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PAGE A - WATERLOO CMOMCLE. WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER s, 1983 can be purchased at the louowing stoves LeBlanc Tghagcg a. Variety Quick Trip Variety Erb St. West Westmount Pharmacy Towers Plaza - Waterloo Chronicle - 45 em St. E. Powell’s Variety King St., Waterloo Parkdale Pharmacy Parkdale Plaza Dutch Girl Shopette suns saitmiiAit 9m N 5th $399 Store Carry On Books King St. N. KWikie Market King St. North KWikie Market Hellman-Em 'St. Plaza Westmount Plaza Lexington Plaza King St. s. "Our aim is to give young people with limited education and min imal experience up to 20 weeks of employment," McCaffrey said. "Winter Experience also offers jobs for youth with physical or mental disabilities." Over 1,700 people will be em- ployed across Ontario through the province's Winter Experience 83-84 program. Bruce McCaffrey. provincial secretary for social development announced last week. While some of the jobs will be with the 23 participating Ontario government ministries, the em- phasis will be on job creation at the community level through business. municipal governments and non- profit organizations. The Winter Experience program is administered by the Ontario Youth Secretariat, a branch of the Secretariat for Social Develop- ment. Participants in the $4.75- million program are paid the provincial minimum wage of $3.50 an hour. The program begins Oct. 24, 1983 and ends March 31, I984. Eligible young people may pick up an application at their local Ontario Youth Employment Coun- selling Centre or Canada Employ- ment Centre. In Canada the day has been endorsed by a wide range of groups including the federal gov- ernment. the Ontario Ministry of Education. the Canadian Teach. Resource kits designed to assist teachers to develop in-elass or school-wide programs have been distributed to all area schools. Programs are expected to take place during the week prior to, or after. October 16. Province creates jobs for youth Deadline for receipt of applica- tions is Oct. 21. l983. Waterloo County Separate School Board and the Waterloo County Board of Education in co-operation with the Global Com- munity Centre are promoting edu- cational programming m all county schools to mark World Food Day, Sunday Oct. 16. This is the third year local schools have observed the special day, which was organized in 1981 by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization to strengthen public commitment to the elimination of world hunger. ers' Federation, and organizrailinn-s involved in international develop- ment work. Local Schools observe. Food Day Computer aids for handidapped Microcomputers, and how they can be helpful to the visually and vocally handicapped will be dis cussed and demonstrated at a public meeting Thursday, Oct. 6, at UW. A computer which speaks the text being typed and uses large characters on a screen will be on exhibit along with a system which enables a person with limited manual dexterity to select words and phrase; to be spoken by the computer. The meeting begins at 7 p.m. in Room 5158 of the maths and computers building. News digest u’ , n. ““E%fa" "/ There will be one complete letter box clearance. but no letter carri- er, parcel post or rural route delivery for the Thanksgiving day holiday. Bishop dedicates new chapel R.B. Kueneman, area manag- er/postmaster for Kitchener an- nounced last week that all post offices in Kitchener, Waterloo and Bridgeport will be closed Monday, Oct. 10. Thursday, Oct. 13 Rev. Anthony Tonnos, auxiliary Bishop of Ham- ilton will dedicate the new school chapel at St. David Junior High School. Special delivery service will be provided Oct. l0. The Bishop and local parish priests will celebrate mass at 9 tm. at St. Michael's Church on University Avenue. with St. David students their parents and school board members attending, Thanksgiving post office hours It will be the first chapel dedica- tion in a junior high school in Waterloo Region. School board trustees and the director of educa. tion, Frank Clifford. will attend the ceremonies. Race registrations will be ac- cepted on Oct. 9 between 7 a.m. and 8:30 a.m. at Conestoga Mall. The race will start from the mall at 9 a.m. Spectators are invited to observe along the King Street route or at the Centennial Stadium finish line. Dignitaries attending or assist- ing with the event include Mayors Marjorie Carroll and Dom Cardillo of Waterloo and Kitchener, lain Mair, president of Prudential As- surance, and Glenn Bier, chair- man of the K-W Hospital Board. Organizers expect a fast run with keen competition for the first-place finish. More than 1,000 entrants are expected to partici- pate. Dean Foster, winner of this year's Waterloo Classic 10 km Run, and Terry Goodenough, a sow-metre runner with the Cana- dian track and field team, are two of the top runners who will be competing in the first annual Prudential Assurance Oktoberfest 10 km. run, Sunday, Oct. 9. Pledge monies will help pay for a cardiac monitoring system being installed in the Cardiac Care Unit at K-W Hospital. Prudential sponsors Oktoberfest run CF is a childhood affliction which affects the digestive and upper respiratory systems. Dam- age is caused by a build up of thick mucous in the lungs and pancrea- tic area which prevents the flow of digestive enzymes from the pan- creas, resulting in malnutrition. The Waterloo County Chapter of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation will be holding a craft sale at the Kitchener Farmers Market Satur- day, Oct. 8. CF craft show at Farmers Market Funds raised through this sale will be used in the ongoing re- search to help find a cure for this life-threatening disease. Crafts would be appreciated as a dona- tion or sold on consignment.