WHITBY FREE PRESS% WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 26, 1977, PAGE,3 Bill Irwin returns to law On Jan. 1, Bihll rwin, who practised law in Whtby for several years b efore working for Red Wing Orchards, returned to law practice in this town. He has gone into partner- ship with one of Whitby's longest-serving lawyers, Hugh Nicol, under the name' of Nicol and Irwin. Mr. Irwin, a member of the town counicil in 1973, was involved in municipal work in his former practice, and will be .again devoting his time mainly to municipal law. He was called to the Bar in 1967, and practised law in Whitby fro m then until October 1974 when he and his sister Marion O'Donnell became involved in the management of their fam~ily farm, Red Wing Orchards, and its roadside fruit and vegetable stand. While in the law practice, Mr. Irwin was a partner with Bill Hobson from 1968 to 1971, and fromi 1971 to 1974 with Coath, Irwin, Livingstone and Johnston. On Dec. 23, 1976 the Irwins decided to stop operat- ing the roadside mnarket at Red Wing Orchards, su thiey could devote miore timie to development of the orchard- Season ai decline in On the closing of the road- side market Mr. Irwin said: "It became very clear as we «lent along, that very few people, if any were operating both a roadside market with the scope, of ours and an apple orchard the size of ours. "One or the other was being operated and usually by a small involved family group which helped keep labor costs in line. While we have been working on our market, we have been unable to spend much tiine developing new ideas on how ta modernize or strearnline aur orchard operations", said Mr. Irwin. It would seem that it's just too rnuchi, then, to manage both market and orchard. And so, in an attempt to cut down our costs and t'O have tirne enough to re-think aur orchard program, we have decided to close our roadside market".'- Starting this rnonth, Red Wing Orchards wîll be retailing its apples at its cold storage building on the north side of F-lighway 2. Other changes inçluide reducing the size of the orchard by cutting down 1 ,000 trees, and introdticing a "pick-youir-own", prograrn, probably in the fall of 1977. Meanwhile, Mr. lrwin has left the orchard business to return to law. 'His partner, Hugh Nicol, lias acted as solicitor for the Town of Whitby on a nuilber of occasions. employment Employnent activity showed a seasonal decline during the month of Decern- ber at the Canada Manpower Centres in Oshawa, Whitby and Ajax. A total of 452 placements we re made through the thiree offices, up from 275 placements in December 1975. Figures for December 1975 did flot include the Post Office totals, as final figures were flot available until January I1976. A total of 7,591 people without employment \vere registered in the three Centres, consisting of 3,919 male and 3,872 femnale registrants. This is down slightly fromr November figures when 7,743 unemn- ployed people were registered. In December there were 1 6 Canada-signed agreements approved under the Canada Manpower Industrial 'Training Program. As a resuit of these agreements, 64 people will benefit from both training and employment within the various companies in our community. The Industrial Training Program provicles financial incentives ta em- ployers in filling skilled job openings byhiring and training staff. The Program also offers partial financial reimnburse- ment of trainee wages when company operations expand and more employees are needed, or when present employees need to be upgrad- ed to retain their jobs. At the end of December there were 72 people receiving academnie upgrading at Durham College in preparation ta enter the varjous skill training courses. At present there are 194 students in these courses. sponsored by the Canada Manpower Centre. There are currently two seà ts available in the machine shop course. To' 'be eligible, students must be atiJeast 17, one year in the labour1ýÃ"rce'and have a Grade, 10 e ducation level'. "I CAN'T PROVE IT, BUT IF MY INSTINCTS MEAN ANYTHING. THAT GUY'S DIGGING A TUNNEL SOMEWHERE." Business Lunch Speciols Mon., Tues. & Wed. Dining Room OnIy. Spaghetti Reg. 2.25 1 .49 Spaghetti & Meathali or Mushroom Reg. 3.00 2.49 Lasagna Reg. 3.25 2.25 Meatball Subs 1.75