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Whitby Free Press, 9 Aug 1978, p. 1

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RýE \E1. R S Ai Whi*tbmy ad Oshwa see This' gravel truck got the worst of an accident which occurred on, Highway 12 near Fantasyland Park at noon Friday. Whitby OPP reported a silver Ventura driven by Christof Janke of Austria pulled out of a private drive- way into the path of the gravel truck, criven by Gordon Dennis of Brooklin. Mrs. Janke was treated for minor injulries at the Dr. J.O. Ruddy Hospital, -fâllowing the collision, but nobody else was hurt. Police charged Mr. Janke with failing to yield when leaving the driveway. Free Press Photo by Mike Burgess 0 e ingini Whitby and Oshawa are planning concerted eff6rÉTÉ to attract industry, in an attemptto level out the ratio et*ween -industrial- commercial and residential assessment. A recent staff report to Whitby council stated that only seven per cent of building permits issued in the first six months of 1978 were for industrial and commercial buildings, and 93 per cent were for residen- tial buildings.0 MayorJim Gartshore says he nas been talking with eight major residential developers in the town of Whitby about bringing industry into the town. The mayor said he has proposed that the residential buildersjoin- forces with a local irganization to startan industrial promotion scheme for Whitby. Regional Development Director Bob Nicol-last week outlined to Oshawa cityý council. plans for an industrial development day in Se pte mber to attract more than 200 top businessmen in Canada. Mayor Jim Potticary, of Oshawa is also making plans for an Oshawa industrial promotion program, which includes the formation of an industrial development committee similar to the one lustry that served Oshawa before regional governmnent began in 1974. The major emphasis of the Oshawa committee will be to develop' Stevenson Industrial Park, adjacent to the Oshawa-Whitby border. The 312-acre park is vacant except for one site which has received a building commit- ment from an industrial concern. Mayor Potticary said he was not satisfied with the region's industrial develop- ment program, for Oshawa has put nearly $400,000 into it without resuits. Mayor Potticary suggested that an approacb be made to the mayors of Whitby and Ajax to send another industrial promotion excursion to Europe similar to the trip taken by the regional officiaIs this spring. The mayors were supposed to go on the regional trip but a cutback in provincial funding prevented them fromn making the trip. Open-holuse, -The new, WhitbY ,Public Library, wlll be offlcially opened Sept. .13, and an open house will be held Saturday, Sept. 16 from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. Ail citizens of Whitby and area are invited to attend the open house, which will feature refreshments and entertamnment.- Model School reun, For 20 years, Alvin Sturgess of 107 Euclid Street has wanted to organize a reunion in his former class- mates at Whitby's Model School. At last his wish is about to come true, for the reunion is set for Sept. 6. 1978 from 2 p.m. to 9 p.rn. The Model Sehool as such, no longer exists. It is now the Florence M. Heard Sehool, where the reunion will be held. In former days it was also called Dundas Street School. The Dundas Street Schoel iton set foi was built in 1875 and opened in January 1876 as a Model School which was the name of a sehool, for training teachers. The pupils were known as "Modelites," and as late as the *1920s, the school was still used for training teachers. THE MARRIAGE Go-ROUND ..Ikeiane Morin and Rick Bartlett, who were married at the County Town Carnival Friday morniug, take a ride ou a 192 ferris wheel, with Becky Whitehouse, a child of one of their fellow -carnival workers. The manriage was penformed on the fenris wheel by Rev. Ron Nickle, a "'carney ministen," from Lansing United Church in Willewdale. Both the bride and grom ame members of the staff of Happylafld Shows, whlch provides the ride for the WhIt>y Cuty Town Caal evrY year. This wus the ffrmt marriage tob be Wd on a fenils wheel for Hapyad hws ree Preas Photo *Sept. 6 This functicri was later taken overby the Normal Sehool in Toronto, and eventually the teachers' colleges of Ontario. Mr. Sturgess, a graduate of 1922, says the September reunion is basically an opportunity to meet old friends for anyone who attended the school up tii 1935. The school will be open for a drop-in style reunion, with tea, coffee, cakes and cookies being served. About four months ago Mr. Strugess and five other former students at the school began compiling a list of names, addresses and phone numbers of graduates of the Model School. So far they have about 65 names, but expect to have contacted about 100 graduates by the time of the reunion. Many are stili living in the Oshawa-Whitby-Porty Perry area, but others are coming frorn Lindsay, Peter- borough, Tononto, Ottawa and Barrie, says Mr. Sturgess. Many people have moved away fnomn Whitby aud will not be able te come, because they are tee fan away, or thie committee doesn't know where they ive. Mn. Sturgeus' helpens iu compinig the name aud address istjxare: Cout'd on P. 2 PR-mESSING THE BUTTON Gertrude Drew, Witby's 1977 Peter Perry Award Winner pressed the button to activate the machines during the Wintario Draw at Iroquois Park Arena Thursday night. Witb Mrs. Drew is Faye Dance, who is ce-host of the Wntario draws wlth TV personallty Fred Davis. A capaclty crowd of more than 2,000 peple attended the Wlntarlo show . Free Presa Photo q TOPSY'-TURVY'TRUCK

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