WhItby Fm Pmss, Wec*day, M" 6.ch o, 96Pae 9 funraiser' critical'fo WCA Daisy D Humdreds of Durham Roglon women and children riisk losing emergency housinir and other support servces uniss Iocà residents help make up for provincial funding cuts, the YWCA of Oshawa feare. 'We are ecrambling, quite frankldy, to do everything we can to raise money from the community" saye Eva Martin Blythe, executive director of the YWC&. "We've got $160»00 loe coming ln from the lnistry of Community and Social Food bank needs more canned"goods The Helping Hands food bank deeperately needs more canned goodu. The food bank la hoping area busineeses, can provide donatione of canned goodu to help meet the needs of the increaeing number. of familles using the service, based in Courtice and servng Whitby, Oshawa and Clarington. Food bank uupervisor Sharon Dme maye 228 people - ail referred by socal services agencies used the. bank from Feb. 1 to 19. Plenty of other food items, including meat and bread, are provided by -busineuses 'from Scarborough te Bowmanvllle, but canned goode are in short supply. For more Information, cal liDeu at43-271 Services." On March 8, the YWCjA, ln association wlth The Body Shop, la holding Its third annual Dalsy Day, the firet of several crltlcall- important events planned to help fumd Its emergency ehelter, counselllng and other eupport services for women and children in crisie, situations. The theme of thie More charges in '95 for welfare fraud Durham- Regional Police laid three times as many charges for welfare fraud cases in 1995 compared te 1994. Police laid 177 charges last year, compared te 59. in 1994, after investigations by police and the Region of Durhamn social services department. There were 56 people arrestea for welfare fraud laut year, compared te 25 in 1994. and their children ln jýax- Pickering, but provincial funding forthaproectmaybe terrninated at teedoMrh Blythe says. As lclng on the 'cake, Blythe expectsa'significant reductionlin funding thie faîl for the YWCAs Communlty Partners Project, which works with Landlords te find affordable housing, for homelesu women. The YWCA. now ,bas one conimunity worker doing the, job of the previous three, in'handling cases involving women, children and youth and the ethnic- communltyr. "The complexlty of ber caséload has lncreased -dramaticaUly," Blythe maye. "Socme of It se can handle; me ofit she cant - weWr elmply havlng te eay 'no' more often.le It le critical that the YWCA manages te, raise at leaut $60,000 locally tbls year, she maye. She le counting on March 8Daley Day té brlng ln at least $20,000 of that. In addition te provincial fundlng, the YWOA also recelves grants frmà -United Way campaigna 'ln Oshawa-Whitby- Clarington and AJax-Pickering, as weil as the Town of Clarlngton 's!y year'u Daiuy Day, held in coirjunction with International Women's Day, le 'Abuse and Youth.' The eilk, Japel-size daieles are sold for a dollar at locations throughout Durham Reglon. Al proceedu wlll go toward the YWCA!e houeing and support services for women victlms of violence. Last year, emergency, ehelter, counselling and referrale were among services provided by the YWCA te almout 1,200 motheru with children and single women, the majority of them homelesu or victime of abuse. More than 27,000 nutrltious nisals were served te women and children at Adelaide House in Oshawa. The YWCA also provides rent-geared-to-incoine-houslng at 55 McGrlgor Street, a 40-unit Oshawa apartment building. But in 1994, provincial cuts foroed major changes in APPLE house, formerly 'a second-stage housing project serving the &jax- Pickering area. In its place, the YWCA now only offers -counselling and referrals -to abused woxnen pop Purchase for only 32888 $499smartLease per month/ 36 months plus a clownpayment semoniul of S2,-5518 or equîvalent trade, security deposit S575 and freight S670 'Business Ow ners Buy Without -CASH! BART 1- ER WORL (905)723-4923 CON 1-800-668-5915