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Land donated for Despite opposition, university centre Brooklin project page 2 approved page 21 Plan bridge replacement, says councillor pag Smoking ban in al school board 19 buildings Garbage experiment lauded. by Brunelle' By Mlke Kowaisk Wbitby's experiment with private sectar garbage disposal has been deemed a tremendous succesa. Regienal councillor Marcel Brun -lle said the. Town's recent involvement with local waste processing company Pebblestane Multi-Services exceeded bis Oreast xettions. Wýth Dnh Region facing the need tofibid alternative ways cf disposing cf its garbage, Wiitby niay have gained tii.edge on area municipalities, Brunelle feels. "W. saved an enormous amount of money and time. It allows us ta, expand our garbage collection as the. community grows without the need for extra trucks and .mployees," h. said. Last monta, Tewn council agroed ta hire Pebblestone on a four-week basis.ý Instead cf takring their loads ta, the. Brock West landfiil site in Pickering, Town garbage trucks only had ta travel a short distance ta Pebblestone's sauta 'Whitby facility. The waste was proc.ssed at the Wntwortii Street plant and then shipped te its final destination i the U.S. "On the firat day, ail the trucks arrived at basicaily the same time," said Brunelle. 'Tiey were able te process seven trucks in 21 minutes. That's ta. truck being weighed, tipped and leaving ... tiat's extracrdinary." In his repart ta council, public works director.Wayne -Hancock stated that Pebblestane would charge the Town $65 per tanne ta procees the garbage or $5 less than the. tipp*i fees Durham Region assesses its member municipalities. Exrtrapolated over a full year, the savinge weuld be approrimately $100,000, Hancock said. This figure was denived by combining th. $70,000 savings in tipping fees and $30,000 saved by net r.quiring the trucks ta drive ta, Pickering, h. explained. Althougii Hancock was net New wheels for 96-year-old, JUST, BECAUSE George Flim is 96 doesn't mean he' slow#n down. He recentiy bought a new bike, which he rides dâily tin ýit! hi daughter in Oshaýwa and. frieh'ds in Whitby. -He like s to1 cheer them up, says daughter JoanneWind. Film also rides to hNs son's farm -in -Columbus, where he has a potato patch. He distributes the potatoesto'people in need. Phot by iMrk Pau«. ,VMfiIby Fr.. Preo I leduce the Risk' 1 AIDS resource book, quashed. 2By Mark Reesor More than 100 parents and students turned out last week at a public board meeting ta oppose a teacher resource book on AIDS and sexually transmitted diseases. And following an emotional public question p.riod and debate by trustees, they got their wish as the board voted 8-7 not ta releas. the, document, which has been revised* four times sine. it was brought forward early last year. After waiting 35 minutes for the meeting ta begin while trust.e met in camera,-the. crowd, some canrying signis urging the. teaching of abstinence, was in no -mood for comproise. The document is "an insuit ta the. .ignity and morality cf the students and tends to.invade their personai privacy," said one parent. An other wondered how students can be taught how ta put on a condom without encouraging them ta use it. "You're teaching us weakness," one student tald trustees. A question-and-answ.r section on homosexuality, marked "teacher information only," which was "contriv.d ta elicit discussion an a perverse lifestyle," according te a flyer put out by a parents oppasing the document, was heavily criticized. Suggested classroom exercises, including one in which students are asked te put 14'graphie steps for correct condom use in their proper order, also drew a lot of fire. "Presenting sex as a game makes it a gamne," states the flyer. "This type cf material oxily feeds the. imagination and encourages curiousity and experimentation." Public questions were cut off after 35 minutes and the crowd was advised tii.y could ask their questions at the, end cf the. meeting - after the. issue had been vot.d on. That didn't go over well and after somne siouted protests and questions, board chair Patty Bowman called a recess and Durhiam Regional Police were surmmoned. The two officers stayed until the, issue was dealt with but didn't intervêne. During the. recess, the officers were asked by Pickering fruste. Ruth Ann Schedlich if it was legal ta, tape the. meeting and whether the. persan doing so cotild b. made or asked ta stp. The. officers saud it was legal but after the. meetinÉ resumed, Bowman asked the. person ta stap, saying that taping the trustees without their knowledge was "inappropriate."* 'ii. individual was asked ta stap... what the. individuel dees witii the. request is up ta tiiem," sii. said in an interview later. However, she didn't stat. how a persan would notify trustees tiey were geing ta tape a meeting, saying ne procedure has been establisiied. Wiien the, meeting resuxned, SEE PAGE 15 Chinatrp decision defierred By Mike Kowalski It will be next year at the. earliest before Whitby municipal officials participate in a possible trade mission ta China. Town council last Tuesday postponed making a decision on whetiier'ta send a delegation cf councillors and staff ta the. city cf Weifang. Without discussion, council sent a recommendation ta allot funds in the. 1996 budget for the.ttip, back ta staff for furtiier scrutiny. Altiiough a delegation cf Weifang officiels are soon expected te make their second visit ta, Whitby within 15 montiis, council again deferred whetiier ta, make a reciprocal excursion te China. In Marcii, council agreed ta set aside $27,500 in the. 1995 budget ta cover its expenses, but delayed making a final decision after the. proposed trip drew extensive criticism. Council promised ta bring the. matter forwardI at a later date for a vote on iiow many, if any, Wiiitby representatives would tae part. But as; councillor- Marcel Brunelle, who moved the, referral motion, tald reporters after the. meeting tiiat couneil felt it was "premature" ta deal witii the issue at this time. Brunelle noted tiiat a report from Town marketing Peter Lebel recammended that tiie trade mission tae place next April. "It's premature because we havenet dealt witiithe. '96 budget," said Brunelle. 'Tii report speaks ta next April. We'll b. in budget taîks way before then and deal with it at that time," h. said. Located about 450 kilometres sautheast of China's capital of Beijing, Weifang consists cf several urbanized districts and has a population cf more tiian eight million. Its maj or industries are concentrated in Weiciieng district and include machinery, autemotive parts, farm implements, food processing, furniture manufacturing, packagining, chemicals and plastics. In September 1994, Whitby played iiost ta a 23-member delegation cf government and industry representatives from Weiciieng and a friendship and eccnomic co-operation agreement between Whitby and Weiciieng was signed by Mayor Tom Edwarde and Wei Dong, district directar cf the. People's Government cf Weicheng. The agreement provided for the. parties tace -ordinate economic trade missions cf governmnent and inidustry leaders and that the. Town cf Whitby would attempt ta, arrange a trade mission ta, Weiciieng in 1995. A nwnber cf Whitby businesses were contacted by Lebel's department, but as bis report states, tiiere was net sufficient interest ta warrant a reciprocal visit this year. Some businesses were explormng epportunities i otiier parts cf China, wbile otiiers have personnel who had already been ta, China and the. timing was not appropriate, the. report states. Still others iiad reservations about the. cast c f sending a representative, Brunelle added. "There's net a lack cf interest in SE PAGE 28 page2l1