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Weston-York Times (1971), 23 Mar 1972, p. 2

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.. pr within the next few . centre, All requests have &Tnd we wotld.like to . corhé frotu the Wéston ared seemore names added to the â€" and the wages are good and list. If you are over 18 years . the hours flexible. &1& offer and would like to do was for a school girl to tidy something for your comâ€" up the living quarters of _ munity please call the centre three working artists, browse around the office. Necessary . qualifications, where to apply, and other information can be obtained by phoning or visiting the office in person. Housecleaners _ wanted: This past week we‘ve had numerous calls from people wanting cleaning ladies and have not been able to meet the demand. If anyone is located on the corner of Weston Road and Lawrence can be viewed at the Information Centre. Anyone interested in having a look is Senior citizens: The plans for the new Senior citizen apartment building to be Older students are also most welcome as we particularly need people during the summer _ months when regular volunteers are away. Helping people find answers to their problems or questions is challenging and can be an interesting learâ€" ning experience. If you can spare a couple of hours a week we‘d be happy to put you to work. Volunteers needed: There interested in doing this type will be a volunteer training of work please call the Getting the point. This doggie will not be bothered by those bad old rabies â€" not after his vaccination at the Borough of York clinic at Weston‘s Ilustrious last Saturday. Borough residents are being asked to bring their pets to the minimum fee clinics for the protection against this killing disease. Two more clinics will be held, at Lambton Arena next Saturday and at Fairbank Hall on April 1. Times are from 1â€"5 p.m. It only takes a second and Dr. John Sowerby, above, is most gentle. WESTON INFORMATION and REFERRAL CENTRE 244â€"2000 and 244â€"2020 Joanne Willoughby â€"coordinator Hours: Daily â€" 9:30â€"3:30 Mon.â€"Fri. Evenings â€" 7:30â€"9:30 Wed. and Fri. Saturdays â€" 11:30â€"3:30 Location: basement, 2000 Weston Road. This is the 41st edition of the handbook and it features brief descriptions of the main aspects of Canadian life written by specialists in various fields. Many of them Canada 1972, a 336â€"page reference handbook comâ€" piled and edited by Statistics Canada goes on sale this week at Information Canada and in private bookstores across Canada. Designed primarily for the general public and for students, especially those of high school age, it presents a summary of recent economic, social _ and cultural developments in Canada. The book is widely used in Canada and abroad, especially by diplomatic and other representatives in foreign countries. was for a school girl to tidy up the living quarters of three working artists, requiring about 2 hours work per day at $2.00 per hour. We would like to find someone for these people and also to have a list of names for our office files of women who do housework requests come in k please call the The chancellors from All requests have . Central United Church, are ‘otn the Wéston ared * plannfig a concert at Weston wages are good and â€" Collegiate on April 21. All the rs flexible. &m offer proceeds will go to the a school girl to tidy _ Information Centre. We are living quarters of truly grateful to these working â€" artists, â€" wonderful young people who ig about 2 hours work _ are giving so generously of at $2.00 per hour. We their time and talents in ike to find someone order to help their comâ€" e people and also to â€" munity. Tickets are $1.50 for list of names for our _ adults and $1.00 for students les of women who do _ and can be picked up at the rk requests come in _ centre. Superbly illustrated, the handbook contains some 230 photographs, 120 of them in full color, selected from a wide range of governmental commercial, press and private _ sources. _ The wraparound cover depicts a brilliant sunset in the Canadian North. work in Statistics Canada and other government departments; others are from the private sector. Special contributors this year include Professors Don Armstrong (economy), Eugene Forsey (governâ€" ment), L. E. Hamelin (the Arctic), and John Warkentin (geography); _ Fred Bruemmer â€"(Eskimos), and the Very Rev. Dr. E. J. Howse (religion). regularly _ Overall picture down Participants will learn by facing the same situations and tackling the same problems as most businesses. Each of the miniature companies of 25 students will produce and market its product, items such as artificial flowers, beer can lighters and desk A project, to involve about 750 students in the 15â€"toâ€"19 age bracket in an economic educational program this summer, was â€" recently outlined by Labour Minister Fern Guindon. It will be a coâ€" operative effort of the Ministry of Labour and Junior Achievement of Canada, _ a _ nonâ€"profit educational _ organization. The program, Ontario Youth Summer Enterprises, is sponsored as part of the Provincial Government‘s Summer ‘72 program. It will provide opportunities for male and female students to run their own miniature companies during July and August. Although the City of Toronto approved projects in the first two months with a value less than half the total Professor Gilbert, an active community leader, is presently associate professor of education at the College of Education, University of Toronto. He also serves as chairman of the Ontario Secondary In spite of a decline in the dollar volume of building permits in some municipalities in Metropolitan Toronto in the first two months of the year, building officials are conâ€" fident that this will be another good year for conâ€" struction, a survey by the Toronto Real Estate Board indicates. Sydney, Australia, in 1927, has been a Canadian citizen for 20 years and has lived in North York for eleven. He graduated from the University