Fà ge 30, Whitby Free Press, Wednesday. February 15, 1995 *SCHIZOPHRIENICS The Ontario Friends of Schizophrenics (Durham chapter) aupport group meets tonight (Weédnesday), e p.m., in building 30 (use t he rear entrance) of Whitby Mental Health Centre, 700 Gordon St. Whitb. The group meets the third Wednesday of each month. For more information, cail 404-1301. POSITI.VE TIME OUT Kinark Child and Family Servies offers a workshop on eTime Out,' Tuesday, Feb. 21, 7 ta 9 p.m., at St. PaulIs Catholic Schools, 200 Garrard Rd. N., WVhitby. The fee is $24 per person. Caîl 433-0386 ext. 26. ]PHOTfO CLUB The Whitby PhotorahicCu will meet on Monay eb. 20, -7 p.m., at Henry Street Hligh School, room 111, with a p resentation on «Summer ini Scotland.' Members and non-members welcome. For more information, cail Peter at 430-0823. M[EETING The Durham Begion Injured Workers will hold their general meeting on Feb. 22, 7 p.m., at the CAW Hall, 1425 Phillip Mury Ave., Oshawa. Guest speaker will be a chronic pain specialist. COUNTRY DANCE The women of the Moose Lodge will hold an 'Old Tyme' country dance (wear hearts for Valentines), on Sunday, Feb. 19, 1 p.m., at Moose Lodge, 731 Wilson Rd. S., Oshawa. Music by 'Thie Shades of Silver.' Admission is $4. Ail welcome. For more information, call 666-1449 or 728-5630. STAMP CLUB The Oshawa Stamp Club will meet on Tuesday, Feb. 21, 7 p.m., ini the cefeteria at 0'Neill CVI, Oshawa. Collectos and guests are welcome. 'For more information, call Roy at 728-2599. SOGH The Save 0ur General Hospi- tal committee will meet on Tues- d, Feb. 21, 7:30 p.m., at the itby municipal building (com- mittee room 1), Bosslend Road. ia MACINTOH USERS CLUB Macintosh Users East Club meet on Wensay, Feb. 22, 7:30 ta 10 p.m., at Anderson CVI, room 135, Whitby. The agenda is targeted toalal owners and users of Apple Macintosh personal computers. There will be a question and answer session for new Macintosh owners, and presentations on '94 income tex return preperation on a Mac, and fonts., CANCER SUPPORT Oshawa Breast Cancer Support Group meeting will be held on Thursday, Feb. 23, at Kingsview United Church (corner of Wilson and Adelaide Street), 7:30 ta 9:30 p.m. For more information, contact Carolyn at 576-4204 or Sylvia at 579-2680. ARifiRiTS CELALLENGE The Oshawa Good Life FItness Centre and Becquet Club is holding an 'Arthritis Challenge' during March. Ail proceeds from the event. go ta, the Arthritis Society in Oshawa public education. For more information or ta pick up a pledge form, calI 434-1800 or 434-7221. BABYSITING COURSE St. John Ambulance, Durham Region branch, bas scheduled a block of babysitting courses during March break. The course is designed to teach students how to preae for a babysitting jA, care of infants, toddlers and older children. The course teaches students basic standard firet aid, and use of emergency services in the community. The coet is $25 and includes a workbook, handouts, videos and hands-on experience. Upon successu completion of the course, a certificate is awarded.. Cail (905) 434-7800 or 1-800-267-1032. ORGANIC GROWERS The Durham Canadian Organic Growers meet on Wednesday, Feb. 15, 7:30 p.m., at the Region headqurtrs building on Rossland Road, Whitby. Norm Craven, a membèr of the American Association of Dowsers and winner of the 1993 world'sé lergest pumpkim contest, will share bis knowledge of 'dowsimg (uing a divining rod). Members of the audience will have a chance ta, perform a- dowing. For more information, caIl 436-2418. GIR-L GUIDE COOKIES Girl Guide chocolate and vamilla sandwich cookies are available until the emd of Febru- ary. Guides are going door to door ta take orders. F or more information, caîl 430-4977. EPJLEPSY Epilepsy Durham Begion meets Tuesday, Feb.