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9gionai council to reconsider decision Police station will be closed by BLAKE PURDY Staff Writer Not only will we be without the police station on Rossland Road, we will not get an alternative facility, regional council decided last week. By a vote of 16-14, council defeated a motion by Whitby Mayor and regional Councillor Jim Gartshore which asked for support of a police commission recommendation that enough money be put back into the budget to keep the station open. The police commission made the recommendation at a public meeting May 8. The recommendation, in effect, asked regional council to rescind its earlier decision to close the 18-division station as a cost-cutting move. Regional council, after ordering the Rossland Road station shut, put $14,000 back into the police budget so ·that an alternative facility could be set up in the downtown area to operate on an 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. basis. We have lost that as well, because Councillor Gartshore, in ordernto put forth the resoution to adopt the commission recommendation, had to first get regional council's previous decision to give us the alternative facility rescinded. He succeeded in getting the previous decision rescinded but failed to get the simple majority required to pass the police commission recommendation. Approximately 50 Whitby residents crowded the regional council chambers last Wednesday and heard pleas from representatives of town council, the Whitby Chamber of Commerce, the Whitby District Boy Scouts, the Corridor Area Ratepayers Association and the West Lynde Community Association to keep our station open. Most of the arguments presented at the meeting and at previous public meetings have been printed in past editions of the Free Press. Councillor Gartshore, armed with petitions signed by 2,500 people opposing the closing made a deputation on behaîf of the town. He first outlined the steps which led to the closing of our station, a situation he called "de"Iorable. The decision of the council rocked the 27,000 people of our town. The decision is totally and completely inacceptable". Councillor Gartshore then presented an account of the April 29 public meeting and the May 8 meeting with the police commission. "That, then, brings us to now. Members of council, we are asking for one-tenth of one per cent of the total regional budget of $41,300,000 be allocated to the police budget to keep this facility open", he said. "It would, of course necessitate the transferring back to the police budget of the debenture payment but this does not affect the total regional budget". "It does not make sense, absolutely no economic sense to keep paying the debenture payments on the police building, pay the rental on another facility in the downtown area and continue to pay the upkeep on this building across the road", Councillor Gartshore said. "We are also suggesting it makes less sense when we understand that a capital budget is forthcoming asking in the next two to three years $600,000 for the expansion of Oshawa facility because they are running out of room", he said. "It is our submission they have the room or a good portion of it right across the road". Continued on Page 2 g - - - ~ - ~ - Vol. 6 No. 20 Wednesday, May 199 1976 16 Pages I ___________________________________________________________________________________________I INSIDL HOSPITAL ADMINISTRATOR LEAVES.................. PAGE 2 KALNINS & BIRD'S EYE VIEW..... PAGE 5 LONGUEUIL TWINNING.......PAGE 8 DEVELOPMENT OFFICER......PAGE 9 ACVI CANADA DAY...................;PAGE 10 SPORTS...............;..........................PAGE 1 & 12 ENTERTAINMENT,....................... PAGE 13 Take beefs to the NDP · Anyone in the region who has a problem or a beef can take it to the Ontario New Democratic PartyMii-Caucus to be held in Oshawa June 2. The mini-caucus will be held in the banquet room of the civic auditorium on Thornton Road. Briefs from interested groups within the region will be accepted in oral or written form or both from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. that day. Anyone interested in sub- mitting briefs should write the New Democratic Party at 3½ Simcoe St. S. Oshawa or phone Nestex Pidwerbecki or Ron Cavaluce at 723-5917. Everyone is welcome to have an informal buffet dînner at a minimal charge with the New Democratic Party caucus members in the banquet room from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Carniva by BRIAN WINTER Staff Writer Preparations are nearing completion for Whitby's annual County Town Carnival, to be held this year from July 23 to Aug. 2. The Durham Nomads Cycle Club has informed the carnival committee that it Flower Girl Diane Brown leads the procession at the 69th annual May Court Festival held Saturday at the Ontario Ladies' College. Following her is the 1976 May Oueen. Pauline Mastenbroek, a Grade 13 student from woodbridge, Ont. The May Court Festival, a tradition at the college since 1907, was attended by about 300 people, under sunny skies, despite the threat of rain. Free Press Photo by Brian Winter preparations almost complete intends to set up a bicycle race this year, and has been granted some money by the committee to proceed with the race. The Oshawa DogObedience Association has also been granted some funds by the carnival coniittee in appre- ciation for its contribution of a dog show to the trade fair for the past two years. The deadline for getting information into the camival program has passed, and the Whitby Kinsmen Club expects to have 15,000 programs ready for distribution by July 3. The Kinsmen are also taking bookings for floats in the County Town Carnival parade. Anyone wishing to enter a float is asked to call Ev DeHart at 579-1822 be- tween 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. The Malta Social Club and the Canadian Scottish Club will be operating pavilions in the Whitney Hall at the Iroquois Park Arena. The CanadianScottish Club will occupy the hall from July 23 to 28, and the Malta Social Club will be in the same location from July 30 Aug. 2. Most of the other events have already been scheduled and the next meeting of the carnival committee will be held June 10 at 7:30 p.m. with the location to be announced. Downtown project proposed A major commercial/ residential devulopment is planned for the downtown area of Whitby. The project, being pro- posed by the developers of McLaughlin Square inOshawa, would be similar to that project but on a smaller scale. It would consist of commercial office space and medium rise apartments. There would be approximately 150 units in the six or seven storey apartments. Top cop honoured Constable Walter Hall, 27, a Whitby resident, and member of the 25 Division in Pickering, was named last week as Durham Region's Policeman of the Year. Constable Hall, a member of the regional police force for little more than two years, headed an investigation in Pickering last year which led to the seizure of a large quantity of drugs and the arrest of the distributors. Of the 11 other constables commended for outstanding police work in 1975, one was from Whitby's 18 Division, Constable Lowell Highfield, Civilians of Whitby who were honored for aiding police were Karen and Earl Powell and John Huider. The awards dinner was held by the Oshawa Central Lions Club. 1 Md r_- IM& ILIM