PAGE 2v WEDNESDAY,. NOVEMBER 2ý, 1986q WHITBV -FREE PRESS Our apology A remark -In last vestinents of cash made The Free Presa week's Corridor Capers- from illegal activities, a wlshes to apologize *for may have improperly, statement, made in a the Implication of such I associatedDECOMwitb Toronto daily an association. Industries recefving in- newspaper. DR. MCGILLICUDDYrS DELICEOUS PEACH SCHNAPPS PIRE5EMT5 ANOTHIER TALL TALE FR01'! THE SHADY EVE SALOON loWie ier. Debt Collectar. lUs flot easy to say whether Dr A.P McG!ilicuddy:s invention of Peach Schnapps made the Shady Eye Saloon a Iegend, or If it was the other way aroupd. B3ut one thing'ýs for sure, folk stili talk kindly about them both today and ail those other colourful H characters of the Gold Rush. owle tzer was the most demnanding debt collector ever to bend an elbow in lithe Shady Eye Saloon. Whenever Doctor A.E MrcGillicuddy had trouble with a patron's tardy line of credit, he would <- M-- enlist Ilowie tojolly the situation along. Nowie had a guaranteed way of getting the'welsher' to pay attention-with the business end' of his front loader. Somne say he <wielded it with the ease most other men handled a six shooter. 'After closiîng the accounit, P Iiowie Itzer insisted his fee be paid in the Doc's fresh tasting F'each Schna*pps. It was an offer Doctor McGillicuddy didn't dream of refusing. ln respect to tfowie Itzer- The Pourl1Y4OZ. Of Dr NcGilicuddy' Peac Schapps~ i 'legend behind over !ce. rop Up every bottie. with orangejuice __ and a splash of soda. It's adeal THIS' YOUNGSTER was just one of joyed Christmas carolling and hot many who met Santa Claus at the. apple eiderfor the kick-off to th e Whitby fire hall Friday night as the downtown business area festive Tree of Hope was lit up. About 100 season. youngsters and their parents en- Bulb exchange Saturday As many as 20 area community organizations and charity groups will take part in the Christmas tree bulb excbange in downtown Whitby this Saturday. Designated as "A Time for Giving," visit- ors to the downtown will receive a colored Christmas ligbt in exchange for donations tbey make to charities downtown (minimum $1 donation). dbarities will have tables set up around the downtown area. Visitors can tben replace the white lights on the Tree of Hope at the fire station with their colored light. The tree will transform from white to colored lights tbrougb the day. Horse drawn buggies will be available al day for rides wbile the Christmas carolers and bot apple cider will add to the festive at- mosphere. 1 Meanwhile Santa Claus arrives at his workshop on 125 Brock St. S. on Thursday, between noon and 8 p.m. Santa will also be at the worksbop on Friday and Saturday., The window (inside) decorating contest for downtown businesses, to be held Dec. 4, will be judged by the Durham branch of the Ar- chitectural Conservancy of Ontario. The branch is also hoping to encourage. "Olde World Christmas Tyme" as the theme of another contest, from Dec. 6 to 14, in whicb stores and offices (outside) wiIl be decorated in Victorian dispîsys of greenery, red bows and white lights. The branch is also looking for the best old- fasbioned trimmed bouse in 'Wbitby, during the same Dec. 6-14 period. Sehool, busing complaint made By JAN DODGE School busing is deter- iorating, .complained one father of Dr. Robert Tbornton students at a recent, Home and School Association meeting. "Some students bave to wait 40 minutes after scbool for the bus," be said. Following the meet- ing, another parent said on one occasion that a Gr. 2 studenit had been left behind- because be was playing in the school- yard while waiting for the bus. Cathy Rowell, president of the Home and Scbool Association at Tbornton, said ber 6- year-old son ' is dismissed at 3:30 p.m., but is not picked up until 4 p.m. Because the bus wa s çhanged 50 often, he didn't klovwwbat bus he sbould be on. Tbat's wby wben he was told one day his bus bad gone, be walked home, she said. Rowell, wbo lives off Nichol Ave., said she was more concerned that be bad crossed Highway 2 by himself than she, was by the distance. In a telephone inter- view Jack Upton, manager of transport- ation for the Durham, Board of Education, said the reason for the wait for buses was caused by the board's policy of double and« triple loading for cost savings. After a bus delivers one load it returns for. a second and third run. "We can load three times for the same cost as once," Upton said. Each bus costs the board $130 per day, wbich over 186 days adds up, he said. If there are a numnber Of kindergarten stu- dents wbo have to be transported out of the Kendalwood area to R.A. Hutchison Public Scbool (before Kendal. See p. 12 Rabideau wins another From p. 1 ofhised.,wnnse August Iast year, he and 14 other went travelling. This time co-workers won the Lottario around, Rabideau will use the jackpot. Rabideau's share was mnoney toward the purchase of a $28,000. 4"nice, littie home" in this area. 'II thought I was seeing He bopes'to continue bis streak things," he says of bis first win. by continuing bis current lottery 'II just didn't believe it,"l he says spending - $50 a week.