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Gartahore cast the deciding vt.. Co"munci sysn to bus servie There wil be net. town run bus system. At the September 24 meet- ing of Whitby Town Council, Mayor Jim Gartshore, a long imei opponent .of -the ao posai, cast* the, tie-breaking vote effectively 'killing a, town mun service. The council originally promised a, new municipal bus service by Dbecember. 'Tbe decision was made after a long and heated debate and means that as, of December 2, Whitby resi- dents will othave a bus system and neither will over "2W Patients and staff of the Whitby Psychiatrie Hospital and the -Dr. J.O. Ruddy Hospital. Charterways Ltd.,,thepre- sent operators of the servic e to these-facilities agreed to mun their service until the town got its own system going. Tife company decided to extend' their original Sep- tember 5 deadline at the request of the town. Charterways' Whitby to Oshawa route is being taken over by GO Transit and GO has decided flot to continue the hospital.service. 1Accorcling t.Archie Groth, Charterways' manager, the changeover.will go.ahead as -planned on December 2. Staff' proposed that the council- set- up a two-bus,, four-route system that would~ have cost- the-- taxpay er $77,000 a year or- between $6.50 to $10 per householder.", The remaining, expenses would -be covered through fares a nd provincial subsidy. -Coun. Bob Attersley, a supporter of the system told council that they were guilty of "misleading"' the public and the pres.ent operators of the bus system. * "This council has reaily shown its true colors tonight," he said. "I feel very disappointed, for the people of Whitby." "It wil be a long day before Whitby gets a transit *system after this," Attersley said. "This council has mis- led people and made Whitby look like'a shambles; we -will .pày for'it _in later yea>rs." Trhe 'two other ave votes came from councfliors Joe Bugelli and Barry Evans while the nays came from' councillors Gerry Emmn, Bob Carson and Joe Drumm. Drumm had been a supporter of the system until learning that 250 secondary sehool students might lose sehool bus transportation if the town systern went ahead. Rising costs in other areas such as recreation and fire protection also affected his change of mmnd, Drumm said. Evans said the decision left- him "disgusted" and that "lWe could have showed the rest of Ontario that Whitby is living in the pre- sent and heading into the future, not living in the past." Bugelli said the council's decision -was "made blind, strictly on supposition, fears and imagmnary concerns."l He also said that he was concerned that Gartshore cast the decid.'ing vote and that the decision, in effect, was made by "one voting member only.", 1---« Labor isthebggs supporter of the UnitedWa By MICHAEL KNELL Free Press Staff Labor is the strongest silp- porter of the United Way, Cliff Pilkey, the president of the Ontario Federation of Labor told the audience at the kick-off luncheoni for the Oshawa-Whitby United Way last Monday. The 29 memnber agencies of the United Way have set a fund raising goal of $1,150,000; only four per cent higher than last year's total. "T&-'he philosophy that led to the formation of volunteer social service agencies is identical to that undrlying the labor, movernent," Pilkey told his audience. Making peo ple's lives better is not the sole proper- ,ty of a volunteer organiza- tion, he said. ': The ultimate goal of the eradication of poverty, how- ever, is not,' and neyer has been the exclusive responi- sibility of the, voluntary social service movemtn," Pilkey s aid. He told his attentive audi- ence that the labor move- ment has a two-fold approach to this problem. "The extension of benefits of collective bargaining to every worker," he said and "broad government pro- grams of ijicome support and service for those who are too ôld, too weak or lack the skills to work." "It is not fair to hold the United Way responsible for. ail the social service failings of our governments," he said. Pilkey did urge them to be a leader in the social service field and to advocate govern- nient awareness of its own failings. "The United Way should be in the forefront of the fight against, government cut- backs, at 'all levels. It's ruember agencies know too well the social costs of aban- doning large sections of our community to the wolves," he said. "With the United Way across the province pressed to maintain existing services and unable to move into new area, we must work to ensure government assu- mes its responsibility to fund social services which have clearly established their worth. " Joe Pegg, chairman of the United Way campaign, and a senior management person at General Motors said this is one of* the few times that labor and management have a common cause and asked if it could be ci'rried into other areas. Te Fee Prss ays BuclSe. -is I ls -o . s-e ag 40. Brook lin. boy wins C.N.E. art competition This young'manis an established artist. lion Wagg, 9, a grade three pupil at Brooklin's Meadowcrest Public Sehool won first prize in the C.N.E.'s Sehool Art Exhibition for a work that he did last year.-The painting is of an owl and before it went to the C.N.E., it was shown in two local shows at the Whitby Arts Station and the Whitby Public Library. Ron' won firs t for the. painting i the grade two division. He is seen here with ýhis teacher, Mrs. Jane Carson (left) and his mothier, Mrs. Marilyn Wagg (right). The Young man has not decided whether or not he'll be an aititwhen he grows up. Free Press Photo Ik' Mike Knell E)E PýnýE SI s: