WHITBY FREE PRESS, WEDNESDAY, JULY 8,1987, PAGE 5 Now that it's July and the living is sleazy, here are a few offerings and thouglits on a variety of subjects. Pet peeves: in no particular order are a few personal. comments on habits of your neighbors. (If you find your- self guilty of any of the following, don't take anything too seriously.): • jerks and (jerkettes) who park by the curb right out- side convenience and variety stores, leaving engines run- ning, while they dash in for a pack of cigarettes. Or whatever. Sometimes sufficient numbers of these congregate to create a mini traffic jam. That usually hap- pens on a Sunday, when the remainder of the plaza parking lotis empty. Twits, the lot. • smokers, for any number of reasons, not the least of which is blowing smoke in the faces of the infants they carry. Vulgarity prize of the year for those who manage to deposit butts in drinking fountains, and another for those who grind out brning embers on the floors in hallways in public buildings. It takes a certain kind of slob. e kids with loud, hi-performance stereos and/or radios and no musical taste, who mark their place in the world with sheer volume. Parents who spawn this kind of bad manners should be at least required to make sure their own failure as parents does not spill over and spoil the peace and quiet of the neighborhood. e creeps in fat-tired performance cars, who insist on trying-to use the useless power of their vehicles to roar past, only to stop ahead of you at the next stop light. • mothers pushing infants in strollers who cross roads against the light or between intersections. Most of us are guilty of jaywalking at one time or another, but to jeopar- dize the life of a cbild for adult stupfidity is inexcusable. e people who park cars across sidewalks in neigh- borhood subdivisions, as though they owned the street. WITHOUR FEET UP by Bill Swan July jerks Those who walk toddlers or push strollers know first hand how inconsiderate such cretins really are. May your tires all go flat and the strollers scratch your wax job. * telemarketers who offer special deals to get your car- pets cleaned or your newspaper delivered or any number of other gimmicks. Gimme a break; don't call us, we'll call you. e jerks who break from the starting gates to make a left turn just as the light changes. It's one thing when you have an advance green, and the move is legal; it's another when the drivers challenge the on-coming traffic for the sake of a few seconds. t bas been said elsewhere, but it's worth noting again: could any fiction writer have invented a character such as Col. Oliver North and the shenanigans at the White House? Way back in the 70s, we thought we had heard everything in the Watergate revelations. Now the Irangate, or Contrasca, makes kindergarten fare of all that. Last week, for instance, we heard tell of North's in- volvements in an extra-governmental body to run U.S. foreign policy. Imagine: a country run like the Mafia. All of which makes substance of the fears expressed earlier this week by the NDP. Now that Broadbent's squad is riding at the top of the polls, the predicition went, they can now be ready for the real test. Not the onslaught from the Tories - that's been underway for a few days now. No, we speak of the dirty tricks campaign which paranoids say the Central Intelligence Agency will pour on. Do you think, the line goes, that the Americans will ac- tually let Canadians elect a socialist government? So just as they did with the Pat Robertson, back-to-the- Bible campaign for president, the CIA can be expected to dig into all the dark corners possible. Watch for it in days to come: stories about NDPers beating wives, children, or caught in homosexual raids. Afid ii any good smear cam- paign, truth is not essential. Call someone a child molester once and he'll never get out from under it. But even more likely will be the CIA plant in a Canadian communist party organization. He will surface just long enough to delcare how most memebers of the NDP are secretly communist. The worsetof it is, the Yankees are just cocky and dumb enough to think Canadians will fait for such nes. Remnember, you read it here almost first. Counittee recommends approval of secondary plan Whitby's administrative commit- tee has recommended approval of the downtown secondary plan - with the exception of the properties off Brock St. S. where, for several months now, zoning and usage have been debated. "The application has been before committee now for a year - we can't keep the applicant waiting'" coun- cillor Joe Bugelli told ad- ministrative committee members last week about Town indecision on the two properties off Brock bet- ween Ontario and St. John streets. LACAC student will help preserve Whitby's heritage Once again the Whitby Local Ar- chitectural Advisory Committee (LACAC) has secured a summer research student to'continue its ef- forts to preserve Whitby's past. Kevin Sugden, a resident of En- niskillen, is an architecture student at the University of Waterloo, with an "enduring interest" in historical Canadian buildings. One of his principal tasks this summer will be to promote On- tario's new, enlarged conservation grants program for old heritage. buildings. Named "Preserving Ontario's Architecture," this financial assistance scheme offers up to $3,000 per year matched on a 50/50 basis by the property owner for those properties designated under the Ontario Heritage Act, 1974. In the Whitby area 25 renewable old properties are currently eligible and there may be as many as 200 other properties, as yet un- designated, that could benefit from these grants. In the past, local residents have used government money for such improvements as repainting woodwork to original colors, cleaning and repainting brick and masonry, reshingling roofs and repairing interior and exterior woodwork. Properties on the LACAC register will soon be receiving a "Heritage Awareness Pack" en- couraging their participation in the scheme. Sugden will also continue ongoing Kevin Sugden Sarah's Children's Boutique 30 -50 % OFF ALL SUMMER MERCHANDISE fil 728 Anderson St. Pringle Creek Plaza Whitby, 666-1747 DR. W. J. 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Information on the grant program and activities of the Whit- by LACAC can be obtained by con- tacting calling 668-5803 or writing to the LACAC Secretary, Planning Dept., Whitby Mynicipal Building, 575 Rossland Road, East., Whitby, LN 2M8. Need a ne* km ry waflt abo4 VES! Then come and discover the beauty secret which women have known and used around the world! ORIFLAME All natural products from Switzerland now in Canada * Skin Care * Make-Up * Foot and Body Care Cal today for a FREE complimentary facial and discover a new you. call: DEBBIE wnnr%V A KAREN J AMES 668-3525 686-1938 9 a.m. .9 p.m. "We have to make some decisions." Planners have admitted that land use designation is difficult because the block is on the edge of the down- town commercial core. Fully commercial uses for the properties, at 500 and 506 Brock St. S., had first been propsed by development ap- plicants Salvatore Princiotto and Lorna Cheah. But in February, committee adopted a planning recommen- dation that the area be designated medium density residential with a three-storey maximum building height. In March, the applicants requested a mixed use designation, similar to the commercial plan, but with two floors of residential space rather than a floor of office space above the main commercial floor. Council handed the matter back to administrative committee for consideration. Town planners, meanwhile, still recommend medium density residential. Bugelli asked that "direction" on what to do with the properties, in q& OPEN 7 8:00 a. DRIVE A LIT 4 concert with the whole Brock St. corridor, be given by planners at the special meeting of council next Monday. Planning director Bob Short had said a full report on the development direction along the corridor would not be complete un- til next year. "It is not without precedent to allow specific applications," said Bugelli of the request for some direction on the tw6 properties. 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