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ewseniors artmentsopened In the absence of Ontario Housing Minister Claude Bennett, George Ashe, Durham West MPP shared the platform with Ontario Riding« MP Norm Cafik at the officiai opening of Wind- sor Place, Whitby's newest senior citizens' apartmnent building.$ The residents of the 104- unit building crowded into the cornmon room to witness the officiai opening cere- monies Friday afternoon. Mayor Jiru Gartshore brought greeti.ngs from the Town of Whitby, and remarked that it -was rather unique for him to be on ýthe same spot where he attended high sehool 33 years before. The Windsor Place apart- ments were built on the site of the old Whitby High Schaol, later known as Colborne Street School. Mayor Gartshore said he feit -rmost'fortunate to be a member of the council which pûrchased the oid school site in- 1975 anàdsod It to Ortaio Housing Corporation for a senior citizens' housing site, We have 205 to 210 senior citizens units in the Town of Whitby; we are- very favored," he said. Mayor Gartshore also informed, the residents that Windsor Place ïs the .only senior citizens' project in the Durham Region with facili- ties for the physically handi- capped. "I can't think of a bettei' use or location for this build- ing," he said. Durhanm Region Chairman Walter Beath said Whitby bas been a leader and is stili lcading the communities of the region. He remnarked that "1governments do spend màney, wisely on occasion," and he had neyer inhis years in, -politics,-heard - any, dissenting debate about providing funds to accommo- date senior citizens. Wil liam MeLean, chair- man of the Durham Area Housing Authority, which administers OHC units for senior 'citizens and rent supplement units in the region outsidc Oshawa, introduced thie members of his board, and noted that this was the first opening he had attended since the authority was established. Ontario Riding' MP and Minister of State for Multi-' eti1t1fràlism, - N6rnV'Cfi, told the residents and digni- taries the government of Canada bas been committed to senior citizens for many years. "The senior citizens in Canada are better served, than any senior .citizens<> in the world, bar none, in terms of their housing and incomnes," said Mr. Cafik.. Cout'd- P18 CIJUNG THE R1IBBON. > Officiai dignitaries and residents of the Windsor Place senior Mayor Jim Gartshore, Durham West MPP George Ashe, citizens apartments took part in the ribbon cutting cerernony Durham Region Chairman Walter l3eath and William McLean, IFriday at t he *officiai opening of the 104-unit building on dhairman of the'Durham Area Housing-,Authority. jCoîborne Street. Taking part in the cèremony are Ontario Riding MPý Norm Cafik, resident Agiles McGaw, Whitby, Free Press Photo by ]3rian Winter St. Andrew'ýs ChrNChbrsismrg e Clerk of Seksion, John Frost; Mini and Alicia "B'ird" Wilson, the congregation at 94, took part in the b The congregation of St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church on Cochrane Street, celebrated a happy event Sunday as the mortgage on the church building was burned. Those taking part in the officiaI mortgage burning ceremony were the minister, Rev. W.J.S. McClure, Clerk of Session John. Frost and Alicia "IBird" Wilson, 94, the senior member of the congregation. Miss Wilson's mother, Mrs. ]David Wilson took part in the last mortgage burning ceremony by the churcli in 1945 when the mortgage on the former manse was burned. The mortgage of St. Andrew's church was paid off in 10 years. Construction of the new church on Coch- rane Street was begun on July 6, 1967, and the building was opened on March 17, 19689. Mr. McClure led the congregation in giving thanks for tbis special event in the chwrch's history, and ir, as the mortgage bw-ned, th representatives of the e o Session, Presbyterian Wômen. l. BIUN of Managers. rrom the order of service. Whitby, and said St. the church every success in Mayor Jim Gartshore Andrew's church is one of the future. congratulated, the congrega- the integral parts of the The , nortgage burning ion on behaîf of the Town of town. The mayor also wished ceremony was followed by a reception in the chiireh hall. Union plans forarea couni The presidents of eight locais of the Oiitario Public Service Employees Union in tlie Durham Region are taking steps to establish an OPSEU area council.'. The local presidents wil meet later this month to adopt bylaws and discuss a constitution to be forwarded to the head office of the union in Toronto for approvai. Ahout 15 of these OPSEU area councils have been forrned in Ontario ini the past Iwo years. They are being formed (o co-rdinate union localIs in a region to lobby the govcrnment on particular issues, to communficate with local labor councils, to prepare briefs on legisiation and to make recommenda- lions to the government. Among the Whithy locals to be represwnted by thev proposed area council are Ioc-a13M2 (<I1urba m Cent re f or Hite Jevelopmcntally Mindi- ca;ppe-d), and loca;l :M1 '-Wbilhy PSYChiatr- for the union. particulariy at the Whitby Psychiatrie Hospital, is safety of its workers. Eariier this year OPSEU leaders in Durham eornplained to the -then inister 0f labor, Lette, Stephenson about the risk of hving attacked on the job. In August, three female staff at t.he Wbitby Psychia- trie Hospital were seriously injured by a 21-year-old patient. Last year the hospi. tai led ail others in sick time and Workmen's Compensa- tion iBoard dlaims, although no staff members died. Trustee Sims protests Jesus Trial "censorshoip Whitby Sehool Trustee David Siins objected iast week to a letter from Educa- ion Minister Bette Stephen- 8son prohibiting the screening in schools of the controver- sial film "he Jesus Trial." Mr. Sirnis said that the letter asking for prohibition of the film in sebols amounts to censorship, wblch he coosie persan- aily offensive. "I doe't tblnk as bas the authority to make Ibat stBtmltXSl* ho ion of the Jews with the beliefs that the Jews were responsible for the death of Jésus. Mr. Sinis, who bas watcbed woexerpts fromn the film, said iL was a "fairly sophisticated theological argumnent," but did not suggest tuaL iL woeld b. a neoe.isary educational Lool. If any inteest is sbown by local mc in athe fdIm, the matrersod corne befoe the Durham Board of Eduaca- tAon fruieeofr comida'> aum MW Mr. tshm. ----------- -