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PAGE 16, WEDNESDAYt,JULY 28,1976, WHITBY FREE PRESS County Town Carnival Major events swigitohigh.gartis weekn This weekend is the big one for the Whitby County Town Carnival, as the major events swing mbt high gear. In many ways it is a double event this year, for in addition to the regular attractions at Iroquois Park, Heydenshore Park and other parts of the town, there is the Ontario Fire Fighters Convention in Brooklin, Friday to Monday, with its own set of games, parades and darces. Friday's carnival events include the Lions Bavarian lent and train about town, carnival rides, dunk the celebrity, Junior A Lacrosse game, and Malta Specialties pavilion at Iroquois Park '~ in the evening. .The Royal Canadian Légion is having open house in ils hall, and a dance starting at 9 p.m., Whitby Arts Ine. is having open house at the Station, and the Kiwanis Club is having its annual beef barbeque ai Heydenshore Pavilion stant- ing at 4:30 p.m., foilowed by a dance ai 9 p.rn. The Legion is having ils dress-up softbaîl gaine in Cen ten niai Park ai 8 p.mi. and the Ontario Association of Fire Fighters is having a dance in the Brooklin arena at 8:30 p.m. Saturday's events start off with a 2-mile-long parade fromn the Florenlce Ileard School 10 lroqtiois Park, beginning ai 10 a.nV sharp. under the direction of the Whitby Kinsoien Club. The YMCA and Whitby Tennis Club wil be holding a tennis tournament at Peel park, ail day, starting ai 9 a.m.; and ail-day minor lacrosse tournament begins. ai 8 a.-m. ai the same location. Dunk the Celebrity, spon- sored by the Optimnisi Club, begîns in Iroquois Park at. il a.m., the Malta Pavilion opens in Whitney Hall in the arena ai noon, and the Lions Bavarian Garden also opens ai noon. At 2 p.m. in Kirismen Park, the Kinsmen Club will be having ils annual log sawing, football throwing and horseshoe pitching -contests. Anyone may enter for prizes. Also ai 2 p.m. the Whîtby Minor Soccer Association plays an exhibition game with the iown council ai Peel Park. At 5 p.m. the Recreation Depaniment and the YMCA will hold a'swim meet in the Iroquois Park pool, and frorn 7 p.rn. to 9 p.m. the Brooklin Horticultural Society's flowcr show wvill be open in the arena. At 7:30 p.rn. in the arena, the Brooklin Squares will have a square dance, vhile ai the saine lime, a Millionaires' Nighit iil be lheld by the Kiwvanis Club ai I lcydenshore Pavilioni. At dhe Firef ighters conven- lion Mn Brooklîni, the Fire Fighiters Bail begins in the Memorial Arena at 8,30 p.m.. while at 9 p.m. tiere is a dance at the Legion Hall, and a Western Style Dance ai the Knights of Columbus Hall. Sunday's evenis begin at 8 a.m. at Heydenshore Park with the Rotary Pancake Breakfast, while at 9 a-ni. the tennis tournament resumes ai Peel Park, and at 10 a.m. a novice car rally gets under'way at Iroquois Park. Also from 10 a.m. 10 4 p.m., the flower show iri the arena is open to the public. The ,Durham Nomads Cycling Club will be holding bicycle races at the Domninion Store Plaza on Brock Street from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in vaiious classifications, while the YMCA bicycle races and conipetitions will start at 10O a.m. in the Iroquois Park parking lot. 1 From noon to 5 p.m. an outdoor arts and crafis fair will be held ai the Station at Victoria and Henry Streets by Whiiby Arts mec., while in Iroquois Park, the Malta Pavilion and the Dunk the Celebrity gaine will be in operat iof. At 1 p.in. in Brooklin a iiiernorial parade anid service wîll be hield ai the fire fighitcrs conventioni. This will be fOllowed at 2:30 by the flire fighiters' garncis---%vater bail, bucket race and bath tubl race. At 12:01 arnii. iii the carliestiimin tc eof' Nmoday. the giant pyjainalaiace at tthe t'ire f'iiîers conivenition will begin witlh a parade ibrouigli the streets ut* Brooklin. WHITBY RECREATION DEPARTMENT AUGUST SWIMMING INSTRUCTIONS 15 Lessons -- 50 Minutes Monday»Fridcy Commencirig Tuesdciy, Aug. 3rd Mom &Me Water Polo Shrimp Red Cross Courses Shark Springboard Diving Aduit Learn to Swimn Synchronized Swimming Aduit Swim SkiIIs Comnpetitive Swim Teamn Royal Life Saving Society Courses cit Iroquois Park complex Iroczuois 688-325ý ---66 m52- Kinsmen Pool. (outdoors)6852 Visitors to the carnival should note that the Minis- terial Association "Joy '76" presentation set for 8:15 p.m. in the Iroquois Park arena, has been cancelled. Monday, Aug. 2, lacrosse, tennis and soccer toumrament finals will proceed ail day at Peel Park. 0 At 10 a.m. the, Miss Fire Fighter Contest will be held ai the Brooklin Arena, and ai 1:30 p.m. the Fire Fight- rs' Morister Parade will wend its way through the streets ot Brooklin. At 2:30 p.m. there will be fire fighting competi- tions at the Brooklin arena. At 8 p.m. there is a youth Arena, and a dance at the Legion hall, and, at il p.m. there will be the Kinsmen s 50-50 draw at the Lions Bavarian tent. The grand finale of the 1976 carnival will