LU- w Vol. 15, No. 17 Wednesday, April 24, 1985 Mayor kic'ks of local Cys tic Fib rosis rnonth May Is Cystios Fibrosis Month throughout Canada and the Durham branch of the Canadian Cystios Fibrosis Foundation has pianned a series of events that wiii hopefuiiy raise public awareness about this ife-shortening genetic di'1-sease. To kick-off the branch's activities Mayor Bob Attersiey presented Holiy McCoy, 3, seen here wlth her mother, Nancy) with an officiai Town of Whitby pennent. Holly, who lives on Muir Cres. Is a C.F. victimn whose lite expectancy Is flot currentiy greater than 25 years. Throughout the month of May, the local branch wiii be busy raising money for C.F. research. The highiight of the month wiii be a "50's and 60's'Dance" on May 27 at the Iroquois Park Arena. This event Is aiready soid out. However, the branch will be holding a cut-a-thon ln the hair salon ln the Bay of the Oshawa Shopping Centre on April 28. They will also be holding a garage sale at 80 Muir Cres. on May 25 and 26. Free Press Staff Photo 32 Pages The adminstrator of the Durham Centre for the Developrnentally Handicapped has said, that comments made Bugelli also changes his mind.... Kahn plan approved as Enimreturns to council The return of Reg. Coun. Gerry Emm and a change of heart by Coun. Joe Bugelli paved the way for Whitby Town Council's ap- proval of a small plan of subdivision in the Asb- burn area. Two weeks ago, the application submitted by Ernst and Bert Kahn to build 17 estate type residential homes in the hamlet was effectively rejected af ter a tie vote. Under council's mies of procedure, a tie vote is considered lost. However, a final decision was effectively postponed after Mayor Bob Attersley per- suaded bis council coliegues to reconsider its decision at its next meeting, wbich was beld Monday nigbt. The application was rejected earlier because Emm, who bad previously voiced strong support for the proposaI, was absent from the meeting. Bugelli bad voted against the application two weeks ago but since then bas had a change of heart. The west ward representative told council that after giving the matter some tbought, be no longer believes that the objec- tions be. originally had were serious enougb to prevent bim from sup- porting it. Emm told council that Asbburn needs development. He recalled that earlier this century the hanîlet was an important commer- cial centre between the farmers of what is now Scugog Township and the barbor in Port Whit- by. Witb the advent of modern transportation service sucb as the railway, the bamlet lost its economie base. "You need growtb," he said, "There bas to be some growtb in Asb- burn." This issue found Emm and North Ward Coun. Ross Batten, both resîdents of Ashburn, on different sides of the issue. Batten has repeatedly said tbat it is bis view that the Kahn sub- division, located on the soutb side of Regional Rd. 5 on the outskirts of the bamlet, was premature. He believes that growtb should spread out from the four corners after ail in- fiuling development bas taken place. Batten also opposed the 'T' sbaped cul-de. sac that the homes will sit on. He dislikes the fact there is no secon- dary access from the subdivision to the Asb.' burn Rd. Batten, wbo is also chairman of councils administrative commit- tee (which is respon- sible for planning mat- ters), maintains tbat cul-de-sacs have no place in rural setting. Furtbermore, tbey present problenîs to the municipality when it cornes to such services as snow plougbing, gar- bage collection, parking and fire protection. However, Emm rejec- ta these arguements noting that the existing cul-de-sac in Asbburn has not presented any major problema to the town. "I have not seen any problems withi the cuI- de-sac on Glenlaura Dr., that already exista," he said, "It's a good development." Centre Ward Coun. Marcel Brunelle also came out in strong sup- port of the application. He noted tbat the ap- proval of council is con- ditional on a specific staging process whicb will allow nu more than eight homes to be built in any one year. Ail future develop- ment in the hamlet, be cuntinued, will be carefully examined to ensure that there is no detrimental impact on the community. Brunelle also noted that council is in the process of considering tbree proposaIs for development in Mbh- burn. Only the Kahn ap- plication bas corne C'ONTI) ON PC. 24 A dmînistrato r says ..... Proper search was held for dead resident last week by Durham West Liberal candidate Bilan Evans concerning the death ,of a centre resident are "1totally inaccurate." Evans told the Free Press last week that the centre failed to i m- plement a full and proper search for Vern Green, 65, who disap- peared on March 23. Evans even went s0 far to say that Green was discbarged from the centre two days after bis disappearance. Green's, body was found on April 10 in a farmer's field on the Eighth, Concession and Tbornton Rd. N. in Oshawa. The coroner bad established bis - cause of death as ex- posure and pnemonia. Dennis Ferencz, the administrator of both Durhama Centre and D'Arcy House in Cobourg, told tbe Free Press last Friday that a complete search for Green was implemented as soon as it was discovered that he was missing. 1'We did conduet a search for Mr. Green according to our search policy," he said, adding that he was discbarged "until after we were notified of his death. " Ferencz noted that Green did have both ground and town privileges and often lef t the centre to travel to downtown Whitby to visit coffee shops, taverna and friends. The administrator said that prior to coming to Durham Cen- tre, Green was a patient at the Whitby Psychiatric Hospital and had friends from bis days there who now live in group homes in down- town Whitby. "He often went down- town on bis own," Ferencz said, "He bas a history of going down- town and staying over- night." Green, be added, was a high functioning resident wbo did not require constant super- vision. "And if he was in diffculty be was quite capable of seeking help." Because Green was known to travel down- town alone, Ferencz said that the searcb for him started tbere. - en- tre staff did not begin to search the -grounds and the marshlands surrounding it until the next day until after it was determined that he wasn't downtown. He did stress that tbe search was begun im- mediately and the Durham Regional Police Force was asked to participate in the search 12 hours after bis disappearance. Ferencz also main- tains that everytbing possible was done to CONT'D ON PG. 24