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WIIITBY FREE PRESS, WlDNLSDAY, COTOBER 2 1, 1i >blPAGE 27 Couneil w l consider suggestion for a co-op in the Port Whitby Town Councîl will examine a suggest- ion that provisions be made in any develop- ment plans for Port Whitby for co-operative As far as Jim Brady is concerned ail the talk about a new Catholic high school in Whitby is just that - talk. "We have a site in Whitby and we're doing a survey, but that's ail," Brady, chairman of the Durham Region Roman Catholic Separate School Board, said last week. "We have to contem- plate what our popula- tion will be before we build. We're stili in the early stages," he said. However, Brady dd say that the board was aware that the demand for a Catholic high sh- for a Catholie high school in the Ajax- Whitby-Pickering area is greater than it can presently accom- modate. "I wouldn't say Denis O'Connor t(Whitby's Catholic high sehool) is overcrowded, but it is at its maximum limit,"I Brady said. "Ail of our classrooms are large, and there is flot a lot of breathing room. We really can't put any more students in the classrooms. We need something better than that," he added. Should a high school facility be buiît it will only receive funding from the public purse for grades 9 and 10. Students in grades il, 12 and 13 must pay tuition and capital funding for their programs and 1buildings must be raised Iprivately. Denis O'Con- nor is in this situation. While Brady said that 1the site being studied is Cubs give two t ur keyqs The 5th Whitby Cubs recently "doubied their pleasure" by givîng away two complete eThanksgiving basket.s to Sneedy families in Whit- Sby. The pack was divided i n'two last January due to an increase in enroil- 1ment; as a resuit "A" and "B" packs carried on with their fourth an- housing. East Ward Councillor Joe Drumm was unable to convince council Iast week that at least 10 acres of the town's 100 in Whitby, the board may not necessarily locate the sehool here. It is possible that the school wilI be located in either Pickering or Ajax. acres of land in the port should be reserved to develop a co-op. While council did not immediately agree with Drumm's proposai, they did send it back to the administrative commit- tee, which he chairs, for study. "I frankiy think the timing couldn't be bet- ter to get co-op housing down there," Drumm said. "We've made a study of the port and we now know where we're going. And we ail know we have a shocking problem in this nation when it cornes to housing." The councillor told his colleagues that a home- owner will pay $1,058 a month-on a $60,000 mort- gage. "And you have to be making $30,000 a year to qualify. " "And we know there are many people in our community who don't qualify," Drumm said. He said that a co-op could bring the town in as much as $18,000 a year in taxes. "It's bet- ter than having the land sit in bulîrushes. And it's not going to cost the town a red cent for this proposai. " However, Drumm's suggestion did not meet with an enthusiastic response from Centre Ward Councillor Barry Evans. "Although I appiaud Mr. Drumm's initia- tive," he said, "Just because we designate land a co-op, it doesn't mean a co-op house will go there." "And co-ops don't need any speciai type of zoning. The present Port Whitby plan doesn't preclude co- ops," Evans added. However, Regional Councillor Tom Ed- wards gave a show of support to Drumm's idea. "I* don't care if you leave the 10 acres in or take it out. This motion is an attempt to intro- duce the prînciple of co- op housing in the port." "I simply want to put this into the study," Drumm said. "We want to let people in the port know that we want people down there, flot industries. " Under the study plan that council recenlty adopted, there will be recreational and harbor development as weIl as low and medium density housing. NOW OPEN C ~B MOTOR SALES QUALITY USED CARS & TRUCKS BROOK ST. S. & VICTORIA ST. WHITBY, ONT. 666-2882 "OPENING SPECIALS"9 1979 TRANS AM PS, PB, PW, TILT WH EEL STEREO, SILVER WITH RED INT. NYL 212 1976 MONTEGO SIW PS, PB, AUTO., RADIO ROYAL BLUE WITH BLUE INT. KHY 268 "A FAIR DEAL" OR "NO DEAL"J -New RC school.... Brady s ays it's just talk