PAGE 2, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 10, 1977, WHITBY FREE PRESS Job fires up youths department in an arrange- and finish at the end of Aug. program provides first-hand By BRIAN WINTER ment which is beneficial to They are on duty from 8:30 experience on the duties of a to both the fire department a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday to professional fire fighter, says For the past seven years, and the students. Friday. Platoon Chief Ken Corner. Whitby students who are There is plenty of work Throughout July they They often do not realize interested in fire fighting for the students to do, they acted as teachers and instruc- there is so much involved have had an opportunity to provide valuable manpower tors for the Junior Fire Dept., in fire fighting, he says. find out what it is all about during vacation time when and for the rest of the "We don't sit around playing through the Whitby Fire the full-time staff is reduced. summer they are working on cards, waiting for the alarnf Department's student em- ployment program. This year, three boys and one girl are spending the summer working for the fire The students, Laurie Butler, AI MacDonald, Dave Baker, and Brett Hoffman, started work on June 20, the fire department's annual cleanup and maintenance pro- gran. All trucks and equip- ment are brought to the main hall on Brock Street for a cleanup and checkup by the students. Other duties include going on farm inspections with one of the full-time fire fighters, and the boys respond to some fire aiarms. This is the third year that girls have been included in the summer employment program. They help witli secretarial duties .and office work, and go on inspections. The summer employment About 45 students have gone through the summer employment program since it was started by the Whitby department. In the earlier years there were as many as eight students participating, but in later years this number has been cut to four. There were 21 applications for the four postions open this year, says Platoon Chief Corner. Sone of the students who worked for the Whitby Fire Department have gone on to further training and even joined a full-time fire dept. staffs. Blayne Pascoe, a student hired in 1970 and 1971, is nov a full-time member of the Whitby Fire Department. Three students who worked for the Whitby Fire Department are taking a fire technology course at Algon- guin and Seneca Colleges, and two of this year's students are considering taking the course in the fall. According to Platoon Chief Corner, fire departments are difficult to get into for employment, because they usually hire only local people. The minimum age to work as a student fire fighter is 18. So far the program has been very successful says Platoon Chief Corner. Students Load hose Student Fire Fighters Brett Hoffman, AI MacDonald, Laurie Butler, and Dave Baker load hose into the back of a fire truck as part of the Whitby Fire Department's mainte- nance program. The four students are hired for the summer to learn how a fire department operates, and two are intending to take a fire technology course at Seneca College in the fall' Free Press Photo West Lynde C.A. director disappointed about Camp X, the World War ticated operation which had II spy camp on the shore of inspired the creative talents Lake Ontario at Whitby is a of Ian Fleming and had thing of the past, but at least transformed ordinary citizens one Whitby resident wants to into 'the bravest of the brave' see this historic site comm- to become the vanguard of emorated in some way. hope for Occupied Europe. Allan Longfield, com- 'Today, the site ofthis munity and publicitry top-secret and crucially imp- directory of the West Lynde ?rtant cog in the allied Community Association, is secret' war awaits the interested in finding out more bulldozers to finish off the about the famous spy camp work of vandalism, negiect, and would like to see a and demolition teams, since commerorative plaque or a a much-needed industrial museum set up there. park will soon spanta and The following are remarks adjacent lands. about camp X which he 'As Canadians, we have a published in the latest West long and miserable history Lynde Community Associ- of neglecting our past and ation newsletter: turning wistfully towards our 'Inspired by William southern neighbours. 'Gee, Stephenson's book. (A Man Called Intrepid) and a mixture of astonishment and T o oM~ f. pride in Whitby's role, we recently visited the locale to studv d with another couple inter- ested in preserving some meh shmory of that clandestine school for intelligence agents. With the future of 'To our disappointment, Whitby's downtown core a we found weeds and a major issue at present, the concrete rubble: ail that Town of Whitby is preparing remains of a complex, sophis- to send representatives to a ID * .. ID n*d sympoosiumon the problems and potential ofdintri l IHRUa cores in medium and itand RENT-A-CARjacties. SThe symposiumn will be le GvUS OWNg aheld Nov. 1 and 2 at the gu MOTORS LTD. Royal York Hotel in 1201 DUNDAS ST.E.WHITBy Toronto. It is sponsored by lb DAI LY WE E KLY@ the Ministry of Housing, with sYEARLY ontributors from the MtHr asto SUniversity ofw n estern r ve tC l Ontaro, the Association of sign Municipalities of Ontario, the c Canadian Association of a p-Iousing and Renewal, CampX our history isn't very interesting. You've preserved and protected yours--but it was worth preserving.' 'We would appreciate receiving the names of local persons or their relatives who were connected with the operation, or photos and other memorabilia. With your help, perhaps we can persuade the 'powers that be' to investigate the possibility of erecting a small museum or a Camp X display. 'Surely a commemorative plaque would be a minimal form of homage and respect. Please help preserve a part of Whitby's past. Call Allan Longfield at 668-1173. Whitby wntowns Ryerson Polytechnical Institute, the Organization of Small Urban Municipalities, the Ontario Association of Planners and the Provincial Liaison Committee. 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