Whitby Irustees ganhead boards Page 5 'Chess' challenge Page 12 ~~IÀI1 New council takes ofice By Mile Kowalski Whitbys new Town council took office Monday and there were no arguments, not even a mild outburst. That will have to wait until at least next week when council officially gets down to business. Before an audience of more than 200 family members, friends, supporters and the general public, the ei&ht people elected te Town council on Nov. 14 were sworn into office. Town administrator Bill Wal- lace administered tbe oath to Maydr Tom Edwards alone and thon collectively te the seven counillors. Beginning with regional coun- cillor Marcel Brunelle, council inembers then addressed the gAsbeid .al bis colleagues, Brunelle devoted most of his remarks to tbanking those res- ponsible for bis victory. "Noboby gets te, this great pri- vilege of deciding tho issues of their community alone," Brunelle said in acknowledgin gte sup- port of bis wife Shirley, family and campai gn workers. Recallnglis father's years as a municipal councillor in Ajax, Brunelle said that bad an impact on bis own life. "Public service is something I feel I owe to the communi ty,"bhe said. Regional councillor Joo Drumîn followed Brunelle and added a ligbter touch to the meeting. 've always treated tbis even- ing as a fun time, because it's not SEE PAGE 2 There11I be a DBIA election By Mike Kowalski Members of Whitby's down- town business association will get to choose their own board of directors after ail. After it initially appeared that few, if any, candidates would emerge, the next Downtown Business Improvement Area (DBTA) management board wilI indeed be elected by the member- ship later this montb. At the close of nominations last Thursday, nine people had registered for the seven positions on the DBIA board. Only three days earlier, there were no offi- ciai candidates. Owners of the approximatelY 351 rotail stores, professional offices and other businesses loca- Current board memrbers stop down No reason to expect demnise of DBUA Questionnaire distributed Page 3 ted witbin the DBIA boundaries will now decide who wilI repre- sent them for the next three years. They will choose from a list of candidates that includes two people wbo recently ran for a mucb different kind of offlice. Defeated mayoral candidate Pat Perkins and unsuccessful regional council hopeful Doug Anderson, publisher of tbe Whitby Free Press, are seeking election te tbe DBlAboard. Other candidates are William Brant, Joe Butson, Kerry KIrb, John Natsubara, Linda Peacoc Paul Savage and Narendra Sethi. No niember of the current board -- whicb like ail others since tbe DBIAs inception in 1978 was appointed by Town council --15 a candidate. James Timlin, Wbitby's deputy-clerk, said ballots will be mailed te aIl DBIA members on Dec. 9. Eligible voters will be able to choose froîn up te seven candi- dates, Timlin said. Ballots must be returned te tbe Town clerk's office by Dec. 19 -and the results will be announ- ced the following day. Council will thon ratify the results at its Jan. 9 meeting. An end to tbe council-appoin- ted board bad long been one of the major complaints of critics of the 16-year-oIdDBIA. Earlier tbis year, council affir- med its support of tbe DBIA and rejected a <demand by disgruntled mnercbants that a special tax SEE PAGE 3 LEONARD Kosurko Is led Up and he's flot, Sports) to help unite' sports fans and gng to take it any more. He's formed "raise their consciousfless about exces- FANGS (Fans- Against National Greed in sive greed in some professioflal sports." Photo by Mark Reesor, Whitby Free Press Fed-upfan growsFANOS sthra etooftoewofnth By John Dujay Wbitby's Leonard Kosurko is fed up with greed in professional sports. So hoe came up with an organization for disgruntled fans -- FANGS (Fans Against National Greed in Sports). And witb it, ho designed a logo. "I'd like te see this logo bocome a symbol al across North America that fans can look at and say 'Oh yeah, we're important." Kosurko says hohas alway.s railed againet greed in anything. With a home of bis own, h e says interest rate hikes are especially galling. "I had always tbougbt about greed and profiteering." And in these days of sports strikes and lockouts, Kosurko thougbt, wby not a fan's union? "Fans have got te tbirik as a unifying force, against being used" ho says. His daily diatribes te bis friends and family, decrying greed eventually grew. "FA}qGS is an evolution of that idea." The unhappy sports fan ted ay icks up tbe newspaper and sees only labour strife between management and players. Nowbere multi-billion dollar industry -- the fans. "I don't think fans think of themselves as an entity that's just as important to professional sports as players and owners." Although the group is still in development Kosurko hopes to, ofler members a laminated card, newsl etter, bumper stickors and a protost questionaire. He welcomes feedback on bis struggle. Traditionally persons liko te rally around a symbol, says Kosurko. Christians'have the cross and sports fans have their team's logo, beksys--"People rally around a symbol." FAGS' embloîn is a design witb a black background. Black signifies loss of the current season. Two ligbtning boîte cross over oach other signifying the fans as electricity or olementa energy. They are in the shape of an X, saying no to the current stalemate. Because the group,, will be North American, it bas a maplo loaf and a star, and is in two colours: blue and red. As well, the dates 1994 - 1995 display the lost season, says Kosurico. 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