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Vol. 17 Noe.5 Wednesday', February 4,1987 28 Pages P&-ychhospitai to be rebuit Whitby Psychiatriq Hospital will be completely rebuilt, at a cost of more than $66 million, as part of a mental health care redevelopment plan announced Monday at the hospital by Ontario Health Minister Mgrray Elston. Elston said -thfle demolition of the existing facilities, originally built between 1912 and 1919 and since expanded on three occasions, and reconstruction is part of an $81.2 million redeveloprnent to be phased in over the next seven'tol10years. the hospital will be rebuilt into one large building complex. The actual construction is expected to take three years when it begins in 1990 or 1991. Outlining the plan before a large crowd of the hospital's staff and patients, Elston said the ministry wants to place more emphasis on communîty-based men- tal health services, with what he described -as MEGAN HEARNE (above) leaps toward her target during the winter carnival at E.A. Fairman Public School. Meanwhile students at R.A. Hutchinson weren't Iying down at sehool on Thursday, they had just lost in a tug-of-war contest. The event was part of that school's carnival. '"state-of-the-art con- cepts." In addition to the hospital rebuilding, the ministry. has allocated about $20 million to add psychiatric beds and programs to general hospitals. within the area serviced by Whitby Psychiatric Hospital. That area extends from East Metro to Haliburton and has a population of about 1.8 million people. Hospitals within that area to receive funding are: Sunnybrook Medical Centre, $5.4 million to upgrade its psychiatrie unit; Markahm - Stouffville Hospital, $4.7* million for 35 psychiatric beds; and general hospitals in Durham Region, $4.7 million . for 35 psychiatric beds. Another $7 million will be spent on community- based mental health programs within that area, such as rehabilitation, crisis intervention, psychoge- riatric services and assessment and referrals programs. Henry Polak, who chairs Whitby Psychiatric Hospital's community advisory board, said later that actual reconstruction will likely begin in four or five years. He said the existing facility has an "extreme need" for renïovation and now restricts patient care. The hospital now has 46 buildings, some called cottages, spread over a 296-acre site, and includes a dormitory system that often has 10 patients in one room, said Polak. "It's like Walking through a Charles Dickens novel," he said SEE PAGE 6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . .......... .......... A 14-year-old Whitby youthh as , died as a resuit of a hit and run accident on Hopkins St. which occurredi around 7 p.m. on Sunday, Feb. 1. Craig Holley, 14, of Clarence Dr. died on Monday at the Sick Children's Hospital in Toronto as a resuit of multiple injuries sustained in the accident. He was a Gr. 9 student at Henry Street Hikh School. An Oshawa man surrendered himself to police around 9:30 a.m. Tuesday morning in connection with the accident. Charged with failing to remain at the scene of an accident- and dangerous driving càusing death is Michael John Humphries, 37, of Nipigon Ave. in Oshawa. Humphries appeared for a bail hearing in Oshawa Tuesday. Two police officers who were investigating at the scene of the accident were also struck by a car, sending both to Oshawa General Hospital. Durham Regional Police say the youth was walking along Hopkins St. with a friend when he was sàtruck by a van travelling southbound., The -acc'ident occuré south of the railroad tracks. Holley was taken to Parlo b 1W leOwners seek Paror ylaw.exemption By MIKE JOHNSTON The owners of Whitby's three adult entertainment parlors want exemption from the Town's bylaw which would prohibit parlors downtown. They made their plea at a special public meeting held last Wednesday night attended by more than 200 people, one who referred to the proposed new area for the clubs as a '"red light district. " Arguments both for and against the bylaw were cal mly stated,. with intermittent rounds of applause awarded to each speaker who made a deputation at the operations committee meeting. Council has approval to readings of a designating an west of Thickson given two bylaw area to the Oshawa-Whitby border and south of Victoria St. to the lake, as the zone in town where adult entertainment parlors would be allowed to locate. The bylaw, if given third reading, would make illegal the three clubs located in the downtown area. Chairman of the operations committee, Ross Batten, pointed out to those in attendance that council "was not obligated to hold a public meeting." - He said council would review the deputations presented at the meeting as well as input from staff before making a final decision. He added that council "is in no hurry to make a decision. " Ail members of council were in attendance although none gave their own viewpoint on the bylaw. The only councillors who spoke were Mayor Bob Attersley and regional councillor Tom Edwards. SEE PAGE 26 t. Yt 44~~~~~~~~~~ f 4 $4 t i,. ~ ~ ' é .,...,',,,,.~*44444.4 ns e. SPORTS Pages 17,19,ý20 WHITBY ART SHOW Sec page 10 Hi't and run«, dlaims life, of youth, 14 CRAIG HOLLEY Dr. J.O. Ruddy Hospital (Whitby General Hospital) after the accident but was later transported- to Sick -Children's Hospital by air ambulance.« Holley is the son of a Durham Regional Detective Sergeant, Peter Holley, who works out of 25 division in Pickering. Joseph Catoul, 46,the acting sergeant at 17 division in Oshawa and Chris Ostler, 27, an officer with 18 division in Whitby, were the officers struck bya car travelling notthbound on Hopkin'S. *-. Ostler. was taken to OGH where he was treated and released for leg injuries, but.-Catoul remains in hospital. 42, of Michelle Crt. in SEE PAGE 8