-'77 Wesl A group of West Lynders have asked the Ministry of Housing to hold up plans for two Whitby highrise apart- ments pending further consideration. The two twenty-storey low rental high rises scheduled for the south west corner of Dundas and Jeffrey Streets was the subject of a meeting Wednesday night between rembeis of the West Lynde Community Association and Gordon Hickery, a development offi- cer with the Ontario Housing Corporation. The group, led by Ed Dawson of Michael Blvd., was formed to deal with the apartýients and had re- quested a meeting with Housing Minister Donald Irvine. Mr. Irvine was unable to meet with the group, and Mr. Hickery was delegated to attend on his behalf. The meeting, held at the home ;of L. Boyce on Ann Arbor Court, opened with Mr. Hickery offering an explanation of the Housing Corp's involvement in the buildings. The building to be put up by P. Sorichetti and Sons Is being 95% financed through the Ontario Mortgage Corp., a subsidary of OHC. According to Mr. Hickery, the builderin return for an eight percent fifty- year mortgage, guarantees that 25% of the 352 units will be made available to the OHC. Tenants for these units will come from the OHC waiting lists, and their rents will be subsidized. Mr. Hick- ery further explained that a maximum rept would be set for the other 264 units and that no one earning in excess of $15,000 annually would confronts be allowed to rent one of these units, and that OHC wôuld qualify these individ- uals. Mr. Hickery's opening remarks were followed by numerous questions. Mem- bers of the W.L.C.A. group were anxious to know on what basis this project had received OHC approval and what stage the approval was. In replyirig, Mr. Ilickery indicà ted that the province had solicited bids from build- ers and that on the basis of price, operating ex and Town Council ap Vol. 5 No. 16 WEDNESDAY, APRIL 23,1975 TEN CENTS OHC had issued a letter of intent to P. Sorchetti and Sons. Mr. Hickery indicated that OHC was waiting now on working drawings from Mr. Sorchetti, and when these are received and it has been verified that architec- tural, structural and engineer- ing considerations have been satisified, and municipal and environmental approvals giv- en, then OHC would enter into a contract with Mr. Sorichetti. penses, At this point, Ed Dawson proval, questioned what thought had been given to the social, economic, and environmental effects of such a project. Mr. Hickery answered to the effect that OHC assumed that the builder and Council had taken this into account. Bil Hoffman of Fleminton Court asked why this particular area had been selected for such a project. Mr. Hickery replied that there was a need for low rental housing as evidenced by the OHC waiting'list, and the general low vacancy rates for rental housing. He also cited Whitby Council's recent Lynde Lewis blasts 'multicultural' Anderson Collegiate and Vocational Institute Mr. Lewis' speech was one of many events listened intently as Stephen Lewis, provincial lead- during the school's "Canada Day" last Wednesday. er of the New Democratic Party, tore apart Canada's image as a multicultural nation. Free Press Phòto by Mike Burgess Shea gu'ity of manslaughter For the first time in more than 25 years it took three jury trials before a verdict was reached in the murder trial of Toronto lawyer Gerald Shea. Gerald Shea, 50, of Toron- to pleaded not guilty to the charge. The jury, after delib- erating for more than four hours, brought in a verdict of manslaughter last week. When Mr. Shea first appeared in the Supreme Court Assizes held in Whitby, the first trial was declared a mistrial. The second trial was held in Whitby in January and the jury was a "hung jury". Last week the Supreme Vandalism, break, enter and theft at two local automobile dealers Two local automobile dealers were victimized in separate incidents earlier this week. On the weekend, vandals caused au estimated $3,000 danage to 15 cars at Nurse Chev-Olds by apparently stag- ing somewhat of a demoli- tionderby. Durham Regional Police have not yet apprehended anyone in the case. Less than $100 was stolen from vending machines at Gus Brown Motors. Charged with break, enter and theft are Michael Wayne Noble and Leonard Raymond Moss, both of Scarborough. Court jury finally reached a verdict. Mr. Shea was re- manded in custody for medi- cal assessment until June for sentencing. His Lordship Justice Edson Haines said there was no doubt in his mind that Mr. Shea had killed Sandra Spierans, 