PAGE 2, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 28, 1976, WHITBY FREE PRESS Red Cross is more than blood donor clinics by BRIAN WINTER Staff Writer When someone thinks of the Red Cross, blood donor clinics usually cone to mind, but the Red Cross in Whitby is much more than blood donor clinics. It involves many different kinds of service from home- makers, to water safety instruction, to assistance to senior citizens. The Whitby Branch of the Canadian Red Cross Society is located at the Centennial Building, and is operated from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday to Friday by the executive secretary, Mrs. Barbara Wilson, who is in charge of .co-ordinating its various services. Anyone needing Red .Cross services may call 668-2741 during these hours. Blood donor clinics are the most well-known part of Red Cross but it is not generally known that Whitby was one of the leading centres for blood donors in the Durham Region in 1975, says Mrs. Wilson.. Three clinics were held in the Legion Hall under the supervision of Mrs. Joyce Cox, in March, July and November, which collected 944 pints of blood. The next clinic will be March 17 from 2 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. and 6 p.m. to system which was put into 8:30 p.m. More than 40 volunteers assist Mrs. Cox in the blood donor clinics, and the people of Whitby deserve a vote of thanks for their co-operation, says Mrs. Wilson. HOMEMAKERS The -second major service of the Red Cross in Whitby is homemakers, under the super- vision of Mrs. Edna Keeler, who is in charge of 15 fully-- trained homémakers aged 30 to 75. The Red Cross trains and supervises the homemakers, who are available to do house- work, plan and prepare meals, and do simple nursing under the direction of a doctor. Three hundred Whitby residents were helped by Red Cross homernakers in 1975, two thirds of whom were senior citizens, and the others were mainly young people with families whose children needed care when the parents were ill. The clients pay for the homemakers service, but if they are unable to afford it, they can get--assistance frorn the regional social services departnent. Homemakers often provide home care for people who have been released frorn. hospital, and a homenaker enables a senior citizen to remain at home instead of going to a nursing home, says Mrs. Keefer. Mrs. Darlene Williams is in charge of the Red Cross loan clupboard which is also in the Centennial Building. From this room the Red Cross loans, free of charge, such items as hospital beds, wheel chairs, walkers, commodes; crutches and canes for a period of three montlis at a time. About 100 articles were loaned in 1975 says Mrs. Wilson. Another aspect of Red Cross is volunteer women's work for international relief. Every Tuesday afternoon nine women corne to the Centennial Building to do sewing, and five do knitting at home. They make hand knitted articles, bedding, layettes, and crafts. The knitted and sewen articles are sent to Toronto for distribution to disaster areas throughout the world, and the crafts are sold in Toronto with the proceeds going to international relief. Mrs. Gladys McKenzie is in-charge of the sewing room and Mrs. Joan His cox pro- vide's layettes and baby clothes which are distributed to needy farnilies in the Whitby area. These items are usually purchased by the Red Cross. EMERGENCIES Mrs. Phillip Chubb is in Red Cross homemaker Mrs. Ruth Brooks (right) assists Mrs. Gladys McGill, a resident of the senior citizens apartments across from the Centennial Building, to do her dishes. Housekeeping and home care for senior citizens is an important part of the Whitby Red Cross's work in the community. 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Mrs. Hanna MacMillan operates a -coffee and tea break session Wednes- -day - afternoons at Fairview Lodge, and Mrs. Shirley Bat- ten looks after the senior citizens club which meets every Friday afternoon at the Centennial Building. Young ,people are also looked after by the Red Cross through its water safety program. John Knapper is in charge of testing and training programs at the Iroquois Park swimming pool in co-opera- tion with the Whitby Recrea- tion Department. The Red Cross provides proficiency tests for children and training for teen-agers to become life guards. The pro- gran began many years ago in the summers at the Kins- men Park pool, but now is a year-round progran at Iroquois Park. The Red Cross is supported by the United Way, and has been serving Whitby residents since 1-939. The annual nieeting of the Whitby branch will be held Feb. 10 at 6:30 p.m. at Whitney Hall in the Iroqiois Park arena. It will be a dinner meeting, with annual reports and a speech. an the work of the Red Cross in Canada by Barry Brooks, commissioner of the Ontario Division. Tickets for the meeting are $4 apiece and may be purchased at the Red Cross office until Feb. 6. Anyone wishing tickets may cal] 668-2741.. New pay phones coming to Whitby During the first quarter of 1976, new pay telephones will be installed in Whitby, a Bell Canada ôfficial told a meeting of the Lions Club last week. Mrs. Vi Crawford, assistant manuger of the local Bell business office, said that the new pay phones will have several features not in use in existing pay phones. The phones will be the Centurion model, which will have touch tone calling instead of dialing, and there will be one coin slot instead of three which makes the phones harder to defrnud, she said. The phones will be the first to use the new 666 exchange in Whitby which is being added to the 668 exchange which is nearly filled. Another advantage of the new pay phones will be that the caller can reach the operator without putting in a coin, said Mrs. Crawford. Mrs. Crawford told the Lions Club about the new SP I computerized switching operation in Whitby in October 1975, and explained the new features offered by this system, such as speed calling, call forwarding, three-way calling, and call waiting. She said that the 666 exchange numbers will go into general use in the town once the 668 numbers run out. The computer, she said, has a complete memory bank, and changes in custorners' numbers are updated daily. . When the old system reached its capacity and.the new computerized switching system was installed in 1975, Whitby had 11,800 tele- hones, said Mrs. Crawford. The new building and equipment, on Brock Street adjacent to the old switching centre cost $3½ million. The équipment' to service the growing town takes up one third of the space required for the old equipment. New equipment can be plugged into the system as the town grows and more phones are added, she said. UMM" m ýý IL