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Price Club not coming to Wib »-- Mike Kowalski A controversial retail warehouse proposed, for Whitby will not ho going ahead. Due te a megr between Costco Warehouse and the Price Club, the latter will not ho setting up shop in Whitby. Company officiais apparently believe that a 133,000-,square-foot Costco facility now being bullt in Ajax will be sufficient to serve Durham Region. Therefore, the Price Club, an Amnerican-owned food and dopartmnent store chain wluch operates on a restricted membership basis, will not ho part Of! a massive warehouse complex propoeed for south Whitby. However, lans still call for Aikenhead's, an unrelated harware and building supplies warehouse, to be buit on the Victoria Street site. Invar Industrial Ltd. which owns the vacant 22-acre pro pesto 'hickson Road, will now tiy to) fnd another tenant to replace Price Club. Bsd on his conversations with Price Club officiais, I think they are gone for good,", Invar spokesperson Sal Crinu told The Free Press. "<But) we're talIcing to various people. We're actively pursuing it," ho said. 'Tou can cali it phase one, wbich will ho Aikenhead's, and phase two, another retail warehouse," Crimi added. A spokesperson for Price Club's Canadian head office in Montreal was not available for comment last week. Whitby Mayor Tom Edwards was out o! town last Pridlay, while neither deputy mayor Marcel Brunelle nor councillor Ross Batten, chair of council's planning and development comxittee, could ho reached for commrent. The Price Club and Aikenhead's have been a source of controversy since reoeiving a proval f-rm Whitby and DurhamRegion councils earier this3 year. Several local businesses and chain stores have objected to the development for ja variety of reasons such as, inadequate marketing studies and loss jOb. jThe 'equivalent' of 540 fuli-time jobs were expected to ho created by the two stores, which wer projected to have combined sales of $135 million in the firat SEE PAGE 18 'I SHISKO'S Country Produce donated some 250 pumpkins to Whitby Psychiatric Hospital which sold thernd to hospital staff during yesterday's Octoberfest party to raise money for the -HlGH SCHOOL FORUM Loudiest cheers for Sullivan&. By Mike Kowalsld Ontario riding Reform Party candidate Don Sullivan was the people's choice at an election forum at Anderson Colegiate last Friday. Unfortunrately for Sullivan, moat o! his cheering supporters will not ho able te vote for him -- they're tee young. Whether ho had the moot sub porters, or just the loudest, Sulli- van appeared te ho the favourite o! Anderson students who atten- ded the first of two election forums held at the Whitby schml. Consisting primarfly of Grade 10 political science students, the auctence also included students who are old enough te vote on O)ct. 25. In addition te Sullivan, the students aise, heard from five of the other 10 candidates vying for election in Ontario riding. Taking part -were incumbent Progressive Conservative MP Rene Soetens, Liberal Dan McTeage New Democrat Lynn Jacklin âott Laycox of the Green Party and independent Dloue te rne constraints, a second session will ho held neit week for the other five candi- dates. The are Robert McMenemy o! the National Paty Libertarian George Kczaroffr Vai Hache of the Commonweý1th Party, Peter Woods o! the Abolitionist Party, and Gerard Morris o! the Naturai Law Party. In both his opening remarks and when answering questions from the flcor, Sullivan generally tended te win the most apaue The students seemed te like his message that the election will force Canadians te maie a choice about the direction in which they "Tis election is about a new Canada or the old Canada," said Sullivan. Voters must choose between the old with its massive debt and "one of the highest crime rates in the world» or the new, ho said. «Where you dictate te the politi- cians what you want, not what the tell you, you want, » Sullivan said. While his arty is targeting the deficit, 0l Rene Scetens said the Tories also «understand SEE PAGE 3 - - 7 - 1 - . 'l - 1 - 1 ý - -7-7--, -, - - 1 - ý ýTe- - , - 1 = 7=, - - ý 1 1 1 -.1 - - - . ý ý«- Tý ei 1 ý5---- - , United Way. That's Florence Shisko, and Elsie Boulos, treasurer of the hospital's United Way campaign, with the Shisko, scarecrow. Photo by Mark Reesor, WhIthy Free Pres-s-