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Whidby Free Prou, Wecfrisday. January 6, 1993. Pae 5 Prince Edward Island ferry finally left Whitby waters By MikeKowalski If any one issue caused Whitby officiais to nilie last year it was undoubtedly the departure of the Prince Edward Island fery After being a fuxtur(e ii Whtby harbour for almost six years, the dereliet ferry left Whitby waters last June. With the threat of a court injunction being invoked againat hlowner Art Robinson, a local binessman, had the rusting boat towed out of the harbour. Tis flnally bogta end te long-runmingdiputebetween not only Robinson and the Town, but which 419o involved the pro- vincial and federal governients. Origja1~ intended te, be used as àaflaiggnerating station in theCa bathe ferry was a constant suc of controversy over the years. Whitby officials tried to force its removal soon after the boat's arrivai but were thwarted in their efforts by the federal government. They were not aware the government was collecting dock- Lngfees fromRobinson. Eventually juriediction of the jharbour was transferred te the 'Ad -I * CHO j BUSTER BARS - Van Spax Srn DILLY BARS - Var! i Cho * SANDWICHES - Vari * MMM. Cho mnciality and Robinson was chagel wthtrespassing. But until approxinuately 500 gallons of PCB-contammnated material on board the ferry was removed, the boat had te romain in the harbour. (PCBs (polychlorinated biphenyls) were contained in euls used. as coolants for electrical transformers until production was banned for health reasons in the 1970s.) Ini 1990, oil was discovered leaking from the ferry and rather than risk a PCB sp1l, federal environment officiaIs ordered Robinson te dlean up the boat. This thon- led te a prolonged wrangle between Ottawa and Qu een's Park of where te dispose of the POBaÉ safely. Whitby Hydro eventually camne te the rescue and agreed te store Robinson's PCBs at its Taunton Rd. storage site. With that groblem rectified, the courts ha~ no 'ifiltein ordering the feruzr's removal. Although Whitb was finally rid of the boat, te 77-year-old Prince Edward Island is still casng problems. Robtinson had the ferry tewed p 3FREE NO>VELTIES With Purchase of 1/2 Dozen* e NO UMIT (COUPON REQUIRED) DII DOSE FROM:j ilila DMli Quoen. CoId Creamy Fudge & nýh NutsWrapped ln a ooth Chocoate Coatlng. Ia Dairy Queen Dlpped ln Smoothj ocolote Coating. niIa Dairy Queen Layered Betwoenj ocoIale Cookie Wafers. j ~WHITBY DAIRY QUEEN L. ~wr.1003 Dundas St. E. 668-5342! DftD'~UNDER NEW' 1NE VIDE OO 0WNERSHUP GOLF M CUT 1121 Dundas St. E. Whitby 668-t5333 Open: Mon.-Fri. 10-9 Saturday 10-7 SOUTH?!l Hard shell golf club case rentais avallable. e 24HR "e'golf club >re gripping *24 HR racquet restringing e Video rentais available te Toronto where it now sits in that harbour awaiting its fate. Robinson was apparently close te a deal with a foreign buyer earlier this year but that seems te have fallen through. Various sehemes proposed for thé vessel in the past have indlu- ded a hotel, uarum and even a floating cDonaId's res- taurant Meanwhile, on an unrelated matter, Robinson and bis cern- pany were fined $44,000 in April for 20 violations of the Ontario Pire Gode. The charges were laid in con- nection with the improper storage of approimately 100,000 used tires at his Taunton Rd. auto wrecking yard. bUUTrAGI Bigload W ~SAVE UP TO DYR Titanium porcelain 8 0 enamel top Larger door mAnAG~I Je tçIea TM DISHWASHERS 5REA SONS TOBUYA eu Dperlability LD Dua blity, u Lng,strong *Ease of operatin Mi4Ï4LGJ REFRIGERATORS SAVE U P TO,& . . iL di ýE DBL- .ii ZUU mI 1 m 0 T FOR