THE DAILY DURHAM LOCAL GUIDE
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Whitby Lawn Bowling Club is listed in Durham Region's business dataset at 833 Brock Street South, Whitby, Ontario. Its recorded business activity is civic and social organizations. Contact the business to confirm current services and hours.
The Whitby Lions Club is a Whitby chapter of Lions Clubs International, the world's largest service-club organization. The club meets on the 1st and 3rd Tuesdays of each month at 7:15 p.m., September through June, in the 2nd Floor Large Meeting Room of the Iroquois Park Sports Centre. Members run local fundraisers and service projects including an annual New Year's Dinner & Dance, an eyeglass collection program, and a club house at the local Safety Village.
Whitby-Oshawa Chinese Baptist Church is listed in Durham Region's business dataset at 120 Kent Street, Whitby, Ontario. Its recorded business activity is religious organizations. Contact the business to confirm current services and hours.
Wick Presbyterian Church is a historic rural congregation in the hamlet of Wick, Brock Township, established in 1849, with its current red-brick church building completed in 1893. For more than 175 years it has served as a community hub: a place of worship, learning, music and social gathering, and the setting for baptisms, weddings and funerals across generations. The congregation gathers for worship at 11 am on the second and fourth Sunday of each month, with Sunday School at 10:15 am before those services (open to all ages). The building also hosts community service groups and clubs at discounted rental rates, musical performances, photography sessions, and affordable event rentals including weddings in the sanctuary with its wooden cathedral ceilings, stained glass windows and seating for up to 180. Event rentals are managed by Memories Made Events and Decor.
The Women's Multicultural Resource and Counselling Centre of Durham Region (WMRCC) is a registered Canadian charity based in Pickering and serving Durham Region since 1993. It provides free, confidential, culturally responsive support to women, youth, children, gender-diverse people, and people with disabilities from diverse backgrounds, including crisis intervention, trauma-informed counselling, newcomer settlement support, youth and seniors programs, mentorship, diversity training, and economic empowerment initiatives such as the Worker Cooperative Development Program. WMRCC also operates Shop for Good, an online marketplace for artisans from underrepresented communities. Address: 1355 Kingston Road, P.O. Box 66164, Pickering, ON L1V 6P7. Phone: 905-427-7849; toll-free 1-877-454-4035. Office hours: Monday-Friday, 9am-5pm.
YWCA Durham has been a turning point for women and their families since 1945, providing emergency, temporary, and permanent housing plus supports across Durham Region. Core services include the Y's WISH emergency shelter and 24-hour crisis line, interim and second-stage housing, long-term counselling, job-skills and peer-mentoring programs, and a Community Enrichment Centre with recreation and venue rentals whose revenue funds its programs.
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