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ïf you get the feeling good things are haoneniné in 6--Orono Weekly Times, Wednesday, March 26th, 1975 I ncreased student assistance - courses Ontario will provide about $17 million in direct financial assistance to students in the 1975-76 academic year. Details Details of student assistance programs, including two new programs, were announced in the Ontario Legislature today by the Hon. James A. ('. Auld, Minister of Colleges and Universities. The new programs are the Ontario Student Loans Plan, which is intended to help many of the students ineligible ineligible for aid from the federal government's Canada Students Students Loans Plan, and the Ontario Special Bursary Program, Program, which will provide up to $500,000 to help the most needy part-time students. Mr. Auld also announced that expenditures on the Ontario Few hirings directly by Ontario Hydro ■ .. Mnct cnndrnptirvn Student Assistance Program (OS.-XP) will be increased by approximately 16 percent to $46.55 million. The allowance under OSAP for students living aw av from home will be increased to a maximum of $57.50 per week, up 18.5 percent from a maximum of $48.50 per week in the current year. Considers Landlord- Tenant Bureau Area municipalities within the Region of Durham will be asked to express their opinion on establishing a common Landlord and Tenant Advisory Advisory Bureau. This decision According to the recently signed EPStiA (Electric Power Power Systems' Construction Association Association (agreement, Gil Gilbert, Gilbert, Personnel Officer for the Wesleyville project, said today today very little hiring will be done directly by Ontario Hydro for site construction this year. was made by the social services committee on Thursday Thursday of last week. .. This Bureau would be operated under the jurisdiction jurisdiction of the Region rather than through the individual municipalities. municipalities. R would require an addition of some $13,000 to operate the bureau and this could be charged back to the individual municipalities considering the use by résidents of the municipalities. Most construction trades for the site will be supplied by the local trade unions and their hiring halls, he said. Anyone interested should be contacting contacting the local unions as opposed to Ontario Hydro. Although a Personnel Office will be set up by mid-June, Mr. Gilbert said such trades as carpenters and labourers will not be required in any significant numbers until early early August according to the present construction schedule. schedule. He added, any workers required previous to August would be by the site grading contractor, but again these workers would be hired through through the local unions. The tenders for site grading and preparation were opened March 20 with work scheduled to start in early May. wait 'til you see what the new lottery does for us. there are literally hundreds of opportunities. Travelling theatre groups. New hockey rinks. Support for women in the arts. New libraries, in places where tti Because| give ali o to particj live. Hoi Well, th< the new starting j from no' Th to provi dollars. then putmtotfievarruus----- programs will be for just one reason. To help each of us get more out of life. So this is going to be one lottery where all of us win. ONTARIO LOTTERY CORPORATION. Harvey McCulloch, Chairman Marshall Pollock, Managing Director Pensioners asked to make su. j applications are completed A large number of old age pensioners in Ontario will not be getting proper Guaranteed Income Supplement cheques -- some none at all - if they don't get their applications in by the March 31 deadline, according to Health and Welfare Canada officials in Toronto. W. Wright, RegionalDirector for Old Age Security and Guaranteed Income Supplement Supplement in Ontario said today that some 92,000 possible eligible applicants have yet to file applications. "So far we have heard from nearly 250,000 people," Mr. Wright said. There are about 92,000 who are eligible but have yet to file applications." According to Mr. Wright, the G.I.S. program requires annual annual re-application by recip ients because of the possible change in income. Recipients whose income has dropped will receive larger G.I.S. payments while recipients whose income has increased will receive a reduced rate, Mr. Wright pointed out. . Consequently, some people will receive larger amounts beginning this April - others will receive less. Re-applications for Guaran- teed lncome Supplement were mailed to all recipients of G.I.S. in December, 1974. This has been followed up by one reminder. "We urge that those persons who have not yet filed their applications do so as quickly as possible so that they will continue to receive the G.I.S. payments to which they are entitled," Mr. Wright said. MINISTRY OF CULTURE AND RECREATION. Bob Welch, Minister Malcolm Rowan, Deputy Minister It's like a kind of awakening. More and more of us are getting into things. Kids' baseball tourna ments. The Hamilton Philharmonic. Jogging clubs, folk dancing, art classes, classes, Bonspiels. It's happening happening all over the Province and it's only the beginning. Now, we've got a new , 1 'Ministry' ' to help . The Ministry of Culture and Recreation. Its job is simply to help each of us get more out of life. At first it will co- ordinate things already under way. Like the Ontario Summer Games, the Science Centre, the Ontario Heritage Heritage Foundation. But then it will start helping new programs. And Ontario