WI-ilTBY FREE PRESS, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST,7, 1985, PAGE 3 Drumm mis represented council's action, he cdaimis.... Decom spokesman says their plan wasn't rejected, coîmeil only Officiais of Decom Medical Waste Tran- sportation Systems Inc, are confident tbat tbeir application to build a bio-anedlcal waste tran- sfer station in Whltby will ta approved by tbe Ontario Environniental Assessment Board later this year. Company officiais bave expressed tbat confidence despite fact tbat Witby Council rejected proposai earlier year. Decom bas.- bee tempting to win proval for a1 square foot bio-me waste tranafer st and office facili' Sunray St. in .Hopkins St./Conai By SUSAN LESJAK Free Press Staff After 32 years as ad- ministrator of Whitby's Fairview Lodge, Muriel Coates bas decided to cali it quits and retire to ber farsa. "il bI ave reached tbat magical age of 60 in November and if I'm ever going to get going," sbe said, "1now's tbe time. " Coates, wbo took over the bome for tbe aged in 1963, bais witnessed many cbanges during ber reign at Fairview. The facility bas gone froni a county bome to one of the tbree regional bornes and tbe type of resident taing admitted bas cbanged significan- tly. As services for tbe elderly bave become more available in tbe community, ' more seniors are opting to live on tbeir own longer. Conaequently the Lodge las seeing older and frailer admissions. Attitudes towards care for tbe elderly bave alao cbanged. Wile formerly tbe borne bad four-bed dormitory- style rooms, it bas- gradually converted most of its rooms to two- tada. "I1t's mucb nicer now. Privacy meana so mucb more tban it did," said Coates. The nuilti-million dollar renovationa to tbe borne, begun several years ago, bave resulted in -vast mprovernen- t,"I said the ad- ministrator. "Tbougb that doesn't mean tbat old age is any nicer," sbe bastened to add. Coates says sbe's leaving in order "to give ber people a break." Af- ter al tbis tirne, sbe ex- plained, tbey need a change. LET'S SEEYOU DO IT... OIJEDOORS! paiaauu/iN "I'd ta lying i teetb if I told2 wouldn't miss it,' said. "It's going difficult to leavi residenta and the s, 0f tbe latter, she spoke bigbly. "Tbey're tbe sort of people tbat if you're away for a day or a montb, it ail keeps going just tbesame." Nevertbeless, Coates adinits that sbe's looking forward to retirement. "I'm a farm person and V'I ta going back to tbe farmn. I'm' very fond of gardening and 1 bope to see more of my four gran- dcbildren. " Tbe administrator's retirement officially tagins January 1, 1986, but due to somne ac- cuniulated vacation time, sbe'Illta saying ber good-byes Novem- ber 15. Aaked if sbe intenda to take lufe a littie easier tben, Coates laugbed. "I'm not that kind of person." ruled E.A.B. hearing must be held first te the Dr. industriai park. 11e pointed out that the Flascbner also took ahead. Council mereiy submission to the boarc Town According to comn- Swray St. site la close exception to recent rejected a recommen- Flascbner said thath their pany spokesman and to- Hwy. 401 wbich remarks nmade by East dation that it proceed is ready to appea this legal counsel Ivan provides access to the Ward Coun. Joe Drumm without a hearing under before the board andj Flaschner, the proposai company's major wbo accused Decom of the Environmental currentiy working wit en at- Decom bas placeci customers in "trying to circuinvent Asessment Act. minmstry officiais ina n ap- before tbe Ontario Metropolitan Toronto council."1 And since council has effort to prepare 12,000 Ministry of the En- and the rest of the Drumm, whose ward ruled that a hearing is "suitabie"' application. ýedical vironment isn't ail that Golden Horsesboe. includes the Sunray St. necessary before the Ministry officiais tcl tation dMfferent from the one Furthermore, Decom site, told the Free Press bio-medical waste tran- the Free Press la ty on piaced before coundil is still in a *position to two weeks ago that sfer station can be week that the hearin tbe three montbs ago. purchase Ontario Decom's appeal to the developed, bis company wil probably be held1 imers In that proposai, Removal Services in minlstry was simply an bas asked for a bearing Whitby sometime earl Decom maintained that Ajax, wblch offers attempt to get around and is preparing its tis fal. the facility would only similar services. council. "There is no be used to transfer bio- Flascbner said that in. question that they're meclical waste addition to acquiring the trying to circuinvent generateci by hospitala, firm's contracta and council," he said, THE PRINCE RESTAURANT medical laboratories equipment, Decom also "Wbat they want is the and other heaitb care wants its employees and Ministry of the En- r s facilities from collection fears that if it la forced vironinent to say vebicles to tractor to locate outside of everytling's alright." trailer trucka tbat would Durbdm Region those However, Flascbner then haul it to tbe com- jobs wiII be lost per- dlaims that Drumm's kS pany's incinerator in manently. position is misieading. Gatineau, Quebec. "The* reasona for tbe "He bas misrepresen- Decom alao promised, appeal are the saine ted wbat council did and 1009 DUNDAS ST. E., WHITBY at the time, tbat it would ones we came to Whitby wbat we are trying to 666-2811 not be uaed for per- to begin with," do," he said adding tbat manent storage and that Fiaschner said, "There ail Deconi sougbt was PCAIIOU RE USN ni bio-medical waste la no need for those permission to proed SEILZN N R KCU IE nmy pasaing tbrougb the people to lose their witb tbe project wtbout -________________ you 1 faciiity would be stored jobs." an Environonentai UDW E ,"sbe in beavy duty, sealed He also clainied that Aaaessment Hearing. M DW E to ie and ieak proof plastic Witby Town Council Counil, be noted, e tbe containers. didn't reject bis com- neyer said tbat tbe D N E P C A These containers pany's proposai, pii project couiln't go DINNRAr Sv.PECInq A L would ha transfered froin one truck to anotber ini a special bay inside the facility and would neyer ta left in tbe building itseif, Decom said. 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