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Wi-ITIBY FREE PRESS, WÈDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1987, PAGE 3 Costain school on priority list The Durham Board of Education has asked the Ministry of Education for $165 million for projects over the next five years, starting with a $28-million request for 1988 for the construction of five new schools. Topping the priority list for next year is an elementary school in Port Perry, required to alleviate the overcroaded conditions at.R.H. Cornish Public School. An elementary school in Whitby's Costain subdivision places second on the priority list followed by elementary schools for Pickering's Highbush area, Oshawa's Attersley subdivision and Pickering Beach in Ajax. Addressing trustees before ap- proval of the five-year capital forecast, director of education Bruce Mather said that although the five schools had often been referred to as part of a 'wish list,' Kapuscinski is awarded Scott Kapuscinski of Whitby was one of seven University of Waterloo students to. win scholarships in ur- ban and regional planning. Kapuscinski was awarded a scholarship by Transport Canada's Transportation Dévelopment Cen- tre for a report on pedestrian crosswalks precinct designs. Kapuscinski did the report with Laura Taylor of Ottawa, who also received the scholarship. The report has now been published and distributed to com- munity planners and planning students across Canada. It involves the design of urban crosswalks to make them safer for elderly and handicapped pedestrians. Whitby students get scholarships Durham College honored winners of undergraduate scholarships on Oct. 30 at a special reception. Sixty-five companies, organizations and individuals donated 79 separate scholarships with a total value of $22,650, to students in aplied arts, health sciences, business and technology faculties. While all scholarships are given for academic achievement, special recogniation was given to four students who received major awards ($500 each). Faye Branton of Whitby (business) was given the Dynasty Inn Award; David Bouwmeester of Pontypool (technology) received the Emma Kassinger Award; Nan- cy Nichols of Brooklin (applied ar- ts) received the Lewis Beaton Trust Award; and Gary Frazer of Pickering (health sciences) was given the Jean Lofthouse Award. Carold Bell and Peter Nass of Whitby, each received a $400 faculty award in technology. Con- nie Schwarz of Whitby won a $500 scholarship in the food and beverage program. BYRON- BROCK CENTRE Retail plaza new addition, downtown Whitby. Present tenants include: *5.G.A * BANK * *PHARMACY * the comments should not be misin- terpreted. "We need everyone of these schools," said Mather. The board had to submit its forecast to the Ministry of Education by Monday (Nov. 2). Funding approval will be announ- ced next April. (Funds for projects approved in April are ,ot lor- warded to the board until L989, but the board uses its own resources until the grant money is available. Four additional schools have been requested for 1989, but the priorities for the second and sub- sequent years have not yet been decided. According to trustee Ruth Lafarga, the priorities depend on unapproved projects spilling over from one year to the next. Responding to the rapid growth recently experienced within Durham Region, the ministry ap- SEE PAGE 15 Airport plan endorsed , The Region's planning commit- tee has thrown their wholehearted support behind the construction of a general aviation airport in Pickering. Last week, committee voted to recommend to council support of an airport on lands purchased by the federal government in the 1970s for an international airport. The committee is also recom- mending council ask Transport Canada to immediately start a study to determine the timing of construction for any airport on the 9,000 acres being retained for that use. The area subject to Transport Canada's 8-km. restriction around airports spills into Whitby, just to the east of Lake Ridge Road (Coun- ty 23). Within this area, there are restrictions to the height of buildings, and also to their nature. Hospital begins campaign FROM PAGE 1 Caplan. "We expect she will respond t> our request. I would like it to be this year," says Wallace. Even if the beds were to be ap- proved, Wallace says it would be at least five years before they would actually be made available to the public. "It takes five years to complete an expansion," says Wallace. A fif- th floor, to house the 36 chronic beds, is in the works. A sixth floor would be needed for the acute care beds. Wallace says additional floors are funded partly by the province and partly bvy the com- munity. Along with the request for the beds, Wallace says the board is also going after funding for associated health care facilities, including an obstetrics ward. "The residents of this community deserve the right to have their children born in the community in which they live. We are not aware of any other community of that size (48,000) which does not have an ob- stetrical unit in its local hospital." Wallace says the board has con- stantly been talking about funding for an obstetrics ward. "It is our experience to go after what we want for the ultimate good of the hospital," he says. Accoripanying the petitions will be advertising from both the board and Town of Whitby, encouraging residents to write to the minister of health and their local MPP. "Since the day on which the for- mer minister of health decided to forget about Whitby General and the needs of this hospital, both a very real sense of frustration and panic have developed in the com- munity. More recently this has been cha:.ging, in my view, to one of anger..." The board has scheduled two meetings during November to make residents aware of the problem. The first will be held on Nov. 10 at 7:30 p.m. in the Whitby municipal building. Representatives of the business and commerce sector, service clubs, labor union representatives and other com- munity organizations have been in- vited. Presidents of local industries and medical staff of the community have been invited to a second meeting on Nov. 12 at 10 a.m., also in the municipal building. Wallace says both meetings are open to the public. ROM, Thurs. 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