PAGE le, WH1!BFm KPumS8 WEDNESDAY, JULY 29,1992 THE WHITBY Lions Club (photo at left) recently donated $1 ,740 to St. John Ambuance theIp buy suplies for the search and rescue team. (From le ) Lions president Dan Shisko and teamn members Blair Mann, Angela McKnlght and Myron Caky,. Arthur Whaley (middle photo) practises mouth-to-mouth and (photo at right) Gara Luxton practises bandaginjMegan Galger.. The trio was taklng the St. Jo ntlrst ald for youth course, -which has new classes beginning every month or so until early Dcember. Photo by Mark Rosser,* WhIby Fr.. Press Region to act as broker for job training program Richard Allen, the. Minister responsible for 'jobsOntario TrainingFund,' announced re- cently la series cf brokers fromn acroos the. province who will co-ordinate the $1.1 billion program designed Wo help crate. 90,000 jobs over three years. The broker in this area is the Regional socal services department, 44 Bond St. W., Oshawa, Ont. M1G 6R2. 'BTy strilkng partnerships with business, labour aÎnd training organizations at the community levelvwe are providing the long-term unemployed with a chance to upgrade their sdIlls and return to, the workforce." said Allen. 'JobsOntayioTiningFund' is not a watge subsidy, but -provides up to $10,000 in training credits oprvate companies for every new job created under the prograxn. Haif cf that assistance may b. used to train a firm's existing workforce. ,Up Wo 20,000 subsidized non-profit child care spaces will also be created across the province, as will thousands cf pre-empicyment training places reserved for people who require upgrading in basic literacy and nurneracy skills. HaIf of the jobs stimulated by the progra" will be ' filled by social assistance recipiens n the rest by unempicyrnent insurance exhaustees. "The governinent- appreciates that local'1 organizations are among those best placed to identify and respond to the training needs of business and Yo ut h group FROM PAGE 5 h. says. Magee has been involved with youth-oriented groups for about 50 years as a volunteer, includ- ig10 years as an >executive director of.Big Brothers in Ajax and Pickering. He has also been involved with unemployed workers," said Allen. "That's why we have decided t co-ordinate delivery cf the enthý. program through. a network cf comu ït and regional brokers4' Local brokers are responsible for matching prograin partiel- pants with potential employer training institutions an empicyment 'support as'ervices_, such as child care. JobsOntatio Training Fund will, b. available to employer. and workers i Ontario by mid-August. organizer William Magee, other groups such as the boy. scouts, air cadets and many sports teains. Magee,69 i s a veteran cf Worlic ar If and served in the arme' for 30 years before retiring -H. served with the famous First Special Service Force, known frei the movie 'The Devil's Briqade.' After retîrement, h. worked i administration. and recreation, including the. position cf deputy,., clerk and treasurer aud welfare' administrator for the town cf Dunnville, as recreation director and arena manager for the towu of Delhi' and as program director of theYlICA in NorthYork. t, .4 ..< ..~. 4 -4 MO0NTHLY PÀAVMENTS 0Auto-* Hô me * B'usiess OPEN: 8AM-6PM MON. TO SAT. AJAX - PICKERING WHITBY - OSHAWA. 376 BROCK ST. S., WHITBY ,(IGA- PLAZA). 'a, --- mil « mam, > â4