- 17, 7:30 p.m., at the Kinsmen Centre, 109 Coîborne St. W., Oshawa. A neurologist will be guest speaker. Ail is welcome. For further details, call 666-9926. ITCU The Firet Oshawa ITC Club, which helps develop confidence in public speaking and leader- ship, will meet onuesday, Feb. 21, 7p.m. at the Michael tarr Bul ing rst floor, 33 Kimg St. W., Oshawa. For more informa- tion, caîl 579-9179. Non-profit communltygroups whlch are baeclin WhItby or have a subutantial Whltby ,membershlp may l acies th page ai no cost. %nPmnol n-Makt .fO~b 0,rWMp w#I b. c*WrCeCneb Ic ..- C 1i.D.dn Fr a .m WO1IKSHOP The Ontario Bogistered Music Teachers Association, Oshawa and District Branch, will hoet a piano teachers' workshop on 'Mazurkad in the new Royal Conservatory Syllabus, on Monday, Feb. 20, 9:30 ta 11:30 a.m., at the Thomas House of Music in Whitby. Admidssion is $5 for non-members. MEDICINE WORKSHOP A Sacred Medicine Wheel workshop, with Aian Grey Wolf, will be held Saturday, F eb. 18, 1:30 ta 4 pamn, at Hope Spiritualiet Church, 300 Court St., Oshawa. Experience the rites and ceremonies of native Arnerican traditions. Cost is $15. For more information, cal Margaret at 666-3256. VALENTINE'S DANCE The Head Injury Assocation of Durham Begion will hold a Western Valentines dance on Saturday, Feb. 18, 8 p.m. ta 1 a.m., at Heydenshore Pavilion, Whitby, featuring the rockIng country sound of Chaser, and lime-dancing with local instructor Maime. SUPPORT GROUP Reach To Recovery breast cancer support group for patients, family and friends meets Feb. 16, 7 to 9 p.m., at the Famiily Trust building, southeast corner of Bayly and Finiey, Ajax. For more information, ca i the Canadian Cancer Society, West Durham unit, at 905-686-1516. CAIRD PARTY Westminister United Church (Manning Road off Garrard), Whitby will hold a cerd perty, Saturday, Feb. 25, at.7:30 p.m. Cost is $2.50. Prizes and refreshments. Ail welcome.' ýi3Whi &Ë! scSioous Station crossed the tracks 25 years ago By Brian Winter Town ut Whitb~y Archiviet Twenty-flve yeers ago tomorrow (Thursday), more than 300 WhiMtby citizens turned out on a cold winter day to witness the end of one era and the begirinmg of another. At il a.m. on'Feb. 16, 1970, the trains were srtopped on the Canadien National Railway~s main lime as the old Whitby' Junction station crossed the tracks to a new site where it'was to become an art gallery. Whiitby Arts Incorporated, founded three years earlier in the Centennial Building, had purchased the old station for $1 from the CNR,ý thus ensuring its future and preventing demolition. An anomymous domor provided the funds ta, pay for the move ta aa one-acre site at the corner of Henry and Victoria streets, where it renins as one of Whitby's; best-known landmarks. About 10 minutes before the il a.m. moving time, S2E. Spencer, CNIRs Toronto' area manager, officially turmed the station over ta Whitby Arts president John Schultz. Spencer presemted Schultz with a ecroil which read: 'This station, constructed by the Grand Trunk ~' Railway at Whitby Junction, O>ntario served the reilway and publicekrom 1903 ta 1970 when Canadien- National Railways made it available to Whitby Arts Imcorporated-" Along with the station, Wbitby Arts received the original plans for the building from Spencer. F.J. Dohan, a house mover, was responsible for moving the station on a flat-bed truck across the snowy flelds from its original site, at the east end of the present GO Transit station, on the north side of the tracks. Dohan'bad tald Whitby Arts that it would be impossible to, move the station north of the tracks because of bridges, trees and overhanging wires.' The omly alternative was to cross the tracks amd move south ta land that was once owned by the Ontario governmemt as part of the Whitby Mental Health Centre property. The wooden station, which had no basement, was jacked up and steel beams were placed underneath it. It was then set on the flat-bed truck. When ail was reedy, a whistle blew ta signal the beginning of the move. It took exactly five minutes ta, cross