PAGr'. 2, WHITBY FREE PRESS, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 25, ý1987 Kalair replaces -Stotts as library board member John Kalar is the new member of the Whiby Public Library board. He replaces John Stotts wbo recently resigned after five years èn the board. ."I thought it was time,", says Stotts, also just retired' after 32 years witb Canada Post, including five as postmaster for Oshawa- Whitby. He has watcbed the library adopt a "more professional approach" to service during bis years on the board.- He says employee wages are now becoming. more comparable to those of other area libraries after being "'way out of fine" two to three years ago. He-says the board, after several meetings with staff, brought in wage increases over. a tbree-year period to achieve parity with other libraries. The third year of that process has now begun, lie said. He believes the joint -program undertaken with the Ajax library will improve service at the existing facility. The library* is- now operating at capacity and a second faeility wil be studied in future for the northeast area of Whitby. Advertisements -have been placed to obtain another head SEE PAGE 9 Ide ni ity p roblent FROM PAGE 1 the school - 5o to 6u when it opened witb two classrooms in what was then a rural area around Rossland Rd. were first and second generations of Dutcb immigrants to the area.- Smnce then, the "'Dutch scbool" label 'stuck with us,' he says. The image was perpetuated, be admits, when people driving by "maybe saw a greater amount of blonde and blue-eyed kids around the scl4ool. " Today, the kindergarten to Gr. 8 faiity bas eigbt classrooms and 135 students - al "Candian kids," says Witvoet. Weare Canadians - you bave. one left ear and so do I, you maybe bave a great-grandinother who wasn' t born here eitber. " .one of 80 of the Ontario Alliance of Christian Schools, Inimanuel Christian School teaches children basic skills as well as how to deal witb life "in Cristian ways. " "Hopefully my life commitment as a Christian wil be tbeir's," says Catby Scbenk, a teacher at the school for eigbt years, of her students. Class discussions include "real- life situations" sucb as Sunday store closings and pollution. "lBecause they are God's ebjîdren, they have a responsibility to the world," says Witvoet, noting that teaching places emphais on the "'idea, of service to one's fellow man." .He says the school is not ac- cessible to everyone as it costs parents $3,200 a year for their cbld or cbldren. ItVS toughi going for some of these parents. But they feel it's im- portant for the child to know bis or ber place in relation to God in al areas of life. "* The school is now totally suppor- ted by parent funding. But provin- cial funding has been -discussed in the Shapiro report. NURSES attend to a patient receiving treatment i a special bed now being rented by Whitby General Hospital. Free Press photo SpeciaI bed helps mintherapy By JANET BROWNE other ciermatological ailments. Eleanor Thorndyke. "The, bed It looks like an old-fashioned The tub-like unit is composed of a moulds to the patient's contours, batbtub on -wbeels, feels like a deep mattress filled with tiny glass and lie is constantly rnassaged. It's waterbed, and makes life easier for beads and silicon whicb are air- a therapy, it's not just a bed. " botb patient and nurse. fluidized to produce the waterbed The heated unit not only speeds It's called tbe Clinitron bed, now effect. up the bealing process, but also in use at the Wbitby General The patient lies atop a synthetic greatly minimizes the amount of Hospitgl. cover sheet which bas tiny holes to pain killing drugs the patient Designed as a form of tberapy, provide adequate ventilation. requires. The surface of the bed can the bed is used to treat patients suf- "lIt's a very sootbing experien- fering from seVere burns, sores and ce," explains senior teamn leader SEE PAGE 14