Whitby Free Press, 5 Mar 1986, p. 1

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Mayor takes second shot at... $6.2 million rec. expansion Determined to push through the $6.2 million expansion of the Iroquois Park recreation complex, Mayor Bob Attersley has called a special public meeting which he hopes will convince the project's detractors there is more than enough money in the town's coffers for the Iroquois expansion and all the other capital ex- penditures slated for the next four years. At the meeting, Thur- sday, March 27 in the council chambers, Mayor Attersley plans to unveil the town's four year capital forecast and to reopen debate on the '$6.2 million expan- àlon at Iroquois Park. Last week, after more than two years of plan- ning and discussion, the project was shot down in council by a vote of 4-3. "The forecast deals with all capital expen- ditures for the next four years le. in recreation, general budget, roads and all facilities whether libraries, seniors, firehalls, whatever. "We'll get all this financing out on the table because there are a lot of people who have been mislead into thinking that if we go ahead with this (the major Iroquois expan- sion) we won't be able to do anything else," said Mayor Attersley on Tuesday. It is normal proceedure for the town to do a four year capital forecast but Mayor At- tersley said he inten- tionally chose to add the Iroquois expansion to the agenda of the special meeting so that it can be considered in light of the town's poten- tial revenues and reser- ves. If council approves, the Iroquois expansion can be added to the forecast and returned to council for approval. At last week's council meeting, the matter of the Iroquois expansion was left dangling after councillor's chose to defer any decision on an alternative expansion in view of the fact that tempers were running high after the $6.2 million proposal was defeated. Mayor Attersley said the matter is now "wide open" to debate and any option worthy of consideration can be presented to council. "Nothing has been put to bed on this one," said the Mayor. The $6.2 million proposai includes a new arena with temperature controlled viewing area and concession and provisions for summer ice; a physical fitness area with running track» and change room amenities; four squash courts; a temperature controlled viewing area adjacent to the swim- ming pool; a multi- purpose room; ad- ministrative offices and swimming pool repairs. A second proposai which is preferred by councillors Joe Drumm, Gerry Emm, Joe SEEIG, 3 Kidney month March is Kidney Month and to officially get things started, Mayor Bob Attersley, Eleanor Stevenson, President of the Whitby Lioness Club, Dorothy Clarke, campaign chairman for Whitby and a kidney transplant patient and Trudy McCallum, eastern campaign co-ordinator of the Kid- ney Foundation, turned out Tuesday to raise the kidney flag at Whitby's town hall. Money raised this month will help finance badly needed research into improved methods of treatment and prevention of kidney disease. Free Press Staff Photo Vol. 16, No. 9 Wednesday, March 5, 1986 28 Pages A shot in the arm Regional works committee head Gerry Emm and regional .chairman Gary Herrema paid a visit to Thickson Road where it passes under the Canadian Pacific Railway bridge last week and tried to imagine what the thoroughfare will look like later this sum- mer when it has been widened to f ive lanes. Regional council last week approved the expenditure of $1,125,000 for the project which will widen Thickson from Consumers Drive right through to Dundas Street. Mr. Emm said the long awaited project will cost a total of $512 million with the province kicking in 80 percent of the funds. He said bids on the job should start coming in this week or next and he hoped that construction would begin sometime in May. If all goes according to plan, Thickson should be ready to accommodate five lanes of traffic by the end of August. Regional councillor Emm said the multi-million dollar project is one of the biggest that will be undertaken by the region in 1986 and, in ad- dition to serving the heavy traffic that already exists in the neighbourhood, it will provide a valuable link to the new Go station at Brock Road which is scheduled for completion in 1988.. Free Press Staff Photo Region approves $51/2 million job on Thickson Rd. Regional council last week approved a $5½ million project which will open up Thickson Rd. to accommodate five lanes of traffic bet- ween Consumers Dr. and Dundas St. The project will be subsidized 80 percent by the Ministry of Tran- sportation and Com- munications and the region will kick in $1,125,000 towards the total cost. According to Whitby regional councillor Gerry Emm who heads up the region's works committee, the Thickson job constitutes almost half the region's road construction ex- penditures for 1986. The other major project to be undertaken by the region this year is Park Rd. in Oshawa. "We've been wanting to do this for 12 years," said Mr. Emm last week. "With the expan- sion up at the Woolco Mall, all the new homes down there are pushing Wentworth through from Thickson to General Motors it's really increased the traffic." The councillor said they hope to begin con- struction sometime in May and are aiming for an August completion date.'He said the works department will probably begin accep- ting tenders.this week or next. Currently only two lanes, Thickson Rd. will be widened to five lanes except where it passes under the Canadian Pacific Railway bridge just north of the 401. Under the bridge, Thickson will be four lanes. The project was ap- proved at last Wed- nesday's regional coun- cil meeting without any discussion or debate, a fact which surprised the councillor due to its magnitude. "I thought it would get some opposition but it slipped right through," said an elated Mr. Emm after the meeting. With the extension of the Go rail service into Whitby scheduled for 1988, the councillor said the Thickson expansion will also provide a much needed thoroughfare for commuter. traffic heading in to the new Brock St. station from points east and north. Because of the Go ex- tension, Mr. Emm said Durham is being con- sidered by the province for extra roads funding because of the strains SEE PG. 3 Whitby Psych staff press province for arbitration The stand-off between Association has Infor- medical staff in the med the Minister of province's psychiatric Health that the hospitals and the physicians and Ministry of Health is psychiatrists it moving towards a represents will accept climax and if an nothing less than the agreement isn't reached implementation of a very soon, Whitby system of binding ar- Psychiatric Hospital bitration to settie al may have to cease ail future contracts. regular admissions, To bring that point said a spokesman for home, the doctors began the medical staff this a series of work actions week. early in the New Year According to Dr. and two weeks ago, Stephen Nugent, when the ministry stili president of the hadn't moved on their hospital's medical staff, demands, the doctors the negotiating commit- imposed an escalating tee for the Ontario series of study days PsyPiatrie Ho psychiatri...ss it îp.

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