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WFIITBY FREE PRESS, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 24, 1979, PAG CouncÈisttil wants an increased usage of Iroquois Park During the discussion on bring some revenue it i5 flot belonged to the private received and' they total on the requests it is making and the Council in orde o the R ecreation portion of the enough to pay their way, said , citizen, there could be a $23,670. Lt was pointed out. to the Finance Committee to burden the Budget. town budget last week the town officiais. As a resuit the reduction in the miii rate and that there is a freeze on some members of Council were debenture debt is piaced on the cost of upkeep that the of the organization grants for asking how to increase the the tax rate for the "taxable taxpayers of the town have a set period, of time. A AR SPC L usage of Iroquois Park. units"l of the Town. t okoto hi okt Councillor Joe DrummJA U R SPCA Although there is some Another item that hits ail said townofficiais. SaAVeEecgnzettatfat revenue fromn the Brookiin 'departments is vandaiism. -Requésts from nine ath- The Recreation DepartmentSA E $ 0 Arena and the Iroquois Park The cost to the taxpayer for letic organizations have been is cutting right to the bone, Rei t «St..Cornet a Uphlolmtua complex there are, stili the vandalism in the Recreation ________________________-r debenture debts to be paid Department alone is $5,000, f. ,o off these two facilities. which could be reduced if theRe.$50,pr2 os For the Brookiin Memorial generai public respected the JOHN I3ANI)URCHJNRe.$500pr2 hos Arena this year's payment property and publie facilities on the debt is set at $26,443 that the Town is p'~igfrCirtrc II and the payment on the so. people can enjoy theW ND'TOYM R N Iroquois Park debt is set at benefits of the recreationai W NAâ ON ATNAr $123,309. and iighting facilities. A o Although these two recrea- If respect was shown' for 111 BROCK' STREET NORTH N:0 p mtO AÊS R9« tional facilities in town do property as though it WH ITBY, ONTARIO N O PE HRW R TR TELEPHNES: -BUS: 668-4341 RES: 655-4045 D M N O A D A TEENQ*IWIÀtêkOK S.S.68-540 Whitb W it~ A word of congratulation is in' order to George R. Smith of 1:I the Whitby Post Office, who was recently honoured by the W..... Order of St. John for his humanitarian work. The Order of St. à John,;hc runs theSt John Ambulance Association and Brigade, held its annual investiture in Ottawa recently in h........... which 195 people w'ere invested into different grades of order. Mr. Smith was among this group. 1969 moved to Oshawa, and six years later started a junior St John cadet corps for the 9-11 age group, and is now projecting tueprrme to include cadets 11-16 years and crusaders 16-21 years. Thank you George. We're priviedged to have you and people like you in Whitby. ........ You may have noticed elsewhere in this newspaper that the Board of Management for the downtownredevelopment area passed a resolution to apply for funding from the Ministry of Housing for capital development in the downtown area. Hooray! I think that after so many years of talking and............. planning, that somnething is finally happening in the downtown............ i:...... While there has definately been a new impetus towards '" . ' improvement downtown, the physical plan is now there. As far M. as I'm concerned,,this is a major sepiniti igh diecton The Council and Mayor have repeatedly told the. downtown " people to let themn know what we want. Well, now they know, at ieast as far as the plan goes at this stage. We also want the adoption of the revised secondary plan, which spelîs out in detail things that can be done to improve the downtown area. I don't know how rnuch plainer we can put it. And I must say that we appreciate the advice and support of Councillor BarryX Evans in this quest for redevelopment. For a man 50 recently........... elected to Council, he's certainly proven to me that he'll do the P E. job for which he was elected. have enabled us to get this far, though. I look at people like Bob J Catton who hias worked on revitalization for years, and has had very littie tangible resuits to show for his tremendous efforts. But we wouldn't be this far without people like him showing usiicAS MNCHCE Now this plan cails for a lot of things which are not goîng to increasethe present business assessment by one penny. That's important to remember. No one is trying to tax anyone else into the poorhouse. B3ut we can't work without funds. It would take more space thn Ihave here to epnlainfthe eintire pYl anrianA were expressed. We received flot only intelligent comments tchii and opinions, but also we were presented with these opinions in ..or las t l or diit n YoU( yoe w'f ni~d~e x nre n ier manner that was honest and unbiased, in a sense that those t.ree... l)e li at l present obviously had the best interests of the town at heart, as U tMt e rwYIl e '0 rorre drwfl ' trsee -Ckae 0 they saw these interests. That was impressive, and we need eeOîtc0 tji more of it. It's of littie value to say to me that "I heard that Mr. Xdoesn't like thé ides," but what makes most sense is to come right out and state objections, with reasons. We'll listen. We New W intario... twice the fun for a buck! want to listen. G o a . In essence, the plan now has to be put before Council, and ULive onflo a t9p m then go to the government for approvai. So we're a long way IMPORTANT: fromn being but of the woods yet. But the opportunity now exists Winning $10 tickets must be cashed at designated retail agents within to do something concrete for the town and the people ofte twwek.Aerhtcs themaanCnainmerlBnkf town Noevrythng ah e dne a one, nd w mut pove Commerce or the Ontario Lottery Corporation prize office. town Noteveythi g ca bedoneat nceand e m st pove Win'FaII tickets mnust be claîmed at designated retailers within two ~U m i to the people that we can and wili do the right thing. And we woks0 tedrw Q4W)OTERYWCAO will.