of Sydney with a Bachelor of Science degree in 1948, and earned his B. Ed. from the University of Toronto in 1958, followed by a Masters degree in educational administration in 1968. As principal of Newtonâ€" brook Secondary School from 1967â€"69, he was directly involved in the experimental program designed to inâ€" troduce the credit diploma. At its February 24 meeting, the North York Public Library Board received the annual report from Mr. John Dutton, chief librarian, and elected a new ~haiâ€"man. Vernon‘ Keith Gilbert, formerly chairman of the board‘s library services committee, was elected the 1972 chairman. Professor Gilbert, born at Summer projects for youngsters "OneWay to Quit" CBCâ€"TV Network Wed.Mar. 29,8PM. E.S.1. (check yourlocal listing for time in youram{) Library board elects chairman York CANADIAN CANCER SOCIETY pens. The students‘ summer will _ be â€" filled _ with challenging experiences such as selling to the public, often door to door, keeping books in order, preparing and discussing company reports and policy, developing relations with his or her coâ€"workers as well as surmounting the daily crises of keeping an enterprise productive and profitable. The companies will have access to the advice of college students hired under the program to act as coâ€" ordinators. Resource people from busingss and the community will also assist mainly in special seminars including one on how to approach job hunting in the future. At the same meeting, Gordon R. McCowan was elected _ viceâ€"chairman; Participants may earn some _ remuneration depending on the profitability of their enâ€" terprise. Mr. Guindon emâ€" phasized, however, that it is expected the students will profit primarily from the School Teachers‘ Federation (OSSTF) _ Educational Finance Committee, which is a provincial committee charged with formulating a policy for the federation with respect to school board "‘nances and budgeting. Toronto and the five boroughs approved permits in the first two months of this year â€" covering projects valued at $89,127,079, down from $125,511,147 in the corresponding period last year. Toronto, Etobicoke for the first two months of 1971, applications received in that period this year covered projects valued by their applicants at more than twice the dollar total shown in two months‘ applications last year. shows building increase Vernon Keith Gilbert Ronald C. Hitchlock, the 1971 chairman, was elected chairman of the library administration committee; and Christopher M. Hrushowy was elected chairman of the library services committee; and Christopher M. Hrushowy was elected chairman of the library services committee. Further _ information regarding this summer program may be obtained by contacting _ Junior Achievement of Canada at 145 Yonge Street, Toronto 1. two months for construction valued at $24,272,686, down from $59,964,599 in the first two months of Tast year. Applications submitted . to the City of Toronto Building Department in the first two months of this year, however, _ represented projects on which applicants Junior Achievement, in coâ€" ordinating the program, will employ many of their proven materials and methods as well as the facilities used in their regular program. The regular program, which runs from October to May, inâ€" volves 3,800 of Ontario‘s youth. and, East York were down, but North York, Scarâ€" borough and York were up conspicuously. The City: of Toronto apâ€" proved permits in the first The program, which will be operated in up to 14 communities, is a dramatic expansion of a highly sucâ€" cessful pilot project conâ€" ducted last summer in Windsor, also sponsored jointly by Junior Achievement and _ the Department of Labour. involvement experience, offering an understanding of business, an insight into human _ relations _ and leadership training as well as practical vocational experience. Figures for York while up over last year, are still the lowest â€" with the exception of East York â€" in the Metropolitan area. They show an increase for 1972 over ‘71 of $4,625,920 for January and February compared to last year‘s $569,050 â€" due mainly to February 1972‘s increase of $4,762,770 over January ‘71. North York shows a small increase for the first two months of ‘72 with totals showing $25,658,751 for this year over last season‘s $22,598,360. Etobicoke had a decline in approvals for two months to $9,796,126 from $29,074,430, but building officials in the borough say many projects are in their early stages of planning. Nothing like the anticipated pace of conâ€" struction has yet been reached in Etobicoke, partly because of severe weather. Building officials are more optimistic now than they were this time last year. processed. In the first two months of last year apâ€" plicants‘ estimates of the value of projects submitted, reached a total of $14â€" put values totalling $36â€" million. Many of these apâ€" plications are not yet Branch offices serving Toronto and the surrounding areas : Metropolitan Torontoâ€"250 University Avenue telephone 368â€"1145 Torontoâ€"North â€"4430 Bathurst Street . telephone 638â€"0823 (serving area north of Highway 401 and York Region) Midâ€"Ontario â€"250 University Avenue telephone 368â€"1145 (serving area beyond that of above offices) seLta~ maitins 59. #inn s$s IDB business loans Dundas west of High Park manitiny K4A inousrriAL DEVELOPMENT BANK DONT SEND FLOWERS _ TQ U8s N OUR ANNIVERSARY SEND THEM EROMU‘s ... ... THAT WILL MAKE US BOTH HAPPY the flower people happy nevt for Easter the F.T.D. This is our very special arrangeâ€" ment for Easter. Borrowing a page from the kids, we created e an Easter Basket for big girls. For fun we added a delightful, 2 blueâ€"eyed bunny and M‘ bright Easter eggs. March 1st â€"March 25 "POETRY CORNER" 766â€"6121 Roses are Red Violets are Blue Martins makes Flowers That are Porfect and our miniature W in a heantiful arrangement Nend in vour entry each noork 155", 12+°9, 9. YOT B. Gralram

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