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Garbage limts, user fees adopted by Town Page2 Town to address Three more units SLM accusations underway at Invar Page 5 Page 8 Strike closes down Àtlantic operations Page 16 VVFTh Prî.vate arena plan reopened By 111k. Kowalald A proposai for four privately-fimded ice rinke ini Whitb~y may not be dead yet, Town council hopes. Coundil Monday directed parka and recreation staff to reopen negotiations with an unidentified company that had been wiUing to build a four-pad ice facffity somewhere in Whitby. In addition, staUff wiil b. contacting local ice user groupa ini the hope of meeting the flrm!s demand for a guaranteed number of weekly hours' rentai before it proceeds with the project. A reduction of 57 hours of prvously requested ioe Urne from the user gope was ail that had prevented coumdil fr-om announcing cnfirmation of the arena proposai by now. But faeed with the possibility of being responsible. for up. to $250,000 if the shortfall could not * be overcome, Town staff recommended that council not endorse the scheme at this Urne. "We have an opportunity here in this town to have four ice rinks and we can't let it slip by for 57 hours," said councillor Joe Drurm in urging that 'disussions b. renewed. "Don't let this opportunity Pass. Don't be faint of heart," Drummr pleaded with lis colleagues. " Wre looking for 57 more hours a week for sornething that will do this community for the next 10 years and give us everytbing that we need," he said., "Ifst'sUre this council stopped looking at our feet. We're the movemsand shakers here, we'have to' get the attitude thatr,w càhd6thui is bid-ta reopen taike with the' private company and the user groupe followed, a presentation from representatives of two orgamizations pushing for additional ice facilities. SERPAGE 16 Provice asked fýor Whitby assessment comparison By 111ke Kowalskl The Ontario goverument wil be asked ta do an assessment evaluation of Whitby. Town council Monday endorsed a resolution requestng the province to prepare a report on the compatibility of property assessments in downtown Whitby and Brooklin with other areais of town. Councis decision was prompted by a reent ruling of the regional as eut office which will lower taxes bv an average of 25 per cent in downtown Oshawa (se. story on page 23). "This i. ini response ta what's happening in the city of Oshawa," said councilor Don Mfitchell, who m oved the resolution. "We wanit, to go through the same, procesa ta ensure our downtown businesses are not paying more than they éhould," he explained. Although the province is only being asked to do a report and not an actual reassessment, councilor Dennis Fox was concerned about older parts of Whitby outaide the downtown areas. "We're not actioning anytbing. We just want ta see what's there," replied hMitchell. "There are. probably not the saine inequities as downtown Oshawa," he added. Ciystal City RICHARD SEWELL'S Crystal City, an art exhibit of what The Station Gallery describes as "the thought process the artist has undergone to communicate his view of how the universe began and wVilI change over Urne,m continues at the Whitby gatlery until' Nov. 26. phom by Mark R.osa,WI1tly Free Prou Sehool overcrowding wHilget worse in %:plan er By Mark Resu., The serious *overcrowding problemn in Whitby echools will worsen neit year, says b oard plganner Lewis Margulis.* In Brooklin, for example, with a large subdivision being built nearby, Meadowcrest Publie School poses a serious problemfor board planners. "Where are the ids going to go?... even though we own about a 11 and a half acres upthere, only three orfour of it i. cleared; The re t ofit.is brush and very bard ta get: t6- (and) -We have serviing constraints." Children can't just b. shipped-ta a nearby school either, ho amye, noting the nearest public school, Kedron on BRitaon Road in' Oshawýa, "is also ful of portables... and more, crowded than Meadowcrest is... "So that'. not an option - no what can we look at thon? Can w, formalize some of the portable., put on a six-pack perhapa (or) do* we have ta go ta' shifts at the school until we. can get a new echool in Brookl in?" While the situation at Meadowcrest isn't too serious yet, other schools are literally bursting at the seams. Glen Dhu, for example, ha. 14 portables ta help house its 765 students, up from 742 last year. While a Grade 8 clasm of 64 is leaving next year, "they have a ktindergarden ca.m of 83," Margulis notes, "and when wp add junior kindergarden, if it'. around next fail, that's an additional 80 students." Even opening a new'elementary achool - John Dryden - in the Glen Dhu area didn't make much of a dent. A nearby school, Ormiston, had 759 students last year - this year it bas 582. And Dryden, in its firet year of oporation. ha. 548. SFB PAGE 2