New boss hired for authority page 3 Redinen ps seies LEYIFERS to a seventh_ gyame pagel4 pages 55 6,13 Culs hurt, but needed, says, MP page 4 È~fîI1 New lime to reiability By Mark Reesor Whitby Hydro hopes- an additionial feeder it plans to have in operation by the faîl will help make local power service more reliQble. The new line, which runs from the Ontarlo Hydro substation on Halls Road in west Whitby, "will, offer additional security to the lime that's there already" and in some circumatances will allow power to be-restored "a little quicker," says hydro general manager.Tom May. The new feeder is "virtually built," he says, and wlll only take about two days to hook up. But ta do so, crews have to shut down the existing line, which can't be done until power demand is low, likely sometime between mid-October and mid-November. Whitby Hydro currently lias three operational feeders supplying the town. Two run from the Thornton Road transformer, station in Oshawa and one from the Halls Road station. May and hydro commissioners were put on the hot seat at last week's commission meeting for more than . an hour by two Bonacord Avenue and McQuay Boulevard area residents, who wanted to know wliy their area has had Sa many blacko-tits. "Events have conspired" to hit the west area worse than other parts of Whitby, during recent power outages, May says, 'but virtually ail of the situations were beyond our control, apart from the weather concerne. When thefeeder from thé Ullls, Road station is loët, as it was during the Father's Day weekend and July 13 outages, he says the Otter Creek area is the first to be affected because "the station that feeds you is the firat station on that feeder. "When you're feeding from the other end, it is the last station on the alternate feed," May explaîned. "We would bring one station on and another station on and we brought as many on as we could. "But we came to the point that we were riskring that (alternate) feeder to the overload because'of picking up about twice the load we would normally carry." SEE PAGE 4 Deaf project canicelled by province By Jennifer Lew What lias been described as miscommunication has caused major disappointment for Durham's deaf community and their supporters. They recently saw the cancellation of a non-profit housing project that was ta be built in Oshawa, equipped with necessary facilities ta benefit tlie deaf and liard of hearing. The 60-unit liousing project was approved- by the previaus NDP government in Ontario but cancelled by the new Conservative government among 385 other liousing projecta. Only 118 housing projects were permitted ta proceed after the July 25 budget, says Jim Dyl of Municipal Affaira and Housing. However, members of the deaf community are still lobbying the government in an attempt ta continue construction on the housing units they maintain should not have been cancelled because it was a special needs program. "There is misunderstanding in our project, according to our proposal documents that stated that aur housing project is for everyone, including hearing tenants," says David Kerr, executive director of Durham Deaf Services. "In fact, it is intended for deaf tenants wlio have hearing chljdren, or seniors who have SER PAGE 13