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.PAGE 6,WHify LU Pubiishedi every Wednesday By 677209 Ontario mrc. Phone: Maurice Pif her 668761111.Editor Toronto LUne 427-1834 'Alexandra Martin Doug'A'nd9rson Production Manager' Publisher' d~IAVOIE 0FTHECOU TY OWN131,Brook Street'North, _ "SThe on/y Whitby newspaper îndependently owned and ooerated bvýO S P' htyOt n laa stakl W5 Whitby residents--for Whîtby residents. u, i 51 ~ ~ în~ Durham: Regien- can now take ts place ',among municipalities thatwaeserved by a quick-to-use, quick- responsoemrergency dling system. <And'Durham's 911 system might'-even be descrlbed as the new and lmpteved version. Slmp!y - diailng .91 1 tor police,, tire or ambulance emorgencies ls the blggest Improvemnent et ail for region reêsidents., Add-tor that a systom, whlch Includos a-teature that points eut the exact location tram whem a a oel Is made, as well as a teature that keeps Opeon the lineofet the calier. even when tho 'calier hangs Up, tor whatever systemn reas on, untîl 911 personnel have ail the Information they neod. Te properiy Implemneat the system, municipal- addresses wore asslgned te rosidents et rural reglons -- whlch wil "save time, property and lives,", according9 to, Whktby, tiiechiot Ed Crouch, whowas part et the '911 coinmritëe that eversaw Impiementatlon ot the s'ystem ln the, past two ypars. As-reidents benefit tram taster responet1me police, tlretighter and amfbulance services wlll aise naw beneftt tramn a system which plnpoints' the' location ýand ,natum etf an emorgency situation. Gememonles were ta be held today at Durham R egion headquarters ta mark the, launch et the systom which cost $1 .8 million. lt's money weIl spent., Doiit ea thefish, Ily- Stephen Leahy Last week, wbile watcbing the ramnbow trout- energetically tbrashing up Lynde Creek, my nine-year-old son asked those kind of kida' questins that make yeu fit back and '-take stock of things. ."Io this where -the trout we buy in the supermarket and eat for dinner corne fromi?' he asked. -- 1>"No 1 , thiik they corne,-from somewhÉere élue," I replied. "CaWit we eat the trout in this creekTs "No," I responded, "I don't tbink we cari eat the ones in this stream. The water is too polluted." "But don't these trout corne from Lake Ontario. Could we eat thern if we caught thern there?" 'XMaybe, but we could only eat a littie bit cause the water is pclluted in Lake Ontario as well." " Well then, where do the cnes they will congregate near the Whitby sewage treatment plant discharge pipe. 0f course, we al know of worse places they could go -- Toronto Harbour, the Niagara ' River, Hamnilton Harbour, te name just a few. The solution? The oe we've grown used to: dont eat the fisb. Soimds simple. Thates a lot easier thar folowing the Ministry of Natural Resources guidelines for the. amount of fiah we cari sat. Wbatis more te the* point, who really knows if the Ministry bas got the- amounta right? Governmentà have, been wrong bpfore. It really gets too complicated, se the simple solution-is te not eat fish at all. .After aIl, we can't know where they canie from. or where. they bave been. So we, should just add "Don't eat fish" te, our list of new rulea for living in the environment we. bave created for ourselves in the t we get fromý the suüpermar--et 19909. Some of the other rules: corne frm? He asked. don't drink the water ulesa it "Somewhere tbe water isn't as bas been treateci, dont swim in pâiluted, I guesa. rm net really the lake; don't get tee much sun; sure where tbat is," I adrnitted. don't go outside wben the air "But you said these trout swim pollution index reaches 32,and se hundreda of miles te tbis creek ini on. Yes, there are more of these order te, lay their eggs." 'ruIes' thari there used te be, even "Ta'srght. They lay, their tan yeara ago. The real question egs andreturn te the lakes is how many will there be in where they came from," I another ten years? answered. 