Councillor says he won't heed solicitor' s letter -. 1....& LL. ~ A. nrn, nat~rntizi1 P1SdmRnt~ nr not teil their solicitors to tone aown IA~~iI~~I1L lui LI1t~ 1iUUUL1A~ uaAAA~5'- At least one Whitby councillor iflstructiOf, la IUreioiini co4un-w* ui al-l----- will not abide by a Toronto law fir- cillor Tom Edwards on Tuesday. taxpayers..." m's recommendation to the Town The letter from the firm of to cease conversations with poten- Bassel, Sullivan and Leak told both The letter was sent to the Town's tial claimants over Iast ust insurance adjusters, L.V. Walker fAugust' the Town and Oshawa* to stop and Associates, then sent to the two "If I have any information to "4negotiations, -- conversations, municipalities. pass on, I will not be bound by that correspo'ndence and memnorandum "If the insuranice company does their offending attitude then the Town'should go elsewhere for a new insurance company," said Edwar- ds. 'II don't see the roleof 'a coun- cillor to shut up at ail, " he added. Edwards said if the Town is then it should pay the damages. However, to this point, he said there is no evidence that the town is 'negligeikble for the 150 homes in Whitby that were flooded last August. Ian McKmstry and Brian Belliveau of* Henry St. High Sehool do their imper- - sonation of Iggy Pop at an air band contest held at Port Perry High Sehool last Friday night. Sehool tax hi*ke 8.5 percet iniWh*tby Whitby ratepayers wil see an 8.5 per cent increase, or $12.39 for each $1,000 of assessrnent, in the sehools' SPORTS see P. 20-2 25, 31 Il, Il ~IIIIt~ portion of their tax biH after ap- proval was given Monday.night by the Durham Board of Education to EGGSTRAYAGANZA.' An Easter DUflfy and Crack-A-Doodle-Doo wil hand out special IEaster treats to snoppers in ciowntown Whitby this Saturday, April 18 as part of the Easter Eggstravaganza. The whole family is invited to attend, along with a camera for pictures with the irabbij and rooster, for tii? event organized by the Whitby Downtown Business Improvement Area in conjunction with the Whitby Optimist Club. See inside this week's edition for details on many more evnts ,.in- cluding an Egg Olympies and egg-decorating, to be held as part of Eggstravaganza. the 1987 budget. The average education. tax in- crease for the Region will be 9.08 per cent, with the Whitby impact the lowest and Oshawa, at 9.25 per cent, the highest. The increase will mean an education tax of $158.03 per $1,000 of assessment for Whitby ratepayers in 1997. The board will spend a total of about $211.5 million ini 1987, 15.2 per cent higiier than 1986. The tax- payers' share of that spending is $94.1 million. 11 think we did ail the cutting that was possible," said Whitby trustee Ian Brown, who chaired the finance committee. "I don't think there is any fat in this budgzet." "To eut deeper wouki be far more deleterious to the (sehool) system," he said after the open session of the board Monday. He said added staff, higher tran- sporation costs, a. special levy for building projects and spendinaz on new schools generally account for the increase mi spending., The public school board also lost 12.5 per cent, or $2.7 million, of local residential assessment to the separate sehool board because of Bill 30, the legisliation to extend SEEPAGE3 iý t t i See p. 9 with anv notential claimants or 2 Pt -qA