Vol. 11, No. 45 Wednesday, November 11, 1981 24 Pages McKinney IL - Free Press Staff Photo € Lest weorget" The guns are silent now. But after 36 years they are still heard in the minds of those Canadians who left their homes to fight a war that consumed the globe. Today, those of us who live in a country they fought to protect remember those who did not come back. Across the nation men such as those seen here at the Whitby Cenotaph will march to honor the fallen and lay wreaths in their rnemory. The men seen here are members of the Royal Canadian Legion, Branch 112 and served with either the Canadian or British forces in the Second World War. They are (from left to right): Henry Perry who served with the Royal Canadian Electrical and Mechanical Engineers (RCEME); James Madison, a veteran of the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN); Robert Adams, 86th Bridge Building Company, Royal Canadian Army Service Corps (RCASC); Earl Ormiston, army headquarters; John Mclvor, 6th CIV, RCASC; and, Len Lambert, Royal Marines (RM). They will march because of a slogan made famous by the Royal Canadian Legion: "They served 'til death, why not we? Many Canadians died so that we could live in a free and peaceful society and it is more than fitting that we should lay one day in each year aside to remember and honor their sacrifice. gets seat on Whitby HEC In keeping with tradition, Whitby Town Council has appointed the fifth runner-up in the last muni- cipal election to fill a vacancy on the Whitby Hydro- Electric Commission. John McKinney won 2,319 votes in the November, 1980 election. However, McKinney is no stranger to the HEC on which he served for 10 years prior to losing his seat. He will replace Don Lovelock who resigned his seat after moving from his home in Myrtle Station. McKinney, a resident of Brooklin for the last 50 years is a retired physician and while a member of the HEC had also served as the chairman of the Lakeshore Association of Local Utilities and of the Study Group to Restructure the Distribution of Electrical Energy in the Region of Durham. Traditionally, council will appoint the person who did not get elected with the greatest number of votes to fill a vacated municipal office. Not without humor.... Pigeon bylaw gets council's approval Whitby Town Council has passed a bylaw to regulate the keeping of pigeons in the town. However, the bylaw was not passed without some humorous observations made by Centre Ward Councillor Barry Evans. Evans told his colleagues that they were "regulating clean coops" and that should a pigeon fancier become annoyed at his neighbour then the trouble could really start. "They can be trained to defecate while in flight." he said with a big grin on his face. Evans went on to say that council will then lose control of the pigeons. "It will be the pigeons that will control.' However, he did have a solution for the defecating pigeons. "We should look at forcing these pigeons to wear pampers." he said adding that this was a "ludi- crous" situation for council to be in. The bylaw was adopted after complaints were received from people who felt birds owned by neigh- bouring pigeon fanciers were responsible for soiling their property. Priorities changed.... Otter Creek willget its public school Otter Creek will get a public school sometime in 1983 according to Whitby Durham Board of Educa- tion Trustee John Buchanan. Buchanan said Monday that the board had asked the Ministry of Education to substitute the Otter Creek school for one in the Town of Ajax that will not be needed because of slow housing starts. The ministry had earlier given construction approval to the Ajax facility because the Durham board had given it a high priority. Parents in the Whitby subdivision have been demanding that a school be built in their area to relieve overcrowded conditions at E.A. Fairman Public School and Whitby Senior Public School. They contested that the schools could possibly pose a health hazard because of overtaxed wash- room facilities and that the quality of education was adversely affected by the number of students. Buchanan said that the Ministry of Education has allocated the funds for 1983 but he is hoping that some arrangement can be made so that the school can be open in September, 1982. However, he stressed that there may not be enough time to get all of the approvals and tender the project so that the school can be opened in 1982. The estimated cost of the project is somewhere over $2 million with 80 per cent of the funding coming from the provincial government. Came fifth in polls....