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6* Orono Weekly Times, Wednesday, February 9, 1983 Around the Region Cut Bus Service Travelways which has been providing a three-trip per day between Cobourg, Port Hope, Peterborough and Cobourg have reduced the service by 65 percent due to substantial losses in the operation. The service will not be operating on Mondays, Mondays, Wednesdays and Saturdays. Prior to February 1st Travelways operated the service service seven days a week with an average passenger load of fifteen. It has been stated that thirty passengers are needed to meet costs. Only One Had Read Repon; It was revealed at a recent Port Hope Council meeting that only one member of council had read a reçoit detailing problems problems existing with the storage and transportation of hydrogen flouride and ammonia at Eldorado Nuclear Ltd. in Port Hope. The report was compiled by Dillion Ltd. and submitted to council in October, 1982. The lack of interest in the report by council council members came to the front when the delegation of citizens recently appeared before council concerned with situations relating to the December 21st fire at Eldorado. 89 Days in Jail A Bowman ville welder, John Gordon Allman, 26, has been sent to jail for 89 days as a result of an attempted robbery of $500 worth of drugs at an Oshawa Pharmacy. Allman was apprehended by two citizens and held until the arrival of Regional Police during the attempted robbery. Allman is to be allowed to be released from jail to attend work and is to seek assistance to overcome his alcohol and drug problem has a term of a three year probation probation imposed on him. Snowmobile Championships One of five races being held to determine the World Snowmobile Speed Championship Championship will be held in Port Pèrry on February 12-13th. Three of the five races are being held in Minnesota. The races in Port Perry will take place in Kent Bay at the Boat Launching area. On Saturday the races will feature drag races from noon on Saturday. Racers will attempt to break the land speed record of 148.6 miles 'per hour. Contract Talks to Begin • Negotiations between the Northumberland Northumberland and -, Newcastle Board of Education and the secondary and elementary elementary teachers federations are expected to open in the near future. Contracts for both groups expire as of August 31st, 1983. , As salary increases are controlled by the Ontario inflation restraint act to five percent. percent. It is expected negotiations will centre on pupil-teacher ratio and working conditions. conditions. * Await Provincial Legislation The Durham Region Health Unit is concerned concerned over the delay in provincM regulations regulations to govern bulk food sales but will await provincial regulation to be enacted. The Durham Unit does not intend to follow the action of the Ottawa Health Unit who have set forth regulations governing the handling of bulk food. Provincial regulations are expected within the next couple of weeks. It is expected provincial regulations will require sneeze-guards within 20 inches of the top of the containers. Not Closing Any Doors It has been reported that Allan Lawrence, M.P.P. for , Durham Northumberland Northumberland has said he is neither closing any doors or opening any doors as that may relate to the PC leadership race. Lawrence has said it depends on who seeks the leadership and points out that many were less than pleasqi that he did)not seek the leadership in the last election of a PC leader. < Crime Drops There was an overall drop in crime in Durham Region in 1982 of 7,21 percent, the first drop since the Region was formed. Although there was an overall drop in crime there was an increase in rapes during the year from 17 to 29 and an increase in robberies from 96 to 133. House break-ins decreased from 1667 in 1981 to 1508 in 1982 with business break-in dropping from 1243 to 1212. GM Sales Jump January sales of GM of Canada cars jumped 15.3 percent over the same period in 1981. There was also a slight increase in truck sales in the same period. Chrysler held second place in the big three for the fourth consecutive month and showed an increase of 13.7 percent from January 1982 to that of 1981. Ford, now third on the ladder o'f the big three suffered a decrease in car sales of 10.8 percent. To Reconsider Plaza The Region of Durham council will reconsider their decision of approval for a shopping plaza in the south-west corner of the Town of Bowmanville. It is expected that the Region will reconsider their decision decision of approval later this month. The council and members of Newcastle council are seeking support from the Region ■ to turn the application aside. | Newcastle states it will adversely affect the downtown business area of Bowmanville. Suicide Big Killer A grade 11 class at Donevan Collegiate, Oshawa, has been told that suicide is the second1 second 1 highest killer of adolescents in Canada. The teen suicide rate in Canada has increased increased by 300 percent over the past thirty years. Nancy Handleigh of the Durham Distress Centre said some young people only see the bleak side of life and lack life experience to look at the positive side. Those detecting signs of suicide should speak to the person or contact someone they can trust for help. The Distress Centre can be contacted by calling 433-1121 or 686-2366, It was pointed out that anyone who speaks of suicide should be taken seriously. School Enrolment Drops Secondary school enrolment-in the Northumberland Northumberland and Newcastle area has dropped dropped by 10.4 percent from 1978 to 1982 and expected to drop a further 10 percent from 1982 to' 1987. •Elementary enrolment from 1979 to 1982 dropped 9.4 percent and is expected to continue continue its decline by 9.3, percent between 1982 and 1987. . As a result there is also a decline in the need for teachers in both levels of education. education. A board report calls for a possible drop of 23 in secondary teachers and 12 of elementary staff. However, in most cases teachers laid-off are re-hired to retirements and leave of absence. Collection Gone Police are investigating the theft of about $1,000 from the Newcastle United Church. A .police officer found 17 discarded church envelopes in Toronto on January 22nd. The money had been put in a business safe and was noticed that it had been taken. GM Changeover GM. has announced a $150 million changeover of its assembly line in Oshawa for mid-size model cars. The new line will begin operation November 1st. The B-body 1 plant will be closed from August 4th due the changeover. Production