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Berling Beuti que 725-2526 44 lBond St., W. Bond Towers Mail, Oshawa Vol. 4 No. 39 oong's BLAIR PARK PLAZA WHITBY 668-5441 10 CENTS WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1974 Or Maybe 100,000 BROOKLIN'S population may just jump to 20,000 if two Toronto developers get the go ahead. According to Somer Rumm, area vice-president of Consolidated Building Cor- poration, his company and Marksborough Properties Limited together own or control about 1,700 acres in the Brooklin area. Speaking to the Durham Region planning and develop- ment committee last Tuesday Mr. Rumm said a conceptual plan had not as yet been drawn up, but the companies would probably be looking at six or seven thousand lots mostly for single family dwellings and about 10 per cent for town houses. He expressed his desire to work together with the plan- ning department to discuss the proposal with area resi- dents. He also said the com- panies are prepared to pay about $6 million to cover the cost of supplying services, water and sewers, to the housing site. Mr. Rumm also said that Brooklin's popula- tion could eventually reàch 100,000. The region planning com- mittee gave approval in principle and directed plan- ning Commissione William McAdams to work on the details of co-operative plan- ning. The C.B.C. and Marksbor- ough lands (1,700 acres) are mostly to the east of Brook- lin, with the provincial land banking (2,300 acres) to the north west. Centre Is Filthy Whitby Knob Hill Farms Junior A Hockey Club won its opening home gane Sunday night at Iroquois Park against the (Toronto) Eyepatch Nationals by a score of 7 - 5. Ken Fire Parade Sunday The Whitby Fire Depart- ment will officially open fire prevention week in Whitby with a parade Sunday after- noon. Slated to start at exactly 1:42 p.m. from Henry Street High School, the parade will proceed down Harriet to Annes, along Annes to Jermyn, to Michael Blvd., a- long Michael to Bell Drive, to Dundas Street, along Dun- das to Brock Street, and then south on Brock to Centennial Park. Whitby Fire Chief Ed Crouch says the parade will probably take about half an hotr to pass any one point, and is expected to be one of the largest parades ever held in Whitby. At press time 50 entries had already been confirmed for the parade including five bands, two majorette corps., six antique fire trucks, and all the Whitby councillors rang- ing from Gerry Emm in his Model A Ford, to Joy Thompson behind the wheel of a fire truck. A Fire Chief's trophy will be awarded to the best float entered by the firefighters' Clark (10) is pictured above scoring the first goal for Whit- by (and the first goal of the game) assisted by Don Nichol- son (17). See story on Sports Page - page 8. Free Press Photo associations. A second award will be presented to the best float- non-fire departmnent. And a third award will be made to the oldest antique vehicle in the parade. WHEN the parade has fin- ished arriving at Centennial Park, about 3 p.m., the Whitby firefighters will put on a display using a pumper and the aerial truck. Growth Rate Down one more year. Whitby Mayor Des New- man says Whitby's industrial growth rate is 30 percent below 1973, and is the only municipality iii the region running behind. Speaking at the last council meeting, Mayor New- man said al that is needed is "an accelerated sales ap- proach". Director of Development F.N. McEwen was com- mended for the work he has donc, and was retained for Council decided to peti- tion the province to amend the Durham Regional Act to allow local punicipalities in co-operation with the region to be allowed to purchase and market industrial lands. Councillor Don Lovelock pointed out to coutncil that he felt Mr. McEwen is doing an excellent job considering that his full-time job is town treasurer, and he has been devoting about 75% of his time to industrial promotion. Land 'Ripoff' Says Newman Whitby man says "rip off" regards to mayor Des New- that a provincial is inevitable with the provincial land banking in Durham Region. Speaking at a recent meet- ing of the régiunal planning and developnent committee Mayor Newman said a rip off is inevitable because the re- gion will have to pay for the services in the landbank areas such as water. sewers and roads. Newman said that the re- gion should become involved in land bankinîg before the province boys uo all the land ..hence hIle region will get some of the profits fron the subsequent sale of lands. He said that since the region is going to be paying for the servicing, it "should share in the ill gotten gains". Cont'd on P.2 A grand jury report last Thursday revealed that the third floor of the Durham Region Centre for the men- tally retarded was found to be filthy. The centre, located in Whitby at the Whitby Psy- chiatric Hospital, was visited by the seven-member jury who reported "the floors walls and windows looked like they haven't seen soap and water in a year." The report continued "the eating area was deplorable, the dirty lunch dishes had not been removed at the time of our visit - 3 p.m." The report conceded that the main floor was found to be in Satisfactory condition excepting dead flies in the light fixtures. The jury also felt that the children shouldn't have MALL A proposal for a Byron Street South, pedestrian mall was discussed at a recent meeting of the Downtown Action Committee. The mail would call for blocking off Byron Street South, between Dundas and Colborne and paving the entire lane area behind the stores. This way the stores would have both front and rear entrances with parking off of Colborne Street. The committee, chaired by Cougcillor Joy Thompson felt the proposal was feasible if all the merchants would co-operate. access to the elevators, which might be dangerous. The report further stated that as a result of conversa- tions with the director of the centre, Paul Caron, and the administrator of the Whitby Psychiatric Hospital, Milton Fi>her, "we feel there is a conflict of interest between their staff and a lack of co- ordination." The jury was commended on its report by Mr. Justice William Parker. Six Retiring Fire Fighters Six members of the Whit- by Fire Department with a total of 98 years of service are retiring and will be hon- oured at a special Awards Night this Saturday. The six retiring firefighters are: Warren Mowat, 31 years service; Jim Watson, 26 years Dick Schad, 17 years; Bob Correll, 9 years; Irvin Gibson 8 years; and Alf Minaret with 7 years. 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