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Speaks at annual meeting of AMO Prison not effective deterrent, saVs Whitby's Councillor Joy Thompson, a member of the resolutions committee of the Association of Municipalities of Ontario, is concerned that there is no sufficient deter- rent to keep repeat offenders out of prison. At the annual meeting of AMO in Toronto Wednesday, Councillor Thompson created some controversy when she said that there is a waiting list for people to get into prison because there are too many comforts such as color tele- vision, good meals, pool tables and beds with sheets. Councillor Thompson later said she was being facitious in her remarks about a waiting list, in reply to another AMO member who had said stiffer sentences could not be supported because jails and correctional institutions were already overcrowded. She pointed out in an interview Friday that pri- soners who are behaving and want to do something better with their lives are requesting transfer from some of the more "rotten" prisons into newer rehabilitation centres where the conditions are better. Councillor Thompson points out that one-time offenders can be helped, but she, and the members of AMO are concerned about leniency toward repeat offenders. The whole issue started Wednesday when a resolution from Burlington was submit- ted, expressing concern about lenient sentences being handed down to repeat offenders involved in crimes of violence such as wilful damage, public nuisance, and assault charges. The resolution, which was supported about 70 to 75 per cent by the delegates, called for the attorney general to be advised of the Joy-Th( concern of AMO about lenient sentences being handed down to repeat offenders. Councillor Thompson contends that Ontario prisons are overcrowded because there is no strong deterrent to keep repeat offenders out. "It's like a home away from home in some instances", says Councillor Thompson, who has visited a number of prisons during the 'past year in her capacity as a volunteer ompson probation officer. "In some instances the fact they are locked up with no privacy is not a sufficient deterrent to keep the repeat offenders out". First offenders would be upset by the lack of privacy and the fact they are locked up, and would not likely return, but we are dealing with repeat offenders here", she said. "These are the ones society has tried time and Continued on Page 2 Study of Brooklin begins th The long-awaited secon- dary plan study of Brooklin begins this week. Whitby Council, on Monday, signed an agreement with Donovan Pinker of Toronto retaining him as the field manager for the study, expected to take approxi- mately or(e year to complete. First phase of the study will consider the financial and tránsportation implica- tions that growth.of Brooklin would have on the village, the town and the region. The is week first phase should be finished in October. The second phase, if carried out, vould determine the best ways of using the land, establish the type of employment-baserequired- and identify what commer- cial, industrial, institutional and recreational facilities are necessary. The third phase would involve the legal documenta- tion of the resuits for the acceptance by the town, the Continuéd on Page 2 Lot coverage okay, says Jim Mayor Jim Gartshore has refuted charges by the Corridor Area Ratepayers Association that the lot coverage in the Whitby Towne Estates subdivision exceeds 25 per centgenerally accept- ed by Whitby Council as the maximum. The charges were made by the association in a letter published in the Free Press August 11. The association contended that council ignored its éstablished policy when it Minor Gartshore approved zoning by-law 390-76, the purpose of which was to zone property near the Whitby /Oshawa boundary just south of Dundas Street East, to permit a mixed residential development of over 600 units on 140 acres. Mayor Gartshore insisted that when one relates.the lot coverage to the entire area of the subdivision it is with the 25 per cent figure. To illustrate, he pointed out that only 19 of the 140 Continued on Page 2 renovation for curling club A number of minor renovations will be made to the Whitby Curling Club during September and Oçto- ber to meet new Ontario Department of Labor stand- ards, but no major rennova- tions of demolition will be required, says Curling Club President Doug -lird. Arenas in Newcastle, Orono and Bowmanville, which were recently inspect- ed, muay face demolition, however, and the council of Newcastle is debating this issue at the present time. Mr. Hird says the Whitby Curling Club is very fortunate that few rennovations have been required as a result of an engineer's report compiled in July. The department of labor has inaugurated a province- wide program to have al arenas inspected, said Mr. Hird, and the curling club was asked for un engineer's structural report in June. Continued on Page 2 It was a carnival until the rain caine and Jack Laurie Dystrophy. urnd bis friçnds rushed inside.. They will try again thiskSat irday fronm '-4 p.m. at ln the 45 minutes before the downpotur, the children 13 Thickson Rod North. See Page 6. were able to rise $4. 16 for researeh inlto Muscular Free Pre Photo by Robin Lyon -- --z m«P È ÎF 2g M È -r, ILI 4 i.ý iA po f4 àé '50 -£, àxln