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WHITBY FREE PRESS, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 1, 1984, PAGE 5 YES creatin 110 jobs for unemployed lo'cal youth Jobs wil be created for some 110 local youths under a program sponsored jointly by the Durham Reglon Famiiy YMCA and the Ontario Youth Secretariat. The Youth Em- pioyment Service (or Y.E.S. for short) will place youths between the ages of 15 and 24 in- Jobs to uùpgrade their skilîs at no cost to the employer. Accorcling to John Barthel, the director cf the local prograni, some 70 fuil-time and 40 part- time Jobs wii be created, each lasting for about nine months. Each youth wil be paid the minimum wage. The local program wil operate on a budget cf $3W7,000 - ail of which Is. provided by the provincial governiment. Whiie the youth is placed in a local business, hie or she will actuaily work for the Y.E.S. program and wil fail und er their direct supervision as wiil the employer. While Bathel says that the employer is a "Ivery important part of the team",) Y.E.S. wil retain the right. te fire the client (as the youth is referred to) and will decide what client is placed in what job.., "4We make' the decision as te who goes where," hie says adding that the prograrn is careful to ensure that the client placed meets the employer's needs in terms of education and skiils. Bartbei also main- tains that no reàgular employee of a business in the program wiil be dlsplaced because of it. "This is flot just an op- portunlty for local em- ployers to get cheap labor or free labor."1 The client must come away with some sort cf work experience and with an instilled feeling of a job well done. "The last thing we want to do is hand these Young people another failure in their life,"' Barthel says adding "Hopefuliy, a't the con- clusion 0f the program, the employer will be able to offer them a permanent position." He noted that during previously, run progranis of a simillar nature, 63 per cent of the clients stayed on with the employer. This is the first time this sort of program has been Of- fered for a nine month period - previously it had enly been offered for six months - and Barthel hopes that this wili increase the program's-success. Berthel points eut that the unemployment rate for people between the ages of 15 and 24 is par- ticularly high - mostly because these people have ne marketable job skils. The whole thrust of the program, is to help them aquire those skiils. "If they don't get them they will con- tinually be on the welfare roils, " he says. Fred Horne, chair- man 0f the Y.E.S. ad- visory committee, echees these sentimen- ts. "These people are net job ready," he says, "We have to make these people as job ready as possible." Horne says that the program will give many of them their first tangible job experience. Barthel says that this program is a com- promise. "Short of for- cing them back to schooi or forcing an employer to take them on, this is one of the best routes avallable" for 'helping these young people. He also noted that every dollar spent is carefuily scrutinized. The Durham program will be one cf the larges in the province and already bas a sufficient number of employers and Jobs available. Barthel said that what is needél now are young people willng and wan- ting te work. For more information about this program, cail Susan Cresson or San- dra Sauhuier at 668-3373. No mail .service Monday There will be no postai service in Whitby next Monday in honor of the Civic Holiday. William Vaughn, superintendant of retail collection and delivery, said that there will be no letter carrier, rural route, mobile, wicket, special dellvery or priority ýpost service. There wiil be no street letter box collections. The box lobby at the' Whitby Post Office, Dundas St. E. and Perry st., MUil, however, be open. Dance~ no nlhl othe etsounds of Ohose'70s -UESDn..d under LB.O. 33 Taunton Rd. W. (at SlCoe) NOW $,O.DISCOUNT on al Nissan Trucks r - ~ Long Box, Short [~JJ~JIII\~N'%~Box, ;King Cab Pine and Gift Shop opens Terry Cox, the owner of the Pine and Gift Shoppe is seen here accepting a goid Town of Whitby key chain from Mayor Bob Attersley in recognition of the officiai opening of bis store at 110ODundas St. E. The shop specializes ini the retaiiing of fine pine and oak furniture inciuding hedroorn suites, living room suites, dining room furniture as well as a wide variety of gift items. AUl cf their merchandise is hand made in their own Oshawa-based manufacturing and warehousing facility. Cox was originally located in the Sheridan Mail, Pickering but decided to reiccate to Whitby a short time ago. The Pine and Gift Shoppe is open Mondays to Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., except Tbursdays and Fridays when they are open until 9 p.m. Free Press Staff Photo Crated 600 lbs. bike" stolen Thieves couldn't wait for the merchandise to be put on the showroom floor se they stole a still packaged -motorcycie froni a local dealer recently. According to a spokesman for the Durham Regiogal Police Force, the motorcycle, which was stiil in the shipping crate,. was stoien sometîxne between Juiy 10 and 26 from the rear storage area of Brooklin Cycle on Dundas St. E. Police said the 1984 Honda SC150 weighed about 6001bs. and was stored 12 to 15 feet off the ground when it was stolen from the well lighted area. The motorcycle was valued at $5,8W0. 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