Trailer park expansion plan could go to 0MB By Mike Johnston -The Town of Whitby may pre- pare for an Ontario Municipal Board (OMB) hearing over th e expansion ofthe trailer park on Dundas St. E., even though area residents opposed to the expan- sion do not feel a hearing is necessary. The Town's planning and deve- lopment committee recommen- ded the move Monday night._ Council will vote on the recom- mendation Monday night. "Whyhire a lawyer and spend the Town's time and money when we are close to an agree- ment?" Linda Wittenbols of Michelle Crt. aske, committee Mo0nday mn ight . S The Townad given approval fo expansion of the park to the northeast on May 8 this year. But a letter from 24 residents in the area objecting to the expansion has been filed with the Town. The residents have stated they would appeal to the OMB if certain concessions·were not made. Wittenbols told committee that the developer, an Ontario num- bered company, has agreed to many of the residents' requests. IIf there is a delay, it is on the part of the planning department. is is very arrogant,» said Wit- tenhols,hwho told committee that when she phonèd the planning department to discuss the matter she was informed the depart- ment was not interested. But councillor Ross Batten, acting as chairman of the com- mittee due te the absence of councillor Joe Drumm, said the committee's decision does not preclude an agreement being reached. «We have to make a decision. If this can't be resolved we have to go to the OMB," said Batten. 'We can't afford to drag this out and we can't drag this out,» he added Changes sought by residents include re lacement of trees, fencing, an the construction. of townhouses. to ',the iforth of:the- trailer park at the same time the park is expanded. Wittenbols' said the town- houpes wôuld act as a buffer between the trailer park and Michelle Crt. residents. Councillor Marcel Brunelle, said there was more to the con- cessions than was being made public. However, he would not disdcose just what wasn't being said. "This shows (those objecting) that we are serious about this," said Brunelie. The urgency to resolve the problem was brought to commit- tee's attention by park super- intendent SandrarHamilun. She said 15 trailers are cur- rently without water. «Underneath some of the trai- lérs there is human excrement aid some have hydro lines no more than six inches above them. If those wires fall during the winter, people will fry," she said. She said Durham Region's health department has indicated it would cose the park if changes are not made. Te fire depart- ment has been in the park on a number of occasions and noted fite hazards. Hamilton also blamed the Town for deaying changes to the Park, sayingthe Twn was Ccragging"the issue. She suggested the Town wants a l quick resolution in order to begin collecting taxes on the commercial preperty frenting Dundas St. E. which wilf be let when the park is moved. Brunelle disputed that claim, although he noted the developer would be unable to expand the park if he could not recover money from the commercial pro- Pe ty. obdy makes money renting SEE PAGE 29 Home and Garden Microchip helps locate dog Thanks a owentieth-century tecbnology, a lest dog was retur- ned to his owner last week. Trojan, a purebred Rottweiler, was found when the Pickering- Ajax-Whitby Animal Control ( AW) used a device provided by an American company to read a microchip that bad been impian- ted into'Trojan's neck. The dog, owned by Lucy Dandy, dug a hole underneath a $760, raise g With two weeIs fundraising cairnpa awa-Wbitby-Nevev Way has reacheçl its $2.9-miillion 1a More than haio« raised to date ha General Moto s employees. At this time la campaign had r4isf ($687,777) of its goal. F e at u r e nflna seven-foot fence and wandered away. "It was just by fluke that he wasn't wearing his tags wwen he get eut. I caiied everywhere I could think of but I couldn't find him," said Dandy. Apparently, Trojan made his way to Pringle Creek ublic school where a number o chil- dren layed with him for a while. "Wen I heard the kids talking about a big dog I went over to the school, but he was gone by tl en." said Dandy. I'he next day she learned from tbe animal ch éiter that her dog bad been picked up. g di Ordinarily, without dog ags, the shelter would havebeentun- able to identify the owner. gone by in the But in December, Trojan had the Osh- been implanted witb a mierochip astie United designed by an American com- 26 per cent of pany called Infopet. I. Each implanted chip has a f the $760,000 separate number that is phoned as come from into the Infopet center. Infopet Corp. and has a special hotline number for animai sheiters and ast year, the veterinarians. ed 25 per cent The company gives shelters a $26-million special gun which can read the number prnted on the chip. The shelter then calls Infopet which matches the number to the owner. Owners are then notified that the dog has been found. An employee at the PAW ani- n, -il shelter said it was the first ti ne the microchip service has been used. 1 n s î d e Dandy said she decided to have the chip implanted after reading . about it in a veterinarian 's office. "I neyer weuld have found him if it hadn't been for the chip. He is so friendly anyone could have taken off with him,» said Dandy about Trojan, also called Rambo. f It takes no more than a minute te implant the chip, at an approximate cost of $40. Assault, cruelty charges laid A 25-year-old Whitby man bas been charged with assauit, threatening death and cruelty te animals after a domestic dispute on the weekend. Durham Regional Police report they were summoned te a house on Brock St. S. by a - woman complaining about her husband. When police arrived, they found a pet bird dead on a sidewalk in front of the house. Police would net say how the bird was killed. Police also report that, with officers beside him, the man con- tiaued te threaten te kill the woman. Charged with threatening death, assault and cruelty te animals is Johnathon Wayne Livingston, 25, of Brock'St. S.