The following text may have been generated by Optical Character Recognition, with varying degrees of accuracy. Reader beware!

HAT DAY MARNIE DAVIS.and Bobby Palmer, Gr. i students at Palmerston Public School, took part in the school's Hat Day last Friday. Students are enjoying March break this week. Free Press photo Study includes future plans for recreation and culture The final draft of the Jean Mon- teith culture and recreation master plan for the Town of Whitby was approved by operations committee Monday night. The $30,000 study is ntended as a guide for recreation and culture over the next five years and beyond. The study, which has taken two years, is in excess of 200 pages and consists of recommendations the Town should consider to upgrade and improve recreation and culture in Town. Larry Morrow, director of parks and recreation, told committee menbers that reports on study recommendations will be coming to council over the next few years. "We'il be bringing this back in bits and pieces," said Morrow. Councillors commented on some of the recommendations of the study. One recommendation is to relocate the Whitby Lawn Bowling Club in order to expand the senior citizens centre. Regional councillor Tom Edwar- ds said he would rather see the Town either develop a new seniors citizens centre at another location, or develop a second centre. "In no way will we be touching the lawn bowling club," Morrow assured Edwards. Edwards also commented on a recomrmendation that the Town look at building a second' indoor pool. The-study states that a desirable standard for indoor pools is one pool for every 25,000 to 35,000 people. The Town now has one indoor pool serving a population of 45,000 but is now in the process of assem- bling land to build a second recreation complex. The new com- plex is to contain a pool. "We nickeled and dimed the first indoor pool and I hope we don't make the same kind of mistakes on a second one," said Edwards. He said repairs are constantly being done to the pool at Iroquois Park. Another recommendation of the study is for the Town*to develop a user fee policy - charge individuals or groups .who use a municipal facility. The study further recommends that subsidies be allotted to disabled residents, senior citizens, residents in financial need and children under 16 years of age. Commenting on the recommen- dation, the parks and recreation department note that there is a "need" for such a policy, "par- ticularly as the demands of the department increase." But councillor Joe Drumm said he hoped that baseball diamonds remain free of charge. "It's a cheap recreation," he said. Other recommendations in the report include: four more softball diamonds be built, with one of them in the Brooklin area; a gym- nasium/multi-purpose room be built during 1988-1990; the Town consider creating an outdoor ice rink at the municipal office site on Rossland Rd., and the Town con- sider copstructing and operating an outdoor pool and possibly a wading pool in the Brooklin area. The study will go before Whitby council next week. If approved copies will be made available at the library. Pickering councillor Norah Stoner will seek the Liberal nomination for the provincial riding of Durham West.: A resident of Greenwood for. 20 years, Stoner chaired a group which fought against the Brock West landfill site in the 1970's and founded another group now op- posing plans by Metro Toronto to locate more landfill sites in Durham West, which includes Ajax and Pickering. Durham Recycling and past direc- tor of the Recycling Council of On- tario. She is executive member of a citizens' group that blocked plans to create an international. airport in Pickering. Stoner was also an advocate of guidelines on safety procedures for residents in the event of an emergeicy at the Pickering nuclear generating station. She says it:is important to protect the rural portion of the riding which has undergone much urban growth. The population has grown 20 per cent in the past five years. Stoner, 41, a commercial artist NORAH STONER and principal of Norah Stoner Design, has been a councillor for 10 years. She and husband William, vice president of Bulova Watch Corporation, have five children. The Liberal nômination meeting will be held Thursday,'March 26 at Ajax High School. Administration building FROM PAGE 1 mittee will then consider alteran- tives and make recommendations to the board in October. The Rossland Rd. building was originally built by the Oshawa Board of Education in 1960. When the Ontario County Board of Education was formed in 1969, an addition was made to the building to handle increased staff from the Brooklin office which was closed. Meanwhile the empty Dunbarton Public School began to be used as an office- .he Durham, board began when the region was formed in 1974 and has since experienced growth in personnel. Offices in other empty schools were opened in 1983. The Hopkins St. office in Whitby was first rented in January, 1984 and ex- pansions into adjacent office space have since been necessary. "Right now, it's an inefficient system," said O'Flynn. She said the committee previously set up to look at the problem found out how much space was necessary but had no money to go ahead. She expects it will be "twor of three years, before we can get ipything inplace. WHITBY FREE PRESS, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 18,1987, PAGE 3 Crime CrimeStoppers Crime Stoppers and Durham Regional Police are asking for the public's help in solving a number of break and enters in the Whitby area. Over the past' sevçral weeks numerous businesses have been broken into by twisting the lock off the front door. This method of entering premises is becoming more common and has been used n other areas of the region in the past. Crime Stoppers will pay up to $1,000 for information leading to an arrest in any of these crimes. Similar amounts will be paid for tips leading to the arrest of persons found in unlawful possession of- stolen property. Rewards are also paid for information which leads to an arrest in any serious crime. Callers do not have to give their names or appear in court. Crime Stoppers numbers are: 1-800-387-8477 toll free for all calls; 222-8477 local to Toronto. Sgt. S. Ryrie of Durham Regional Police writes this article to help combat crime. A citizen board administers the Crime Stoppers programs of which there are now over 600 in North America. The reward money is raised through tax deductible donations which may be sent to Toronto and Regional Crime Stoppers (Durham), P.O. Box 54, Oshawa, Ontario L1H 7K8. Norah Stoner to seek Liberal. nomination in Durham West