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WITBY 3VFREU PRESS, W[--DNFSI)AY. OCTBf'R 28, i Qs I Pl, 2 Students visit Waterloo A total 0f 297 students and some of their teachers from 10 On- tario high schools will be spending today on the Univer-sity of Waterloo campus as guests of the Faculty of Science. Whitby's Anderson Collegiate will send 30 students to participate in the event. The students will sit in on regular lectures and take part in lab sessions. They wilI take notes, do experiments, ask questions and mix freely with UW studen- ts. According to Prof. Reg Friesen, one of the organizers of the visits they are intended t( *'give the high school people an accurate im- pression of a typical day in the life of a UW scien. ce student. " He says Waterloo haç. been operating itiç science day visiting pro gram for 13 yearç Bridge The following ai-e this week's results for play in the Whitby Duplicate Bridge Club: North and South: Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Baker, 741/; Mr. and Mrs. Pat INVITATIONS CLUB ANNRENE SAT., UCT 3lsit, 1981 8*30OPM. :00Am. DANCETO MARL SIMARD'S ORCHESTRA FlEATURING DANA MICHAELS CANA9DAS OWN "DIUMODLIL" SPONSORED DY CANADIAN AUTOMOTIVE MUSEUM 1ICENSED UNDER AUSPICES 0F SPECIAL OCCASION PERMIT COMING NOV. 7th BILL JOHNSON andi SWEET COUNTRY for furthor infonnation Sphone Oshawa 576-4096 during which time close bo 39,000 Ontario high school students have had an opportunity to spend a day on campus. Approximately -100 high schools frorn many parts of Ontario are par- tîcipating in this year's program. res ults Davies have tied% Mr. and Mrs. Har Winter, 74; and, A John Frost and h~ Beatrice Phillips, 71. East and West: N Ed Booth and N Douglas Maundr 741/; Mr. and IV Frank Wells, 73/2 IV Douglas Henderson ï Mrs. Bruce McColl, and, Mrs. Ben Hai]1 der and Mrs. La Ruest, 661/. The club's results be publîshed in e£ issue of the Whitby Fi Press. f-Dwngs and Paintngs WILLOW RUN "Figures, andscapes. Seascape and Stilil ifes in Watercolour, Pen & Ink, Acrylic or Qils." 585 KING ST. E. OSHAWA "i V9 tHallowe'en [--]-Costume Party ' - Sat.0Ot.31 - Enjoy Fazio's elegant Ital ian cuisine from 6:30 p.m. Dining & Dancing f rom 9 p.m. to THE KE' (Door Prizes) Phone early for reservations I571*3042 The Gateway to Knowledge is the Willingness to Learn: Anon. Someone asked me this week if I know anything Nith ab>out a certain gate in Whitby. I did not, in fact, I vey could not remember seeing it. Wîth only -a short Wrs. time to the deadline we rushed over to Walnut grs. Street, sat in the car while the rain poured down and looked. grs. This kind of question triggers an instant reaction 4rs and so the search begins; sometimes with poor re11, resuits but often very rewarding. frs. There are gates ail over the world, some magnifi- érs. cent, others neglected and tawdry. Some covered and with glorious blooms and vines which creep over an; fom the pillars. !a- Often, the first sign of habitation when homes try were set far apart and far back fromn the road. A welcome after you had passed through the gates, AiII along a drive, generally circular which simplified ach the outward drive back to the road. Iree Whitby has her share of gates, some long gone but a few remain. Made from various materials generally in keeping with the structure. Many gates of course formed an entry into a public park or some such thing. Made mostly with brick or stone, often with * detailed work involved, the pillars were sometimes carved, wooden parts or chiseled stonework. Gatehouses, just inside the gates were popular too. Often, a gatekeeper who functioned as a gar- dener and/or a houseman and kept unwelcome visitors at bay. On Walnut Street in Whitby is a gate, one I no doubt had seen but neyer really noticed! On the south property lines of Coronation Park it was designated in 1953 in honor of Queen Elizabeth's coronation. Dedicated in June 1955, during Whitby's centen- niai celebrations the pillars are made of brick with a commemorative stone (1953) and wrought iron gates. I think the monies for this gate were dona- tions from townsfolk after a committee was set up * for this purpose. The school beside this park formerly known as IIHillcrest Sehool was renamed the E.A. Fairman (7School to honour the retirement of Mr. E.A. Fair- man who had been the superintendent of schools from 1949 to 1965. The gates at Heydenshore I think were Sdemnolished in 1965. In 1900 this area becaine a jjprivate resort with beautiful summer homes all on a ORANGE