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Wnitby Free Prou, Wecknesday, JuIy 5,1995. Page 3 Trial to be held A Whtby. General Hospital exeutive wil1l stand trial on charges stemminlg from an assault at his home lat Septem- ber. At a rl iinary heari 1lat weekc, i>as ruled that Marc Kealey, vice president of com- munity relations and develop ment at the hospital, -would stand trial in divisional court. He has chosen trial by judge and has been charged with assault, assault with a weapon and uttening a threat, after Dur- ham Regional Police investigated a comaplaint from a woman at a Sugar Maple, Crescent home A pro-trial hearing will be held in Auguet. There was a court ban on publication of evidence at last wek'sheairing. Bear makes off with beehive By Mark Reesor A hýngr black bear is being blamnd or destroying ehv on Rudoif Junker's strawberry farm ini Whitby recently. Provincial bee insjpector Mat- thew Agar, whose job it is to assess damage te hives, says the bear carried the man-made hive from the. farni, located on Gardon Street north of Taunton Road, about 150 yards into the woods and ate the brood -- bee larvae and pupae -- «and a little honey.n He says,, contrryt popular opinion, it's really te insects thfat bears go atr«Tere was a whole box of honey left there that wasn't destroed.» Junker kees the bees to pol- linate the strawberry plants. Agar says he's nover seen a bear corne further south than Shirley Road. «TIns is, I think, just ayon bear wandering hogh- e may be 10 or15miles away by now.7 He ostimates the damnage at about $65. FROM LEFT, Kelly Sheppard, Jim Snow, Julianne Aspden and Lauraine Allard, members of the Whitby team that was Striki FROM PAGE 1 bought the bankrupt plant 22 years ago for $13,000 and has built it into a business which has plants in Whitby and London, Ont. and registered sales of $19 million in 1993. About 45 of the company's 130 workers are employed in Wihitby and the remainder in London. That plant, which is also a union shop, is not on strike. Although she has not partici- first in the St. John Ambulance advanced patient care competition in Edmonton, Alta. Photo by Jeremy Dresar, Whlby Free Proe iii second week pated directly in negotiations Fabricius clainxed the union had been moving towards a. strike for soe intre. She said the union only becaine «serious» about reaching a settlement on the evening before the walkout. "Many of our employees are 50 and older and I think 30 per cent of the people don't know what (the union's) 1okngfor." According toFabricius, the union gave management "10 ........,..............,... . . ....c a mp..................,.iii........................................... By Mark Reesor Tlwo Whitby residents are spendir« part of the summer in a sinail town in France. David Bauer and Laura Fitz- gibbon, both il, left Sunday for the Children's International Summer Village (CISV). Theyll be spending the next month living with c odrn fom il other countries -- including Germany, Belgium, Finland DAVID -BAUER AND LAURA FITZGIBBON Gr-Ieat Britian and Algeria - ia French school. The «main concept» of the (JISV program, is «trying to bring world peace through children and understanding of different cultures and cultural awareness -- just mainly to talk about what you think about different cul- tures and races and aIl the cul- tural awareness...» says Bauer. "I don't really know what to expect (but) rin really excited.» Fitzgibbon and Bauer are tak- ing along a slide presentation on Canada to show the other parti- cipants on 'Canada Nightf - «we're going to make K(raft diii- ner for everybody,» Fitzgibbon says --and have put togther80 Canadian scrapbooks. CISV participants have to pay their own way to the camps and cover some of their expenses. Bauer and FitzgiMon have recei- ved donationsfoi the Optimist Club of Brooklin and Aj ax_ the Benevolent and White Dv Rebekah Lodges and the Brook- lin Oddfellows. CISV ie affiliated with the United Nations Econoniic, Social and Cultural Organization (LUN- ESCO) and has more than 90 member cou.ntries. There are seven chapters and 2,000 mem- bers in Canada. As well as the international camps, CISV runs 'interchanges' .- exchanre visits in which 12- to 16-year-oIds visit each other's countries- and sty with host familles for one month.. pages" of changes it wanted to the existing agreçment. These changes include union recognition at any new factory the company may acquire in the future and a ban on contracting out production. (Expansion into the U.S. has apparently been a long-held <deam of Fabricius, the. Toronto newpaper story stated.) "&We didn't even corne to money,» she said. «Everything was recognition and not contract- ing jobs out.» Fabricius said abusiness such as hors must have the right to farm out production when the need arises and already does no ini many cases. «We depend on other people. If we have to sign that (contract with such a clause), I would rather close the company,» she said. "I will start again with three people if I have to, that's how determined I arn.»* Fabricius declined to comment on how long she i8 prepared to wait for a settiement. In rebuttal, Lee said the union has neyer made contracting out an issue until now. 'Tey've neyer laid anybody off to do it, that's why we didn't stop it,» he said. «'But if they had, it would have been differenït.» GOLF BOOK Thie Lung Association offers a golf privilege book that provides two-for-one and other golfing discounts at 109 courses acrees Ontario. Coat of a book is $25. Cail 905-436-1046. 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