Page 2, Thursclay, June 29, 1972, WHITBY FREE PRESS Readelrs wri-te 3ir, When are the )e ople of Whitby joing to get some )etter f a cilities ? 1ns tead of spend- ng tax dollars on i mu n icipal com- )1 e x to im p ress y eople driving :hrough our town, Nh y d o n 1 t they spend some money >n a newarena? Deop 1 e w h o come toWhitby for hoc- < e y t o urnaments such as the one dur ing the County Town Carnival are amazed at the poor facilities, but 1lm sure they would be impres- sed by the propos- ed municipal com- plex, ifthey'ever took the timeto drive around an d look for it. WE could also use b e t t e r parks for the kids toplay baI and soccer in. The majority of peoplevwho come to Whitby are either passing through at 30 to 60 m.p.h. or are here for sports. How many people are interested in a town hall? Douglas J. Weales, Georgian Courts, Whitby, Ontario. BIRTHDAY PHILOSOPHY The Whitby Free Press has reached - somewhat uproariously - the anniver- sary of its first year in business. During that year, the paper has been through a provincial election, a hospit- al, andsmaller labour disputes, a sev- ere summer rain storm and one council meeting toomany. These of course, are just a few of the multiple happenings in the County Town between June 29, 1971 and June 29, 1972. It's ontly been a year but in that short t i me we've had our beliefs reinforced th at aIl I politicians and councill 1 or s arentbad, but that the taxpayer is us- ually right. We've learned that people elected to publ ic office don't have the sense of humour they once had, that people are not quite so tolerant of others opinions as they once were, and that even in the 1970's, people can stilî1 have their poltit- ical stripes held against them. We have personally experienced the 1 o n el1 y s en s e of discrimination that comes from being cut off and denied ad- vertising from the municipal offices of planning director, social services dir- e c t o r, t r e a sury, tax and recreation departments at town hall, knowing it is customary for a community to advertise m un i c i pally within the pages of its own local newspaper. But in the interim that passed be- tween June 29, 1971, and June 29, 1972 t h e mo s t im p ortant thing we learned THE WHITBY FREE PRESS I (Voice ot the County Town) Hometown paper of Whitby, Brooklin, Myrtie and Ashburn. Published every Thursday in and for the people of Whitby. \ Offices Mai Phone Publisher Editor Editorial Staff Display Advertising - 301Byron St. S. Whitby - Box 206. Whitby - 668-6111 - W. Bill Durkee - Judy Durkee - J. Quail - Ron Winstanley is, the Whitby Free Press is one year oldandalongwith normal growing pains we have 'suppressive' pains, a state that doesn't much matter if a paper has local support. If a few Town of Whitby councillors and staff, out of a population of 25, 000 w e r e representative of this town, we would be disenchanted because of their discouraging and suppressive endeav- ou r s, in entering our second year in bus iness. They a r e not, however, represen- tative of the 25, 000 population. The Whi tby Free Pressl1 ooks forward to serving the community in its second year and sincerely thanks the community for i t s heartening support during the year gone by. Our birthday Continued from front page the Free Press considers the town hall the issue of the year. Built in 1960 with a bequest left by A. H. Allin, the town hal l may, if the Ontario Municipal Board permits, be turned over to the library board. Hundreds of I etters from opposing W h i t b y citizens have been forwarded to the town clerk over the past two weeks objecting to this proposed move. No one can know the number of letters sent in to date, but one person who is circulat- ing petitions in the area feels from his own count, that there must be over a thousand. And finally the photograph on the extreme right depicts some of the new homes in the West Lynde subdivision, one of the two subdivisions whi ch brought some 742 new homes to Whitby over the past year. For Rent: Brooklin Town Hall The Brook lin Town Hall, now oc- c u p i e d by the Board of Education, is expected t o b e vacated by October of this year. The building which has 2, 600 square feet on each of the two floors will be let out by thetown for leasewith a change in zoning to R2, allow ing broad- er uses of the building. D e v e 1 o p ment Commissioner We s W inters has been requested by council to take immediate steps to lease the premises w hen the land is vacated by the Board of Education, and Planning Director M. Michael has been asked to amend the present zoning bylaw to allow for office use. The bu i I ding, which is located on H ighway 12, was originally intended for the Brookl in Town Hal1. Amalgama- t i on of the town and township in 1968 cancelled out its need. REÀADER'S FORUM READER'S FORUM is a weekly feature for the readers'of the Whitby Free P r e ss. AI I questions must be signed and del ivered to Box 206, Whitby. Questions need not be of a political nature but must be of a local nature. t* bat Ecl-itorià 1 Comment