PAGE 2, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 2, 1978, WHITBY FREE PRESS Peter Perry of 1977 has helped many people Cont'd from P. 1 its successor, the King Street School, Dundas Street School and the old high school on Colborne Street. At the age of 16, she began working at Mathison's bake shop which is now part of the Chalet Restaurant, and continued to work there after the store was sold to a man named Patterson. In 1930 she married Fred Drew, who died about 15 gt rah bour, years ago, and two years later, she and ber husband purchased the bake shop and operated it for five years. From the mid 1930s to the late 1940s they operated it as Drew's Lunch, a restaurant, ice cream parlor and bus depot for the Town of Whitby. Mrs. Drew's sister Hazel, who lives with her now, worked in the restaur- ant, and so did another close friend, Greta Howitt. After she closed the & taber Specializing in Char-Broiled Steaks & Seafood, Businessmens Lunches SPECIALS TUES., WED., and THURS. 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The judges, in giving her the Peter Perry Award, said she received it "because of her fine community support and her readinçss to help anyone in need, regardless of colour, creed or nationality." Gertie does not know how many people she has helped in her many years of service, but she is usually working for about five or six at a time. "It comes natural," she says. "Somebody's stuck and I go and help them out." Mrs. Drew was one of the charter members of the Dr. J. O. Ruddy Hospital and was given a life membership in 1967. She was on the telephone committee for five years, and for several years, took the cart of supplies and gifts around to the patients at the hospital. She has been a member of the Ladies' Auxiliary since it started. Mrs. Drew joined the Oshawa Historical Society in 1965 and the Whitby Histori- cal Society in 1967, when it was founded, and has helped both organizations in many ways. She was one of the first members of the Good Companions Senior Citizens Club at Fairview Lodge, and has helped with activities at the Lodge ever since she joined. She is presently an executive member and convenor for the club, and has been in charge of numerous bake sales. Mrs. Drew joined the local branch of the Ontario Humane Society when it was founded and has helped out with bake sales and other fund raising activities. She also has assisted Muriel Sissons with the cattery which Miss Sissons founded at the shelter on Thickson Road. Mrs. Drew, a real animal lover, has four cats and a dog. Mrs. Drew has partici- pated actively in nine out of the past 10 twinning ex- changes between Whitby and Longueuil, Quebec. She has met many people on these visits and has kept of a correspondence with them. She enjoys the hospitality of the visits, and in the view of the Peter Perry Award judges, has contributed much to the goodwill between Whitby and Longueuil on the exchanges. "I like people," says Mrs. Drew, and people have been an important part of her life. She was particularly pleased to see former Whitby Clerk-Treasurer John Frost at the Peter Perry dinner last week, and recalled how she assisted him in numerous jobs for the Town of Whitby for many years. She has enumerated at elections ever since she was old enough to vote and has opened her home as a polling station for many years. Mrs. Drew's interests include gardening and collecting antiques, and she is always activiely working in the community. The judges, in choosing Mrs. Drew as the outstand- ing citizen of Whitby for 1977, referred to her numerous services to the community, given freely over a number of years. "These services have been done quietly and perhaps Gertrude Drew, winner of the Peter Perry Award as Whitby's oustanding citizen of 1977, holds her calico cat, Scampi, in the garden of her home on Euclid Street. Mrs. Drew received the Peter Perry Award for her many kindly and unselfish acts for the sick, needy and lonely people of Whitby for a period of 40 years. She is a member of many community organizations, and has participated in all but one of the 10 twinning exchanges between Whitby and Longueuil, Quebec. Free Press Photo unkown to many through innumberable kind and unselfish acts," they said. Seniors discuss needs of their activity centre A seniors acitivity centre "First" occurred recently when a General Membership meeting was called by Chair- man Richard England at the request of Andrea Ferrier, Field Representa-. tive for Health and Welfare Canada, New Horizons Branch to discuss future interests. Various suggestions were made for the betterment of the Centre, including a ramp between floors, which was ruled impractical by Fred Beckette of the REcreation Department because of the smaller size of the building (an elevator was considered as a possible answer) air conditioning, a second billiard table and most important of all, means of transportation to and from the Centre. This discussion was initiated by Tom Ashby who suggested that the taxi companies in Whitby be contacted and asked if they would agree to issue receipts for fares to members for reimbursement. A committee of six (two from the board and four from membership) was formed to look into tliese suggestions. In veiw of the large per- centage of members who have no cars or other means of transportation but who would make use of the Centre in the various areas available, this subject looms large in solving the problem of using this facility to its utmost. 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