be the fire- works display at Iroquois Park, ai 10 p.mn., courteSY of LASCO Steel.. Residents express support for estat< Limnited may be one step dloser 10 getiing approval for a subdivision of 31 estate-î type lots in the northeast corner of Whitby. Approximately I15 resi- dents, living in the area of the proposed subdivision,.1 expressed almosi unanimous1 support for the plan when itj was presenied 10 Whiiby Cou nci l's administrative corn- miliecerecently. The developers plan to build 31i houses on two-acre lots a thie rate of two or thrce per year and selI themi t'or .3200,000 a piece. The subdivision is planned for tlhe nortIîwest quadrant of Taun- ton and Garrard Roads. Onec stunîhiling block 'in the wvay of thie devcîopmnt is the officia plan designa lion aIs openi space. The c(>npany filed ils objectlion to t(lie designa tion \vit tiithe Miffistry (ol .I1lousing sîîorî taler Whitby Counicil adopted the town's oflicial pla n in Septenîbeî(of I1973. 'flic objectlion %vas re ferre d to the Onitarlo' Municipal Board. Thle conmpa;iy appiied t0 the town 10 rezonc ils 75-acre tract on JttIy 30, 1975. l'lie application \Vas tabied January 11), I1976, pending the outcome of the O0MB heariîig, ldFecbruary 10, 1976. flowever. between the liie the company fiîed its original objection with the 0MB -and the date of the 0MB liearing, the Miinistry of Natural Resources designa- ted the properly hazard land, unfît for developnient. Tie cornpany's lawyer advised the comipany that the 0MB would deai with the objection 10 the hazard land designation' before iistening 10 the objection to the open space designation. As a resuit, the cornpany- spent ail of ils lime preparing t0 fight the hazard, land designation but when il carne lime for the 0MB hcaning, the ministry did not show-. Therefore, the hazard land designation was iifted but the open space designation was upheld by the 0MB as the company was not prepared 10o fight the latter. "We' were bludgeoned with this hazard land designation", remarked Bob Hann, part owner of the company. 'mr glad we gol it remQved even if we neyer 1develop". It was dirty pool and mnicky mouse", he said. Ti cn roee wgiihm ef-type sub rezoning application either be. approved or denied. Whitby Council will then pass ils decision on to regional council. If regional council approves the application, il will amend the zoning by-law and si;,bmit the amended by-law 10 the Ministry of Housing for approval. If the mînistry approves il, the cornpany can proceed. The response expressed at the meeting by residents may play a part in the decision to approve or deny the rezoning application. Cathy Jubenville sumnmed up the feelings of most of the residents present at the meeting. "'This concept is a refresh- ing change", she said. "Per- haps a precedent is being set hiere which is more attractive Io residents then wvhat they've division been exposed to recently"'. Pal Dooley, another nearby resident, feit other- Wise. "It 'points out the sheer and abundant stupidity of our officiaI plan because of pressures 10 develop but if you develop you've lost an area of major open space for recreation", he said. "A] development should ,be banned there. Committee members voiced support for the' con- cept of the subdivision but disapproval for the location. They felt thatiti would be wrong to break up the open space and suggested that the development would be betti suited further north where simiilar pniccd houses an iocaled or furtier souili wlierc necessary services are. It was quite a weicome for Whitby artists Paul and Be Wiliams when they returned from the cultural program a the Olympie Games. Perpetrators (from left) Gord Hawes, Jean Hawes aný Audrey Mowat put the finishing touches on the props. Free Press Photo Durham Centre gets'ai from area businesses Area businesses are assist- ing Durham Centre for the Developmnentally Handicap- ped in establishing a drop-in centre for the centre's teenage- residen is. United Auto Workers Local 222 has donated a pinball machine; the Canadian Corps, a shuffleboard; the Oshawa chapter of Beta Sigma Pl, books, games and sports equipment; and most recently the Ponderosa Steak House, waîl hanginigs in an old west motif. OfficiaIs of the centre hope that the donations wll help create a- comfortable atmosphere in the drop-in centre, established in October of 1975. Such an atînosphere wil play a big part in retaining the drop-in centre as * an critical 10 ils success, accoî ing 10 program -leader Lin, Korbak. Ms. Korbak explain that the centre was establis] 10 provide the 13 ieen; residents with a place wh they can socialize with 1h peers without interfèer by younger children or ohc adulis. At present, the drop centre is open from 6 10 p.m. -Monday, Wednesd; Thursday and Friday (10, expanded in the future)'i the teenagers 10 play garn read, listen to music or la] Monthly dances or parti are also held. Ms. Korbak, a volunte herself is assisted by t, other volunteers, 1111 Walt and Paul Gordon. J,