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WHITBY FREE PRESS, WEDNESDAY. DECEMB ER 4, l985.PAGE 7 1A& P supermarket opens storeim Whitby Tuesday morning was the big grand opening of to life replica of the store was whipped up by the the new A & P in Thickson Place. The Whiîby people at Whitby Home Bakery. Free Press presented Manager John Smith with Free Press Staff Photo this cake and best wishes for the future. The true Grand Opening The new Whitby A & P opened with a special ceremony Tuesday morning before the store fi opened for ils first day of business. Mayor Bob Atlersley is seen here helping store Manager John Smith cut the cake as A & P District Manager Robert Adams and Regional Counillor Gerry Emm look on. Free Press Staff Photo FROM PG. 5 Any platform in space becomes a perfect platform from which 10 aim weapons, rockets, or whatever, ton any country on Earth. And any such platform becomes almost impossible to knock out, since any rockels aimed at it must come from Earth - and the space platform could easily detect rackets long before they reached it. But while the Americans were out landing men on the moon, the Russians were quietly building the lechnology 10 put their people in permanent peopled station in space. Which means, that though Amnerica won the race to the moon, the Russians came out winning the race to dominate space. From a per- manent platform lhey would control Earth. Which is why the Star Wars programn is s0 impor- tant 10 the Americans. Having losI the real space race, they require the technology 10 knock out satellites and - most important - permanent stations. Meanwhile, the Americans also need to catch Up nn the ability 10 build in space. That, of course, was the core of the tinkery loy building eXperiments in space lasI weekend. The Russians have had a scien- tific laboratory in orbil for extended periods of ime; Russians and AmericanS bave shaken hands in space; now the Americans must prove they can build structures in space for permanent domination. The end resuit will be, undoubtedly. a McDonald's franchise in orbit, and Holiday Inn on the moon. Because of my reading babils 30 years ago as a teenager, 1 have earned reservations on Ihat moon trip, as mentioned. The difficulty: I no longer have the ticket. 1 wonder how complele the book club records are? Landscapiflg .OYIC & (.aqjaj>hcII Specialisti *TREES *Firewood 1c I * Ail Canadian Cheese Baskets "Qulity & Service Guornteed", Hwy. 2 & Harwood, Ajax THIS THURS., FRI., SAT. & SUN. AT YOUR LOCAL DIXIE LEE 1017 DUNDAS ST. E., WHITBY CALL AND INQUIRE ABOUT OUR COMPLE HOLIDAY CATERING_ The odor of freshly baked cookies wafts fromn the "Bake-off" section. Fruit-bright orange, red and green globes - glistens from their artfully arranged 'waterfall" displays in the produce section. At the front of the store, the 14 check-out cashiers busiiy shine their registers, while an ex- cited store manager scurries about, orderinfl people to "look sharp and get that box out of the aisle. What's ail the fuss about? lt's the grand opening of Wbit- by's new A & P store. The supermarket, which opened yester- day, measures 38,8W0 square feet - making it the largest grocery store in Whitby. Nearly one and a haif times the size of its nearesl A & P neighbor in Oshawa, the store boasts a wide selection of products aI competitive prices. In addition to the standard grocery of- ferings, the new store has an in-store bakery, a delicatessen, a fresh fish section, a snack bar, and a mini-garden [:l () NiPN;. 5 The chain, which aims increasingiy at the one- stop shopping also of- fers a wide range of general merchandise such as colored televisions, rpirowave ovens, paperback books and greeting cards. At the store's courtesy bar, customers can also drop off film for processing, buy cartons of1 cigarettes and get personal checks cashed. "«Customers could practically do their Christmas shopping whiie buying groceries," said store manager John Smith. Smith, the man behind ail the preparations for yester- day's opening, bas been with A & P since the fif- ties. Back when he star- ted, Whitby had an A & P. In fact, the first store, which opened in the thirties, was located in the Brock St. N. building where the Whitby Free Press is now. When the store closed in the sixties, a second one was opened further along Brock SI. that one, since 1975 Whitby has hadno A &P. Working as manager at the Oshawa A & P, Smith quickly discovered how much Whitby missed ils store. "A lot of people ap- proached me and wrote letters urging the com- pany to open Up another local store," he said. Customer pressure appears to have worked. Not only has the chain decided to move back into town, but it has done so with a store three limes the size of he former one. What makes A & P s0 popular with customers? Smith believes it's the high quality of the store's products and the quality of its staff. "At A& P, we like to feel there's one person we cater to - the customer. " With over 150 em- ployees, 50 of themn fuli- time, the grocery chain is well-equipped to han- die the high volume of business il hopes to at- tract. SEE PG. 12 Mayor -makes the eflort withîn two blocks fromn my home. Until today the nearest one was seven blocks away. On the day that the mayor phoned me he had spent a long day on important matters as a member of the Police Commission, yet he took the time late that evening to speak to me about a malter many others would consider unimportant. Yes, it is nice 10 know that there are stili the time to bother with maîters which are imn- portant to us, as in- Very sincerely, Thomas Doucette. ýMARIO'S HAIR SALON 2nd Annlversary Celebration 1 maios 900 Bonacord Whitby 666-2244 th Ch mnsSeprisotasw aI - gin in Naw nce fro bon y '799 Fie wrîu elae nchrrnqoon ,etnsnorc tuybidg .... foroCrnMhtgust Enoyth