DmDay remembered, pageB Students earn gol'd in OFSAA tkck pg2 Images of the fair pa2gel6 Homestyle ,xages7"19 t ALAIN ARSENAULT and son Mathieu, 2, of Ajax took advantage of the nice weather Thursday, to do a littie fishing off the boardwalk at Lynde Shores Conservation Area in Whitby. It was Mathleu's f irst fishng tip.Photo by Mark Roesor, Witby Free Press Coimfitice approves budget By Mike Kowalski Six months inte 1994 and Whitby's downtown business association may finally have a budget. Town ceuncil'. operaiens cern- mitte. recommended approval Monday of a $130 895 budget for the. Downtown Ãusiness Im- provement Area (DBIA). Comiitte'. recommendation go.. before council next week and if approved, wili aliow the. DRIA management board te operate with an actual budget for the remainder cf the. year. The board has been foroed te clinto reserve funds while waiting for council endorsement of its1994 sndingproposals. On Monday, committee mem- bers were prepared te put an end te the. wait. DBIA critics, iiowe- ver, were not. Although less than last year's $ 156,496 budget, the prepoaed 1994 budget is $2 1,599 moe than the one committee was asked te enderse just tiiree weeks ago. Ii. revised figures drew pro- tests from DBIA foes who clai- med the committe. had ne auth- oty t deal with the. n.w budget. But committe. members rejec- ted those arguments and were satisfied with the. explanations given for tiie changes made te the budget since t he previous meeting. They aise pleaded with the pro- and anti-DBIA factions te resolve their différences and work togetiier for the betterment of downtewn Whitby. "Something ha. gone drasti- caily wrong,» said councillor Marcel Brunelle, refgerring te the ongoing wrangling which has pit- ted downtown business ewners against on. another in recent years. «I suggeat te, ev.ryone her. that w. have te move from wiiere we are tonigiit or thie real loser wili b. the.downtown,' warnied Brunelle. 'Mis budget won't solve ail the. problems, but it's a step in the. right direction," h. aaid. DBlA opponents iiowev.r, were not moed by IËrunelle's or otiier councillors' words. More than on. person insisted after the. meeting that the. cer- mitte. had ne jurisdiction do what it did. On Ma 16, comniittee defer- red a decision on the. then $109,296 budget. Numerous questions posed by DBIA critics about the budget could net b. answered. Due te ilîneas, DBLA chair Sean Hogue was unable te attend the. meeting and DBIA treasurer Grant Souter did net have the. «paperwork» with hlm te respond te specific items in the. budget. As -a resuit, committee tabled the, matter for tiiree weeks and DBIA epponents were promiaed that their questions would b. answered at the. following meet- in foweercouncillor Judi Long- field, the. committe. chair, ruled that since Monday's meeting was a continuation of the previous session, only Hogue would b. permitted te, address tiie commit- su PAGE 5 rroessa no bram er, Says, Kealey By Mike Kowalski A study proposing major changes at Wiiitby General Fos- pital has been a public relations disaster, charges a hospital offi- cial. Marc Kealey, Whitby General vice-president cf communityrela- tiens and development, ha. slam- med the Durham Region District Health Council fer the. way a s tudy of Durhaxn's iong-term health care needs was cenducted. While net criticai of a plan te convert Whitby General inte a réhabilitation -treatment centre (se. separate story ),hospital offi- ciais are outraged bytho process used te, arrive at the recommen- dations, Kealey said., "W. agree that there ùeeds te b. change. The status; quo in Durhamn Region is net the. one te pursue,» h. said. «But the concern w. have is thie manner in wiiich communi- cations have taken place. The. study ha. taken toce long and cost tee much. 'Tor alI intenteanaud purposes, tuis was a <ne brainer." When the health council steer- ing committee informed Whitby General officiais of their plans, hospital officiaisagreed net te comment on the matter until the study was made public, Kealey explained. Canada(bD ay A Canada Day parade wiIl be held in dewntewn Whitby on Friday, July 1. Tii. parade, from 10 a.m. te noon i. being organized by the Whithy Junior Chamber of Cern- mierce/Jaycees wiio invite partici- pation by local residents. Tiie parade will begin at Coch- raeStreet and Dundas Street West, go east on Dundas and tiien turn south on Brock Street. At Rotary Park on Brock Street South, pricipantan observera can Join in the. Canada Day birthday cake celebration hosted by Whitby Mayor Tom Edwards. To participate in the. parade, caîl Shelley Craig or Brune Scanga at 725-6956. Discussionpaper is released See page 8 In the interim, there have been «systematie Ieaks and informa- tiog going to the media and public with much of it in- accurate, ho said., «W. have had to defend the actions, of the district health council. at this hospital," even thoughý Whitby General is not responsibl or the study, Kealey Tii. steering committe. was advIsed oarly on to "engage the public and media" in the. procees, but this advice was ignored, he said. "If you don't give proper infor- mation to the public and media in a timely fashion, they will make it up and that's happened,» Keaiey claimed. Since last Deoember, Kealey has received numerous caîls from peop~le who were either misinfor- mdabout the. study or reacting to rumeurs. He places the blame squiarely on the health council for ailowing this to o cour. "W. have no problem with the recommendation, it's the. way and manner in which itfs been don.', he said. Kealey predicted that the "vitriol we express at this hospi- tai» will b. repeated at next Monday's public meeting at St. Matthew t he Evangelist Catholic School. UÂ4scjng the. public te digest ail this information in two heurs is SU PAGE 8 A supplement by. stu dents INSIDE