Whitby Free Press, 12 Aug 1992, p. 7

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PAGE :SEN Cowsmin the, * rn~e driveway agm aprovinceabout the size of Durhamn Région. Imagine that saine province with about twice'as many....... people altogetheras b as the Town ofWhiMtby. Surroundthat province withi parts of an ocean. Thon clu ~i o!ol9 Add a few rollingkibus, rneaàidering ronds and countless inlets and bays. * hat in a clam shoîl, is Prince Edward Island ' .A During the winter the1i , nd 4ùÏexnîîo about,130,000 * souls. The population t jlei sme. And the truth is, if most of the quarter million tourists al were to goto the saineside of the -island, saythe north. gulp. ;You can decoiive orslirn"it'beîlievingthtyou, alone., ths oud ie bocueloria* are discovering-thi ai" paefrthe firé ie vr i L I Let'snot, however, mnake h 'oidHeabohr o theP.EI. ou4stboadLord knows, "thosepeople are busy enough inspecting ,lawns à nd gardons to make sure they meet government standards. Or making up lists of fashionably poetic rustie place naines: Rustico, Brae Harbour,,Pisquid, Milo, Savage Harbour, Merrnaid, Roceky Point. But'ail Is not.perfect in the land that forgot time. Two years ago, I made fun of the serious traffic problem on the Hillsborough Bridge in Charlottetown. How traffic baclcs up for, oh, say a whole change of traffic lights, maybe .~.~ five minutes at rush hour. Since thon they've put engineers on the problein, sent in 4 several earth-moving machines, added flaLgpersons at each. end'of the bridge, and hired twelve dumptrucks to rearrange dirt. Now that flive minute wait has become thirty to fifty minutes., 'Next year.they'll bring in Ontario highway lngineers forý consultation and find ways to back that traffic up an hour, two hours. Such is progress. 7 .......... DUNDAS STREET LOOKING EAST'PROM BYRON RIET C. 1912 Two years ago I also made light of the dilemma of our Most f the buildings in thispicture are MtMi sanding. The dock tower at right 1ii. the old post hosi: o ho, i Mont erbort, P.EI.(o.1)abu office, demolished in 1959. Dundas Street was flot paved until 1921, olthough there weiro new seven ilometres froin downtownCharlottetown, the big' cernent sidewalks in 1912. within mnutes. * Tii addition te, Dundas Street -Public School will b. ready for occupancy by September. Ever try to herd cattle, te, make thorn go where you want *Reidente of ýDundas Street near Cochrane Strèet are- complaiing that thei sdewalksi btnot whore they want? Fin sure it was a show put on just are under water. for tonsta. - . eOnly five of 183 grade 13 students failed their exains at the Whitby District High School. «Nope. Thisi. thefirst Urne this has happened since you were hoe te'wo years a,tie our hosts repeated., 100 YEjA&BAG0 I made a durnbjoke about writing something about the froin the FrOICL<t Z182edtocfIi heavyr traffic in, Mount Herbert. I wasa askod'not to. So I Sixteen hundred herdcf cattie in 74 cars were shipped frorn Brooklin by raiil in 18 91. won't. There.were-only three cars lined up watching four* The Methodfist Tabernacle Sunday School held a picnic on thegrounds of the- Ontario people chase five ÀoWSý. Hardly worth mentioning. Ladieod Collefe. But by next'yeaîrit raY be a tourist participation event: The Mowat flaiufacturing Company makes rnowers, ploughs, binders and horse rakes in the running of the cows nMutHret a factory on Brock Street North. Nobul. *Mr. Dudfley, the Colbarne apple buyer, bas. been examining Brooklin aria orchards prior te purchasing the fail crop. - mme,

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