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Whitby Free Press, 21 Oct 1992, p. 7

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SGQ rIS iedoloO .yabaenbeW aami911 AydifrW ,8 egsq PAGE SEVEN 4'Yes' or 'Nogalrage? You ever notice that -the referendum debate (Reefer-en-Dumb) resembles 'a garage? Seriously. Not the type of garage you take your car te and they say, "Sure, you've got bumper-to-bumper warranV, eveiything is covered,, don't worry. By-the way, wev ust done somne routine maintenance, thatil, be twlv undred and fifty-five dollars and- seventy-three cents, sir. Sir? Goodness, the poor fellow just up and fainted, what do you suppose could cause that?" No, flot that type of gaage. The 'type of garage we mean is the type near or attached te the hou.se that this weird guy in MY neighbourhood uses te keep bis car in. Otgarage here you store six cardboard boxes for ___________________________________ theScot Mssion,, eight boxes for the Salvation Army, ___________________________________ eleven boxes for the garage sale and thirteen boxes over here of Aunt Karen's stuf and furniture that sheil take off your hands when she returns some year from Goose Bay, Labrador. With. a workbenchin one corner. Sure I a er you scrthyu head, like, "How on earth is that like a Reeferendumb?" Okay, 50 listen. See, the Reeferendumb has discrete values: a 'Yes' value or a 'No' value, one'or the other, unless you donWt-vote, i which its value is 'No.' You with me? :~Garages are like that. Some people have garages that' are neat and precise and dlean and tidy.. A workbench that you 'couid eat lunch offa.,Pegboard painted yellow, with black outlines of where each teol goes 80 fnegbour Bill borrows, say, a pipe wrench, you can see the note pinned te the blank space saying 'BilP 'with the borrowing date and due date printed clearly. A place* for everything, and everýthing in .iLs place. Weil, that's like a 'Yes' vote in the Reeferendumb: ne suspense, everything organized, we take ne chances. A 'No' vote, however, resembles another garage: cardboard boxes piled up wherever, intentions pinned te the wall at random, two snow shovels hanging from one nail, where ail summer they have hidden the electrie lawn trimmer, a workbench filled with tools, tool boxes, two' vices, three.. unusuable electric moters, a eighteen half-used cans of paint, a toaster in need of DOMINON BANIK, BROOK AND DUNDAS STREETS, 1940 repairs,. three radios with broken volume control, one This old bank building was constructed in 1874 and served as a bank until 1970. This piece of uneaten toast and a bicycle with one fiat tire pîcture was taken after the outside' was refinished in 1940. Because of the efforts of James- haziging from a door 'knob. Hol1den of Whitby, cone of thé directors, Whitby got the first branch outaide of the head office in Toronto when the Dominion Bank.was established in 1871.. The bank was the oel y buldg o surive he gra - fre o Oc. i1É, 187,O hihMMsre-.ill thestors onBroc little. th'j(This issue is missing.) Charlottetown pegboard Accord upside down for.a- chance te- build their own, with pega and nails and 110, YEARS AGO books and crannies and overhead racks andradios that :frei the ThUrsday, October, 19, 1882 edition cf the - r.ýWB1TY CIMONICLE eBoys in the balcony are mrating- disturbainces at theatrical presentations in the Music Somie day.HEall. Ifypu ,havent yet decided, take Uncle -Bils advice. * The Board cf -Education bhas asked the. Town council. for the appaintinentcf a .truant Juet yoUgo look M your garage and ask yoursehff "Do Icofficr. demad suifbe eatandloo goo, o doI wnt ile *jhe Bell -Telephone, Companybas received permission to erect polos and carr wires and* p»iles of great potentiel?-Is my garage -di <o * throughout Whib. 'N7'Chef Constable Jacob Bryan has asked the Town council to rendt is property taxes because cf bis low salary.'« Lil 777. -.7

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