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MAYOR'S CITIZEN COMMITTEE Members of the Mayor's Citizen committee learned last week they had received a $10,000 grant from the Central Mortgage and Housing Corporation to design a research program of citizen involvement in program, Peter Loebel, told the committee that York's program will be coordinated with two other research studies. Mr. Loebel said the Riverdale Community Two years old next month, Humber Colleges Centre for Continuing Studies in Employee Benefits, the only one of its kind in the country, already owns' a national reputation. The Centre was set up in August 1969 to provide help to harried employee benefits administrators confronted by a confusing labyrinth of private and public, federal and provincial, social assistance laws. Since, it has conducted seminars and conferences in Toronto, Banff, Ottawa, Saskatoon, and Montreal. Next year, Centre officials say, it will begin conducting annual sessions for em- ployee "benefits people in eight major locations across the country. Driving force behind the centre is Director James Brodie of the College's Business Division who has recognized the need for an Employee Benefits Centre for some time. "Practitioners, whether consultants, corporate trustees, insurance company officers, administrators, or government officials were obliged to learn by previous experience in the field, with the occasional assist provided by a company in. service training program," he says. According to Brodie, the employee benefits field became particularly com- plicated by a bewildering number of laws and regulations governing benefit plans introduced in both the public and private sectors between 1985-67. biredior of Studies for the Early success for Humber's employee centre THE BRITISH SCHO0L ill? IMlillldmiltf Why not call now to have a decorator counsellor visit your home with our wide selection of specially chosen fabrics. All work is carefully supervised by British craftsmen and carries a 5 year written guarantee. Let us recover your favorite Chesterfield or chair. $10,000 to get Involved Alderman Peter Boa waiting to go on the air at i%iiuao for another round of answering Italian Internal”: problems about municipal politics on the phone - in program "Pttrliamtme Inaieme". Call Now 762-2690 I373 Weston Rd. Room 2. Association also received a $10,000 grant from CHMC._ "The Riverdale group is run on a theory based on confrontation with agencies. It believes in exercising power to develop programs sensitive to the community's needs.", Mr. Loebel said. "CHMC wants to compare our policy of active in- volvement with the policy of Riverdale as a future policy guideline for them," he continued. "It is a natural comparison - our project is municipally sponsored, Sensing a need, Brodie went out and secured the support of Canadian business and government officials, particularly that of Wells Bentley, Superin- tendent of the Pension Commision of Ontario. "In two years, we've provided the industry with a training resource geared to its needs", Brodie says flatly. Students have come to Centre courses from private corporations, trust and in- surance companies, trade anions, investment houses, and all levels of government from B.C. to Nova Scotia. Sessions are four or five days long, and students receive a certificate following completion and the appellation "C.E.B.", recognized in employee benefits circles in much the same way as the certificate or diploma of other professional or semi- professional organizations. The course surveys current employee benefits and trends in Canada, the U.S., and abroad, and the relation of salary to income protection. Centre, Brodie says. is to standardize benefit procedures across Canada. Specific programs like Medicare, Workmen's Compensation, the Canada Pension Plan, and Insurance Act are all studied in detail. Another part of the course focuses on the coordination of private and statutory plans, and the constraints imposed by federal and provincial tax legislation. while Riverdale is citizen sponsored." The Metro Social Planning council is being paid $5,000 by CMHC to produce an overall research design for the two groups to be assessed and compared on a single scale. Mr. lnebel stressed that York's project was "autonomous but integrated in this three party system." York's planning program hopes to involve the citizens of the borough in planning in a positive way. According to York planner John Dorel, a committee member, the people of York have until now, been in- volved in planning in a strictly negative context. They have been'reacting to plans being presented before the borough's planning board. The Mayor's Citizen committee hopes to sutr stitute this with a program whereby no political or departmentalbodywilibeiq control. The plan instead calls for the projects to be guided by the Mayor's Citizen committee which will consist of a maximum 15 members composed of concerned citizens, agency and ratepayer group's representatives. The committee is con- sidering dividing the The Food and Drug Directorate of the Depart- ment of National Health and Welfare today advised consumers not to eat soups sold in Canada under the Hickory Farms of Ohio, Ancora and Reese Finer Foods labels. These products are produced in the Newark, New Jersey plant of Bon Vivant Soups, Inc. Small amounts of these soups have been available for sale on the Canadian market, primarily in gourmet food sections of supermarkets and in food specialty shops. DEPARTMENT Of HEALTH In a previous an- nouncement, the Directorate noted that a fatal case of botulism food poisoning in the US. had been associated with Bon Vivant brand vichyssoise soup and advised Soup not safe COLOR-W’s RADIO’S SALES AND SERVICE RECORDS borough into two districts - each with its own staff and offices - to shape future planning development within the borough. Mr. Loebel told the committee that the two in- formation centres in York - the Weston Information and Referral Centre on Weston Road and the St. Thomas Aquinas Information Centre on Eglinton Avenue West -- would be natural sites for the project headquarters. In a report called Citizen Participation in Planning drawn up by Mr. Loebel and Commissioner of Planning Peter Allen and submitted for CMHC's approval, two areas - family living in high rise apartments and multiple occupancy problems - were high- lighted as particular con- cerns of the York project. These problems will be studies from a combined social and economic angle with the ultimate result, the committee hopes, of plan- ning for the future from the bottom tip. Only through a process of community involvement the committee feels, especially when the process actively