Whitby Free Press, Wednesday, Decmber 29, 199n, Page 9 huçîne~snews Growth continues, DBIA uncertainty PROM PAGE 7 Lloyd factory on Burns Street East. Can Vac officials said there would be 24 employees at the plant, Customs Racks planned on 45 at their Whitby plant. Edwards said he was pleased with the new businesses and jobs in Whitby, and saw them as "portents which auger well for te new year.» Also in January, Jerrys the Drug Warehouse went bankrupt and was placed in receivership. In March, president and part- owner Gerry Belz emerged from the bankruptcy to become owner, along with other investors, of the store. Metrolitan Life moved its sales office and 15 employees from Pickering to downtown Whitby. Family Kartway was tem- porarily closed inMarch by mort- gage-holder National Trust, but the 35-acre amusement centre was reopened in April. Kartway owner Gary Sorichetti and National Trust officials would not comment on the closing, say- int only the matter was fore the courts. Securit guards were stationed acrosa te road from the park all summer. Kacey Products, producing fibre partitions and corrugat pads, began operation on cE wen ive in August, with plans to employ up to 30 wor- kers. Charges were laid against eight people who, without a licence, sd flowers on street corners over the Mothes Day weekend. Seven of those charged were non-Whitb residents, the eighth was Bill lrant, owner of Burtinsky & Brant Florists. Charges against Brant were later withdrawn. Atlantic Packaging was one of 16 Ontario locations roposod as a potential site for a ýon-UtiIity Generator (NUG) -- an on-site generating station capable of producing all the company's energy requirements. But Ontario Hydro said the planned 60-megawatt project would have tebescaled back te gain Hydre approval. Atlantic officials were te, re-evaluate tho project te determine if it woul be cost- effective on a scaled-down level. A two-week strike by Wood- bridge Foan workers ended when a new three-year agree- ment, with an annua increase of 33 cents an hour, was reached. The average hourly wage was $15.20. Co-Steel Lasco won a multi- million-dollar contract te, produce steel for the Hibernia oil project. Co-Steel and a Quebec compan were awarded contracts wort $30 million to suppl 80,000 metric tonnes of steel for the $5.2-billionndevelopment off the coast of Newfoundland. I March, an application was made to more than double the size of the Kurz Foods meat processing plant in Myrtle. Local residents had concerns about foul odours already emanating from the plant. In June the expansion was approved, but only if problems relating tothe sewage system were corrected. The new Loblaws store opened at Rossland Road and Garden Street. Work on the complex that includes the Loblaws store had heen on hold due to an appeal to the Ontario Municipal Board by the Oshawa Group, owners of the IGA grocery store chain. The apeal was withdrawn in March. p July, the Town adopted a bylaw to regulate the way adult magazines and movie videos are displayed in local stores. A coali- tion of Durham Region groups had requested the controls. I Auguat, Pia Fox (formerly Williamson)treceived a three- year prison term after pleading guilty to four counts of fraud in connection with her role as owner of the former Consortium Group of Companies in Whitby. More than 800 people invested millions in rosI estate deals clai- med by the company. Fox had fled to ngland to evade authori- ties but was extradited to Canada in June.etan1992, Fox received a 21-month jail term although she never appeared for that Ontario court trial. She was living in Florida at the time. Brooklin Concrete Products Ltd. lsnded a contract te build underground structures for the new runway at Pearson Inter- national Airport. Plans to locate a Price Club as part of a gant retail warehouse roject in Witby, were droped, due to the merger between Price Club and Costco Warehouse, it was announced in October. Cos- tco opened a warehouse in Aax. But plans still call for Aiken- head s, an unrelated hardware and building supplies warehouse to be built as the other parto# the retail warehouse plan on Victoria Street. Several local businesses and chain stores objected te the development, and an Ontario Municipal Board pre- hearing was held in September and the formal hearing has been scheduled for February In November, Whitby-based McGraw-Hill Ryerson announced it was entering the legal publish- ing field, the companys "most ambitious single undertaking ta date," said president John Dil. In November, the Town announced a new marketing campaign thatincludes roadside sin roclaiming Whitby as the s aprtpof the Region' and 'Dur- ham's Business Centre.' The campaign is aimed at attracting more business te Whitby. Miracle Mart workers, includ- ing those at two Whitby stores, went on strike Nov. 18. As of press time, the strike continues. DBIA In March, the DBIA board approved a budget of $155974 for 1993, il per cent less t'han the budget of $175,894 for 1992. DBIA members were given an opportuni to comment on the b t in ary. Arso in March, a downtown Whitby merchanta' association was formed but not to oppose the DBIA. Ãnstead, said orgai- zer Dave Johann of Whitby Audio Video, the association would work in con'unction with the 400-member DBIA. A down- town newspaper and romotional events were planned bthe new association. In Setmber, the UBIA began a mon promotional publica- tion distributed te homes in Whitby. The publication accepta advertising only from DBIA members, with advertising pay- ing for more than two-thirds of the cost of the publication and DBIA funds covering the rest. But critics said the newspaper was proving too costly. 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