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Whitby Free Press, 6 Jul 1988, p. 2

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PAGE 2, WH1TBY FREE PRESS, WEDNESDAY, JULY 6, 1988 Rego lists concerns albout LASCO -ber m Durham Region bas yet to decide on LASC(Ys waste disposai berm proposai but planning staff have already indicated some concerns. LASCO (Lake Ontario, Steel Co. Ltd) bas applied te amend the 'Durham Region officiai plan to permit waste disposai site that would take non-ferrous shredded HèIp your Heart... wastes from their automobile Help your shredder facility. The wat disposal site would be in the Heart Fund i form of aberm and woud bein a 38-acre area at the south end of LASCO's 358-acre property. Ha-sLy a recent report te council that "at titis stage" major concerns include: - the use of valuable industrial land for waste disposai; - potential future expansions of the. waste 'disposai site which would ster.ilize additional industrial lands; -- impacts on adjacents residential and industrial land uses; -ennvironmental impacts including but not limited te leachate contamination Of ground and surface water; - responsibility for leachate mionitoring and shoreline erosion in close proximity te the proposed berm; -overal envirornmentai safety. At last week's regional council meeting, Whitby regional councillor Tomn Edwards said he was "grateful" for the staff report whicb, "echoes the concerns of a lot of people in Whitby." Edwards referred te the berm as a "dump site," and said if that term "sounds derogatery, tbat's tbe way 1 intend it te be." Third candidate in centre ward Friendly, Personal 1Service 24 Hours -7 days a week A third candidate will seek the centre ward seat in Whitby in the November municipal election. "I have been thinldng about it, for a while," says 33-year-old r I - SENIORS SA VE 10%9o ON TUESDA YS ~ LOTTERY TICKETS AND TOBACCO PRODUCTS NOT INCLUDED AVILBE TWEST LYNDE PLAZA Effective Juy 6Juy 12 Highway # 2 & Joffery St., Joan Skelton, adding it had. crossed ber mind to run in 1985. But when incumbent Marcel Brunelle deci ded to run in- 1985, Skelton says be was doing a good TOTAL CAR. CARE SPRINGSPECIAL E) INTERRSAMOOGREG7C(.5 "l RUSTCONTROL(CAR)REG$89~.587995 "l LIQUID GLASS SHINERE159.00 -12900 CI PACKAGE (ANY CAR) RUSTCONTROL' FABRICGUARD,SHINEG .o23900 "mON fuRM f U9___ S30900 s69500 S84.50 Fa199 Il 9"$4"9 FROM 8OARDS G U A 20m RO 17'59FOtI FROM5 $307wo El INSTALLATION EXTRA (ON ARC VE) CI PRICES IN EFFECI TILL JULY 30 WITH THIS AD. OSHAWA PIÇKRLNG *215 King St. W. 1010 Brook Rd. South 4334105 NUW corner Brook& BaiIy 831-8938 WORLD'S LARGES T GO KART TRACK *GO KART RIDES "KIDDY KART RIDES "VIDEO SHUTTLE 0 WORM *BATTING CAGES d *MINIATURE GOLF CHILDREN'S CANOES *HUG E A RCA DE GROUP RATES AVAILABLE FAMILY KARTWAYS LTD. Hwy.'12 - Whitby «4 miles North 0of Hwy. 401 E I I I I I I I J-34 >*"» â44 miles NorthO0f HWY. 401__ Downtown Whitby, pg. 14-15 *Wh rha of sarne G leç er custOierper day Morscday - Sattrday i EXPIRESJtIY 19, Me FAMILY KART WAYS LTD. job so, she decided against running. With Brunelle's decision'te run for a Region seat, -Skeliozf-says she "might as well go, for it now." She joins Lynda Buffett and Glen Konorowski as candidates for* the centre ward seat. Skelton, an executive assistant to Durham West MPP Ncyrab Stoner, says centre ward residents need a strong voice on council. She mentions the extension of the GO train througb Whitbýy te, Oshawa and the removal of trafflo tie-ups in the downtewnh as two major issues. Ixnprovements te Rossland Rd., according te Skelten, wili belp alleviate the east-west traffic jains. Locally, she wants to, see better infiiling in the. centre ward. . i)evelopxnent should 'be compatible. Titis ward bas a strong neighborhood identity." She does not; see ber job as an executive assistant te a Liberal MPP as posing pny conflict, but rather as a plus.. "I can keep party politics'out of- the municipal level and I know contacts and ministry personnel," says Skelton. Skelton says she will begin door-to door campaigning during the summer and is.happy te see a growing interest in municipal Politics. She is currently first' vice- president of the Durham branch of the Candian Mental Health A.ssociation and is a memnber of the board of directors of the Oshawa Folk Arts Council... JOAN SKELTON M'unic ipal. election '88, the candidàtes so far Regional Coundiloes:- TOM Edwards Gerry Emm, Joe Drumm, Marcel Brunelle. North Ward Rose Batten' West Ward Joe Bugelli' CentreWard Glen Konorowski, Lynda Buffett. Joan Skelton» East Ward- Cathy' Rowell, Dennis Fox. Undecided or'undeclared c~-cic1a ~ - Iria~ at the Kendalwood, Plaza pg. 19-23 Summer Sidewcdk'Sale at the Woolco Mail pg. 27-29 Busjness Profile -1 ù 2 pg. 10-11 Outdoor Li'ving, pg. 33-35 JOANSKÊLTON

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