Whitby Free Press, 3 May 1978, p. 1

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Develop ment'delays botherBroo-klin YS. THIS MONEY IS NO GOOD SAYS -CO ..NSTABLE iGOOD Constable Roy Good, of the Durham Regionai Police shows samples of countetfeit money to Oshawa visitors Sandra Snelgrove, Sharon- Sneigrove and Shane Haswell, at the Oshawa and Area Home Show. The police booth was a popular Parents Parents of children at St. Leo's Separate School in Brookiin met with the Separ- ate Sehool Board Monday to try to prevent the celosing of the school at the end of June. The schooi trustees voted nine to five April 17 to close the schooi as an economy measure on June 30 and bus Stevens ati Sinclair Stevens, Federal Progressive Conservative financial critic wili be the guest speaker at the Ontario Riding Federal PC nomina- tion meeting Thursday night at 8 p.m. at the Pickering High School. Two candidates are ex- pected to seek the nomina- tion, Dean Kelly and Scott Fennell. Organizer of the nommiia- Local labor i The Oshawa and District Labor Council is threatening ti to picket the Durham n Regional headquarters in Whitby if the regional coun- ci cil does flot adopt a policy to ji hire local labor on its con-p struction projeets. i Labor Couincil President c( Bill Fairservioe hopes to get r the regional cquncil to recon- sider today a motion it made vi recently to use local labor. in When voted upon two weeks th agoIt failed to pasby one fn vote, The vote was lied, and pu protest 90 students to St. Paui's àool on Garrard, Road. rhe parents, w-ho are op- fing the proposed closing, ve drafted a brief for ýsentation to be board, ailing ^cost figures they Jwiil justify keeping the iool open. fi Dimitroff, a spokes- [)Mination nmeeting report that re- ts of the NHL playoff ckey game, wiii be an- inced periodicaiiy during ,meeting, and hope this Jattract delegates who ght otherwise stay at ne to watch the game oni good attendance is ex- .ted from Whitby, which is .t of the new Ontario ling, along with Ajax, Eering and uxbridge. ,considered onai Chairman broke ie by voting against the on. emotion wouid require actors on regionai pro- to hire local labor wben >le in, a move to reduce tmber of unemployed ruction workers in the n. widing to Mr. Fairser- close to, 700 jobs are lost Durham each year gb the use of laborers outside the region on attraction at the home show, which was held at Iroquois Park Arena from April 27 to 30. Free Press Photo by Brian Winter school's man for the parents, says the students from Brooklin will have to travel by bus for three hours every day to reach St. Paui's School. AI- though the school is only seven miles away, they have to travel the entire bus route, he said. He pointed out that if St. ,Leo's Schooi is flot re-opened some separate school sup- porters will withdraw their children froin the separate school system and send them to Dubiic schools. New lights are planned Two new sets of traffic lights will be installed in Whitbythis, year ýaid one existing set will be improved Council bas passed a by- iaw to instail lights at the Dundas and Garden-Blair in- tersection, and the intersec- tion of Brock and Dunlop Streets. The Sehool crossing signais west of Garden Street will be removed as a resuit oM the new lights. Improvements will be made to the traffie signais at Dundas Street and Garrard Road. SThe total cost oM the work is $59,00, of whicb $52,500 will be paid by the Ministry Mf Transportatio and Comn- munlcatons amc $6500 by the Townof Whltby. closing The parents feil that added transportation and other costs will eliminate any savings made by closing, the schooi. The board says there are more facilities such as a gym and library at St. Paul's but the parents are not im- pressed by this, said Mr. Dimitroff . A financial impact study for Brooklin's development bas beeh delayed for one year, but at a public meeting last, Wednesday, Brooklin residents asked council's administrative committee to approve a growth plan with- out waiting for the study. The residents say they are concerned about inadequate sewage facilities and delays . n approval of development "plans that would increase Brooklin's population Up to six times its present size. »They urged the committee to consider a final land use pl an and housing mix with- out further delay. A study of the cost of growth from the present 1,800 residents to as many as 11,800 would follow. Roger Smith, a Brooklin resident since 1973 said fi- nancial studies by two con- sultantsindicate there wouild be littie impact on taxpayers from extension of water and sewer services to the hamiet. He expressed concern about over-taxed septic tanks and stench in the creek at Cassels Road. Rick Bagg, another Brook- lin resident, reminded those at the meeting that Consoli- dated Building Corporation had offered to pay $4 million toward the* initial cost of building sewers and water- mains to Brooklin. He ex- pressed concern that Whitby might lose this offer if there are futher delays. North Ward Councilior Bob Carson told the meeting that residents have put off costiy repairs to their sew- age systems while they wait for a decision on the expan- sion of the community. "I can show you at least a dozen areas where people have sewage in their base- ments," he said. Councillor Carson 's ai4I also that he was baffled that OBO is proposing a lower housing density for Brooklin than the town's consultants have recommended. A consultant's report calîs for construction of 62 per cent single family homes, 10 per cent semi-detached and 28 per cent two-storey garden apartmenits. An alternative plan advocated by the Town of Whitby would increase the number of single family and semi-de- tached homes and reduce the number of apartments by 16 per cent. Somer Rumm, vice-presi- dent of land development for CBC, said his company wants 76 per cent of the uni *ts to be single family, and reduce the apartments to 12 per cent. Studies are show- îng a trend away from apart- ment living in Ontario, he said. Mr. Rumm confirmed that CBC bas offered to pay for sanitary sewers on existing streets, but he wants an additional 200 acres of land on the western boundary of Brooklin earmarked for future housing development. The addition of 98 acres at Brooklin for industrial development, in a consul- tant's report, pleased Don Cole, vice-president of Mark- borough Properties, which bas plans for industrial de- velopment in the area. Mr. Cole, however, sug- gested that the proposed in- dustrial park be moved from Thickson Road and the 7th concession south to Win- chester Road. The existing proposai is "quite unwork- able" hg said, and Would make it very difficuit to attract industrv ta Rrorlin YOU COULD BE E LUCKY WJNNER Whitby Lions Club memnbers Jim Prentice and Don Jolinston show Mff a grey 1978 Chevette which wiil bhofeéred as a door prize at the club's Spring Bal at Iroquois Park Arena Mây 13. A mink stole is also beingMoffred as a door prize. The dance is from 8:30 p.m. to 1 a.m.,featuring the sound of Eddie Graf's 12-piece band. Tickets are $20 per couple, with only 5on being available in advanoe only. Tickets miay be purchased at the Bank of Montreal at the Four Corners, James Prentice, optician, 400 Dundas Street West, or frein any Lions Club anember. Food la avallabie at the dance. All proceeda rom the. lions Club Spring Bail will be used for commnunlty servces. FreePrm Photo> FR E E P";;R iE i À là àm 9al 9m ÀÀ

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