WHITBY FREE PRESSWEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1985, PAGE 7 Sewers and trainsfocus of all-candidate Over 100 ratepayers been fixed since he turned out last Wed- care on council. The nesday evening to hear road conditions are municipal candidates ruch worse in other air their opinions on areas of the town and as everything from- the east ward represen- sanitary sewers to GO ts only one fourth of the transit. town, it cannot expect to The forum, sponsored be the beneficiary of the by the Jaycees and the entire public works Whitby Chamber of budget, hepointed out. Commerce, was used by Candidates for the most participants to north ward, Ross Batten promote their own can- and Rein Verrydt, didacy rather than at- would have no quarrel tack their opponents'. with that statement. Some participants, The poor condition of however, used the oc- the roads in the casion to "go' for the Brooklin/Ashburn area jugular." has been the main North One such candidate Ward issue for years. was Dennis Fox, the While both candidates east ward resident agree on the substan- challenging incumbent dard roads and services Joe Drumm. Fox, who in the'ward, Verrydt was narrowly defeated criticized his opponent by Drumm in the last for not doing enough to election, accused his correct the problems. opponent of "closing the "There are more pot door in ratepayers' holes in Brooklin than faces" and not knowing there are streets. I know what he was talking it's being studied by the about when it came to town, but we ail know road conditions in the what that means. The east ward. town of Whitby studiesa ts oly ne ourh-oIth Drumm in turn, ac- cused Fox of "walking in fog." "This council bas got to be one of the most open God ever created," he said in response to Fox's wide- ranging attacks on council. "Fox keeps saying we're hiding something, but you notice he's the only one who's saying that." While Drumm carefully avoided men- tion of his opponent in his opening speech, Fox's repeated attacks succeeded in raising the Irishman's ire. "The man talks like he wants a fight," he muttered under bis breath after one particularly vitriolic exchange. Of the issues in- troduced by Fox, two -- the proposed Decom biomedical waste treatment plant, and the GO ALRT maintenance yard - had already been resolved. The third - the poor condition of the ward's roads - was a non-issue, according to Drumm. "We've brought for- mer rural roads up to modern standards," said Drumm, reeling off a list of roads that had problem to death." Other problems highlighted by Verrydt include the lack of sanitary sewers, the presence of sand in residents' water pipes and the spotty mail delivery in the ward. "It's easy to criticize and point out areas of concern," responded Batten. "But it's impor- tant to point out that changes aren't made overnight. There's only so much money to go around." Batten said that the town has already made a major committment to improving Brooklin as evidenced by the road restructuring and drainage projects now underway. Other im- provements are soon to follow, he said. For Verrydt, however, the im- provements are too minor and too long in coming. "If the money the taxpayers of Brooklin have been paying went into sewer construction, there'd be no problem now finding the funding," he said. In the centre ward, there was far less sparring between the two candidates. Incum- meet bent Marcel Brunelle and challenger Vera Hugel both spoke out in favor of controlled growth, and fiscal restraint. They also agreed on the need for advance planning to accom- modate the new GO station proposed for Brock St. While Brunelle said the town should be looking to the province for the money needed to make the changes to ac- commodate the predic- ted increase in traffic, Hugel said she did not view the matter as the province's respon- sibility. Whitby council is already looking at the feasibility of extending Consumers Drive through to Brock «St., and is considering petitioning the province for another GO station at Thickson Rd. to avoid unmanageable volumes of traffic in the down- town area. Both candidates stressed the importance of developing the down- town core. The town, in conjunction with the downtown business im- provement area board, is currently engaged in a major downtown rejuvenation project. FASHIONABLE ARTSHOW A special pre- Christmas designer fashion and art show is scheduled at the Mill Hollow Gallery and Studio from Friday, Nov. 8 to the 23. The show will be kicked off by a special invitations- only fashion show on Nov. 8. Local artists will be featured throughout the show, including water-colorist Shiela Dantzer and Georgia Young, the gallerys resident artist. Wild life photographer Fred Doner will add a touch of the exotic with his most recent work taken during field trips to Iceland and Kenya. For more information -- and tickets to the opening night fashion show -- call Georgia Tremaine at 985-7237. The gallery is located on Durham 21 west of Manchester. SPirpe &Gift oppe SOLID OAK AND PINE FURNITURE PRE-CHRISTMAS STOREWIDE SALE UNTIL NOV. 15/85 ORDER YOUR FURNITURE BY NOV. 15TH TO ENSURE PROMPT DELIVERY BEFORE CHRISTMAS 110 DU NLOP ST. E., WH ITBY 666-1331 , Open Mcon.-Wed. 10-6, Thurs.-Fri. 10.9, Sat. 10-5 SUNDAYS 11.4. Oldman joins in the fray Judi Oldman, a seven- year resident of Whitby and mother of five, has announced her intention to run for separate school trustee with the Durham Region Board of Education. The major issue Old- man sees herself ad- dressing should she be elected is the extension of separate school fun- ding to the last three years of high school. As the Catholic representative on the public school board, Oldman expects some flak on the issue. But, she insists, "I feel that 1 could work cooperatively, side-by- side with fellow trustees (on the public board) to come up with some positive solutions. "I see the role of a separate school trustee on the Durham Board of Education as a challenge and would welcome the oppor- tunity to become in- volved," she said. "I would also look forward to voicing the needs and opinions of the separate school electors in the community." Book Reviews Bums by P. Golenbeck, is an oral history of the Brooklyn Dodgers, distributed by General Publishing. The Brooklyn Dodgers were more than just a baseball team to their fans. The players themselves, including Jackie Robinson, Pee Wee Reese, Leo Durocher, Gil Hodges, Sandy Koufax and Carl Erskine, were considered members of the Brooklyn family, as important to their people's everyday lives as their own blood relatives. The book is also about the fans who cheered for, lived, loved and died for the club. It's a trip back in time to an era that no longer exists and to a milieu that no longer exists. Player pictures are featured. 450 pages. Soviet Power by J. Steeles is available from General Publishing. The author deals with the Kremlin's foreign policy from Brezhnev to Cher- nenko. In this history of Soviet foreign affairs, Steeles takes a hard look at Moscow's record and of- fers interesting conclusions about the nature of Russia's strength. While the USSR grew stronger militarily in the 1960's and 1970's, probably it lost in- fluence during that time. Steele discusses likely behaviour patterns of Russians in the future. 290 pages. 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