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4 The Canadian Statesman, Bowmanville, Wednesday, July 29,1992 Clubs and Organizations Jobs Ontario Program to Help Local Unemployed by Lorraine Manfredo A new job training fund for Durham Durham Region could provide as many as 2,200 job opportunities over the next three years. The province has pledged almost $20 million to be distributed among local employers who are willing to hire and re-train individuals presently on social assistance or whose unemployment unemployment benefits have been exhausted. exhausted. The money comes from the Jobs Ontario fund set up by the provincial government with the intent of putting the long-term unemployed back to work. Nurses Offers Advice For Moms and Dads Public Health Nurses realize that new parents go through a period of change and adjustment. Through the Durham Region Department Department of Health Services, Public Health Nurses are available to offer support and information in many areas of health, related to infants and their parents. Breastfeeding education and support support are among our priorities. Home visits and telephone counselling are available to you by contacting your area health department office: In the Town of Newcastle contact Pat Kennelly at 623-2511. These services are provided at no charge by highly educated and experienced experienced public health nurses. For ongoing support and an opportunity opportunity to meet new mothers, Information Information Babyville is another service provided provided by public health nurses. Information Babyville is offered throughout the Durham Region in a weekly series of eight classes. These classes are free and women can register register by calling Ms Kennelly in Bowmanville Bowmanville at 623-2511. • Infants up to 12 months of age are welcomed to attend with their mothers. mothers. Many topics relevant to parenting and infant care are discussed and the sharing of experiences by participants adds much enjoyment to the sessions. If you would like more information, information, have unanswered questions or concerns, call your Public Health Nurse. "This is not a make-work program," program," explained Drummond White, MPP for Durham Centre, in announcing announcing the venture on Friday. He stressed the training aspect of the project. "This is an investment in the skills and abilities, and, frankly, the competitive competitive edge of Durham Region." The Social Services Department of Durham Region will work in cooperation cooperation with the Employment Centre Centre and the John Howard Society to determine which companies will be awarded training credits of up to $10,000 each, as well as which individuals individuals will qualify under the program. program. Employers must provide wages for the new workers and must agree to employ them for a period of one year. The grant money must be used to train that individual in a skill relevant to the employer. The plan is to develop a more up- to-date, productive work-force. It is also hoped that many of the temporary placement opportunities created by Lorraine Manfredo The Rotary Club of Bowmanville welcomed a Rotarian from Oshawa as the featured speaker at their July 23 through the program will" evolve into meeting. permanent positions. Hilda Gatchell is a registered nurse Ron Dancey, the director of Fami- who works as the Unit Director of the ly Services in Durham, said his team Operating Room at the Oshawa Gen- intends to talk to businesses in the oral Hospital. She is also the transarea transarea to assess which will receive a plant placement co-ordinator for the slice of the $20 million fund. hospital's organ donor program. He plans to seek out appropriate She spoke to the Bowmanville Ro- businesses through the Chamber of- tarians about the critical need for or- Commcrcc and the Downtown Busi- gans for transplant, ness Associations among other avenues. avenues. Mr. Dancey expects many small businesses in growing or fledgling industries industries will likely be selected for funding as the region moves away from its reliance on the automotive industry. industry. Grant money should be available by mid-August. Whitby Mayor Tom Edwards indicated indicated that the region would aim to place women in 60% of the opportunities; opportunities; visible minorities in 5%; and handicapped in 3%. Durham Region's unemployment rate is still at 13%, which is somewhat higher than the national average. Computer Link Between Library and Community Care If you arè new to Bowmanville... would like to call on you with Housewarming Gifts and information about your new location. Call Your Hi Neighbour Hostess Mrs. Audrey Kehoe at 623-0395 A joint project of the Newcastle Public Library and the Durham Region Community Care Association, Newcastle Branch, will help Community Care clients get answers without actually going to the library. library. The program was initiated to test the feasibility of the library providing an on-line database access, to another community-based agency which provides information along with specialized services. Community Care summer student AnnaNatoli boots up the computer computer while Community Care Administrator Roxy Bames and Library Director Barbara Baker look on. For the next four to five months, Community care will keep track of how often they , access the library's library's database and what proportion of those searches assist in answering answering the questions of Community Care clients. 799 BLOOR ST. W., OSHAWA 404-0525 NO GIMMICKS Michael and Sheila Spooner ROSE'ARBOR'ANTIQUES EARLY CANADIAN PINE • DRED FLOWER ARRANGEMENTS HOURS; Saturday, Sunday and Holidays - 9:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. ALSO BY APPOINTMENT OR BY CHANCE (416)983-9091 6179 Andrews Rd. 4.8 km. cast of Hwy. 115/35 R.R. 1, Kendal, Ont. LOA 1E0 on Clarke 6th Cone. Week Promotes Advantages of Breastfeeding The Region of Durham has proclaimed proclaimed World Breastfeeding Week, August 1 to 7,1992. The region joins the World Alliance Alliance for Breastfeeding Action, UNICEF, Health and Welfare Canada and numerous international organizations organizations in recognition of the first annual World Breastfeeding Week. Local community groups and agencies agencies have formed a World Breastfeeding Breastfeeding Week Committee. This committee has representatives from Public Health, La Lechc League, Lactdtion consultants, Victorian Order of Nurses, Nurses, Midwifery, Childbirth