2 Friday, May 27, 2022brooklintowncrier.com whitby.ca P: 905-430-4300 E: info@whitby.ca What You Need To Know This Week: Have Your Say: 2023 Budget What Town of Whitby services are most important to you? Which would you prioritize if you were building Whitby's 2023 Budget? We've launched community engagement to help inform the Town's 2023 Budget and we want to hear from you! Share your priorities with us from now to July 22 at connectwhitby.ca/Budget Register For Summer Programs Looking to register yourself or a family member for a program like swimming classes, Basketball or 55+ Art Classes? Browse ACTIVE Net and create a Wish List starting May 30 so you're ready for registration day on June 8 at 9 a.m. Sessions start June 27. whitby.ca/Active Things To Do In Whitby This June Next month marks and celebrates Pride Month, Bike Month, Recreation and Parks Month, Seniors' Month, National Indigenous History Month - and the start of summer! There are many ways to recognize these important awareness days and get involved. Learn more: whitby.ca/Calendar Last Call For 2022 Whitby Municipal Election Workers The Town is looking for nearly 300 election workers to support voting locations during the advanced vote (between October 20 and 23) and on Election Day (October 24). The deadline to apply is Sunday, May 29, at 11:59 p.m. Don't miss your chance to get involved! whitby.ca/ElectionWorkers On-Street Parking Did-you-know that the Town's three-hour on-street parking limit is in effect year-round? Have out-of-town guests and need more time? Don't forget to register for a short-term parking exemption. whitby.ca/Parking Whitby, What Are Your Budget Priorities? Brooklin's Community Newspaper Proud to be a Brooklinite Since 2000. Published 24 times per year. Editor, Richard Bercuson 613-769-8629 • editorofbtc@gmail.com • Circulation 8000 • Delivery via Canada Post Locally owned and operated. A publication of Appletree Graphic Design Inc. We accept advertising in good faith but do not endorse advertisers nor advertisements. All editorial submissions are subject to editing. For advertising information, contact: Email: mulcahy42@rogers.com Next Issue: Friday, June 10, 2022 Deadline: Friday, June 3, 2022 Brooklin TOWN CRIER.com If ever I was foolish enough to run for political office, an unwinnable candidate who could never kowtow to the whims of often feckless leaders and do their bidding just because they are our dear leaders, I'd probably start by announcing my candidacy with much shorter sentences than what you are now reading since there's no identifiable nor provable correlation between verbose glibness and competence once elected. If elected. But beyond such meanderings, my second order of business would be to seek how to get the word out. Mine, the leader's, the party's. You know, things like ideas, platforms, ways to draw voters that don't include bribes. This might include outlandish, out-of-the-box thoughts like contacting the media in the area. Brooklin, of course, is an area, a rather large and significant one. For one thing, it's been the home to much of the groundswell of opposition to the highway 412/418 tolls that magically disappeared in April. Local cynics, myself included, suspected the announcement might just have been a precursor to an election call. Darned if we weren't right. With that issue "resolved" - hopefully forever, though skeptics remain - there is then the problem of route 12, trucks thundering through our downtown and residential areas and how to reroute them, all unsolved provincial problems. No small cheap matter with plenty of opinions on every side of the argument. Drive around Brooklin, though, and check out the election signage. Or whatever's left after the storm. More signs don't necessarily mean a candidate has cornered the market on effective advertising. However, a lack of them makes you wonder. So, I wonder…has every candidate, save for a smattering of Lorne Coe signage, shown such disrespect for Brooklin that they just ignored us? Are we not worth the bother? Did their "handlers" just tell them that Coe is a lock so might as well forget it? Speaking of Coe, at least he's got some signs around, just enough to remind us he's still here. An online publication recently put out statements from each Whitby candidate. They were to follow this lead: "If elected, I'd pledge to…" What they wrote were about 50 words of vacuous blather. Two candidates have never run for office and one is a carpentry assistant which might only be useful for, well, what, I'm not sure. How lovely of you to run. Something to boast to your grandkids about one day, right? Is Premier Ford ripe for a ripping this election? Depends who you ask. In Whitby, however, a choice of viable alternatives would have been marvelous. Sadly, all eight have shown their true colours by pretty much ignoring Brooklin. Where the heck is a provincial Libertarian Party when we need you? Less than half the picture by Richard Bercuson Candidates ignore Brooklin 905.655.6200 www.brooklineyecare.ca From the staff and doctors at Brooklin Optometric Centre! Congratulations Graduates! Your future looks bright!