seeks out and involves a greater range of the com- munity, can the aims of the study be realized. Canadians not to eat Bon Vivant brand soups and sauces until further notice. The Food and Drug Directorate emphasized that no cases of botulism associated with soup products produced by Bon Vivant have been reported in Canada. As an additional precautionary measure, however, consumers should not eat soups with Hickory Farms of Ohio, Ancora or Reese Finer Foods labels, until further notice. Stocks of these products are being removed from the market. As a public health measure, food wholesalers and retailers are asked to cooperate in this action by making certain these products are not available for sale. STEREO’S TAPES ttOSA AN Allt The mercury out-ids had soared into the miabnineties and inside CHIN-Radio's control room it wu at least 100 hot degrees. York alderman Peter Boon, however, looked cool and composed as he prepared to go on the air in two minutes. Every Tuesday Mr. Boga makesthetriptotheheartot Little Italy and CHIN's College Street Studios to answer any questions or problems members of the Italian community might have concerning local government. The show is . called "Parliamone lnsieme" or “Mt us speak together", and it is one of the radio station's moat popular features. CHIN 's telephone lines are always jammed for the duration of Mr. Bosa's program with callers waiting to speak with him. Problems and queries vary from those Mr. Boss considers predictable __ such as questions on the methods of property assessment and unem- ployment insurance - to the more unique such as one call from a woman who wanted to know how she could sell a piece of property in Italy. Although Mr. Rosa is perhaps one of the more qualified people who could be on the other end of a telephone in a program such as this (he is one of the three Italian speaking politicans in Metropolitan Toronto) still, he did hesitate before ac- cepting CHIN's offer last fall to be on the program. CON_SfRMAClQN_AftfAS The Metro Toronto and Region Conservation Authority is considering doubling the daily $1 ad- mission parking charge at its 14 conservation areas. M.J. Breen, chairman of the authority's conservation areas advisory board said last week that the areas run at a loss and the current admission charge for a vehicle has been the same for five years, He told the authority's executive committee that a $2 entrance charge will still give "pretty good value for money." Breen said additional funds are required for maintenance at the most heavily used conservation areas, Boyd, Albion Hills, Bruce's Mill, Heart Lake and Clairville The number of permits issued by North York's Building department in- creased during May this year. Permits for buildings of a total value of $20,624,504 were registered bringing to total for the year as of January 1, 1971 to $98,690,783. Included in the May 1971 total was one apartment building valued in excess of $2,000,000. one commercial building - the Granite Club - estimated to cost over $4,500,000, 21 commercial additions and Parking fee may rise to $2 a car He said that while a whole RONCESVALLES CHAPEL A36 Roman-Ila Ava. Phone T oronto 5337954 2367 Bloov Stu" Wm Phon- Toronto 767-3153 W G Srllorc 921222472?sz ttff-thHtreet Parking at all Chapels 2180 Hucmmnrio Hum. Cookwiuo 2797663 W I. Goltr Solving. Italian.“ Pr9b'smi FUNERAL DIRECTORS LIMITED FIVE 05mm TIONS or so VWF, North York is growing YORKE CHAPEL PEEL CHAPEL A I Lrwrenre to "For instance, last fall I knew that there would be many questions about snow removing trom listeners. So, by the time the first snow had fallen, I had talked to officials and had learned the stepby-step procedures on the whys and wherefores of snowploughing" Mr. Boss said. -iir. Boss says he en- courages listeners to solve problems themselves. "I can tell them who they should call but they have to do the actual calling them- selves," he explained. "I tell the people that if they had the courage to phone me on the air then they can call the authorities who can help them themselves." "Even if language is a problem, as it sometimes is, they can always use enough initiative to find a neighbour who speaks English to make the call for them" he con- tinned. Mr. Rosa said when he first appeared on the show he used to get calls from people living in all parts of Metro. Gradually he has discouraged this policy and now finds the majority of callers are from his own ward (ward three in York) or from neighbouring North York. family can gain admission to a conservation area for 81, it costs the same for just one mug of beer at Ontario Place. F.L. Lunn, the authority's secretary-treasurer, said an increased admission charge will help speed the development of recreational facilities in conservation areas and the opening of new ones. Last year more than 1,600,000 people visited the authority's conservation areas. This year operating costs are estimated at $463,000 with admission charges and profits from sales of refreshments bringing in only $350,000. At present payment of the $1 parking fee at one area entitles a family to tour all 13 other areas on the same day at no extra cost. alterations, 148 dwelling permits, 59 permits for swimming pools, and 11 demolitions. A total of 1217 permits were issued. This is almost three times the figure given for May 1970, when only 496 permits were issued for a total value of $12,825,784. The percentage break- down for May 1971 is as follows: residential 57.82 per cent, commercial 34.56 per cent, industrial 4.19 per cent and institutional 3.43 per cent. Another woman had a more uncommon case. She claims her neighbours use foul language in the presence of her children continually and have called the police to say her children are disturbing them. Mr. Bosa's solution was part common sense and part legal advise. He suggested she confine the kids' play area to the back yard, and that she get an independant witness for legal action against the neighbour. Most calls concern by-law problems easily solved with a telephone number reference, but occasionally Mr. Bosa encounters what he terms "tragic eases". He told the story of a resident of his ward who called him on the program saying he had been cut off from both Workman's Compensation and welfare. Mr. Bosa says he is still trying to untangle the snarl of red tape that caused this blunder. But probably the most satisfying part of being a part-time radio personality for Mr. Bosa is directing callers who ask how they can get involved in their com- munity. local candidate in his o Foamy to an!” . Custom away tram" 0 Mom" film q Chow. of .500 Gruours . Momyuck warm". q Dilvo- n some. 09.9 Slluvdlv AM. ','irYsi3imd.d Won list. no m may;