Whitby Free Press, 22 Feb 1973, p. 1

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HAMOL Y R ESTAURANTS WHITOY & OSHAWiAj Vol. 3, No. 8 THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1973 Firemen sparkdrive HeIp. outoeng fpr rerpr.vileged 4 v g your fire men lt's a littie too early to be thinking of hot summer afternoons and childrcn cavorting in sunshinc and water - but for some Whitby children it may be too late if you don't think of them now. You sec, whilc some par- ents will, in spring months alîead, be planning vacations and outings in the country, for other parents it's simply out of the question. The innediatc thouglits of' these less fortunate par- ents rnay be on niundane things like bread and milk for the faniily, and thicir further range tlîouglits rnay be on how to scrape en- ough inoney bogether for new school books in Sep- tember. And so, even now while there stili may be snow 0o1 the ground, the Witby Pro- fessional Fire Fighiters As- sociation, Local 2036 is thinking of the underprivil- eged kids in jhe commun- ity whose parents can't af- ford Io take them âway this su mie r.- Local 2036, a group of 1 4 local men, is trying again this year to raise mioney ini order to send some of these children off to the YMCA Day Camp at the Hieber Down Conservation Camp for a week or- two. Last year they conducted a door-to-door canvass and sent a few children to the fresh air camp. This year tliey're asking the help of* your children to send even more. So thc fire figiters got together with Bill Brant of the Whitby Brock Theatre to put on a Filmi Festival in aid of the project. The festival of filmns will take place during your chul- dren's mid-term holiday on Wednesday, March 21 froin 1:30 untîl àpproximately 4 C'onîinued on page 8 1,0 CENTS HeIp o ur kids

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