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Guelp h man kilied in 401 accil*dent A 75-year-old Gueiph man lied from irjuie received in a col- liiono iha 401 in Whitby on Tuesday mjht leIst week. Kenneth Reinhart was drivingr a mater home eastbound wiien h. struck the. rear of a truck that Lad slowed for fraffic, just West Of H[enry Street. Donald Zinger cf - Gueiph, the driver cf the truck, was net nured in the 1157 p.m. acci- Qui*ckmconnect hydrants In region A new type cf fire bycrant is now being . istalled tbroughout Durham Region in new areas cf development. The. new hydrants are equipped with a "Stcrz" type of quick- connect pumper connection. Wiien hooking a pumper truck te a fire hydrant, cnly a quick quarter turn is required and the. connection ia completed instead cf the traditional means cf lining up the tiireaded connections and turning five or six times te tigliten it. The. f»r hydrants will- be initially installed in new areas of development' throughout the. region wiiere land developers are requiredto, instail hydrants.' Ebisting fire hydrants in the. r.gion will only b. upgrraded when in n..d of repair. The. Storz type cf fire hydrant hait been in existance for over 10 years BIG Fi WHITBY BRANCH CIBO empboyees oelebrate the finish of their Big Bice ride in Whtby. Several businesses and PaMMerson Public Sohool took part to raise$100 - ISH exceeding the- $12,000 goal Heart & Strolce Foundation. - for the Whitby chapter of the PI1o by Jesmy Dro.. Whby Fm rFm Sorm pond proved ByMike Kowald A* controversià strm, water retention pond to serve -the future Lynde Shores housing developrnent has .received the green Igt Despite some misgivings about buildn the 1.2-acre pond next te Wltby General Hospital, Town council registered its approval last week. E yen councillor Marcel Brunelie, who opposed the pro- jeet from a planning perspee admitted that from, an engineer- inq, standpoint, there is no other smitable location. Now the Ontario government must honour its commitment that the municipality will not be faced with ongoing maintenance coots once the pond is construc- ted. «We're going te demand from, the ORO the kind of esthetics that wiil satisfy everyone,» ceun- cilior Jo. Drumm. warned -a group of Ontario Realty Cor- poration officiais wh'o, appeared before council i supporti of a staff recommendation favoupring "Th e L revio week,-council's plannig.and development ,com- mittee could not reach. 'agree- ment on whether te ailow the pond, one of four that will treat storm, water, produced'by the Lynde Shores -.development,» a j1ont project of the OIRC, D;Uamn i<gonand the Rose Corporation tobebuilt east cf the Lynde Marsh. «17ve seen some cf these ponds in Durhami Region'and, quit. franly 1 wouldn't put -afishin them "' said .Dhrumm-' who, nevertheless had< no qualma about the location. (>jgm*all itended ta *be built near Lake Ontario south of the Whitby'Mentalý Health Centre, ORO officiais created a stir ear- lier this year when- they asked that the pond be. mqved- further north te a« site south cf Whitby 1 General Hospital, acros fromn the municipaIlboat launèh. Higher costs associated with sewag pipe installation dus to xi tin~ grade constraints, and ptntal impacts on lakeshore ope, sae, prompted the ORC eoevr the revised proposai was attacked by Whitby General Hospital officiais when it came before comntteei March. Hospital vice-president Marc Kealey warned of odours poten- tial safety concerns fadmain- tenance probleme associated with an op;en "sewage pond» and- he called on committee te scrap the «ludirous» recommendation. Kealey s comments were echoed in a letter from hospital president Elizabeth Woodbury Who propo"e a nuznber of alter- native uses for the site, including a, medical research theme par that was once touted to the former NDP government. But in a subsequent letter te Town _planning director Bob Short.,ôobuýy said the hospi- tal's Sncerns were satisfacteriiy addressed» 'and thereý was no further need te review the mat- ter. In a recent interview, Kéale~y confirmed that tih. hospitals objections had been resolved. After meeting with ORC staff, the hospital received assurances, on sverai fronts, Kealey said. These included desigming an estheticaiiy-pieasing facility; a guarantee that the land would remain institutional in order to accomodatethe envisioned theme pak, and no cost -implication te the hospital shouid the. intended site b. moved. Planning anred- council that the province will be respnsible for maintaining the pond during the first few «critical years"uMtfl, it can become established. The pond will be desi gned asa. éoenstructed we tland»ý which wifli Iplant4 ,,, th ,nagiye p nd vegtaton.Itwill collect water frmnea drainage area of about 118 acres and Will have a normal depth of1.3 feet. "Were going to treat the runof before it goes into Whitby Har- bour, usmng natural wetlands and the environment," said Langan. "This will give us the least amount of maintenance of any location,hle said. Drumni, Who was on vacation i freland when the proposai firat came forward, was surpr- ised it had become such a hot issue. "This is the obvious place for it,» he said. qI couldn't understand why Mr. Keaiey got so worked up and upset.» Bruneile, planning and deve- iopment committee chair, wiil- ingly took the biame for the hospital'à initial opposition. uWen this council approved that plan of1, subdivision We approved a pond down by the lake, that's what we were sold on » he said. AWhen I saw it (revised pro- posai) I was conoerned about planning issues. I calied the hos- pital and theyicnew nothing about it.» .Brunelle said he still has reservations about building the pond next to the hospital and (Jordon Street. «But froin an engineering point and csefectiveness, that has to win out.» he said. Councillor and deputy-mayor Gerry Emm, Who had similar concerns, aiso dropped his oppo- sition. 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