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Ç~: Vol 12, Nêo. 31 Wedneidýay, August 49 1982 20 Pages w w In '85 or '86.... Hear - Free Press Staff Photo Coolingoff While the weatherwe've had over the aàst two or three days .is no evJdence'of it,Iast week Whitby enJoyed a few beautiful days of hot summery weather. The heat brought people out of doors, for a few hours of fun ln the Sun. WeII, those having the most fun, are usually membérs of the younger- crowd and our photographer caught- these three young men cooling off in the fountain at Rotary Centennial Park. >En hancing the wet look are: Shawn Beatty,'l10, of Henry Street, his brother Scott% 9, and Dean Fera, 12,0of Shannon Court. It seerns that every time the sun beats down on Whitby, the youngsters race to Centennial Park to run under the, founitain. Most aduits probably wish, they cou Id do so, too. sehool'!to be sold -The Florence M. Heard Public Sehool will be sold, probably in 1985 or 1986 according to.,, Durham Board of Education Trustee Ian Brown. Recent speculation was that the board was to seli the Garden, Street school.either Ilate this. yeair orearly next year but Brown denied this. The Whitby trustee saId, last week, tatthe sale will be- part- of' the board's long term property plan that will take it through to 1990. Asked whether or not the sale was definite, Brown replied "certainly flot in the near future,rniaybe in 1985 or 1986." One of the stumbling blocks to any future saleis that the boaIrd,,does,,flot have another sehool for<Heard pupiîstio attend. "We have to bulid a -sehool in the Pringle Creek area and we can't close Heard until we can accommodate these-kids," Brown said.' The se hool is flot being sent to the chopping block because of lack of enrolment. "It is flot in'danger of being closed because *of lack of enrolment," the trustee said, "It's busting at the seams like all our Whitby schools.") However, Brown stresses that the sehool won't lie offered for sale immedîately, that parents will be given ample notice and that al plansare only tentative. 0f. ail Whitby school facilitiesM eard: is'the only one being con sidered for sale. 1"That i s the, only one being considered," Brown said. "Al plans are tentative at this date." "Parents will ie .given lots of notice," he added. The board lias an option on a five-acre par- cel"of land on Ribblesdale Drive in one corner of the Pringle Creek Paik'. "We haven't exercised that option yet,"y Brown said, "We.have several years to go.." He also said. that areport wilIl be forthcom- ing from board'staff later 'this year after which trustees will decide wthat schools will lie closed and sold. Mikiato o]pen new plant here Another Japanese companiy wil make, its home in Whitby later this yèéar àccording to, Mayor Bob Attersley. YIesterday mornîing, Attersley',announced that ýMakita Power 'Tools ,Wil join Sony 0f Canada in> the Whitby 'industriaaal park at Thickson and Wentworth Streets.- >Makita lias leased the 'spec' building erec- ted .by J.D.S. InÏvestments Limited in Sep- tember, 1979. The "firm will occupy 52,000 square feet-cf-- saewhich Attersleybelieves will be almost totally 'devoted tol.mlanufacturing. J.D.S. bas taken out a ýbuilding permnit wor- th $75,000 to complete renovations to the. ,building.