Whitkby resi *dents provide.relief page 2 6 ,Oldmanwill seek re-election wage 3 Business newspaper to be published> page 8' Shepherd: Welfare: reforms needed pagel6 Grôup wnts .on, marsh The Save Lynde Marsh citi- considerý thd proposai at last zens' group wants a referendumn night's (Tuesday) council meet- te, be heîd during the Nov. 14 ing. (Whether or net the plebis- mulnicipal election. cite proposaI was censidered was Group spekespersen Johanna unknown at press time). Tite has asked the -Town te On Sept. 28, Town council include the fllowing; questions approved two subdivision plans on the election ballet: fer a community of 5,000 people * 'Are y ou in faveur of the east of the environmentalîy proposed. Lynde Shores develop- sensitive wetlands. Aise appre- ment?». ved was a'185-acre industrial * U"If net, are you in faveur of park part of the overaîl 420-acre preserving -the Lynde. Marih developmnent. area currently slated for deveîop- Should Durham Regi on -ment as part ofa nature sanctu- approve the project, only an anti- ~ 'ay?» .* cpated.Ontario MunicipalBoard Tite- askced Towýn:CQlerk ý-Don.1, ;be4dxng îciuId step the-erlo ý McKay fôe-have council menmbèrsmet ro 'gin Zead. dvîp Lasco fatalt promts iquest A coroner's. inquest, has been called into the death of a Grafton man whowas found dead at Co-Steel Lasco Wednesday vn iNýý Wzlajdocher, 45 had werked at the Whitby -steel plant for more than 20 years. He was discovered by co-workers just before 9 p.m., lying face' down in a pit of môlIten steel. Tempera- tures in 'the pit reach 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit. Workers went loeking for hlm after he didn't show up for a break. Police are uncertain hew long Sztajdocher was in the pit befere he found or what caused him te fail but say they de net suspect foui play. The Ontario Ministry ef Labour 15 also i nvestigating the incident. AcclamaILtions? With only two days remaining until Friday's filing deadlinie, two Whitbyconior do net yet have opposition in the Nov. 14 municipal election. As of Tuesday ne one had corne forward toebalienje either nerth ward councillor lion Mit- chell or 'West ward incumbent Judi Longfield. Potential candidates in *those two>. wards have until 5 p.m. Friday te, file nomination papers. If- ne one emerges te run against Mitchell and. Longf'ield, the two will be acclaimed. FRENCH ROTARY CLUB exchange stu- eman. Loisel, 1ýl6, .is'attendino Henry Street, dent Cetine Loisel shows a book on Paris High Sohool, during ýher visit to C anada. to hast fml membes'(tram Ieft) John, -See story on page 29. David, Stephen -and '(standing) Paul Cal- Photo by Mark Reesor, Whihby Free Press Advocacy boss*sln on hosptlcs By Mike Kowalski The protecter et' Ontario's most' vulnerable citizens came under fire Iast week fer net condemning a 10.6 per cent reduction in Whitby Psychiatric Hospital's funding. David Reville, chair eof the newly-created Ontario Advocacy Commission, was criticized Thursday for refusing te speak gainat a provincial government decision te slash nearly $5 Mil- lion in hospital funding over the next twe years. Up te 120 employees ceuld be laid off and 100 beds taken eut of service as a resuit of the cutback, hospital officiais fear. Reville, an advisor to Premier Bob Rae until his recent appoint- ment, would net commit himself te fighting the cuts when chaI- lenged to do se by hospital employees and patients. A fermer New Democratic Part y MPP, 'Reville wasgus speaker at the annual mneeting et' t h e hsptas community - advi- seybard. uW;el1 be talk ing about it, " was ail Reville weuld tel nurse and union éfficiaI Joan Gates during a question period- following his speh. Gatesresident eof Local .331 of the Ontario Public Service Employees Union,, had'demianded te, know Reville's position on the pending cuts. "Five million dollars s being taken eut and ne new money is geing into the comrnunity (fer supMrt services)," said Gates. "Wich side of the fence are you goiuig te land on? Are y ou for or against it?» Gates askedte the applause etf the 200 people in attendance. *Local MPPs Drumniond White (Durham Centre) and Larry O'Connor (Durham-York) were- amen g those in the audience. Eâriier* p t- tôld -Reville thtanew 13-mllion hospfital being built next to.the 75-year-* eld facilit will net have en4ough staf anîd bds as a jresult of -t he budyet cuts. «ýÇhat do we do-if we can't get help?" the man asked. Ur don't know,» replied Reville, te which'the patient respendèd, SEE EPAGE 35-