Whhlby Frm PRs, We<fiesdcay, Apuil 3,1996l, Page 7 ................................................................ .5..... r ~ L7~I/ P~ ~ 8-... I I I Fun at Mike's Here we are, three, four floors below street lev el at Queen's9 Park. We are ini Mike's Nineteenth Green, named for Premier Mike. Prior to becoming Mike's, this level was known as The Furor Bunker. Here, Bob Rae would hide, with haif his Cabinet, as protesters hounded the legisiative building. Ha! No more hiding, now. From Mike's Nineteenth the Premier and the Cabinet laugh and joke, and send out the guard dogs and the OPP Storm Trooper.Jnu'nwa we watch their frivolities, their l'un. M[KE HARRIS: Hlar, har. lhat was a good one, the way we keptt hose Public servants Out on strike. Ya did good, Dave. DAVE JOHINSON: Did you like that part where I said that's ail we're after in the flrst place, an honourable settiement? The press picked it up and played it straight --on April Fool's Day. That's what strikes and bargaining are ail about. ERNIE EVES: And you said that with a straight face, too, I saw you. And ail the while -we saved, what was it, a hundred a.nd thirty million in taxpayers' money. MK:,So we can use that money to pay the strikers what they thought they'd won! Har, har, har. Oh, sometimes I just can't believe how clever we are. JOHNSON: That's what bargaining is ail about. Ha! ha, ha,...' HARRIS: Whack 'em and stack 'em, whack 'em and stack 'em, oh boy, I loved that part. That waà more l'un than the Ipperwash thing. EVES: But listen, you guys. Out of this, ha, ha, we might have, ha, ha, enough left to dig a moat around Queen's Park JOHNSON: Could we set it up so we can pour boiling oil froin the ramparts? Do we have ramparts in this building? Does anyone know what ramparts are? SNOBELEN:- Ramparts, let me see, I could send out one of my aides with four degrees and a doctorate to look it up'for me. That's what deputy ministeris are for. Ramparts, hmm. HARRIS: Well, if we don't have themn now, we'll soon'be able to afford 'em, what with, the great income this Province will have when we get this tax cut thing in place. EVES: Nowv take it easy, Mike. Don't go getting too xnany ideas about spending money. Remeniber, we promised to cut the deficit and cut taxes. HARRIS: We promised, har, har, har. Yes, we'promised not to eut health care, too. And if's your job to keep switching the money around that no one will be ablet eptako what we did or didn't do.letkeprcko SNOBELEN: Yeah, like I've announced the saine cuts to education so rnany.times, everybody's lost track of how much we've cut and what's happened. H-eck, the school boards have laid off so manky people we may not have to cut anything else. JOHNSON: Do you guys realize that Rae Days are noýw a thing of the past?-e EVES: We're gonna replace them with Mike Months. Ha ha ha. MIKE: So let's see. We've cut the welfare rates and that got a lot ofpeople off the dole. We've started cuts to education and hospitals, oops, rearranged, isn't that-what you said we did to health care, Ernie? ERNIE: Itfs those mean old hospitals that are l Iayingr ry Club had its picture taken bY Photographer H.G. Thompson. lyn held an April Fool Party at her home on April i. Ilis 1 I a WASHOUT 0F CPR BRIDGE AT LYNDE CREEKý, ApRIL, 1929 One of the worst storms in the history of Whitby washed out a steel and concrete bridge on the Canadjan Pacific Railway on the night of April 5/6, 1929. The tracks, suspended in mid-air, were ail that remained of the bridge, which was one of the Iargest on the railway Unme. Whlthy Archves photo 10»YEARS AGO from the Wednesday, April 2, 1986 edition of the WHITBY FREE PRESS " Whitby's Novice and Junior precision skating teains won the Canadian National Championships at Vancouver. 0 Durham Region taxes have inceased by 9.5 per cent. Durham Board of Education promo a 10 per cent tax hike. " WhitbY F'ree Press has joined the Crime Stoppers program. " The median on Dundas Street between Anderson Street and ThicksoniRoad will be removed. 35 YEARS AGO from the Thursday,'March 29, 1961 edition of the * The Public Utilities building at Brock and Coiborne Streets will be enlarged thisyer *Judge Alex Hall of Oshawa is the new chairman of the Whitby police Comnmission.ar * Sineit fishing is a popular pastime at Whitby Harbour. *Earl Fairnian is WhitbY Rotary Club Presfident for 1961-62. 100 YEARS AGO from the Friday, April 3, 1896 edition of the WH1TBI Y C£moiICL[E * Owing to the ahmost impassable condition of t2e roads, the meeting of the Whitby Township Liberals at Brooklin had to be postponed until April 7. *Ontario County Architect Albert A. Post is selling ail his household goodg prior tW movlng MMMmý The Wtitby Junior Hockey *Mrs. William Ware Tamnblj 1