WHITBY FREE PRESS, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 13, 1984, PAGE 3 Regional task force on jobless needed:, Edw ards One of Whitby's representatives on Durham Regional Council is advocating that a task force be set up to investigate the local uepomn problem. Councillor Tom Ed- wards made the remark last week after reading a report from the region's social services department showing a 1$1OOOO wïnner A Whitby resident is $10,000 richer thanks to the -Ontario Lottery Corporation. Alexis Barnett of Or- mandy Crt. was a Super Loo .onsprize winner in the May 27 draw which offéred 500 bonus pnizes of $10,000. Barnett, who- is married with four children, said that her windfail came as a sur- A t the prise. She plans' to buy some new furmiture with her winnings. Super'Loto is a joint undertaking of alI ten Canadian provinces. To date, Super Loto has generated more than $37 million in proceeds for health and environmen- tally related health research and province wide social, service organizations.' substantial increase in the local welfare assistance caseload. In a report to regional council, R.A. Dancey, the administrator of general assistance, said that since September, 1983 there has been an 18.2 per cent increase in those collecting welfare. Including inflation, the cost of general welfare assistance has risen 26.3 per cent. During the month of March, there were 2,657 individuals and 1,340 famiies collecting welfare at a total cost of just over $1.3 million. Whitby- accounts for 6.6 per cent of this total. Locally there were 194 individuals and' 89 families collecting Quebec National. Assembly...., Council honors teachers for courage under fire Whitby Town Coundil presented a citation to the two teachers and two adult chaperones from Whitby Senior Public School who ac- companied 42 local school children on a trip to Quebec City last mon- th. The grade 7 class was on a school trip visiting the Quebec National Assembly when a lone gunman burst into the legislative chamber wi*th a machine. gun killing three people and injuning 13 others. Mayor Bob Attersley said' that their actions were 4"courageous". 11 can assure you that we have four people who kept the situation under control," he said. "The trip enided up as a safe one and, the children Sandra Bresnahan Local girl wins C anada Cord, .Sandra Bresnahan (above) has received the highest honior in the Canadian girl guide movement - the Canada, Cord.* The 15-year old Canadian Oaks Dr. resident was presented with the cord in a ceremony last week by her mother, Nancy, her sister, Cathy, and 1 former Pathfinder leader Lynn Stacey of Ottawa who' made a special trip to Whitby for the occasion. In order to win the honor, Bresnahan bad to study several guiding related subjeets in- cluding community knowledge -and service, outdoor adventure'and wilderness camping. She* also had to acquire a knowledge of inter- national gukuing and of the various agencies of the United Nations. Bresnahan has been involved with the guiding movement for. eight years and is a grade 9 student at Anderson Collegiate. She is currently a member of the First Whitby Path- finders., Free Press Staff Photo were brought back in safe hands." After the shooting started, teachers Sharon Davis-Dove and Trudy Deacon along with chaperones Allen Deacon and Shelly Rail spirited their charges into a nearby room in the assembly building, kept them quiet and waited for police escort out of the building. Speaking on behaif of the four,' Davis-Dove said they "9were somewhat» humbled by the word courageous. " She told council they felt that ail they did was. their job. Attersley and ad- ministrator Bill Wallace then presented the four with a citation wýhich will hang somewhere in the school. assistance at a cost 0f $89,107. The average in- dividual collected $230.49 and the average family $498.78 duning March, However, Dancey said that compared to March, 1983, there has been a 5.4 per cent drop in the caseload and a 0.9 per cent increase in ex- penditures. "By making com- paisons with the report in March, 1982, one can observe the effects of the recent recession which started in late 1981 and early 1982,"1 Dancey continued. "Compared to March, 1982, our caseload has increased by 14.9 per cent and the expen- ditures have increased C2harles Hum ber U.E.L. branch being formed, A meeting will be held on June 18 at 7 p.m. in the auditorium of the Whitby Public Library to discuss the feasibility of establishing, a local chapter of the United Empire Loyalists. The guest speaker at the meeting will be Charles ,.Humber, president of the United Empire Loyalist Association of Canada. Humber is* best known for his book "Loyal She Remains" a history of Ontario.' Ail are welcome to at- tend the meeting. by 34.3 percent. " Edwards said that his proposed task force should be made up of representatives of business, labor, com- munity organizations including churches as well as local politicians. 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