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WIIITBY FREE PRESS, WEDNESDAY, JANUARYý 21,1987f PAGE 19 Coiinc illors speak ot nCnd o'st A Stoney Creek city. Stoney Creek Cowman, that th in the region's, northern to go to the post office, resolution since the everyone, said Oshaa resolution opposing council says the region draft is own municipalities wil lose often lining up for ser- mailboxes were a way councillor ra 'Canada Post's com- program, wbich will end resolution. tbeir post offices. "That vice. 'to reduce the deficit of Nicholson, opposingtbe munity maiîbox door-to-door delivery Ajax councillor Jim is a very real problem," He, said the com- Canada Post. change in service. programr last week beyond existing letter Witty said the region said O'Connor, noting mumity mailboxes are "People in Canada nromnted -an en- carrier routes, is sbould not endorse tbe that the post office is a "la heck of a lot better" "For>, one time, I don't want lesser ser- - - .soc.al ga. 1 er1n-ae ± 1±k - ..ni% inlfhfha laamt-rnwn êo<~r- vice or what I cail thusiastie debaté among Durbam regional, coun- Coundillors voiced both support end op- position to the resolution which lias been forwar- ded by Stoney Creek to the federal government, Canada Post, Association 1Of Municipalities of On- tario (AMO) and ail On- tario municipalities with populations of more than 25,000., Durham regional coundil eventually decided, by a vote of 21- 7, to send the resolution to . management com- mittee. An earlier motion, by Whitby councillor Gerry. Emm and Newcastle coun- cillor Marie Hubbard,to endorse tbe resolution and forward it to AMO was not voted upon. The resolution urges that the community mailbox program be discontinued in Stoney Creek and that door-to- door delivery be provided tbrougbout the discriminatory-and that alternatives other than reducing services should be considered by Canada Post. 1Oshawa councillor Cy Elsey, who led off discussion, agreed, saying the new boxes aren't fair to tbe elderly and bandicapped and don't- give new homeowners the same service as existing residents. "I' don't- think we should make second- class citizens of the people moving into our mumcipality," lie said,. predicting that the community mailboxes are the beginning of " no delivery to homes." Whitby councillor Tom Edwards said tbe "1general intent" of the resolution should be supported. Pickering councillor Norah Stoner supported the resolution smnce it addressed discrimination in tbe system, but suggested along with Newcastle councillor Ann resolution but "address it With our own concer- ns." He said other cost- cutting alternatives, sucb as home- delivery every other day, could be considered by Canada Post to reduce its deficit. Whitby councillor Gerry Emmn said tbe Stoney Creek resolution was "4worthy of some support" and the "wbole Canada Post situation needs to be ad- dressed." "One of the most im- portant rights of citizens is tobhave mail delivered to their door, " he added. Oshawa councillor Pauline Beal, who also supported tbe resolution, . suggested tbat mail service be dropped one day each week as cost-cutting alternative. Uxbridge mayor Gerri-Lynit O'Connor supported tbe resolution but said the Canada Post cost-cutting measures go further since rural post offices for many rural residen- ts., "lIt has been a way of life for these people for many, manyyears." Scugog councillor Lawrence Malcolm said ail residents in bis town- ship except those with rural delivery, go to the post office. "«Supermailboxes... people would say "Hailelujahi" if they were in our neigh- borhoods because they have hàd to walk to the post office for, 50 long. " Whitby Mayor Bob At- tersley described as "garbage" tbe debate among "thirty people having seven different ideas." He ýsaid it would be "Iabsolutely ridiculous" for the region to cir- culate, at a cost of about $5,000, its own resolution when AMO is "Our speaking voice. " Ajax Mayor Bill McLean said 3,500 people in bis municipality now have opposed the resolution. Oshawa councillor John Aker said the mailboxes are "here to stay" and would be a "fact of life for those who move into a new subidivision. " Oshawa councillor Ed. Kolodzie said be could not support the poration is going the riglit way," he said. He also said the' region should lbe supporting Canada Post since' ils chief executive officer, Don Lander, is a native of the region and "o'ne of our boys." Canada Post's service sliould be equal for sibility", said Nicholson.1 Canada Post bas to provide, "reasonableý alternatives," said Pickering councillor Alex Robertson. "The post office has corne up with a suggestion and we don't like it. ", Townhouse construction could begin next month Construction on the Nichol Ave. townhouse project, recently ap- proved by the Durham Region Non-Profit Housing Corporation, sliould* begin in February. 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