Talks ré'sume istrike Flhetynamed miniser's assisti Page 2 Whitby youngster rnt judo champ Page .5 Page 2 0 Sehool boaird raises fees Page VUTTT~ Stormý damage 'minimial, WHITBY NAT IVE and Detroit Red Wings centre Keith Primeau married LUsa Johnson at Parkwoocl Estate in Oshawa Saturday. Photo by Mark Ree8or, Whltby Free Presa By Mark Reesor Three nights of heavy Winds and thunderstorms left Whitby relatively unscathed st. week- end. There' were1> power outages each night," minor tralflc acci- dents ad trees- and branches 1>iownclown'or sftruck, by ig. ht- ningb1'ut littie eilse, according to Whitby -hydro; iedp1c The worst blackout occured early Saturday morning,. says WhitbyHydro general manager Tom-May, when high wmnds knocked out eiectricity over a wide area, including south Whitby. "Most of it was oentered ini the north part of town up in 'the rural areas ... wo ha crews out until about 6:30 Saturday evon- ing, it was just a customor hore, a few custome rs there...thero was a lot of tree branches clown, a lot of fuses blown." Most areas had thefr power back on beforo dawn though says May, although «there could have been areas out a littie bit longer, until mid-morning, but they would be due to thieir own specific problems.' Lightning knocked out one of Witby Hyro'smain 44 kilovoît feeder linos both Thursday and Sundayights. Sunday night's outago,. whon lgtig blow a lino switch to pice aoud 8 p.m., was similar ta blackoult ab-out a month ago, notes May. Power was restored te most aroas by il p.m. and te western Whitby, uwhich soems te get hit harder than most- whon these things happen,» by about 12:30 a.m., ho Baya. Tusay's power failuro left many areas, mncluding- parts of Broolclin and Ashburn, without electricityfor..a-cou ple of hours, alhog orepocKota, we n't. back up and'ù &Tunnigun4til mid-' night. Crews bhad te patrol the-ino te mako sure. thero. was ,noting wrong says May, who adds' "it turnedl out it was no more thana couple of shots of lightning that caused *a breakor to 'open and re-close." Power use in Whitby is up tremendousiy this summer over last, adds May, because of the constant hot,. very humid weather recently <'We normally see maybe a two per cent increase year over year and last Friday we were carrying 17 per cent higher than the highest load we carried last suni- mer ...m electricai load growth ternis that's almost unheard of." Whitby Fire Department was also vory busy during the storm , says chief Tony VanDoleweerd, but the area was very fortunate. «Thore were a tremendous amount of phone cails about power outages (and) we hfad a large nuznbor of fire responsos but there were no large losses, they were ail of a minor nature.-" *People called te report light- ning strikes, power outages and linos down -- many things rela- SE PAGE 9 Henry treet teacers digi By Mark 1<eesor The condition and iayout of Hony Street High School'o ath- lotic fied has bothered boys' phy- sicai oducation departmeënt head Paul Slean ever since ho started at tho achool eight years ago. The circular track with a foot- ball field in the centre was «a tromendous waste of space," and both theotrack and field weremi "very bad condition.» Sîsan says someone at the Durhamn Board of Education teld hlm a recent report said Honry's field was tho worst in Durham Region. "He said 'wo figure it would probabiy cost about $50,000 just trepair the field that was in- aietecircular track...' I said Oh great, good, when do you start? and ho said... 'Tho board doesn'L have any money and if thoy did, thoro are many, many other pýrects that. are a hi earioand.'feliow teacher Pat Puckneli- decided te roll up thoireleeves and porsonaliy take on the taskof remoinmg the track and converting7the s p aoe te two football fields' "It's acase of, if you want it dons, you swallow; hard and. do Bt" ays Sisan. «IH you want te play, safe, you wait until the board'à got enough money te, do the job and rm not going te live that Io They beqan checfaing teSeS what permits would be needod last July and tok out the track curbing in October.' F]M1 has been brought in and worlc is now weli underway on the two new fields, which wilibe soparated by a path leading bet- ween them. A «sod-buster marathon" is pianned for Sept. 29. "Wo'ro going te send the kids out with sponsor sheets and get people te sponsor them te lay sod., A local contracter has dono littie bits of work here and there, with most of the bills being covered by phys-ddeparten fluxdraising, Slean says. Ho and a contracter macle a trade -.the gravel off the track for 41 truckloads of tepsoil that wili be delivered in early Sep- tomber - «thiat was Worth pro- biy $2000 there.» Dfrt. for the fil1 was free but Slean figures it's costing between $4,000 and $6,00 te have a bull- dozer level the field and another $109000 te $12,,000 for the sod- 'Tthopefully with the- sod- SEE PAGE 3 Drywallers protest By Mark Reesor About 125 striking drywall workers managed te convince about 30 colleagues te walk out at the Whitby Mental Health Centre Monday. The workers, members of the Drywali Acoustic Lathing and Insulation Local 675 of the United Brothorhood of Carpen- tors and Joiners of America, also tried te convince union mombers te stop workat the Kids SafAth Village, boing built behind K. Rowe PubliceSchool, and the food court being built acrosa from the Brock Street South McDonalds. «They're from Scarborough, they're a union shop, and the people out in this area are alo union but it's a difforent union,» oxplains Inspector Walter Hall. Sffl PAGE 4 26