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Wa'rehouûses culroduce ,500 jobs By Marlo Boucher > Two retail wareho o perations that could generato more than 50 ï m jobs are planned for WhiUhy. TMm Price Club and ýAitkenhead's would ho located at the northoast corner of Thickson Rd. S. and Victoi St. E. At a planning and development committoe meeting Mcada.y night, Sue Rogers, solicitor for the. developer, Ivr Industies Ltd., said the. two faclties of 135,000 eq. ft. each cSn ho deslgned- to meet the needs of the "This je, an opportunity of a lifotime for this town,* SThe .two warehouses are oxpected to, croate about 620 fizi-time job. suid up to 180 more in part-time employaient, ah. said. "This facility wli have a regional draw," she said. Rogers said the impact on amail local businesses will ho minimal, as there lis a growing market for the retail industry in Whitby. We view tuis as an lndustry of the future," ah. The two warehouses woul d b. a "do-it-yourself type of facilitieà. in wbich customors and businesses can buy wbat tbey need in bu]k and in one building, ah. said. It would ho a one-stop wholesale distribution centre where arnali businessmen can come in and buy in bulk," ah. said. Price Club would b. a wholesale, retail distribution centre with controlled inembersbip wbile Aikenhoa' would ho a supply/garden centre with no controlled membersbip, ah. said. "The membersbips are restricted' to the businesses witbin the cominunity" she said. Rogers said any business' person can b. a member of Price Club but "you have to b. an owner." .She said anybody can make the purchases for the owner but only a business owner can b. a memiber at Price Club. "ii. a controlled membersip," she seid. Rrsadthora will besanie privfloge members -- pepevth secure empomet ic, sgovernmont ,.oriCce Club opened its firat warehouse in 1976 and now has 12 warehouses in Canada, ah. said. The range of products inicludes ,clothing, furniture and apipliances, home decorating, and" electrical SEE PAGE 5 By Marlo Boucher A provincial court decision will ho rendered in April concerning 20 violations of the Ontario Pie Code by Art Robinson at bis auto wrockers yard on Taunton Rd. E. near the iffutby-Oshawaborder. The Town of Whitby laid the Chare gis Robison early last yearw or irnproporý safoty at bis tire dump, xnluding no access for firo vohiclès and the lack of water' supply on the Jsieof the Peace Robert Leqeate will announce bis.final decision concerningte tn charesgainist Roinn d.. the ton ch arges agahiat bis coni- pany,447871,nt tioId. Tho charges stem gn prt froni the -aeavle tir ire disastor i oarly 1990, in wbich 14 mil- lion trsburned for about on. month Shortly thereafter, the provin- cial government posted security guars at ton tire dumap pro er- ties in Ontario, incluhig in-a. 1Since thon,* the Whitby fire deparinent has conducted many, insp~ections at Robinson's yard approximately-- 00000:used tMrs, to benae againstflre prevention. At a hearing lest week, RQbert Robinson, the owner's son, said thore la no probleni extinguish- ing fires on the premises and the roads are wide' enough for a forklift vehiclo to have accesa on theMropeLLJ. atte uo wreckers yard have beon- doing what the Ministry of Environ- ment stipulatod since Decenber R"obinso' lalyor, Charles Morison, said bizlethsmd ail the neccesay efforts to Coam- SERPAGE26, Corone's jury: KEDUCE SPEED By Mario Boucher A decrease in speed for trains, some new,,sonsry devies, an increaso in'the height' of fonces and in trespassing fines are among the rocommendations by the coroner's jury at an inquest held in Whitby last week. -, Stephen'Brian Buker died on' Sept. 3 when ho was struck by a train as ho walked over a series of. CI train tracks at a crossing near Centre St. N.-in Whitby. The 12-year-old boy was on bis wa home frm E.A Fairman pubi choo at the time of the acient. Tecossing, near Wil- lis Ave. and, Centre St. N., is Durami Regional Police specu- lated at the time that the boy did not hear the train because ho was wearing his walkman. Buker was thrown into the ditch approximately 50 metres Fron where ho was struck at the tracks. Const.- Phillip Cook, working as a CP police officer fii the Whitby area at the time'of the accident, said at the hearlng lest week that ho warned Buker twice, on Se pt. 24 and'Nov. 9, 1988, about the dangers of tres- passlng at the crossing at Centre St. N. and Willis Ave.. Cook said there wes, near the tracks, a ramp on which kids rode their bikes. Ho sald Buker was not charged at the second warning, because ho was under the age of 12 and therefore was protected under the Yong Ofenders Act. Const. Donald Jones, a aCP police officer, sad young offon- dors.lbetween agos 12 andl17 are given one warning and thon chre the second time. Adults are chedon the fmrt warning, ho said. Jones said the èurent fine of $53 for trospassing is «too low» and should be lncreased substan- gothree-man and' two- woman jury rocommended an ini- crease mi fines for trespassing-to Tlhe jury also recommended that everybody regardless of age,à 1hulbe aflowed onewarn- lnîg before being charged on the second tume; as well, _ a person SER PAGE 26 DEANNA Doistra perforais in a events, mncludiug Hat Day and Slip- talent show last week at Làeslie per Day, were also held at the school MAýFarIane publicecwhooL. Several last week. Photo by Mark Emsso, WhltIw Nr.. PM