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Peewees sweep basebali tournament Page 21 Psychiatric EHospital' safety concerns' Page 9 Lynde Marsh letters Page6 Canada Day parade pics Pagel10 Ç-VTTF White says hospitalfuue0tlioen By Mke Kowalold Aproposai to cange the future roI. of Witb General H-ospital i. not ct in atone, dlaims MPP Drummond White. The Durham Centre represen- tative insista that a report which recommends converting the boa- pital into a rehabilitation treat- mnent centre is not a foregone conclusion. Controverial proposals con- tained in a study cf acute care health services in Durham Reffion can still b. altered, White maintains. Recommendations pertaininýg to Whitby General Hospital will not b. imposed by the Ontario government, regardless cf oppo- sition by local residents, he pro- mises. UThatVs not what the province is saying (a decision has already been made)," White said last week. «We're talking about how the facility is being used and ia it beinguüsed properly," he said. 9ÇWe're still a couple of stops short of the province (involve- ment).» A stéering committee. cf the Durham Region District Health Council is recommnending con- verting the hospital into areha- bilitation treatment centre serv- ingthe entire region. ervices associated with a general hospital will no longer be offered at the 25-year.-old facility if the health. council and ulti- mately, the government, accept the study's proposais. Although the report deals with ail six hospiaIs in Durhamn Region, proposais for Whitby General have provoked the most concern. Town council, a newly formed citizens' group and local doctors ail faveur retaining sonie level of acute care services at the hospi- tai. While sympathetic to the out- rage fel by many Wbitby rosi- dents Whte snid êkepties are mitknif they beieve the. study is merely a public relations exercise .intended to 'ofe p the public for what the jgovern- ment has always planned to im- plement. SEE PAGE 14 Whtby Gneral H ospital is lunching a donor appea to raise, fuds for new euipment. uSme -iigt wonder why we would send out -a direct mail piece ta solicit for badiy needed equiprnent dollars when we are beung rnundated with news about a change in our roie,» says Marc Kealey, hospitai. vice president of .community relations and deve- lopment. «We continue te operate as a general hospitai wth aIl the needs cf a general hospital -- that includes dollars from our conimunity for necessary new equîpment and ta improve exiat- ingfa*ilties.' The direct mil piece is the first cf two appeals for 1994-95. -The hospitai èsecafumds te bty surgical instrumenta,'technologi- cal equipment and ta replace other equipment. «W. knoWt~here is confusion and miotion in the community as of late and w. understand why,» Bays Kealey. «W. want to appeal ta the communty that their donor sup- port or WGH will ensure tht the facility they helped build will continue toprovide the best pos- sible niedicalcare.» DENTA~drw ShrierCanaa-wiè Scenc ___Brunelle Letters 3 Week -WHIT"àfforbe, computoer thaaie proty e c ehlmFair."Shiner- sars -ýhiý afodà ete rootpecS hm$40.- an 'intel- responds extension ~jr)I~,.uovn wtlgt"The science. b mnovinalight ,costs $:e30:tfor th pta;ir,,jet ~ Wor,"thé .Ormlton Pubic ight amd $5.000- for the, controller, ho ag 3 Pae 6age;5 a, oS'cInt~ iWIer at the rent notes.: a e-.gPa eq Perkins declares candidacy for mayor By Mike Kowalski A political newconier la eut te -become the first woman mayor of Whitby. Maplewood Drive resident Pat Perkins has declared ber candidacy for the top spot on Town ceunicil in the. Nov. 14 municipal election. Perkins wilI challenge incumibent Tom Edwards who has been mayor for the past three years. Although h.e bas yet ta, announce his candidacy officially, Edwards confirmed Monday that he wil1 run for a second term in November. Currentîy a homernaker, the 40-year-old Perkins has 17 years'municipal government experience. She worked for t he City of Scarborough finance department in both its purchasing and tax collecting branches. Perkins and bier husband Bob and two children have lived i Whitby for almost four years. She is niakinge her first attempt at elective office. "I think there needs ta be a massive change regarding the way the town is managed," said Perkins in outlining hier reasons for taking on the veteran politician Edwards. "We need a maore accessible governinent process in Whitby," she claimed. PAT PERKINS "We need te see a reduction of Town council authority over local boards and service clubs." According to Perkins, members of different cen- munity groups in Whitby have told her they reent counciW' involvement in matters which they feel should be left te the groupa themselves. She offers the planned expansion of the Whitby senior citizens' centre and the controversy over the future cf the Downtown Business Iniprovement Area (DBIA) as examples. «Many seniors feel that a lot cf the reasons for delays in the project is the fact that the Town had the final say,» she said. «It didn t matter how much financing they (seniors) had, they didn't have control over their own project." (Whitby seniors emkarked on a fundraising cain- paign for a new facility several years age. Ceuncil epte te' expand the existing Bok Sre ete but the final decision ta go ahiead was delayed until funding through the Canada/Ontario Infrastructure .Worksprogram was approved earlier this year.) As or the DBIA issue, disgruntled downtown SEE PAGE 31 '1 aloi Funds still n ded