PAGE 4, WEDNESDAY, NOYEMBER 28, 1979, WHITBY FREE PRESS ~ whif lf -,ut VolceOof fihe County Town Michael Ian Burgess, Pubilsher. Managing Editor The~~ ~ YnyWlb esae lneenety ned and operated by Whiîtby residents for Whlthy residents. blished every Wednesday Sby M.B.M. Publlshing and Photography Inc. Phone 6"8-6111 The Free Press Building, 131 Brock Street North, Belter Business Bureau of Toronto P.O. Box 206, Whitby, Ont. Whîtby Chamber 0f Commerce Coenmunlty Editôr Production Manager PrInt & Prmotlonat Manager CIasified Ad Maiing Permit No 460 Memrer of the Wha' ailtheý fus-s aqbo.ut?* We realiy don't know what ail the fuss, is about. The situation ln the Port Whltby area and Its potentiai pollution problem has been an established tact since, November 8 of last year when the WhitbY Free Press broke the story.11 At that tîme practlcaîîy evey local, politiclan and candidate forofIeaknowledged, thé problem and ý.saId ,that somethIng should be done. >The probiembecame, two-foid. What shouidbe done?,Are the taxpayers wlliindto pay for it?, What ls requIred. to solve this, probiem ils <millions of -dollars and since local govermn doesflothavethat much money tospend. on Just' one. area of thé.region at-one time, the ,project, must be1 doneon the long range. The regionai works department, In the opinion of this newspaperi s'doing as good a lob as can be expec:ted under the cIrcumffstances. ý-T-hey have recognIzed the need and have made, and Implemented.plans to brIng the, probiemn un- der control. When the first phase of the project is com- pieted, a great deal of the problemn wiii be ailevlated. The diversion sewer wIii be a great benefit to the people of PortWhitby. As for the 'second, Phase, the connection sewer between the PrIngie Creek Water Pollution Control Plant and the Harbor Street pumping station we belileve that It. la needed and urge the regional government" and' Its works department to make ail duel haste'In completing thisnecessary service. We also believe that everything possible is being done to solve this problemn and congratulate the residents of Port Whitby for lobbylng Durham Regional Council to get the job done. They have donie a service to their comm unity. This is flot i new, sensational news story. The situation has been public for a year- The politiclans shouid not be acting surprised nor shouid our colleagues ln the media be selling the story as a "scoop"y.g It was our "scoop" on November 8, 1978 and E the-then candidate for the centre ward-seat on t Whitby: Town Council, Michael, Burgess t Publiisber of the WhItby Free Press passed, the C story along, to the News-Advertîser, and the F Oshawa Times. The story that appears ln today's edition is an q expianation of the situation that attempts to f( bring our readership up-to-date and Inform them . A of the measures being done to soive the tr -probiem. te Al .we can do now la to urge Whitby residents, Pi to contact their regionai counciliors and the Mayor and ask them to have the problemn deait 811 with quickiy and'efficlentiy ...as we did one year fo -ago. to Taxi driver wants b uses in"Witby D ear Sir: WhIt by does need buses and. no does Canada period. 1 recently had to visit Durham -Coliege,, and decided to Iry the bus. i had a choice of walklng ýthe mile and a ha'If cdown to,,Dundas Street or paying $1.60 for a taxi. i took the taxi. Arriving ,at Dundas St. 1 waited .twenty minutes for the bus, which took me to Then i had a short walk to the' Slmcoe North bus stop.,and. a further wait of twenty minutes. 1 arnlved at Durham Coliege' an hour & twenty minutes after ieaving home. The cost excluding the taxi 'was two dollars forty cents, return. 1 Had i had a car the trip wouid have taken fifteen minutes at Most, at a cost of fifty cents. How the bus -corn- panies expect to make money i don't know. The service they provide f or Whitby residents is atroclous. However if they in- tend to provIde the ser- vice they dld ln the past they are stili not going to make Money. i have a few suggestion's on that score which l'Il save for the bus company,- if they are Interested. 1 wili add that ln' Engiand I could have made the same tripIn, twenty five minutes without changing buses, at a cost of P.Esethens P.S. Thanki- you for taking the trouble' to find out how the people feit. 1 drive a taxi, and because of the bus-ser-" vice i. make a good living. Dear Sir: i shouid like to correct a common misconception which agaln came to Ilght ln the article regarding the pastoral services offered at the Whltby >sychiatric Hospital. The statement In luestion read 's as liows: "... being an %ngiican (he) la not rained to hear the con- ession of a Cathoiic itient..." That statement houid have read as Aliows: "...not trained hear the» confession of a Roman Catholic patient..." Anglican priests can and do hear the private confessions f their parishioners especiaiiy ln those parishes that adhere to the ancient Angio-Cathoîîc itual. Many Anglican chur- ches of the Anglo- Catholic varlety have con fessionais ' for the use-of the penîtenit and ail Anglican prlests must» be prepared to hear a private con- fession as exhorted on page nlnety-one of the ýBook ' f Comm'on Prayer, and as laid out ln the office for mlnistry to the sick. Both the Anglican Book Centre In Toronto and the Church Literature Association have many publications -which discuss the place of Importance held by the sacrament of penance within Anglican traditio. Vours sincerely David Widenmaier i I *Robla Lyon Westand corrected...., A nglica n priests may hea r con fession, reader says -Oshawa. d