Whitby Free Prees, Wednesday, April 27,1004, Pae 3 Resident finds yet another abandoned pet Whitby Councl agenda(s) Monday, April 2fi, Recommenda- tions from the Planning and Development Committee That zoning and officiai plan amendment applications from the Durham separate schooi board to permit a French- language school on the northeast corner of Taunton Road and Hlghway 12 be approved. The school wiIl be for students in grades 7 and 8 and grades 9through to OAC (Ontario Aâademlic Credits). The board hopes to have the school ready for classes In the faîl of 1995. The property tiad-once been Intended as the site of. a banquet hall and convention centre, but the developer ran into f inancing diff iculties and sold the property to the school board. Carried That a site plan application f rom the Durham Board of Education for a 23-classroom elementary school on a f Ive-acre site on the north side of Rolling Acres Drive, between Waller Street and Garrard Road, be approved. Carried Recommenda- tions from the Operations Committee That the low tender of $1 16,206 (revised amount) by Winvalley Contracting be accepted for the Central Park. lighting projeot. The work includes removal of the above-ground components of the existing lighting system and the Installation of a new electrical service. Carried That council authorize the publication of a notice - regarding the destruction of weeds under the provisions of the Weed Control Act of Ontario and direct the regional weed Inspectors to dlestroy noxious weeds or southwest parking lot at the Iroquois Park recreation compiex be approved, and that an additional $2,91 5 be allowed for crack sealing work on Town roads. Carried By Mark Reesor Someone abandoned another dog near Bob Higg'e Garrard Road reuidence again ýrecently. The .iumail, friendly black dog was loft on Garrard, noth of Winchester -- a dead-end road -- with a haif bau of kibbles. «What the hliIl do ti. y expet the dog to have don. gg@ wonders. «Ate the kîbble and thon Iooked after himself7' Abandoned dog eîether starve to death, are kill dby coyotes ci BOB HIGGS is shown with the latest dog abandoned near his Garrard Road residence. Higgs says somebody left hait a bag of kibbles with the friendly littie dog, Who's now at the Pound. He's hoping someone will want to adopt the dog ooWtyFe ru join them. "Ih. worst thing Ie when you mt a coyote and a dog iîx 5iýuseyou get the coyote's1 viciousnesse th the dorso lack of fear cf humans, and you3ve got yourself a problem, he eays. FInding an abandoned pet is nothingt new for Higge. In the five yeare he'e lived there, <'weve found four doge, numerous cats, two giineau pige in acage -- and theydiPnt oen the cage, just left it on te e cf the road -- and on. duck that got frozen to the road. «We had to put a cardboard box over him and heat him up to gthim unfrozen. It just stinlcs hatpe l~e would do something likethat. Hia house ien't visible from the road '«mc as far as they know they've just abandoned (the pet5 on an empty road.» Higgs kept on. cf the e and the~ t gnaupige and fe= the cate. efaoun'd a home for the duck and another one of the doge but was foroed to, take this latest doKutothe animal hete.î when you 1k. anmmals. If w. had the roomn to keep themn, ml wife would --thydbe moviflginland we'd b. moving out! "Mayb wit thepicture ini the paper someone will corne down and adopt her.1 Higg hopes the pereon who abandoned the do g will aem the Shoto and b. "embarrassed Mie "Maybe they've told their kids they've found a nice home for it when instead they just aban- doned it on the road-"-how nasty can you bé?' 1 ~e., O Dentures so natu ral... you'II nover know the' diîfforonco! muterils for *© July, 19 (FREE CONSULTATION) WatterWimmer, Denture Therapist PICKERING TOWN CENTRE 420*52.80.661502o ý-7l; 77j.- ý" 7