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Page 2. WhIIby Free Pissa. Wednesday, FebruaiY 28. 1M9 Region offriciais discuss 'strategy' at riar' s resort 122 Albert St. 721-7506 AJAX: 50 Commè&cial Ave. 619-1473 COBOURG: 72.King St. W. 372-4744 Saturday & evening appointments available. FREE initial consultation. RON SMALL BROKER, MVA Accredfted Res. Appraiser JAMES R. YANCH Can We Build One For You? CUSTOM BUILT HOMES 1.5 Acre Lots-High Efficiency Gas Heat. An exclusive offering from a respected custom builder. 2,100 sq. ft., 4 bedroom, 2-1/2 bath BUNGALOW, quality through-out, only $269.900. Corne And See Our 3,800 Sq. Ft. Model Home Loaded with upgrades. Open every Sunday 1-4pm. Located 4 km North of Durham College or cali Ron for a private viewing - 430-9000. sutgrop cass relt i e,0) 3-90 SHArRKY'= S With thîs ad COFF any Electronios Wth thîs ad $L5 0 OFF any CD BUN KNGBAKERY "A Canadian Franchise" 240 Harwood Ave., Ajax (beside Sharky's Buy & Seli) OPEN 7DA YSA WEEKe 683 -03 76 Baked...fres h daily on the prenflses From our oven t'O you at' wholesale prices Offering all insolvency services including personal & corporate bankruptcies By Milce Kowalski Durham Region officiais are moving the site of their brainstorming sessions dloser te home.. Regionai councillors and senior management staff spent twe days last week d1scussing "strategy" at The Briar's resort in Jackson's Point on the shores of Lake Simcoe. Last June, councillors had te travel a littie farther afield te the Nottawasaga Inn in Ailisten, northwest of Toronto. Ail but three of Durham's 32 councillors, as weIl as the heads of the various departments, attended the Wednesday and Thursday sessions. 436-1800 YES WE'RE STILL OPEN ALL YEAR ROUND Red Delicious Apples Fresh Baked Kaîsei Canada 'C'GraeortainBs $4.95 1/2 BUSHEL or t AlanBun (SAVE $1 .00) 1 %or 2% MiIk 4L Baçg $2.99 Reçi. $3.29 6 for ;i .49 ýrs Frozen Vegetables Buy 2Bags &Save 15%j *9Q~ APPLE MARKET 4425 Thickson Rd. N.,1W3tb (N.-o Tantn)655-4130~ *~~~ 0~*~w - The Free Press was referred te chair Jim Witty te find out the cost of this year's event, but Witty was not available for comment. Last year's Nottawasaga excursion carried a $5,000 price tag. Whitby councillor 'Marcel Brunelle said Durham's 1996 budget and proposais for reforming the Greater Toronto Aiea (GTA) dominated both the formai and informai discussions. In the latter category, one unnamed counililor burned a copy of the Golden task force report on the GTA in a cottage firepiace, Brunelie chuccled. Whiie he had no input inte where it was held, Brunelie feit ne need te defend the need for the retreat. "It usuaiiy helpe te get away," he said. "We did one at the Oshawa Golf Club and it was'a waste cf time and money. 'When people get away they focus more on the discussions. When you're teo close te home, yeu're bothered more." For instance,. Brunelie had 32 telephone messages waiting for him when he arrived home - messages he might have been tempted te answer if he had been within haiiing distance of Whitby. Often, the most important part of these gatherings are the informai debates that occur "over drinks or in someone's room," Bruneile said. 'We had good, honest 'd;-cussions on amalgamation," he said. "I'm not sure we left seeing eye te, eye, but everybody knows where they stand." Noting that Durham Region is a corporation like GM and anyone else," Bruneile said the corporate world reguiariy holds such functions te improve staff performance. "When the Region and other municipalities are under attack from the provinoe and when people say they don't want a tax increase ,and no GTA .. anything that makes us work more efficientiy, I amn in faveur of." Fellow Whitby representative Gerry Emni concurred with Bruneiie's assessment cf the seminar's value. 'The Goden report teck a lot cf time," said Emm cf a presentation on mistakes contained in the controversial document now before the Ontario government. 'There were numerous errera in ROTARY (A$H (ALENDAR$ PfzeNubrfoFb.1.2 ý0667 0810 :2789 .262 055017 ý4: ..57. *No charge scheduled maintenance *Bumper to bumper warranty Road-side assistance Air conditionlng Power Iocks *24rrmonth lease. $1,500 down. OAC. See Owasco -for details. OWASCO VOLKSWAGEN INC.@i Pro yen to serve you BES Tsince 1972. An *1 CAQE' and CAA award wînner. i 425'Dundas'St._'East, ýWhitby there and that's put us ln a much worse situation," he said of the potenlial Impact the proposais wil have on local property taxes should the governxnent endorse the repcrt's recommendations. "With that informâtion, we have te work harder te see that the Golden report is net impiemented." Emm admitted that it "stili bothers me" that the seminar was flot held in Durham and said Camp Samac officiais suggested the north Oshawa site as a possible venue i n a recent letter te regionai council. "l would have preferred that the monies be kept in Durhami and I did raise the matter," said. 'The Briar's was chosen beyond my control and because there were such important matters (te discuas) ý it required my attendance." Holýd.up aàt Whitby ank By Mark Rees'or A lone bandit escaped 'onfoot after holding up the downtewn Bank of Nova Scotia early Friday afternoon in Wîhitby'si third bank robbery of the year. The robber entered -the b»'ranch around 1:10 p.m., gave a teller a note indicating he 'had a gun, although no weapon wa seen, and fled with a'small amount of cash, police say.1 He's described as a, white maie in his late twenties withý darlc, shoulder length hair, between 150 and 160 pounds and around five feet nineinches tail. Witnesses say he was wearing a blue-green jacket and dress pants. It' was the l2th bank robbery this year in Durhamn, just one less than the total for ail of 1995. ý Police say a bank- in Ajax was' robbed about 90 minutes earlier by' another lone male robber using a SiMilar method, but don't beiieve* it was the sanie culprit. The downtewn Whitby TD Bank was robbed Jan. 4 and the same branch was hit again Feb. 2.ý VOLUNTEERS Volunteers are needed for the Durham Region ComrnulnitY Care Association Caregiver Relief Aduit Day Program. Contact Jennifer Rusaw at (905) 427-2315 for further information. NUE'W, -1996'"f JETTA GL,