Furlong w.lM be Liberal candidate prgelB Atoms are Ontairio champs pagel Food fun, fitnes pages 10,11 Phonebusters invespgte page 2 !I~. Town asked, to postpone decision on DBTA budget The deadlock between the board of Whitby's Downtown Business Improvemeznt Area and its crities appears to be breaking. The DRIA had proposed. a budget of $ 148,522 to Town council March 28 and the matter had been referred to operations committee. But late Thursday, Dav. Johann, board member and chair of the new directions comntittee, contacted councillor Judi Longfield, chair of the Town's operations comnnittee, to request that no decision on the budget be made until the results of a questionaire of downtown businesses are available. The new directions committe., which consists of Johann (Whitby Audio), former board member Ev. Heaver and critics Doug Anderson (Whitby Fr.. Press), and Dav. Meadwell (Vick Insurance), has been preparing a questionaire to deterinine in a fair, unbiased for= what the businesus really want. The questionaire was ready for distrbution to the business.. early this week and it was hoped that they could b. returned within a few day. The -questionaire covers moSt of the contentious issues such as budget, boundaries, responsibili- ties of the board, and how the board should b. formed. Longfield was unsure how the operations committe. would proceed in light of the'request frorn Johann. Several people had indicated a desire to appear before the operations committe. on Tuesday (yesterday) and at press time it was flot; known whether the deputations would b. heard. MMD SI sONsTA,0 Whi*tby mari goes to Markham hospî*tal By Mike Kowalski A sip on the ice proved to be a ainfuland costly experience for j resident Charlie Barton recentlyl. It was painful because Barton sipent il days in Markham Stouffville Hospital receiving treatment for five nib. shattred in the Feb. 3 mishap. JK starts1 By Mark Beesor Plans are und.rway to offer two junior kIndergarten classes in Whitby in January, 1995. Durham Board of Education staff have recomznended two local schools in which the classes can b. held in a report te tth. board's prograni cornmittee. (Board communications officer Mary Brown said the report couidn't b. released prior te, the committee meeting, which was to, b. held last Terecommendation was to b. based on It was costly because Barton was saddled with $90 in ambu- lance bis after being shuttled from hospital to hospital due to a shortage of local b.dé. The 63-year-old retiree's 'adventure' began about 2:30 p.m. when heslipped on the ice outside hie Pringle Drive home. With reat ifficulty, Barton nextyear which schools had space availabie. Four schools in Oshawa, two in Pickering, two in Ajaxan tw. in north Durham Region wili also offer junior kindergarten. The board had asked the Ontario Ministry of Education to allow it te, deiay offering the. provincialiy-mandat.d pro until 1997, arguig it would tae.t hat long to train teahers and establish the classes. Instead the. province approved a phasem plan which requires the. board 'to offer the expensive prograrn region-wide by 1997. SEE PAGE 15 managed to drive hi. car to Whitby Generai Hospital where h. received an initial examina- tion. X-rays determined that the fal had shattered five of Barton'. ribs, but the attending emer- gency room physician informed him that h. could not b. admit- ted. 'Meh doctor was quit. apologe- tic. H. said they shouldn't be sending me away,» Barton recul- led. 'But they couldn't bring me in because they had no beds. It was one of their -Rae Days," he said. (A Ra. Day-i. the. euphemisx given te the time off without pay that Ontario's public sector wor- kers must take due to the provin- cial soical contract 1 leçation.) While h. was beng patched up, hospital staff contacted Osh- awa Generai Hospital and were told that a bed was available for Barton. Not permîtted te drive his own vehicle, Barton was put into an amnbulance and taken to Oshawa. <(But) w. weren't even halfway there when the radio came on and toid them (attendants) to take nme back, they had used the last bed,» he said. Barton was wheeled back te Whitby General Hospital and waited for staff te, find hum another bed.. On. was available in York Region, so Barton was put back inte, the same ambulance for the. tri po teMarkhaxn. The rough roads did not help his ijured rnb. eW went up the goat path (Lakeridge Road),w said Barton. '<Number (Hwy.) 7 is no great shakes either,» h. said. More x-rays were taken at the Markham hospital and Barton was admitted later that evening. Meanwhuie. Barton'. wife Mai- sie was contacted at work and teid that he had been hurt and taken te Oshawa General Hospi- tal. She spent several frantic minutes before locating him after she called the Oshawa hospital and iearned that h. was- not there. SEE PAGE 18