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FamilyBusiness. up :in, smoke WH ITBY FREE PRESS, WEIJNESDAY JAN UA Ry 18, 1984,PAGE 3 Association for Ment aily Retarded offers new service. The Ajax, Pickering and Whitby Association for the Mentally Retar- ded is sponsoring an in- novative new service for those who live and woêrk with 'developmentally delayed - .,children throughout the Ajax, Pickering and Whitby area. The program operates through the' Emperor Street. Centre, in Ajax, and provides: con- sultation, to nursery sehools, day care cen- tres and recreation programs by qualified early childhood« education specialists*; consultation to parents 0ôf >deveopmentally ~delayed children aged 2- 18years; resource lib rryofbooksad various ftorms, of developmental, >delay; public educa tioni programs for any in- terested. groups;" .and specialized' rinn prograins' for. paàrents, studetti, programi voluneers, and' professionals. These services have been developed in response to the ex- pressed- needs of1 the local- conmuty. Wit h increasing:emÈphasis on, the. integration,,,of, U0.oS develpmenaily de- led children into seoland recreation -ProgrAms,: there is a neëed for support ser- vices' to-maximize the effectiveness of in- tegration' for each in- -dividual child. For more infor- maion, ' -please contact Lynn -Biscott, Director of Education at 683-9112 between 9' a.m. and 4 p.m., Monday to Friday. *Unîed IThliis photo was taken -a bout i1:30 p.m. and shows firemen still battling the blaze whic h be;.g an 1 six hour s earlier causing an estimated $810,000 damage to the Kurz Foods processing plant in'Myrtle on Jan. 12. Ross- Batten arrived to the blaze.I view the destruction and Bulldozers were - 7 ,offer futuüre assistanc,.e. pected to arrive 'yester- Mr., Kurz said neither day to level the site- and bis ort err bakry i ishoped the plant. wiII and dei, nor bis Whitby' be-rebuilt. in the- next> restaurant. and deli wiII twomcmnths. It currenitly bêécloseéd as'a'result of emrploys 35 people. by ROY COOPER Karl-Heing Kurz and his family were shocked and dismayed when a. sudden fire destroyed most of their meat. processing business;*ý located near Hwy. 12 in. Myrtle, last Thrday evenmng. The fire, which is belleved to have started in the ceiing near 'the compressor area, con- sumed the Kurz Foods Imc. building valued at $60,000. Steaky, sausages, and other deli-style meat valued at $25,000 and plant machinery valued at $5S,000 were also Icet. Chris, 19, son of the owner and an employee at the plant, smelled smoke about 5 p.m. just as workers were leaving for the day. He and several others grabbed fire- extinguishers and sprayed the ceiling to suppress the smoke. .While no flames were seen at this t ime and the situation was thought to have been under con- trol, a fire soon ignited the south side n structure andr Mdr. Kurz notified the Whitby Fire Depament. About 25 firemen from Whitby, Brooklin, and Myrtie fought the blaze from about 5:30 p.m. un- til .2 a.m. the following morning preventing it from spreading to the nearby Kurz residence and a smaller processing plant ad- jacent to the burning building.- Firemen had to battle both the flames and the sub-zero -temperatures as they worked throughout the night. A tanker from Port Perry joined the three Whltby tankers in trucking water from Brooklin hydrants to the pum- pers. Tis] is un- believable," said Kurz w :.TOICL FS *I.. il *orfree WAff ýEp.f o 'n Edgtypr iII IIits way IJMAJJI5A DJA~--- -----Ir---u--.----- . CONTINUES' 70QROSSLAND RD.-W- OSHIAWA 576-6465à Mon., Tues., Wed. ,10-6,Fri. 10O-9, Sat. 10-5 Pa9TfCIPocpyun7 ThCom mwmMlt f. 41 a ýwqv- JL & %-Oc bilLlula A laquq'm