of Chevrolet Impala and Caprice along with Pontiac Parisienne will not be made in Oshawa. Thesedines are to be replaced .with Pontiac 6000 and Oldsmobile Ciera, • St. John Ambulance marks its 100th year In 1983, St. John Ambulance Ambulance marks its 100th year in Canada. St. John held its first recorded first aid class in Quebec City in the winter of 1883. The next year, Ontario's first recorded class was held at the Royal Military College in Kingston. Since then St. John has trained an estimated two million people in Ontario in first aid and health care. Itk Brigade volunteers have helped more than three million, drying a child's tear, bandaging a blister, saving lives. St. John has roots 'that date back to the Crusades, but it was reorganized in its modern form in England in 1877. The two driving reasons were concerns over industrial accidents and over the inadequacies of medical care in the armed forces, though the , idea was to use~ newly organized first aid skils for the good of everyone.^ The pattern held as the ambulance ambulance movement gradually spread through the Commonwealth. Commonwealth. Some of the earliest classes in Canada were filled by the men who , were opening up the country, working on its railroads and in its northern mines. Ontario had a provincial centre in Toronto by 1895, headed by Dr. G. Sterling Ryerson. His vigorous belief in the need for the first aid training was born out of his experience as an-army doctor during the Riel Rebellion, Early councils had members from Peterborough, Brantford, Brantford, Berlin, London, Stratford, Stratford, Sault Ste. Marie. St. John volunteer's began their public service during the 1890's, looking after people at Queen Victoria's Diamond Diamond Jubilee célébrations, and at the opening of the Grand Trunk Railway in Niagara Falls. The first volunteer, uniformed Brigade unit was formed in London in 1909. One of their first public duties was one they still do, providing first aid coverage at the Western Fair. The first women's unit was in Toronto Nursing Division formed in 1919. The Brigade now has 169 divisions in Ontario. Ontario. They are woven into the lives of their communities in countless ways, serving at local events ànd at some of Ontario's perennials such as the Canadian National Exhibition Exhibition and the International Plowing Match. When the Stratford Festival put up its tent in 1953, St. John's first aid tent was right beside it. In 30 years, the Stratford volunteers estimate they have looked after 100,000 !people. When Toronto opened its glistening Roy Thomson Hall, St. John Ambulance was involved. In two World Wars, hundreds hundreds of St. John Women have served at home and n overseas as nurses',aides in the ■ Voluntary Aid Detachment, Detachment, as World War 1 was ending, a terrible, flu epidemic .struck Canada. * VAD's and Brigade members , used their home nursing training, working with officials, officials, helping families in their homes and even manning manning small hospitals when the staff were all too ill to work. . St. John is a part of emergency plans in towns and cities throughout Ontario. Over many years, their volunteers have responded quickly and with courage to calls for help in a crisis. They have been on hand in the aftermath of explosions in Toronto and Thunder Bay, during the twister of Sarnia, a flood , in Hamilton, disastrous ship \ fires in Toronto and Sarnia, tornadoes tornadoes in Windsor and in Woodstock, train accidents in Ottawa and Sudbury, during during Hurricane Hazel and the 1980 Mississauga chemical spill and evacuation. - Through a; century of effort, effort, the goal of St. John has remained the same, to provide provide first aid and health care training and service, but the courses it teaches today are very difficult from that first course in Quebec City. Ar- tifical resuscitation and the first aid treatment for burns, for instance, have changed from the pioneering techniques. techniques. St. John reviews its work continually, with the . help of volunteer medical, nursing and health care experts., experts., and în the light of changing teaching techniques and technology. ■ In 1970, St: John tested a theory based on its years of experience with industrial training. With encouragement encouragement from Workmen's Compensation Compensation Board of Ontario and the Industrial Accident Prevention Association, both .long standing associates, it had .an independent research study done with York University University on the relationship between between accident prevention and first aid. The result was a new industrial training program that emphasizes safety and helps to reduce "on the job" accidents. There is a new approach to home health care being offered offered at a time when community community health care resources are stretched thin. As the percentage of senior citizens in the population grows, St. John is providing Health Care for Seniors to help maintain their health and independence. St. John Ambulance is an organization with a long, proud history, a hard working working present, and constant thought for the future. St. John Ambulance The need never changea INVITATION TO TENDER Persons experienced" in nursery operations are invited to tender for the lifting and packaging of apprôximately 2.5 million seedling trees at the Provincial Forest Station, Orono, Ontario. For further details and tender documents please apply apply tç: Nursery Superintendent, . ' Ministry of Natural Resources, Box 119, Orono, Ontario. LQB 1M0 Telephone: 416-983-9147 A certified cheque for $200.00 must accompany request for documents, (Refundable) Ministry of Natural Resources The Corporation of the TOWN OF NEWCASTLE PUBLIC NOTICE The Town of Newcastle Is offering for sale, three parcels of land in the' hamlet of Solina, described as Parts 1, 2 and 3 on Plan 10R -1522, Lot 25, Concession Concession 5, former Township of Dariington. Each of ' the parcels is not less than .82 of an aerfe (3319.7 Mz) and each is zoned R2 under By-Lav/2111 of the former Township of Darlington. The Town will accept offers until 4:30 pirn. Friday February 25, 1983. * The highest or best offer will-not necessarily be accepted. Offers or enquiries should be directed to: , ' t Mr. D.N. Smith, M.C.I.P. Chief Administrative officer Corporation of the Town of Newcastle 40 Temperance Street Bowmanville, Ontario 11C 3R2 Telephone: 623-3379. Date of First Publication: January 26,198,3. Date of Second Publication: February 2,1983. Date of Third Publication: February 9,1983. Date of Fourth Publication: February 16, 1983. Date of Fifth Publication: February 23,1983.