordas - Fraser. R. R. 3 Newcastle. mium for this lot," said Mr. Hedges, "We have a copy of the overall plan and it says that 554's driveway (the driveway of the home next door) is on the other side of the lot." The Hedges can't see why the position of the other driveway is different than indicated on the plan. Now, with their driveway stretching stretching to the middle of their lot, and next door's driveway just newly made almost to the western edge of their lot, the Hedges fear that wherever wherever they look there will be cars and very little lawn. Bert Pierce, the community community manager at Wilmot Creek, said: "We don't want to press this matter any further. Mr. Hedges has every right to express his opinion." However, However, as the police pointed out, Mr. Hedges does not have the right to trespass thereby obstructing workers. Max Rice, of Rice Construction Construction in Brampton, the builders of the Wilmot Creek Development, explained: "When a person buys a house, the driveway goes where that particular style of home dictates. If we operated operated on the basis of where others others thought the driveway should be, the park would be chaos." He went on to say that h .« company is proud of the park. "We're going to pat driveways where it best sv its the house on that particular site. In this case the driveway driveway was changed to suit the house on that lot." Mr. Rice pointed out that in the lease of each site, Rice Construction has right to do this. "Wilmot Creek is one of the best retirement parks in the world...98% of the people are happy. We're trying to do a good job." The Hedges are now proceeding proceeding under a lawyer's advice. advice. The lawyer is hoping to settle the matter out oi court. Add an office organizer without adding staff. 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