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VOICE 0F THE COUNTY TOWN The only Whitby newspaper independe Whitby residents for Whitby residents. Publ ntly owned and operated by )Iished every Wednesday 3y 677209 Ontario mnc. Phone: 668-6111 Toronto Line 427-1834 Doug Anderson Publisher 131 Brook Street North, '.0. Box 206, Whitby, Ont. UiN 5S1 Maurice Plfher Editori Larry Cook Advertising Manager Alexandra Simon Production Manager eC wis&%o D ependlng on the recreallonal activity, Whitby is ether fallilng short or just barely keeping Up wlth the' appropriate facilities. There's no blame attachod ta any shortfall. Whitby has grown considerabiy, keeplng Up wth the demand for facili ies can b. diff icuit. Recreation Is becoming more and more a family pursuit, invoMvng ail ages, but particu ladly youth. A new rec centre is under construction; more, botter maintained softbalV/ basobal fields are trylng ta keep Up with the burgeoning Interest ln the sport among Whitby Prelpare to pay residents; the second Ice pad previously oponed at Iroquois has helped reileve hockoy.congestion., East ward councillor Dennis Fox would like, In futu re, a roc facillty ln that ward ln whlch much of the meent growth in Whftby, has occurred. Somo parents have askod for a new, largor pool ta accommodate largor, competitive swim meots and Whitby's swimprogram; more soccer and basebali fields wiIl be needed.in future.- But meetingrecroationai 'noeds can be expensive - long-term debenturing w as the oiptio 'n préforred by Whitby councill ta pay for the multi-mlllion-dollar roc centre at Rossland. Taxes have lncreasedi substantially thîs year. ( although the Town portion of îhat Increiase was moderate In comparison), and that .Incroase ls hardly directed toward recreationai neods. Should residents wish ta soe more, Improved roc facilities, they had botter b. proparod ta pay more - perhaps a great deal more - for thom. Residents.shoutýd proteet town'9s natural beauty To the. oditor Re: Lotter, 'Town bas prioritios mixed up,' Juno 9, Free Pres I arn writing in response to the letter sent. in by reader Helen Clark, offering my support te her commenta. Her concerns are mine aise, and, l suspect, thoso of a groat many caring citizens in our community. We should ail be guarding and protécting what we have hore in Whitby regarding natural beauty and wildlife. I have friends whe, dIve out fromï Toronto regularly to visit Lynde Shores and Cranberry Marsh for bird watching, etc., and so do many others. Helen is also askcing for igns te be orected advising people te slow down for the geese. -'They have te slow down for the curve and the boat launching anyway," she says. But they don't! Perhaps some of you will remember my letter of August 1989 when I wrote to this aper on this very subjeet - afterI had just witnessedl a particularly brutal attack on a group cf geese by motorist Who, instead cf slowing down, actually gathered speed - so it was hs intention te idil as many, as he could. Quaity of life should not ho abandoned ini the name of progress. My special thanka to Joe Drumin who also supports these concerna. MNL Marriom Whitby Drivers do Igreat work To the. editoi. I have been a volunteer at Sunnycrest Nuring Home for seven years now. I would like to sharo an experience I had with a couple of ambulance drivers on Juno 4. They took two patients frorn the nursing home to the hospital by ambulance for x-rays. I was impressd by the way the attendants handled the patients. They couldn't have been more compassionate and caring, they handled them juet like china doils. You hoar so much about the abuse cf the elderly and neyer seem to, hear the good things that have been dono for thom. I would like to, thank and congratulate ail ambulance. drivers, as representedl by Ken McConnell and John Visser whe, were the drivers on that day. Thanica, guys, and keep up the great work. Rose McGee Bids prodffuce filth To the oditor Further te Helen Clark's letter published June 6, I disage. with her criticism of -the "no feeding the geese" and "ne parking" igna erected by the bridge on Brock St. South. Obviously, Ms. Clark does net walk or jag in that area. If, she did, she would' realize that placement cf these signaelbas not se much te do with inconveni- encing traffic but rather because of the 'filth caused by' bird droppings from the large accu- mulation of geese, seagulls and ducks at that location. The sidewalks and roads are a mess; the park benches and picnic tables -are covered with excrement; the grass is a diagrace and I hate te think of the contaminating effect on the water. The, area i%, flrsty, parkland for the people toe enoy, and if that neoessitates discouragi >ng, the birds from being there, that is the way it must be. I congratulate those on council whe voted te implement m-easures and help dlean the area up. Contraxy to what Ms Clark sugests,- what. the "people inthIùs tewn deserve" is t e ho able te have their parks clean and unpolluted and not used as a Ubthroom"l for wateirfowl. .Youws truly Lyndaý C. Buffett Heritage efforts aprcated To the edfitor Thank you very much for the- coverage, in the May 23 edition, cf the heritage workshop at the Visual Arts Cenitre in Bowmanvillo. The students enjoyed the class and especially the part wvhich examined the -architectural features of the heritage buildings in the area. I aise thank Deug Anderson for hordec efforts to save important buildings iWhitby., I amn sure that bis efforts are noted and applauded by mn people in the Wib ra Maureon RéMin toni wlutliy By Terry O'Shaughnessy No matter how bad.times get, you can usually count on the batiks te make it worse. This was certainly true for Cana- dian consumers recently when the batiks, following the lead set by the Batik of Canada, announced that interest charges on credit cards were going up. In response to the ever- increasing lending rates resulting from skyrocketing interest rates, credit card charges of 21 per cent or so will extract even more from the consumer than is currently the case. According to Catherine Swift, Vice President of Research and Chief Economist for the Canadian Feder- atien of Independent Business, the batiks are far too willing to crank up already high credit card rates when the. cost of credit goes up. "Ilnterest rates on credit cards are obviously very high," Swift said. "But when lending rates increase, the banks move te increase credit card rates almost overnight. You cati be sure that when things finally improve on the interest rate front, credit card iates will.not go down nearly as-quickly as they went up. Quite frankly, it usually takes some time for the rates to decrease at al." 0f course those with savings in the banks stand to niake more money these days. But with the interest on per- sonal boans limbing to 17 per cent and more while savings account rates hover at il per cent or se, the banks are pock- eting a nice tidy sum for themselves. And what about the consumer who faces ever-higher credit card interest charges? One possibility is a trip te bis or her batik manager te arrange for a personal loan te pay off the balance on bis or her credit card. The batik boan rate will be lower than the new credit card rate se getting a per- sonal boan looks like a good move. Rather than paying 21 per cent te the batik, the consumer can instead pay 17 per cent. . te the batik. Either way, the banks are squirreling away our hard-earned cash. As Swift puts it: "The batiks are saying to consumners: 'you cati pay me now, or you can pay me later'. " Consumers know in the end that their pain h the banks' gain. fCFIB Feate w* 2nd Oins Post8i Regisralon #05351 Bank bamometer rising àý