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WIIITBY FREE3 PRESS, MONDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1985,I>AG Ii 7 The year in review January Bryan Davies Peter Perry '84 Whtby resident Bryan Davies bas been choosen as the town's outstanding citizen of the year for 1984. The Peter Perry Award, recognizing notable contribution to the community, was given to Davi es at the annual celebration held last Friday night. In 1955, during Whit- by'os centennial celebrations Judge John Pritchard convinced the Chamber of Commerce and local businessmen that there should be an award for individual deserving recognition of the community. The result was the Peter Perry Award, named after the man who is generally considered the founder of Whitby. The award is annually given to individuals who have donated a lot of time and effort to local volunteer organizations. This year's winner, Bryan Davies, is an On- tario Land Surveyor and a resident of Whitby for the last .20 years since emigrating from Lon- don, England. Davies has been in- volved in community volunteer groupa alrnost since his arrival from England. Notable among his in- volvements is the time spent with various lacrosse associations in the area. Davies has been the January president of the Ontario Minor Lacrosse, the Canadian Lacrosse Association and is presently the Secretary- Treasurer of the Inter- national Lacrosse Federation. The Rotary Club of Whitby and the Durham Region Family YMCA have also had the good fortune of Bryan's in- volvement. Davies has been donating blood since his first son's arrivaI in 1959. At that time, he recalled, "you used to have to pay for the blood used during the operations 50 some 1-iends and I donated blood. " 1n January, he made his 89h donation. After accepting the award from Grace Prit- chard, wife of the late Judge Pritchard, Davies said he was honored to receive the award and wanted to share his recognition with ail volunteers "who help make the world g."1 Davies also shared the award with his family who in his words made the accomplish- ment possible. Davies said he did not expect the award and wondered why his wife was so persistent about his presense at the award ceremony at the Whitby Centennial Building. Commenting on the role of volunteers in the society Davies believes that the need for volun- teers will increase as government social ser- vices gradually become too expensive to main- tain. Hawkstoneresidents talken for ride The Town of Whitby cannot legally refund money to local property owners who paid for the installation of a sidewalk on Hawkstone Ores., work which will now not be done. Town administrator Bill Wallace told coun- cils operations commit- tee Monday night that there is no provision un- der provincial legislation allowing council to refund the money. "The bottom line is 1 cannot find that the municipality has the power to do so even though it has decided not to build the sidewalk, " he sa id. Last December, Don Adair of Powell Rd. came to council seeking the retumn of $960 that he and four of his neigh- boursi paid to the town for the construction of a sidewalk after they ap- plied Jor the severance of their properties. Af ter the severance was granted in 1983, Adair successfully con- vinced council that a sidewalk would prove detrimental to his area because of drainage flows and other problems. Adair told the com- mittee that the recom- mendatiori not to refond their money was an un- fair one, 1'm1 not questiclirlg the egality," he said, I'm questioning the fairness. Is it fair that you keep money for a ptirpose for which it wasn't intended? " ded that if the money wasn't to be used for the construction of sidewalks in the area that it be used to make other improvements. Adair was also critical of the town solicitor's legal opinion and said that the coun- cillors had an obligation to do what is right, not what is necessarîly legal. IlHe's not the tjwn, you are the town," he said, 'It's his opinion as to what should be done with the money." However, both Coun. Joe Bugelli and Mayor Bob Attersley supported Wallace's position saying that while there may not be a sidewalk in the area now, that doesn't mean future resident.s of the area won't want one 5, 10, 20 years from now, Therefore, they con- tended, the money should be invested to allow for the future con- struction of the sidewalk But Adaîr dîd have a champion on the com- mittee - Coun. Joe Drumm. 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