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For Brooklin Services to cost $5 million The construction of water mains and trunk sewers to. Brooklin is estimated to cost more than $5 million, says a report by Durham Region staff. The financial impact study was presented last Wednes- day to a joint meeting of the- region's works, planning and finance committees, and referred to the Whitby council for consideration. The report examined alternatives for extending sewér and water services five miles north of Whitby's urban area to provide for an increase to 10,000 people from Brooklin's present population of 1,800. Negotiations are continu- ing between the town and Consolidated Building Cor- poration for financing the watermain and sewer- cons- truction. CBC owns 1,200 acres of vacant land at Brooklin. The regional study urges that water and sewer capa- city be built for an eventual population of 25,000 in accor- dance with the region's offi- cial plan. The estimated cost of building watermains to Brooklin was placed at $2.8 million and sanitary sewers would cost more than $2.9 million. A separate report showed that hook-up fees and annual charges for service to local homeowners would be far less if the developer finances the initial cost of the facilities. Mayor Jim Gartshore said at least one public meeting will be held to review the financial impact of the study and a detailed development plan on the Brooklin expan- sion scheme before the town council makes any decision on the plan. Any decision by Whitby council still requires regional approval, he said. Mayor Gartshore said he considered limited growth at Brooklin would not justify the cost of servicing the community. Ontario government assumes liquor board warehouse site The Ontario Government took possession last week of 51 acres of land in the Thickson Road Industrial Park for construction of the proposed $40 million Liquor Control Board warehouse. Durham West MPP George Ashe reports that construc. tion is not expected to begin until 1980,.and it will not be completed until 1981, a year later than planned. The building of the ware- house was announced in March, 1977. Mr. Ashe reported also that the Ministry of Con- sumer and Commercial Rel- ations is comnitted to pro- ceed with construction of the warehouse, although there had beenattemptstohave the project relocated to other sites in Durham or even outside the region. Frank Drea7 Minister of Consumer and Commercial Relations signed the order to, purchase the land from Durham Region several weeks ago and negotiations for the land purchase were completed last fall, said Mr. Ashe.* Mr. Ashe said there is a possibility of a "lease-back" agreement for the ware- house, under which private enterprise would build and own the building and the province would have the' option to purchase it at some time in the future. Mr. Asii said the proposal would be attractive to both Mayor hop During the discussion in the regular meeting of Coun- cil on sidewalks and the recent tour of the downtown area Councillor Bob Atters- ley said he thought it 'was great that the Operations Committee toured a portion of the business section of the town recently." He commended the Opera- tions Committee for going on the tour, but he said, "there is a lot of people who can't go downtown because there is no bus service. Due to the lack of bus service there are a lot of people who can't get up town to see the sidewalks or to see anything else." Councillor Attersley asked Mayor Jim Gartshore what progress is being made on the bus service problem. He pointed out that "we are coming on to the first of June and very little appears to have been done. There is already money in the budget for such a service," he said. "We woùld like to have a decision made soon as poss- ible." Mayor Gartshore stated that he had gone to the Toronto Area Transit Opera- ting Authority "about two weeks ago" and wanted to know what they had done about the bus service pro- blem for Whitby. A report has been reques- ted and if they don't come forth with a report soon, then a meeting will be considered." He expressed the hope that the town would hear some- thing from TATOA "by the middle of June." "If we don't hear from them by then we will call a meeting of the Council as a Committee-of-the-Whole by the end of June," he said. Councillor Attersley asked what would happen to the money allocated in the bud- get for bus service if the town didn't receive an ans- wer from TATOA before the end'of the year? sides because it avoids the capital up-front, outlay Ifor the government out of cur- rent rëvenues, while private enterprise through depreci- ation and interest writeoffs can make money at the same ti me. Some of the items that had to be worked out before the purchase could be completed included arranging parking requirements with the Town of Whitby, and the environ- mental impact with the Central Lake Ontario Con- servation Authority. The 600,000 square foot warehouse is expected even- tually to employ up to 300 workers and be equipped to handle three million cases of wine, spirits and imported beer. es for Treasurer Forbes "Doc" McEwen said that it would go into next year's budget as a surplus and be allocated for other uses if something was not done about it before the end of the year. "We still don't have our buses and there is the pro- blem of the bus service being cut off' from the Whitby Psychiatric Hospital," Councillor Attersley said. He pointed out that Charterways who has been operating the service bet- ween downtown Whitby and the Hospital has extended the service while the bus service study is in progress. The Toronto Area Transit Operating Authority wants Charterways to discontinue the service but refuses to permit Go-Transit, who has been proposed to take over the Whitby downtown- Oshawa service, to include the hospital loop in its service. "I realize we need to have MISS BROOKLIN SPRING FAIR Miss Brooklin Spring Fair Diana Johansen, (left) receives congratulations from First Runner-up Melanie Winter and 2nd Runner-up Pam Ellis. A capacity crowd turned out for the Miss Brooklin Spring Fair Pageant at the Brooklin Memorial Arena Thursday. Free Press Photo by Barb Fox bus service report an answer on the hospital, but that is only part of it," Councillor Attersley said. "If you are going to spread the town out like we are, you need buses. There is already money allocated in the bud- get and I don't want to see this slide on into the summer break. Right now there is a lot of people who can't get downtown...we keep talking about getting people to shop in downtown Whitby, but how can they get there?" He pointed out that the lack of bus service in town is affecting the industrial people of Whitby. Councillor Attersley said that he is receiving and has received "phone calls from the employers in one of the more important Industrial Parks in town. The emplo- yers in the Hopkins Street area are complaining that their employees can't get to work because of thé lack of a bus service." Three injured in accident One Whitby resident, an Oshawa resident and one Brooklin resident received slight injuries in a three-car accident at the intersection of Rossland Road and An- derson Street Friday at 3:15 p.m. Police report that Gladys Carter of 155 Nonquon Road, Oshawa was northbound on Anderson when her car was involved in a collision with a car driven by Max Bochen- ski of 304 Mitchell Ave., Whitby and a càr driven by Elizabeth - Hamm of Brooklin. Bochenski has been charged with driving with more than the permitted amount of alcohol in his bloodstream, driving with- out insurance, and driving without a validation sticker, police said. Grease fire damage $10,000 Grease left cooking on an unattended stove is listed as the cause of a .$10,000 to $15,000 kitchen fire at Dono- van Crescent, Saturday. The Whitby Fire Depart- ment reports a teen-ager had put a pot of grease on the stove, intending to cook French fries, but left the stove unattended. A neigh- bor spotted smoke issuing from the kitchen windows, and called the fire depart- ment'at 6:07 p.m.