WHITBY FREE PRESS, WEDNESDAY AUGUST 5,.1987, PAGE 3 Shock knocks man unconscous An Oshawa man received an elec- trie shock that knocked him uncon- scious last Thursday while working on a portable classroom at Leslie M.~ MeFarlane Public School in Whitby (formerly Whitby Senior). He was pulling apart an exten- sion cord when the accident oc- curred. He was taken to Whitby General Hospital and released. BEFORE YOU check out the bureau of missing per- sons, you might check this hay bale noticed at the bot- tom of the William Batty driveway just south of Brooklin. There is most assuredly someone trap- ped up here, although no one is saying for sure just who it might be. Free Press photo Stewart leaves YMCA after 10 years as director After 10 years of directing the Durham Region YMCA through much growth and change, Fraser Stewart is accepting a new post in Belleville that will offer many of the same challenges. "It was time for a change," says Stewart of the move. "The oppor- tunity presented itself so I followed up on it. "But it's a great area here, with lots of opportunities because of growth." Stewart arrived in Whitby 10 years ago to become general manager after working at the St. Catharines YMCA and the Metropolitan Toronto Association for the Mentally Retarded. As the numbers of region residen- ts grew, so did YMCA programs and services. New offices opened in Port Perry and Pickering. Another was relocated in Oshawa. A new one will be added to make three Oshawa locations. Al are rented facilities, as Durham has never had a per- manent building. "Many people will say, "Where are you?" Well, we're everywhere," says Stewart, now awaiting a buyer for his Whitby home. "We fill the gaps, whatever they are, in the community. Our strength now, hôwever, is that we can find both the places and resources. It has been our springboard to success." One of the biggest successes for the Durham Y has been licenced child care programs which ac- commodate about 300 children at 15 centres in the Region, including one to soon open at F.M. Heard Public School. "We are on the leading edge of school age care in Ontario," says Stewart of the Durham program. "Child care has become a major emphasis and will be in the years ahead." Durham, along with Guelph, was also chosen for the first parent and child enrichment programs (Y- PACE) in Ontario. The program provides services for families relatively isolated from service. The first Y-PACE opened in Pickering and a second will begin in Oshawa in the fall, a "decen- tralization" again made possible through grants. "Y-PACE will probably go mobile at one point, which will make it unique," explains Stewart. The YMCA began a youth em- ployment program in 1980, and it, too, spread until now there are various offices. The program in- cludes vocational counselling, em- ployer-employee match-ups, and follow-up workshops. The average success rate is 75-80 per cent, says Stewart. A community service program- operated by the YMCA directs placement of first-time non- violent offenders. From 19,000 to 24,000 hours of placement are given to the Region each year. The programs, all designed to achieve the YMCA "wellness" mission, don't work without volun- teers, says Stewart. "They're visionaries," he says of those people who work with the 15 fulltime and about 200 part-time paid staff as "partners." There are now 10 policy volun- teers and more than 100 program volunteers. "In 10 years, there were a lot of things that didn't go well. But that's part of it," says Stewart. But he says the dedication of staff and SEEPAGE5 FRASER STEWART coordinated a large expansion of services during his 10 years as general manager of the Durham Region YMCA. 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