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Kinme pool may b.e closed down .i nwar nÈ-rtedn rtm nt rec ive 13- Mark Reesor A. drop in usage and the need for $150,000 in rpramay apeil the end for Whitby'a only public Town operations comrittee approved a reonnndation front the parka and recreation departinent Monday night that the Kinamen pool be cboaed and removed thia year. The issue will go before full council Monday night. Ini a report te comnuittee, parka and recreation director Larry Morrow said tt despite increased promotion cf the pool and expadod heurs asat yoar, usage was down. Whle admitting that the weather was "less than desirable," Morrow said that's the nature of an outdoor pool, adding that "even on good weather days, levels of use were low." After protesta front residents, council decided last winter te postpone closing the pool for one more year, and monitor usage on a daily basis te see if it improved. Morrow recommends council construct a water Sray pool at the park, simiàlar to those at Rotary Cntennial and Watson Street parks. at yaabut the lack of a wading pool for young hidnattepark, Morrw writes. Morrow teld council ini Sep tomber that 1,939 peole used the Kinsmen pool in 1992, as compared te 2,296 BwimTing at the Anne Ottenbrite pool and 10,205 at the roc centre pool during the sanie period. It cost the 'rown $03399 te ýoperate the Kinsmen poo lat yar,$9,00basetan what was budhgeted. Morrow attributed the difference te repair costs being "minimized," anid te volunteer, wo;rk by the Kinsmen Club. Request deniedi: Loblaws projeet stiil on hold PAUL HUNDERT performs an excerpt from 'Cabaret,' one of the musicals staged by the WNhitby Coumhouse Theatre in past years, during the theatre group's 25-year reunion held Jan. 23. Current and p ast group members performed nu mbers tram REGIOAL COUNCILLORS MEET decision ftoday By Mark Reesor Durham regional couincil is to decide today (Wednesday) whether to support an eight lane Hwy. 40_V407 link tbrough west Whitby. Region works and planning committees g ave their blessing,. at a meeting in Deoember to wbat is called the DMZ route that would mn betwoen HahIs and Coronation roads. The Ontario Ministry of Transportation has chosen the DMZ as its technially preferred route from the 401 te, the new bighway that is proposed te, be north of Hwy. 7. A local citizons group, 'Concerned Citizens of the West Whitby Corridor,' bas urgod residents te turn out "to vent our frusteration te, the Region of Durham counicillors and the MTO for allowing this project te, get te, this point... "We have te, let the regional councillors know that we inoan business." Executive spokesperson Gary Parkinson says givon the state of the oconomy, it's difficuit for people te tale a day off work te attend the meeting, that gets underway at 10 a.m. at the Region's Rossland Rd. headquarters. The group will niake a presontation te council. Regional councillors front Whitby are also exectet speak out against the DMZ route. other musicals including 'Kismet' (Court- housé production in 1988), 'Okahoma' (1987, Oh What a Lovely War' (1980), 'Fiddler on the Roof' (1985), 'Canterbury Tales' (19833) and 'Guys and Dolis' (1991). Photo by Peter Tomblin, Free Press By Mike Kowalski Cash-strapped owners cf the Subway Trailer Park should ho permitted te seil a portion cf the property, Whitby's planning and development committee recom- mended Monday. If not, 67 families living at tbo fi=k culd ho evicted from their orethe committee was bluntly informed. Town council next week will ho asked te grant a land severanco to, Deca Investments Ltd., owners cf the Dundas St. E. trailer park. T'he sevorance involves two parcels cf land in tbe nortbwest corner cf the property that were previously zoned for nine single- family link bouses and eitber a four-sterey apartment building or block tewnhouses. ByMbikeKowalski A bid to dismiss an appeal cf a Wbitby bylaw permitting a com- mercial-ofice complex on Boss- land Rd. bas been rejected b y the Ontario Municipal Board (0MB). Instead, the board bas ordered that a meeting ho held to doter- mine the validity of the appeal of the bylaw allowing Graywood Developments' Durham Heights projeet. Tntil theý meeting and possible board bearing are held, the fate of t ho project estimated to create up to 800 * s wben completed, romains in i'imbo. In a recent. letter to both Graywood and the Town, 0MB chair John Kruger donied both parties' request for an outright dismissal cf an appeal filed b y the Oshawa Group. The Town and Graywood clai- med that the Oshawa Group's appeal was "frivolous" and made without supporting evidence of a planning nature. But in bis latter Kruger writes tbat in lieu cf a fiearing on the dismissal motion, tbe board bas deemned it more aporate te scbedule a "prebarn con- ference» on the matter. The Oshawa Group, owners cf the IGA grocery store chain, appealed tbe bylaw permitting a 12,681-sq. metre (136,502 sq. ft.) develepment on tbe northwest corner cf Rossland Rd. and Gar- den St. Work on tbe complex, which will consist cf a 4,181-sq. metre Loblaws grocery store, commer- SEE PAGE 35 However, by granýting the severance, council will almost certainly guarantee tbat dovelop- ment occurs on the site prier to im plomentation cf a plIan that calsfer a complote refurbisbing cf the 29-year-oid park. (This condition was impesed on former owners Falcon Dovelop- ment Ltd. in 1988 to, ensure problenis that plagued park resi- dents fer many years were recti- fied. (Rosidents had often corn- plained about disrution8 . power and water supp1y, sewage problenis and unsafe living con- ditions.) But as the committee learned, the current owners bave encoun- tered fnancial difriculties and S1SEE PAGE 2 Bd [iWhere is itil