PAGE 22, WEITBY FREE PRESS, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 22, 1989 Scout paper drive hurt by recycling By Trudie Zavadovics As recycling is growing, a tra- dition is dying, and boy scouts KAA- are feelin the pmnch in their pride ad their pocketbooks. For years, their monthly paper drive has been a major source of fundraisinig for the scouts.' In Whitby, this tradition is dying as it is feeling the 'blue' squeeze, the successful recyching program that has been a big hit in Whitby since it began last year.% "For a few months we werent getting any papers", says Terry Pirie, a beaver lader whose hus- band Jim is in his third year as the First Port Whitby Scout Group chairmnan. Myhusband putan ad in the pap5er for pick-ups. Now we have WHITBrY TA SERVICE LTD. With this years tax reform we xiii get you ai posssibie deductions, non refundabie credits and refundabie credits. We offer a year round service. For Your Personal udb c. 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But they haven't done a paper pick-up since last Christmas. "'ne boys have lost their enthu- siasm and so have their leaders," says the owner. She explained that, with the onset of the recycling program, not only has the success of the na-edrive ilptreased but so has the price of paper.* .i Nopc-pNEWSPAPERS are piling up at Prt WYscu on the incraseuand th sc0ut pap r die n e over Easter weekend Residents of WThitby, Ajax and Oshawa who receive regular recycling blue box pick-up on Fridays or Mondays will not receive collection over the Easter holiday. Reycling collection has been cancelled on Good Friday and Easter Monday. And alternative dates for pick-up, Thursday, March 23 or Tuesday, March 28, will not be scheduled due to a lack of spare vehicles and an inability to lease additional recy- dling vehcles. Whîtby residents are asked to hold their newspapers, glass and cans, plastic pop bottles until the following Friday or Monday col- lection. 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"Vie need to, use some of the resources we devote to, youth for skills development rather than for job creation. Last year the youth summer unemployments rates dropped to 6.9 per cent. Less than three years ago, that rate was nearly 13 per cent. Vie are in the midst of a booniing economy and many employers are having difficulties finding summer staff." One of the most important of the skills creation progranis, ha said, is the enhanced Environniental Youth Corps. The corps this year will provide up te, 3,000 jobs for young people in the community environentâl projects organized by conservation authorities, environmental and naturalist groups, teurist associations and other organizations, interested in the environment. There will be year-round jobs for young people working on corps projeets. Curling said that the provision of 3,000 jobs meets the commitment made in 1987 for the Environment Youth Corps. The Ontario Sunimer Employment Prograni, which provides a wage subside of $1.25 an hour to employers who create summer jobs, will be funded at $5.4 million to serve employers in an area where the youth unemployment rate is high. The program was previously available province-wide. In 1989, the prograni wilI be open to employers in Northern Ontario (including Parry Sound and Muskota), where the youth unemployment rate last suinner was almogt 12 per cent. For the first time this year native organizations in the north will as beeligible for the wage subsidy prograni. Up to 8,000 summer jobs wilI be created in the north. "By offering the wage subsidy program. only in areas where it is truly needed and by emphasizing sills training in our other magjor SEE PAGE 30 I I I I I I I I I I a 1