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PAGE 16, WEITY FME PRESS, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 29,1992 DBAplans extensive dcowntownûbeëautification B ?yvMark Reesor A Whitby- Business Improve- ment Area general meeting went 8urrisingly smoothly, despite a realere issued by dissident members. Thfe meeting, ,.held Thursday night in the .Whitby councîl, chamabers was held to «informi the memiiers of the programe an& budget for 1992," according to a promotionalflyeir. About 50 people turned out to hear DBIA, plans, which Include an extensive downýtown beautifi- cation progrin. 1. Tho prograni would include 60 decorative street Ili-hting units installed downton and 136 floral barrels. Tho DBIA~ board!is pledgig ta examine its policies and pro- cedures and promises to listen dloser ta the concerns of its mem- bership It also committed ta reinstat- inOa block- captain system, by which one or two people per block pass on information ta the area and convey concerns back ta the board. A number -of members expregssd concern over.the size and somne items in the board's $175,900 budget for 1992. Gene Peacock cf Péacock Sport cn1la*nd 'about- the $82,000 théeardis spending on admiinistration. «You people (the board) might work as volunteers, but there'sj $82000 in the budget for adminstration... Records'show that in 1984,- the cost ta, the members of the DBIA was $1000. In 1990 sjix yeaàrslater thebugetwa ~18516.2 ii was the sanie in-'91 and it's the same in '92.» Peacok says most downtawn mierchants don't even know they're in the DBIA, and are shocked at the budget and the amount'they're beinig foroed ta pay. Whitby -Pree Press puliher Doug Anderson. tald the eeting ho supports the concept cf a BIA%, but says> the prcblem with Wlhitby's is it isn't representa-. tive cf the people that are fund- ing it. Anderson says ho feels the Krnsmen: 50 years of servc-oWib "bridge building" ta -do '9n order toget things working aai. Ron Brown'cf Ye Oa Fashion Christmas Store, says the budget should have been brought. te memûber's attention" before going ta council, but still- urged mem- bers ta get involved. "If yu dn't get involved, yo On May 2, the Kinsmen Club of Whitby will celebrate Its Sth anniversary of service, ta Whitby with a reunion te be held at Heydenshore Pavilion. More than 150 past and present insmen and trer wives ar exrected ta be present to ,clbaethe occasion. On April 25, 1942, 25 young businessmen of the town joined together te charter the insmen Club c f Whitby, with Harry Curtiseas president. Since this was war time, the club joined other Kinsmnen clubs acroos Canada in a major Kinsmen national fproject Of raising funda ta supply1lk for the children of Britain. PEDICARE QUALIFIED PROFESSIONAL FOOTCARE IN VOUR HOME lb Nails cut, filed and thinned 0 Corris and callouses removed' 0- Diabetic care provided For appointment cail: 666-9882 Karen L. Brady R. N. WEVENING &WEEKEND APPOINTMENTSAVAILABLE Following tho war, the club turned its sites on more direct involvement in, the town itself. Over. the past 50 years, their involvementlias, added immea- surably te the recreation facilities within Whitby. In 1947, the club purchased (and still owns) the 'castle grounda,' a city block at Byron and Walnut streets and proceeded ta develop the Kinsmen Park that is stili servicing the community. Ini latar years, they donated a piece cf their park te, the Town ta, buld a swimming pol, as well as giving a number cf hours cf labour ta assist in building it. - I later years, the club added and operated a wding oo. hi1950 telub purchased and ran the Old Taylors Ice Arena (at Gilbert and Green streets), and in 1952, donated the oId arena and lands te, the Town ta build a new ice arena. Ini 1962-63, the Kinsmnen, Club initiated the development of Pool Street Park, now a major recreation area in Whitby. As well as serving the tawn, the Kinismen Club cf Whitby in 1943, under the leadership cf 01ff Gartehore, as president, was instrumental in chartering the Kinsmen Club cf Ajax with 94 mnembers, the largest club in Canada at that time. Again, in 1975 the Wihitby club chrée the Kinsmen Club of * DTOkhnfandfLQ mm~ mU mmmm M ON. Ich I prouiga (Pckupon.E pirsMy29.e ponper on pe iza. Iw R O OLN Ilas5%OfPc- îz District. I 1958, the Kfinette Club of Whitby, made Up . ofwives' of Kinsmen, was chartered' and, con tinuesR tei)flourish iri the Towna. hIthoeary50s, tho, 'Elmer,' the Safety Elephat program was started> and continud as a major project for several years. The sixties and early seventies saw 'the local Kinsmon Club holding a county town carnival at, the Kinamen Park ,ýand giant. county town carnival parades. Prom its inception in' 1942 until taday, the Kinsmen Club lias supported a number c f local projectg, minor sports, the Whitby brary, Christmas baskets, slave-for-a-day assstance t senior citizens, awards te graduating students at Whitby higli achools, supporting cub and scout groups and fulfllling their motte cf 'serving the conununity' greatest needs.' 1yé As well as serving their cwn community, the local club,4joins with other clubs acrss Canada in supplying continuai financial assistance inte researchi for a cure for cystic fibrosis. It was from a 1963-64 study group, chaired by Jack Robertson cf the Kinsmnen Club of Whitby, that cystic- fibrosis was recomznended and subsequently. accepted as a district service project. I 1987, CF was oflicially accepted as a national project by the' Assocation cf Kinsmnen in newspaperS.. Th0 Oshawa TIMOS (including bt Whitby Edition)-4 le part of tho international Thompson newspaper conglomoirate wicls controllod by Lord Thompson ot Fleot who aIso controls nu morous Meailing .(Thé Bay, Zollers, Slmpsons) and othor intoreste. Oshawa, This Wook.' (including its Whit'by. Edition), Mark.tplace Ajax-Pickering NowS Advrtis.r Breaktime are ail Metroland Newspapers whlch are part of a publlshlng conglo- merate that Includles tho Toronto Star and Haroequin Romances. The Whitby Free Pross s the only Independentily and Iocally owned and operated newspaper - 75% of. our staff NI n Whltby, ai l ive In Durham Reglon- 99% 0f ailour,operatlng expendftures are spent In Durham Région.. Also during 1965 and 1 970, the local club joined 'all clubs acros Canada in- assisting lu, building. the Kinsmon National Instituts cf Mental Retardatian on the campus cf York University in Toronto. I 1989, the club committed $126,000 ta the Whitby, General Hospital fund, as' woll .as continuing in normal service prcrs. the necessary .flmds ta fulfil, their obligations, the club operates a- yearly skate-a-thon, mont bingos, tho',WhijtbY Hoo Show, comedy niglits, alon-g with a variety cf other projoects. The Kinsmen Club c f Whitby is a mnember c f theAssociation c f Kinsmen Clubs,, an ali-Canadian Young mensà servce club founded in Hamilton on Feb. 290,1970, with Harold A. Rogers as-founder. The association binds-'together, its 967 clubs"and ,over: 15,000 memibers acrosu Canada thrug service and'fellowshipserviceby 'servicing. their coznmunity à greatest need' and ".felloWsiip. through mutual participation.cf club members in its^ social and, serviceactivities. /*i < . 4 C AS well as present and past members cf the club, special guests attending the I evening include Kinsmen president Dave Robinson,. Whitby mayor Tom Edwards land -Ontario riding MP *WFP reader swvey, June 1991 showod the WNhy readsrship aofhie Whety Free Press was 3.7x This Week,.3.3x Markatpaco. 7.6x Pm, hea"'TImes,. *