School budgets delayed WHITBY'S Michelle Kettrick is appearing in the Dwyer Dramatic Society's presen- By Mike Kowalski A ,proposed McDonald'a restaurant in south Whitby will attract more than hungry customers, councillor Joe Drummi fears. Drumm warned Town council Monday te expect problemas with sea gulîs when Whitby's second -McDonald's restaurant is built on th e southeast corner of Brock Street South and Consumera Drive. "The zoning is there and we have te, honour it, but there will be problema," said Drumm. "This place wili attract sea gulls and they'ii be depositing their wares ail over town," he said. Drumm's commenta, which he admitted were both faoetioua and serieous, came during council discussion of a panning and developmnent committee recommendation to approve a revised building design submitted by tation of 'Bye Bye Birdie' to be presented May 6-8 at the Oshawa high school. Photo by Mark Reesor. Whitby Free Press McDonald's Restaurants. The fast food giant wants te build a restaurant on the 4,602-sq. metre propert t compliment the one it now haa on Thick-son Road South. But as a condition of approving McDonald's site plan application for the now vacant property, council had stipulated last December that a Victorian-styie design be incorporated into the building's exterior renovations. Aithough he said council was obligated te support the McDonald's proposai since the necessary zoning waa in place, Drumm had concerns about gulîs infesting the area when the restaurant is built. But he could offer ne solution te preventinig the birds from flocking te the restaurant in SEE PAGE 5 businss news By Mark Reesor Provincial cutbacks have for- ced the Durham public and separate education boards to take their 1993/94 operating budgets back to the drawing board. Both boards had pianned to pass their budgets Monday night. The public board increase would have cost supporters an average of 3.9 per cent more and separate board supporters would have seen their property taxes increase by about 3.98 per cent. But the province's announce- ment of 'expenditure control plan measures" Friday, which include a 50 per cent reduction in education technoiogy grants, the elimination of funding for part credits, eiementary summer schooi and in-school driver edu- cation and other substantial cuts has thrown that al out the winâow. The reductions will cost the separate board a minimum of Conimittee à .ec%.ommends warehous-,,Qe pla By Mike Kowalski Two giant retail warehouses proposedt for VVitby have cleared another hurdle. Durham Region's planning committee has recommended approval of an application to build Price Cflub and Aikenhead'a outiets on Victoria Street, east of Thickson Road South. Committee's recommendation to grant anofficiai plan amendment to Invar Industrial COfladiJJ Ltd. to per- Tire mit construc- tion of the dlealer combined cla.ims 242,000-sq. ft. ware- Tw houses was te, come be- support fore Durham 'snowjob' Reýi on coun-RaPe27 cil today Pg2 (Wednesday). Despite Oshawa Ma yor Nancy Diamond's feeling that too many questions about the proposa] remained unan- swered, committee last week feit the application should go forward. Committee mcmbers were satisfied that a report from SEE PAGE 27 1 See Pages $1-.2 million, an angry Joe Bugeili, Whitby trustee and chair of the board's personnel SEE, PAGE 35 Drumm: >McDonalId's location for t/he birds