These kids have a lot of common cents! Eight years and 4,500 pennies later Marie Lainey (on the left) of Brooklin Canadian flag and Maple Leaf synybolizing the Canadian Centennial o...three decided to involve her friends, Robbie Hill and Sheri Whitehouse, in a pro- days later they finisFed. Don't anybody tel them their dates are out 10 ject with the pennies she's been faithfully collecting. So on a sheet 7'9" x years! Free Press Photo by Robin Lyon 6', they began the tedious task of placing each penny into a replica of the Downtown dissenters distribute desires The group opposing the Downtown Irnprovement Plan which promised to make a submission at tonight's (Wednesday) meeting, has circulated a list of recom- mendations to the downtown merchants. M.B.M. Publishing, pub- lishers of the Whitby Free Press, is also a downtown business and included in the proposed improvement area. The list is headed "Down- town Business Improvement Recommendations- Made by the Dissenter's Group". The recommendations are divided into three general headings: Traffic; Business Development; and General. Under Traffic the group suggests: 1. eliminate park- ing meters, no street parking whatsoever, provisions for stopping/pickup/loadifng zo- nes, create off-street parking; 2. establish a truck route, eliminate the gravel truck traffic through the use of arteries like Thickson Road, 3. publicly owned lanes should be properly paved and adequately drained, open thoroughfare through lanes at ail times, facilitate deliv- eries and pick-ups; 4. proper turn signs at four corners and /or consider extended/ advanced green lights to fac- ilitate turns. Under Business Develop- ment: 1. do not want to spend any money on Town property; 2. suggest a mini- mum standards by-law app- licable to Commercial prop- erty. 'Renovation breeds renovation'. ; 3. if there ts going to be a Business Imp- rovement area, expand the boundaries to take in ail those affected; 4. why are the Psychiatric patients wan- dering on the street - e.g. George Sullivan's wife accost- ed July 28, 1977;.5. attract high rise developnent in the 32 square block area with the 4 corners as the centre point of the square; 6. downtown washroom facilities for the public; 7. re-zone C2 prop- erty to a more appropriate zoning; 8. restrict shopping centre development to the downtown core - consider- ation to encourage develop- ment on the basis of pop- ulation; 9. uniform store hours by all merchants. Under General: 1. Sell the Municipal Building to the Region and relocate the Town's offices in the Down- town Core where they belong and from where they should never have been moved - at the very least there should be a sub;office in the Town. Core - pay taxes, obtain info- rmation, etc.; 2. police pre- cinct downtdwn - close the building on Rossland Road. The meeting toniglit at 7:30 p.m. at the Whitby Municipal Building will see these recommendations brought forward for discuss- ion and hopefully a common meeting ground will be found by the groups pro and con. See editonial on Page 4. Society celebrates 10th By BRIAN WINTER Staff Writer Among the organizations celebrating their 10th anni- versary this year is the Whitby Historical Society. The historical society was founded in Centennial year by a group of citizens inter- ested in preserving the history of the town, and for 10 years has operated a museum and archives for Whitby. The following is a year-by- year recap of the work of the Whitby Historical Society. 1967 In February a group of citizens met at the Centennial Building to form an historical society and to make prepara- tions for obtaining a charter from the Ontario Govern- ment. Anonp these founders were Mrs. Alex Ingramn, Mrs. H. B. Muckle, Mrs. R. D. Ruddy, Duncan McIntyre, Dick Valleau, Guy Winter and Brian Winter. Mrs. Ingram became the society's first president. In April the historical society held its first display of artifacts at Henry Street High School, and this was followed in May by a display in honor of the Centennial of the Bank of Commerce. In the summer the histor- ical society made an unsuc- cessful bid to get the town to preserve the old Goldring Store at Port Whitby as a Museum. The store, how- ever, was demolished, and in December, the counters froi the store were set up in a rooni in the Centennial Building as a nucleus for a Iuseumi 1968 On January 6, the historical society staged a large display and celebration in the Regal Room at the Centennial Building to mark the inaugur- ation of thearnalgamated town of Whitby. By May, the museurn room in the Centennial Building was completed, and opened with a display of antique clocks. At the same time the archives was established in a closet in this room, and eventually took - over the entire room in later years. On May 28 the Historical Society's charter was granted by the provincial government after months of work by Mr. McIntyre in preparing the application forms required. Cont'd on P.3 IE P,"ý R E S SI mý