Vol. 17, No. 7 Wednesday, February 18, 1987 24 pages Decom opts for Etobicoke By MIKE JOHNSTON While Whitby residen- ts were informed last week . that Decom Medical Waste Systems Inc. would not be building a waste tran- sfer station in town, most people are probably unaware just how close Whitby came to being the site. "We told them they can either have one (Whitby) or. the other (Etobicoke) and they chose Etobicoke,". said Gord Donnelly, seniors approvals engineer for the Ministry of En- vironment. Donnelly said Decom probably chosecthe Etobicoke location, which will be able to handle50 tons of waste a day, because it is close to transportation corridors. "Their vehicles won't have as far to travel. They will save wear and tear on them, and on gas." Donnelly said Decom will withdraw its ap- plication for Whitby af- ter it has received all approvals and permits for the Etobicoke site. "For all intent and purposes, it is a dead issue in Whitby,". he said. News of the decision came as a relief to some and shock to others. 1"1 was expecting the Whitby application to be approved," said Pat Dooley, president of the Corridor Area Ratepayers Association (CARA). CARA was one of the leading figures in the fight against the tran- sfer station proposed for Sunray St. "I thought we were dead. Everyone is ex- ceptionally happy," said Dooley. But while he was hap- pily surprised, Dooley still had contempt for the method by which pathological waste is transported and disposed. SEE PAGE 6 Canada Trust robbed A man who claimed he was armed made off with an undisclosed- amount of money from the Canada Trust bank on Thickson Rd. S. Monday morning. Durham Regional Police report a man en- tered the bank around 11:15 arân. on Monday and h'anded a note to a teiler stating "Give me al your money." He then indicated to the teller that he had a gun. Police say an un- disclosed sum of money was turned over to the man who fled the bank and the area on foot. Whitby's ad- about it," he told com- ministrative committee mittee. has denied expansion The application for plans by an industry on expansion, from a Brock St. S. ground floor area of "I appreciate that I 8,400 sq. ft. to 13,800 sq. am not wanted in the ft., was made in 1980. harbor," Robert War- Committee had recently den, of Industrial Glove asked planning depar LOCAL WRESTLING and Garment Ltd., said tment to report on the 17* of rejection of his matter. CLUB -Page 7rezonng application by A recommendation committee on Monday was also approved to in- night. clude the area in the "So it's come to a côn- Port Whitby study. clusion - dead, finished, Warden questioned if over. I won't keep anything would happen buggin' you." as a iesult of the study. Town planning depar- "Everything is "study tment said expansion of area", 'maybe' or the existing industry, 'proposed'," he told which now employs 20, committee, notmg that "would be contrary to "there bas been talk the spirit and intent" of about doing something SUR VI VAL ýj--"'*ý-'ý-'-ý the Port Whitby secon- in the harbor for years. dary plan which Land uses proposed GUIDE i proposes that such uses for the area in which the relocate elsewhere. In- industry is located dustry is "encouraged (harbor development that it is not wanted ares 3-Front St.) would there," said councillor be harbor-related retail PAGE 8 Marcel Brunelle, ad- and personal service ministrative committee us, chabothn chairman. dieries, boutiques and Warden, however, restaurants. said he can't now afford Planning department to relocate. also said the expansion "I'm just not in a of Industrial Glove and financial position where Garment Would have I can do a damn thing adverse impacl on ad- 8,04q f.t%3,0 q He is described ai R white male, 25-30 yez, .3 old, 5ft., 1lOin. No one was hurt in the incident. Newname DON ROGERS (1) of Signet Signs recently approved by the Ministry of and assistant Jeff Hooker install the Health for the former Dr. J.O. Rud- signaat the entrance to Whitby dy Hospital. Free Press photo General Hospital, the new name Industry expansion denied it. yees"onth!a jacent. residential uses, particularly since the boiler room would be relocated closer to residences. One nearby resident, Bob Stevens,-said at the -public meeting that the industry was "not a good neighbor" as far as landscaping and proper- ty upkeep. He also men- tioned that he had heard concerns about chemicals going into sanitary sewers. Warden replied that his company is "con- tinually monitored" and that he has given up $90,000 worth of business to comply to sewer requirements. When told by Brunelle that committee no longer wanted to "spin its wheels", on the ap- plication, Warden replied: "Alright - I'm doomed. I'm just in a position where I have to stay there. Ihave no choice," he said. "As a businessman, it hurts," he said of committee denial. "It holds me back." Market may exceed $1 billion by 1989 The total aisposable wealth of the people of Whitby exceeded $600 million last year. The calculation was based on taxation figures for the 1984 year, adjusted for the actual growth rates in the preceding five years The calculations were done by Whitby Free Press publisher Doug Anderson as part of an analysis of the Whitby market. if the projections are carried farther forward, the Whitby market area will exceed $1 billion in 1989, only two years away. This wealth is due partly to rapid population growth which was projected by the Financial Post in 1985 to be 5.4 per cent per annum, but also due to the increasing af- fluence of the population. The census of 1981 ranked the average in- come in Whitby 58th in ail of Canada - by 1985 the Financial Post projected it would be ninth highest. 1984 taxation figures put ôur average income at 26 per cent above the national average. By comparison, the population growth rate in Oshawa is only 1.9 per cent per year and its SEEPAGE6 ~ L & &' & & I I. I I I I 1~~"" .~' *.'. -. . . 1 1 a