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Hydro rate W, ll lO.ca# «gWe Whitby' penal for waste 2 initative ized" Councillors storm It's a promise--' out of meeting, kart noise tobe page 4 about marsh page 5 cntroled page 23 Despite -only 18% approval Modit!ied sehool caendar approved for Whitby sehlý O AFUNERAL service, for-,Durham. Iegion.CÇhair -in Uxbnddge,.. Herrerpa die % idyaernoon" Gary Herrema,,Wili be held tomorrowafternoonh after a long biOttle lt cncr VWbFaus Pr e il,pho Il AIRY iHERRE RMA Region chair S death a great luOss By Mark Reesor andi Mikr Kowalskt Funeral services wifI b. iield in Uxbridge Thursday for Dunrham Region chair Gary Herrema. After a long baffle With a blood- r.lated cancer, Herrema died Monday afternoon, somne two weeks"aft.r taking an indefinite leave of absence from his duties. Herrema, 57, was the. mayor of Uxbridge when h. was appointed Durham chair in December, 1980, replacing the. retiring Walter Beath, Durham's firet chair. Herrema, who was an Uxbridge farmer, was past president of the. Association of Counties and Begions of Ontario and was active ln many organizations, serving on, among otiiers, the. boards of GO Transit, the. Association. of Municipalities of Ontario (AMO) and the. Durham Region Police Services Board. "It was a great loss te tth. community and region. lts a sad day indeed," said couneillor Marc.! Brunelle at Monday nigiits meeting of the. Wbitby plianning comimittee. "No on. worked harder.« Bruneile later told reporters that Herrema wilI be sor.ly misséd. "We are entering into the. most face lin50 years and we needed bis ability and leadership,« he said. "H. had the. ability te bring al the. different points of view te a common cause and we n.ed.d that." Brunelle said Herrema was a close fiend ofnot only hims.11, but al! 32 regional councillore. "H. had a farmer'. practical wisdom. Wiien you discussed things with him, he was alwaysl down te eartii and iiad a common sense approach." Regional douncillor Joe Drumm agreed, noting"Whitby lost a real friend. Not only Whitby, but the. whole region. It's a terrible loss te our community. Gary was a fine chairman,"hie'said. "It was my pleasure te work witii him and know him." Regional coundillor Gerry Emm, who replaced Herrema as- chair of the works department when h. was appointed, also paid tribut, te him. "Gary knew how to sp.ak te tth. right people and got things don.," h. said, recailing being witii Mm ln Ottawa just three weeks before ho died. "He'Il b. remember.d for bis great contribution of so many things." said Emm. "iiere' nobody wiio can 511l Gary'. .iiomesti way Gary wore tiiem - ther.' just nobody. mher. wiil b. gailant attempts te tiy and fi1l the. workload but Gary seemed te have à handle on it ail... "It'. going te b. a big loa.« «You know, y ou didn't always agre. witii hlm, but you always respected hlm," add.d .ast ward couneillor Judi Longfield. Herrema i. surviv.d by bis wlf. Helen, son Bon and his wif, Mfary Anne, daughter Beth and her husband Robin, son Howi. and bis wife Liz and 5iv, grandcbildren. H.'. resting at Léow and ILow funeral home, 1763 Beach Street i Port Perry. Visitation is todayf£rom 2to 4 p.m. and 7 te 9 p.m., with the. funeral planned for 2 p.m., Thursday at Trinity United Church, 20 First St., Uxbridge, te b. followed by a private interment and reception. The faniily appreciates that well-wisiiers may want te express their condolences ini person but By Mark Reesor-, A modified 1996/97 calendar planned for a new Whitby elementary sehool will b. subitted to the Mlnistry of Education for approval, pending. board approval Monday.. Trustees sitting on standing committee unanimnously, recomrmended' the action, at a meeting earlier this week.' .Under the calendar, students at a new elementary -'sohool beig biton the grounds ofA nderson CVI would begin classes Aug.6 196 nd take holidays , ti ecQ4d' an"zd third weeks fcoeti standard Christmas break, 'the. first two weeks of March, the, firat week of May arid the, entir. month of July. ýhe school's principal, Jack Smyka, told trustees -roughly- 100 "interested and enthusiastic" parents, althougii fot al from Whitby, developed the. calendar and other plans. That represents- about16 students so far for the new school, which ha. a capacity of about 450, he says. Smyka also revealed the. resuits of an informal survey, conducted as part of a "door-to-door canipaign" of homes of 300 students in the area of the sciiool. When parents were asked if they'd be interested in enrolling their child "lin such a school, 18 per cent responded favourably, 43 per cent (said) no and 39 per 'cent were undecided," Smyka and superintendent Carol Yeo state i a report. "It is, our hope that tii, undecided wiil b. encouraged by discussions and presentations-at, subsequent metng." 'Two registration sessons are scheduled for the. new school, both at Anderson CVL The first, on Jan. 20, wiil b. only for parents within the. 'boundary area - Garden Street east to Thickson Road and Dundas' Street north to Bradley Drive-, east of Anderson, Manning Road i.the-no'rthern limit..,ý Ti. econdssson Jn.27,l open to ail of Durham. A report on the. number ofregitrantà' will b. given to triietees -i .arly February. Tii. idea of a modifl.d year lias been commumn'ty-driven, sa ys Whitby trustee and board chair PattyBowman. "Historicaiy the, board addr.ssed thi. isse and went to the. community - in tus case the. community. has kept thii.isue alive .and i. now addressing the. -boardi" Whitby fruste. Doug Boss says he wasn'tsure where h. stood on the projeât whn h. first heardl about it and so "was 'riding Patty's coattails of entiiusiasm about it, but as time,'sgon. by and I see the. light.d fires of enthusiasm that'. excited about-it" Boss says there' "tremendous interest" in the, communi ty for the. ide. *My phone in beginning to Hn ML dam