36, last July 13 at Shea's cottage in Atherly. However, he wondered if the man realized what was taking place at the time of the incident. Due to the type of illness the-man suffers he might not have realized that he was the one who committed the murder: Mr. Shea, conducted his own defence throughout- the three trials. e Unless you are white, speak English and were born in Canada, you will have a rough time in this country according to Stephen Lewis, the provincial leader of the Ne w Democratic Party. Mr. Lewis was speaking to a group of Anderson Col- legiate and Vocational Insti- tute students in the gymnas- ium during the school's "Canada Day" last week. Mr. Lewis, who is also the MPP foi Scarborough West, described the "Canada Day" as "one of the most interesting programs I've ever seen designed for a collegiate" He added that he could speak highly of the country as most politicians would in a similar situation but he refused to do so as there are too many problems which are often overlooked. Mr. Lewis went on to describe the problems which people who are not white, English speaking and native Canadians encounter. He began by discussing the federal government's green paper on immigration which was tabled in order to cut back on the number of immi. grants allowed into Canada. According to Ottawa,. the purpose of this paper is to hold the level of unemploy- ment. However, Mr. Lewis feels that, by drawing up this paper, the federal govern- ment is selecting the immigrant groups that they want to come to the country. Indians and Pakistanis are labelled not-so-desirable by the government, according to Mr. Lewis. He then turned his atten- tion to the problem of dis- crimination against blacks and cited the racial tension in the west end of Toronto where several blacks live. Another group which "has enormous problems when they get here" is the Italians, which make up a large per- centage of immigrants. Mr. Lewis pointed out that one of-the major hard- mage ships that Italians encounter is collecting compensation for injuries received on the job. For a three-week period in fall of last year, a group of Italian workers who .were injured on the job and refùsed fair treatment by the Workmen's Compensation Board staged a silent protest at Queen's Park. Mr. Lewis cited one exam- ple of-an Italian worker who was injured in 1958 and to this day has not received a cent from the Workmen's Compensation Board al- though he is entitled to approximately $50,000.00. French - Canadians al- though their ancestorshelped to build this country aie also given a rough ride, according to Mr. Lewis. When asked about Bil 22, a piece of recently passed legisation which establishes French as the official lan- guage of Quebec, he described it as an "overreac- tion". The French in Quebec, feeling that their language and culture are not being respected by the. remainder of Canada, want protection in their province. The treatment of Cana- dian Indians, another native group, also bothersMr. Lewis. After takingIland from the Indians and putting them on reserves, the government continues , to treat them harshly. A river running through the White Dog Islington Reserve in northwestern Ontario was polluted with chemicals to the extent that the government told the Indians to stop fishing, This is the only livelihood that these Indians know and since the government did not provide an alternative econ- omic base, all the men are unemployed. Because the unemployed can not afford food, they continue to eat the poisonous fish. "Ve only give lip service to multiculturalism", said Mr. Lewis. OHC resolution calling for low rental housing in Whitby. Dan Pelletier of Calais St. then asked if this various supporting information was available. Mi. Hickery said that he thought that it was but that he would have to check it out. Mr. Pelletier then requested that the Infor- mation pertaining to the site plan, soil tests,,the effect on schools, traffic, environment and the economics of the project be made available to the group. The meeting concluded at that point with Mr. Daw- son and Mr. Hickery agreeing to meet once again, in 10 days, to go over the informa- tion requested. The general attitude of the group was summed Up when Wayne King of Heda Court requested that the project be held in, abeyance until all the facts were known. He contended that the OHC did not know enough of the local consider- ations to approve the project at this time, -and that they had not demonstrated any valid purpose for it goir forward.