the trecks, said Donald Roberts, assistant supeintendent for Canadian National at Oshawa, for he had timed it with bis watch. Throughout the spring of 1970, a founidation of concrete blocks was built to provide a full basement for the station, and during the summer the renovations for use as an art gallery were carried out. On Sept. 26, 1970, Mayor Des Newman and Whitby Arts president Dr. David Epstein officia]ly opened the Whitby Arts Station Gallery. More than 200 people attended a 'Bailway Dimner' in the Begel Room of the Centennial Building the seme day, ta bomnour those who saved the sttion and gave it a new life. The Whitby Junction was originally located east of the Victoria Street railway crossing where the old Grand Trumk Bailway crossed the Port Whitby and Port Perry Baflway. A station was located there from 1856 when the Grand Tumk was opened tbrough Whitby, untilu" 1903 wben a new station was butît at the foot of Byron Street to Aîeet the terme of settiement of a lawsuit between the railway and the Town of Whitby. From October 1903 until late 1969, the WhitIby Junction Station was the stopping place for passenger trains passing through Whitby. The station gained a certain notoriety when it was the scene of the murder of a night telegraph operator, Billy Stone, on Dec. 11, 1914. This crime has neyer been solved. In 1981, the Whitby Arts Station Gallery was designated under the Ontario Heritage Act' as an important architectural Iandmark, and its red and yellow colours were changed to green and gray, the original Grand Trunk Railway colours of 1903. The station looks today as it did 92 years ago, with the exception of a vestibule constructed at the main entrance in 1988 to control the climate around the doors. DID YOU KNOW? That Cochrane Street was naxned à fter Samnuel Cochrane (1793-1879), a veteran of the War of 1812, who owned the land where Fairview Lodge is now located. He participated in the batties of Detroit and Queenston Heights. THE WHITBY Junction Station begins the journey to Its new site after crosslng the CNR tracks on Feb. 160 1970. «WMW iAm"ivesphob -MmMmMmw»Mý ý il DOWN SYNDROME The Durham Down Syndrome Association will meet on Tuesday, Feb. 21, 7:30 p.m., Whitby Bat Church, 425 Gilbert St.E. Whitby. Guest speakerwllb Anna Marie Maccarorie fi=m Children's Services Council 'of Durham. Bebysitting is available. Befreshments will be served. For more information, caI679-0187. OSHIAWA ONE PARENT The Oshawa One Parent Families Association will meet on, Tiiesday, Feb. 21, 7:45 p.m., for cofféeand cards, at the Croatian Culturel Sports Club Adria, 432 Simcoe St. S., Oshawa. All single parents, custodial or not, are welcome. For more information, cai Doug at 728-1011. OSHAWA ONE PARENT The Oshawa One Parent Families Association will hold a euchre party, followed by a dance, Saturday, Feb. 18, at the Croation Cultural Sports Club Adria, 432 Simcoe St. S. Oshawa. For information and details, cai Doug at 728-1011. 1SPORTS DANCE The Whitby Liegion Branch 112 Ladies Auxiliary will hold a sports dance on Saturday, Feb. 18, 9 p.m. to 1 a.m., at the Legion hall,' 117 Bryon St. S., Whitby. MUSIC by Ron Moore. Dress is casuel or western. Cost is $5 per person and lunch is included, plus spot 'and door prizes. Befreshments availeble. For tickets cae 668-3215 or obtain at Legion bar. CANADIAN CLUB The Canadien Club of Durhamn Regi on will meet on Tuesdaty,, Z21, 6:30 p.m., at the Holiday Inn Oshawa. Arthur Doyle auÃÉor of 'Front Benches anc1 Back Booms,' and president of the National*Institute for Media Studies, will discuss 'The Secrets of Media Image Makers. Ail wel- come. For more information, cal 905-686-2535 or 905-655-4530. EUCRURE The Ladies' Auxiliar3y of the Royal Canadien Legion will hold. a euchre on Thursday, Feb. 16, 8 p.m., at the Legion hall, 117 Byron St. S., Whitby. Coat is $2 at the door, includes lunch. Everyone welcome. )ast 1