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Whitby Free Press, 16 Aug 1995, p. 7

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Whtbyi FieePmoss, We&âscday.-Auguet Ï16i ,Pné7 At the movies "OUTBREAKM. Warner Brothers Home Video release, etarring Dustin Hoffman, Donald Sutherland, and a couple of other actors. 2 hours, 8 minutes. The etory so, far: A mystery virus creepe out of the jungle. Revenge, says a witch doctor, for those who eut down the trees. The virus Ille everyone. Within hours, it destroys vital organ within twenty-four hours, the victim dies a horrid death, with high temperature and delirium. Fortunately, thie virus epreads only through direct contact. ike blood or saliva. Like 111V, it je not airborne. We've got Dustin Hoffman as a virologist who works for the U.S. Army. Ordered to Afica to observe an outbreak of this myetery disease, he returns home with blood samples. The deflant detective, he wiil study this vilain until he cracks its genetic code. So far, the movie sheene with realietie poseibilities. (A etrain of Ebola once did invade a Washington area monkey clinie. It proved to be airborne, and defled al atepeto fumigate the building, which je empty to this day. Fortunately, this Ebola strain affected only monkeys.) But no movie could accurately portray Ebola: victime vomiting blood, bleeding from ail orifices, vital organe liquifledby a virus that kils from 20 per cent Wo 90,per, cent of ail victime, depending on the strain. That's real life. Imagine that portrayed in your living room ini digitally processed colour. But hold on here. We're at a movie. Get this: Dustin Hoffinan, medical detective, je ordered off the case. Meanwhile, an imported niônkey, smuggled into the U.S., infects several people. One of whom lets the monkey loose in Califonia. Where it could have infected hundreds, perhape even the fleet of screen writers of this movie. (It ie too bad Wo have been written by one persan.) A email town catches the disease. Tiè army seals off al roads. People die. Voila! The U.S. Army tries L1101, the secret antibody. Sbowing that the Pentagon not only knew about the virus, but had manufactured it as -an agent of war. Bad guys. Led by Donald Sutherland as an Army super major-, general eomething or other. High ranking bad guy. Oope! The antibodies don't work. -The virus has mutated. It ie now airborne. Everybody dies, or starts Wo. Duetin Hoffmnan works on the cure. Oope! agaim His estranged wife, also a virologist, pricks her finger like Cinderella, and starts Wo die. Donald Sutherland orders a bomb Wo be dropped on the smal Wown, Wo eradicate the disease and twenty-eix hundred people. Mean bad guy. He also orders Hoffmnan arrested. He knows too much. So Hoffmnan and a sidekick steal a helicopter, and ini twenty-flve video minutes 1) etorm inWo a shipping company and 2) fly Wo sea in the fog Wo 3) find a ship, 4) etorm a TV station during the news hour Wo 5) fly off again, Wo where a pre-schooler has been feeding a monkey 6) which they capture 7) fly back Wo the email town Wo begin taking blood sainples from the monkey Wo make antibodies 8) Wo give Wo Hoffman's sereen wife, now faltering in terminal stages of the disease 9) who then.. Meanwhile, Major Sutherland has ordered the own bombed Wo oblivion, so hie eecret weapon the virus remaine secret. The plane je in the air. So Sutherland himself gets in another helicopter and . and. . . and. . oh,3 Iec la why-.bother« CONSTRUCTION of the Children's Safety Village continues behind Kathleen Rowe Public School, Athol Street, Wflitby. ThIe àclt sscheduled to open Sept. 9. facility Photo by Mark Reesor. Whltby Free Pres New villge in Whity r r I I "-GLENRATH,- RESIDENCE 0F WILLIAM SINCLAIR, C. 1905 This arm house stood on the site of Camp X at the Whitby-Oshawa border, on the shore of Lake Ontario. It was buit about 1861 and burned dlown in 1942 as a training exercise at Camp X, the World War II spy centre established by Sir William Stephenson, "The Man Called Intrepid." William Sinclair's son John provided the land for the original Sinclair School on Taunton Road, now replaced by a modern hit h Xrsiv phot 10 YEARS AGO i . From the Wednesday, August 14, 1985 edition of the WHITY FREE PRESS "Len Cullen has proposed that the historic Lynde house be moved to Cullen Gardens. " Apartment vacancies are at an all-time low in .Whitby. " The Toronto Dominion Bank at Dundas and Frances Streets is celebrating its 1 Oth anniversary. " Whitby swimmer Lori Melien will compete at the Pan-Paciric Garnes in Tokyo, Japan, this month. 35 YEARS AGO From the Thursday, Augustil, 1960 edition of the WHITBY WEEKLY NEWS " New dining rooms and elevator shafts are to be built in the men's and women's Pavilions at the Ontario Hospital. " Flight Lieutenant James Childs, 28, of Whitby, is being sent by the United Nations to the Congo, the world's 1 *atest trouble spot. " Two aircraft guidance beacons have been installed at Hopkins Street near the CPR tracks. " The Ontario Municipal Board has approved a new water supply area for Brooklin. - 80 YEARS AGO From the Thursday, August 12, 1915 edition of the WHITBY GAZETTE AND CIIRONICLE (This issue is missing) mogumba

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