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WHITBY FREE PRESS, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 14, 1979, PAGE il Daàqffodils sold for cancer March 29, -.3 1 The daffodil lias becomne as much a symbol of the Cana- dian Cancer Society as the caduceus (a staff with two snakes entwined). Lt was on a spring day rnany years ago that the Cancer Society volunteers decided to decorate the tables for a cancer tea with daffodils. These early spring bloomns, they feit, rejpresen- ted a sense of hope - renewed 1f e. This sense of' hope and renewed life was exactly the feeling which the Cancer Society volunteers wanted to express in every facet of their work: education of the Public with regard to the necessity for an early visit to the doctor when warning signais are noted, service to those unfortunate persons Who were suffering from the, diseas e and the raising of funds to support the work of Cancer Researchi to find the cause and a cure for this disease. Years later, the same group, 0f volunteers discus- sed the possibility of having a Daffodil Day at the begin- ning of April - the Cancer Society's campaign month. Car fire damage is $500 Whitby fire fighters ex- tinguished a $500 car fire at 71 Applewood Cresent, at 4:16 p.m. Feb. 26.1 The cause of the fire was listed as gas leaking frorn the connection of the gas line to the mn-lne gas filter. The car belonged to Anton Mar- tinelli, the fire department reported. DEATHS' SHERMAN STEPHENlSON At the Bestview Lodge, Oshawa, on Tuesday, March, 6, 1979, Sherman Stephenson (formerly of Whitby), be- loved husband of Beatrice Margaret Wood (of Oshawa). Dear father of Mrs. J. McGriskin (Evelyn) of Markham, Mrs. J. Conlin (Helen) of Bowmanville, Jim of Rexdale, Bill of Brooklin, Gordon and Allan of Oshawa. Loved by 23 grandchildren and 20 great grandchildren, in his 9lst year. Rested at the W.C. Lean, in lier 8lst year. Rested at the W.C. Town Funeral Chapel, Whitby, for Requiem 1hlass in St. John Evangelist'Church, Whitby, on Thursday, March 8. TI- terment later in' St. John's Roman Catholic. Cemetery, An anonymnous donor ordered and paid for 5,000 daffodils to be flown into Toronto from Vancouver. A group of veterans from the Second World War sorted and cut them and shipped thern out across the City of Toronto. From then on Metropolitan Toronto has celebrated Daffodil Day and other cities have followed suit. In Oshawa, Whitby and Brooklin members of Beta Sigma Phi Sorority will be selling daffodils on Mardi 29, 30, and 31. Businesses will beý displaying daffodils and churches will be celebrating Daffodil Sunday. The message of hope which every yellow-smocked volunteer increasingly en- deavours to bring to her work is symbolized perfectly by the flowers of spring of whichi Shakespeare wrote: " .... daffodils, that corne before the swallow dares and take the winds of Mardi with beauty". (From THE WINTER'S TALE by William Shakespeare.) CUSTOM DRAPES &SHEERS- )jztterns 1<Dréss Goods '~Excellent- Prices on drapes. - 21S Duildas St, F. -668-4921 I RYA *59~-579-4000 PREMER ~89?~ 710 WILSON RD. S. SUPRtEME $24-9?5 S AOT AIL PAINT WORK GUARANTEED d l o PMOURS Moni hra Fi am 6 pno* Su ot am 2?Pm 100l LOCATIONS IN ONTARIO - SE£ YOUA PMlONSBOOK FOR THE ONE 14EAAEST YOU. z ýýwei U ; - , ý