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29 Wednesday, July 22, 1981 32 Pages Council from ride Durham Regional Police have seized a ride and equipment from the Oshawa-Whitby Agricultural Exhibition after a six-year old Whitby girl was thrown from it on Sunday. Tracey Harris of 401 Wickham Court was repor- ted to be in serious but stable condition at Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children Monday after suffering a fractured skull. A spokesman for the police department said that Tracey and her brother, Gordon, 9, were thrown from the Flying Coaster ride when it came to an abrupt stop. The two youngsters and other riders were thrown to the ground. Tracey landed on her head. Gordon was treated and released from the Oshawa General Hospital for bruises received on his back. Police seized the ride and equipment which is owned by Joseph Hachey of Toronto. Pension cheques will be delivered Those people entitled to Government of Canada pension cheques will receive them through the mail according to a spokesman for the Whitby Branch of the Canada Post Office. Keith MacDonald said that family allowance, old age security, Canada Pension, war veteran's allowances and other pension cheques will be delivered by the letter carriers on July 29. MacDonald said that this service was being pro- vided through a speciai arrangement between the letter carriers union and the striking Canadian Union of Postal Workers. Those people who receive their mail through a post office box, by general delivery or live on a street where there is no letter carrier can pick up- their cheques at the Royal Canadian Legion Hall at 117 Byron Street South on July 29, 30 or 31 between 9 am and5pm Specialseetioninsi e %WHITWV COIJNTY TOWN CARNIVAL. T ToB CIL][IiiYAL Vol. 11, No. backs bus system By MICHAEL KNELL Free Press Staff Whitby Town Council re-affirmed its position favoring the Whitby Transit Service at its meeting Monday night. The move was taken after a spokesman for the Corridor Area Ratepayers Association requested that council reduce bus service in the eastern part of town to allow the Durham Board of Education to re-introduce its school bus service for high school students. Bob Kennedy of Venice Place, the spokesman for the group said that they had undertaken a survey that shows 80 per cent of Corridor residents favor a return to the school bus system for these students. To get this service re-instated the town will have to reduce service in the East Ward because the board's policy states that they will not provide transportation where there is adequate municipally-run transit services. However, Kennedy assured council that the association's position does not mean that it wants the service dropped entirely. "We do not advocate the discontinuance of the public transit service," he said. The association submitted to council a brief outlining their position with suggested route changes to accommodate their demand for school bus service. Council decided that the brief would be included with other submissions in a report on the transit system that will be considered later in the year. Kennedy also told council that Mayor Bob Atter- sley received a letter from board Trustee Ian Brown stating that the school bus service would be brought back if the municipal system was cut back. Regional Councillor Tom Edwards tried and failed to get council to consider the association's request within the next two weeks so that the board's service could be re-instated prior to the beginning of the school year. West Ward Councillor Joe Bugelli told council that the transit system is taking in $124 a day, $24 a day more than was anticipated. "Slow as it may seem it is slowly coming on stream," he said opposing Edwards' request. "We o have to look at the total picture.. .I think the whole system should be looked at." The re-affirmation motion was carried on a 5-2 recorded vote with yeas coming from Mayor Bob Attersley and councillors Joe Bugelli, Joe Drumm, Gerry Emm and Barry Evans. Only Edwards and Councillor Ross Batten dis- sented. Girl thrown