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Whitby Free Press, 5 Jun 1996, p. 1

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I j lospital A rat' meeting ge4" 34. provides free busing for County Towi~ e Carrn val By Mark Reesor Whitby Business iAction WB)w*ll-b. picking up the tab for bus rides to Saturday events at the Whitby Town Carnival this year. Me recently-formed local busi- ness assôcation has worked out a deal for the free trips with Whitby Transit, president Carol ONeils;aid asat week at the grou's first general meeting. Ail hitby Transit buses will be free on Saturday, June 29, the main day of the carnival when the main streets downtown will be closed. The association has- also arranged for extra buses in the evening 80 residents can stili get home after an evening of reveÇr and entertaininent. The. carnival oruaizers are particularly ýleas y WBAs donation as i will help to ale- viate both traffic and parking problems associated with the street closures. ONeil told the 20-people who attended the meeting last week that WBA is open to any person who derives thefr livelihoodin Whitby (and area)p» Membership is $50 a year. "What were trying to- do is promote Whitby..,. we., want- to give -baek, to -the cmuit-s well -lAet-geople know what weý have here.-, says OWeil, whoî along with husband'Mark Clark,- found ed WBA. The association is also working to help raise money for Whitby Public Library'and ;'here will be other projects we'll be taking on," shBxsplans to help members promote their businesses through a co-pertive advertis- ing program; other benefits- in-' clude enhanced exposure, meet- ing with other local business people and a secuity prograin in coÈijunction wi th Durh am, Regional Police Whitby com- mumity patrol unit officers. The associations' next meeting i8 set for Tuesday, June 18, 6:30 p.M. in committee room one at The associations' next meeting is set for Tuesday, June 18, 6:30 p.m. in committee -room one at the Whitby municipal building. Broughton modified calendar approval £17 BaVA mKe KVMU Ninety nine students who were to attend a new Whiitby elemen- tary echool will instead remai at ý their present. schools for another year. The exodus means that, bar- ring more out-of-boundary regist- rations, the 135 remaininig tradi- tional calendar year. students at C.E. Broughton pblc school will b. in the minority, outnumbered b~y the 145 on the modified year track. The students who chose to stay put ut about 75 attend lHnke Creekand the Test 9g o eLmslie McFarlane. and Drý. Robert Thornton - were ail on the tradi- tional alendaryear. Thirteen more students have signed- up for the modif ied -yeaýr pra, ,saysBroughtonprni pal JackSmyka, although< he notes the net Ises of 86 Îwull mean the school will lose three tea- chers (the equivalent of 2.5 full time poitions). < Res optimistic more students wit regits&er au, jL~Marougnzo thougzh. Wereceive calîs every daxy for the modified calendar... I was hoping for 150 to start with and it looks ike were going to reach that. Enrollment for out-of-boundary The Whitby Local'Archltectusl Conservation Advisory Committe.e (LACAC) will' hold the fourth Heritage House tour on Saturday. June 8, 10 a.m. to, 4 p.m. A number of Whitby's finest heritage' properties will be on display. On. of the properties on the four is designated, and one il iu the. procof being designated under the Ontarlo Heritage Act.. The. six homes and one church on the, four exeUmplify fine examples cf sony Canadian . ' e a , *, , ' atucients .DOtfl modifiecland tra- ditional calendar) will be kept open until schools opens, he pro- mises. Applicants will be put on a 'waiting list and «(we'll) crate another clas. if numbers war- rant.» There will be four "straightr architecture in soutîiwesteru Ontario. Ail but one were bullt betweeu 1832 and 1929, and they provide an excellent ilustration of the socal and economic development of the Town'in- its early and formative years. Tour participants oeu explore the- George Gflchrist Homes. Gilicriat was borninhi-Pickering Township in 1837 and built tuis conservative house- with ueo',- classical sud - Greek rvia classes (kindergarten and grades one, 2 and -3) and two combined (grades 4/5 and 6/7) for tradi- tional track students. That's reversed for modified year students, who will have four combined (grades 2/3, 3/4, 5/6 and 7/8) and, two straight (kin- features in 1879. The four will also take them through St. Mark'.United Church, originally bufit in 1875 asthe Whltby Tabernacle. _It is one of Outario'. finest examples - -f dlasuical Methodiat architecture. >Trafalgar CastIe i. an authentic Elizabethan-style castle built, around 1859 for Nelson G. Reynolds, Sh.riff of Ontario Couuty. It had its most presti glous hour in 1869. wheni It was vlslted dergarten and grade one) classes. Only six grade- 8 - tudelits opted for theý traditional year progrie n four -have sinoe reistered for modifîed, he'says, uad we9re still ýWàiting to hear from the other t:wo.»' The Ontario Ministry of Edu- cation and Training inîfore h Durham public achool board, Wednesday thatit bas >gIven its blessa' téBroughtonrndiie But the, boardi wll have' to report on the %isuesà and educa- tional benefits" of the program in the fali suad neit 'spring, saqys iistry éducation o ffier Alex Leroy. lhe approval is 'for «up« té a two-year -pilot," he 'says, adding» "itfs esseentiaily a -two-year pilot, unles-theres smething wrong with the (program)... then it would be reconsîdered.» The-board met the criteria developed by the zninistry, h. says, adding "I guessa the boôttom ~s life Business Rde beat pag 7awards p8Champs.pel __ y-8 m l i - - - - - - - - - w

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