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TU A 2 new firms may be good omen for '93, Ssays mayor By MikeKowalsi Two comnpanies employing a total of 130 people are expected te soon locate in Whitby, says Mayor Tom Edwarde. Announcemente concerning the two "nioderate-eized" businesses are expected to! be made later this month, s'aid Edwards. One involves an industýial complex providing 40 jobs while the other la in tlhe service field and will produce 90 jobs, Edwards sais. Although "protocol" demands that details cannot be divulged at this turne, Edwards said the anticipated announcements bode well for Witby in 1993. "It je positive and reassuring to consider the acquisition of 130 new jobs plus the accumulation cf about 80 jobs at the recently opened Sizz1er Restaurant,» said "ThMese are portents which auger well for the new year,» he said. Despite Canada's Ilngering receesion, Edwardse sa- Whtby stili managed to attract its share of investment last year. Aproxýmatoly $100 million ini buidlgprmta were issued by the municipality inl1992. 'The most gatifyng aspect. cf this was the tact that we ended the year ion an upbeat, positive note,' said Edwards. In November, $28.2 million i permits wero processed, he added. Although the year appears te be getting off te a good start, Edwards cautioned that Wluitby will face "coinp lez and dfiut probleme ini 1993. Perhaps the most critical will >be the proposed alinment bet- ween Hrw. 401anM the future Hwy. 407 Edwards said. Apart 4omn the inconvenience SEE PAGE 18 A znan who claimed he had a gun got away with an undis- closed amount of cash from a Thickson Rd. S. Canada Trust branch Wednesday. Police say a man entered the 1branch around 3:15 pan. and passed a note ea *g he had a gan and demanding money te a toiler. He was laut seen rwmning south on Thickson Rd. Police aie looking for a 21- te 27-year-old 'white male with a shmn build, 5'8» te '11", 140 te 160 Ibo., dlean ehaven but with a thin moustache, and collar- length, curly, light brown hair. Witnesses say he was wearing a black basebali cap and bla.ck leather bikcer-style coat with zip- grs and studa, black jeans and leack and white, checkered, high- cut running shoes. MARJORIE BOWMAN was one of 10 Whitby residents ta bo awarded a Canada 125 modal last weok ai a ceremony in Pickernq. The modal recognizes people whose talents, values and actions have beneffted the comnunaity," said Ontario Riding MP Rone tons (left). WhÏtby Mayor Tom Edwards (night) was also on hand. phioto by Marx FkRososWhltby Froe Preu Citizensi Region approval of li*nk ignores concerns ]fy bMark PReesor Durhamn works and planning committees ignored the concerne of 1,600 residents when thy approved a freeway link throug westWhithy. That'a accordin g te Rob Burg«e, a member of Concerned Citizens of West Whitby, a rosi- dents?'rupflgting the DMZ rout, ic would run between Hallsand Coronation roada frein 401 te the porpos4èd Hwy. 407, northof Hwy. 7. «They just seemed to ride over the tep of everybod » Bay Burgess, who, along wi%7 councillors, epoke afainsth «technically-preferred freewvay link at the Region's joint works/ p lanning comnuittee meting bpfré Christmas. «I sometimes think if I were a feminist, they'd pay more atten- tion te mie, or maybe if I was gay...rIve got afeeling that this (the DMZ route) is goin ego ahead and the hoîl th what people want... «I hate te a it, but Pin beginning to thin an ordinavvr guy ike me can't figt city hal." No on. at the meeting gave any consideration to residents' quality of life, says Burges. He says nobody would have bought a house in west Whitby if they'ýd known an eight-lane free way may b. put through SEE PAGE 18 Rotary effort to help Yugoslavian reftigees Whitby's two Rotary clubs are collecting warm clothes, sleeping baga and blankets to uend te refugees from Croatia and Bosnia. "Winter je already a reality in the refugee campe and if our help is te niean anything, it muet be immediate," Baye Dave Meadwell, president of the Whitby Rotary Club, working with the. Rotary Club of Whitby Sunrise and Rotary clubs around the world in the effort. Clothes, blanketa sîe1pi gi cab. drope off at NursWîChevrolet Oldsmobile, onDndàStE.aGenIlr SEE PAGE 18