'Well, how do you know if they Today's cbildren are wide-eyed styi unpolluted water if they when th'yler1 that net that travel se much?" long ago they could drink directly I dont know. Maybo someone from Lynde Creek on a hot keeps track cf these thinga. Upon, summer day. That the fish they reflection that' doesn't seem very caugbt there would be a welcome likely. addition te, the supper table that "%m thirsty," he declared after niàht. And that swhnming in the a long silence. "Cant I drink some lake, yes, even down by Port of this water. It looks nice and Whitby, was once the birthright clear." cf everyone living here. This is I had te, say with some deep net a dreamn from the ancient regret: "Sorry, I don't think that's past. It is within living memory a good ides. Letes go home and get of many residents cf Whitby. Our something te, drink there." home bas changed that much In such a short time. That was the end cf Our How have we let this happen? conversation, but net the end cf Do we tell our children or the thoughts that were stirred up. grandchildren that we didn't We don'lt know where the fish we know, that we didn't understand ont corne from. Fish don't hold the consequences cf some cf our still. Teyspend herearly Yers decisions, cf some cf our actions. in streams we wouldn't let our That somehow in the hurly burly dogs drink eut cf. cf malding a good home for them Many trout, salmon and other we didnt notice that we were fish will spend their early lives inl creating a world that wiil give tcreeks across Durham. They then thema much Issu than we bad? grow te, maturity in Lake Onttaio As we bave se easily learned te and other lakes. Once there they follow these new râles cf living, wiil go wherever. they wish, se, top, will our children. Ws are perhapa Offshore from a Stream, adaptable creatures. It is easy te juat south of Laeco Steel, that forgt wbat we have lest or te stains the rocks of the beach believe wbat we are losing is no, blood red. Perhaps theyll swiiËi in longer important. But tbis way cf the. warm waters from the, thinking is how ws have arrived Pickebigç».pwi. hao..at.the. .9iflQtL qt Mon& erious and perhaps -irreversible damage, te the place that gives us life. Equaily important is the fact Our lives are beconung more and more1 constrained by our impact on the earth. Hence, the new rules for living. We carinot approech the problems cf our environment with the same ind of- ÎÎ thinIng that got us into tbis mess ini the -flrdt place. We' need te develop newi ideas and tetally newr approaches. We bhave te crate cbange, bring new ideas and solutions tq, our homes,ý workplace and governmenta at 'al 1'levels. We need te bhave the courage te étand out and live our lives differently., In th énd hafré e bhave t te convert1 our drive for the* good Uifeté a a ionate quest.'for a ýgpod i yq ' -tbink about itthr is ne real chance for a good life without a, goo Elarth. Need more education about garbý-ag;,é To the Editoer Be- Aflleud grbage dumping I -have been following The Free Presa articles about gbge being dumped in the countryid around tbis ares. I was furieus after reading the commenta made by Mr. Bugelli in your article on Wednesday, April 17, where he was qucted as saying, 'They have te be smasbed against the wall," rather thari te educate us on howr te, set out our garbage. With this type cf mentality, it's no wonder, we've got problems, and aller such commenta, as' wrong as it is, you'rs bound- te have people dump more garbage on the country roads just te, get back at somneone with tbis ind cf attitude. No, Pm flot oe of them. I do, however, agre with Dennis Fox who says people have te be educated. I was oesof these people. After moving, into a bouse on Brock St., I put ail my imoving boxes at the curb on garbage day - they were aIl brokcen up and put inte other boxèa along with my regular garbage.'When the garbage truck came, the -driver said the boxes were tee heavy and tbere was tee much of it. Hes was se angry, bhe threw aur garbege cari across the front yard against. the fence and left. We cailed the office and the superviser came down, informing.us tbat we wers only allowed te have four, baga or caris per fanul at the curb along' with our blue in and papesand, that as of July 1991 they would not be taking any more boxes. This was .nsws te us, and,ào we asked bim why the public*'wtasn't more informsd as te hewv their garbage was te be taken eut. He teld us tbat the rules were cbanged seo muchAïhat it would be tmeo.oty te infô4people. Wel, it mêeea'te me -hat it'sà far more cos tly te cean up the courit7,ide orbvete viait people inh ie alsoýbeen'te the dump off Ritaon Rd. te dumap garbage, and 1 uriderstand they chrg by the Imd (over 220, Ibo.). Well,Ibhave yet to'take 220 Iba.- te the dump, arid 'there are tines whsri tbey cbéWr me and other times when they haven't.Iwould really iks sommoe te, tell me hcw these' guys cari tell hew ,many pounda cf garbage Imrarrying in my van, without scales.Tie must, have, gene- te some krd of spécial echool, and f oud lice the cppotuity te go as weil. 1Tese'guys are'.se good they can. even tell if drywall comef' SEE PAGE 18 --------------- SI, IR. ýXZ ge ........... - ----- ........................... 1 . ;4ý 1