Former councillor seek Regionsea running againet any one of Whitbe threa regionai council- lors specifically. (Incumbents Ross Batten, Marcel Brunelie and Joe Drumm are ail seeking re-election.) "o«I just want to get back on cunci and servet e people of Whitby," he added. In a press release declaring hie candidacy, Emm said he wiii fight for more safeguards to pro- tact the Lynde Creek marsh from an adjacent housing deveiopment of 5,700 people. He aiso promses to work ta maintain Witby Generai Hospi- tai as an acuta care faciiity and «feels etrongiy» that <'senior flate" should be made more availabie in Whitby, "particularly in Brooklin now that sewers are there.» Photô radar sign stolen Oshawa man. 1-e's charged with possession of stolen property, failing to remain at tuhe scene of an acci- dent and failing to report an accident. Less than two hours later police arrested a 20-year-olci Whitby man and discovered the photo radar sign and -three other highway signs in his Evensong Drive residence. Hie was arrested and charged with theft under $1,000 and two counts of possession of stolen property. Bi:reak-in at Jeriry's A neighbour who heard break- ing glass alertad police toaa break-.m at Jerry's, the Food Emporium on Sunday morning. Up on arrivai around 5:25 ., officere discovered a concrete block had been ueed to smash a *¶ ase door leading inta the store. e cuiprits were gone and nothing appeared ta ba missing, police eay. A dark van sean in the parking lot was later found in a driveway off Labrador Avenue in Oshawa about a haif an hour latar. The vehicie, which had been stalen from Toronto, was full of vegetables but police aren't sure where they came froin. C.elebrating Whitby's her.itage >~Savin g the past for the future <J :1 Town s 'ornament' waspost office first time on Jan 20, 1911, with only one dial of the dlock working. Ail four dials were installed by mid-March. The 80-pound pendulum, which was six feet tali, needed 800 pounds of lead weights to keep it running. The caretaker of the post office had to use a big crank to wind the dlock once a week. In 1955, the federal governinent decided ta replace the oid post office, and the next year the building at Dundas and Perry streets was opened. On July 16, 1956 the oid post office was ciosed. The old building was eventually sold ta a developer who demolished it in the spring of 1959 to construet the office building that now houses the Bank of Montreal. The elock was soid for $15 and today it je the oniy remninder of 45 years of faithful service ta the communi ty. A few years ago, the dlock works, minus the faces and the bell, were acquired by Ei Pascoe, a local resident, who h .3 spent mnany years coliecting ai repairing cdocks. Helpfrom grandma SHIRLEY BOWMAN gives granddaug hter Rachael a hand with her painting Saturday during Heritage Day. A large crowd flocked ta downtown Whitby for the popular annual event. Photo by Mark Reesor. Whity Free Press struck every quarter-hour. Everyone in town set hie watch by the post office dlock. The dlock was made in England by an unknown manufacturer (hie naminjenet engraved on any other remaining parts), and instalied in the tower eariy in 1911 by Philip Taylor, a Whitby jeweiier. Installation of the dlock cost $1,500. The dlock was startad for the OLD POST OFFICE 1 -