Council Vol. 15, No. 22 Wednesday, May 29, 1985 24 Pages road race w The Whitby Lions Club: last week by donating a chi $525 to be used to purchas The tape recorders will Free Press Staff Photo Library receives gift showed its support for the community blind. Margaret McFadyen, chief librarian, (centre) is seen heque to the Whitby Public Library for here accepting the cheque from Lions Club members Bill Hay e three four-track cassette recorders. (left), chairman of the club's blind committee and Alex Pollo be used-to play talking books for the (left). Man, 41, dies *i plant explosion May Pole Dance Dancing around the Maypole. Happy students from the Grade also saw the opening of the new academic wing of the Reynolds Il class of Trafalgar Castle School celebrate the coming of St. school. spring at the annual May Court Festival. The students also performed several other dances tu the The celebrations, held last Saturday on the school grounds delight of parents and guests. A 41-year old Bowmanville man was killed in an explosion at Lasco Steel late last Tuesday morning. William Puddister, 41, of Roser Cres., Bowmanville died in the plant after being sprayed by molten steel. The victim and two co-workers were pouring molten steel in- to a ladle when a side of the furnace gave way, a spokesman for the Durham Regional Police said last Wed- nesday morning. Police believe that the water cooling belt snap- ped causing the molten steel to spill onto the victim. David Hircôck, 47 of Hampton and Allan Horner, 35, of Oshawa were taken by am- bulance to the Dr. 3.0. Ruddy General Hospital where both were repor- ted to be in fair con- dition. Hircock was later transfered to the Oshawa General Hospital. The accident is being investigated by the health and safety bran- ch of the Ontario Ministry of Labor. All fatal industrial acciden- ts are subject to a coroner's inquest. Dr. Peter Noble is expected to hold that inquest later this yenr. Whitby Town Council has approved a request by the Whitby Tigers Running Club to hold a one mile race on Brock St. on June 23. Club spokesman Bill Peel said that six races would be held between 1 and 3 p.m. that Sunday afternoon in all age categories from public school children to masters (over 40). The event which is being sponsored by Texaco Canada, will also attract such prominent Canadian milers as Dave Reeve. The race will be run on Brock St. from Chestnut St. to Burns St. and Peel assured coun- cil that traffic travelling east and west across Brock will be interupted for only a short period of time during each race. Members of the Durham Regional Police Force will be on hand to control east- west traffic and the club will provide at least 30 marshalls to control the runners. Peel also noted that each race will only block the fire station for 30 seconds at a time, so there should be no problem for fire vehicles needing to leave the station. He told council that all runners will be told to make way for emergen- cy vehicles travelling on Brock St. "I don't intend to hold theL east-west traffic for any length of time," Peel said. Peel pointed out that runs such as this are run in major cities across North America all- the time and they have yet to experience any major problems. "Not one accident to date, has ever been recorded," he said ad- ding that if he thought approves downtown . - -.-- .- F.-J C, --- --«- the race was unsafe "I wouldn't let my daughter run in this race." The Whitby resident told council that he par- ticipated in this year's Boston Marathon and city officials there had no problems with the race. "They close off the en- tire road. The entire City of Boston shuts down for the day," Peel said. The race, he added, could prove to be a great promotional event for the town and would show off the downtown core to many visitors who wouldn't come here otherwise. All members o- coun- cil expect Mayor Bob Attersley gave their support to the club saying that it would prove to be a great thing for Whitby. Reg. Coun. Tom Ed- wards said that the Downtown Im- provement Area Board has given its complete support to the project. "Having examined the risks involved, I believe they are no greater and no less than on any other oc- cassions," he said. Edwards also pointed out that the entire length of Brock St. was closed last year for the welcome home parade for Anne Ottenbrite. The town experienced no problems with access for emergency vehicles. Coun. Marcel Brunelle told council that Brock St. used to be closed for the annual Boy Scout church parade when 700 or so children frorn ages 4 to 17 walked the distance without any problems. "By gosh, if we can do for the boy scouts, we can do it for people who CONT'D ON PG . 6