PAGE 4, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 8. 1986.WHVIITBY FREE PRESS Publlshed every Wdnesday whitbyBILL MCOUAT S'" ( and Photography Inc. To -w--v 1- ~ Ihone 668-01 IlI VALERIE COWEN F8.1zII <'AAdvsrtlslng Manager W i ~ ~ I lThe Free Press Building. Voice of the County Toiwn Michael Ian Burgess, Publisher - Managlng P.<). :11Box 2StrWtbort. RegonlssMail.55 The only Whitby newspaper independently owned and operated by Wyhitbyr~esidents for Whitby residents. Pay a visit to the Whitby blood cIinic January 14 On Tuesday, Jan. 14 between the hours of 1 and 8 p.m. the Whltby branch of the Red Cross will be holding a blood donor clinic at the Legion Hall on Byron St. S. It wlll be the frst clinic 0f four to be held ln Whitby durlng 1986 and very likely it will be the most critical. Accordlng to central Ontario field clinic co- ordinator Heather McKercher there Is a serlous shortage of blood following the holiday season. As of yesterday morning supplies of O0-positive, O- negative and B-positive blood stored in the Red Cross blood bank had fallen below the critical level. 'M iss McKercher said supplies usually fal off after holidays but-the Christmas season is par- tlcularly bad because there is a two week stretch durlng which blood donations are significantly reduced. The shortage is serlous enough that last week hospitals throughout the central Ontario district were asked to cancel ail elective surgery and to save their existing stock for emergencies Letters to the Editor1M To the Editor: daubt it. an open letter to Many of the Math Prime Minister planes were sald te bush Mulroney, operators in the north. House of ommens, DH had te mocify said Ottawa, Ont. craft te allow thern te be Dear Sir: - fully used in the rough This se called sale of and tumble of the fron- de Havilland te Boeing tier, ail the time lear- USA bas got te be the ning. After WW II it was dumbest thing I have evidenit that the Math ever heard of. Barbara family of planes wauld McDougal stated a have te be replaced with couple of days ago te a new generation of Justice Estey that had bush aircraft. With the she been in possession of cooperatien of the On- the facts the bank tario Lands- and baiout would not have Forests, bush pilots and taken place. WeIl we operators DH brought can chalk up a second forth the fameus don-t know what we are Beaver. doing decision for the No ether aircraft in Federal Government in the world bas ever corne the give away of DH te close to rnatching this Beeing. pick-up truck of the air Few countries possess because it was born ef the ability te build worid the collective experien- class aircraft, Canada ce of our people. Fact is used te be one ef them the USA eventuaily until you came along. In closed their market te thse 2s/30s our cern- us because their panies manufactured manufacturers couldn't planes designed by compete withDHE ther countries. During The later Otter, WW II in the press ef Caribou; Buffale and the conflict technelogy from Dashes are in truth botis England and the large Beavers. Almest US was irnported into as important to aur Canada, how lucky we citizens as. these1 air- were although I take no craf t are the Canadarrn, jy from war. Thse skills se evident each tirne the landby our workers space shuttle blasts off. on thse Mosquito,* Lan- caster, Hurricane, Thse later Otter, Lysander te narne a few Caribou, Buffalo and afforded us the rare op- the Dashes are in truth portuaity to later per- large Beavers. Almest forni on the global as important te eur aviation stage. citizens as these air- Thse de Havilland Ce. craft are is the atheugb in its' early Canadarin, se evident days was British owned each ie thse space followed the directive of shuttle blasts off. The the feunder Sir Geof- Anm had its' roots in the frey, al everseas DH narth plant of DH at Companies were te ser- Dewnsview and shows ve the interests of thse what good things can host ceuntry first. Se in flow frein hornegrown j fact thse Donsview skiils. firm teok on a Canadian A reorganization at de flaveur designing air- Havilland in 1960 craft which were true brought about thse expressions ef aur Special Products unique environrnent. Division and when it De any of your people was joined with Can. know- where the Dash 7 Applied Rearch (an and 8 carne frein? I AVRO dept.) it becarne only. Until supplies are replenished hospitals from Owen Sound to Napanee - including those in metro Toronto - wiII have to parcel out blood to those who need it most and no one else. Blood clinics are difficuit to organize. Donors are only allowed to give blood once every 91 da9s, volunteers have to be rounded up and sufficient time must be allowed for the advertising to attract donors. Because of the Iogistics involved the Red Cross generally schedules its clinios as much as a year in advance and when critical shortages arise they must rely on these scheduled clinics to boost supplies. Spontaneous emergency clinics just don't work according to Miss McKercher. During the next few weeks Red Cross personel like Miss McKercher and volunteers throughout the district will be doing everything they can to promote the scheduled clinics. Regular donors are phoned and reminded that there is a clinic coming up, posters are sprout up ail over the host SPAR Aerespace in 1962. The collective knawledge in engineering, elec- trernechanics and iissle work formned the faundatien for the develapinent of the Aras. Canadians are very capable people. Hawker-Siddeley fel heir te DH but had little interest in it se Canada was able te, buy the firrn in the early 70s, SPAR was seld separately. Withaut the steady hand of Sir Geoffrey ta guide the ship and in the hands weil rneaning bureaucrats DH has nat faired that well, much like a bunch of kids who have lest their parents. 1 very rnuch suppor- ted yeur move ta put DHC back in private hands but ta give it away te anether country is an outrage, with the streke of a pen Canada bas becarne a have net in the aerespace in- dustry. DHC presented you with a.gold oppor- tunity, placed in' the hands of Canadians, descendants of those who conceived and built the righty Beaver it ceuld have once again SEE PG., 10 Free Skating To the Editor: Just sending a short note te say 1 enjoy your columnn "The Crow's Nest" and te say a special 'thanks" for mentianing a pet pieve of rnine in your Dec. 30 edition. 1 and members of my communities, advertlsing Is purchased and the media Is swamped with requests for features, photographs and.anything else that might boost public awareness. It Is an up hili battie and even at the best 0f tîmes Miss McKercher said it is difficuit to get people out to the clinics. Glving blood apparently is not high on the general public's prlority list. In Whitby, despite a population 0f more than 40,000 people, cllnic organizers have only set a target 0f 325 units of blood - that's 325 people, less than one percent of the total population of Whitby. These are flot very impressive statIstlcs If you think about lt, but according to Miss MoKercher, Whitby's collections are consistent with those of most commun ities of this size. On Jan. 14 you can do somethlng to Improve these statistics. Remnember that they are not just numbers. The hour or so that you spend visiting the blood clinic might Just save someone's Ilfe. farnily would also like ta see mnore public skating available. Friday night skating was sornething rnany people enjayed when I was growing up and as I'rn sure you have heard in the past in a sinaîl town like Broaklin there is very little entertainrnent available for familles unless you can afford travel expenses and high rates ta enrol your children in hockey, figure skating, dance instruction, skiing, etc. the list gaes an. Friday night skating would (at the very least) give young teens an alter- native place te socialize and burn off excess energy besides the oc- casional dance or an the darker side rischief or vandalisin. Anyway, 1 do ap- preciate your men- tioning the lack of "public" skating in your article. Sincerely, Janet Quinn, Brooklin.