durhamregion.com This Week | Thursday,February 17,2022 | 4 P: 905.430.4300 E: info@whitby.ca whitby.ca What You Need To Know This Week: Whitby's Proposed 2022 Budget The Town's proposed 2022 Budget is now available online. Learn more: connectwhitby.ca/Budget Virtual Special Council Meeting for final approval of the proposed 2022 Budget February 17 | 7 p.m. | whitby.ca/LiveStream Residents who wish to speak virtually at the meeting must register with the Town Clerk by noon today. Forms are available at whitby.ca/Delegation. For comments or questions about the budget, contact the Financial Services Department at treasury@whitby.ca or by phone at 905.430.4300 x1952 2022 Interim Tax Billing The first instalment of the Interim Tax Billing for 2022 is due February 22. Questions? Contact the Tax Division at 905.430.4304 or tax@whitby.ca. For more information on how payment can be made, visit whitby.ca/Tax 22 FEBRUARY Register For The Mayor's Telephone Town Hall Do you have a question or comment you'd like to share with Mayor Don Mitchell? Don't miss out on your chance to chat with the Mayor on February 22 from 7 to 8 p.m. during a Telephone Town Hall Meeting. Register with your cell phone or landline number at whitby.ca/TelephoneTownHall Family Day Waste Collection Schedule Waste collection for Monday, February 21 will be bumped one day forward to Tuesday, February 22. Please ensure your waste is set out by 7 a.m. For more information, check out your Whitby Waste Calendar, download the Whitby Waste Buddy app or visit whitby.ca/Waste Yellow Collection - Areas 2, 4, 6, 8, 10 Blue Collection - Areas 1, 3, 5, 7, 9 mon tue wed thu fri sat 21 Bump a Day! 22 23 24 25 26 28 21 Bump a Day! 22 23 24 25 26 28 mon tue wed thu fri sat COVID-19 has caused havoc around the world, showing very little mercy in its path of destruction. Here are four jazz artists claimed by the virus after fruitful professional lives. Wallace Roney (1960-2020). Roney was a trumpet player virtuoso who at first spent a lot of time studying under Miles Davis, mistaking him for just another run-of-the mill musician. Eventually, Roney proved himself as a trumpet player extraordinaire, one of the best. Roney died from complications of COVID-19 on March 31, 2020. Henry Grimes (1935-2020). A jazz double bass player and violinist, Grimes was presumed dead by 1970 after vanishing from the scene. But he was rediscovered in 2002 and resumed his music career. Grimes was one of Free Jazz's leading bassists. One key moment in Grimes' career was in "Jazz On A Summer's Day", a concert film set at the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival, where he made a very strong performing impression. Grimes died of COVID-19 on April 15, 2020. Giuseppi Logan (1935-2020). Logan was a jazz player who taught himself the piano and drums before settling on the reeds. At the age of 15, he started playing with world-renowned jazz alto saxophonist Earl Bostic, a pioneer of rhythm and blues styles of music. Ravaged by personal problems, Logan disappeared in the early '70s. For three decades no one knew his whereabouts. In 2008, he was rescued by a Christian group from New York City, living in the Carolinas, trying to straighten his life out. Later in the year, he was a guest in the short film, "Water In The Boat", one of several such movies he appeared in. He was still living in New York, working as a street performer. Logan was then shot and spent the rest of his years in a home in Far Rockaway, Queens. Logan died due to COVID-19 on April 17, 2020. Lee Konitz (1927-2020). Konitz was a longtime jazz composer and alto saxophonist who recorded a vast body of work, including contributing to the Miles Davis LP "Birth Of The Cool" (1956). Those who wrote for him included Paul Desmond and Art Pepper. Konitz wrote part of the score for the movie "Desperate Characters" (1971). Other influential artists: Dave Brubeck, Charles Mingus, Gerry Mulligan and Ornette Coleman. Notable was his performance at the Woodstock Jazz Festival, which took place in 1981. He played to large audiences at the world-famous Blue Note Jazz Club in New York City. Konitz died at Lennox Hill Hospital in New York City, brought on by COVID-19, on April 15, 2020. Andrew Merey is a Whitby resident who's interested in music and movie history. He has contributed articles to This Week since 2003. You can reach him at amerey@rogers.com. WHITBY COLUMNIST ON JAZZ VICTIMS OF COVID-19 OPINION INTERESTING ARTISTS CLAIMED BY THE VIRUS ANDY MEREY Column Columnist Andy Merey writes that double bass player and violinist Henry Grimes, who vanished from the music scene and was presumed dead by 1970, was re-discovered decades later, only to die of COVID-19 on April 15, 2020. Torstar file photo