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WHJT]W FREE PRESS, WEDNESDAY, MAY 16,1990, PAGE 13 Illegal strikeaverted An illegal strike by Liquoi Control Board of Ontario employees has been averf;ed. An Wement was reached last week between tbe hoard and the employees' union over plans to chop 300 jobs as a cost-cutting measure. Rather than lay off workers, the board bas agreed to use attrition and rescheduling ocf part-time employees' shifts toecut costs. The 5,000 LCBO workers, members of the Ontario iàquor Board Employees' Union, are employed in retail outlets, 'ware- bouses, such as the one in Whitby, and at the LOBO main office in Toronto. Even though they are governed bthe Crown Employees Collec- tieBargaining Act and preven- ted fromi striking, the workers were prepared to take that risk. Recent LCBO forecasta projeet that the volume of liquor sold at the board's 625 stores will fail by 5.9 cent or 12 million litres this year. PAW officer threatened A Pickering-Ajax-Wihitby Ani- mal Control (PAW) officer was threatened with bodily harm last week while delivering a bylaw ticket. The offioer, wbo is not laying charges, was delivering the bylaw ticket te tbe owner of a dog that had reportedly bitten cbildren in a neighborbood. 240 registered for SWISC meetings More than 240 people have registered for the SWISC waste management public meetings te ho held May 16 and 17 in Whiitby and Pickering. SWISC (Soid Waste Interim Steering Committee), made up of representatives from the five regions in tbe Greater Toronto Area, is gatbering information and public input for a longtermi waste management plan. Expressions of inférest by van- ous groups and compamies, in- clude Atlantic Packaging of Whitby, have been made te SWISC for waste management. SWISC's technical evaluation of those expessions of interest and the proposed next stops, will ho discussed at the meeting. The May 16 meeting will ho lield at Heydensbore Pavilion in Whitby, starting at 7 p.ni. The meeting on May 17 is a Pickering High Séhool. Car rips througli flowerbed It was net exactly a tiptoe A car wthe tdri'ven over a flower garden belonging te, Rae Cowling of Whitby, prooting approxi- mately 300 tuhps. An eyewitness took down the licence plate as the car ran touh the flower hod at 7: 10 P . ay 12. Policecntinue te investigate. Royal Doultoit Figurines jewellers Gemologist A/ ý.w- 4. ý 30v/( off 101 mary St. W., (Pearson Limes) whitbVJ eh 1 * *Freîght ($540),/l " electronic fuel ir *front w'heel driv( " low-back cloth and vinyl icense andtaxes extraW reclining buoket seats - power steering/brakes- AM/FM stereo with clock - tinted glass - electric rear window defroster - interval ,,yl enwiperse styled steel wheels njection dual power mirrors e -* 6 year/1 00,000 km ltd. power train warranty '4 I Pickering Lincoln Mercury Sales I ~ I Hwy #7, Kinsale (N. Pickering) Caill: 68623001 2L,à] rII M,£, L] 1