Wh itby parade Saturday procession will move east along Dundas St. to the four- corners and tben head south down Brock St. Awards for top entries (best commercial, majorette, service club, band and best overaîl) will be banded out at Centennial Park at tbe parade finish. About .70 entries and final details of the hook in the past few severai assorted parade. weeks," says Stanley. "characters" are con- As of Monday, 31 "One guy wanted to firmed for, Saturday floats will participate know.bow to dress bis rnorning's Santa Claus and 24 non-float entries. kid and where to stand." parade in Whitby, Terewil be eight ban- making good Jaycee ds and five majorette «'I hope we can get organizer Bob Staniey's groups. Those assorted weather like we had last claim that-thîs edition characters include weekend." could be the "biggest clowns and other and best ever. " costume characters. The parade starts at A Wednesday nigbt "The phone bas just 10 a.m. from Cocbrane meeting was to lay out been ringing off the St. at Dundas St. W. Tbe IDecom decision date not known after tests canée lied The proposed Novem- ber emission tests on tbree Decom Medical Wastes Systems Imc. in-. cinerators in Gatineau, Quebec will not be carried out. Tbe director of ap- provals for the Ontarlo Ministry of Environ- ment bad-been waiting for the resuits of tbe tests to make a decision on Wbetber or not to allow Decom to build a medical waste transfer station in Whitby. Instead of tbe tests, tbe company bas put a new proposai before tbe' Quebec government to replace. one incinerator and instaîl two scrub- bers in tbe otbers. "Tbe final drawings on the proposai wîll be before us sometime next week," said Joanne Geoffrione of tbe Quebec Ministry of En- vironment. She called tbe proposai "a good one." Upon bearing about tbe Quebec decision, tbe deputy director of ap- provals, Tom Ar- mstrong, could not say wben a decision wiIi now be made. "We bave been operating on tbe con- clusion that tbe tests would be done," said Armstrong. Armstrong and the director of approvals, William Balfour, were to discuss tbe situation tbis week. Geoffrione said tbe Quebec environment ministry was waiting for tbe final drawings on tbe proposal before she informed Toronto about it. Ivan Flashner, coun- iselfor Decom, would not comment on the proposai. The Quebec gover- nment ordered tbe emission tests after discovering tlhat gases sucb as bydrocbloric acid were coming from the incinerators. Geoffrione saîd tbe SEE PAGE 31 CRYSTAL FORDE of Whitby's Kids Campus Daycare Centre, wbich won the Christmas Trim-A-Tree contest at local banks, places a decoration on the tree at the AMCU Credit Union branch. The contest, held A, Wbitby resident is the sister of tbe 43-year- old woman who under- went a double-lung transplant in Toronto last week. The woman, wbho bas not been identified, is the sister of Barbara Smith of Whitby. Bar- bara's .busband, Howard Smith, told Tbe Free Press tbat the recent weeks bave been traumnatic for the famiiy, but tbey are now optimnistic. "Tbey (the doctors) are quite pleased," be said, "We feel pretty gond."e He described the transplant as botb anxious and exciting for the family. "We ail know it's tbe only cbance sbe's got," be said of bis sister-in- law, wbose lungs bad been destroyed by em- physema. The new lungs came from an 18- year-old man wbo died of a brain hem- morrbage. Tbe double-lung tran- splant, in an operation of five and a baif bours, SEE PAGE 7 Nov. 24, was the first of the Twelve Days of Christmas held by the Whit- by Downtown Business Ins- provement Area. Jaycettes judged the contest. Free Press photo. ybw Ffr'~/Vol. 16, No.48 Whitby resident sister of lung Wednesday, Dec.3, 1986 32 pages transplant pati ent Twelve Days of Christmas Pages 9-15 m dm,