Vol Wednesday, July 6, 1977 16 Pages Closing reports wrong Whitby Psychiatric Hospital and Toronto mental health officials are refuting alleged statements made in a report last week that the Whitby Ps.'chiatric Hospital should be closed. Press reports had stated that Mental Health Metro a branch of the Canadian Mental Health Association, had said in a 107-page report that the Whitby Psychiatric Hospital was 'outdated and inappropriate", and should be closed. W. C. Jappy, Director of the Psychiatric Hospitals Branch of the Ministty of Health, to whom the report was sent, says the statement about closing the hospitals at Whitby, and Lakeshore in Toronto was incorrect. Fraser Mason of Mental Health Metro has confirmed that the comment should have been that the hospital is antiquated. Nowhere in the report does it say it should be closed, he said. Whitby Hospital Adminis- trator Ken Sheehan has sup- ported Mr. Jappy's statement. He agrees that the buildings of the hospital, most of which are 60 years old, are outdated and need to be phased out and replaced. The Ministry of Health has already announced that a study of both Whitby and Lakeshore hospitals will be undertaken this summer. The study is expected to come up with a master plan and rebuilding program for both hospitals. The report by Mental Health Metro stated that 60 per cent of former mental patients return to hospital because the province does not provide adequate follow-up services. This, says the report, is a reason for increasing health costs. A comparison with British Columbia states that the hospital re-entry rate in that province is only 10 per cent for former patients living in group homes and two per cent for those living in apartments. The report also states that patients in the Whitby and Lakeshore Hospitals have little privacy according to statement by staff members. r i i A CANDLE FOR CANADA DAY Mayor Jim Gartshore, at right, lights a ceremonial The Y menbers were running with a team of 16 young candle from a torch held by David Senior of the people who started from Victoria B.C. on June 10 and Burlington YMCA, as a cross-Canada relay running team arrived in Ottawa, carrying their torch on Canada Day, stopped in Whitby last Wednesday on the way to Ottawa. July 1. At left is Alan Turner, another Burlington Y member. Free Press Photo by Brian Winter •R 0 Region plans depot The Region of Durham is planning to build a $1.6 million regional works depot on the fifth concession a half mile east of Thickson Road, in Whitby. The depot, being designed by the Whitby firm of Totten Sims Hubicki Associates, has received approval from the region's public works committee. Final approval by - the regional council is required before construction proceeds. Current plans for the depot allow for truck storage, a central stock room and administrative offices under one roof. A machine shop and multi-purpose area are also included in the plans. Room is allowed for future expansion. The region is considering selling a 12-acre parcel of land on Thornton Road, evaluated at $800,000 to assist in financing the works depot. Another $250,000 is expected to come from levies,-and the balance by sale of debentures. If the region approves the project, construction is expected to take eight months. Canada relay torch carried through Whitby Sixteen members of a cross-Canada relay running team and 20 members of the Burlington YMCA made a brief stop in Whitby last Wednesday at 8 p.m. on their way to Ottawa for Canada Day. The 16 runners, who started from Victoria B.C. on June 10, are members of Canada's Oneness-Heart, a group of young people who have received a grant from the Secretary of State to organize and implement a non-stop cross-Canada relay run. Running in shifts, the runners were on the road 24 hours a day, and at 8 p.m. the day before arriving in Whitby, they were in Sudbury. By 2 p.m. Thursday they were in Kingston. Their average speed was 150 miles a day. A second team of 13 runners left St.. John's, Nfld, on June 21, and the two teams, each carrying a torch, arrived in Ottawa for a special ceremony on July 1, Canada Day. Twenty members of the Burlington YMCA accom- panied the Victoria tean from Scarborougli to Port Hope, a distance of 40 miles, acting as a relief team. Mayor Jim Gartshore received the runners at the Whitby Public Library and presented each with a Whitby flag. larvey Whiteway, of Lockeport, Nova Scotia, acting as spokesman of the group, presented Mayor Gartshore with a scroll from the relay runners, and a letter from Jack Voirich, Mayor of Vancouver and President of the Federation of Canadian Municipalities. Mayor Gartshore was asked to light a candle from the torch,carried by David Senior, of the Burlington Y, and asked that lie relight this candle on July 1. Mayor Gartshore also signed a book of signatures of mayors of al] the municipalities visited by the relay team. The relay team arrived in Whitby about 20 minutes early, despite bad weather in the afternoon, and took an opportunity to run the torch through the town. On the way, the menibers passed a local jogger, Steve Dossents, and lie carried the torch for them for a while. In return, the relay team, gave Mayor Gartshore a second scroll to present to Mr. Dossents. Following the ceremony in Whitby, the relay team proceeded along Highway 2 to Oshawa. The two relay teams, the west coast team which passed through Whitby, and the east coast team, stopped in 453 communities along their 5,000 mile route. The runners say they hope their achievement will serve as a means of expressing and working toward the vision of Canada as a family whose diverse members live in harmony and mutual respect for one another. Through the run, Canada's Oneness-leart hopes "to strengthen the inner bond untitling all human beings and to contribute to the growth of a sense of universal oneness, transcending. racial, cultural, politicial, religious and economic barriers". Public meetings will be held on Brooklin study A series of public meetings will be held this fall to receive comments from residents on proposais to expand Brooklin to a community of 10,000 ieople. The town council has ipproved the ,terms of reference for the second phase of the Donovan Pinker study on alternatives for major developmîent in Brooklin. The terms of reference call for input from rate- payers' organizations such as the North Ward and Brooklin Community Association, special interest groups, individuals and development interests,such as Consolidated Building Corporation which owns,. large tracts of land around Brooklin. The first of four public meetings is expected to be called by the town in September. The chairman of the administrative committee and clhairman of planning will be responsible for calling the meetings. A technical advisory coin- mittee of town staff met with Mr. Pinker, the planning consultant for the study, and worked out the ternis of reference for Phase Two. Phase One deait with efli transportation and financial implications of Brooklin's growth from 1,800 to 10,000 people. Phase Two deals with the social, physical, financial and environmental and trans- portation issues. The initial research for Phase Two will be undertaken during July and August, and Mr. Pinker will prepare a number of alternative con- cepts for Brooklin to be discussed at the public meet- ings in the fall. By Novenber it is expected that the consulting teani will begin evaluating these concepts and input froni the first public-meeting A second public meeting will then be called to discuss the evaluation. Cont'd on P. 5 The group was conceived in February 1976 and has completed three non-stop relay runs including: a 360- mile relay on the National Capital Marathon Route in Ottawa, a 510-mile relay from Ottawa to New York City to salute the American bicenten- nial, and a 150-kilometrerelay around Ottawa in a double birthday celebration for Canada and her capital. Blood donor cinic today There is still time to give blood at today's Red Cross Blood Donor Clinic, for the clinic, at the Legion Hll on Byron Street, will be open till 8 p.m. People on holidays or unable to attend today, may give blood at a second clinic to be held at Cottage 7 at the Whitby Psychiatric Hospital on July 21 frorn noon to 5 p.m. Donors must be between the ages of 18 and 65 and weigh more than 110 pounds. No medication should be taken for at least 24 hoiirs before giving blood. Further information about the blood donor chnies may be obtained by calling Joyce Cox at 668-4056. . 7, No. 27 R'E P R E -E7