Whitby Free Press, 4 Jun 1980, p. 3

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On the road June 16.... Buses are rea dy to go! Regional Councillor Bob Attersley is shown here standing to the freshley painted Whîtby Transit logo that was put on the town's four new buses. He said that the buses will be on the road on June 16. "Its been a long, hard fight,"! Attersley said, "but we finally got the buses on the road. " Attersley also said that thie survey the Free Press did last fali was one of the deciding factors in the seven year fight to get a municipal transit service in the town. When finally on the roads, the buses will serve al of the town south of Rossland Road going to the townlines on the east and west, to the Whtiby Psychiatric Hospital to the sout.h and the town hall to the north. -Free Press Photo by Michael Knell WHITBY FREE PRESS, WEL)NESDAY, JUNE 4, 1980, PAGE3 Sklar workers back on the job After a one-week layoff, about 500 employees of Sklar Fu.riture Ltd. returned to work Monday at the corn- pany's Whitby plant. According to conipany spokeman Bob Donald, the layoff which was announced in April, was designed to allow market sales of fur- niture to catch up with the factory's production. Some of the companies employees, members of the Uphoisterers' International Union, Local 50, renined on the job last week to per- form maintainece duties, he said. This is flot "A major situation by any mneans,"' Donald said adding, "Our sales have been this year then ever. It's just hitting peaks and valleys. " According & to t.he spokesman, dealer orders are not as high at this time of year which is just before t.he new lines of furniture goes into production. "Dealears hold their or- ders until they see our new styles and fabric speads," Donald said. The layoff plans were negotiated with the union by the company. "lnstead of working four days a week for a while they preferred the one-week layoff," Donald said. "Most of our employees were hap- py to have the week off ." No other layoffs are plan- ned for the Whitby plant, ac- cording to union represen- tative John O'Connor. TAKE NOTICE THAT a Public Meeting of The Liquor Licence Board of Ontario will be held at the ROYAL CANADIAN LEGION, 217 MURRAY STREET, PETER- BOROUGH, ONTARIO, on WED- NESDAY, JUNE 25th, 1980, at the hour of 9:30 o'clock in the forenoon, at which time the Board will hear applications for new licences in accordance with The Liquor Licence Acf, 1975 and Regulations thereunder. The fo4lowing establishments have applied for a licence of the class indicated, and the applica- tion will be entertained at the aforementioned location and time. Arthur Treacher's Fish& Chips Restaurant 1111 Dundas Street East. Whitby Dining Roomn Licence Applicant: Thunder Bay Food Services Limted Express Restaurant 105 Consumers Drive, Units C & D, Whitby Dining Roomn Licence Applicant: Thakon Llmited AND FURTHER TAKE NOTICE that any person who is resident in the municipality and who wishes to make representation relative to the application. shahl make their submission to the Board in writîng prior to the date of the hearing, or in person at the time and place of the hear- ing. (Copies of written submis- sions wîiI be forwarded f0 the applîcant). Executive Drector Liquor Licence Board of Ontario 55 Lakeshore Boulevard East TORONTO, Ontario. M5E 1A4 MINISTRY 0F CONSUMER AND COMMERCIAL RELATIONS THE LIQUOR LICENCE ACT, 1975 Board to buy word pro cess equipment for the sehools I The Durham Board of Education may spend as much as $286,000 on micro- coniputers and word processing equipment. The board has approved of the idea, in principle, and the equipment will be used ini the instruction of Durham students in the use of com- puters. The computer study conimittee proposed that the board introduce the system on a controlled basis in both elementary and secondary schools. Each secondary school giving computer science and data processing courses will receive about $15,565 for the program. There will be about 12 schools eligible for the program giving a cost of $186,780. A mobile computer program wiIl be used for elementary schools at a cost of $56,795. High school technology departments teaching com- puter technology will receive $2,000 for the program, giving a total of $20,000. In an effort to lease word processing equipment and provide in-service training a provision of $20,000 was proposed for the 1980 budget but was deferred, however, by the budget-audit commit- tee. The board also heard a recommendation that it make a committment, in principle, to add programs and equipment in future years after an annual evaluation. Trustee Linda Carder, of Pickering, told the board that she was concerned that students believed that they had left school with com- mercial training only to discover that this is not s0 because of a lack of training in word processing. Whitby Trustee David Sixns, chairman of the budget-audit committee, did not thing that his committee was the right one to study the idea. '"We are trying to flush out the pedagogical objectives and goals of the whole program and I don't feel that -'s for budget-audit to decide," he said. Sims recommended that it go te the program and curriculum committee before it cornes to his com- mittee but receive no sup- port from his felluw truste'ts. YOU DON'T PAY FOIR YOUR MISTAKES j M.B.M. PHOTOGRAPHY When you bring in a roll of film to be prooessed, wo charge you ONLY FOR TH-E PRINTS THAT COME OUT We'll also be there to give you friendly, professional advi ce (if you want it) and show you wbere you made your misteke. M.B.M. - The Friendly Pro fessioncils MEDMA PHOTOGRAPKY 131 BROC K STREET NORTH WHITBY 668-6111 QU[Il BENJAMIN PROCESING .KJ FILYM LABRATOES LTD. Mon, Wed, 9 - , Thurs F, 9 8; Sat -0 5

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