PAGE 10, WHITBY FREE PRESS, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 17, 1988 REGIONAL MUNICIPALITY 0F DURHAM PUBLIC NOTICE HOUSEHOLD HAZARDOUS WASTE COLLECTION- DE PO A new depot for the collection of Household Hazardous Waste (HHW) has been established at the Brock West Landfill Site in Pickering. This facility is available to serve al residents of Durham Region at no cost. HOUSEHOLD HAZARDOUS WASTE (HHW) Hazardous wastes in the home include the following: car batteries, used motor oul, drain cleaners, lighter fluid, turpentine, gasoline, bleach, ammonia, rat poison, cleaning fluids, pesticides, some potent medicines, paints, paint thinner, furniture polish, herbicides and solvents, etc. DIRECTIONS TO HHW DEPOT Highway 401 to Brock Road (Regional Road #1) in Pickering. North on Brock Road to tlashing amber ight (Concession Road #3), then west 1/2 mile to gate. Report to office area wit h HHW. PHONE NUMBER FOR HHW DEPOT - 686-1137 Monday to Friday Saturday Sunday HOURS 0F OPERAT ION FOR HHW DE POT 7:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. 7:00 a.m. to 12:ý30 p.m. Closed Household hazardous wastes which are disposed of together with residential garbage or down the sanitary sewer drain can cause public health and/or environmental problems. Residents of Durham Region are therefore encouraged to malSe use of this new facility. G. EMM WORKS COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN W.A. TWELVETREES, P. ENG. COMMISSIONER 0F WORKS R espite pro gram' provides summer outings for kids A CONTEST FOR SUMMER STROLLERS AND SUNDAY DRIVERS Sponsored by Whitby's LACAC* to encourage an awareness of our local architectural heritage Each week until September, theWhitby Froe Press will publish a picture of an architectural detail sornewhere in Whitby (including Brooklin, Ashburn and Myrtie). A draw will bc made frorn ail the correct entries <only one per person per week) the following Tuesday morning at 10:00 amn. The winner each week will receive a book courtesy of LACAC. Ail entries will be entered in a grand prize draw '~THE CORPORATION OF THE TOWN 0F WHITBY 1988 MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS NOTICE ELECTION OFFICIALS REQUIRED Application are invited for positions as Election Officiais for the Municipal Elect ions to be held on Monday, November l4th, 1988. Town of Whitby residents who are 18 years of age or older and who are interested in working as: DEPUTY RETURNING OFFICERS; POLL CLERKS; OR, ELECTION ASSISTANTS; during the 1988 Municipal Elections to be held on Monday, November l4th, 1988 are asked to contact the Clerk's Office at 668-5803 by Wednesday, August 3lst, 1988. Ralph T. Walton Deputy Clerk The Corporation of the Town of Whitby CORPORATION 0F THE TOWN 0F WHITBY CONTRACT W88-72 SUPPLY! PLANTING AND- MAINTENANCE 0F-STREET TREE RELCEET,18 Tenders for the above wiII be received by Mrs. Gall Gosleigh, Purchasing Agent until 2:00 p.m., Wednesday, September 7, 1988. Specificat ions and tender forms are available at the Town of Whitby Treasury Department, 575 Rossland Road East, Whitby, Ontario. Telephone (416) 668-5803, extension 236 Lowest or any tender flot necessarily accepted. MRS. GAIL GOSLEIGH PU)RCHASING AGENT By Debbie LuchuL Sixty children are being entertained in a program run by the Durhamn Association for Family Respite Services this summer. With the assistance of a federal grant, the prograni, called Fun Fest, is for handicapped children to enjoy a few outings over the summer while giving their caregivers or parents some tâme to themselves, to spend with other offspring or just to provide a feW days when working parents would not have to worry about finding day care for their child. The prograni is run by two students with the supervision of full time respite services staff. Each of the summer employees has a group of 30 children for whom they are responsible. On each outing, one child from each of these groups is selected to go, so that' there is" one on one" attention. Children enrolled in the prograni undergo interview£- (with their parents present) te determine what their interests are, what their disabilities are and what their home situation is like. LOCATION Your Name Address. Phone No. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Last Week's Winner: Cynthia Bird Thomas Jackson House 1200 Brock St. S. The tower of this yellow claphoard house is a landmark on Brock St. just N of Highway 401. Buiît in 1904, it is the finest in a row of five estate homes still standing. Jackson who was active in local polities cied of tyhoid fever at the age of only 39, just two years after this house was buit. Behind the house is the original drive shed and a section of original fencing*. t*Local ArchitecurlConservation Advisory Committee l i7DDD DURHAM MM Each participant in the program goes on two or more outings throughout the sunimer to such* locations as Cullen Gardens, Canada's Wonderland, the Ontario Science Centre and the Toronto Zoo. Ainong other activities, a camping weekendhas been planned. This is the second summer in which the prograxn has been run. Katrina Greco and Kelly Knox, of McMaster University and Trent University respectively, have been hired through a federal SEED grant for the summer. Knox and Greco are planning to work with children in their future careers as a speech pathologist and as a teacher. The Durham Association for Family Respite Services is a non-profit organization providing placement of handicapped children with a temporary c&aregiver to give an interval of rest or relief to the primary caregivers. Individuals who have been screened and trained volunteer through Durham Association for Family Respite Services to share their home for short periods of time with a handicapped child.