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4-Orono Weekly Times, Wednesday, October 15th, 1980 report .that stated of the 71 been Welfare investigator saves tax payer-s money ■ In hiis first two months on ■ the job, Durham Region's welfare fraud investigator has shortened the rolls by 18 and saved $58,758 in taxpayer's taxpayer's money. , "It's excellent." was the reaction of Regional Councillor Councillor John DeHart (Oshawa), chairman of the social services services committee. "He's done a great job." Grant Bircham was appointed to the investigator's investigator's job to search for those welfare recipients getting benefits under false pretenses. pretenses. As a result of Bircham's investigations, six people may be charged with fraud. Last year DeHart suggested suggested to Durham Regional Council Council that an investigator be hired because of the most common form of welfare abuse is by those people who do not tell the region that they ' are employed. "I knew this sort of thing was going on," DeHart said adding, "I was getting a lot of phone calls from people who knew someone who shouldn't be on welfare." Social Services Commission Commission Doug Johns submitted a Up and down the Bookstacks ADULT Whole Again by Lee Whipple (after being blown up in a car, an amputee battles ■ incredible odds and years of pain. He now sky dives and has resumed a normal life)- The Ways of My Grand- Mothers by Beverly Hungry Wolf (the author records Î the ancient ways of the women in her tribe) The Sky's the Limit by Dr. Wayne Dyer ( by the author of "Pulling your own strings" and "Your, Erroneous Erroneous Zones") Picture the Way We Were by Lois and Sam Adams (a. nostalgic journey through Darlington and Clarke townships) Music for Chameleons by Truman Capote (short . stories) The Covenant by James Michener (a majqr novel set in South Africa, blending blending historical fact with fiction) Maynard's House by Herman Raucher (an eerie tale by the author of "Summer of '42) The Tenth Commandment by Lawrence Sanders. JUNIOR Our Planet the Earth by ■ Keith Lye Whales and Other Sea Mammals Mammals by T. Dozier Lots of new paperbacks. E/&Y READING AND PICTURE BOOKS Our Animal Friends at May Hill Farm by Alice Provi sen The Night the Scarecr Walked by Natalie Carst;; Madeleine Hadley. cases Bircham has asked to look into, 35 were referred to him by members of the public. Other requests for investigation investigation have come to those working within the regional social services department. Johns also said in his report that there is "no way of estimating the benefits saved by the deterrent effect of Mr. Bircham's activities and their publication in the local press." DeHart suggests that there are a few people who will try to defraud the department now that they know of the investigator. The chairman also stressed that the department is careful not to . trouble those people who are receiving the benefits that they are entitled to. "We're not out to harrass people. We're just out to get people off the list who are abusing welfare." . Durham is the only municipality municipality in the province to hire this type , of investigator although DeHart speculated that others will likely get one when they see his department's department's success. Problems facing French Immersion There appears a number of problems to overcome before the French Immersion program program of the Northumberland and Newcastle Board of Education can continue the program into Secondary Schools. This fact was revealed revealed at the Board's curriculum committee recently. A report received by the committee tentatively recommended recommended that students in the French Immersion program when entering high school be bused from Bowmanville and Cobourg to the Port Hope High School where they would receive fifty percent of their education in the french language. language. Two alternatives were suggested suggested to the above recommendation. recommendation. One of the alternatives alternatives would have an extended extended French program incorporated incorporated in Bowmanville and one in the Port Hope - Cobourg area where the French departments would not only teach the french language but also would teach, in french, one or two alternative subjects. A further alternative would be to set up an exchange system with Quebec schools where students would attend for a three month period. Problems facing the program program are low enrolment in the public school French Immersion program and the availability of teachers to instruct other subjects in French. 1 It was pointed out that the Cobourg - Port Hope class now in grade six has an enrolment of nineteen students. students. The enrolment in Bowmanville at the grade five level is fifteen students. If all students remain in the program to the completion of public school there would be nineteen French Immersion students entering high school for the 1983-84 term and an additional fifteen for the 1984-85 term. It was pointed out ta the committee that with an over- may be qualified to teach 1 ^ all decline in school enrol- the French Immersion pro- ment it would be difficult to. gram, hire any new teachers who The • Progressive Conservative Association Provincial Riding of Durham East will hold an annual meeting and election of officers on Monday, Oct. 27, 1980 at 8 p.m. in the Picadilly Room, Genosha Hotel, Oshawa. ' Guest Speaker The Honourable Frank Miller, Treasurer of the Province of Ontario. great * " ^ W *U. AND TRIM tyASHABLE/iNTERlOR BASE 2 21-52 6* V* INTERIOR ENAMEL ^Rubbable/wall and t rim ULTRA WHITE 264)2 FLAT WALL I INTERIOR • EASILY/DRIES in one X® 1 come to the right place YOU! SHERWIN-WILLIAMS KEIAILER ROLPH DOMINION HARDWARE ORONO, ONT. 983-5207