Pae6, Whitby Froc Pio, Wo*nesday. Deoember 29. 1993 Bunker Banter Werlgyuowttieocofte Premier of OnLtarlo, ietos blnose 0neofleat Queen's Parklu te F rr Buker. As we enter, the Premier lesltting at hie desk, leanlg bac uhecar i fingers arched, tallngto ,,;el.c nhecar i PREMIER RAE: So, the firet thing we have to do is overcome some of this bad press that'e been haunting us. It must be a personal vendetta. Ites liko the press put out a contract on our political roputation. HIMSELF: A Social Contract? What we neod to do ie bypase the prose and go straight to the people. Convince them we're no différent than they are. PREMIER BOB: That's it! Wc'll give an end-of-the-ycar interview wth, oh eay Canadian Prose, yes, that ought to mako thoso people ett ife Whitby Free Prose really jealous, and welI juet tel overybody that we're just plain folkc, the Rao family ie, and no différent than they are. HIMSELF: We can tell themn that on our ealery of $120,000 a year we have the saine probleme they do. Car boan. Mortgage. A growing famnily. And we know what thoso probleme are like. We're like thousande and millions of diplomat' sons in Canada. PREMIER BOB: And if civil servants are stili reading etorios about us, we cen throw in a line about having Wo talce a pay cut of $5,000 this year. HIMSELF: Hnunm. Should we mention that we're toc buey tW take Rao days off? And what if some smart-ase taice a calculator and divides $120,000 by 250 working days and figures out we get $480 a day based on a fivc-day week, and that if we took twelvc Rae days as we ve insisted othere in the public service do, that our pay cut ehould've P'%EMIER BOB: Nobody in hie right mind would do that. -HIMSELF: WWe talking about the prose, here. And civil servants. Maybe evon a whole bunch of union people.. PREMIER BOB: A wingy bunch. But lil juet talk philoeophy, about living so your life could be plastered al over the front page and you'd etill be able Wo face your daughters; in the niorning. HIMSELF: But would they reepect you? PREMIER: We have Wo go easy, there. It's hard onough being a Premier's daughter. We don't want headlinos about how Social Contract negotiations were imposed on faznily membere. And who makes the bcd when a family meniber takes a Rae Day. HIMSELF: Now what else? Should we get into how we understand the fear of unemployment? PREMIER: How we're saving aIl we can out of the $115,000 a year we have left so we have something to tide us over after the next election? BOB: Nn-n-n-n-n-oh! Wouldn't look good in headlines. 'Premier Bob Prepares for Life Aftr.. .' Watver ths is. HIMSELF: We're getting a little fragmented here. W. need Wo encourage Ralph 1Klein in Aberta. PREMIER BOB: The tougher hie gets the botter we look. But 20 per cent. Boy, what we could have done with a twenty per cent acrose-the-board payroll cut. Wow! HlMSELF: One more thing. This underground office je goodto escape the Furor we cause, but w. can't let anybody know about it. I's just our secret, right? RAE: (whispers) Does ho forget that we invited the whole caucus down here for the ribbon cutting and grand opening? I think he's beginning W bloec it. PREMIER: Okay. Let's pull ourselves Wogether and go up and ineet the press. The only Newspaper owned and operated by Whitby resi dents for Whitby residents! 26,500 COPIES DELIVERED WEEKLY Published every Wednesday b y 677209 Ontario mc. Box 206, 131 Brock St. N., Whitby, Ontario Li N 5S1 Phone: 668-6111 Toronto Line: 427-1834 Fax: 668-0594 "Happy New Year!" FAM#ILY 0F JOHN RHAM FERRY, C. 1861 This picture was taken on the steps of Pcryes Castle, where the swixnming pool was, until recently located in Kinsmen Park. From left te, right are Jane Margaret Perry, her chibdren, Peter, Margaret and George, and her husband, John Ham Perry, the younger son of Whitby's founder Peter Perry. Mr. Perry was Mayor of Whitby in 1858/59 and Warden of Ontario County in 1867. htymiSpoo 10 YEARtS AGO froni the Wedneeday, December 28, 1983 edition cf the WHrSyFREEPRESS "Whitby Free Prose publiehed its review cf events cf 1983 today. " Safeway is advortising turkeys at $1.09 a pound as a New Year'e spocial. " Town council je planning te designate thc Ashburn Community Centre, formerly a echool house, as a heritage building. " Postage rates went from 30 Wo 32 cents for a firet-clasa btter yesterday. 35 YEABS AGO froni the Thursday, December 25,1958 edition cf thc WHJTBY WEEKLY NEWS " Bob Attersloy has scored hie 2Oth goal for the Whitby Dunlops in the 1968-59 hockey seaon. " The Town of Whitby is advertising for a Wcrks foreman. " This is the Weekly News Christmas issue, filled with greetinge fr-om local businesses. " Six hundred and twenty new families moved into VWhitby in 1958. 80 YEARS AGO frin Uice Thursday, December 25, 1913 editioui cf the wHr1B GAT1M AND CHRONICLE (This isue je niissing.)