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WITBY FREE PRESS, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 30, 1986 PAGE 7 BIA seeks Heritage a]pprova By MIKE JOIINSTON Free Press Staff Georgina Phillips, manager of the Down- town Business Im- provement Area, will act as the BIA's co- ordinator if it is chosen to participate in Heritage Canada's Main Street Canada Progrant. As co-ordinator, Mrs. Phillips will be taught how to work with the business community in revitalizing Whitby's downtown area while FROM PG. 6 taking advantage o! it's architectural potential. Whitby Council was advised of the heritage progrant in February of 1985, but because the BIA was" then finan- cially unable to hire a co-ordinator, they were flot in a position to par- ticipate in the programi. However, councîl directed the planning department to complete the Main Street Canada application on behaif of the BIA and advised Heritage ('anada that the BIA's participation would be contingent on available funding. With the BIA's budget this year of $69950 and the hiring of Mrs. Phlllips, the BIA has written to Heritage Canada asking that their application be re- activated for the 1986 progrant. The program ill help the BIA to design a strategy which will promote the downtown as a desirable place to Firesafety awareness During the course of handie the hoses by Fire Department puts the prograrn, the training the water on a on a graduation children are put through baIl which they attempt - ceremnony for the young a numnber of.- exercises to push into the opposing people and the parents that simulate the ex- end. Another day, the are ail invited down to periences of the children will be clim- the Fire Hall to see what firefighters when they bing the aerial ladder they have learned. are on the job battling and leaping into the life the genuine article. In net. It is, said Mr. Bernis, one o! the exercises, the While calculated, to a very . valuable children put on fire keep the children progran and one which clothes and the air mask amnused during the tV/o the children obviously wbich is hlacked out to week, haîf day sessions, enjoy. There will be four simulate the dark and the programn neyer loses sessions this sumnmer - smoke filled roomns in sight of its primary fun- two in the morning and which a fireman often ction, according to Mr. two in the afternoon - finds himnself. The Bemnis, and that is to and they will run during children must then feel teach fire safety July and August. their way methodically awareness. During around an unfamiliar classes and demon- However, there ils only roon just as a fireman strations, the children room for 40 children in would search a smoke learn how f ires will each session and Mr. filled roorn for an un- travel through the Bernis said they tend to conscious victim. house, about smoke fuI up quickly. Get in detectors and the im- touch with the Fire Another exercise is portance of keeping Department soon if you the water bail comn- themn in good working have SOmen i1 or 12 petition in which the order and how to draw yaso g h ol young people learn to up fire escape plans, yers tfhe ho would At the end of it aIl, the ejyteporm Batten'misrepresented? shQp. As well, free professional advice will be given to individual merchants who show an interest in improving their image throughi building renovation and preservation, window displays or general maintenance. If the BIA is chosen, Mrs. Phillips will attend a three week training seminar in Ottawa were she will be taught to identify buildings with an architectural heritage and how to restore them, said BIA President Ed Buffett. She will also be taught how to attract developers to downtown Whitby who are in- terested in maintaining the downtown's ar- chitectural heritage. Mr. Buffett said the BIA is presently attem- pting to revitalize down- town and with the help of Heritage Canada's prograni the BIA will accomplish it's goals in a shorter period of tume. If the BIA is accepted the prograni would run for three days and during that tinte, the co-ordinator must be trained, technical manuals would be provided for downtown businesses, audio visual materials on promoting downtown would be provided and workshops would be designed for downtown merchants. Notification of ap- proval for the program should be received by the end of May with the prograin starting in August. Mr. Buffett said a representative of Heritage Canada will be in Whitby on Friday to study the downtown area. In 1985 three Ontario municipalities were selected for the prograni; Sarnia, Prescott and Owen Sound. This year four or five additional towns will be accepted. "'m optimistic we will be accepted,"1 said Mr. Buffett. If the BIAs ap- plication is flot ap- proved, they can re- apply in 1988. Whitby council endor- sed the BIA's par- ticipation at it's meeting on Monday night and will send a letter of sup- port for the BIA to Heritage Canada. An article in the Free Press Il"ît week with the headii - "Innuendo int- plicates town staff', causedz,- least one councillor at Monday ights council meeting to take exception to the story. Councillor Ross Bat- ten said that during his hour talk with the Free Press reporter he neyer once, "in the context of the conversation," at- tack staff or anyone else. Councillor Batten said the press, the public and even the council should not read anything into the procedure council went through with regards to it's recreational needs. He said the Town of Whitby has'àn excellent staff and he neyer suggested they would foui-up. "'Nothing really specifically went wrong," continued the councillor adding that it was tirne council got down to work and carrS on with what- the majority of council has voted for. Stolen A video tape recorder and a number of tapes were stolen froni an apartment on Byron St. S. last* week. The value of the items is estimated at $1,260. Police have no suspects. ~7tle Pipe &CGiJt SI>oppe 7 SOLID OAK & PINE FURNITURE (STARTS MAY 29,1986) ALL BEAUTIFULLY HANDCRAFTED SOLID OAK &PINE DINING ROOM SUITES ON SALE UNTIL MAY 31ST. VARIQUS STYLES 0F TABLES, CHAIRS AND BUFFETS & HUTCHES ARE AVAILABLE (LAY-AWAY PLAN AVAILABLE) 9 PC. SOLID OAK HARVEST SET MSRP 14700.00 L 10 DUNLOP ST. E., WHITBY 66*1331 OPEN MON .-THURS. 10-6, FRI. 10-9 SATURDAY 10-5 -SUN DAYS 114 (SAVE $1 000.00) I 'I-C IVEVA FREE rf I SOLDPN ALNITIAL L I (NO PURCHAS NECFSSARy) LM 0i4OE COPONPEP FA MIy 6 THANNUAL MAY 2-4 SHOW H RS. FR1. 6 p.m. - 10 p.m. SAT 0 a. m- 5pm. 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