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THE ICE CRYSTALS, last year's Canadian champion carnival at Nathan Phillips Square over the past junior precision skating team from Whitby, was invited weekend. Most team members are now part of Whitby's to perform in Toronto's first annual Frostfest '88 winter Ice Fyre senior teamn. Bryce Cooper 'photo 'Whit by Ice Crystalsenae Toronto Fsfest By BRYCE COOPER Whitby's forinér junior precision team, the Ice Crystals, took part in Toronto's first affluai Frostfest winter festival at Nathan Phillips Square this past weekend. Big Siste See page 20 Norman Betli subjeet of pli Seepage 13 The team, now competing as Ice Fyre at the senior level, iast year won the Canadian precision junior championship for the third year in a row. The team was invited by the Canadian Figure Skating Association, part sponsor'of the festival. to take part in Frostfest Other performances were made by junior and senior champions in c Eight.recon krs A coronier's jury bas i recommended that coffee truckss visiting- on-site industrial- locations should be allocated a non-bazardous' parking area i wbile serving customners. That was one. of eight1 recorpmendations a five-member jury made - following a two -day inquest into the deatb of 18-year-old Henry Street High 1 School student Alexander -Connelly at Lake. Ontarin Steel Co. (Lasco) last August. connelly was working at Lasc as a sunimer student when he iune was run over by a ' a 22-ton Terex truck. Connelly was pronounced lay dead at the scene of the accident: yat 3 a.m. on August 14, 1987. 1 The jury beard evidence that Connelly was run over as he was walking towards a cofTee truck from melt shop #2. Thejury recomxnended that coffee trucks 1;e equipped witb a- flasbing, caution. light whicb sbould -- be- turned, on . wben, customerse are beinýg served.- pairs, dance and men's and ladies as well as other top Canadian figure skating competitors. The Whitby team had no dif- riculty skating five performances and would have skated a sixth if not for. the mild weather and ramn that cancelled the last shiow. Ail Whitby precision tearns are coming off good resuits from a recent competition in Unionville. Ice Fyre piaced first and the novice Ice Angels and pre-novice Ice Pix rebounded after troubles in the Buf- f-alô competition to both place second. AIl teams can be seen this Sa tur- day at Iroquois Park as Whitby hosts, their annual precision com- petition.- Plans for a village of retail shops and a*religious theme park at Cullen Gardens were outlined at a public meeting of the'Town's administrative' <committee Monday night. Cullen 'Gardens Inic base applied to have land rezoned. as a tourist node. -The village, to be callèd <The Prettiest Street in Ontario,' would be comprised of 25 to-30 historie homes from Durham Region which -would be re locatçd to CullenGardens and restored. The- street would be, located on thie'west side of Cullen Gaârîàêns north of Taun ton Rd:"' "The idea is- to preserve as mfany old homes i the area as possible," Kevin Tunney, planning consultant for Cullen, told comnimittee members. Tunney'said each bouse woiqld cost between $200,001 and $3003,000 to move to the site and restore. -He said eacb house would have a separateý retail use such as a jewelry store or candy store witb the second story. -of eacb bouse available for bed and breakfast use. flYou are creating a street, then creating stores for shopping seven days a week," said Phillip Brariton, a resident opposed1 to the concept. He said* the idea of rezoning the area as a tourist node is'a "good out" to allow- Sunday shopping. Tunney said about thre SEE PAGE 3l" imen.dations ma.de by. inquest jury included the establisbnment of safety standards for off- road veIcles used to, haul equipment, and scrap in industrial areas, including mirrors to eliminate blind spots, warning' lights for front visibility and the removal of exbaust systemns emanating from engines tci eliminate blind spots. The jury also recommended. that employees' belmets and clotbing bear . reflective tape. Newer employees would wear tape of a different color. The jury also concluded that walk >ways sbould be marked off around bigb risk. areas and l vebhicles entering or exiting those areas sbould. be assisted by flagmen. -The jury's recommffendations came after two days of testimony including a visit to the scene ýof the.accident. Bryne Emeneau, wbo, was the safety mnanager at Lasco at the time of the accident, said there have bee 'n a number of changes in" the laneway since the, accident. ï He àèd n dirbe'hàos ) s tiside for the coffee truck and there is now a walkway marked off to the truck., ,According, . to witnesses, Connefly was standing in a doorway to the melt shop at hasco when he began walki ng towards a coffee shop. He had to cross a laneway to get to the truck. At the same time the Terex truck whicb had been called to haul niaterial from a meit shop at Lasco was leaving the shop. ,Witnesses told the -jury that Connelly began waiking across the laneway toward the coffee truck witb bis bead down. "Alex bad bis head down. It looked like he.was looking to see if be bad any change in bis hands," Douglas Lavis, an employee at Lasco wbo witnessed the- accident, told the jury last Wednesday. Lavis told tbe jury that Connelly was wearing bis safety belniet and earmuffs as he walked across the laneway. The driver of the truck, Cbarles Hana of Oshawa, said he feit a tbunk under bis wheels as he» drove by the coffee truck., "When I stopped the truck and looked back there was a chap lying there," said Hana, wbo told the jury he did not see anyone crossing the laneway. 1The jury also heard that there was a broken speedometer on the truck -which belonged to International Milli:Service, a companycontracted by Lasco. But tests by the Ministry of Labor indicated the truck could not bave been travelling 'more SEE PAGE 9 Win!! Olympic Giveaway Prizes wîth your Feb. 10th Whitby Free Press 1 1 ci s f a fi