Whitby Free Press, 29 Aug 1990, p. 7

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PAGE SEVEN T~t1t1T TTby LLiJEJ.UJJBiiSwan The year 2019. The. occasion: The CBC broadcaste a documentary to commernorate oneO of the. turning points in history. ANNOUNCER: It was the. beot Ures, it was the worst of tirnes.d it ... P1RODUCER. Cut, cut, cut. la that what lim supposed to say? le that what they said bock in the da. of radio? ACTOR: the. didn't hav, radio- bock tiien. This jà 1990 were talking about. Beiles, I think the. drecte's suppoSed to say stuff like that. But not on radio. RRODUCER: Okay, okay, good cute stuif. Not lot's get this right '1 W. are putting on a documentaiy to mark the. occasion. ight? Just follow the script. ANNOUNCER: Ready? (A pause. four, tiiree, two, om.... (He wavee bds right hand to indicate the. start.) ANNOUNCERL It was the. bout of Urnes, it was the. worst of tUrne, ~ !k it was a time of omeles and a trne cf frowns. It wae tth. daye of peace. It was the. day. cf war. It was, in fatct, TUE DAY TH E EfKj INHElRITED THE EARTI ACTOR: High. Fin Unctuous Actor. 'nin this bit to play Steely Ca]m, the. hero ini tIs wiiole bit, a Canadien wiio rose to national attention that fateful day ini 1990. FEMALE ACTOL ~....September 6, 1990. Tiat wasthieday. It was a day liko any otiier day in Canada. That is, tho.smn shone, clouds rarned; voter. voted, politicians lied;, the.Biue Jayas uthei Blue Jay bout. On. little fact made tuis day différent. ANNOUNCER: -That fact:- crime statietie becarne tii. norrn. The. army had just bbockaded four bridges i Mntreal te prevent native "Wwj b "um, Canadiens frorn halfing traffic. In protest, militia unit.i Ontario started bonfires in several places along the. 41i support. ACTOR: Ontario voter.awroteo te ii pil that day, but half of them simpby coubdn't bobtiirod.Tii, her ha]f didn't know an ,*~,* ~,.. , . .. élection was going on. lb. other baif voted for éther the Man in the ., .~.'~ Moon, AIt, or the, Annibuate-the-Frencii Movement. ANNOUNCER: And evon with math like that, they couldn't get >. thirty-four percent turnout. But it gets worse. FEMALE ACTOR: I. Pin a ciiarining fernale actrese, bat. twenties. Fin dressed in a period costume of tue 19909 te show how utterly ~. ridiculdus some fronde were at that Urne. Shorts, tank top, sweat bond, $199 oerobic shoees. And leg warmers. ACTOR: Obviouely picked up at a saalme somewiiere. Left over from the. 1980.. But that's a persona idrm dressed as the typicalÏ male, early thirties, yuppy, peaceful, ambitioue but meek. My hair1, style look ke Nek.lbout a round witii power bawn rnower., And were going teo ct out a lite scenario for you. ACTOR: (In character): Weil, wasn't that a terrific show? Il'. neyer seen Network before. But here we are itiie 19909 just coniing from a movie a decade old. Why? FEML ACTOR: B.cause, dear busband, we are terribly trendy people ond noutagia is i rigiit about now. So we saw this movie, and we 1k. it, and we're waWkng down the. street after, repeating this on. lin. fr-om the movie because 0f the other satire went over our lheads. ACTOR: Fmnrnad as bell, and Fmrnont going te take it any in re. ANNOTJNCER: And right at this point the couple walk srnickite an army rood block rigiit tiiere on Tbickson Road i Whitby~ Militia unit. had been out all day, cutting off traffic flow te Native Ctm3adian blockade in Quebec and Britishi Columbia. But for soin. reaWonthis aîn.e u rnyyun epe NVR GARAGE, DUNDAS AND CENTRIE STREETS C. 1924 ARMYO~IC~ (Sandig atattetiotying te look as fierce as W. J. L ukeblt tuis brick garage in 1915. It was latter owned byj Thomnas L. Rowe and hitwnytoya.oudaow)Soy you can't wa]k lby ber.. Robert M. Devereill, and spn islasý t ysas et vto m bitSo.l.grg a Tms isariltr dptno.drn,§i..i193 ndti Sotshce Villaion ii, st te. Whearagw o ACTOR -But-1rn- br-working-yuppy bueband.--nd&Xny car&i moment. e.ntil then, tue o~y people who hâid over heard 0fIWhàitby whicb it reoert1y purchased fri= a 'pivat. cornay were tiie International Chater 0f Marigold Lovers.. More thon 1O woenen bave joined thie new Wbitby General Houpital Auxiliary.ý ARMY OFFICEL Tl.hely mystery remaimng te tus day is wby* Entries frorn the Ontario Hospital won a first close award for rug weaving, at the such a 1r ndy couple were drxvmng a Micra. A Celica [ could Canadion Na U Exhibitio in Toronto. undesad.ABWsr. But a Micrajust don't fit, it don7t. ANNOU~4CR But the momeont bad beon seized. Almout 1k. voter apathtruck Whitby. Toronteo MontreëIl. Vancouver. Firet tue 1251 TZARS AGO 0 trybar-i shon Native barricades. lb. voter. in Ontario turfed froua tii. lurday August 24, 1865 pdition o h out iàberals, and voted i Confedelation 0f Regions, a party which WHYTEH CHRONICU1ý nobody understood then and still didn't five years bater when tii. a lb. tewn council bas vot.d toeàÎstblis a groin and proc4uce market in Whitby. party voted itself out of office, baving served a fixed term. But that?. * lb. tewn coundil pays $65 a y.ar for lei upke.p of thie Town Baby," a chibd abandoned by another documentary. its mother i 1862. FEMALE ACTOR AUl acroes this great land, the hMK roue up a lb. tewn council i. offering a $5 reward for the. apprehension 0f aiiyone destroying SEE PAGE 29 idewalks or fonces in Whitby. Doug Anderson's Tii. Other Side of tiie Fence will appear in another part of týe paper from time to time IThlb Croniclé is advertiing for aboy 14 or 15 years old tework in its office.

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