PAGE 2. WElNIESDAY, lUNE 25. 1986> WHITBY FREE P1flÈSS Museum study must continue m Angevaare The Whitby Historical Society will go ahead with their $28,000 study on a museum for Whit- by, eveni though Mayor Bob Attersley calîs the study'"redundant". A seven part motion approved by Council on Monday ýnight recom- mends that the society terminate the study by Marshall Macklen and Monaghan after stage two, which will tell the society if Lynde House will be the town's museumn and if it can be moved. But both the. society president Bill Oyagi and vice president, Rod Angevaare vow the study will be completed. The main objective of the study is to deter- mine a location fora museum in Whitby, ac- cording to the terms of refence for the study. This may or may not in- clude the Lynde House, indicated Angevaare. "We are looking for a site that is suitable enough for expansion," he said. Sites the study will look at include, the present site of Lynde House, Centennial Park, Cullen Gardens, other municipaly owned property and other sites in the town. Locating the town's archives on the site of the museumn will also be looked at, as wilI space for administration areas, storage, recep- tion areas and exhibit areas. If possible, members of the society have also expressed an interest in including the Lynde House as a part of the museum - if the study should find the Lynde House unacceptable as a Museum, said Angevaare. According to Angevaare the study will also open the doors for the society to receive grants from both the provincial and federal FROM PG. 1 governments. He said grants will not be issued by the provin- ce unless a study is un- dertaken. in a municipality. He estimatecl that through the Museum Assistance Program, the society could receive aid of up to 40 percent of costs. "Private funds will also be matched by the province," said Angevaare who added that private companies would be more willing to donate to a museumn af- ter a comprehensive study has been pleted. The society believes the study is the only way to determine where and what will constitute the future museum for Whitby, said Angevaare. Artifact act "blackmail" - Brunelie called it. He also estimated that it will cost the town bet- ween $43,000 and $50,000 a year to operate the house. However, if Lynde House is judged accep- table as a museum by the study, then a move to another piece of land, will be haîf funded by the provincial gover- nment, according to Angevaare. He estimated the cost to the town would be $131,000 and could further be reduced by grants from federal and private foundations. Angevaare said the decision by council showed "a private com- mercial establishment favouratism" and said the study was the only way to determine what should be done about Lynde House. After the meeting Mayor Attersley said the revelation that the artifacts inside the house may not be moved with the house was a total shockto him. "But council based it's decision on moving the house, not the artifac- ta, " said the Mayor. Councillor Marcel Brunelle, the town's representative on the society, said the society's decision to suggest the artifacts may not be moved with the house was "black- mail. The important thing is to save the house." No firmn date has been set on moving the house. Failen cable douses lights A fallen cable is blamed for putting une- fifth of the Town of Whitby in the dark last Wednesday. "A main 44,000 kilo volt cable burnt off at a connection and fell to the ground starting a small grass fire," said Whitby Hydro spokesman John San- derson.- He said the cable came loose around 12:30 pm. at transformer station One tractor trailer Ioad only ALL NEW 1906 WOOD'S FREEZERS A TOURI NORMAL COST ORCHARDS Hwy. 2 Betwoon Ajax & Whtby number six on Rossland Rd. E. just west of Thickson. But while it took the Whitby Fire Depar- tment a short time to dose the fire, it took Hydro crews more than two hours to return power to the affected areas of the town. Sanderson said the cable came off at a bad time because main- tenance was being carried out at another station and power could not be re-routed. Mîrror image? The new Pringle Creek Public School scheduled for Whitby will get a clone in Pickering. Unable to buy a site for the school in Scugog which the Ministry of Education had ap- proved, the Durham Board of Education has secured approval to build a school in Pickering instead, in the John Boddy subdivision. At their Monday night meeting trusteesi SEE PrIo com-