Bryan Davies named winner of 1984 Peter Perry Award Whitby resident Bryan Davies has been choosen as the town's outstanding citizen of the year for 1984. The Peter Perry Award, recognizing notable contribution to the community, was given to Davies at the annual celebration hèld last Friday night. In 1955, during Whit- by's centennial celebrations Judge John Pritchard convinced the Chamber of Commerce and local businessmen that there should be an award for individual Womar dies aft strucki Whitby Whitby's first traffic fatality of 1985 has resulted in a Whitby Transit Service bus driver being charged with careless driving. According to a spokesman for the Durham Regional Police Force, a woman was crossing the inter- section at Brock and Dunlop Sts. when she was struck by the bus which was turning off from Dunlop St. to the southbound lane of Brock St. The victim was pronounced dead at the scene of a crushed skull deserving recognition of the community. The result was the Peter Perry Award, named after the man who is generally considered the founder of Whitby. The award is annually given to individuals who have donated a lot of time and effort to local volunteer organizations. This year's winner, Bryan Davies, is an On- tario Land Surveyor and a resident of Whitby for the last .20 years since emigrating from Lon- don, England. n, 31, er by bus by coroner Dr. D.W. Conley. She was iden- tified as Jan Elizabeth Clark, 31, of 402 Gilbert St. E., Whitby. She was employed as a housekeeper at Fair- view Lodge. The accident, which occured last Wednesday at 10 a.m., was the first fatal incident involving a vehicle of the town's four year old public transit service. Raymond J. Welsh, 61, of Bowmanville has been charged with careless driving. He will appear in Whitby Provincial Court on Feb. 15. Davies has been in- volved in community volunteer groups almost since his arrival from England. Notable among his in- volvements is the time spent with various lacrosse associations in the area. Davies has been the president of the Ontario Minor Lacrosse, the Canadian Lacrosse Association and is presently the Secretary- Treasurer of the Inter- national Lacrosse Federation. The Rotary Club of Whitby and the Durham Region Family YMCA have also.had the good fortune of Bryan's in- volvement. Davies has been donating blood since his first son's arrival in 1959. At that time, he recalled, "you used to have to pay for the blood used during the operations so some friends and I donated some blood." In January, he made his 89th donatiân. After accepting the award from Grace Prit- chard, wife of the late Judge . Pritchard, Davies said he was honored to receive the award and wanted to share his recognition with all volunteers "who help make the world go." Davies also shared the award with his family who in his words made the accomplish- ment possible. Davies said he did not expect the award and wondered why his wife was so persistent about his presense at the award ceremony at the Whitby Centennial Building. Commenting on the role of volunteers in the society Davies believes that the need for volun- teers will increase as government social ser- vices gradually become too expensive to main- tain. Bryan Davies, winner of this year's Peter Perry Award, accepts the plague from Grace Pritchard, wife of the late Judge John Pritchard who originated the award 30 years ago. Davies received the award for outstanding volunteer contribution to the community. A resident of Whitby for the last 20 years, Davies has found time to work for over 10 volunteer groups aside from his profession as an Ontario Land Surveyor. Free Press Staff Photo Vol. 15, No. 5 Wednesday, January 30, 1985 20 Pages 'rw w Brooklinfamily wins $500 000 Wouldn't you be smiling from ear to ear if your family had Just won $500,000 in the Provincial Lot- tery? Well, one Brooklin family did just that after the Jan. 18 draw. Theadore and Alice Thachuk are seen here showing off a photocopy of the cheque for $500,000 they received from the Ontario Lottery Corp. last week. They photocopied the cheque prior to depositing it in the bank as proof of their win and a reminder of their good fortune. The Thachuks will share their prize with their three children: Larry, aged 30 of Port Perry; Linda Roberts, 27, of Whitby; and Lori Martin, 20, also of Whitby. Mrs. Thachuk said in a brief interview last week that they didn't discover they owned winning ticket No. 5561323 until the day after the draw was made when her husband checked the newspaper. When they discovered their windfall, they still couldn't believe it and she says it took a couple of days for the news to sink in. The Thachuk family has been buying tickets as a group occassionally for the last five years but never thought they would really win big. Until now, ail they've ever won are the small; consolation prizes in every lottery they've entered. Mrs. Thachuk said that she and her husband are going to Invest their $200,000 share in preparation for their retirement. Thachuk works as an assem- bly line worker at General Motors while his wife is employed by the Town of Whitby as a custodian at the Brooklin Community Centre. Both plan to i Y , keep their jobs. Free Press Staff Photo E -Ë«