RECREATION CLUB "Annual Fai Dance" ýrýSTURAYNOVEMBER 7th, 1981't TIME - 8:00 P.M. - 1:00 A.M. ~ ~SATURDAY, HALL j. Slmcoe Street SouthO0 McGrlgor Street !jM~USIC BY -TWIN SPIN BUFFET LUNCH BAR PRIVILEGES Cl usMorrlsey 668-6059 Tickets )àr s YrS 33 Simcoe St. S. Oshawa Cedricks 173 Brock St. N. Whitby 668-8822 invites you to a HALLOWEEN DANCE Sat., Oct. 31, 1981 Incudes Buffet & Door Prizes. Dinner serveti 7:00 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. Tickets 110.00 per person, avallable ai bar upstalrs. Penalty of 32.00Iflot dressed ln a costume. Try our ail you can eat smorgasbord 7 days a week 4e only 5.95 government 99 year lease. This time can seem to be forever but in reality those years go fast and in somne ways the last 40 years slipped by in no time. Again, 1 think the P.U.C. purchased the property and then transferred it to the town, maybe around 1971. Set up in 1928 by Col. Sam McLaughlin who had a summer home by the shore, the gates were at the west end of the shore property and made of stone. On the east side of Centenary Park facing Brock Street, the park now known as the Rotary Cen- tenary Park, stood a gate. Four brick pillai-s, sets of two with an archway and lights was built by the efforts of the Womnen's Institute in Whitby. I think they were dedicated in 1926 with great fanfare. These gates, a gateway to the park were demolished; a sad tale which I arn not prepared to write about. Trafalgar Castie School, built in 1874, bas two sets of pillars. The roadway pillars on either side of the driveway are made of fieldstone as are the two smaller ones on either side of the walkways. The first pllars were probably built around 1859 to 1862. The original ones were made of brick with wooden gates and a picket fence. Repair work was being done to the sidewalk and I hear a dump truck backed up and knocked one pillai- down some time ago. So this meant a replacement, thus the stone gates. I understand that these pillars were built and paid for by the College Alumni. The old Beecroft property on Mary Street and Pîne Street had gates and they are still there, how- ever in poor condition. This could easily be rectified with some old bricks and mortar. This homestead wias called the Grange but was demolished about 1976. The gates were built by J.B. Laidlaw as was the home; a manager of a Toronto Insurance Com- pany who used this property during the first world war as a summer home. A small bit of information and a recurring themne. We have lost a goodly number 0f gates, many of them quite beàutiful. Let's preserve what we have and maintain them ail in good order. As a Conservative I was distressed to hear the PC governhnent of Ontario had decided to spend more than $.65 billion tax dollars to buy 25 per cent of an Arnerican oil company. Apparently, the aggressive National Energy Program of Ottawa bas been well- received by Queen's Park. The provincial government's budget is $1 billion in deficit. The Suncor Company purchase will mean more tax dollars going to American banks to pay in- terest on that debt. It will mean more taxes. It will mean $650 million leaving Ontario for Arnerica. Yet the Suncor purchase does flot help towards energy self-sufficiency for Canadians. It will mean not one extra job for Ontario. The Premier thinks he made a good investment. He's fot in the invest- ment business - or shouldn't be. He can make more money off the oil industry by taxing it, flot by buying 't. Instead of spending $50 million on GO Rail for the communities in our riding - a plan made more desirable by Ottawa's arbitrary Via Rail cutbacks - Ontario's government is going to spend 13 times that amount for a minor slice of an oul company that is already working. The Premier says he wanted a "window" on the oul industry., It seems to me that Suncor is a fairly expensive and redundant looking-gla.ss. Ottawa already has Petro-Canada fulfilling that role and there is no need for Queen's Park to imitate Ot- tawa's mistakes. e~r[ of MUrtMM HALLOWE'EN DANCE Saturday Octoher 3lst. in the Larnbton Room testuring lIi "FORWARD MOTION" for your dinlrig pleasuru Dinner includes salad, roll & butter. roast beef. roast potaloes. carrots, dessert & tea or coffee. $2500" couple Cai! earl-efor reservutions (with deposiO). aç ihere is r<om for 52 couples only. POSSIBLE LIVE LEPRECHAUN WILL APPEARI PRIZES FOR DEST COSTUMES IVE JAZZ BANI) I)ownstairs in the EngIh i>~ )ning Roo)m SATURI)AY AFTERNOONS 2 - 51)m 227 Brock Street South. Whitby 666-2211 ýDinner7pm Dancing 9 - 1 am 1