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Town requests funds ~'orrepair of sewers The Town of Whitby will " rap on the door" of the province for finan- cial assistance to pay for Town storm sewer repairs. Council has approved asking the Ministry of Transportation and Communication for $160,000 under the province's Ontario Municipal Improvement Fund (OMIF). While the OMIF is mainly for road and bridge improvements, the Town has been informed that storm sewer repairs would be classified as road improvement. Last August and September a number of homes in town were flodded following heavy rainfail. A study commissioned after the flooding estimated it will cost $1 million to repair the storm sewers. During 1987 budget discussions, council approved a three-year program to repair the system. It is to start this year at a cost of $320;' 000, with the province expec- ted to pay haif the cost. But now, a council resolution is required because the public works department received verbal com- ments, that the Town may not SEE PAGE lo STRIKERS AT COR! FOODS stand.in front of a motor home on the Uine. Members of Local 1230 of the United Tops in Canada MEMBERS 0F THE Whitby Ice Crystals and Ice Angels, Heather For- shaw, Nicole Brooks, Christina Self, Shannon Brown, Mona Gibney, Nicole Blackburn 'and ' Tracy Mockford, celebrate on, their return to Whitby from a competition in Quebee. For the resuits see story on page 16. Free Press photo Region budget includes start of sanitaryser repair The Durham 'Region'budget ap- proved last week includes $857,000 to be spent on the beginning of sanitary sewer repair in areas where flooding occurred- from the August, 1986 rainfail. The funding, part of the Food and Commercial Workers Union went on strike last Friday. Free Press photo municipal services allocation in the cUrrent operating budget, will be mostly for design and land pur- chase to pave the way for actual construction in 1988. Included are allocations for areas in Whitby where flooding occurred: $50,000 for Annis St.; $35,000,for the Bell Dr., Wellington and Raglan Sts. area; $50,000 for Donevan Cres. and Walton Blvd. and $25,000 for Lupin Dr. The following year, 1988, con- struction plans include a $100,000 pumping station project on Annis St.; a $650,000 sewer line for Lupin, Dr.; and a $105,000 diversion sewer on Arthur St.. The Arthur St. sewer would eliminate two existing sewers across the 401 Highway and instead provide diversion to the' east. The recommendations, contained in the flooding report recently presented to council, include reconstruction by the Town of Whitby of Centre St. from Arthur St. to the 401 in con- junction with the Region sewer project. 1Public information meetings are also to be held on the flood report recently completed for the Region by Simcoe Engineering. More than 600 homes in the Region, including 200 in Whitby, had flooded basements from the rainstorm last year. Whitby councillor Gerry Emm, who chairs the Region's works committee, says he will recom- Turn dlocks ahead Residents are reminded to turn the dlocks ahead one hour before slumber on Saturday. mend to the committee thi's_week that the meetings be scheduled as soon as possible.