Come to the Fair Sheep will be a big part of this year's Brooklin Spring Fair with Suffolk, Leicester, Dorset and other breeds competing for over $3,600 in prize money. This is just one of several different events that will be held this weekend starting off with the Miss Brooklin Spring Fair Pageant to be held tomorrow night. Throughout today's issue of the Whitby Free Press there are many features and photographs on this year's Brooklin Spring Fair. - Photo by Keith Wick $400,OOO dar iin downtown A fire which ripped through Snap Services Ltd. in Whitby last week caused an estimated $40,000 damage late Friday afternoon. The blaze, which blocked traffic along Highway 2 for three hours, was apparently started when an employee entered a rad spray booth with a propane oxygen torch, setting fire to some wet paint. It took town fire fighters an hour to get the blaze under control, Crews were on the scene from 4: 11, when they responded to the alarm, until il p.m. checking for any tiare ups. The building which houses a glass installation, radiator and muffler repairs operation, was gutted bv the fi re. Photos by Greenaway nage done area blaze Four firemen were injured while fighting the blaze along with Fraser Newton and Gerald Noland, two eploye of Snap Services, who were taken to the .. Ruddy Hospital suffering from smoke inhalation. None of the fire fighters' injuries were serious in nature. The police cordon of the one block area along Highway 2 disrupted rush hour traffic until around 7 p.m. when it was returned tonormal. Capt. Ed Crouch was in charge of the operation with crews fromn the downtown and Thicksons Road stations responding to the caîl. The cause of the blaze is stili under investigation by the fîre department. ........I.... - f *-.~ ~.'. ~ - -~ -~ - *- -%~--- - - -A - :~~- roid w 1 ý W MI Il 1 J.,', " i ý i l i Ili, cilli mme m. 1, qjl, 4 I Armed robber talkes $700 from Beekers By STEPHIEN GREENAWAY Free Press Staff An armed suspect made off withi $700 in cash from the Beckers store at 159 Garrard Road North in Whitby Monday night when he forced the clerk to close the store at knife point. At approximately il1:55 p.m. the 19-year- old female store clerk was in the baek room of the store when someone ap- proached her fromn behind and touched her with a sharp object, according to a spokesman for the Durhamn Regional Police Force. The suspect was described by police as a white maie, 5' 8" to 5' 10", between the a ges of18 anrd 20. He was wearing a nylon over his head, a three-quarter length grey winter coat, blue jeans and white running shoes. The suspect was carrying a kîtchen knife 8 to 10 inches in length. While the robbery was in progress two residents of the area tried to get into the store and found it locked. Neither was aware of the robbery taking place inside. The two were still in the area of the store when the robber fled. According to the police spokesman the two saw the man get into a green General Motors vehicle, believed to be an Oldsmobile, and head south along Garrard to Highway 2. The clerk was flot injured during the robbery.