education groups and consumers. The goals of the committee are to promote the health benefits of breastfeeding breastfeeding and to make aware the many community supports in place for breastfeeding mothers. For more information regarding the week, call Pat Kennelly, at 623- 2511. "We always tell people, 'Don't take your organs to heaven because heaven knows we need them here,'" Ms Gatchell said, quoting a popular motto at Oshawa General. Organ donation can be a way to transform pain and death into life and hope, the guest speaker said. "The donation donation of one or more organs is the greatest gift that can be given from one human being to another." Seven human organs can be used for transplant. Both eyes, both lungs, the heart, the liver, and kidney can be used. Bones can also be successfully transplanted. One of the hardest aspects to her job, Ms Gatchell revealed, is suggesting suggesting the idea of donation to the family Family Respite Services Mark Canada's Birthday By Mary L. Wilson Durham Association for Family Respite Services recently held a special special event to help celebrate Canada's 125 th birthday. Almost 200 volunteer and client families attended a Wiener Roast at Wind Reach Farm near Ashbum. Certainly Certainly surpassed was the Canada 125 Event goal of "enabling a group with physical and developmental handicaps to enjoy 125 minutes in forms of motion motion they ordinarily would not experience." experience." This was accomplished by utilizing utilizing the wheelchair-accessible swings and hayride. Both were a delightful delightful surprise for first-time visitors to the farm. There were many other interesting sights for mainly urban dwellers including including the animals in the paddock, bam, sheep and goat sheds, chicken coop and pastures for donkeys and horses. A highlight for children of all ages was the petting zoo, complete with sow, ewe, goat, rabbit and their young. The board walk surrounding a marsh offered the opportunity to see marsh marigolds, pussy willows, frogs and other assorted creatures in their natural habitat. - l 'Inside the Visitor Centre were gold fisti, guinea pigs, snakes, and etc. Staff,'family and board members were kept busy at the barbecue and the kitchen areas. Canada 125 posters were won by the following volunteers who had lucky numbers on their name tags: Joanna McDonald, Jim Courvoisier, Faye Schofield, Bridgette Powell, Stephanie Plackitt, Lee Dooley, Rachel Rachel Tmdelle. Children of volunteer families who had submitted pictures for the colouring colouring contest, gathered at the end of the evening to hear the results. The winner - selected at random was 5-year-old Angela Stowell-Smith of-Port Perry. Board member Lynn Whiteley presented her with a new purple two-wheel bike. of a patient who has just died. Time is limited. To be successful, an organ retrieval and transplant must be done in not much less than seven hours. Getting the permission of the donor's donor's family must be gentle, yet speedy. When asking, Ms Gatchell is doing three things at once, She is trying trying to give a potential recipient a fighting chance; she is doing her best to respect the dignity of the donor; and she is fully aware of the grief the relatives are feeling. The family's permission is necessary, necessary, though, whether or not the deceased deceased has signed the back of his license license or a similar donor card. "If a family doesn't like the idea they can say 'no' to the donation," Ms Gatchell says. This is why it is so crucial crucial that the living openly express their wish to be donors before the situation situation presents itself. This will eliminate eliminate any doubts on the part of the family family as to the last wishes of their relative. Medical teams in no way compromise compromise the care of potential donors to increase increase their chances of gaining desper ately-needed healthy organs, assured her audience. For the team, the line between life ; and death is always clear. "When the brain dies, the person ; dies," said Ms Gatchell. It is only a matter of hours after this that the or-;- gans will begin to die too. Death is marked by cessation of .,, brain function even though the heart ,,, may be beating and the lungs operating operating on life support systems. ! If a donor is available, he or she is ■< kept on life support until a suitable re- cipient can be notified and brought to : Oshawa General Hospital. The team at OGH has also sent or- • gans as far away as Vancouver and . the United Kingdom to other transplant transplant units. Blood tests, tissue matching and other tests must be conducted -- often " while the organ or recipient is on the way to another operating room. In an average year, the Oshawa 1 General Hospital performs five to six transplants. Although costly, transplants save thousands of dollars in reduced long- ' term care, said the guest. ilmot , rchards Growers of Quality Fruit Pick your own Blueberries OPEN TENTATIVELY AUGUST 5TH WILMOT ORCHARDS Hours: Open Mon. - Frl. 9 a.m. ■ 8 p.m. qm C07Q Sat.andSun.9 a.m.-5 p.m. UOf <3 uu CONCESSION ST.. f Kd LINE \ , UNDERPASS d N WILMOT m ■ ^ > * ORCHARDS 9 < HWY. #2 S CLARKE y g < H -- T- $ HWY. #401 £ 0 1 m X Z Hilda Gatchell was the featured speaker for the July 23rd Rotary Club meeting in Bowmanville. The registered nurse spoke about her work in the organ transplant field. Ms Gatchell is a member of the Oshawa Rotary Club. ( THE REGIONAL MUNICIPALITY OF DURHAM DURHAM HOLIDAY CLOSURE OF SANITARY LANDFILL SITE The OSHAWA AND SCUGOG TRANSFER STATIONS will be closed on Monday, August 3,1992, for the Civic Holiday. Normal operations will resume on Tuesday, August 4,1992. V. A. SILGAILIS, P. ENG. COMMISSIONER OF WORKS Brock's Service Centre Limited Retro Canada, for strictly economic reasons, has decided to close and tear down the buildings at 20 King St. East, Bowmanville. As of July 31, 1992 we will be closed at this location. By October 1,1992, we will be at 160 Church St., Bowmanville (old Canadian Tire Store Bays) for service and repairs only. Iltto Gasoline To our many loyal gasoline customers, "Thank You", your business over the last 25 years has been very much appreciated. We will miss you. The tow truck will be in operation for your service calls, CAA etc., while we are closed. Ttkphme 623-5487 and we will be with you to offer assistance, as always. Looking forward to serving you in the fall at our new location. Sincerely, and rfUtut