V ol. 1,N o. 2 WHITBY Tuesday, June 30, 1981 20 Pages FREE PRESS 1 e r w- BOX 206. WHITBV. ONT. (Voice of the County Town) FREE HOME DEUIVERV Wednesday July 28. 1971. volume 1. number 3 phýoto design by CYRIL SHARP They ve9qo t t o be k idd ing s ays Oshav.-aMayor EdwvardMcNeetl' of our' Carniva pull-out section for a rom- muli million sports recreaiiton com- plete schç dule of ev.ents, Page 9. plex. Page 4. ..-%ý ReeveFd ,. ards bt sts ie'. munictpal lZs the recreat'on department chasing blding. .Page 17.LJlSvers out of VVhitbv Parks' Turn to Parks Are For People, Page 3. This .Nek Olt T ,m..r"reminisces on - Vatch for Wh.îtbý merchants speciai Wnhit b' 9 00. Pa e 2 curnival coupons distributed through this edition. Hlow we looked ini 1971 tempted to overcome during his cross- country marathon by raising money for can- cer research. Fox was an inspiration to ail Canadians and when he ran through Whitby last suinmer he touched the hearts and lives of al] of us. On page 5 of today's edfition of the Whitby Free Press there are three letters from pupils of a local school in support of a com- memorative starnp honoring their hero. Those letters were written prior to the federal government's anno",ncement that they would, indeed, break their policy and honor Fox prior to his death. Canada has lost a hero, one of the few heroes that this country has ever produced. Ahl of us will miss him but his spirit and his courage wil ive on to inspire us for many years to corne. t o m ]Ramps wilI1 be installed for disabled Sidewalks and curbs at 549 town intersections are to be ripped up and replaced with ramps Whitby Town Council decided last week. The work will take four years to complete and will cost $44,00. The work wilI be undertaken by the town's public works department. The project is to be phased over four years begin- ning this year in the downtown core at a cost of $11,000. The work wxll be down in the area bordered by Hickory, Burns, Henry and Mary Streets. Earlier this year, Mayor Bob Attersley appointed East Ward Councillor Joe Drumm as chairman of the Mayor's Task Force for the Physically Disabled. The object of the task force is to in- vestigate what can and should be done for the town's handicapped residents and to make recom- mendations to council. "I'm very pleaseçl to see that we've started to look after handicapped people in the town during the In- ternational Year of the Disabled," Drumm told council. However, Regional Councillor Tom Edwards pointed out that the $11,000 to be spent this year is not included in the budget. Drumm agreed but ad- ded that the money could probably be recovered in next year's budget. "We hope that in next year's budget the town will put its money where i ts mouth is, " The ramping project was the recommendation of the public works department to the task force. Drumm said that the task force is also collecting ideas from other town departments and concerned individuals on how to improve life for the disabled. Drumm also said that the task force will be sub- mitting a major report to council sometime in Sep- tember or October. In that report will be a number of recommen- dations which Drumm said council could either adopt or reject. Man found in harbor, dead A post mortem was conducted last week into the death of an Oshawa man whose body was found in the Whitby harbour last Wednesday. Constable Wayne Goreski and a team of police divers found the body of Peter Dvernichek, 42, of 347 Minden Street, Oshawa, shortly after 2 p.m. last Wednesday. A patrolling police officer found the deceased's car near the harbour's Texaco office after he had been reported missing by his wife at 10: 30 a.rn. Police said that Dvernichek, the owner of an Oshawa service station, had been missing since June 22. While foui play is not suspected, police are stili waiting for the resuits of the post mortemn although drowning is the suspected cause of death. The results 0f the examination were not known at press time.